cfb27e No.16788093[Last 50 Posts]
Welcome back niggers, what have you picked up since the last thread? Anything you've got your eye on to pick up before the year's out, or anything you planning on getting in 2020?
What're you:
> BUYING?
> MODDING?
> REPAIRING?
> CONSIDERING?
You're still playing your shit aren't you anon? Not buying shit and displaying rather than use it?
Managed to pick up some Gamecube shit, but primarily Amiga shit to expand on the computer itself. Also a 486 notebook to play X-Wing/Tie Fighter on floppy, but fuck me if finding the floppy versions of these two games isn't fucking irritating.
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19a1d6 No.16788099
virtualbox lowkey dropped WinXP support for gaems so I'm pressed to find a XP-era laptop for the 98/NT goodness that doesn't work well on Win10 anymore. Are old thinkpads a good choice?
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33fe74 No.16788114
I grabbed a PVM a while back originally for console games. Just for the hell of it I decided to try it with some PC games. Thief looks absolutely surreal through this thing. I can't really explain it. It felt like I was playing inside of one of those really detailed D&D drawings. It's a real shame there's only so many of these things left. Maybe OLED's will have good CRT emulation?
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f70d25 No.16788297
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Towards the end of the year I picked up a bunch of N64 games and also a SNES game I've been seeking for a long time.
>Snowboard Kids 2
>Mystical Ninja 64 Starring Goemon
>Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
>Flying Dragon 64
>Pocky and Rocky
But I've been taking a break from collecting for the past month or so.
Planning on getting a TheC64 full-sized version when that comes out.
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cfb27e No.16788420
>>16788297
May be worth just getting a original C64, since cheaper and the modern solutions for games make it fucking simple for loading shit. I don't know how compatible TheC64 is for everything.
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f70d25 No.16788714
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>>16788420
TheC64 is a better because you can connect a whole bunch of USB stuff to it and it just loads games off flash memory.
With tools available for free online you can make your own C64 games and easily export/play them on TheC64. I think this is a great utility for amateur gamedev and teaching new folks how to make games.
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cfb27e No.16788879
>>16788714
Put like that, makes sense. May want to track down the 30 hour BASIC book for C64 as well.
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c1097a No.16788881
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c625d4 No.16789727
>>16788881
6502 Programming pdf
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a541a2 No.16790436
>BUYING?
I want to get a PS3 and a few games. So far what I have in mind for games is
>Dragon's Crown
>Persona 5
>Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
>Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection
>No More Heroes: Hero's Paradise
>JoJo's All Star Battle
I found some guy selling a slim model with around 120-180 GB for $129.99 in leaf money, would that be worth it?
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ed55db No.16790438
I just bought a wireless mouse from the local business store for 2 bucks. What this means?
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26b0d8 No.16790440
I've kinda stopped collecting or buying pretty much anything awhile ago, because I've slowly realized that 99% of it just becomes closet fodder and things taking up space for me. Like I've been think about maybe getting some old computers lately. But I know I would get them, mess around with them for about three days and then never touch them again.
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f277cf No.16790461
> BUYING?
Mostly old or broken Nintendo hardware, I also got a free xbox 360 with guitar hero 2 still in box from a neighbor that's moving.
> MODDING?
First started swapping controller shells then bought a soldering station investing for future projects and installed a back lit screen from midwest embedded for the GBC. I think modding the controller triggers is going to be my next project
> REPAIRING?
Said purple GBC, I think I might have damaged a trace point when removing the solder mask for the brightness control. Down button doesn't work even after cleaning the board and replacing the pads.
The batteries in some of my GBC games are dead and need replacing.
A pair of joycons that have drift issues
> CONSIDERING?
Need to buy a multimeter from the homeless despot and a larger desk for my PC setup. Going to the thrift that has a surprising about of good vidya and blizzcon stuff for cheap
think a few nerds died in the area
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1bd3b3 No.16790462
I've been looking into new heatsinks for AM3 processors.
Yeah, my computer is running a Phenom II X6. I really need a new MicroATX motherboard.
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000000 No.16790478
>>16788099
Does it have to be a laptop? I got a bunch of old desktops from my mom's workplace and put in my original GPU from 2003 (Radeon 9600 Pro) and it runs everything perfectly on Win2K.
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cfb27e No.16790714
>>16790440
Old computers can be a timesink depending on what you go into, Amiga's can be a financial black hole if you start going into the bigbox ones or wait for a good deal on a 2000 and run from there. Shit's fun though, can't beat fucking about on BBSs on a C64 via WiFi.
>>16788099
Usually /tech/ always advocated Thinkpads, and they're fucking easily serviced by the end user, so I'd say so.
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33fe74 No.16790809
>>16790461
>think a few nerds died in the area
Kinda sad to think about. Anyone who collects rare things will pretty much have their life's work and passion distributed amongst trash when they die.
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f277cf No.16791080
>>16790809
>Kinda sad to think about. Anyone who collects rare things will pretty much have their life's work and passion distributed amongst trash when they die.
I would have just given or sold it towards the end and made sure that someone got to enjoy it after i'm gone.
