ITT: failed features of successful consoles

I remember using that for the mystery gif on Pokemon Gold with friends.
Too bad the battery died and I lost everything.

>>3613228
whats that infrared?

>>3613229

I remember using it for this, too.

And nothing else ever again.

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SNES expansion port

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>tfw when the 1st time you reached for the on/off button and saw that thing

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>>3613239
>SNES expansion port
this kills the man

>>3613239

Satellaview was kinda popular in Japan I think? It had support until 2001. But yeah, we saw nothing of that in the west.

>>3613530

Goemon's Great Adventure, my favorite game on the system, uses the d-pad.

>>3613530

Really only used that for The New Tetris but by god what a beast of a game was that. Worth the d-pad inclusion on it's own.

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>add a shoulder button
>not two
>almost no game ever uses it

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>>3613275
Satellaview almost had a European equivalent released, but NoE scrapped it for whatever reason.

Here's another one that was used so rarely Sony did away with the serial port in spite of its existence. I believe the PS2 fat could do this in a much greater range of games.

>>3613552
The only game I remember ever supporting the link feature was like, C&C Red Alert: Retaliation.

game boy camera

>>3613541

It was a "mode" button to switch between 3 button or 6 button mode. Some games had problems with the 6 button.

>>3613531
Also Mischief Makers which is fantastic.

>>3613556
I believe it was mostly racing games that supported linking. I know the WipeOUT games used it and also one of the Armored Cores (specifically recall this one not needing two discs so it was particularly great).
Anyway, Gran Turismo 3 had it on PS2 so I would imagine they had it in the other two games.

>>3613559
Not a feature, that was a stand-alone title.

>>3613552
>>3613556
>>3613564
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Link_Cable
It did actually have fairly decent support, it just ended up being too inconvenient for typical users and they ditched the I/O port midway through the console's life anyway.

The PS2 was just normal LAN though, I think.

>>3613562

I know, but it was also, essentially, another button. A shoulder button more specifically, it could have been used in some cool ways, but no developer ever realized that. Although again, only 1 shoulder button is also kind of derpy.

>>3613530
I used to play the AKI wrestling games and they require a dpad, Mischief Makers too.

>>3613848
I remember the Lost Vikings using it as a normal button, but nothing else that I can recall

>>3613530
Very important for games that used digital movement, like Kirby 64.

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Very underused feature, basically the same concept as the WiiU gamepad.

>>3613552
Not a total failure, some very good games with link up. Had friends who had put a hole through the wall and we could play DOOM in two different rooms. Totally rad.

The link cable got mostly forgotten later in the console's life so wasn't worth including in the PSone. Quite a shame, because the PSone is far more portable, and with portable LCDs actually much easier to be able to create a link setup!

>>3613826
PS2 actually used 400 Mbps FireWire for console linking.

Very overspecified, expensive to license and was dropped fairly early in the system's lifespan.

>>3613552
this was the only way I was able to play Rogue Trip and WipEout XL with my friends.

>>3613530
Perfect Dark, my nigga. Using the C buttons for movement is just ass-backwards.

>put 32x on genesis
>stops outputting sound
fuckin ridiculous

>inb4 32x wasn't successful enough for thread even though it was on the genesis

>>3613901
Firewire on PlayStation 2 was nice for Unreal Tournament but when LCD HD Monitors started to become cheap, we picked up quite a few of those and stuck to LAN games with even more players than Firewire.

>>3613559
this guy right here, please. FUCKING PLEASE.

>>3613883
there's one of those for sale at a weird gift shop / vape store at my hometown mall

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I know, it pretty much served its purpose regarding Pokemon and a handful of japanese titles, but it could have been so much more.

For starters, imagine all the possibilities with the GB Camera. Rare played with the idea for custom character textures to use in Perfect Dark.

