Ok but something that’s really bothered me about A Quiet Place (besides the writing being god awful).

When she’s giving birth in the bathtub, the lights start flickering. They provide no explanation for why the lights are flickering. It’s legit just a scary movie trope in-action.

Yeah, I was fully expecting this thing to be like $400.

Emulators can’t always play every game. I know Pokémon Snap has always struggled to run.

This is identical to real hardware and upscales everything to 4K. Not to mention native support for Bluetooth controllers and other creature comforts.

Aw is that canon? I liked how they didn’t explain it in the show.

At my last job, every time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

Survived three layoffs at that company.

Yeah, it was a budget portable device released in 1995 running a processor from 1984. I think it was just written in straight assembly. I’ve even found some unreachable code snippets in the assembly that print debug messages which confirm that theory.

Thanks for the response!

I think the issue is that the “structured programming equivalent” is just a really, really long function that’s not any easier to read.

Yeah, I’m working on that part. It’s just messy because a lot of portions of the code can’t be confined to functions. There’s a lot of GOTO equivalents.

Stares are 1100 DVDs on the wall 👀

(This is an old pic)

That’s a good deal. I was looking at eBay and Tindie where even kits were $150-$200 if they were in stock at all.

That’s a great link. Also looks like the cheapest option for what I’m trying to do, so I might just buy it from there.

It’s a bummer that the Sanni reader parts are so expensive despite the design being open source.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtsayi0

Call it a hobby. Having the data from the physical cart brings me joy. Also, I’m looking to rebuild my collection from childhood for when the Analogue3D finally comes out.

Nah. They’re bootleg apparently. Returning them.

The only one I tried was AwakeningDX. It plays with a thick border, and saves don’t persist when you remove the cart. So sending the lot back.

Yeah. Analogue has a “hack” that lets you play ROMs off SD.

Just thought I’d try to do it “legit.”

Whelp kicked off an eBay return. Thanks all for the advice. $60 for 5 original games was definitely too good to be true.

So admittedly I bought all of these off eBay having done zero research. They’re all bootleg? If so, the physical quality is very good, but it could explain why Link’s Awakening won’t keep a save.

lol. Analogue also supports like 128 save states per cart, so it’lol be moot in two days

Heh feeling a bit silly for hitting the gas on a GBA Zelda lot on eBay when the Analogue can play GBC games natively. Did zero research.

The experience is arguably worse since there’s a fixed border around the GBC while Analogue can play GBC natively. Oh well.

Ok so the Analogue comes in 2 days. Dusted off my DSLite to get started on Awakening and saves don’t persist after I remove the cart. Cart battery reads 3.3V. Any ideas?

Super high battery internal resistance? Haven’t tried to replace it yet.