Posted by SignOfZeta on October 19, 2019 at 12:58:36 EST in reply to It's amusing to follow this conversation while there are several active threads on this board (!) to the effect of "I can't tell if my GP32/everdrive/multiflash/doctor V still works, does anybody remember how to use this thing???" How many half-flashed semi-official pieces of hardware do we each own at this point? But my takeaway from the state of trying-to-maintain-your-gaming-collection is... exhaustion. When I visited my collection in Idaho over the summer, all my Playstation-compatible systems appeared to have died, my Turbo Everdrive that was stuck booting to one ROM no longer boots at all, two standalone DVD players no longer worked, along with the DVD drive in my tower PC. And I'm suspicious that some of my VHS-to-DVD burns have gone blank (or I forgot to finalize them in my hurry to transfer before the tapes rotted). On top of all that, the $3,000 / 200 lb Sony XBR TV that served as the centerpiece of my collection since 2003 is still somewhere in California because it was too massive to move. Meanwhile I'm in Virginia playing a Genesis Mini on a Samsung TV with no good solution for simulated scanlines. [shrugging ascii face] (n/t) from substance J.
For some reason it just hit me last night that I have two NGPs, a link cable and a flash card that I eventually re-learned to use. There’s some cool stuff I can do now for the first time, like playing vs Battle de Paradise or aggressively trading cards. I don’t even have time to have epiphanies anymore...I really do play real games and hardware just because it’s a easiest. I can’t keep all the hacks and lateral bullshit straight anymore. Anyway, not playing with stuff breaks it. If you use it, it stays limber. This is my observation based on most tech threads starting with “I fired up the XXX for the first time in years” or “I just bought a used XXX” and that’s when they learn it’s broke. I tend to use all my old junk a lot more than most people but have considerably fewer failures on average, it seems. BTW, those VHS tapes are probably more playable than the DVDs you made of them.
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