I was proud of myself for passing on that one. I was really hoping they’d have a Nintendo Switch today. I had everything ready to buy but know that I wouldn’t use a NES classic enough to justify buying one.
@sammydog01 lol, I barely missed it last time and the only reason I did miss it was that I was signed in through my amazon account instead of my regular woot account. I had even changed my payment method and placed another order earlier in the day with the new info to make sure it would work so I would be ready for it if it came up. I will keep dreaming and trying though!
@lichme@tnhillbillygal Damn. I still have a few working consoles and almost all of the games that would be on the Classic, but at that price I might have pulled the trigger, too.
@lichme@tnhillbillygal Yeah that’s a steal for those! They retailed for $60 but for a very long time (maybe even now) you never found them for that price.
Oh man… I just threw out about 10 of the original game cartridges and different controllers yesterday clearing out some stuff because the game console itself was in pretty bad shape. Been sitting in the basement for close to 30 yrs.
@lseeber if you still have them (if they haven’t been fully disposed of yet, ie – if the trash hasn’t ran), whisper me your paypal. I’ll gladly pay to have them shipped here and throw in a little extra for your trouble
@lseeber Apart from the 72-pin connector, which can be replaced, the NES is a very reliable machine. It probably still works.
I have five or six NESs, and my “main” one is the one I found in a gutter on the side of the road while I was out for a run one day in the late nineties.
@Limewater@lseeber Stories like that give me life. A few of my ‘daily driver’ electronics have stories like that. Off the top of my head, my computer monitor came from under a tarp on an abandoned property on a hillside in rural Georgia. (I live in central Florida)
@PocketBrain I love split ortholinears. I have an ErgoDox both at work and at home. I also have a Let’s Split that I bought on impulse at a meetup, but I kept having trouble mapping it.
@llangley I got mine of the treasure truck too. I use it with computer monitor because the short cable and the 8-bit graphics make it silly to use with a modern tv.
I assume you mean the NES Classic Edition console? They are very nice little things, built well and unlike emulators they play the whole game exactly as intended. Depending on how much you paid, I’d say you got a fun toy, though in my opinion the Super NES Classic is even better!
@PooltoyWolf To be fair, the NES Classic is running an emulator. It’s just really good and they paid attention to detail and had a known hardware platform to target.
I never bought one. It want one, but it’s hard to justify when already own 28 out of 30 games on real cartridges.
My Bubble Bobble cartridge doesn’t work, though, so that’s a pretty big bummer.
In my whole NES collection of over 200 carts, it’s the only one that doesn’t work. I opened it, found a short caused by corrosion from water damage, fixed that, cleaned it all up, used contact cleaner, but it still doesn’t bring up the title screen correctly or make it more than a few seconds into a game with garbled graphics. It may actually have a corrupted eprom, which would be a first for me.
@Limewater What I basically meant with that statement was that the games on the NES and SNES classic consoles play exactly as the originals do, because they ARE the original games, including all quirks and glitches. They are AFAIK running the original code used for the original game cartridges. (I was happy to be able to replicate the Small Mario tunnel glitch in Super Mario World lol) Also that’s a shame about Bubble Bobble, but like me, you can’t say you didn’t try to fix it!
I quickly tired of mine (I also still have my original NES with a power pad! No CRT monitor for duck hunt, however.) but if you download hakchi you can load all your legally owned games onto your classic. SNES too, as they use the same processor. Your enjoyment of the console will increase greatly.
@placidpenguin @mfladd I was bad. Very bad.
@sammydog01 I thought you weren’t supposed to be buying stuff right now.
@Barney Very, very bad.
@sammydog01 Tsk, tsk.
@sammydog01 But your never going to play it! Has PvsZ: GW2 ever even left the box yet?
@mfladd It didn’t come in a box. So there.
/8ball Is that a good thing?
You may rely on it
@narfcake Thank you 8ball. That makes me feel so much better.
@sammydog01 Just remember:
Yes definitely
/8ball Can the /8ball’s outcome be manipulated?
I was proud of myself for passing on that one. I was really hoping they’d have a Nintendo Switch today. I had everything ready to buy but know that I wouldn’t use a NES classic enough to justify buying one.
@tnhillbillygal A switch would have been too expensive for an impulse buy.
I’m proud of you too.
@sammydog01 lol, I barely missed it last time and the only reason I did miss it was that I was signed in through my amazon account instead of my regular woot account. I had even changed my payment method and placed another order earlier in the day with the new info to make sure it would work so I would be ready for it if it came up. I will keep dreaming and trying though!
@sammydog01 @tnhillbillygal It’s like eavesdropping on a support group.
@tnhillbillygal I think these today were pretty easy to get, although the website was very unhappy.
@sammydog01 Yeah, I was wondering if it was just me or if the site was acting up for everyone.
So, are these discounted sales vs what they would normally be offered at (for woot)?
@lichme It was like $37.50 or something close to that for the NES classic.
