@ogo79 As to what drink is inside the Buzz Lightyear cup: I was actually betting on someone saying milkshake, so I've no idea what @HobbitGamer was thinking...
we shall drink whatever is in the cup!
the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
@ReaderRagfish I think there are ways to load 3rd party Game Boy emulators without the original disk. I've heard the 3rd party stuff is even better in some aspects.
@ogo79 As long as it ain't Jell-O. I hate that artificially colored stuff.
@ReaderRagfish Concerning the Game Boy Player, there's a couple of options:
Either you look for the cheapest disc on eBay, if you really think it's worth it, but USA-NTSC discs are pretty steep, as you've probably already noticed...
I'd mail/message the guy first, to get to the bottom of what exactly is wrong with the disc. If it's corroded, then there's no use in taking the gamble of buying it, but if it's "only" scratched, then you might give it a go, and then take it to a game shop that has a disc polishing machine, to get it re-surfaced, which shouldn't cost more than 5 bucks or so.
Other than that, there's the option of installing a mod chip, which would allow you to install homebrew and make the GameCube region free, so you could look for the cheaper JAP-NTSC version of the boot disc, or burn a USA-NTSC copy on a mini dvd. If the thought of hard-modding your console doesn't freak you out, you will want to look for the so-called "Xeno GC" mod chip. You should be able to find them for anywhere between 5 - 8 bucks max. You will obviously need to open up the GameCube, but the soldering is pretty easy. It's mentioned/described in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/using-gameboy-player-without-boot...
I'd say read through all those, and see what you're comfortable with doing to your console.
No idea what the GBI costs, though, so you'll have to find out for yourself.
Either way, good luck.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ReaderRagfish Yeah, I used to own a freeloader disc for GameCube, but somehow their compatibility got worse over the years, and I didn't get one from the first run, so there's different versions apparently.
May have something to do with either Nintendo or game publishers breathing down their necks, I don't know.
In the end, I just gave up and played only games I could get in my own region. Luckily, a decade or so later, soft-modding the Wii became a thing, and finally, I was able to play all those games that I've never been able to play before, and the games I already used to know in 60Hz...
As for the mod chip soldering: if you're not too sure of your own skills, you could always get it done somewhere, or perhaps someone in your family or circle of friends is better at it. Basically it's just putting the chip on the board in a certain location, and fixing it to the board with solder. There's no difficult operation with wires and what not.
As you can read in one of those forum pages, one person also mentions doing a pretty bad job of it, but it still worked all the same.
@NEStalgia Aha... Well, color me surprised. Goes with the territory, I guess, of discussing weird toys and consuming vegetarians...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Just out of curiosity: did anyone else experience any problems with the site and/or pages loading yesterday or last night? I had quite a bit of trouble with it yesterday, around midnight 2.40am local time (CET), but only on my PC. I checked to see if things worked as they should on my smart phone, and they did, but what I got on my PC, looked like this:
Right now, things are back to normal, but still weird, especially if you don't see any mention of it anywhere, @antdickens...
@ThanosReXXX I don't have any reports of issues around that time, so could have been isolated to you / your ISP or even region. When assets don't load like that it could be your local data centre as we use a global CDN. Thanks though, let me know if you spot it again.
@antdickens Will do. In all the years being on this site, I have seldomly experienced anything like this, especially if it wasn't officially mentioned, such as during site maintenance.
One question left, though: how come it did work as it should on my phone, then? When at home, I only use wi-fi to access the internet on my smart phone, so that should be through the same ISP, right?
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX complex question. In theory, if your phone is connected via WiFi then its using the same ISP as your desktop computer etc. However, phones are very smart and often fallback to 3G/4G if the Wifi is failing... so in theory it could have been issues. Also, difference devices will have different assets cached...
Anyway, if it's a one off then there is nothing to worry about - just let me know if it occurs again! Thanks
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