Andrew Hall to stand trial on a voluntary manslaughter charge in the November 2018 killing of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda, whom Hall shot during a slow-speed pursuit through the streets of Danville.
MARTINEZ - The manslaughter case against a Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed two people within three years survived its first legal test Tuesday.Īt a preliminary hearing, Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Terri Mockler ordered Dep.
Thanks for reading.Judge orders Contra Costa deputy to stand trial for manslaughter in on-duty shooting In most cases, if you're out game hunting and see a 5-screw version of a game, its probably more collectible than a newer 3-screw cart. So that's the deal with 5-screw NES cartridges. Here's a complete list of every NES game that you can find as a 5-screw cart: So what games were released as 5-screw carts? However there are a few games where the 5-screw version is the more common and less desirable version, like Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong, Jr. When Nintendo changed from the 5-screw to the 3-screw format, some games were caught in the middle of the transition, which is why they exist as both 3 and 5-screw variants. If it has tabs, its a common 3-screw cart.įor the most part, the 5-screw versions of games are more sought after by collectors, though only a few particular games sell for significantly more. You can tell a 5-screw cart from the front if its flush. They needed a converter to fit the different pin layout of the American NES, so the cartridges were made taller than the Japanese Famicom carts in order for this converter to fit.īefore third-party Famicom converters were easily available in North America, using the Famicom converter from certain 5-screw NES cartridges was the cheapest and easiest way to play import games on a North American NES system. In the early days of the NES, Japanese PCBs were used in American cartridges due to an oversupply of them in Japan. One of the reasons why 5-screw carts are more desirable is because some of them contain a Famicom-to-NES converter.
Nobody seems to know the exact reason for the change, but its assumed that using 3-screws in conjunction with plastic tabs lowered manufacturing costs, so everything was switched over to the more common 3-screw versions at some point around 1987. The screws were also changed to unique head design that requires a specialty bit to remove. Not long afterward, the design changed to a 3-screw method (one in the middle, two in the bottom and plastic tabs on the front of the cartridge to form the seal). In the early days of the NES era, cartridges were assembled using 5 standard flathead screws to hold them together (two at the top, one in the middle and two at the bottom). They also work as dice in a pinch, assuming you only need to roll a 6, 8 or 10. So what's the deal with 5-screw cartridges? You may hear retro gamers and collectors refer to 5-screw carts from time to time and there are people who are surprisingly passionate about this feature that on the surface seems pretty insignificant.īut just as there are coin, comic book and sports card collectors who obsess over tiny details and manufacturing oddities, NES carts are really no different. This refers to the number of screws used on the bottom to hold the cartridge together. Official cartridges for the NES come in two flavors, the common 3-screw and the uncommon 5-screw. Yes, there are those of us who get excited by the number of screws in a Nintendo cart.