Comments on: The Difference Between Kiosk New 3DSes and Normal Ones https://setsideb.com/the-difference-between-kiosk-new-3dses-and-normal-ones/ The Flipside of Gaming Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: xot https://setsideb.com/the-difference-between-kiosk-new-3dses-and-normal-ones/#comment-1035 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:22:22 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=2644#comment-1035 That is probably a zero-ohm resistor, whose primary purpose is configuring devices to adopt different behaviors using the same basic hardware. A zero-ohm resistor is really a “jumper” or “shunt” and doesn’t have any electrical function beyond just closing a circuit. They are also sometimes used to enable test circuits or to simplify circuit layouts. If you ever built a PC in the olden days, you may have configured jumpers on a hard drive or used a jumper to reset your BIOS settings. They usually resembled tiny plastic boxes with holes that mate with pins on the hardware. This is the same thing, just using surface mount technology and not meant to change in the field.

Interesting examples of this sort of configuration method are those little “keychain” arcade machines. You’ll find different versions that play different games, such as Space Invaders, Galaga, or Pac-Man. However, for economic reasons, they are all the same internally. Any of them can be made to play the other games by changing the internal jumpers (or better, replacing them with a switch).

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