@lichme @tnhillbillygal that seems like a great deal to me. I paid $60 for the each of the two that I have
@capguncowboy @lichme No doubt it was a good deal but I just didn’t need one
@lichme @tnhillbillygal Damn. I still have a few working consoles and almost all of the games that would be on the Classic, but at that price I might have pulled the trigger, too.
@lichme @tnhillbillygal $35.99
@sammydog01 Ya, at that price you couldn’t exactly say no, could you. Good deal. Fret not about breaking your vow.
@lichme @tnhillbillygal Yeah that’s a steal for those! They retailed for $60 but for a very long time (maybe even now) you never found them for that price.
I approve.
Oh man… I just threw out about 10 of the original game cartridges and different controllers yesterday clearing out some stuff because the game console itself was in pretty bad shape. Been sitting in the basement for close to 30 yrs.
@lseeber if you still have them (if they haven’t been fully disposed of yet, ie – if the trash hasn’t ran), whisper me your paypal. I’ll gladly pay to have them shipped here and throw in a little extra for your trouble
@lseeber Apart from the 72-pin connector, which can be replaced, the NES is a very reliable machine. It probably still works.
I have five or six NESs, and my “main” one is the one I found in a gutter on the side of the road while I was out for a run one day in the late nineties.
@Limewater Nah… mice got in and nested in it. was disgusting.
@capguncowboy I’ll see if my bro tossed it in his firepit or if I still have. Don’t want any extra $ tho. I’ll let you know.
@lseeber awesome. Just let me know!
@capguncowboy Okay… so… he checked thru what was still there after a trip to the dump and the burn pile, sorry… they seem to be gone.
@lseeber
/giphy it’s a sad day
@capguncowboy Yeah… sorry. He went thru what hadn’t been dumped or burned and it wasn’t there so apparently already succumbed to one of the former.
@Limewater @lseeber Stories like that give me life. A few of my ‘daily driver’ electronics have stories like that. Off the top of my head, my computer monitor came from under a tarp on an abandoned property on a hillside in rural Georgia. (I live in central Florida)
@Limewater @lseeber Believe me when I tell you that is repairable, and with less effort than you probably think
@Limewater @lseeber Damn, this thread is old as f*ck and I had no clue until I saw my own old comment here. Welp I’m a numbskull tonight lmao
If you’re a sucker, I’m a bigger one.
@arielleslie
Where’d you get that keyboard?
@PocketBrain That’s an ErgoDox EZ.
@arielleslie I thought it looked familiar. I’m looking at several ergo designs and I like the split ones.
@PocketBrain I love split ortholinears. I have an ErgoDox both at work and at home. I also have a Let’s Split that I bought on impulse at a meetup, but I kept having trouble mapping it.
@arielleslie @PocketBrain So this is the comment that made me reply to this thread as if it were a new topic! D’oh!
@PooltoyWolf Off-topic comment threads are the best threads?
@arielleslie @PooltoyWolf Nope, zombie threads are the best.
/giphy zombie thread
I bought this from the Amazon Treasure Truck. The graphics suck. Maybe my TV screen is too big but…everything seems so pixellated
@llangley The graphics didn’t suck in 1986!
@djslack that’s for sure!
@djslack @llangley I grew up wrapping tin foil on rabbit ears to improve the snow on our TV so I can probably live with it.
@djslack @llangley @sammydog01 Did that make more snow? Cool!
@llangley I got mine of the treasure truck too. I use it with computer monitor because the short cable and the 8-bit graphics make it silly to use with a modern tv.
@therealjrn Downhill skiing on The Wide World of Sports always looked nice.
@sammydog01 :splat: lol
I assume you mean the NES Classic Edition console? They are very nice little things, built well and unlike emulators they play the whole game exactly as intended. Depending on how much you paid, I’d say you got a fun toy, though in my opinion the Super NES Classic is even better!
@PooltoyWolf To be fair, the NES Classic is running an emulator. It’s just really good and they paid attention to detail and had a known hardware platform to target.
I never bought one. It want one, but it’s hard to justify when already own 28 out of 30 games on real cartridges.
My Bubble Bobble cartridge doesn’t work, though, so that’s a pretty big bummer.
In my whole NES collection of over 200 carts, it’s the only one that doesn’t work. I opened it, found a short caused by corrosion from water damage, fixed that, cleaned it all up, used contact cleaner, but it still doesn’t bring up the title screen correctly or make it more than a few seconds into a game with garbled graphics. It may actually have a corrupted eprom, which would be a first for me.
@Limewater What I basically meant with that statement was that the games on the NES and SNES classic consoles play exactly as the originals do, because they ARE the original games, including all quirks and glitches. They are AFAIK running the original code used for the original game cartridges. (I was happy to be able to replicate the Small Mario tunnel glitch in Super Mario World lol) Also that’s a shame about Bubble Bobble, but like me, you can’t say you didn’t try to fix it!
Time to get the Game and Watch classic!
I quickly tired of mine (I also still have my original NES with a power pad! No CRT monitor for duck hunt, however.) but if you download hakchi you can load all your legally owned games onto your classic. SNES too, as they use the same processor. Your enjoyment of the console will increase greatly.