Things you recently bought or got

[Hanafuda]

Daughter's college graduation was today. Afterwards her roommate's parents took us to the Genesee Brew House for lunch. (Rochester NY) The IPA I had with my lunch was so good, I bought 64oz. 'growlers' for my team at work.

 

[emmanu888]

Dreo branded tower fan. My old one from Cool Works kicked the bucket over the winter.

The Dreo one has 8 speeds instead of three and is super quiet at low speed compared to the Cool Works.

 

[XFoxPrower]

Bluetooth earbuds with an MP3 player built into the rechargeable case. Has a microSD slot and buttons but no screen other than to show charge levels.

 

[SylverReZ]

Lumines Remasterd on steam, I played the orginal one on the PSP.
Back then I got the Japanse version off that game, loved that game on my Japanse PSP.
Now I can play it on my pc and Rog Ally X.

Remember when Lumines went up in price on Amazon because of a buffer overflow exploit on the PSP version?

This trend hasn't changed with the 3DS.

 

[DaFixer]

Remember when Lumines went up in price on Amazon because of a buffer overflow exploit on the PSP version?

This trend hasn't changed with the 3DS.

Oh yeah, need to put some files on the MS card if I remmeber correctly.

 

[Armadillo]

Oh no, I've turned into my dad

Brushes, some mdf sealer and some clear varnish.

 

[SylverReZ]

Oh yeah, need to put some files on the MS card if I remmeber correctly.

Yes. You extract the contents of the root folder to the memory stick and run the game like normal. It shows a "Hello world!" example by default but you can put pretty much anything on that to boot custom firmware; it's already patched in 3.51 IIRC.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Oh no, I've turned into my dad

Brushes, some mdf sealer and some clear varnish.

That's fake tan in Scotland!

 

[Silterpy]

The popcorn vendor came to my work again, so I got a large pink vanilla for my sister and her kids. I had enough points to get a free bag, so I got a bag of sweet chili popcorn to try.

 

[Technicmaster0]

It's been a while since my last post in this thread, so here are some of my purchases during the last few months

First of all, I bought a few more games. I was hoping to buy a few more switch games, but prices for them still are very high. With the age of the switch I'd expect them to drop soonish as they stop production. Becuase of the prices, I only got one new switch game: LEGO Horizon Adventures. In addition to that, I got Minecraft Legends for XBOX One (way cheaper than the switch version) for my physical minecraft collection, my first PS3 game "Ico & Shadow of the Colossus (cheaper than Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 and probably better graphics), Pitfall for Wii and 2 DS games: playmobil pirates and the infamous puppy palace xd

I also got a few new movies: children of men as blu ray, dune and monster hunter as 3D versions (surprisingly there is no hint on the monster hunter package that it's the 3D version but it is) and quite a few 4k disks: last of us season 2, all 3 the hobbit movies, bullet train and the amazing spider-man (I also got the other live action spider-man movies on 4k that I didn't have yet).
For some reason the US has many more 4k releases compared to other countries, so I also had to import some of the 4k movies. Wall-E and Ne-Zha (the first one). I also imported the danny phantom complete series DVD box. It's really nice to have a physical representation of it as not that many children TV shows from my youth got physical releases (especially as the complete show). The DVD box is also a US import.
Cars 3 and Mulan (which appears to be missing on the picture) were imports from the UK. It's really sad to see that there are not more local 4k releases of the disney animated movies.

I also got a new disk drive... or technically I got 2 new disk drives. Both of them are "normal desktop PC" drives (this one in an external enclosure, the other one is in my PC). Both of them are ASUS drives that were manufactured by LG. These are really interesting because with Omnidrive (http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=OmniDrive) they can be used to copy almost all disc formats (some early console disks and HD-DVDs are the exception). They can copy DVD, BD, UHD, GC, Wii, Wii U, XBOX, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE, XBOX Series, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5 and probably more. All of the drives in the list can be flashed to omnidrive, but some have to be flashed to a "MK" firmware first to enable firmware downgrades.
However, not all of the formats can be decrypted yet. At the moment PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE and XBOX Series are only useful for archival purposes, not to actually play the game. I'm also not sure if you can play WIi U disc backups you made with the drive, but I tested all of the other platforms I listed and they work fine; including gamecube and wii games.
For movie disks, pioneer drives are a bit better because they have a better quality, but pioneer stopped manufacturing and the game discs can only be copied with the LG drives (or way older drives).

