8th March 2004, 8:01 PM
The best of all, if you ignore region issues, is the redesigned Famicom. Since it's got detachable controllers, they are all identical, and as a result second player has start and select. Support is the issue though, as it was in the US actually. It's not about IMAGINING it, here in the US we ALSO had to deal with second player almost never being able to pause. I THINK that Super Mario Bros 3 (US) allowed second player to pause. Maybe that support is also in the Japanese version, even though the system can't support it, because it was added over there for when it gets released here. That would be a curious thing to check out, but oh well. For the most part, it was an annoyance more than anything when you were second player. Also, the Famicom redesign KEPT the expansion port so one could use the disk system add-on.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)