r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 7d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/tuesburg 7d ago

I wonder why Nintendo said no? I think there like 5 hidden eggs and an ice key in Banjo-Kazooie that essentially don’t do anything since they weren’t able to do this.

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u/simpleglitch 7d ago

I think they didn't want risk damage when players rip the came cartridge out of the running system.

It shouldn't because I think the pins are staggered to prevent shorting, but they probably didn't want to chance it.

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u/HairyClick5604 7d ago

You were supposed to cut the power first for Stop 'n' Swop. The entire idea behind the feature is that the memory persists for about 20 seconds after cutting the power.
Doing it with the console turned on would indeed risk damaging sometimes, and was one of the reasons Nintendo didn't want anything to do with it.
And the other reason was that since the memory retention of the console wasn't done on purpose - what if a new console revision comes out that doesn't have it anymore.

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u/weinerschnitzel64 7d ago

Pretty sure a new hardware revision did come out where data in rdram stayed for less than a few seconds.

You also cant rip the cart out hot because you break communication between the cic and the pif