Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Delibheel Classic console, needs classic ways of playing it. There were wireless controllers back then, but these weren't all that good. And what's a bit of SNES gaming without the nostalgic risk of tripping over wires?

I’d very much not break the tiny plastic toy console by whipping it to the floor.

Also me, being the filthy casual I am, don’t really mind about that kind of authenticity when it comes to retro gaming.

I mean, if I wanted to be authentic, I’d have to go fetch my brother and make him play for me.

@Delibheel
Is 8bitdo SNES working perfectly for playing Street Fighter 30th Anniversary ?
I still cannot use Spindrive Smasher from Cammy or Kikkoushou from Chun Li easily with my Joy Cons.

@ThanosReXXX Eh, doing it through the official contact page means it will probably end up in my own inbox anyway, don't see the point in doing that

@JackEatsSparrows I feel like I'm the only one that kept each of my carts in their original boxes, and carefully packed them like-new each time I was done playing them (well except the ones I got used that either had no box or had a plastic rental store case.) Surely @Ryu_Niiyama did the same?

@Octane Sometimes I like to email myself to let me know I still care.

No, I only started keeping the cardboard boxes after I got old enough to become a hoarder.

Before then? They were as good as trash. I would often break them open too.

I lived dangerously.

@Delibheel You're never too young to start hoarding. You have a box...then you throw it away and you don't have your box. All for nothing. Just loss and no gain. Tsk tsk.

@Delibheel You rebel!

@Delibheel You'd BREAK them open???
You... you... you vandal, you barbarian.. you... I... AAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!

But in all seriousness: even back when I was too young too hoard, I was already VERY careful with all my belongings. I used to hate people that treated CD's as coasters or place mats, having them strewn around across the room or on their desk, and keeping cartridges out of their boxes and what not.

I do think that Sega had the better solution, with plastic boxes, making them easier to keep and maintain, but still. I also have to add that my parents certainly played a large part in this: my father would never even have allowed me to rip or tear boxes that belonged to any game or toy, unless it was truly a disposable package, but if it was meant as a "keep safe container" for the product, then you could bet your @ss that my dad would stress the point of me keeping them in as good a condition as possible, so I learned quickly enough that I'd better not try to defy him, in that regard, lest he'd wack me across the head for disobeying...

My parents didn't really care about packaging as long as I wasn't breaking the toy/game itself.

I'm almost sure they threw out most of the [cardboard] boxes themselves...

@Delibheel That's probably the difference, then. If they didn't mind, you also didn't have to. My parents did, and probably didn't appreciate me ripping gifts apart, so I never did. Never regretted it either. I do have carrying cases for most of my consoles and cartridges, but never enough to fit all of them in there, and I also like the box art of these games. I'm not really a hardcore collector, but the games that I do own, I'd like to keep in as complete a condition as possible.

@NEStalgia No, you're not alone: still got all my original N64 cartridge boxes, and even quite a few of those horribly large boxes that PC and Amiga games used to be packaged in...

That happened to me as well. Didn't really have a choice

Oh wow, that would be a big red flag for me.

I've never understood people throwing packages away. I've had to dispose of some at times due to damage or such caused by weather disasters and such, but I try to keep it as long as I can. It pained me in December to go down the street and see a neon red & blue switch box hanging out of a trash can. I'm thinking "You just got that, that's yours, you paid money for that....why are you throwing it out?!?" I still have my SNES box!! Though I fear it may have taken water damage at some point....I'm too pained to check it. Somewhere the NES box is still around too.

@Nessjestic I'm pretty sure there's a Nigerian prince trying to take it away from you daily.

OTOH, it sounds like you were married to the Nigerian prince briefly.....

@Nessjestic well as you say, people do that when they're in a relationship, some logic is lost and we can only see in pink.

What's important is that you had the clarity of mind to accept the problem and the strength to end the relationship.

@NEStalgia Haha, I know how you feel. Still got all my console boxes, my Bluray and even my DVD recorder box, my TV box, and so on. I probably won't for a long time, but I also always keep in mind that I may have to move all that stuff to another location some day, and I wouldn't want to have to wrap all of it in blankets or that weird, bubbly plastic...

@Nessjestic Yeah, I'd have to agree with @Delibheel there: HUGE red flag. People that would want a relationship with you, should accept you and your hobbies as they are. As long as it isn't getting out of hand, with literally the entire house looking like some kind of video gaming shrine, it should be okay.

Personally, I'm damn certain that any woman that wants to live with me and move in here, is going to accept my game collection, and if not, then she can walk right out of the same door that she came in through...

@Nessjestic Well, lesson learned, at least. Good thing it was "only" about having to throw away hobby-related things. Could have been worse. And good that it certainly didn't turn you off from gaming completely, which could also have happened.

@ThanosReXXX "As long as it isn't getting out of hand, with literally the entire house looking like some kind of video gaming shrine, it should be okay."

So, like, define "entire?"