I tried and failed to get a snes emulator working on my R4 card. Might try again…
Before I had a smartphone I had a bunch of skate videos and a load of Seinfelds loaded on to the flash card. Utterly pointless now but still mad that you could use a DS to play media like that.
I have a 3DS. Can you get R4 cards for them?
I miss the pre-smartphone world. I don’t know if that’s because fucking smartphones fucked the world or just because I was younger then. I think it’s perhaps a bit of both.
Not sure about the cards tbh, but I found and followed some instructions for soft modding and didn’t brick ours.
Looking on my laptop now, I have a load of files from when I did them but don’t know what they mean now - I’ll see if I can find the link and send it over.
Stoked on this, just pulled out my DS to see if Ghost Trick was on my R4 card.
The micro SD is lost </ not-stoked >
Just the sd card or the whole R4 cartridge?
oooh, I found my DS last week and have been rinsing Mario. I had no idea about Roms for it, anyone enlighten me?
Just the sd, ill probs be able to find it.
It’s one of these:
You basically download the game Roms to a micro sd card. It slots into that cartridge and voila… you have 1 ds pre loaded with dozens of games.
Obviously it’s used to play homebrew games and is in no way used to play official DS games 
You can buy ready filled multi carts from amazon or eBay for the ds. I got one with 400 pre loaded games for about £12 a few years ago. I thought it would be worth a shot saving time downloading games.
This is definitely dodgy
this is what I had/have.
Ive also got a pocketgo 2 which is great, but I prefer ROMs on the DS
Found my 3DS. Realised I can’t think of any games I actually want to play on it.
Anyway:
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Maybe an unpopular opinion but so much of FF7 has aged badly, story, music and Materia systems are all still great. But graphics, lack of direction (especially in side quests), stupid minigames, constant invisible random encounters etc. just aren’t good in 2022
Find old JRPGs super hard to play in their original form nowadays after having played them on emulators with speed up
I voted VII, but I haven’t played it since the late 90s. I’d probably hate it now.
New Horizon Zero Dawn arrives today - one of reasons i got PS5 - it had better be totally amazing or i’m going full milk boy
I was tempted to pick it up but I’ll leave for the moment. Loved Zero Dawn.
Started playing Resident Evil 7 today, haven’t played any of them before. Jesus Christ that shit is scary, even when completely desensitised to horror movies. Clever technique to make the controller deliberately not very sensitive so you can’t look around fast enough to check your corners.
I survived a jump scare just as my pizza arrived and nearly shat my pants when he knocked on the door.
Currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn, nearly every time I’ve seen it mentioned it’s to heap praise on it, but I’m finding it a bit of a slog so far. There’s enough promise to keep me in, but opening up the map and seeing how little I’ve explored is daunting enough to put me off entirely. Don’t get a huge amount of time to play video games and spending most of it running across massive wastelands where huge threats are everywhere slowing your progress just makes it seem like it’s going to take me 100+hrs to get through.
As I say, I’m not far enough through to make that judgement yet, but has anyone else played it that can reassure me that the investment is worth it?
Not played HZD but these huge AAA open world games are always like that.
Overwhelmed/ Confused by everything>Absolutely loving it>Seeing nothing new and just have to push through a bit to finish it
Finished Red Dead Redemption 2 recently and it definitely outstayed it’s welcome a bit but when you’re in that sweet middle spot where you have the hang of everything but there’s still so much to see and do it’s a very special game and I Imagine HZD is like that too
I loved RDR2 but the world felt a lot more interesting to me. Even when there was nothing much going on it was always a nice place to just explore and look at. HZD just did almost nothing for me in that regard, feeling more like just a big arena for fighting in. Just wasn’t really sold on the whole setting/story.
Really enjoying Elden Ring right now. That’s an open world game that rewards exploration rather than just giving you a massive checklist of icons all over a map.
