Watch any internet video on the subject to see an example of such strange game behavior.
Why does this happen?
EDIT: oh my this blew up didn’t it? Thanks for all the replies!
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The cartridges haves pins so that the console can send small amounts of electricity through the cartridge and back to the console. This way the console can “read” what is written to the game cartridge.
The game’s content is “written” to the cartridge. When read properly, the signals get sent through the console and the game is played.
The game’s content is code and assets. Code is instructions about how the game should be played, how the things in the game interact with each other, how the things in the game should react when different buttons on the controller are pressed, etc. Assets are instructions that describe what the music should sound like and what the graphics should look like (Sprites, 3d models with textures).
When you tilt the cartridge, you interfere with the ability for the console to read the cartridge correctly. This means the instructions get a little bit jumbled up. Even small changes in instructions can make a drastic difference in the result.
Here’s a metaphor. Letters and words can also be thought of as “instructions”. Because they instruct you how to read and understand the content that I’ve written. But even small changes, such as a single letter being different, can have a big effect. Imagine someone says to you in a text message: “I have bad news, your son has died.” instead of “I have bad news, your son has lied.”. In a conversation we could keep we could keep texting each other back until the confusion is resolved. But the game can’t. It hasn’t to keep going on as if the mistake was correct.
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