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KingMike

If this is about rare games, is it true that the Japanese GC Twilight Princess is considered pretty rare (I remember they were considering not releasing it at all)?

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pikku

bro2dragons wrote:

personally, i REALLY hope they continue that tradition that they've skipped recently, and release Zelda Wii in a gold box. that would be AWESOME.

yes please

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I agree, bring back the gold zelda packaging.

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JayH

does anyone know if a gold game cartridge was ever released for A Link To The Past?

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sykotek

@JayH: As far as I know, the only releases of LttP was on regular gray carts. No gold. I do recall at least more than one version though, release version and later Player's Choice.

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Kaeobais

I saw a gold Ocarina of Time at a GameCity a while back ... for 100 bucks. Screw that.

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JayH

do you remember what the difference was in the various versions?

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sykotek

@JayH: If I remember correctly, it was the label, there was a medal on the later version while the earlier one looked the same, but without the medal. What I didn't notice was whether the cart was the redesigned cart or not, earlier Super Nintendo cartridges were slightly different from later ones in that the area underneath the label was filled except for a notch and later ones didn't have that I presume to save plastic.

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KingMike

I'm only aware of the original release of ALttP (I got the game new several months after Nintendo switched the cart design) and the Player's Choice (which had different cover art than the original).
But I know some SNES games were re-released to contain an ESRB rating, before additionally getting a Player's Choice release (I know Tetris 2 was, and I think SimCity was too).
The SNES cart redesign was because enough people complained they couldn't eject the earlier design.

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Moviefan2k4

Is the gold coloring on the N64 carts a painted finish, or was it mixed into the plastic? My copy of "Ocarina" appears to wearing off slightly.

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Moviefan2k4 wrote:

Is the gold coloring on the N64 carts a painted finish, or was it mixed into the plastic? My copy of "Ocarina" appears to wearing off slightly.

it must be mixed into the plastic I don't believe they would have more care for Pokémon Stadium 2(the gold is mixed in the plastic for sure and with silver glittering too) than Zelda.

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supermario182

the original link to the past cartridge had a solid gold background on the label, and the players choice version had a textured background, almost cave like i think.
original
http://good-evil.net/wp-content/uploads/extra/gamehunt/zelda%...

re-release
http://www.snescentral.com/0/1/6/0164/Link_To_The_Past_comple...

i had a friend that swore he had a gold cartridge for it once, but i knew he was full of it

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@supermario182: Yeah the re-release of ALttP had a rock like looking label while the original was just a plain gold one. They never had a gold cartridge for it. After the two NES games the next one to get a gold cartridge was the N64 OoT.

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I really, really regret selling my original gold cartridge Ocarina of Time.

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Ryno

KingMike wrote:

The SNES cart redesign was because enough people complained they couldn't eject the earlier design.

Wow, despite being an old thread I learned something new!

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Ryno wrote:

KingMike wrote:

The SNES cart redesign was because enough people complained they couldn't eject the earlier design.

Wow, despite being an old thread I learned something new!

I though the redesign was because of things like the Game Genie and other devices used to get around the lock out technology Nintendo cartridges had.

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KingMike

I was talking about the NA cart redesign, not the console redesign.
The console (internal) redesign did the latter.

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Tasuki

@KingMike: Yeah I knew that you were talking about the cart redesign, I thought the cart redesign was cause of the Game Genie and stuff like that.

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KingMike

It wouldn't have affected Game Genie, though because the carts still fit.
It's only games that use the expansion pins (like SuperFX games) that it can't support.

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