A HuCard is...

[Necromancer]

better go for sure and use the X.E.V.I.O.U.S!

That is a weapon of mass awesomeness and might result in cavity probing from a TSA agent.

[Arkhan]

But.... It's a cartridge.

 A PCB by itself *is* a card, not a cartridge.

Sure it is, if it has connector pins meant to be used to plug it into a larger unit for interface.

What about video cards for computers?  Big PCB with pins meant to plug into the motherboard slot?


Theyre based off BeeCards anyways, so its Hudson having TWO kinds of cards that rule.

hey at least were not calling them TurboChips

[SignOfZeta]

What about video cards for computers?  Big PCB with pins meant to plug into the motherboard slot?

A video card is a fragile bare PCB. It has no case/cartridge. It is only what it is. A HuCard is what it has to be, plusa durable hunk of plastic. Its made for constant installation and removal.

[exodus]

I'm late to the party, but I've always called them cards, not cartridges. I guess I call them hucards more specifically. Technically you could call it a memory card - it looks more like a memory card than does a PS2 or N64 memory card...those things look like cartridges!

[Charlie]

Card, definitely.

Card = it IS the entity.
Cartridge = case that CONTAINS the entity

Hmm,but wait....what then is an "empty cartridge case".  An empty case that does not contain a cartridge (so the non-contained entity is the cartridge), or a cartridge case that is empty (so the case is the cartridge, therefore the non-contained entity is NOT the cartridge)?

Still...credit card, playing card, game card.  None of them protected by, held in place by, enclosed by, a case.  No case = no cartridge, therefore:

Still going with "card"

Charlie

(if only all of life's questions were this hard!)

[Arkhan]

What about video cards for computers?  Big PCB with pins meant to plug into the motherboard slot?

A video card is a fragile bare PCB. It has no case/cartridge. It is only what it is. A HuCard is what it has to be, plusa durable hunk of plastic. Its made for constant installation and removal.

but what about the big metal mounting point on the end of it?

Video cards arent very fragile! Ever use those sweet savage video cards?  Built like a tank


But either way, all those things that plug into ISA/PCI/AGP slots are referred to as cards

The only difference between them and a HuCard being the HuCard has a bunch of plastic so you can touch it and whatnot.   


It reminds me too of all those hardware mods for old computers.  you buy a card/board and have to put it in a cartridge yourself.   So until then its just a expansion card/board.

You cant bust a hucard into two shells and have a PCB in between.   Thats generally what a cartridge is, a shell around a thing.

[SignOfZeta]

The only difference between them and a HuCard being the HuCard has a bunch of plastic so you can touch it and whatnot.  

I agree, and that is precisely what the difference is between a card and a cartridge. The HuCard is...


A Card-shaped Cartridge!

[TurbografxKid]

 
Hmmmm.......... I have always thought of a Hucard totally differently. I think it is just natural to think of them differently. And then you have the suggestion from  NEC that they are Hucards and they are shaped like a card. But I think it is those that have them, that would see them so different than other game carts. I perceive them that way, always have. They have always fascinated me. The only gaming console where you can carry all of the games that you own for it in a little bag. You can't do that with an NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Jaguar, or a NEO GEO system.

This has been some serious disscussion over it.

[nat]

Are you serious? Are we REALLY reviving this ridiculous thread? Rather than say something abrasive and inadvertently hurtful to someone, I'll just quote myself from last year:

I just don't even see how there could be any debate.

I mean..... It's. a. cartridge.

[Black Tiger]

A video card is a fragile bare PCB. It has no case/cartridge. It is only what it is. A HuCard is what it has to be, plusa durable hunk of plastic. Its made for constant installation and removal.


...I agree, and that is precisely what the difference is between a card and a cartridge. The HuCard is...

A Card-shaped Cartridge!

This pretty much sums it up.

As for some of the side topics involving carts in general, I don't consider arcade pcbs to be cards, although I do consider arcade carts like STV and MVS to be carts. I don't have any special rules for the number of sections for the casing or the shape or anything else. If the game is a pcb in a wooden sphere but it plugs into a console it's still a cart.

I can see how people could debate whether something like an UMD is within cart territory.

I don't take this stuff too seriously, but HuCards, Sega My Cards, MSX Bee Cards, etc are all real actual cartridge games that are also card games. One doesn't have to exclude the other.

[esteban]

Are you serious? Are we REALLY reviving this ridiculous thread? Rather than say something abrasive and inadvertently hurtful to someone, I'll just quote myself from last year:

I just don't even see how there could be any debate.

I mean..... It's. a. cartridge card.

Ha, nat, you are hilarious! By invoking my own quote from last year, I have fixed your typo.

This thread rules.

Haha, we're up to seven pages of this? Awesome!

Seriously! The good news is that we have a consensus: Card. Period.

[Arkhan]

yeah my bad for reviving it rofl.

I didnt check t he dates, i just clicked the pasted link and replied ._.

oooops
 O:)

[Arkhan]

I think if I could split it in half and have the board in between, itd be more like the traditional cartridge.

[Turbo D]

blame turbo d for me resurrecting it.

I hath summoned the great Arkhan to fight by the HuCard Allies side against the army of cartridge-wielding giant flying octopuses of the axis powers!

[Arkhan]

blame turbo d for me resurrecting it.

I hath summoned the great Arkhan to fight by the HuCard Allies side against the army of cartridge-wielding giant flying octopuses of the axis powers!

I just don't even see how there could be any debate.

I mean..... It's. a. cartridge.

did you just call nat a giant FLYING octopus? O_O