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f22c1a No.16791099
>>16788099
ThinkPads are great but don't have much power. Even a ~2012 one will probably struggle on some of the later XP games, but if you insist on a laptop then that's probably the era you'll need to look on.
Pretty sure even a W520 only comes with, at best, a Quadro 2000M.
You probably want to build a 2008-era build
I'd start with a Core 2 Duo Q6600. Find an LGA775 socket motherboard to match it. Max the RAM on it (or go 4 GB if you're just gonna run 32-bit XP) and then figure out what GPU will peg that processor.
Put it in whatever case you feel like. I'd go for a modern one, since cases from that era were pretty tacky. None of the convenience of a modern chassis; none of the style of a 90's tower.
You'll also want to make registry edits to get the latest security patches. You can get newer drivers working up to a point; a lot of the Vista and even Win7 drivers are backwards-compatible to the earliest NT builds excepting the version-check, so you can patch that out in some cases. It's only Win8+ that they basically rewrote half the kernel so it could be a tablet-friendly operating system and broke drivers.
Good luck, anon!
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f88d79 No.16791103
>>16790436
Most of those games work just fine in RPCS3, you should just invest in a decent gaming rig and yarrharr then emulate them.
>>16790438
Means you're getting fucked latency wise.
>>16788099
Just use Wine.
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33fe74 No.16791266
>>16791080
That's assuming you know death is coming.
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89a55d No.16806529
I bought a WiiU because they're really fucking cheap now. I managed to get the console and nearly every game I'm interested in for about $200 in total. I think the best thing to do with consoles it to wait until a few years after their successor comes out, that always seems to be when things are cheapest. Probably because the resellers haven't managed to buy everything up yet so you can get it directly from the original owners.
There was also a lot more people selling WiiUs than I expected. I guess they all got Switches for christmas.
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a6456f No.16806543
>>16791266
Death is always coming, people have finite lifespans.
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f70d25 No.16806549
>>16806543
That's all going to change this century
We only have finiite lifespans because we get weaker as we get older and a disease kills us. Otherwise we'd stay alive.
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a6456f No.16806565
>>16806549
Isn't that what everyone says every century? You're not exactly special, you know that right?
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c296cf No.16806590
>>16806549
Maybe so, but write a will just in case.
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4705ee No.16806605
>>16806529
How are your spiders doing?
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56f67d No.16816464
Where can I get a cheap HORI stick?
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0a0dc6 No.16816521
Started collecting physical for the PS3. Its grown to become a better console than the its successor in hindsight. Games are ridiculously cheap now too. Retailers are practically giving them away.
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628fbd No.16816579
>>16816521
It's certainly more of an issue trying to find things than affording them most of the time. Really depends on what your interests are though, and if you care about getting complete copies or not.
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60caa1 No.16816582
>>16816579
Pretty much going for complete editions. Its only a question of time when DLC and such will get taken offline.
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628fbd No.16816604
>>16816582
>Pretty much going for complete editions.
In any case, the fact that stuff like manuals became opt-out part way through the generation can make it hard to know if a PS3 game is actually complete or not at a glance, as many don't have a physical manual. Hope you're doing your research.
>Its only a question of time when DLC and such will get taken offline.
You should have your system CFWed at this point, assuming it's a model properly capable of it (admittedly I'm not sure if that's even a factor anymore). CFW enabled access to functions like Package Manager can allow you to install updates from USB without connecting to the PSN, and I want to say it should let you do the same with pirated DLC, but I'd have to double check the status of if that works with actual copies of (base) games, or just pirated ones if encryption states have to sync.
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4cae14 No.16816674
>>16790809
that poor fucking gamecube
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bd5730 No.16816729
>>16816674
What's that?
You want more?
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ceeaab No.16816778
>>16790461
Where did you get that PS4 controller shell?
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c87fa1 No.16816798
>>16816729
I love/hate tech gore.
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4cae14 No.16817108
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36a8d3 No.16817262
>BUYING?
8th gen is about to end so i finally got a soystation 4 and a few games (bloodborne, judgment, fist of the north star lost paradise, infamous second son, digimon world next order and horizon zero dawn nobody cares but my copy was a "greatest hits" complete edition that came with a code for a digital copy of it, so i redeemed it then sold that shit back, got a $10 discount on digimon so i only paid $15 for it, horizon itself cost me $15 the ps4 was also bundled with a terrible sportsball game that i traded for FOTNS), a wireless 360 controller (the one whose d-pad you can rotate) with the microsoft receiver and a wii with a classic controller. I also picked up a """small""" wega trinitron for free, grandpa didn't want it anymore and told me i could have it if i could actually get it out of his house (it was on the third floor), doesn't do 480p but ps2/wii games look gorgeous on it provided you use component cables.
>MODDING
Finally got around to hacking my PS3, if the dualshock 3 wasn't such a pile of shit i would actually play games on it. I don't like the dualshock 4 either, and every single third party controller i've tried is just as terrible if not worse.
>REPAIRING
Tried repairing my 8+ year old wired 360 controller, gave up and bought another.
>CONSIDERING?
