Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I love arlo’s channel. He’s a funny character

@Tyranexx yeah exactly. I paid a lot for my previous machine too. But I used it hard-core for 8 years. That thing had to have 10k+ hours of use over the years.

Woah, baby, this heat is a killer.

@Tyranexx That's funny - believe it or not, Super Mario All-Stars was my first exposure to SMB1-3! The SNES was the only console we had in much of the early 90s, plus by the time I was born, the SNES wasn't even close to reaching its 1-year anniversary here in the states. Back then, we had stuff like Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, F-Zero, the Donkey Kong Country series, Yoshi's Island, and yes, even a few sports games (that I didn't get into, but my dad did since he was a big sports guy. lol) As for Captain Novolin, yes I've heard of it from Seanbaby and a handful of YouTube videos way back in the late 2000s. Looks like such a masterpiece, doesn't it? (Okay, I'm lying. XD) I did have a similar experience with you too, but with the Genesis instead. Loved playing the Sonic games for the first time.

So my old PC had two HDDs. Whenever I booted that thing up, between those and its fan, it was a loud boy. I just got used to it because it was a nice machine that lasted me a good solid 8 years of heavy use.

My new PC has a solid state and low sound fans and is basically silent after the little click of the power button, it's pretty cool!

im holding you to this, because if theres one thing i like
its a nice dlc

@Heavyarms55 8+ years is definitely amaxing for a PC! I think the average is still 3-4 years. Especially since a lot of pre-built machines (depending on where they're from) increasingly have everything soldered to the board. Instead of simply swapping out a piece of something, more often than not people just have to swallow the cost of a new machine.

SSDs are amazing. It's so nice not putting up with the extra HDD noise, and they're faster too.

@MarioLover92 Ironically, I think my first exposure to the original Super Mario Bros. was the original NES cartridge; I had a different set of cousins with a NES, and my earliest gaming memory is playing the SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge. Thosr are the only ones I recall playing on that system; ports aside, I've played other NES games since, but mostly through the Virtual Console. I sometimes wish the relatives with the SNES had had more game variety, but what they had was decent as a whole.

...Other than Captain Novolin. XD I'm positive the only reason they even had that game was due to the fact that two of my cousins have type 1 diabetes, so my guess is it was a well-meant gift at some point to educate them about their condition. Man that game was weird lol.

I had some Sega Genesis exposure too via a different babysitter when my aunt wasn't available. There was more of a genre selection, but surprisingly no Sonic lol. I recall a Jurassic Park game (loved playing as a Velociraptor, don't recall the exact title), The Lion King, Aladdin, a port of Paperboy, and some sort of racing game which I think might've been OutRun, but I'm really not sure. Still need to research the soundtrack to see if it's for sure what I remember.

@Tyranexx yeah I copied over my music and pictures from my external drive to and it was like 3 maybe 4 times as fast as it was when I backed them up to the external. It's nice that I was able to save the majority of my approximately 15000 images that I use for desktop wallpapers.

I need some expert advice on Sega console!

I ordered this console and the seller claim it is authentic!

It should arrive Tuesday.

It seems very legit just looking at it but on the back I see that the "Patents" text is a little bit too long compared to some other Mega Drive 2s. I looked around on eBay and saw that some have the longer text and some have shorter (4 rows this one has 6 rows). It just includes more countries to contact.

So anyone here expert on Mega Drive 2?

I know that @ThanosReXXX loves Sega so I have hope!

Anyone else feel free to add your points.

@Tyranexx Yeah I do remember the NES version as well, my grandmother had it (it was the SMB/Duck Hunt combo cart as well) and a slew of other games in her house too. It is indeed surprising there was no Sonic when you played the Genesis - Sonic 1 and 2 were its best-sellers at the time! I do know many people got it for sports games (like NHL 94 - I heard many good things about that one and my dad had that for SNES, too), as well.

@Zuljaras Hmm. I do think your Mega Drive is real, it looks JUST like its second model in Europe, red buttons and all. Maybe it was sold from a different European country? Just a thought.

Hm today something unusual happened.

My dreams got very repetitive, and I started to become aware that I was dreaming... Which usually only happens when I oversleeping, it's like my brain goes "hey, wake up".

So I woke up, then checked the clock, and it was 5AM. 🙃

It's already 17 August 2020, Indonesia's Independence Day.
We will celebrate our 75th Anniversary of independence day.
I made an Indonesia flag from Windflowers to celebrate.

@Eel lucid dreaming?

@Apportal I usually get that when I've been dreaming for too long. Which is why this one was weird. It made me wake up too early.

@Heavyarms55 15000? Is that an exaggeration? XD Do you rotate backgrounds on your PC monitors every minute?

@MarioLover92 I also enjoyed playing Duck Hunt off of that dual cartridge. I'd stand right at the TV screen and point the plastic gun directly at the clay pigeons. Unfortunately, it never worked on that obnoxious dog.

It's very possible that babysitter had other Sega Genesis games, and I just didn't have access to them (or wasn't interested; this was ages ago). She had two kids and if I recall correctly, the system had been given to them by the older kid's father. I had very little exposure to Sonic games back in the day outside of my brother's copy of Sonic Advance 3 on the GBA. I did play and beat Sonic 2 via the 3D classics collection on the 3DS. I liked it overall, but....Well, for a character all about speed, the later stages lose some momentum for me as they seem to troll the player quite a bit.

Probably has them on slideshow setting .... That's still a lot of desktops, though!

A Nintendo Direct has supposedly been leaked for this Thursday. I don’t know though... Pikimin 3 Deluxe seems like something pretty big when there’s an upcoming Direct. Unless it’s a Mario-specific. Who knows?

(Nintendo, that’s who.)

Or it's another partner showcase, @BabyYoshi12 .... Could be they knew some of them weren't quite ready to give dates last time & there are supposed to be more of those sometime Wouldn't get hopes up too much or anything, of course but it'd be cool if there was anything

just ordered my first bundle from lukiegames. I know @thanosrexxx uses them often, so im sure it'll go smoothly. Grabbed the following as im trying to build up my n64 and cube collection. Only $32 spent and shipping was free since it was over $25.

-outlaw golf GC
-dead to rights GC
-WCW/NWO world tour n64
-annnnnnd perfect dark was the big one(only 15 usd) n64

While I played a ton of goldeneye on 64, I only barely recall playing perfect dark. So im looking forward to it.

Once I get my nes and snes working again, I'll build those up more. After that, ps1 and dreamcast. I lost all my ps1 games darnit. They have to be buried somewhere in my parents house.

@BabyYoshi12 This week's Direct game: Super Galaxy Prime Splatoon Odyssey of the Wild Mansion Sunshine 64 Million Billion Hyper-Insane HD (deadly for children 6 years and under to look at). Requires three Switch consoles daisy-chained together play it, or one human soul. (rumble support will come later)