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Rolo posted:The battery on my hacked 3DS is wild. Decided I wanted to play some Castlevania today and it’s still charged after a year of being off in a drawer. The DS/3DS generations of handhelds had loving phenomenal battery conservation and general lifespan.
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Explosionface posted:NES and SNES dpads? I'd consider them all at least equal. I've really never had problems with either in my decades using both.  AlternateNu posted:The DS/3DS generations of handhelds had loving phenomenal battery conservation and general lifespan. Commander Keene fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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First 3DS had a pretty bad battery, it was bad enough that I got one of those bolt on battery expansion things. The XL and everything after were fine though
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The thing that really killed 3DS battery life was Streetpass as it made for super short standby times. I'm sure that if you turned that off it'd be fine.
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uiruki posted:The thing that really killed 3DS battery life was Streetpass as it made for super short standby times. I'm sure that if you turned that off it'd be fine. That's the thing. You didn't save much battery life by closing the shell because of streetpass. But if you turned it off, you could have it sit forever and it would barely lose any charge.
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Yeah, I was always resetting the system clocks on my PSP and Vita because the battery would fully run down even if the system was completely turned off, but I haven't had to do that for either 3DS yet, when fully off it does keep battery much better than Sony's handhelds at least.
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Hell yeah.....just got Death Rally running on my 35xx. Love this game.
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hatty posted:First 3DS had a pretty bad battery, it was bad enough that I got one of those bolt on battery expansion things. The XL and everything after were fine though Also I'm primarily running regular DS games on this, which according to google helps a ton. Stuck on that system cause the DS had the best Castlevania games. Portrait of Ruin is so god drat good. I will say these devices have the most confusing model names. DS, DS Lite, Dsi, 2DS, 2DS, 3DS, NEW 3DS, NEW 2DS XL. I had to google orange/white DS to remember which one I had again.
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The fact that old brick game boys will power up astounds me. Impressive engineering
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coconono posted:The fact that old brick game boys will power up astounds me. Impressive engineering Don’t forget the Game Boy that survived the Gulf War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Game_boy_damaged_in_the_gulf_war.JPG
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Don’t forget the Game Boy that survived the Gulf War. 
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coconono posted:The fact that old brick game boys will power up astounds me. Impressive engineering The amazing durability that comes from having removable batteries. Seriously I'm pretty sure the #1 cause of death for old handhelds is battery leakage.
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njsykora posted:The amazing durability that comes from having removable batteries. It’s actually heart disease
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Polymega update for today Installed a bunch more games and have run into a few that just don't run. I have read that you can load alternate bios images for Playstation etc. but I have not started on that process. Played a little bit of Sega CD (Dungeon Explorer) and tried a few playstation games but couldn't get much to run. Bust-a-Move 4 had a terminal freeze. Knuckles Chaotic (32x) just dumped and restarted the machine. Wipeout 3 and Gran Tourismo 2 work fine, but the Tomb Raider games require you play without analog sticks which is terrible. Tried a few controllers today: SteelSeries mac/iphone controller - NO. RAP Sticks - NO (2 different versions) 8bitdo n30 stick - NO 8bitdo Xbox arcade stick - NO iBuffallo cheap SNES usb pad - YES. This was like $5 on amazon years ago and works just dandy.
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I miss Streetpass. If you saw the same person enough times in Streetpass Mii Plaza you could send messages that would show up the next time you passed each other. There was some guy at the same train station as me every morning during my commute and we would exchange messages about how work sucks or other dumb poo poo. I never knew which face in the crowd he was!
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Speaking of Nintendo street things. A couple years ago, we visited a town in Long Island. I think it was Port Jefferson. That was the only place we saw a lot of people actively catching pokemon on their tablets, after the pokemon fad died down.
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coconono posted:The fact that old brick game boys will power up astounds me. Impressive engineering Old electronics are extremely reliable. The capacitor issues that can kill them only happened in a narrow window of time for a specific design.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Old electronics are extremely reliable. The capacitor issues that can kill them only happened in a narrow window of time for a specific design. Game Gears have some cap issues that still let them power up, but not reach 100% functionality. One of my friends bought a box of game gears that all had bad caps on the audio boards. Mine didn't have that issue when I checked it, but it did have a supremely washed out screen. Still technically playable.
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Don't kink shame.
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I haven't touched mine in a hot minute but its been a pretty solid android handheld. Could use a better battery tho
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The initial batches with the janky hinges probably turned off a lot potential buyers too.
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hatty posted:did the flip flop? I dunno how it did in terms of numbers but reception was great outside of the QC issues with the hinges.
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From what I heard people who brought it loved it but its hard to convince people give it a try in the first place? In retrospect Retroid probably should have done the Anbernic thing and make the outside look like a 3DS.
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I am seriously falling back in love with my 2DS XL. My left thumb is killing me from using it but man that quick and efficient close/open standby mode is fantastic.
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the Flip is good. but it's now outdated with the 4's existence, so i get discontinuing it. but they still offer the Pocket 2s/3+ on the site so idk if they go back to clamshell in the future it's going to have to be with two screens i think. but they'd need a stronger chip & CPU to go along with that
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Speaking of clamshell games, Dawn of Sorrow is a freaking masterpiece. I’m having so much fun with all the little secrets and puzzles in this one.
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Powkiddy RGB10MAX3 has a preorder price of $70. It looks like it already has JELOS support too.
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mariooncrack posted:Powkiddy RGB10MAX3 has a preorder price of $70. It looks like it already has JELOS support too.
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Thanks. I've spent too much time looking at devices and I don't think I want to splurge for a retroid pocket 4 right now and that that seems extremely good for $70 so I guess I might go for it
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Rinkles posted:The issue with POWKIDDY is not being able to read the name without hearing it in the sing-song way that Wicked does it. Fixed.
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Rinkles posted:The issue with POWKIDDY is build quality. Feels like they’ve gotten better with that recently, I didn’t hear many complaints about the RG2023 or RGB20.
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otter posted:Fixed. Every single time I get a package from China...
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njsykora posted:Feels like they’ve gotten better with that recently, I didn’t hear many complaints about the RG2023 or RGB20. The RGB30 has been all over the shop quality wise. I bought two (resold one) and had no problems so could just be the vocal bias towards complaints. It definitely seems to have had more problems than average though.
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