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wolfinthewoods

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  • Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year

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  • Ah, I see. Good to know.

    Hmm, that make sense. I suppose due to the quality of the tv you'd get dimishing returns the higher the fidelity of the set. I honestly have only been slightly curious about RGB, but never enough to go for it. Somehow I always suspected that it wasn't quite worth the effort.

  • What are people usong as thei music player app nowadays?

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  • On the Android app?

  • What is your favorite obscure Retro Game?

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  • For sure! Such a trip it made it on the DS, with a level editor even.

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • It's seriously getting old at this point. I've noticed there's been an uptick in hostility towards lemmy.ml over the past year. I can only assume it's related to the reddit migration. Unfortunately I only forsee it getting worse as more people migrate over.

  • Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year

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  • That's awesome! I'm all about upcycling. It's amazing what people will toss without thinking about repair. Although sometimes it's not worth the headache. I remember flipping my shit when I couldn't figure out how to repair the read error on a PS2 I picked up. Ended up just giving up in the end. Also spent hours through the middle of the night jacked up on energy drinks pulling a laptop apart to fix an issue with the processor running too hot, only to put it back together and still have the same issue.

    Ah, what's the issue with the Game Genie? I'm buying an Everdrive, I think I heard that it had built in cheat support.

    Yeah, nowadays I shy away from hardmods because of the experiences I listed above. I'd rather buy from someone with the time and experience if I need to go that route. Otherwise I'm completely fine with softmodding or flashcarts for my needs which tend more towards software. I wouldn't mind seeing a RGB mod in person running on something cool like one of those "HD" Trinitrons that were used a video editing monitors back in the day. I hear they look fantastic, the highest fidelity picture you can get for CRT based systems.

  • What are people usong as thei music player app nowadays?

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  • Perfect. I use VLC installed via Fdroid as my primary Android music player. The only thing I could never get to work was displaying Album art, but I stopped caring enough to fiddle with it for such a trivial thing long ago.

  • Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year

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  • I would always be jealous of my friends who would talk about playing a Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger. Here I was sitting in my room playing Pitfall and Enduro on my 2600, while they were jamming on their SNES systems. I had one friend who was lucky enough to have a PS1 when it first came out, seeing FFVII on the PS1 blew my mind at 12 years old. Eventually my parents did get me a other systems, first the SNES than the Genesis and later a PS1. My dad got in on the PS1 pretty hardcore (he was a big car fanatic and thought Gran Turismo was amazing). The funniest time as a kid was when my parents got us a Genesis, and we got the Sega Channel through the local cable company. My parents got so hooked on Shining Force that they'd play for hours and hours, a lot of times they'd hog the Genesis to where we kids barely got to play lol

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  • Sweet! Thank you, happy B-day (or soon to be) to you too! The CRT is the icing on the cake, I love real scanlines in action. Sadly I didn't pay attention to the listing close enough and purchased the console only so I don't have the dogbone controller (was really looking forward to it too). I had to grab a generic NES one for now. Eventually I'll be grabbing the dogbone when I can though.

  • Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year

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  • Makes sense. The Famicom AVs on Ebay were anywhere from $95-$125, while the NES toploader was at least $140-160. That's why I opted to get the Famicom AV instead.

  • Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year

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  • It's baffling to me why the toploader didn't have AV ports in the first place. Hell, the US NES had them, I don't see why they went with RF only on the first release. I wasn't even aware of that fact until I looked into getting one, I always assumed the NES Control Deck had them.

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  • I've read that it's fairly easy to AV mod those US toploaders. I've seen people mention it online. Although, I know it requires some simple sodering to do. There are also RGB mods out there for it as well.

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  • No, I never have. I've heard about it vaguely, but that's it. I'll have to check it out sometime.

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  • Essential! I bought it from an older lady down the road months ago in anticipation of buying some retro consoles. I also have a PS2 phat on layaway at the pawnshop that I'll be grabbing in the next month. It was suprisingly only $60. The cool thing too is there is a gaming shop downtown that sells retro games for pretty cheap. I spied Gran Turismo 4 down there for $8 (the only GT on PS1/2 that I never really got to play). Funny thing is, I've actually taken to preferring to watch stuff on the CRT with a DVD player versus using my laptop. I get DVDs from the library and with where the TV is positioned it's more comfortable to watch from my bed. I don't get great internet where I am too, so it's often the only way to watch something. Definitely worth the $7 I payed for it :D

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  • Haha, yeah. I even used to have a Mario shirt I loved that said "Down Since '85". I completely spaced the connection until I bought the cart. Honestly, the earliest memories I have of gaming are of playing Super Mario Bros. over at the neighbors. My parents couldn't afford to get me a console until I was 6, and the one they could afford was an Atari 2600 from the thrift store. The carts were something like 25 cents a piece though, so my mom got a crapload of them, I loved it, but was definitely jealous of my other friends who had Nintendos. On my seventh birthday though, they bought me a new SNES that came with Super Mario World, and to this day is the game I've beat the most times (I never did get any other games for that SNES since my parents couldn't afford them).

  • What is your favorite obscure Retro Game?

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  • The game you're thinking of is Bangai-O Spirits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangai-O_Spirits. It was a DS sequel to Bangai-O on the Sega Dreamcast (another excellent, and imho the superior version). I had the DS version as well and it was a great game. If you ever get the chance (emu or native) I'd highly recommend playing the original on Dreamcast. Pure Arcade shmup goodness.

  • Best or least worst choices for cell phone service?

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  • I've been thinking about this a lot recently as well. I decided that I wanted to ditch using any cell carrier in favor of a VoIP provider. I made a post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/26192657.

    The two recommendations that came up the most were voip.ms and jmp.chat. Both require at least $15 to get started but you can port your old number over to both services too. From there jmp.chat is $5 a month, which comes with unlimited texts and 120 min a month.

    With voip.ms the call and messaging is subtracted from your balance at a predetermined rate (per min and per text) which I haven't worked out the math on how much mileage $15 will get you initially.

    From what I could see jmp.chat looked like it was the easier option to setup, with the Cheogram app for your phone and a Jabber app for the computer. Here's a wiki entry detailing how to setup jmp.chat: https://kb.above.im/jmp-chat/

    I settled on discontinuing my mint service and setting up jmp.chat on my phone and computer, and then supplementing the limited minutes via Signal for calling. Seems like a pretty good alternative to me. I still have a week left on my phone plan, and then I'll be taking the plunge. I'd been using my phone less and less lately so it wont be too much of a shock, and I'll save myself an extra $20/month going from the $25 mint plan to $5/month jmp.chat plan.

  • Recommendations for VoIP Provider?

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  • After looking around their website I found the info on SMS. I do like that it has a minimum pay of $5, both VoIP.ms and JMP require $15 to start. Although, I saw for SMS KeepCalling directs you to their app on the play store. I wonder if it is possible to use their SMS service with a third party app? I would like to avoid using apps from the Play Store if I can help it. Otherwise, it might be a viable option to try out with such a low barrier to entry. I'm still leaning JMP since it seems like the easiest to setup and use between mobile and desktop (MX Linux in my case, using the Gajim app).

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  • Ah, that's a clever way to circumvent minutes. Signal can only call other Signal users, right? So, if I wanted to call my mom, for instance, she'd need to get Signal? It's been a sec since I used it.