Talk:NES Four Score

Restructuring

Anticipation, Championship Bowling, Nobunaga's Ambition II, and Monopoly (video game) do not make use of the four player adapters and use a maximum of two controllers. Only Super Jeopardy! makes use of the adapters, the other three in the Jeopardy! series use a maximum of two controllers. Using the adapters with Bomberman II adds only one additional player, not two more. The NES versions of Micro Machines and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game do not allow for more than two players despite versions with 4—8 players on other systems. Finally, the Micro Machines and Anticipation links were sloppy. I hate being wrong so please correct me if I am.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2800:810:563:1980:F034:3D62:2944:C2D4 (talk)

NES Monopoly does support the Four-Score.

--Dwedit (talk) 02:48, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

NES Monopoly does not support the Four-Score! Anticipation, Championship Bowling, and Monopoly do not support the NES Four Score! I've tested all 3 games with the Four Score, and they do not support it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.164.130.224 (talk) 21:55, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Rephrase, please

"The following games are notable as having three or more variously alternating or simultaneous players despite not making use of the NES Four Score or NES Satellite. Some are also expected to have three or more simultaneous players because of the existence of the Four Score option coupled with the facts of being released after the Four Score's availability, and one or more of versions of the game for other systems had this feature (i.e. not using the Four Score for four-player games published later seems irrational)."

I have no idea what this is trying to say. Could someone please rephrase it so that it's less convoluted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.141.80 (talk) 05:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Some NES games have 3, 4 or 8 players, but do not use the NES Four Score or NES Satellite.

Some games with 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 players were ported or converted to NES and the number of players was reduced. This was not required after the NES Four Score and NES Satellite adapter were made available. Yet, some ports and conversions were still created with a reduced number of players. or achived more than two players without requiring the NES Four Score or NES Satellite adapter.

Some Famicom games were 4 player but the NES version were 2 player.

I will leave it to someone with better English skills to edit the article.

TMNT II

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was released well after the availability of the NES Four Score adapter and several other games that made use of the NES Four Score. And the arcade game that it was based on was 4 players. Therefor it is notable that this game did not make use of the NES Four Score. If someone has a legitimate reason why TMNT II should not be in this section please say so when removing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerothis (talk • contribs) 02:21, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

The NES has a 8-sprite per scanline limitation, each turtle is several sprites wide. No 4-player arcade-style beat-em-ups were ever released for this system because the flicker issues would be intolerable. Rahga (talk) 22:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Split

I suggest that the list of NES games that are compatible with this device, and the list of non-compatible more-than-two player simultaneous games be both split to List of NES Satellite and NES Four Score compatible games, as the compatibility list duplicates content on the other article. 76.66.198.128 (talk) 11:41, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Nothing too much to say here, really. If we've merged the Famicom with the Nintendo Entertainment System, it's only logical that we should merge the Famicom's 4-player attachment with the NES', especially since both are stubs anyway. Emmy Altava 07:57, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

They're two separate devices made by two different companies, with completely incompatible wire protocols. It's not like the NES, which can play Famicom games through the NES-JOINT adapter found in some NES launch titles. As I read the list today, V'Ball and Super Dodge Ball are the only games that were released in both regions. Nintendo World Cup was released in Japan but doesn't support the FC 4-player adapter. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 13:13, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Rock 'n Ball

I was thinking of editing the NES Satellite page to point its list of compatible games to this article, but for some reason Rock 'n Ball is listed there, not here. I was under the impression that they used the same protocol. Is there a quirk of the Satellite that makes Rock 'n Ball require it and not the Four Score? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 13:07, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I've confirmed that Rock 'n Ball shares two controllers for 4 players when used with Nestopia in Retroarch. The manual makes no mention of Four Score or Satellite support. It also isn't in Compatible Games of https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Four_Score#Compatible_games. Can somebody confirm that the NES Four Score doesn't allow 4 separate controllers to be used so that this entry can be removed from both this page and the Satellite page? --VideogameScrapbook (talk) 18:30, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Hori

I disassembled a Four Score unit and saw "Hori" was inscribed on the circuit board. "Nintendo" not written on board. Also checked an NES 2 (dogbone) controller and it does have "Nintendo" on the board. At the very least Hori was involved in its development, perhaps exclusively?

NES Four Score circuit board

Justinholmes (talk) 02:10, 29 October 2021 (UTC)