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The laser on the GameCube's optical drive can lose power overtime but there's guides online on how to correct that by adjusting a potentiometer a bit. I did that to fix a "sold as-is" thrift store GameCube I bought for $2. This requires working knowledge on how screwdrivers work, however, and I dunno if non-3DS owners are as bad at those as 3DS owners.
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shaitan posted:I sold my NES to get a SNES, sold my Genesis and SNES to get a PSX, right when I was old enough to start working. So now I have PSX and up left in my house
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irlZaphod posted:What did you sell to get your Genesis? his thumbs
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Mar 25, 2016 16:33
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gently caress, I sold my Genesis to buy you these thumb rings.
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Mercury Crusader posted:The laser on the GameCube's optical drive can lose power overtime but there's guides online on how to correct that by adjusting a potentiometer a bit. I did that to fix a "sold as-is" thrift store GameCube I bought for $2.
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Jet chewed through my gamepad charger again. I'm kinda sick of this, and I'm wondering if anyone here has ever bought any cord protectors for the charger? Also, is a wire stripper like this appropriate for stripping the cord? I'm considering just buying heat shrinks and a soldering iron too. loving cats 
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Mar 25, 2016 17:24
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Sorry about your cat.
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Mar 25, 2016 17:30
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Sell your cat watch how much extra money you suddenly have and how much your life immediately improves and how much better your apartment smells.
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Mar 25, 2016 17:51
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greatn posted:Sell your cat watch how much extra money you suddenly have and how much your life immediately improves and how much better your apartment smells. Interestingly, though, the inverse is also true. Sell yourself, leave the cat your games. EDIT: I cant stop Mario Making
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Pollyanna posted:Jet chewed through my gamepad charger again. I'm kinda sick of this, and I'm wondering if anyone here has ever bought any cord protectors for the charger? Also, is a wire stripper like this appropriate for stripping the cord? I'm considering just buying heat shrinks and a soldering iron too. I bought this stuff from Ikea to protect my Wii U cords. It's wider than you need, but that's extra space to protect your cords from cat teeth. I also used it to bundle my various gaming system cords together to organize them, so now it looks like a bunch of white snakes are all crammed behind our entertainment center.
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Mercury Crusader posted:The laser on the GameCube's optical drive can lose power overtime but there's guides online on how to correct that by adjusting a potentiometer a bit. I did that to fix a "sold as-is" thrift store GameCube I bought for $2. I seriously saw people saying they needed to practice with a screwdriver before their n3ds got there stf
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Mar 25, 2016 18:28
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I have an NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, GB, GBC, GBA, and DS in storage. Never had a Wii. Have my WiiU and 3DS out.
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I still have my N64 out and hooked up to my TV, along with a Wii U and a PC. My sister got rid of our old NES a long time ago, but I still have some of the games. Been meaning to pick up a new NES to replace it at some point. We used to have a Wii, but the disc drive died and I replaced it with a Wii U.
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Mar 25, 2016 18:33
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greatn posted:Sell your cat watch how much extra money you suddenly have and how much your life immediately improves and how much better your apartment smells. over my dead body I bought a wire stripper and one of those Rabalders. Thanks for the recs!
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Mar 25, 2016 18:42
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Put vinegar and discharge on your cables so your cat won't chew right threw them.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:07
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Not only do I have all my Nintendo consoles, I have someone else's N64 (Borrowed it and they declined to take it back!!)
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Mar 25, 2016 20:24
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I dont even know where my old NES went. I have an SNES on up yet, but we don't use it, and the N64 is at my sister's house, still used occasionally for New Tetris or Dr. Mario 64. I dropped snow into the bag I was carrying my Wii around in like the first year it came out, and it still lasted until last year, just had some corrosion in the sensor bar port but I wired a bar up to an AC adapter. Then last year it started getting memory corruption issues, thankfully long after I had done a system transfer to the Wii U.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:35
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I lost just about everything I owned back in 2006, including a Gamecube and N64. I didn't end up getting another console til the Wii U in 2014.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:37
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Wrap your cables in tinfoil, cats hate that poo poo.
