I don't think you'll get that for 3 grand. If you want something to escape to.
Hmmm, looks like one of our 2DS XLs was put into a charity clothes bag by accident and is gone. With a Tomadachi Life cartridge 😁. Have a backup 2DS XL which I thought was overkill, but not now.
I kinda hope the next switch has a flip screen and they'll port the big DS titles over or emulate them. I can see it happening ... how else does Nintendo bring these to its online service without some horrible single screen UI hacks.
There is only so much I can do with it and, in fairness, it has done little but accumulate stuff for the past 20 years!
A clear out, clean, and re-organise might do the trick, but a big part of me wants more vertical space and places to put everything, aside from those filthy current consoles that do not deserve to be named.
I'll have to look into it and decide then, but a large secure wooden or metal shed, supplied with power and a storage heater, good lighting, it could be fantastic, install a nice path through the back garden to it.
We shall have to see!
I found with a shed, that once you have to leave the comfort of the house to go out to it, you're less inclined to bother. Granted mine wasn't a modern warm/insulated/comfortable one, but I'm not sure that'd have made a difference for me.
What's up with the attic that makes it uncomfortable Cidey? Is it height? Space? Is it something a full clear out and re-jig might solve?
Could you swap out the crap room for the attic and move your gaming stuff into the spare room?
The only thing I suppose is I'd be worried about the spare room continuing to be the crap room, just now with crap piled on top of all your gaming stuff!
A separate stand alone thing like a shed is the dream alright. I'd absolutely love that if I had the space. Be amazing to just be able to buy things as they came up and not have to continually turn stuff down due to lack of space.
Could even have some proper dedicated arcade machines like lightgun games or machines with just one PCB in them.
I find that's continually been the one thing I've had to do over the years myself, I've had some cool machines and that but you end up having to make everything as multi purpose as possible.
I now am "stuck" with an attic room that is just too uncomfortable to use.
I am considering investing in a large shed and to move the hobby, kit and caboodle, into it.
There is a spare room, but that is currently filled with what can be kindly referred to as crap, but crap that I can't/not allowed to bin.
I reckon a decent shed, for my purposes, would run me around €3k...
We shall have to see what the piggy bank has and work from there!
Simple solution - keep your house as a hobby house! 😁
I had mad dreams of doing that with my old apartment in D1 when I moved out to my new place. Clear everything out and fill it with consoles and arcade machines. Mini arcade in the city centre, would have been amazing!
Then along comes reality as usual and crushes all such dreams /sob
Aw man, so you're moving back out of your own house? Meaning you can't set your gear up in your girlfriends place? Talk about being cursed...get yourself a Mister system and be done with it 😑
So, a new Sauron...
So soon since your liberation from the last one...
Deary deary me...
Must check my carts. I'm still amazed that mine all still worked from the carts I tested but that was over 5 years ago.
I'm a bit of a limbo again with the retrogames set up. Got my own place, well on the way to setting up my retrogames set up and now I'm moving job and moving into the girlfriends who is less enthused about any retrogames set up so I've to start all over again.
Yep, they look familiar alright. I'd say that's them
I know right? it's weird to arrive at a stage in time that you actually future proofed for a decade ago 😅
I remember trying to figure out what holders to use, most of them didn't actually fit with the cart shell closed.
Went with these half moon ones if I remember correctly:
I must see what's the best possible CR2032 battery you can get for longevity when replacing them this time.
Now THAT makes ignoring the passage of time very difficult....all those brand new batteries I fit are all dead? Christ 🙁
To be fair I think the battery holder idea was your own, and a great one at that, will make popping in new batteries a breeze.
Had great fun last night testing out my Snes carts, haven't really gone near them in quite some time.
A surprising amount of batteries have died in them though. Chrono Trigger, FF VI, Super Metroid, ALTTP, etc etc the list goes on and on - all full of missing save files!
Think my last 'great battery replacement' was at least 10 years ago. Might have been longer at this stage. Luckily though (with the help of The Artist formerly known as Enternow) we had a bit of foresight and put battery holders in them all. So it'll just be a matter of buying a rake of new CR2032s and snapping them into place.
Interesting observation, has anyone noticed how text heavy Japanese Snes cart labels are?
I've noticed in passing over the years but didn't notice quite so much until last night when I was trying to put the carts into some kind of order. A very large proportion of Jap labels are literally just the game's title. Maybe with a tiny image. As opposed to my PAL/NTSCU carts which have pictures and characters all over them.
The collect-a-thon begins
Pokemon Legends Arceus is the jankiest masterpiece since the first Deadly Premonition.
Starfox hard route is kicking my ass hard. Stage 3 looks amazing but the slowdown really kicks in here. The boss is a real piece of work. Couldn't beat him.
