Pokemon stopped being special when they stopped making custom cartridge shells for the games.
>>56927854It was kind of lame, yeah. It also would have sucked with Black and White as a color scheme in the future because Black would look like an NDS cartridge unless they added something else to it.
>>56927951Make it glittery like Crystal.
>>56927951the actual gen 5 games have noticably darker cartridges than the vast majority of ds games. they could have just used that for black.
>>56928564The Gen 5 carts were infra-red capable, they deliberately made them as so.
DS kids, Nintendo thought you didn't deserve this.
>>56930063>CERONobody deserves this.
>>56930063Bcus pokemon had the pull to able to do thisPokemon was a system seller during gbc/gba eraPokemon doesnt sell systems anymore, people buy it but its not driving purchase for a switch, mario kart or animal crossing is
>>56930215>Pokemon doesnt sell systems anymoreSo are we just going to ignore the fact that switch sales shot up with every pokemon release?
>>56930063The colored carts are incredibly kino desu
>>56930063They need to start coloring the cartridges again.
In Japan, Gen I uses standard gray Game Boy cartridges and Gold and Silver are split navy blue + dark gray with the sides reversed. Only Crystal and Gen III match in both Japan and internationally.
I'm thinking about buying a full priced pokemon game for switch because Im too stupid to emu things.All I own is violet.
>>56927854I know you’re probably joking, but small details like this actually do have an impact on public reception. We’ve been bleeding, slowly losing stuff like that, for decades.
I mean…
>>56930761HGSS, BW, and B2W2 have IR cartridges, so they're black and translucent.
>>56930063SOUL
>>56927854WEWERE
>>56931418FUCKINGROBBED
>>56930873Wait, ir was baked into the cart??? that's really neat, I never knew that, even though b2w2 are best games.>>56931418>>56931427Parallel universe oras carts look sexy. how hard is it to resell 3ds carts?
>>56931564Yeah, HGSS uses it for the Pokéwalker, and Gen V can use it for the C-Gear.
>>56930582why are you too stupid to do emu?
>>56930215The carts were dirt-cheap for Nintendo to produce, to the point adding dye to the plastic mix wasn't that expensive overall. By time DS came about, costs increased and the system itself stopped showing the world what game it was playing, the cart slot mechanics having been revisited to reduce the amount of empty space needed to swap out carts. Game Freak also started fucking around with dying communication features, turning the HGSS carts into infra-red send/receivers and making the pokéwalker that could talk to it to transfer pokémon to, meaning the carts had to be made of a very particular colour of plastic, to facilitate it.If anything, Pokémon once again became the only series to not use the bog-standard nintendo shells for their carts for their entire release catalogue due to the IR features in later Gen 4 and Gen 5.
>>56931564You must be 18 years or older to post here
>>56927854I had a bootleg regular grey Ruby cartridge that had Sapphire on it. No clue where my mom got it from rofl.
>>56928520That always kinda looked tacky to me idk.
