Temper Tantrums (the GBAtemp webcomic) - issue #13 "The Perfect Setup"

By @shaunj66[prebreak][/prebreak]

Thanks to @Quantumcat for the technical assistance with this issue!

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[eriol33]

so far I only finished 4-5 games on 3DS. I concluded that perhaps I only needed to play mario games for the rest of my life. the rest of the 3ds games were not that interesting somehow despite their quality.

 

[Metoroid0]

Accurate.

layer is not thick enough.

 

[Essometer]

layer is not thick enough.

That is because my place is clean.

 

[Exaltys]

Sometimes the tinkering and customizing is most of the fun!

 

[Metoroid0]

Sometimes the tinkering and customizing is most of the fun!

Thats true. i got couple hard moded consoles and i had more fun doing the mods than playing them xD

 

[bahamut920]

I tend to play one console excessively for a while, and then leave it to gather dust for a while during which time I'm playing other games. My 3DS is in a "lapse" cycle now, but I still use it fairly regularly, even now that FreeShop no longer works - between my DS and 3DS libraries I have plenty of games to play on the console without piracy.

Sometimes the tinkering and customizing is most of the fun!

 

[Dillw33d]

This is true for many things in my life. My steam library, my applications on my phone, on my pc, and my other games off of steam. I'm not sure if it's really a bad thing, but it does make me question my thought process.

 

[WhiteMaze]

The amount of truth in this strip is godly.

 

[Neru]

This is painfully true... but I had lot's of fun modding it. The most amazing thing was sending my modded/bricked 3DS for a free repair to Nintendo and lying my butt off saying I dropped it while it was updating and they actually for fell for it

 

[Quantumcat]

Doesn't apply to me.

I took a look at the 3ds library, figured out 3ds has no games, especially not having done so much during the GBA and DS era*, and skipped getting a 3ds at all for myself.

*for me the DS took all that made the GBA great and improved upon that. The 3ds at best was content to tread water and at worst bled all the interesting developers, and middle ground suffered the "we cloned a good game without an understanding of what made the original good" problem.

Had I got myself a 3ds though it absolutely would have applied.

You're missing out on the Zero Escape series!..... unless you got them on Vita

Also, did @seren3 get credit for the idea?

It's occurred to me that I spend more time loading my 3ds full of games and arranging them nicely on my home menu than I do actually playing them. I hear people here talk about "Pirate's Syndrome." I could imagine Tempy loading up his 3ds, ricing it out with custom themes and updating all his software, then when he's got everything set up and meticulously alphabetized, he tosses it aside, like "meh".

Or, maybe that's just me and I need to find a new hobby.

 

[Noctosphere]

In case no one has noticed
On the 4th and 5th image, it's not the same console
the 4th image doesn't show any c-stick

 

[Alex4nder001]

Used soundhax and safehax/udsploit to install cfw. I was lucky enough to be on 11.3 cuz I could only use homebrew on menuhax (til I found out about CFW ). Didn’t have a flashcart back then. But I still got everything, my n3ds is hacked as hell and I use it to this day.

 

[Viri]

This is why you don't put a truck load of games on your 3DS all at once. Too much of a choice is a bad thing, even though that sounds dumb. I used to put a few games at a time, and complete them, then move on. I got a ton of hours out of my hacked 3DS!

 

[raxadian]

Funny Enough I recently went back to use my DS. Anyone got cool Wood R4 skins?

 

[smallissue]

It's been three years
My switch was always sitting in my closet at 0% until I got SmileBASIC4™
And I actually play all the games I installed on my 3ds
Pretend I am contributing to the discussion

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

Bro just use it to download free games

 

[smallissue]

Bro just use it to download free games

can you explain that again
what were you assuming??

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

can you explain that again
what were you assuming??

the guy in the comic doesn't use his hacked 3ds...

 

[smallissue]

the guy in the comic doesn't use his hacked 3ds...

is that it
i thought you were talking to me lmao

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

is that it
i thought you were talking to me lmao

no I was talking about the comic. lol