@“Mnemogenic”#p105561 Thank you, I‘ll take a peek – that gives me hope that my lil Torneko isn’t lost. Was hoping this would be the case, but it's more fun to ask insert credit people than to google stuff sometimes
@“phylaxis”#p105538 the friction from the inside of the stylus bay causes the stopper nub of the stylus to wear down. it‘s just the stylus, and getting a new one fixes it.
can we say stylus like 20 more times? hasn’t stopped sounding like a word yet.
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@“Syzygy”#p105521 but that’s nearly a literal needle in a haystack.
unalloyed tungsten needle
styleless
stye-less
You’ll want your stylus when you visit the Osaka aquarium. (Still up as of Nov 2022)
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@“tokucowboy”#p105558
Completely agree about the original 3DS. I feel like the later generations are just so darn big. The original 3DS still feels like somewhat of a pocket system. Second favorite next to the DS Lite.
Which I want to give a shout out to it and it's design and form factor. I had the white one which was so perfect and the DS Lite had arguably the best stylus placement. I feel like I'm always fishing for it when I go to grab it on other iterations of the console, but with the DS Lite it was right there under your hand all nice and ready.
I should highlight Tiny Cartridge as one of the main sites I followed for DS coverage.
https://tinycartridge.com/archive/tagged/nintendo%20ds
https://tinycartridge.com/archive/tagged/dsiware
@“milo”#p105616 they should have made a 3DS-lite, man……
One thing I will add about the o3DS is that it had horrible start and select buttons and if it weren‘t for that I wouldn’t have sold mine lol.
DS lite was also great, until that hinge cracks. Mine broke not long after I'd already gifted it to my friend.
I imagine all four (now five) are from us.
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@“RubySunrise”#p105814 I bought a white one this week, so yeah.
I picked up a refurbished 2DS in 2020 and have had a great time with it in addition to my New 3DS. My original DS Lite has been long gone and I've been chasing that form factor for a while. I picked up a Wii in mid January and was simultaneously looking for a DSi that fit my desires. I kind of let the feelings subside until quietly reading everyone's posts this week and finally jumping in. I can't wait for it to show up.
I'll share some more once I get the thing going and can think of some of my favorite moments through the years.
Off the cuff, I remember finally buying a DS Lite in 2008 to play New Super Mario Bros. and Drawn to Life. Funny that I'd finally buy a 3DS XL to play Mario 3D Land and Scribblenauts Unmasked years later.
I'd always been intrigued by the DS after seeing friends play Mario Kart in line while we camped out for the Wii and again watching everyone battle in Diamond and Pearl under their gowns at high school graduation. I'm looking forward to having the DSi in the rotation!
My Japanese New 3DS came in yesterday and I'm waiting on an SD card to come in from Amazon now to hack it.
Lately I've been contributing to the fan translation efforts for the 3rd game in the Tongari Boushi series, Tongari Boushi to Oshare na Mahou Tsukai. There's a small group of people in the [Fan Translators International](https://discord.gg/sFGnYD25C4) discord working through the text in the game. There's a little script editor someone put together. Currently it patches roms with a mix of hand-translated/edited stuff and translations pulled from deepl, which are mostly comprehensible but sometimes completely off base and out of pocket:
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I‘m pleased to report that my used DSi XL came in excellent condition and with many photos of what is presumably the previous owner’s dog
https://i.imgur.com/TLaxay5.jpg
I'll have to be sure to preserve these when I jailbreak it later
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖑 𝖎𝖘 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖙𝖊
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@“TheFragranceOfDarkCoffee”#p106264 the classiest colour
@“TheFragranceOfDarkCoffee”#p106264 Ahh I had a similar experience getting my DSi in this week. There was a series of photos over the course of five years starting on Christmas Day 2008.
I also took @treefroggy's suggestion from a thread last year and organized my ROMs by release year for this unit. It took a few hours but I set up a spreadsheet to track them moving forward and plan to do the same for other consoles now. It's been a really great way to play with a bit more intention as I open up the DS.
I've also been randomly watching through old episodes of The 1UP Show over lunch breaks and now it's neat to be able to quickly jump to a folder and sort of return to a specific era.
My final standout from this console so far: I love how quickly it powers on and off and how it's _right_ on the cusp of the always-online console but never needs to stay on for longer than you're playing. And when that moment happens, you simply close the lid! It feels great to have this around again.
In case anyone was wondering, if you happen to unexpectedly win an auction for a DSi after snagging a DSi XL, and if you install Twilight Menu and Unlaunch on said DSi and a DSi XL, you can move an SD card between them back and forth and it‘ll work fine. Just make sure the system’s off before you do!
The XL is so nice, but the size of the DSi feels so perfect on the go. I have the matte black one and it feels premium like a Thinkpad.
@“dracula”#p106552 HAha, nice, I always organize my ROMs by original release year, but IDK if I would flatly recommend anyone else do it, unless you are a freak like me. It‘s extremely time consuming and meticulous process! Usually Wikipedia has a great list that you can organize by Japan release date so that’s what I go by.
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@“dracula”#p106552 It’s been a really great way to play with a bit more intention as I open up the DS.
this makes me happy to hear, that's definitely the primary benefit from doing it that way. It depends on how your brain works I guess, file structure is a very personal thing, but for that same reason the standard A-Z isn't always ideal for 100% of people. I guess we're talking about **DS** still, and while there were thousands of shovelware titles released, after I went through the full list, I ended up with about 250 games on my curated file structure, which includes all games I'm interested in, having already played them, or ones on the backlog, DSiWare not included.
It was my first time revisiting the chronology of DS since having lived through it as a quite cognissant little fella between the ages of 12-16ish. There aren't many high-profile DS chronological tours a-la Jeremy Parish happening yet.
So what twilight menu skin are you using? I use the basic twilight menu DSi/3DS hybrid, but there's more than a few things I wish were tweaked still, have been in the twilightmenu discord as of a few months ago when I first modded mine and was setting it up. I attempted to make custom icons for the year folders that would display the year, but never got it working since their FAQ/guide/tutorial for the process isn't detailed at all and the custom icons feature seems like it's still an afterthought. Without custom icons they're just identical-looking folders that you can't see the name of without manually scrolling over to it. The other menus don't do much to solve this issue either, would be nice if there was just a barebones flash-cart like GUI that behaves the same as a flash cart, but there's not.
I really like the idea of organizing ROMs by year! I usually arrange games loosely by genre or developer/publisher but chronologically seems to benefit the medium.