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>That essentially made them hot-swappable extension cards for the console.

I can't think of any game that involves removing or inserting a cartridge while the console is on.

Can't remember the game, but removing and inserting the cartridge, enabled some kind of glitch I could use to cheat as a kid.

Maybe you're thinking of this trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrFHNgJlJSg (Access Glitch Worlds in Super Mario Bros. via NES Tennis)

Was a similar hack, for sure another game though! I could never handle sports games, although I loved playing them about level 3 or shot put in olympics games I was done for.

I remember trying that kind of thing with Pokémon Emerald when I must’ve been about ten. It was supposed to allow me to clone an item.

When I put the cartridge back in, the screen was blank apart from a message simply saying something like ‘The save file is corrupted. A new save file must be created.’.

I was devastated. 200 hours and what felt like a life’s journey. And it was all gone.

Ouch!

Perhaps Sonic 3D Blast for the Sega Genesis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZs2HUW9tDA

We did exactly this for several games on the old (woodgrain) Atari 2600 consoles.

One of the Sonic games for Sega Genesis had some weird trick you could do by only fully inserting one half of the cartridge.

Not quite the same thing, but several of Rare's N64 games (most notably Banjo-Kazooie) had a planned feature called Stop 'n' Swop [0] that would allow you to unlock things by inserting a different game's cartridge. Nintendo made them cancel the feature because the system was not intended to be used that way.

[0] https://tcrf.net/Banjo-Kazooie/Stop_N_Swop

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