Author Topic: Life expectancy of a HU card ?  (Read 937 times)

esteban

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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2011, 03:43:28 AM »

At least you can clearly see the number of remaining lives:




...otherwise, it would frustrating to play the game in such a garbled state.

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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2011, 03:28:47 PM »
The life hearts look like those candy valentine hearts now, lol!
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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #32 on: January 17, 2011, 03:53:02 PM »
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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #33 on: January 17, 2011, 06:16:58 PM »
Talkin about killin cards.... I have always wondered if these "sleeves" we are putting our cards in are bad ?
Such as build up a static charge and fry the contacts on the cards?

Or am I being paranoid?  :-k


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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #34 on: January 17, 2011, 06:21:27 PM »
I'm pretty sure that NEC was smart enough not to ship the cartridges in sleeves that were conductive.

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Re: Life expectancy of a HU card ?
« Reply #35 on: January 17, 2011, 08:21:09 PM »
Talkin about killin cards.... I have always wondered if these "sleeves" we are putting our cards in are bad ?
Such as build up a static charge and fry the contacts on the cards?

Or am I being paranoid?  :-k



As has been said, HuCards are really really reliable. If the sleeves did any damage someone would have seen it by now.