2011
2011
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This comic made me realise that my Gameboy Advance SP is now older than my students... Where can I report this comic for making personal attacks?
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The Xbox 360 turns 19 years old in less than two weeks. 18 for the Wii and PS3 this year. You're welcome.
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My wife's watching Six Feet Under, the series from 2001. Yesterday I overheard an episode where some kid got a present and went "Oh my god, yes! It's a playstation 2" and we both just broke out in laughter.
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Oh man six feet under is so fucking good though
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Guys definitely doN'T homebrew your 3DS! It isN'T super easy, and doesN'T allow you to side load the entire 3DS library and other cool homebrew projects. You definitely canNOT use Anemone to use custom themes such as that one really cool sonic theme I put on my 3ds! doN'T even try to get the 3DS gold source port and copy the files from Half Life to your 3DS and play the original Half Life natively on the 3DS!
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Sonic Mania works great on there too! There's also a port of Sonic Robo Blast 2 that plays in stereoscopic 3D!
Half-Life plays okay, but struggles to maintain 60FPS and the loading screens (including the four during the opening tram ride) take 30 seconds each. Not what I'd call playable, but still, cool!
Performing the jailbreak takes about 15 minutes and comprehensive instructions for all 3DS models and firmware versions can be found at https://3ds.hacks.guide. All you need is the 3DS itself and any device with a browser and SD card reader. You can even use an Android phone! Jailbreaking is virtually risk-free, and once done, never needs to be done again -- the customized firmware can be updated from the 3DS itself. Jailbreaking your 3DS will not affect anything it can currently do -- all your themes, games, saves, and home menu layout will remain exactly as you left them. All it does is add a few new apps to your existing home menu for interacting with the jailbreak.
Other benefits the person above me did not mention include playing online after the server shutdown through Pretendo Network, being able to take screenshots during gameplay, streaming gameplay footage to a PC via Wi-Fi without needing to track down, buy, and solder in a 3DS capture card, removing the region lock to play Japanese/European exclusive games on an American handheld (or any other combination), create backups of your save games from cartridges or installed titles and restore the backup potentially to a different cartridge of the same game, copy games from cartridges onto your SD card as items on your home screen so you don't have to worry about losing the cartridges anymore, being able to load DS and GBA games from ROM files on the SD card and run them natively without emulation using the 3DS's built in backwards compatibility mode, installing the 3DS version of RetroArch for emulating game systems up to the N64/PS1, and installing mods for 3DS games. I've heard good things about the ORAS romhacks, plus there's a mod for MarioKart 7 called CTGP-7 that adds a bunch of new car parts and characters (I like playing as Sonic) and triples the number of tracks in the game. Some of the ones it adds are even good! Plus you can play them online with other people who have the mod!
Here are a few helpful links to 3DS apps you should install after you've finished following the guide (and browsed https://themeplaza.art for a community created home menu theme that suits you, or created your own using Usagi's Theme Editor):
- openagbfirm -- run GBA ROMs using built in GBA compatibility mode
- TWiLightMenu++ -- ditto for DS games
- NDSForwarder -- create home screen icons for DS games on your SD card so you don't have to use TWiLightMenu's laggy UI to launch them
- hShop -- archive of every 3DS game ever released, including internal Nintendo ones, plus a 3DS app for installing them (yar har fiddle dee dee)
- Sonic Mania port (bring your own game files)
- Half Life port (ditto)
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 port (ditto except that SRB2 is free so you can just download the game files from the game's website)
- CTGP-7 (you need a copy of MarioKart 7 installed to play it)
- and who could forget Pretendo Network -- fanmade recreation of 3DS games' online servers to allow online play after the server shutdown
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Talked with my gaming buddies about how awesome the original CoD was and how good he was back then. Then we looked at the wiki page and found out that's it's over 20 years old.
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Every time I fire up Skyrim
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I used to be an adventurer like you but then I
aged several decades without realising.
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"It's not that old, and neither are you"
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Beat me to it. golf clap
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Never even got around to buying a DS.
Maybe i should get one with an sd cart.
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I bought a 3DS during Covid.
10/10 would recommend, especially Bravely Default!
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Yeah, it's just expensive enough right now to make me question if I really want it.
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Reading this makes my bones feel like there turning to dust end game style
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You can feel this right now considering anyone who hasn't already homebrewed their 3DS is doing it now that nintendo services are discontinued.
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So true.
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I bought my first 3DS last year and I love it.
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The switch is already 7 years old. In a couple of years it’ll be in the same spot…
It feels relatively new to me still! Although I'm sure it feels like an eternity to kids. All the consoles that came out through the 90s and early 2000s felt like distinct eras to me.
I think Douglass Adams had this this categorization: what's new in the first third of your life is normal and has always been there, in the second third is new and exciting and the last third the fall of civilization
Think about the fact that an 11 year old who got a Switch at launch is a literal adult now. It’s bizarre for me to think about.
And yeah lol I totally get that, the PS1 only came out like 5 years before I was born but it felt like ancient technology to me.
Because they were. Back then games changed drastically with more powerful systems. Today, you sometimes have the same game available for multiple console generations.
You could have not said that yet you chose to.
I'm surprised that Nintendo has kept using it for so long. Looks like it'll be 8 years old before they have a successor. It took so long that I got tired of waiting for it to be obsolete and went ahead and modded it after they pulled that Yuzu crap.
And it was already old hardware when it launched!