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I think you've underestimated exactly how wank my laptop is. It's a basic model netbook. 1GB RAM, 1.6GHz CPU, 160GB HDD. Literally he lowest of low end. But since all I need it for is basic net access and word processing it's suitable for my purposes and only cost me £40. The DS emulator I have will run, but at half speed for some reason. Doesn't matter though, my DS Lite and R4 card should arrive over the next couple of days, I'll just emulate DS games that way instead :D

the DS emulators for PC tend to be more demanding than they need to be.
That is the problem with desume. No$gba is awesome.
 

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Now I finally have some time on my hands I'm able to clear some of my backlog that has been building up over the year.
Been really busy with schoolwork this past semester and haven't been able to even finish a single game, other then some Pokémon I played during exams (because what better way is there than waste your time on games you finished 1000 times before ;))

First I finished the second half of Golden Sun with all Djinns and artifacts collected. Also defeated the Pirate King or whatever his name is.
After beating him, the actual final boss becomes laughably easy.
Didn't really have a hard time against him, but it took a while to take him down and his Break ability was damn annoying.
The game was OK I guess, not an incredibly good story, but still enjoyable and the battle mechanics are quite fun.
Hope the sequel will improve on those.

Next I started and finished Last Window: The Secret of Cape West over the course of 2 days.
Really loved it, just like Room 215. It was way easier than the first game though, but in a good way.
In the first game you sometimes didn't have a clue where to go next, but it was always quite straightforward in the sequel.
It's a shame we'll never see the third game of the series.

After finishing that I started on Kingdom Hearts: 568/2 Days and reached day 118 (Right after exploring the Colosseum for the first time).
I've beaten it before on my R4, but I managed to find a copy a couple of months back.
This is a really difficult game to get your hands on around here...
 

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the DS emulators for PC tend to be more demanding than they need to be.
Emulators for PC in general seem to be more demanding than their Android counterparts. My first smart phone (the Samsung Moment on Android 1.5, before the Galaxy S was even a thing) could run SNES better than my laptop (which is ancient now, but was only three years old at the time). My original Samsung Galaxy S could even run N64 better than my laptop can.
 

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Emulators for PC in general seem to be more demanding than their Android counterparts. My first smart phone (the Samsung Moment on Android 1.5, before the Galaxy S was even a thing) could run SNES better than my laptop (which is ancient now, but was only three years old at the time). My original Samsung Galaxy S could even run N64 better than my laptop can.
Yup! Bad optimization!!!
 

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Got to chapter 4 in Detective Conan and Kindaichi Case Files.

Once you pick this game up, you can't lower your DS. Just thought I'd warn you guys before it's too late.
Truly interested... 999 did the same thing to me :)
 
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Got this game breaking glitch in Sanic 2:
Basically, I'm stuck inside of the wall. This happened while I was going fast and holding down at the round corner, behind Sanic. Had to wait 10 minutes to restart the level :angry:
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Got this game breaking glitch in Sanic 2:
Basically, I'm stuck inside of the wall. This happened while I was going fast and holding down at the round corner, behind Sanic. Had to wait 10 minutes to restart the level :angry:
This happened to me in pretty much the exact same way in the "Knuckles in Sonic 2" lock-on mode in Sonic Mega Collection YEARS back. The original Sonic games are great, but they're notorious for that kind of bug.
 
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Not really an accomplishment, but I beat Metal Face in Xenoblade Chronicles. For the final time. The battle had a nice lead up to it and it totally felt climatic.
God Xenoblade Chronicles is way too long. I'm at Valak Mountain in the 3DS version and really struggling to find motivation to go on, especially since I'm underleveled and will need to grind.
 

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God Xenoblade Chronicles is way too long. I'm at Valak Mountain in the 3DS version and really struggling to find motivation to go on, especially since I'm underleveled and will need to grind.
never grind. If you're under-levelled, go do some quests.
 

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(Based on Friday since it's 2:14am when writing this on Saturday)
Pokemon Shuffle - S Ranked Wobbuffet, caught Spiritomb and made it to stage 5 against Cresselia
Pokemon Rumble World - Bought the White Balloon, got 12 new titles, 9 new outfits, 4 new trees (raises stats), caught more than 300 Pokemon (one was a new Latios ^_^ ), released about 280 of them, and shamefully I bought 50 diamonds with actual money :(
Rock & Roll Racing - Started on Warrior and beat it without replaying a planet
Volgarr - Kept getting owned by Level 2 plus boss (really fu*k that dude)
 

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