A 256GB sd card for my vita, but i don't really play games on it so i'd just be wasting $40. I also kind of want an xbone to play the ninja gaiden trilogy in 4k, but first i'd have to buy the damn 4k tv itself, then the console and games. I think i'll just stick to my RGH'd 360 and old 1080p bravia.
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5c15bb No.16831722
>>16790436
129 is pretty cheap. Get Shadow of the Collossus and Ico.
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281104 No.16831764
> BUYING?
I got some N64 boxes and manuals, a switch and some games, mostly because I value portability. Also got a loose copy of Shadow Dragon
> CONSIDERING?
Selling my Super Nintendo carts. I normally wouldn't, because i'll never be sure if I can get them back ever again(Perhaps Earthbound gets hoarded by the hipsters for eternity.) but honestly i'm not playing them, and as shitty as it sounds, i'd rather get the cash while the games still have value. Plus an SD2SNES with that exclusive CD quality chip sounds like a neat idea
>>16806529
>There was also a lot more people selling WiiUs than I expected. I guess they all got Switches for christmas.
Wii U owner here, there's really no reason to own this thing. Nintendo has/is porting all the games away to 3ds/Switch, so unless you really want to play Paper Mario Color Splash or Wonderful lol, or just want an easy Gamecube/Wii on an HDTV, there's not much of a point.
JIM YOU FUCKING NIG NOG LET ME POST.
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3bb566 No.16831778
>what have you picked up since the last thread?
My peanus weanus of course :D
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37c83b No.16831853
>>16788114
>Maybe OLED's will have good CRT emulation?
Emulation is never the same as the actual hardware. I wish they still made new quality CRT screens.
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e80ecf No.16831855
Just picked up a kit to get the Dreamcast back online. May just get a mouse for it and see how far it can go to shitpost whilst playing Chu Chu Rocket online again.
What's some of the best shit I can throw at a 486 25mhz CPU?
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628fbd No.16831863
Found a copy of Senran Kagura: Shinobi Versus for $10 at a store a few nights back, and with some vouchers got it for just a bit over $3.
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e94694 No.16833204
>>16816729
>voltage across plate cover screws
My house is so badly wired that it killed me for a couple minutes when I was plugging an HDMI cable into my computer, and touched the ground collar of the connector and my computer's case at the same time.
>>16831855
Barely DooM. Don't even bother with stuff like Tyrian, Duke 3D, Blood, or the like. I hear Descent runs like a champ on even the shittiest hardware, but a lot of that depends on the video card.
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e80ecf No.16834167
>>16833204
No video card at all. It's a small notebook with only a floppy drive for getting shit onto it.
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0d3d1e No.16835038
Waiting for my PSIO to ship. This shit is fucking horrendously slow.
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000000 No.16835053
I've tried looking this up but does anyone know what happens if you put a foreign original xbox/360 disc in the xbox one? Does it download the region version or your own? Will region locked games like Persona 4 Arena work?
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e94694 No.16835072
>>16834167
You need to get yourself a PCMCIA ethernet card, perhaps. I keep a couple in a box juuuust in case I am provided with a functional laptop with no CD drive and no onboard ethernet. While I can do serial/parallel networking, it's a pain in the ass to do.
I recommend Monkey Island, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and other games in that era, and if they run well, try later games. Having a USB floppy drive helps in this, if ethernet isn't an option for some dumb reason.
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628fbd No.16835088
>>16835053
I don't know specifically for the Xbone, but looking at how regional compatibility has worked before (IE: PS3), if the system of the game you were trying to play was region locked when it was current, it'll still be region locked even if the system you're now playing it on is supposed to be region free (played from disc, anyhow; CFW avoids the checks in regard to digital storage). I would not be surprised if that's still standard.
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0d3d1e No.16835094
>>16835053
Does the Xbox One even have region locking? Could be worth trying at least.
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000000 No.16835100
>>16835094
Xbox One games aren't region locked. Xbox 360 it depended on the publisher so very few games were region locked. Original Xbox is.
Xbox One downloads backwards compatible games rather than from the disc.
It also brings into question if L4D2 will give you the gore version or cut version if you live in Germany/Australia and have a UK/NTSC copy.
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b477ef No.16839069
>>16788093
Broke, would really like to get a new monitor and a decent GPU like a 1660 super, but not even that
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63f21e No.16839358
I have actually taken most of my gear, old and new, to Goodwill.
I haven't really felt like gaming for the last year or so, nothing even remotely good or interesting has come out in the last 3 years, and it looks like much of the industry is about to go belly up anyway. Dev companies are dropping like flies, the ones that aren't are cutting production and expenditures severely. That is not a good sign.
I dunno anons…maybe I am just outgrowing it, but nothing about gaming excites me anymore. I enjoy it, but the games I know and enjoy are boring because I know how to win at them, and the new games all suck ass. So maybe it is just that I am bored with it.
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a70c3e No.16839411
>>16835038
> buying the most DRM-ridden, sneaky piece of shit overpriced SD-reader you can have for ANY reason whatsoever
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a70c3e No.16839412
>>16839411
Stop stealing my images firetires
>>16839358
Get fucked
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0068ad No.16839420
>>16816729
Tech gore really only works when it's about stupidity or negligence. That last image is just some shit someone decided to smash up.