I've been playing through a few of the irem m72 games.
I beat Dragon Breed, very good! Using your dragon as a shield is a cool thing even if it takes a while to get the hang of it. Ending screen with you dead is a bit strange.
Image fight, I already had but didn't properly play. Very tough so only got a few levels in but this has legs.
Air Duel, nice looking game but quite average. The difficulty ramps up big time after an easy first level.
Armed Police Unit Gallop, not as good as dragon breed, but it's close. Big chunky sprites and very fast. Can get to 4th level so far.
Ninja spirit is the bees knees, excellent. Swapping between the different weapons on the fly is what it's all about. Dynamite for the second boss. The third level the difficulty jumps up significantly and that's as far as I've gotten so far. Great music, very catchy
I really want to replay Prime 2 after Prime 1 remaster. I have Prime trlogy but still hoping we'll get 2 and 3 remaster on switch.
I remember the Power Bomb Guardian taking a few attempts on my side too. Very fiddly trying to navigate its arena.
I think I found the power bomb boss more aggravating but more so because it was a big change in boss fight mechanics. Quite clever all the same.
Quadraxis DEAD. That was a great boss fight for sure. Really tricky as you need to keep on top of the damage to get health items.
Really loving Metroid Prime 2. Im torn now between 3 next, or back to the Remaster of 1 despite finishing it on GC in March 2022.
Took a break from TotK and played some snes.
First up Run Saber. It's a blatant Strider clone from Atlus. It's not quite as good but still well worth your time and a pretty easy game to beat. It adds a few of its own twists on the formula including a really fun 2 player co-op mode.
The level design is great and there's loads of mini bosses. The soundtrack is good but a bit too upbeat. The art design is excellent with some really creepy looking enemies.
Next was the hard route on starfox and this doesn't pull it's punches. I was locked by the game. Only made it to stage 2's boss.
I did like the little Easter egg in the opening stage. If you choose the hard route the commander comments that you are getting the jump on andross by going this route. Stage 1 then ends with enemies carrying pieces of the usual stage 1 boss as it hasn't been constructed yet right before taking on a new tank boss.
Pokemon Legends Arceus. It's definitely the evolution the series had been screaming out for since forever, but, Christ, how does the most profitable media franchise in history produce a title that looks like a Unity asset flip?
Quadraxis is a pretty big difficulty spikes in the game. I loved the boss fight but many find it too tough. Good luck.
Playing Pac-Man CE demake on the Famicom a lot as it’s a 5 min score attack game so good for the old WFH scenario.
Honestly I prefer this version to the awesome original.
Also Metroid Prime 2. Came across a cool boss called Quadraxis last night. Couldn’t figure him out though and there are no light beacons in his arena. Next time.
Maybe back to Zelda too.
Dragged myself away from Zelda as well.
Played a bit of pilotwings. Got to the silver license which was cut short when the fire alarm in the house went off because my dinner was burning in the air fryer because of the stupid recipe I followed (tasted great but so much smoke!)
Then played a battle in tactics ogre to get back into it.
Played a lot of knightmare on msx. It's such a good game despite how simple it is. I made a list of all the exits I'd unlocked and managed to make it to stage 6.
Then I tried to get the scc sound in the msx emulator working again. This time I managed it.
Basically you have to add the scc rom manually and then change the config file to point the emulator to the cartridge to have it boot in that slot
The big issue is that the one person online that keeps telling people how to fix this issue keeps posting their config file which has errors in it, it's not pointing to the right address for the cartridge. Finally found a comment with the correct address and it's working now.
Unfortunately this has mess up my save state for knightmare so I've to start again. Thankfully I've improved quite a bit so I made it to stage 4 first try. Still stage 4 and 5 will be tough to clear but it's nice having the improved music.
Pulled myself away from Zelda to get back to more Metroid Prime 2 this evening. I still really love it. Sky Sanctuary's just a great area.
Mooched around for long enough for the game to say "go here", even though that's where I was going. I think it I wasn't playing this in bursts, I'd turn off the hint system but here we are...
During the day, I'm working from my garden room a lot so I have NES Tetris on the TV and Pang or Bubble Bobble on the Aero City for short, sharp bursts.
I still have the code from level 6 I think saved written on a pad from the mid 90s. Not sure anyone every finished that game.
And yeah, I hate thermals!
Played a bit of Pilotwings and some Konami SNES shooters when I managed to rip myself away from TotK. Really liking Pilotwings but the difficulty shoots up when the hang glider gets introduced.
Yep it's a gorgeous looking game and a real tech showpiece. It's very interesting how naughty dog pulled it off. However I still remember thinking it felt old next to Mario 64 and also felt a bit crap compared to the likes of mario and sonic.
