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  • KanaKonpaku
    Whew... what a crazy time. Haven't had much time to post on here as work has been crazy over the past two months. We had a whole server stack hit the fan about a week after my last post on here, and I had to work 12s to get the damn thing back up; I'm back on here as I had to get a replacement 3DS as my last one got a nice spin cycle. I love the yellowing IPS screens get that have to be burned out over time.
    KanaKonpaku
    Man it's been about 2 months since getting home. Life is still kinda weird. Sometimes it doesn't really feel like things get better, but I try my hardest. Built a new computer, fixed the one with the bricked BIOS, and now have a huge backlog of things to do. Do look forward to further messing with my Switch now that I can cut it from the internet for near good.
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    SylverReZ
    Did you ever get around to fixing the computer you was going to repair regarding the BIOS?
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Also sorry to hear you've been struggling for the past few months. I wish you the best. 🫂
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    Yeah, managed to get that one back up though after reflashing the bios, I can't get audio cards to work. If I had the time I'd dig more but work expects a lot of me. That's where the struggle really comes from. At least I'm home and on leave for my birthday.
    KanaKonpaku
    I have arrived home after about 7 months. Trying to come up with which EEPROM programmer to get to fix my old computer's BIO. I'm all new to that stuff. Thankfully I got around 3ish weeks of leave now to come up with that. Also that's 3 weeks to deal with the massive influx of fumos in my room. They have taken over.
    KanaKonpaku
    I've fallen off the earth for a bit, but I'll just pop in to say Happy New Years to everyone. Not really exciting yet, but I hope when I get home in a few months I can finally do something interesting again. I've saved away quite a bit of money, and I intend to build a computer with gaming and emulation in mind. I can't wait to start working on that, as I haven't had any hands-on with computer parts for a while.
    KanaKonpaku
    I just beat The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, 100% for the first time. I love the game but dang, the achievement to open every chest and check it a second time was brutal. At least I can say I did it.
    KanaKonpaku
    Here's the vast majority of my collection of fumos. It's always hard to have a collection of things in my line of work, so two of these pictures are from my room back home and the other is a dorm room. To say the least I'm gonna run out of space for these when I get home lol

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    KanaKonpaku
    Things haven't been going the best out here. On the bright side I'll have loads of packages to see when I get home in 5ish months.
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    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    I've ordered about, 10 Touhou FumoFumo plushies, and some other miscellaneous knicknacks. Got some figures, and when I'm on my way out of this place I'm gonna have some computer components shipped out so I can do that on my two weeks of free leave.
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Oh nice. Fumos are cute. If you've got a photo of them, do post them here. :)
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    They're 8000 miles away :( Like I said, I won't see them for 5ish months. Might be closer to 4.5 but they won't tell me how much time I've got here. That being said, I do have a picture of my collection back home.
    KanaKonpaku
    Life is busy out here, but I've been playing a LOT of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I think I've spent more time actually playing games than sleeping then I have in a while. Work here is hard, but at least I know I get to go home eventually. I'm thinking of getting a ROG Ally when I get back. A coworker in the center I work at won't stop raving about it vs the Deck.
    KanaKonpaku
    Gosh internet is damn expensive out here where I am. 199$ a month for a TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEGABIT download speed. I miss being able to download things at a decent speed for a good price.
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    x65943
    That's awful, where do you live like rural Arkansas?
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    I'm not in the US at the moment, and my location is sadly classified. Back home the internet was getting about 500mbps on my lousy plan for internet through T-Mobile that was like, 50 bucks a month or something. I miss convenience. At least we got Pizza Hut here.
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    Forgot to mention that the saleswoman hyped up this plan as the "best plan around". yeahhhhhhhh. How is it that a 99$ plan has a 300GB data cap, and is capped at like 50mbps? Sheds light on why I'm wasting 200 a month now when you see there's no data cap.
    KanaKonpaku
    Well the jetlag is killing me here. But hey, my Analogue Pocket is getting me through these 8 hour shifts. Also been replaying Crash Bandicoot on my Steam Deck as I never beat it on Steam. Internet where I am is awful though.
    BORTZ
    BORTZ
    Which Crash? The original?
    What are you playing on the Pocket?
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    The original Crash Bandicoot through the NSane Trilogy. I'm trying to 100% it like I did on Switch since I'm slowly moving away from that console for anything by first party games. I've been playing Pokemon Emerald++ and Chrono Trigger+ on the Pocket. Good times.