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43d2ec No.16839447
>>16831853
OLED has an advantage over other display formats, though, in that it is an emissive display, just like CRT.
So getting that phosphorescent look will be that much easier.
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80b1d2 No.16840088
Anyone know how to stop my CRT from ghosting? It's making Deus Ex unplayable
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6bfc12 No.16840140
>>16839447
The main problem is the 16:9 meme.
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073c55 No.16840141
>>16840088
>Anyone know how to stop my CRT from ghosting?
As a matter of fact, yes I do.
Go to the garage, get a shovel, dig a deep hole and bury that CRT as deep as you can dig.
Seriously, LED monitors you can get at thrift stores for $5 anymore. A really nice big one at a pawn shop you can get for $50.
There is no excuse for having a CRT. None.
>>16839358
Feels. I am not bored, just pissed off at the way things are heading. But yeah, consoles are going to be dead weight until well after you and I are worm food. Then they will be worth a fucking fortune if they still work, so if you are lucky enough to have grandkids….
What am I saying?????
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6bfc12 No.16840149
>>16840141
>Seriously, LED monitors you can get at thrift stores for $5 anymore. A really nice big one at a pawn shop you can get for $50.
>There is no excuse for having a CRT. None.
It's sad to know there are anons too young to know how good CRT is. I have my CRT and LCD side-by-side, and I've played the same games on CRT and LCD multiple times. CRT really pulls me into the world in ways LCD never could dream of. The only problem is the occasional ghosting on certain monitors which takes hours of screwing around with brightness/contrast settings to fix, but when I fix it. God damn. I even get vertigo in some games. You never get this experience from LCD.
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6bfc12 No.16840150
>>16840141
>Seriously, LED monitors you can get at thrift stores for $5 anymore. A really nice big one at a pawn shop you can get for $50.
>There is no excuse for having a CRT. None.
It's sad to know there are anons too young to know how good CRT is. I have my CRT and LCD side-by-side, and I've played the same games on CRT and LCD multiple times. CRT really pulls me into the world in ways LCD never could dream of. The only problem is the occasional ghosting on certain monitors which takes hours of screwing around with brightness/contrast settings to fix, but when I fix it. God damn. I even get vertigo in some games. You never get this experience from LCD.>>16840141
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6bfc12 No.16840154
>>16840149
>>16840150
What in the god damn?
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46770a No.16842630
How do you guys afford shit when you don't work
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b8c89d No.16842635
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46770a No.16842642
>>16842635
Fucking jelly ngl
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387022 No.16842675
MFW the most active threads on this board are 2 months old and arguing about the same shit that anons have been arguing about for 10 years.
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46770a No.16842712
>>16842675
Nobody even knows 8kun exists
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b8c89d No.16842735
>>16842642
I'm stating what everyone else does. I'm paying $5000 in SS/Medicare taxes this year for those fucking niggers
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46770a No.16842775
>>16842735
You made 22 grand this year?
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93b9ac No.16842848
>>16842735
thx for the money cunt
I'm spending it on vidya
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91a5c7 No.16842867
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e6a07f No.16842874
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bbccc0 No.16842890
pirating on the 3ds and vita killed any interest in collecting the games for them, but some of the special edition consoles are cool as shit, out of these I really like the look of the old 3ds fire emblem one the most
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34ffd4 No.16842891
>>16842867
Am I the only one who believes the reason shit like this is tolerated is because it benefits large corporations and investors?
Slobs like that have no reason to exist other than to make it harder for anyone to escape wage slavery, which means less opportunities for competition and less quality things being put out. Taxes go up for their asscancercare but corporations and investors don't foot the bill. It falls on small business owners and individuals. Look at how it impacts games. There are pretty much no AA studios. It's either massive corporations, solo indies in their freetime putting out watered down versions of older games or it's SJW trustfund kids who use gamedev as their little clique. Even devs that manage to get a gigantic kickstarter budget probably only receive half of it after taxes and kickstarter's cut, which is why you see shit like Underworld Ascendant burn through it's budget before delivery something even remotely acceptable.
Not to mention when you see shit like that exist it just lowers standards for society as a whole. Less people overall have the grit or strength to achieve success. Everyone is brainwashed to be a sheep and as long as they're not the morbidly obese manchild on welfare they're a winner. This also likely contributes to why kickstarters fail, because the devs don't have the backbone to make something substantial.
I just mentioned how this affect games, but the same is true for any industry or any field.
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628fbd No.16842893
>>16842890
I've liked the look of the Tales of Xillia PS3 and Xillia 2 controller, but those were limited edition and Japan only. I mean, I know the system was region free and all and therefore import friendly, but still.
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bbccc0 No.16842897
>>16842893
Aside from this and some FFXII PS3s, I don't recall any other special editions with neat designs on them. That for sure looks really nice, especially the red coloring on the logo
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628fbd No.16842900
>>16842897
Yakuza 3 got this one. 5 also got one, but I don't think it looks especially great (not helped with the superslim's general casing design)
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a541a2 No.16845136
>saw DMC3:SE on PS2 for 7 bucks yesterday
>Ended up not getting then because it was a GH print and the box looked incredibly dirty and tainted
did I fuck up?
