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  2. Nintendo optical discs - Wikipedia

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    The Wii Optical Disc (RVL-006) is the physical game medium for the Wii, created by Panasonic.Nintendo extended its proprietary technology to use a full size 12 cm, 4.7/8.54 GB DVD-based [12] disc, retaining the benefits of the GameCube Game Disc, and adding the standard capacity of a double-layer DVD-ROM.

  3. Video game packaging - Wikipedia

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    As opposed to most console games which have printed manuals, games for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch [16] store manuals in digital form on the Nintendo 3DS game card, Wii U optical disc, and Nintendo Switch game card, respectively.

  4. Nintendo Entertainment System models - Wikipedia

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    The basic parts of the Twin Famicom include a slot for Famicom cartridges, a slot for the Disk System's floppy disks (called "Disk Cards"), [68] a switch located right below the cartridge slot to switch between the two formats, a power button, a reset button, and an eject button, while the back of the console has slots for controller storage. [69]

  5. Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak - Wikipedia

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    The Famicom has two cartridge pins that were originally intended to facilitate the Disk System's own sound chip, but are also used by cartridge games to provide sound enhancements. In the design of the NES, these pins were removed from the cartridge port and relocated to the bottom expansion port.

  6. Wii U - Wikipedia

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    The Wii U (/ ˌ w iː ˈ j uː / WEE YOO) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. [6] Released in late 2012, [7] it is the first eighth-generation video game console [8] [9] and competed with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4.

  7. Nintendo video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The Wii U was released on November 18, 2012 as a direct successor to the Wii, and the first entry in the eighth generation of home video game consoles. The Wii U's distinguishing hardware feature is the GamePad, a tablet-like controller which contains a touchscreen that wirelessly streams a video output from the console. The GamePad's display ...

  8. ROM cartridge - Wikipedia

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    The release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017 marked the company's shift away from their own proprietary optical disc-based media after last using them in the Wii U in favor of small cartridge-based media. These cartridges are known as Game Cards like previous Nintendo handhelds since the DS, and are much smaller and thinner than previous ...

  9. Keep case - Wikipedia

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    Standard black keep case. A keep case or poly-box is a type of packaging, most commonly used with DVDs and Blu-ray videos (and sometimes CDs).. Besides DVD-Video films, keep cases are very common with most disc-based video games since the PlayStation 2, and they are also found on many PC titles and MP3-CD audiobooks (all use discs that are the same basic dimensions as a DVD).