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    KanaKonpaku
    Well, so far all the tech I've loaded up for my trip has been working. I unfortunately missed the update for my EZFlash Omega DE until today, as that is a VERY convenient firmware update for it since I'm using my Analogue Pocket for GBA games. I had someone amazed at how setup my 3DS was though, haha.
    KanaKonpaku
    Almost got everything setup. Just configuring emulators on my laptop, and trying to figure out how on earth people actual get a stable 30FPS in Palworld on Steam Deck. On a sidenote, I just learned RPCS3 allows compiling all PPU modules before playing a game. Such a time saver!
    KanaKonpaku
    I've had a fun time getting all of my devices setup within the deadline I have to get things done. I'm gonna be away from my home for a few months, and I'm trying to load up on media in case the Internet is bad where I'm going. Got my 3DS, Gameboy/Pocket, and tablet setup. Have to finish work on my laptop and Steam Deck.
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    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    Yeah I considered this at one point and shot it down. I'm very good at hardware modding things, but I'm always worried to flash a bios with something that isn't official. Hopefully at some point they announce a successor to the deck with a slightly better screen.
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Especially if you don't know on what you're doing in regards to flashing the BIOS with a new one, there are many risks, even if it's a beta BIOS for example. If something goes wrong, then it's basically a $400 paperweight.
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    Yeah no, I watched a computer brick itself WITH official non-beta bios once. It used one of those newer GUI flashers that Dell and other companies use. It had a BSoD DURING the BIOS update. Thankfully the computer a brick before it did that so the person I was going it for wasn't too mad about it.
    SylverReZ
    Love the new profile picture. Where's she from?
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    She's an OC character of the artist Iroha Matsurika, named Mutsuki, though I just call her Kana as it's how I portray myself on the internet lol. I usually update my pfp when new art of her comes out. It's hard to find any amount of lore for the characters of Iroha, but all the characters in their art are so cute ^_^ Here's their Pixiv.
    KanaKonpaku
    I just got my New 3DS XL fully setup. I ripped all my carts onto it, made multiple homescreens with unique themes (split by game franchise) using 3DSBank, put all my DS games in using nds-bootstrap, and synced my save files with my cartridges. It also has two IPS screens as I got a Japanese model with them when my first 3DS XL started to die.
    KanaKonpaku
    Well, I've almost got my devices setup for my trip. I love how things always feel like I'm working till the last minute before I leave for things. Been making sure my Steam Deck is ready, getting any Steam games I need on my laptop to last me for a few months, and getting all my movies onto my laptop. Thankfully I've got about a week to kick back and relax.
    KanaKonpaku
    Well good news is I got the Steam Deck fixed, no clue what was up with it. Gparted from a Ubuntu live USB stick didn't find anything wrong with the partitions on the SSD, and it still wouldn't boot after running fsck. Right when I was about to give up, it just randomly started booting properly. I wonder if it was the SD card?
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    Glad it's working now. Perhaps it might be a corrupted card or something to do with the SSD.
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    What's odd is that it refused to boot without the SD card, wouldn't boot the first two times with the SD card, but then did and now it boots without it. Maybe a job was stuck that was pending on the SD card.
    KanaKonpaku
    Another fun day. My Steam Deck has decided to stop booting for some reason despite turning off properly last time. I'm currently getting a recovery image loaded. Why does this stuff always happen when I'm bottle necked for time? Same thing happened with the computer I bricked last year.
    KanaKonpaku
    Had an interesting day. I found my old Amiga A500 floating around and have been trying to see if I can get it working. The main bottleneck is, I don't have a workbench floppy for it. I got the PC from my grandfather (the thing is much too old for me to have ever touched it) and he did a bad job of keeping the together and in good shape.
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    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    Alright last update on this for the night. It definitely seems possible to recover this thing, my current issue is that I bricked this thing over a year ago. I'm 99% sure I wasn't stupid enough to overwrite the floppy with the bios backup file on it, but I currently can't find it. It's likely it's either with the computer, or in the shop I store it in. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
    KanaKonpaku
    KanaKonpaku
    I have yet to find the floppy. There is a chance I actually ran the BIOS flasher from within the hard drive and I just loaded the hard drive from a DOS boot floppy. Either way I'm glad there's some hope to get this back, even if it might be months before I can get the time to try to revive this PC. I think I found the BIOS online at some point anyways.
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Best to work on the thing that you're finishing before moving onto the computer that you was going to fix.
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