Talk:Multicart

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Page needs work Playstation 2 consists of mostly ps2 games but it includes ps1 and for some reason...a PC game? it needs renaming to Sony Playstation, ps3 needs adding to it and the pc game(Intellivision Rocks) needs adding to other as well as other games(such as sonic collection, i forgot the official name, it has sonic 1 2 3 and knuckles, for the pc) tbat were released for the pc ~~Frogz~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.223.87.166 (talk) 15:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Definition of "multicart"

Personally I think the definition of "multicart" used on this page is far too broad - it seems to cover basically anything with more than one game in it. But as far as I've encountered the term, "multicart" almost always refers to a pirate cartridge containing multiple games. It can also refer to legitimate cartridges compiling games previously released for the system, but the page IMO places too much emphasis on that definition when it's far from the most commonly understood meaning of the word.

What it certainly does not and has never referred to is anything disc-based (the clue is in the "cart"). Collections of classic games such as Namco Museum would also more usually be termed "compilations" rather than multicarts, regardless of media. Games that include older games as bonuses within the newer game (e.g. Donkey Kong 64) are definitely not multicarts. Personally I wouldn't consider anything where the games were clearly designed to be part of a whole (eg Kirby Super Star) to be a multicart either. I'm quite tempted to cut a lot of that stuff from the article and rewrite the intro, unless anyone objects. - Sengokucannon (talk) 05:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

This is true. I removed the disc-based releases. There is far too much dilution of the term. --Jtalledo (talk) 15:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. The "real" meaning of the word as I've seen it used is to meaning a cartridge which has a menu to select a game, and after that enters a state where the cartridge hardware (ideally) appears identical to the original cartridge, as far as the console is concerned. This is done by storing multiple games in a big ROM chip and mapping a smaller window of that memory to the console's memory space. The key to this narrow definition is that multiple programs can run independently of each other without knowledge of one another. By this definition, nearly every pirate multi-game cartridge is a multicart, whereas a lot of official releases are not. This can't really be determined without examining the code and hardware on the cartridge in question. Nitro2k01 (talk) 02:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Although most commonly associated with NES?

Multi carts are most associated with Atari 2600, not NES or even SNES. During the Atari 2600 lifespan HES in Australia released official licensed "Multi cart" "Paks" with Activision and Imagic titles, those were huge well known sellers.

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Magnavox Odyssey

Magnavox Odyssey (1972) games were " Multi carts", as they played more than one game. For example, Game Card # 4 plays the games Cat and Mouse, Haunted House, Football.

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