• forcequit [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    pre smartphone doohickeys were great. Hell, even phones were getting wacky with it at that point

    • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Mashing five buttons at the same time on a small ass querty keyboard on my Palm phone.

        • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          I've only heard of that model in legend, I don't think I could take its raw power irl

  • stevaloo [they/them, she/her]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    went through like 2 or 3 of these things because I was a dumb kid who left shit all over the floor and I stepped on two of them. (rip shrek themed SP :shrek-pixel-despair:)

    my older brother put the third one on top of a cabinet and straight up forgot about it. Found it YEARS later completely by accident and I still have 2 working SPs.

    • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      It's ridiculous how long the battery lasts, this is my first and only one from 2006, it was the standard blue before I reskinned it two-ish :biden-forgor: years ago.

      I love just picking up cheap knock off cartridges online for it, like the copy of Link to the Past/Four Swords on screen.

  • Kuori [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    mine served me so well for so many years, still hugely nostalgic

  • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Got myself a refurbished one with a new battery and improved backlight nearly ten years ago and it's still going strong. Works great with one of those cartridges designed to hold a flash card.

    • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Oh! I didn't even know the flashcard cartridge was a thing going to have a look into it

      • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        EZFlash is the one I picked because it supposedly offers the best compatibility with modded/fan-made games. It's been able to run all the modded versions of Pokemon FireRed I've tried, at least.

        • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          :kitsupogi: sweet, thanks for the link comrade I'll look into this, way more practical for long trips. Also I need to dive into fan made titles at some point too.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Minish cap was great, underrated Zelda game and apparently like one of the last third party serious Zelda games IIRC?

    I remember as a kid with a tenuous grasp of english I would go through the sign puzzle in the woods and whenever it read "Left" I managed to mistake it for "Lift" and I would lift and chuck the sign before walking off in some random direction and not getting why it wasnt working.

  • FrogDog [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've been having a grand old time with Retroarch on my phone and a Bluetooth controller

  • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Still have mine in silver. Many many hours were spent with it as my first handheld