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628fbd No.16845227
>>16845136
Going off where I live, no. That's about $5 these days, easy to find (low demand thanks to the PS3 and PS4 "HD" compilations), and thankfully unlike Silent Hill 2's Director's Cut, the Special Edition didn't wind up only being Greatest Hits here thanks to the Capcom Essentials bundle.
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c1c67d No.16845353
>still can't find a Sony CRT monitor in my area
>have been holding off on spending a shitload of money on components and tools to make an enormous collection of reproduction cartridges to rebuild the library I had in the 90s
>found a Dreamcast at a Goodwill for the first time ever in my area for $5 and got unbelievably excited
>opened the disc tray and it's been completely gutted, like, there isn't even a motherboard in there, it's just the plastic shell
Whatever I did to offend God I really truly am sorry
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2e5766 No.16845382
>>16845353
>5$ for a dreamcast
>It's empty
Who would have thought!
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628fbd No.16845411
>>16845353
Reminds me of that Gamecube that got turned into a literal lunchbox.
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a70c3e No.16846045
When buying a monitor for both vidya and study, is TN or IPS the way to go? I am also thinking about what refresh rate to pick, either 75 or 144. My RX580 can only handle 1920x1080 consistently, or should I forego the refresh rate and dump some more money in the image quality? The most important factors are color quality and a 1 ms response for fighters. It's also be by primary screen - and my current screen (TN, HD, 75 Hz, Freesync, 24.5) will become my secondary screen.
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e94694 No.16846055
>>16845382
My last $5 DC just had a cigarette burn on the top. Fucking smokers.
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34ffd4 No.16846654
>>16845353
With regards to CRT monitors. Best place you can look at is electric recycling firms, events, or anything. Those things are overflowing with CRTs although for how long? Even then you wont see a PVM there unless you get really lucky. I take the people saying they can spend $150 for a decent PVM with a grain of salt. They probably spend all day every day hunting for deals, live in an area where they're common to find by, probably got those deals years ago or just got lucky. Personally I just bit the bullet and paid whatever it took to get my hands on one. No regrets as I exclusively play most of my games on CRTs now. The colors are just so deep and rich.
Also
>Those fucking thighs
That picture pains me because it's so rare to see a girl with thick thighs and skinny ankles like that. They either have legs that look like tree stumps or are anorexic.
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c3d613 No.16846707
>>16816729
That's why I always look out for junks and flea market in my middle class neighborhood. Last time I salvaged a desktop pc with intel i5 cpu still working.
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f277cf No.16846765
>>16816778
Amazon from eXtremeRate and after having the red soft touch shell for months I would get the hard plastic shells instead because the soft shells collect grease/oil and sweat very easily and you can feel it when you holding the controller. The're not the only place to get shells so take a look elsewhere before spending the money.
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a70c3e No.16846906
>>16846654
> mfw I found two BVM's at a goodwill for €50 each
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34ffd4 No.16847284
>>16846906
You lucky fuck. I refuse to believe this wasn't 10-15 years ago when CRTs were being phased out.
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e94694 No.16847305
>>16846707
I used to cruise yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores, and rummage sales all the time, but after years of finding fuck all, I just gave up. The last good stuff I found was a pair of ATX towers, one with a stripped 486 motherboard, and one with a less-stripped Pentium motherboard. The former needs a drive controller card, as it has no IDE support on it, and faggots on ebay want $100 for a decent one.
The Pentium system works alright, but being 60MHz, I can't play any Build engine games on it, like Blood, or Shadow Warrior.
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6c0e15 No.16848111
>>16847305
>CD drive AND 4 floppy drives
what a slut, I bet she also have multiple network cards for better connection
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e94694 No.16848149
>>16848111 (checked)
The two lower floppy drives are fake. I find that to be amusing. They can be removed, but I have nothing else that would go into a 3.5" external bay and would work with a low-end Pentium.
Now, my previous system goes one step beyond this. I'd have had an M/O drive and a tape drive, too, if I still had any of that media in my collection.
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638924 No.16848192
Is it normal for a package to arrive at a “destination facility” a state over before it ships to the local post office?
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e94694 No.16848223
>>16848192
It's normal if it's the United States Package Smashers, for sure.
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638924 No.16848286
>>16848223
Cool, thanks. Tried looking around online but there wasn’t much on it.
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eabe6e No.16848321
>>16848149
I had carpet just like that one place I was. Nice quiet apartments on a hill. Cat peed on the carpet though. Anyhow, I might be preaching to the choir but you might want to put a board or something under that to keep at least some of the dust away from it. Even that low pile carpet loses a lot of broken fibers.
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ed7808 No.16848344
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e94694 No.16848355
>>16848321
I periodically clean out the vents and the foam filters in the systems I use, so it's no big deal. Canned air and a vacuum hose take care of the worst of it. As I don't smoke, most of the dust is fine particles, and the occasional lint ball. My PS2 was a horror show when I brought it back from Gamestop. Caked with tar and grime, and it even had a Madden game in it.
