Was this just scaremongering?

Gerard · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:54

Back in the days of the snes we had those stupidly long delays from a game being released in japan\america to the uk, then the cartridge converter was invented to let us play imports.

Wasn't long after that when magazines like mean machines (later nms) started running stories saying using them could damage your snes, their technical term for it was "blowing the fuse inside your console". I remember seeing letters in the mag claiming this happened to a few people. That being said i knew people that had them and they never had any issues.

Anyone know if the "damage" was actually legit or a scaremongering tactic made up by nintendo and distributed to magazines to stop sales of imported games?

Edit, wrong bloody forum, could a mod move this to consoles

Dark_Angel · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:57

I don't think there was problems.

I remember reading that the only difference (aside from power) on the europe mega drive drives was the cartridge slot shape.

Some people took a hacksaw and "altered" their slot so that it would take both US, JAP and pal games.

Gerard · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:58

Dark_Angel said:
I don't think there was problems.

I remember reading that the only difference (aside from power) on the europe mega drive drives was the cartridge slot shape.

Some people took a hacksaw and "altered" their slot so that it would take both US, JAP and pal games.

Yeah the megadrives could be altered, the snes had to use converters that you had to plug a uk game into the back of to fool the console ito thinking it was a uk game.

Sash · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:01

TBH none of this would be a problem if they just made games region free a la DS/Gameboy and PS3

Dark_Angel · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:14

This is especially true as the vast majority of shops and people won't buy / sell the import ones anyway.

Importing games has a stigma / isn't the norm.