Yup & the version you talk of is pretty rare, it hardly ever surfaces on yahoo auctions. It was released by the Justco chain of stores for their 30th anniversairy.
It turns up less than the clear black randnet N64. In fact it turns up less than most of the limited editions. The only one that seems rarer is the clear blue ANA edition. This is going by how often they turn up on yahoo so in real shops they might be easier to get hold of.
importaku, very nice item. I never knew of tis existance. For me however, being a 64DD maniac, nothing beats the original N64 color - because nothing else matches the 64DD as it does
i would not say that magnetic media as a digital storage is an advantage. while the analog data getting worse and worse by time, the digital may even dont' work anymore after loosing one important bit.
the same would happen if your CRC failed on an analogue medium that was based on the integrity of the files. As such, saving in binary is an advantage. I strongly support binary versus analogue saving in formats ever since my highschool storage medium projects, which used analogue modulations but had a heavy over-head of error correction and their probability of corruption was extremely high, a multiplied result of the spectrum I used. So, in short, when it comes to computer data, digital is better. The 'weakening' of a magnetic signal is still a zero or a one. Its total ellimination from the disk however has the exact same result for the data that it represents, be it digital or analogue. Digital, even if the signal is weak, is still a zero or a one. You have to also consider that using error-correction technics, you can predict missing bits (with 50% accuracy since its either a Zero or a One) whereas error-correction on an analogue storage medium is anyone's guess. Taking history into consideration please consider the following. when it came to computer storage, floppy disks, although able to at least save in a quad-based format, chose binary, although this effectively reduces storage space geometrically. Analogue, in theory can save enormous amounts of data. The same floppy disk that can hold 1.4MB can hold 128 more times that amount if working on a 256-based spectrum. But in practice, error, speed and reliability desire absolute values and tolerate low differentiation. Simple statistics ^_^ Your argument would only hold water in non-logic sequences, where there's a one to one reproduction, and no 'encoding' or representation in a formed structure.
i do not doubt the kind of storaging the data (digital or analogue), i doubt the media itself. and therefore magnetic media only have disadvantages. my example in the post before was concerned to your coparison to VHS tapes. so that means, even a twenty years old tape still is able to be watched, of course with its losses in quality due to the demagnetisation. but if digital-code looses some important bits to the same reason, there is even no chance to run the whole program, that what's happen to many of the famicom, c64, amiga, x68 etc. discs during the last 20 years.
yeap, it's the issue of logic information strings, like DNA, needing to be in a specific sequence. even cartirdges have that issue, as they save in Zero and Ones. Hell, the best thing for keeping data is probably the ole' paper-back If anyone is really worried about backups, they can keep a paper notebook(or a million) with zero and one values, just in case ...
a very safe media: but, how long it would be for an PS3 game, and how long the loading time would be?:lol:
