Wandering Rhythmical Phoenix
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No, this isn't about that quirky little DS game, it's about the contacts in the game carts.
I was bored, and looking at my DS games earlier, and while flipping Devil Survivor around, I noticed something that bothered me a little: The contacts.
For those of you who don't know, the contacts are the little things that connect your game to the system and transfer data via electricity... or something. I'm not going to pretend I know, I'm just going for a quick explanation.
Anyway, they looked like they were copper, which bothers me a bit.
Then, looking at everything else, they were all copper too (which is why I have so many NES games that need to be cleaned before I can play them).
Why do they use copper, which is prone to corrosion, over gold, which isn't, and, if the impression I'm under is correct, gives better quality? I religiously make sure my headphone jacks are gold for those exact reasons. Is it a price matter? Does Nintendo just not care? or are these gold and I'm really just metallically blind.
Actualy, looking at it agin, the DS ones might be gold, everything else, on the other hand...
I was bored, and looking at my DS games earlier, and while flipping Devil Survivor around, I noticed something that bothered me a little: The contacts.
For those of you who don't know, the contacts are the little things that connect your game to the system and transfer data via electricity... or something. I'm not going to pretend I know, I'm just going for a quick explanation.
Anyway, they looked like they were copper, which bothers me a bit.
Then, looking at everything else, they were all copper too (which is why I have so many NES games that need to be cleaned before I can play them).
Why do they use copper, which is prone to corrosion, over gold, which isn't, and, if the impression I'm under is correct, gives better quality? I religiously make sure my headphone jacks are gold for those exact reasons. Is it a price matter? Does Nintendo just not care? or are these gold and I'm really just metallically blind.
Actualy, looking at it agin, the DS ones might be gold, everything else, on the other hand...