From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Nintendo adapter possibly coming out....
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:18:20 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <92097.015138CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu>, CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher
 M. Stoy) writes:
>It makes me laugh to hear of a tap... I mean cartidge dumper for Nimbimbo. I
>would love nothing else then to see the Nindumbo slowly die a hideous, painful,
>all together bloody death due to a huge swell in pirating. But let's face it,
>most Ninshito groupies know little more about hardware then what it takes to
>shove a cartridge into the gapping maw of the damn beast.  Any pirating done
>today in the U.S. would have to be hardware, and in that it would be such a
>small amount as to not even make Nincrapo notice (again, not enough people out
>there know how to copy a cartridge. Now, if it were a tape you could just dub
>the damn thing, but it's not, it's a CARTRIDGE!!!!! sorry.)  If somehow a legal
>verion of a cartridge copier was produced and sold in the U.S., it would spell
>the end of Ninscumo. The only way I could see this happen is if they somehow
>slipped it in under the "archival backup" law that let's us computerist make
>backups of our software.  Look at the way it is now: You own a Ninblendo (sorry
>, I'm running out of cute names), you own *maybe* three or four cartidges, and
>two of them came with it. You spend your time and money renting a game from
>local video store and sit at home infront of your T.V. playing for 36 hours
>straight so you can finnish the game before you have to take it back. Meanwhile
> you miss going out and playing in the sun, talking to friends, having a life.
>OR, instead of renting a game, you shell out the $70 for it only to find out
>the new version on Mario Bros. is exatly the same as every other version. Sell
>it back for a loss and your out around 40 bucks for a game you don't even have
>anymore.
>Now, let's look at life with a cartridge copier: You see the new Zelda XXV -
>Attack of the Purple Headed Monsters.  You run down to the video store and rent
>a copy, bring it home and play for a while.  You discover the game is *alot*
>harder then you thought and it's going to take you all weekend to finnish. Just
>then this girl you've been wanting to go out with for the past 6 months calls
>you up and asks you if you want to see a movie.  You say "Sure" and slap the
>the Zelda cart into the copier and make her a perminant resident of your now
>growing software collection.  Now you can come back and play Zelda whenever you
>want, and you don't have to keep paying rental fees. (By the way, you and the
>girl get married, have a few kids, and you buy them each a brand new Amiga.
>Don't you love happy endings?)
>
>My somewhat longwinded point is that Ninlame-o will do everything it can to
>keep a cartridge copier off the U.S. shelves.  Pirating carts would seem like
>nothing to the Ninzombies, and it's not like their parents would care, just
>less money they have to spend on a stupid game.  With the novelty of having to
>finnish a game within 24 hours gone, most Nintendo (sorry, couldn't think of
>any more) owners will start to realize they can't do anything with there game
>machine and upgrade to a computer (sadly, an IBM most likely). Nintendo game
>sales drop, Nintendo game machines stop selling, Nintendo looses lots of money
>and dies the death of a scurvey dog.  I personaly like it.  Actually, if Amiga
>'did' have a Nintendo emulator, they might end up selling a few more Amis to
>the masses of Nintendoist who would like a real computer behind their game
>machine. Hmmm... Interesting thought.
>
>
>Chris "Slothman" Stoy    (o o)    | "Would we be so cavalier about
>                          |=|     |  cutting down trees if they screamed?
>INTERNET: stoy@endor.cs.psu.edu   |  We might, if they screamed all the
>  BITNET: cms129@psuvm.psu.edu    |  time for no reason" Jack Handy

I'n not sure if there is one for the Amiga, but there has been an Nindumbo
copier out for a while (for the japanese version though). It called the Game
Doctor, I think. It uses the Nindumbo disk drive that came out a long time ago
to copy stuff.
   There is also devices now that copy SNES and Genesis games onto 3.5" disks.
Of course they are rather expensive at $500-600. The games are $$2 bucks
though.
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