So, Borac Telenetwork, back in early Nov this year, made some Epi-carts for the Chiikit market after finding out the channel is a success in mainland and city Chikakimu. Keep in mind that they did have Chiikit feeds from 2016 to 2020.... about three of them. Nobody subscribed, and if they were, there were little to no subscribers.
But now? People were purchasing Borac MB packages (Paid channels and packages are pass-through dongles to add to KGParabola and MeruUzune... JUST to watch BTN. These things unscramble paid networks.) After all, blobs couldn't get enough of their "useless" shows... right?
They came out with Epi-carts. And these carts are special. BTN shows are super short, about 1-2 minutes in length. They chose 15 minutes as the perfect amount of time. You get a decent amount of episodes.
So, what's the point of talking about them? I'll explain the basis of the SlopZap cart today.
The cartridge has these, in order:
- BTN home video logo, which fades slowly into the Happy BTN Day promo. Originally this song was a 10 second sign-on bumper. BTN extended it and added clips of their programming to the longer 30 sec version. Theres a 2 min version on the BTN PonPou as well.
- CPB intro, not affiliated with the real-world company of the same name that's shutting down in 2026.
- The programme itself. A little fun fact for everyone here: BTN has created custom cutscenes for this Epi-cart in between episodes of SlopZap. Right after the programme is its credits.
- Shorter CPB logo.
- BTN Day Today! song (again!!!!)
- Digit, Lil, and Samuel in 3D saying goodbye.
- Then it fades to black. After a few seconds, the Epi-cart player, depending on the model or the player's settings, will either re-start the cart to the beginning or say "End of cart, press play" in ENG, JPN, WUB, and KUZ. Most Epi players only have the ability to support 4 languages and has a 4 way switch to change the languages. Some rare Epi-cart players that support the more obscure Epi-jekuta carts will have a button to change the language. But this is rare. Because, who even uses the Epi-jekuta anyway besides my mother doing her anticeleb classes?
A surprising fact is that this is one of the rare types of Epi-cart: the 16:9 Epi-cart. All the useless BTN programmes are 16:9, and on the merubox, the channel is letterboxed. This cartridge is a native 16:9 cartridge like every BTN cart, but every Epi-cart player, even the hand-held ones, will letterbox the cartridge's video content for a 4:3 screen.
And although Borac Telenetwork's programming is made by and for LMIs in mind, the blobs find it entertaining, too! The storms really made us appreciate BTN as if it was the only thing we could watch. After all, the other Epi-cart box sets we played over and over lost their luster as we watched em over and over... and I didn't ever feel like popping in THAT show Passo worked on... the speaker one....
