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Have you been living under a rock for the last 15+ years?

I haven't touched a CD since the late 2000s.

Have you been living under a rock for the last 15+ years?

Yes, and I'm not coming out until projects like this finish scooping up all the crap MBA's have excreted all over the place in that time.

CDs specifically are obsolete, but games on optical media are still a thing. Unlike ROM cartridges, which AFAICT died with the GBA in 2008.

While they’re flash rather than rom, the switch 2 still supports physical distribution media.

True, but the way they work is more like discs than ROMs: their data isn’t immediately available but needs to be loaded into RAM.

True, but the low latency and constant-ish access patterns of flash makes a lot of its performance characteristics closer to ROM than CDs, even with the intermediate copy.

I was under wrong impression that it doesn't. They really muddied the water with those other "game-key cards".

> Unlike ROM cartridges, which AFAICT died with the GBA in 2008.

Look up the Gameboy 3DS :).

3DS carts are actually NAND flash, and if you don't play them for long enough the may lost all the data!

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/psa_yes_your_ds_an...

> 3DS carts are actually NAND flash

TIL. Thank you :).

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