u/WFlash01

NOT that it wasn't 100% the right thing to do, but it seemed so unlike Jake to actually try and make an effort like that

This is the very last episode btw; SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED IT, it might be wise if you don't read this post as a whole tbh but the premise: >!when Jake came home from a conference and saw Daria in the box, he said "Oh, hey kiddo!" then walked away, but then came back and said "Uhh, Daria?" which then prompted the discussion between him, her, and Helen about the fight Jake and Helen had a long time ago!<

I love that there's all sorts of talk and discussion on this subreddit about character growth throughout the show, and I lurk around here sometimes but also not so I don't really see much about Jake since he, well, seemingly hardly grows as a character; he still has those super irate interjections about his father, his job, etc., and outside of that he still always has a goofy demeanor with the *occasional* serious moment with Daria or Quinn where he tries to connect with them in a very heartfelt and serious way, but they never really progressed/increased either in scope or in frequency

In the episode Malled (which admittedly was at the very start of the show, before any character growth could occur), he even says "Oh, you know Daria, she loooves to act cool.", then like we go the whole show with Jake remaining relatively static, then this? It makes it feel like all of a sudden Jake evolved overnight just like that

Hi, today I just got the last game I need to finish out my 8-bit Mega Man collection

They're all loose cartridges, no boxes or manuals unfortunately but I got impatient and didn't have the money to spend on CIBs

But yeah I'm proud to own these; my favorites are 1, 3, II and V

I think this game is really fun and underrated

I had the NES version as a kid, and loved that game even as a kid, then later I got the Game Boy version (I didn't even know it existed for the longest time)

And yesterday I was just sifting through my Game Boy cartridges, trying to figure out what I wanted to play, saw Yoshi's Cookie, popped it in expecting to play only for like a few minutes maybe before I got bored, but nope I just kept on going and I beat it proper with no continues

The tear in the middle on the back label was already there on the original cartridge; that wasn't from me doing this label swap.

I took one look at this and then just ended up going on eBay and buying another Rockman cartridge that hopefully works without me having to open it to clean the contacts or anything, so at least I'll have a fully intact original cartridge that doesn't need tape, because this... bugs me immensely.

Yay, it finally sits in a shell that's closed and doesn't want to shake apart, or have tape peel off from inserting and removing it from my Famicom, but now it just looks goofy.

This new shell isn't bad by any means, it works fine as a replacement for a broken cartridge (I imagine it has to be at least somewhat common for people to break these stupid tabs off, so hey if it happens to you you can breathe some new life into those PCBs and make them useable again), but it just angers me that NOBODY sells replacement shells that look like the originals, just these extended height ones (or maybe some godawful 3D printed ones; I even bought one and it was the absolute worst). Why?

Now look, I know Famicom games are cheap, and you can just buy a junk game to use as a donor, but what if that cartridge is brittle and the tabs break off again? And how long is that going to stay that way for if people are buying them up to use as donors?

Anyway, as much as it bothers me that now I can't even use this in my American Nintendo (which is my primary way to play Famicom games; I own a Famicom but I like this system more), at least I own an American Mega Man 1

Hey fellas

&#x200B;

I bought this copy of Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, and I can't get it to work. I know me having worked on it already means I can't get a return, so now I'm just kinda stuck with it, but if it's fixable then awesome but if not I'll just hold onto it for a spare cartridge shell, PCB, something

&#x200B;

Upon arrival, it was just giving me a solid black screen, not even passing TMSS; , I cleaned the pins, and then it started passing the TMSS, but still nothing after that. Then I took the cartridge apart and reflowed all the solder joints, and that still didn't fix it

&#x200B;

I didn't show pictures of it, but I even tried disconnecting my 32X and CD, just trying it on the bare Genesis, and that didn't work either (edit: This time, it didn't even pass TMSS)

&#x200B;

So does that mean the ROM chip is just toast then?

I'm leaning heavily on resealed, I know Nintendo never used this shrink wrapping but I don't know about Sega (I didn't grow up in the 90s 😭)

The box looks super crunched up, so if it's resealed I'll have no guilt opening the plastic and trying to straighten out the box a little

Just in case anybody thought I was lying the past few days when I left comments saying I bought a copy of this game

So yeah, why did I buy this game? Because, WHY NOT?! I first played this game on my 3DS on the virtual console, and I thought it was such a good game that I wanted a copy of it for myself. But of course, back before it got so damn expensive I was just a lowly highschool student that didn't have a job

But now, here we are

8 hour drive one way, we're on our way back now and I'm on my 3rd playthrough of it.

I wish I brought my unmodded DMG, this backlit screen is hard to see in the direct sunlight