I drove all the way across the state to pick this motherfather up. Packard Bell Legend 300 CD. 66MHz Pentium 1, but it's got a dead battery in its DALLAS RTC. Since those are a pain in the goddamn ass to remove and repair or replace, I'm not touching it for a long while. That's the same issue with the 486 tower I got at a yardsale, too. Fucking hell, no forward thinking. It shocks me when I see ancient systems with CR2032 sockets in them.
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e94694 No.16848358
>>16848355
Ergh, not Gamestop, Goodwill. What the hell.
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628fbd No.16848637
>>16848192
Could be, if it's closer to where you live. Then again, I don't know that much about shipping. Getting concerned about something I ordered myself; tracking says it's been "shipped" but there's been no evidence to suggest it's even left the original post office, or if it even got there (if it was dropped off at a gas station or something). Do no-post holidays like President's Day jam shit up that much to the point it would just sit there until now?
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638924 No.16850207
>>16848192
>>16848223
>>16848637
Let me share with you a fun update
>mail was “forwarded”
>ie it had the wrong address on it and requires me to do “something”
>it’s super vague about it
>try calling in
>robot voice gives me the loop for 20 minutes
>no way to talk to a real person
>go to my post office
>lady at the front basically says what I already know
>”so like, can I give you the right address or what can I do about this?”
>shrugs me off and says she’s sorry she can’t help
>look around online
>have to manually forward it some how
>go back to the phone
>have to use the robot voice and a specific USPS website to enter in the new address
>basically just have to tell it to send it to my local post office and hold it there for me to pick up
>”be sure to pick it up by March third or we’ll send it back!”
>no confirmation email or text to say anything was successful
I am never ordering anything over 10 bucks from the USPS ever again. At least a couple years back you could get ahold of somebody and get things sort of figured out.
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44deda No.16850212
>>16850207
Did you try just mashing buttons or shouting random words while on the phone with whatever automated system they use? Usually this will forward you to a real person.
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638924 No.16850215
>>16850212
Both
>Press random buttons
>”I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that”
>goes through options again
>”talk to person” “speak with person” “help” *incoherent rage*
>”I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that”
>goes through options again
There are also several other USPS customer service numbers and each lead to different automated responses that boil down to doing the same thing. It’s amazing how bad this shit has gotten.
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638924 No.16850219
>>16850215
Also, they are all automated to hang up on you if you do either thing to long.
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628fbd No.16850251
>>16850207
>>16850215
Do they at least still use a keypad input, or are they switching over to voice-only? Because I know some places have taken to doing the latter, and it always strikes me as a bad idea trying to have an algorithm try to discern what you're saying.
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638924 No.16850259
>>16850251
Both, but to actually get shit done you need a smart phone so they can send you a website where you have to use both voice and input. It’s so bad even the emails are automated.
I’d definitely recommend anyone ordering through the USPS to be very careful as, from what I can tell, there is no way to get anything but very limited automated help.
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e94694 No.16850260
>>16850207
When I was being sent a package from the UK last year, the fucks at the USPS played knock knock zoom zoom, left a pick up tag, then took my package to the next state over for holding, not my local post office barely a mile away. The local package smashers didn't know what was happening.
The rot in their core is now showing as great blotches all over the surface.
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628fbd No.16850504
>>16850259
I honestly haven't had any issues with USPS myself, but it's certainly making more leery of them. Doesn't help that in most cases when I've had to order something online (I always check local for a while first; sometimes can net far better prices than I'd see online), the customer isn't given a choice between whether the seller ships with USPS or UPS.
Package I'm waiting on finally moved from the drop off after like four days, and now seems to be held up at a distribution site. Hasn't even left the state it's coming from. It's not late yet, but I'm still concerned.
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638924 No.16850566
>>16850260
That sounds awful
>>16850504
Yeah, I don’t normally have issues with them but until they get their customer service fixed I’ll be doing everything in my power to avoid them in the future. If nothing else at least there was some way to get my package forwarded to my local post office, even if it was horribly convoluted… I’ll update if it actually works or if shit falls through hard. I’d like to be surprised and find my package is there tomorrow, but I imagine it’ll be at least 3 days before this gets fixed that is, if something else doesn’t happen in the mean time.
Honestly, I’m not mad about my package having the wrong address and being forwarded to who knows where, but what makes me mad is just how hard it was to get help and fix the whole thing. Hell, if I wasn’t babysitting my package who knows where it could have ended up as they basically would have “fixed” the address by guessing what it was and sending it there(or so the lady at the post office told me). The whole thing was a mess and I still don’t know if it’s fixed yet.
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00d646 No.16850591
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08837c No.16850598
>>16850591
Everything looks fine, except the GPU. Why not splurge a little more? Unless you're just holding out for even better?
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00d646 No.16850599
>>16850598
Originally planned in the 590 but I've seen a lot of dodgy user reviews for it, the 580 seems like a safer option
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628fbd No.16850604
>>16850566
I'm certainly glad I've got tracking to look at with mine too. I'm just wondering what exactly the hold up has been. Usually stuff I order gets here days in advance of what it's expected, but here they're taking their sweet time to ship and/or even just fish it out of the dropbox. Maybe when it's supposed to be one-to-two week expected shipping, they mean it now.
