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I’ve been lucky enough to buy a near mint n3DS XL off facebook for £70

Unboxed but I’m not fussed as this one is for playing 

11 hours ago, Darwock said:

 Bit concerned that the pre-cut shell will be a hack job and will show through the clear housing, but I don’t see any sign of that in your photo.

The 2 GBA shells I’ve had have been fine

Best of luck

Here’s the link:

￡34.22 | DIY IPS GBA LCD Screen 10 Levels High Brightness Backlight for Nintend Gameboy Advance Console V2 version with pre-cut housing
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKWPF1S

Lens is glass rather than the original plastic which is nice, however the font has a holographic look (just doesn’t appear so in the photo)

If you replace the screen get a pre cut case too

I’ve got a new 3DS and an original 3DS XL, both are well used as my kids played on them a lot when they were younger

The new 3DS I have is the ambassador edition and I’ve found the original faceplates, box and other gubbins it came with up the attic, I can’t believe the price they sell for nowadays, maybe £300, so I might sell it for if it a new 3DS XL is a worthwhile upgrade

Is the new 3DS XL the one to go for nowadays? By that I mean is it the best choice for the middle aged gamer with bad eyesight who remembers getting sore hands using a 3DS?

33 minutes ago, Thor said:

Might have to try Half Life on Quest. Does it have proper weapon aiming? 

yes

Hee haw gaming related for me from about 80 car boots 

It seems everything and anything retro is being hoovered up regardless of price nowadays, here’s an example:

2 boxed mega drive games, nothing rare, Alex Kidd and cool spot, pen on both boxes, they were on display for just a few seconds and I was the first to ask about them

£10 for one and £8 for the other were the prices the seller had clearly memorised from eBay, absolutely no discount for buying them both either, so I declined

Noticed they were gone about 2 minutes later

It’s got me thinking about doing my own car boot soon with some of my retro stuff in the attic if the prices are that good for ordinary stuff

1 hour ago, Lochenvar said:

Is vroptician.com still the best place to get prescription lenses from? If you need prism correction, was it worth getting or not getting that?

adlens.com was the cheapest place for me a few months ago

Mind you I’ve hardly used them and more often than not just keep my specs on when I use it

In Summer I don’t really play games, I’m too busy in the garden and doing DIY tasks most evenings and weekends 

I still get up early on a Sunday during the summer to search for retro games at car boots but it’s an equally good cheap source of DIY tools

In the winter I’ll get back into Elden Ring which I’ve not touched in months and put more hours into Gran Turismo 7

1 hour ago, Camel said:

What’s southern got to do with anything?

 

Boot sales do bring out the worst dickheads, I’ve found over the years.

Just painting a picture, imagine a loud Glaswegian on holiday in the North of Scotland

Today I turned down a scruffy game boy color for £40

Got a Frogger CGL tabletop thing for £2, not in the best condition, seconds later some big southern prat told the guy who sold me it he would have paid him £40 for it “as they go for an absolute fortune on eBay”

7:30am as I was arriving some lucky sod bought what looked like 2 mint boxed zx spectrums and 2 carrier bags full of tapes from an old biddy probably for a couple of quid “I’ve got a wii as well still in the car would you be interested in that too dear?” “Nah I’ve already got one of those”

What are everyone’s local car boots like this summer? Are they back to the same numbers they used to be before covid?
 

Mines is a shadow of its former self unfortunately, 3 years ago there could be 400 sellers at this time of year if the weather was forecast to be good, now there are 100 sellers.

The xeno chip install did not go well

Soldered it quite neatly directly to the board and found that both LEDs on the chip lit up, one red and one orange on constantly which I don’t think is correct and the mini DVD R with Swiss on it would spin but wouldn’t read

Then in my badly thought out attempt to remove the xeno chip to try soldering again this time with wires I’ve ripped the copper contacts off and seems I’ve now ruined the disc drive

Anyone know the best place to buy a properly modded console only?

Wow, just had a look and eBay prices are mental

I know it’s only adding to the problem but I’m half tempted to sell my fairly recent Everdrives and buy them back when the situation returns to normal

yes I looked into that but I don’t have windwaker.

After a bit of research this evening I’ve ordered a xeno chip, sd2sp2 and Swiss on a disc all for less than a tenner.

I have an OSSC, am I best getting a decent RGB scart cable and using that or am I better using something like the retrobit prism for HDMI from the digital out?

Got a sorry looking black gamecube at a car boot sale today, I fancy modding it with an ODE like my Dreamcast and Saturn

I had thought GC Loader was the one to get but now I’ve looked they’re not selling them and their twitter feed is dead.

Is there another one I should go for? Are the ones on aliexpress when I search for GC Loader the same thing?

 Yes the GBA has had the most use by far, the new screen and proper glass bezel make a huge difference.

Im using an ez flash omega cart with it which as been superb

I’ve got a couple more to do and I’ll keep one of each and sell the rest on.

I owned one about 12 years ago now, boxed USA version with a few games, I think I may have bought it from this forum actually.

I always used it with an AC adaptor to save on batteries, Wario land held my interest for a few hours, had a tennis game and a robot boxing game too but they were played for a few minutes in comparison.
 

It was a talking piece when I had guests for a few months and would let people have a go but ultimately it ended up collecting dust on a high shelf so I sold it on after a year or so.

I found the stand had a crack in the plastic middle piece where you separate the legs which made it a bit unstable, something to watch out for.

Managed to get 4 stars on village with Leon, quite straightforward

I’ve now unlocked Ada and challenge mode, my word the challenges are a hoot.

Need to have a lie down in a dark room now

Yes mercenaries is a real challenge, managed to get 42k points and 3 stars on village with Leon on my 3rd attempt so I think 60k+ and 4 stars should be do able soon.

Clever use of the bonus time with exploding barrels and grenades should get me there.

I thought it would be easy but the shoutgun is really cumbersome, I’m going to experiment with two hands on the shotgun to see if that improves accuracy.

I bought a used copy on eBay the day after release after reading all the hype on here. Seller told it wasn’t his cup of tea after trying it for half an hour, imagine doing that!

I’m only about 30 hours in, not touched it in over a week now. Its great and I’ll go back to it but I’ve got very limited time to play games these days. I’ve also picked up Gran Turismo 7 now so it’s gone down the pecking order.

Started this tonight, never played a game like this before other than bloodborne for about 20 minutes 

Picked the mature hairy male wretch as my starting character (modelled on me)

2 hours in and i’m getting in to it, avoiding larger enemies where I can as I keep getting battered, ventured into a cave earlier but retreated immediately 

I’ve read that I missed the tutorial completely at the start too, have I set myself up for a harder game by picking the wretch?

1 hour ago, SuperCapes said:

Oh for sure it seems legit, I have only played 2, but have 3 ready to go, but tempted to buy the first game with DLC, the DLC for 2 and the Season Pass for 3.

 

So the extra content is good? 

 

I think for me to have everything it is gonna set me back £34, plus the £20 I paid for 3. I feel like the time I have had with 2 so far is worth the £54 by itself, so it seems like a no brainer if I am honest! 

The additional DLC maps, Haven Island and New York bank are both excellent if you don’t have them yet

Wordle 209 4/6

2nd day trying this, getting better

4 minutes ago, Tomdominer said:

 

Sorry to be utterly lazy and not do my own research, but does this run on the quest itself, or do you need to run it from the pc?

Runs on the quest itself after you’ve used any old PC with steam account to get it onto the quest