{"id":901,"date":"2015-12-02T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-12-02T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:29:51","slug":"new-leaf-flash-cart-spotted-at-flea-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2015\/12\/02\/new-leaf-flash-cart-spotted-at-flea-market\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leaf flash cart spotted at flea market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you unfamiliar with New Leaf, it was Blockbuster&#8217;s idea to simply be able to download any games, any time to blank cartridges. The concept was intended to always have a title available at any time through the distribution network, all they had to worry about is to have enough flash carts on-hand on every store and flash them for rent.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, the project was cancelled and no hardware is known to survive&#8211; until now, that is.\u00a0Forum member Schiggidyd from the segaage.com boards <a href=\"http:\/\/segaage.com\/forum\/messageview.cfm?catid=42&amp;threadid=155627\" target=\"_blank\">found what appears to be the only working flash cartdridge<\/a> in a flea market of all places. He&#8217;s got a few pictures and a video from the 90&#8217;s with some background, but little is known about its origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you unfamiliar with New Leaf, it was Blockbuster&#8217;s idea to simply be able to download any games, any time to blank cartridges. The concept was intended to always have a title available at any time through the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2015\/12\/02\/new-leaf-flash-cart-spotted-at-flea-market\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WRzZwgV.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6E2xk-ex","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}