Cartridge tilting

[MikeFishcake]

OK, have I missed out on something that everyone else knows about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_tilting

I mean, I never had much experience of the N64 which is where it seems to be most prevalent, but I didn't know that it was something so commonplace it had a name...

[thingonaspring]

haha, i saw this on metafilter this morning, and came on here to see if there was anything here.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

We used to think of this as a "cheat" for Sonic 3D on the Mega Drive - just tap or wiggle the cartridge at the title screen and you'd get the level select. Someone even got this printed in Sonic The Comic's cheats section!

[tekaotaku]

Heard about the Mega Drive cart "jiggling" or "Whipping out" and replacing with another game for some different effects, from infinite lives, level select etc. An old topic thread from the Sega 16 forums touches upon it:

http://www.sega-16.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-10588.html

There's a youtube video of Space Harrier 2 of the same method:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS2bMzoBjuM

But never heard of the N64 one, besides the abandoned Banjo and Tooie cart swap function, but if you can pull out the cart, why the hell not (besides the potential of killing your game)....

[TheNewMonkey]

Who honestly had the balls to 'tilt' there brand new £60 N64 cartridge back in the day? not me!

[Liamh1982]

I never had the balls to try - mind you I used to have one of those Mega Drives that crashed if you breathed on it!