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08837c No.16850605
>>16850599
For $100 more, a 5700 will last you longer. Not a Vega, but it's close.
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00d646 No.16850607
>>16850605
I'll see if I can work it into the budget
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638924 No.16850608
>>16850604
Was the last place it was dropped off at ISC New York by any chance?
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628fbd No.16852702
>>16850608
No, it's been shipping from Texas. Hear the midwest has been having some bad weather, so maybe that's been tying into it. But it still feels like a lot longer than it's usually been for when I've ordered stuff (which usually gets hear well before expected date), and I don't especially like seeing shit sit around for four days like it got lost or forgotten somewhere. Seems it finally got into my state this morning, so I figure it'll arrive tomorrow or Tuesday. Hoping it's not smashed up; longer something like this is stuck in shipping, the more wear I figure it's apt to take.
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c5855b No.16852916
>>16839447
>>16831853
>>16788114
I'd love to have a CRT again. But the good ones are either fucking expensive, fucking heavy or fucking small.
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34ffd4 No.16852920
>>16852916
Depends if it's worth it. I use my shitty CRT and PVM interchangeably depending on the game. A lot of PS1 games look a lot better on a shitty CRT than a really high end one.
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817e3e No.16853227
>>16846045
>color quality
>1 ms response time
tl;dr Pick one.
TN is bad for viewing angles and color accuracy, but is relatively cheap when having high refresh rates and great timings. There are IPS screens that fit all your requirements, but pricing would start around $300 according to my estimates.
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26a142 No.16853234
>>16853227
Maybe that was true a few years ago, but there are solid 1ms IPS screens nowadays. It's worth saving up and getting a high refresh rate one too, unless all you play is map painters and WoW or some shit.
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a70c3e No.16853334
>>16853227
I spent yesterday researching the monitor and I went with the AOC 27G2U for only €229. Let's see if it meets expectations. Thanks anyways!
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628fbd No.16853869
>>16852702
Finally arrived. Package wasn't smashed, but the outer box was beat as hell (and looked like it had punch spilled on it or something), and the cartridge needed the contacts manually cleaned before it the system would see anything as having been inserted to read. Everything else was fine though, so not a loss, I guess? But if anything, it's yet more reason to distrust stated text conditions and ask sellers for item pictures, even if it risks being bought in the meantime. And that chances are, if a game's a lot cheaper than it should be in that condition, if it's not a new seller looking for quick initial ratings, it's probably cheap for a reason.
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638924 No.16854174
>>16853869
Funny, my figure arrived today as well. My drama continued right up till the delivery though.
>finally figured out how to get ahold of somebody at USPS (hit 0 several times time the voice says something slightly different then say “speak with representative”)
>find out the address on my package is VERY wrong
>ask them to send it to my local post and just hold it there
>the person says that they’ve done it and sent a message to the post office, as well as fixed the address
>wake up today
>the package is out for delivery
>end up finding out you can contact your local post, but you have to find the number via local business resources and can’t find it through the various search engines
>explain the situation and ask them where my package is headed
>it’s headed to the wrong address it was initially
>say they’ll contact the guy delivering it
>at this point don’t trust anything to go right so go out and wait on the postman around the time he comes
>he pulls up and hands me the package and we chat for a bit
>turns out he actually knows I live here and basically just ignored the address and delivered it to me
Ive got a based postman, but damn was working with the USPS to fix something that should have been simple a miserable experience. Hopefully people who have issues in the future can learn from my experience.
I guess both of our dramas ended today, so that’s a good thing.
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c1c67d No.16854182
>>16854174
What site did you get that from? I'm always looking for more weebshit sites.
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638924 No.16854193
>>16854182
Mandarake. It’s the fucking best. You get shit directly from nip stores, they are super anal about quality so a little dent in the box often means they’ll heavily discount it, and you don’t have to worry about Chinese knockoffs.
Been using the site ever since I got into Kamen Rider around Gaim and I’ve never had an issue with the product.
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628fbd No.16854202
>>16854174
At least it turned out alright, I guess. Assuming it shipped intact and not broken.
>>16854193
Actually have a figure I've been meaning to get set up right myself, but the way it's made, there's separate pieces connecting the upper legs to the torso, and the ball and socket joints linking them are stuck. Apparently it's a common complaint with it, but I digress. You know anything good that can be found at regular stores that can unstick it without damaging the paint, or is it a case where you'd need some specific model grease or something? Had to keep it sitting in it's box since Christmas because it feels like I'm going to break something just trying to match the default pose on the box.
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638924 No.16854242
>>16854202
Sadly I don’t know much about that. Just don’t force anything. If something is giving you some resistance it’s best to leave it alone or you’ll end up breaking it… unless it’s a Japanese Transformers toy. Those bitches require some serious finger strength
My advice, go on /toy/ or find a toy related forum and ask somebody there before messing with it.
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628fbd No.16854271
>>16854242
Alright, thanks.