My personal wish would have been to get a companion Zelda game for the GBC which interacts with the N64 game counterpart.
Essentially having two sets of dungeons, one on the go and one on the big screen. Link would be able to use his gizmos on both versions, but only as a bonus feature of course.
So you'd want to beat some GBC dungeons first to make N64 dungeons easier for example.

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was NFL Blitz 99 the only video game that had an N64 memory card slot in the arcade version?

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>>3613228
I liked the infrared port. It was kind of like a proto-streetpass. It doesn't really work unless you live in a densely populated Japanese city though.

The eReader is my one of my favorites, but I like collecting cards. It had some nice link ups to Animal Crossing. I think its main failure was that to have any use with a GBA game you needed two Gameboys. Might of worked better with a Game Genie style set up.

>>3613239
Nintendo expansion ports weren't used in the US before the new millenium.

>>3613981
Or Nintendy could have at least made a Super Gameboy style cartridge to work with it.

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>>3614053
Well, there was already a thing which served this purpose called the WideBoy64.

It was only available to the gaming press and devs.
Reasonable decision honestly, as it uses a rather pricey Xilinx FPGA inside.
No way someone would buy this for a 175$ estimated.

Agree on the Transfer Pack tough, it's essentially a gateway for accessing cartridge memory over the controller.
This could have opened the possibility for a Super GBC 64 at the least.

>>3613552
>>3613556
>>3613564
burning road i played a lot through link mode with my friends

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>>3613228
PS1's parallel port, at least officially, Sony even removed it in later models.

I believe this could have been used as a RAM expansion as well.

>>3613991
nope, every Naomi game that had a Dreamcast port typically had VMU slot support.

>>3613883
Definitely could have been used in better ways for a lot more games but I used it quite a lot. The few games that used it in a useful way did it well.
The DC to NGP link cable. Now there's a truly under used cable.

>>3613883
NOT
RETRO
REEEEEEEEEE

That thumb shoe thing on the first DS. It almost made the SM64 port playable.

>>3613925
the hell? Stick as WASD and C-Buttons for aiming!

>>3613883
I used this so much for Pac-Man Vs

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>>3613541
you can eat it, those controllers ruled

>>3613861
After Burner for the 32x let you use it to fire

>>3613848
>>3613861
EWJ 2 uses it as a weapon select button I believe.

>>3614410
You've been retarded all your life, it seems.

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They really tought someone who could afford a NeoGeo would bother save his hiscores and use the memory on an arcade.

>>3614529
It worked if the cab was connected properly.

>>3613541

>how to spot a nintentard

>>3614551
There's so much irony in this post.

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>>3613991
Nope

>>3613826
I remember having a Link Cable for Red Alert and Armored Core before I had a PC. When Xbox came out and used a standard RJ45 and could be linked to a hub or a switch for linking any number of consoles, I was in heaven.

That's one thing about the eastern consoles, they always included technology that was either outdated or unpopular whereas the Xbox tended to lift directly from PCs, making it much more universal. I assumed it would usher in a great era where consoles could be easily upgraded and linked, and then the Xbox 360 came out.

>>3613848
if Sega allowed devs to make games that outright required the 6 button controller, it'd have been used
really, the 6 button controller's extra buttons in general are criminally underused

>>3613530
every game I own that isnt nintendo first party uses this...

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>>3613541
>mode button
>called a shoulder button by non-segamers

how cute

>>3614641
I love that there's a button code you can input in Shinobi 3 that gives you a custom six-button control setup, letting you use melee and guard whenever you want. Why it's not available by default, I have no idea.

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It didn't really fail but it didn't take off as well as they intended

>>3614679
Cause internet was expensive as fuck back then.
Plus you had to devote a whole phone line.

i was lucky when i was 8 we had two different phone lines and i used one to play PSO.
Fuck in miss that game and i miss my friends

>>3614665
Because it fucks the game balance sideways

>>3613883
The problem is that you need one GBA and one Link Cable by player. That's a lot.

