LG G6 with Quad-DAC!

What do you mean by local seller? Should I contact the Japanese store directly instead of going through the proxy?

Sorry, I mean buying in your own country. It does cost more, but you are actually better off just finding one there. It is a shame, I went through a whole process of finding a proxy service which still ships them and can be bothered with the paperwork, From Japan which got renamed to One Map is the only one which did ship them:

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/en

This was a year or two back, so maybe check them out?

Excellent article, very interesting fix!

Thank you! I think the ‘writing style’ on my behalf was pure laziness this time, it was just a ‘hey here’s what happens when you buy a broken one!’ kinda tale. But thank you for saying so :)

I LOVE stories like yours, when someone’s hope is lost but then they take the dive and go forward with a repair. I’m so glad you not only got yours back in action, but that it was objectively better than before! I suppose I have to go and check out DJMP now?! :)

The Vita is technically shippable, but a few years back Buyee decided they didn’t want to do the paperwork. So now it won’t be shipped through them! I thinl Neokyo (another proxy service) actually did the same a little ways back also.

That is the only handheld which you can’t order though (go figure). PSP, all Nintendo handhelds are fine. Although there is a limit on two li-ion battery limit when they ship an order, so if you get a switch, they’ll send the tablet in one package and the joy-cons in another.

Hope that helps. It is frustrating, because Japan’s prices are much more reasonable, but you’ll have to go through a local seller or eBay (where the seller bothers with the paperwork to ship the built-in Vita battery)

There’s something so satisfying about bringing something back to life too!

They were the only cheap and quite accurate way to play your original carts. Since they’ve stopped production the only alternative now is Analogue Pocket I think, and that cost is sky-high

Back in those times, when the screen mods were just biverts, you’d either do that for a modern lit screen, or pick up a GB Boy. Funny name, but they were actually very clever and the only real (almost) 1-1 copy of Nintendo’s own systems

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These were fairly universally mocked when they were sold, just because of the name, but now they’re gone everyone is sad they didn’t pick one up!

You might laugh, but these were highly coveted from Aliexpress back when they were being sold! Finding one now is extremely hard, since they ceased production, so in handheld circles these still have big fans!

For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won’t ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.

My favorite is cygnusx’s Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide

^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn’t use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.

The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:

https://morphe.software/

^ here’s an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit’s settings

Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!

We do our best in the /c/games community! It isn’t niche by any means, but we have regular posters (including myself) and we have fair engagement on new posts and members also.

Unfortunately as is the nature of most social media, it can only be as active as the users. So for very niche subjects I can’t see Lemmy ever being super viable (sadly)

I’m more than happy to ask e1K what he recommends you look at to get started, if you’d like?!

Whether I could create a new account on Reddit for the first time in years, in order to share articles I have written with more people

Within 24 hours I had one absolutely crazy person declaring that forever more whatever I posted they’d add a comment under it warning people that I’m on a posting crusade (I posted it to one sub: consolerepair)

Needless to say this experiment was flames

e1000 doesn’t do interviews. Doesn’t share his creations on a site or blog or GitHub, just occasionally on Discord or (more rarely these days) Reddit.

He only did this because we had friends in common like Gamma (GAMMAOS) and klops (PortMaster), bmdhacks (ex-PS2 dev and PortMaster genius) and so on saying I’m trustworthy to share his story.

Most of what we chatted about in the article weren’t known before now. Among his friends, he is known for not going for the spotlight.

After getting to know e1K, and chatting to him for a few weeks I feel pretty confident in my own word choices. I’d prefer it if I wasn’t judged for it on the merits of others using that same word, but I guess there’s nothing I can do about that. Knowing e1K and becoming friends with him, and being the one who literally interviewed him about his life and work? Yes. I’d say he is quiet about his mods.

Totally funded by Epic. Lake tried for over a decade to get anyone to want to publish it, it no one was interested. Not only did Epic put the money up, they had a clause of profits over a certain amount going only to Remedy.

It is a fact. We’d never have Alan Wake 2 without Epic picking up the bill!

Re-told …again

I’d give so much for a Metroid Prime 2 remaster, with the same level of care they put into the first. It is such a great game to play on my Switch (I think I’ve done so 3 times now)

But sadly with how blandly average 4 was, I don’t see Metroid being a focus for Nintendo going forward

Dont forget you can check ProtonDB and see how users have found it on the Steam Deck! The site is a great resource for checking in advance:

https://www.protondb.com/app/243470

There’s 30 separate reports there for you to check over!

How did I know you’d be mentioning RomM :P

Then consider this your reminder to get to it!!!

Well worth it, and if you get the Nightdive 2022 remaster, don’t forget to completely ignore their new graphics mode and opt for the original!

Oh I’ve been singing Cloudpunk’s praises for years now! I even chatted to the devs 12 months or so ago about interviewing them, but that never panned out (sadly).

I think of this one in the ‘perfect for Steam Deck/handhelds’ territory, it suits it so perfectly…both in gameplay and in the vibe (very cyberpunkish) too. Have you seen they have a sequel of sorts coming up? Or at least a game in the same universe, called Nivalis!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/Nivalis/

While not technically cyberpunk, or even at all, it is a fantastic film done by Ridley Scott in 1989. The neons and night time of Japan will remind you of Blade Runner!

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4105-black-rain

Definitely worth watching the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Gv1C8dPGs