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628fbd No.16854587
>>16853869
Son of a bitch. Went looking through the manual and like five whole pages are torn out.
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987a9f No.16854594
>>16854242
>go on /toy/
>every thread on the board is locked because the BO doesn't want anyone else taking over as he fucks off to a bunker
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e408e2 No.16856926
I'm >>16817262, i got a couple new things.
>BUYING?
I got a switch and a nintendo branded sandisk SD card for $360, everything is almost brand new the switch was in mint condition and everything but the tablet and joycons were still neatly packaged because the guy told me it was meant for his girlfriend, but she left him a couple days before her birthday, he played kirby for a few minutes before putting the switch back in its box and leaving it to rot in a closet for roughly a year i have no idea why he told me this, probably just made up a shitty sob story to get me to buy it out of pity because business wasn't good, the switch is only missing the manual and the box is a bit damaged. Got this thing on a unofficial vidya store that opened quite recently, either the guy running it doesn't know how to price stuff yet (people online want $100 for just the fucking dock, the nintendo SD card still goes for $70) or he doesn't know the value of unpatched units. I never thought i would ever buy one of these things considering how jewed nintendo's prices are in my country; the switch retailed at $350 and console+game+storage bundles start at $450. Now i can finally play multiplats without shelling out $30+ for the ps4 port, i'm looking forward to hinomaruko, sakuna of rice and ruin and megaman zero/zx legacy collection.
I also bought a couple ps4 games: gravity rush 2, judgment, medievil and spider-man GOTY, all of them exclusives i've been meaning to play for some time, but local stores never have good games in stock and the ps4 itself was always hilariously overpriced.
>MODDING
The switch i just bought, i haven't gotten around to it yet because i wanted to take a photo while everything's still intact, but it doesn't seem that complicated, i'm gonna struggle with the tinfoil jig though, thankfully autoRCM means i only have to do it once.
>REPAIRING
Wanted to repair my PS3, it kept shutting down while i was playing god of war 3 because i bought it in 2011 and this revision still had the faulty NEC/tokin capacitors of the fat model. Opened it up, cleaned everything and applied new thermal paste, the temps are lower and it runs much quieter, but it wouldn't be long before it dies. It's completely not worth fixing, so i took it to a cash converter and got $67. I don't know if i'll ever buy another one, i had it for years and i only played about 10 games on it.
>CONSIDERING?
A switch pro controller, the stock d-pad (if you can even call it that) gives me cancer. I also want one of those 8bitdo wireless dongles for the playstation classic.
I apologize for the shitty picture quality, but this phone cost me $200, also >spanish, forgive me for being a spic.
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e94694 No.16856956
>>16854587
>>16854594
Fucking sucks living in a world operated by fuckups. You have my condolences.
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628fbd No.16857047
>>16856926
Make sure you play GR1 in some form first. Though, only the PS4 version has old save bonuses for the sequel.
>>16856956
I'm going to assume the seller just didn't look enough into what he was selling. I mean, I certainly assumed everything was going to be alright at a glance myself, but it can take actually flipping through shit, or putting it in a system to know for sure. I've actually cleared a refund for it, so maybe he'll take it as a learning experience. Or not.
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281104 No.16857071
Bought a N2dsXL and modded it with the Seedminer exploit, 150 bucks, probably too much, but fuck it, i needed a replacement to my beat up O3DSXL.
>>16856926
>A switch pro controller, the stock d-pad (if you can even call it that) gives me cancer.
Man i don't know why everyone complains about the fucking Diamond buttons, i just don't see the problem with them, especially compared to those rockhard tumor lumps on the playstation controller. Played through Sonic Mania and the Mana Collection with them and they worked just fine.
>also >spanish, forgive me for being a spic.
>The American PS4 games are in Taco
What the fuck, when did they start doing this. Somehow they even fucked up the Only on PlayStation bit the Europoor copy got right
>Exclusive on/in PlayStation
>>16857047
Can't blame the motherfucker for not looking through the manual. Nobody else does, that's why games today all have painfully long tutorials to make sure you understand how to play it, and not just let the player sink or swim.
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628fbd No.16857092
>>16857071
Pretty sure tacoland just uses the same rating system as the rest of North America, while getting separate prints from US and Canada (which share the same by my estimate). I mean, I've never seen a game here with the cover text being Spanish focused; it's always English, or English and French, though I assume that, at least for US-sold copies, there might be English, French, and Spanish scripts in the game itself.
You want obnoxious though, look at how many PAL prints of Bloodborne: Game of the Year Edition there are. Many of them have dunecoon runes on them to cater to rapefugees. I felt lucky my import copy (being that SCEA didn't do a local one in an effort to get a constant profit stream off preowned vanilla copies from people still having to pay them for DLC) was one of the UK ones that actually was only English, just by the principle of it.
>Can't blame the motherfucker for not looking through the manual. Nobody else does, that's why games today all have painfully long tutorials to make sure you understand how to play it, and not just let the player sink or swim.
Yeah, but you still can't call it complete when it's had a sizable amount ripped out, and isn't just an old survey product registration postcard
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