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Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges by whaleofatw2022 on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:18AM (#40114636)
Out Of This World is a case of SlowROM/FastROM where the dev was not allowed to use FastROM. Iirc they claimed it saved a whopping 50 cents a cartridge to use slowrom in that case.
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Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges by ISL on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:44AM (#40114875)
I don't know how much the publisher made in revenue from each cartridge. $0.50 might have been 5% of revenue?
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Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges by ragestorm on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:51PM (#40116170)
Probably. For a game selling at 60$ assuming Nintendo took half and publisher took other half in profit, its 1.6%. Still significant as the publisher has other costs.
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