This being said FF: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda Four Swords are some of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had.

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>>3614867
Miss those times too anon

>>3613530
U can play mischief makers with the d-pad and that game is pretty good in my opinion.

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was it just my lonely childhood or the gb link was pretty useless? i only remember using it to get mew on pokemon, and any game that had a multiplayer feature seemed to be a rather complicated thing to play like that.

>>3614947
Well, I don't know how much people actually used it, but I'd say the game link cable was what made Pokemon actually work. It would have just been some RPG otherwise. So it definitely paid off for Nintendo.

>>3613530
Don't worry anon, I thought it was a good joke

>>3613883
Wasn't there some group that did an LP of one of those weird multiplayer Zeldas on the GC and instead of four GBAs they used four other GCs all with GB Players and having all five consoles capture video?

That sounds like a fucking mess.

>>3614679
Weren't there two versions of the DC's modem, one for phone lines and one for Ethernet?

>>3614947
A ton of people had those in my town. But they were only ever used to trade pokemon. People had other games but never bothered trying multiplayer, never even tried battling in pokemon.

>>98142392
Who dis? >>3614976
Yes.

I had both

>>3614894
>This being said FF: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda Four Swords are some of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had.
This. It's fucking criminal that Nintendo hasn't done something similar with the Wii/DS family.

>>3614558
Neo geo

So many awesome firsts

>>3614993
They did actually. FF:CC Echoes of Time. Even better, both the Wii and DS has a version and they can play together via friend codes.

>>3614947
It was used almost exclusively for Tetris and Pokemon.

>>3615002
Huh. Guess I was out of the couch multiplayer loop by then.

>>3613552
>Satellaview almost had a European equivalent released, but NoE scrapped it for whatever reason.
Sauce?

>>3614416
>>3614551

Fucking fanboys, I love the Sega controllers, but the mode button was pretty unused, other than to "toggle" modes on some games, which is still pretty useless.

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>>3614131
I owned pic related PS1 GameShark. It was particularly nice to have the switch on there for the FF7 debug room code. The code made all room transitions lead to the debug room, so having it on all the time would have been awful.

>>3614149
>>3614558
Those are N64 memory card slots?

>>3613229
I used it for that plus unlocking a picture in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.

>>3613883
This is exactly why I think Wii U had so much potential despite the gamepad being forced.

Imagine playing a Four Swords game on Wii U.

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Was this a failure?

>>3613228
I wonder if this could have been used instead of the link cable. let's say, for pokemon trading and battling.

>holding L+R+select+start would reset some games on snes
Sounds like a bad "feature" to me

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>>3617019
I disagree, that button combo can and was hit on accident at least 2 times to me and my circle of friends. The reset button on the console is not that far away.

>>3614679
I used mine almost exclusively for looking at porn.

>>3617043
>dog sits on controller
>lose hours of playtime
Shit sucks bro

>>3614971
That's how me and my brother did it.

>>3616683
Was that the one that could play the FMVs? If so, you should check out the videos on FF7. You won't be dissappointed

>>3617036
>By accident
Bullshit

>>3617046
Impossible

>>3613883
I do fondly remember playing WW with a friend and using the Advance to repeatedly bomb him off his boat.
Good times, man.

>>3617052
No you don't because it never happened.

>>3617052
I did this too. I had no idea what I was doing and just wasted all of his rupees.

>>3617051
>>3617050
He was a big dog and the controller was pressed into the couch. I remember it being the exact moment my life turned to shit

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>>3613552
I know the pro pinball series supported link cable. God knows why, you can just fucking pass the controller to do the same thing. I think Doom and Final Doom both had link cable support, it was the only way to play multiplayer.

>>3617036
Just count your self lucky your wrangler even let you play.