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RyokoTK posted:Wrap your cables in tinfoil, cats hate that poo poo. Go a step further and wrap your cat in tinfoil
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TheKingofSprings posted:Go a step further and wrap your cat in tinfoil Bake at 385º for 1 hour, server once cooled
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CrashCat posted:Is there really a guide that makes it as simple as using a screwdriver? Cause a quick search just gives me electrician speak and I don't even own a multimeter. It's been a year or two since I last fixed mine, but I recall reading a step-by-step guide with photos on how to do it. It may have also recommended using a multimeter but honestly I just kinda winged that part and used a throwaway sports title for testing just in case I made the laser too strong. The only difficult parts aside from disassembling the console was locating the potentiometer. I'll have to see if I can find it again. This guide describes how to get to it, but for some reason it says to keep disassembling after step 10 when the potentiometer screw is in view. Get to step 10 then skip straight to step 17. You'll need a gamebit tool to open the console which is something I take for granted. Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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I don't have any local friends. Is Rayman legends a good investment for some single player fun? I'm hoping to find it in a bargain bin at some point.
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Mar 25, 2016 23:13
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It's really good, and was on sale on the eShop a week or two ago for like 10bux
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I want to play the next Zelda on the machine it was originally designed for (as I did with Twilight Princess), so I'll be keeping my Wii U for that. I've got a backlog anyhow (Okami and Metroid Prime Trilogy via Wii Mode, beating the hard challenges in Smash Wii U). Still disappointed that Project CARS Wii U failed to transpire... Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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Ronnie posted:I don't have any local friends. Is Rayman legends a good investment for some single player fun? I'm hoping to find it in a bargain bin at some point. I don't think it's as good as Mario or Tropical Freeze but yeah. There's kinda annoying touch screen levels you have to do but thankfully there's not a lot of them and the game even includes almost all the levels from Rayman Origins so there's a lot of content.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:Still disappointed that Project CARS Wii U failed to transpire...
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RyokoTK posted:Wrap your cables in tinfoil, cats hate that poo poo. I've still got my Gamecube, Wii, and DS, but the DS is broken in half and dead. My WiiU and 3DS are still in regular use, and I'm having a lot of fun with Twilight Princess. I feel like once you can change to a wolf at will it really makes it feel like one game - the wolf parts feel kinda disjointed from the regular Zelda-ing and make the first three dungeons of the game and the accompanying wolf parts feel like an extended (if fun) tutorial in hindsight. It's really made me like this game even more.
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homeless snail posted:It runs like poo poo on the PS4, so its probably for the best Ronnie posted:I don't have any local friends. Is Rayman legends a good investment for some single player fun? I'm hoping to find it in a bargain bin at some point. Yeah, it's a terrific platformer. You don't need friends to make it shine. As a bonus, all the levels from Rayman Origins are included. Plus the daily challenges are fun. One day I was hungover as poo poo and I was logging in to do my daily Rayman challenge and I loving deleted my save data which, for some loving reason, counts towards your overall global score, and that sat me back literal months in getting the Truly Awesome achievement and now I'll never get it boo hoo, wah wah, so it goes. cram me sideways fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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I sold my DS when I got a 3DS because I can just play DS games on it. My mom sold the NES we had in a garage sale when I was a kid 
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Mar 26, 2016 01:51
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your mom sold me your nes.
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You fucker!
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I think I paid $10 for my nes with a box of games, $10 for my snes with a box of games, and $10 for my n64, again with a box of games. People want like 5-10 times that now lol
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I sold my SNES at a garage sale when I was a kid. Then I went and bought Banjo-Kazooie with that cash. I'm not sure which of these was the worse decision. (well all right, Banjo-Kazooie was pretty cool at the time)
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Doc Morbid posted:I sold my SNES at a garage sale when I was a kid. Then I went and bought Banjo-Kazooie with that cash. I'm not sure which of these was the worse decision. I sold my nes and snes to get a saturn and then the saturn to get an n64 (and later psx) then both of those, but not the games, to get a gamecube. I've rebought everything since for dirt cheap thankfully, although I'll never find a cheap copy of Dragon Force
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Happy Birthday Reggie.
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Mercury Crusader posted:It's been a year or two since I last fixed mine, but I recall reading a step-by-step guide with photos on how to do it. It may have also recommended using a multimeter but honestly I just kinda winged that part and used a throwaway sports title for testing just in case I made the laser too strong. The only difficult parts aside from disassembling the console was locating the potentiometer. I'll have to see if I can find it again. i can confirm it's real easy to fix a gamecube's disc laser, provided you can open up the dumb thing in the first place
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My dad pawned my SNES and most if not all of the games to some Puerto Rican kid. I'd almost suppressed that memory, and now it returns and I vow revenge.
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my copy of goldeneye was stolen when i was a kid, i had 007 mode unlocked and everything i will neVER FORGIVE. years later though a friend's kids were offloading their n64 and games and they gave me their copy of goldeneye, so it worked out though.
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