When it comes to flashcarts, I also got quite a few new ones. I got a DSpico by chisflash (with 2 replacement shells in different colors; these ones have injection molded shells while my previous ones only had 3D printed shells), a SuperChis Prime (FRAM variant), an Everdrive GBA Pro (it's the new variant with light and gyro sensors) and an everdrive GG clone.

When it comes to gaming peripherals, I got a Switch 2 pro controller and an allmiibo.

 

[subcon959]

The Switch 2 physical collection is coming along nicely... #24 Yoshi and the mlem book

 

[VmprHntrD]

I haven't taken collection pics in a few weeks, the last one was some 32X pickups after getting a deal on a mostly there system locally, and also this crazy DN3D mix tape of a soundtrack thing too I had to grab when I saw it in the rack. All these were locally picked up, also got Afterburner as well not in the picture.

But since then I've not bothered, but i did get over the weekend a sealed up Modretro Chromatic Volt(yellow) system still sealed up for $150 at sticker value, but I had a 25% off discount card for the store and a gift card with another $15 or so on it, so it cost me $100 and I can't complain. Such a high quality handheld. If I luck into something soon again enough to bother I'll add it to a later image I guess.

 

[hippy dave]

 

[impeeza]

The Switch 2 physical collection is coming along nicely... #24 Yoshi and the mlem book

they are games or keycards?

 

[Hayato213]

they are games or keycards?

Yoshi is physical cartridge.

 

[DaFixer]

Yes. You extract the contents of the root folder to the memory stick and run the game like normal. It shows a "Hello world!" example by default but you can put pretty much anything on that to boot custom firmware; it's already patched in 3.51 IIRC.

Yeah back then I got a Japanse PSP with fw 1.00. To get the Dutch language I must update to fw 1.50.

 

[SylverReZ]

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I also got a new disk drive... or technically I got 2 new disk drives. Both of them are "normal desktop PC" drives (this one in an external enclosure, the other one is in my PC). Both of them are ASUS drives that were manufactured by LG. These are really interesting because with Omnidrive (http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=OmniDrive) they can be used to copy almost all disc formats (some early console disks and HD-DVDs are the exception). They can copy DVD, BD, UHD, GC, Wii, Wii U, XBOX, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE, XBOX Series, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5 and probably more.

Thanks for reminding me about this new firmware for BD drives. Came out about four or five months ago which is acceptable, at least I now know that there's a way to dump just about any game disc without needing specialized drives. Throughout my testing, Wii and Xbox 360 games dump fine, and this comes from the same 16D1HT drive which I've used beforehand for backing up BD movies.

Ripping Wii games are slightly faster over the LG drives which took eons to do a 1:1 dump, but if you're using dual-layer discs, then it can take an hour and a half to complete depending on the drive. Xbox 360 games took about the same time as the Wii one. Of course, it cannot do every disc like Wii U or Dreamcast; however, I have high hopes for new updates which add support for other formats.

 

[Technicmaster0]

Of course, it cannot do every disc like Wii U or Dreamcast; however, I have high hopes for new updates which add support for other formats.

According to the post I linked, Wii U is supported. And I also got an output file when I tried to dump it. But I'm not sure about what to do with it, because it's an encrypted iso but for Wii U, ISO is usually not used. Also, dumping BDs really takes ages. But that's what you "pay" for proper backups.
Also, I was able to copy a Wii disk which my Wii U's drive didn't want to read because of scratches or so

 

[impeeza]

I just got a new puzzle cube, there are two puzzles in one

It is a rubik's cube and a labyrinth
you can resolve each one independently or at the same time.

 

[Orioncle]

Got a Japanese GameCube and a Flippy Drive for it. Just finished setting it up and really happy with it.