First post, by Gemini000
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- l33t
My brother-in-law managed to find some of his old video game stuff and handed it off to me last night. Seemed typical, a few NES games, a few Genesis games, mostly sports titles, an original model NES, an original model Genesis and a Genesis 2, and some controllers. However, after cleaning everything and testing everything out, I noticed some very curious differences between some of the things he gave me which I already had.
For starters, the NES he gave me is not producing sound properly, but in such a subtle way that I doubt the average person would notice. As far as I can tell, what's going on is that volume fades are happening too fast. (IE: When a note that plays fades its volume from a high volume to a low volume or nothing.) In most games this is unnoticable, but in games like Tetris or Mega Man 3 which use this effect a lot in its music, it's definitely noticable. The only physical/visual differences between my original NES and the new one is that the new one doesn't say "USA" in the bottom-right corner of the customer service phone number sticker on the bottom of the console and the power switch doesn't have a clicky sound when you turn it on and off.
The Model-1 Genesis he gave me is even more strange. It doesn't say "High Definition Graphics" around the top edge, the red power LED is incredibly bright, so much so that I can't look at it without feeling like I'm going to burn a hole in my eyes, but most obviously, it's missing the EXT port on the back! :O
...not that that port was really used for anything. :P
What's curious about all these differences is the model number of the system hasn't changed! It's still the same model number as my original Genesis that has the EXT port and everything.
Other than those differences, it works perfectly fine.
Lastly, one of the NES games he gave me was The Legend of Zelda, which of course, I already have, but this gave me an opportunity to check something. The cart he gave me is identical to my own physically, save for differences in wear, yet my original Zelda cart doesn't have a warning message when the Continue/Save/Retry screen shows up, and in fact those selections are centre-screen. Sure enough, the cart I just received does have the warning message with the selections shifted to the top. Identical carts, not identical ROM data. It would be interesting to know which is more valuable.
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