>>3617046
>dog is smarter than you
>resets game the one time you beat it

>>3617095
>the exact moment my life turned to shit
>i was born playing a game with my dog

>>3617019
>It was something that was programmed into software
A bit like the N64's entire reset function. Or perhaps it was interruptible - SM64 has this "venetian blind" effect when you hit the button.

>>3613556
>>3613552
i might be wrong here but i seem to recall one of the Doom games offering multiplayer with this.

would really love to have tried that out, considering how good the doom ports were.

>>3614406
>thumb shoe

That's the most perfect thing I've heard all day

>>3614131
What could one do with this nifty thing? Can you access the game?

>>3617095
That makes even less sense.

>>3613530
You're a piece of shit and I really want to bite your head off for dissing this perfectiiFUCKYOU

>>3613925
how the fuck are you supposed to aim then? C buttons? Unless you have 3 hands, you can't use the dpad for movement + analog stick for aiming + the entire right side of the dpad as well. Cardinal buttons for aiming = shit.

>>3617014
didn't fail that hard, some ps2 games do it

>>3617014
>having a soft reset is bad

There is no way you could accidentally press all of those buttons at once.

>>3613991
Gauntlet Legends.

>>3617608
I'm not certain, but I think it differs from game to game. I remember Turok having a raptor scream when you hit the reset button.

>>3614053
Pokemon Stadium did that but only for the games it worked with

>>3617014
I had an autohotkey script that used that to close emulators on pc so i could return to my front end.

>>3617014

Saturn also has it, press ABCXYZ and start.
It's a good feature. No way you can press all these buttons at once. In the case of SNES, you can't press both shoulder and both start and select by mistake. Anyway I never came across any game that did this... or maybe I simply didn't know

>>3613228
I know one game made it possible to use that as a TV remote.

The 3DS has an IR port too by the way, is this for compatibility with GBC?

>>3617007
can't get mine to work any more, might have to open it up and adjust the frequency

>>3613530
That controller was such a clusterfuck.

>>3620405
It doesn't work anymore because of the digital conversion which occurred about 7 years go.

>>3620574
Analog transmission is still used in some South East Asian countries I think.

>>3620648
Well you heard him, Anon. Go book a plane ticket and get some use out of your Game Gear TV Tuner again.

>>3620652
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition#Transitions_in_progress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition#Transitions_not_yet_started

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>>3613883
>with it you can use the sex D-pad of the GBA SP to control all Gameboy games on your TV

>>3620402
>Is this for compatibility with GBC?

No.

>>3620402
No, it's for the Circle Pad Pro.

>>3621046
It was probably not originally added for that reason.

>>3621057
Considering it saw no other support I'd say it's a high probability.

>>3621061
Really? An infrared receiver for something sitting snugly against the system?!

>>3621061
All the 6th gen pokemon games use it for local wireless connections, and the O3DS amiibo reader communicates through the port as well

>>3620847
the gaycube controller already has a gaymeboy d-pad on the cuntroller.

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>>3614971

>>3621082
It's not the same one as the SP d-pad, and the location and size of the d-pad on the GC controller is bad to say the least.
If you like the soft d-pad of the GC controller and vanilla GBA, I'd say go for the Hori controller.

>>3617615
Doom 2 and Final Doom both supported this. My buddy and I had adjacent dom rooms in college and would hook up our shit and play co-op on our little 13 inch TV's.
Good times.

>>3614679
look up dreampi, it emulates modem these days for it

>>3621270
I wonder if that could be applied to any other systems.

>>3613559
na that shit was great at the time digital camera used to be expensive as hell

>>3615095
>which is still pretty useless.

Being able to play your game is not useless.

>>3617036
You gotta have some really fucking fat thumbs for that to happen.

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>>3617007
Heh. I just so happen to be using mine to test a camcorder. This thing really comes in handy when you want to test composite video equipment.

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>>3622042
You may have those fat thumbs but i have these SHINING FINGERS

>>3622046
Oh please Domon would never accidentally restart his game nor would he do it on purpose either.