I’ve seen a few YouTubers buy AliExpress 3ds consoles, and all of those have been refurbished, often with after market shells which, while often not terrible, aren’t Nintendo quality. If the console shows up, it’ll probably be fine, but you’re still not necessarily getting an amazing deal. I got my New 3ds LL (Japanese version) in excellent condition from a seller on eBay based in Japan for about $25 less and I got one with an upper IPS screen - but mine is in black. If you really want a special 3ds and you’re okay with a decent reshell, buying through AliExpress might be an alright option.

I’ve got the tools, I just need to get some oxyclean so that I can avoid disassembling the device multiple times, lol. I’m kinda busy and I’m hoping to get to it next week during my weekend.

If you’ve got a modded 3ds, Red Viper works extremely well to emulate Virtual Boy games, if you’re curious about them. Arguably it’s a better experience than playing them on a Virtual Boy.

Thanks for all of the advice! I’ll have to try and get my gbc working again too. I knew I needed some specialty bits to disassemble but wasn’t completely sure what.

Congrats!

I recently found my game boy color with my copy of Pokemon Red in it - a fresh set of batteries and it started the game just fine, but most of the buttons are non functional. Did you need to replace the buttons, or did they just work after cleaning with alcohol?

I wonder if oxyclean will work for my lime green gbc or if something else would be better?

It was the first sonar-enabled gaming accessory.

Wait, that implies there are more sonar-enabled gaming accessories. Are there any?

I played so much Missile Command and Super Break Out on that controller, I got one of the 2300 TV boxes and that just didn’t hit my nostalgia buttons because the self centering didn’t feel right to me. At some point I hope to get another 5200 and some games, my original one fell off a shelf and broke when my father threw a tantrum and slammed a door.

Atari 5200 because my parents found one at a garage sale with some games when I was 5 and it was my first console. ;)

The correct answer is one of the other ones.

I wonder if they got any polite phone calls from some three letter agencies for this website?

I just played Mario Tennis and Galactic Pinball for the first time, those are great. I did get the emulator to crash on closing it once, but whatever, lol.

I love Trek but I don’t really care for McFarlane’s sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?

I’m not sure the difference, but I’m doing the standard mod to allow emulated games and changing the language because the Japanese ones are so much cheaper

Pokemon Ruby, I’m planning on buying a 3ds to mod but for now I’m just playing on my computer. I missed this generation of games and the speed up option on the emulator makes it better although some of the dialogue gets repetitive.

I did, AND because my city does ranked choice voting, I got to pick someone for my first choice that I actually like. She probably won’t win, but it’s not dangerous for me to vote for her!

Is Yesteryear the one with Spock’s parents? A friend of mine sat me down and insisted I watch it and yeah it’s excellent.

As a former astrophysics major, I found that Cosmology had a higher percentage of cute* girls than in my other physics classes because astro had a higher percentage of women than other physics focuses. Still a fairly low percentage though, and I still ran into them all in other physics classes.

*I like nerdy women. YMMV.

Concerningly excellent, as someone who lives in Minnesota, lol.

I was driving to Megacon once and while stopped at a red light a Weeping Angel leans out of the passenger window of the car next to me and asks if they can pull in front of me when the light turned green. Of course I said yes, I’m not gonna piss off a Weeping Angel, lol.

Did you know that she was the Director of Choreography for Labyrinth?

I love the fact that we’re on different instances, the server is in maintenance mode, and we’re still here chatting anyway. Federation is wild.