The Jazz Out: 4000 Posts of Holo to Lure Him Back

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Switch glued together is holding. But the switch is always on like it was before, I suspected this might be the outcome since the flat bit of metal inside the switch didn't seem to be functioning correctly.
Guess I'll try out the spare switch I found, but I'll have to put this project off for another day as I've got chores to do now plus organise dinner and some lunch for work tomorrow :yawn:

The console does work fine though, it booted Biohazard no problem.

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cool that it works.

tried yesterday and today to get codename outbreak working with no luck. I edited the ini set compatibility mode and tried dgvoodoo2 .

I can get it to run via SW but it runs horribly.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

I can get it to run via SW but it runs horribly.

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I did see a couple posts about the game running like shit(when they had it running)
I'm a bit disappointed as I wanted to check it out. I've given up on it for now.

I'll check on my XP machine sometime. PCGW suggests using a period appropriate card but I'll find out if it matters or not.

My brother told me DS games can apparently brick/wipe themselves if never powered for many years (something about their flash memory needing a bit of power to retain data or something). So time change day is a good moment to consider checking these things.

I worked over a decent stack of games with no problems. Stuck in my Acecard, hrm, it doesn't work. That's not a problem, it's a good flashcard so it can be rewritten if anything goes weird, I just need a OG DS flashcard. My R4 works fine, but WTF, why doesn't my DSTT have a SD card...? Another problem to fix. Google for a bit, and I don't remember if my DSTT is legit or not (I think it's legit?) and there's killer firmware out there. Dig around in old backup drives/folders and luckily find the old firmware I installed many years ago, so I go with that and it seems fine. Now rewrite the Acecard firmware, looks like it went well, try the card and it still doesn't work...? Well I guess the Acecards menu stored on the SD card is borked. Stick the SD card into my PC and dig around on it, oh look, my DSTT system files, I found where my DSTT SD card went :lol Oh well, Google for Acecard system menu files, find some and proceed to try and overwrite the damaged ones, aaannndd the transfer speed drops to 0b/s and Windows locks up. Oh, I guess I see the real problem here (yes, I did look at the SD card before reflashing firmware and it seemed fine), I try to copy off the games on the card, and nope, crashes. Try to copy save files off the card, get 4-5 and it crashes. Resort to copying saves off 1 at a time, some of the saves are clearly died and won't come off at all, I know I had some hours into Dragon Quest V and it's gone, oh well. Now grab my backup drive and dig for my DS games, extract them onto my desktop, aaannnddd random CRC errors for fucks sake. Dunno when those corrupted, they probably would've been dropped on a 1TB drive, moved to a 2TB drive, maybe shifted to a different 2TB drive, and now live on a 8TB drive... Anyways, back to Google to replace a few games, and that's a pretty terrible experience. Randomly discovered wowroms, I guess I've heard their name before, they weren't bullshit, and now I'm finally done~

I have another box full of DS games, I'll get to it tomorrow, or something.

http://linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/

A good resource for flash cart FW.

Some nice person gave me a PSVR v2, but it's missing the power supply and also the stand for the camera.
No controllers either, but I have at least 4 move controllers (one is CiB move starter pack), one navigation controller and official move charging stand.
The headset looks quite good, no damage or stains and doesn't smell. I'll be giving it a good clean anyway though :P

So I've ordered a PSVR psu :pwacko:
The camera stand I've had a look around but can't see any cheap solutions right now. I could just print one I guess...

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Originally Posted by Ragnar

My brother told me DS games can apparently brick/wipe themselves if never powered for many years (something about their flash memory needing a bit of power to retain data or something). So time change day is a good moment to consider checking these things.

I worked over a decent stack of games with no problems. Stuck in my Acecard, hrm, it doesn't work. That's not a problem, it's a good flashcard so it can be rewritten if anything goes weird, I just need a OG DS flashcard. My R4 works fine, but WTF, why doesn't my DSTT have a SD card...? Another problem to fix. Google for a bit, and I don't remember if my DSTT is legit or not (I think it's legit?) and there's killer firmware out there. Dig around in old backup drives/folders and luckily find the old firmware I installed many years ago, so I go with that and it seems fine. Now rewrite the Acecard firmware, looks like it went well, try the card and it still doesn't work...? Well I guess the Acecards menu stored on the SD card is borked. Stick the SD card into my PC and dig around on it, oh look, my DSTT system files, I found where my DSTT SD card went :lol Oh well, Google for Acecard system menu files, find some and proceed to try and overwrite the damaged ones, aaannndd the transfer speed drops to 0b/s and Windows locks up. Oh, I guess I see the real problem here (yes, I did look at the SD card before reflashing firmware and it seemed fine), I try to copy off the games on the card, and nope, crashes. Try to copy save files off the card, get 4-5 and it crashes. Resort to copying saves off 1 at a time, some of the saves are clearly died and won't come off at all, I know I had some hours into Dragon Quest V and it's gone, oh well. Now grab my backup drive and dig for my DS games, extract them onto my desktop, aaannnddd random CRC errors for fucks sake. Dunno when those corrupted, they probably would've been dropped on a 1TB drive, moved to a 2TB drive, maybe shifted to a different 2TB drive, and now live on a 8TB drive... Anyways, back to Google to replace a few games, and that's a pretty terrible experience. Randomly discovered wowroms, I guess I've heard their name before, they weren't bullshit, and now I'm finally done~

I have another box full of DS games, I'll get to it tomorrow, or something.

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I got a G6 Lite 4G (5 in 1) kit recently - missing box insert, disc and some of the cart shells. Software isn't a problem I found that easily. The shells; there are enough there it's just missing some alt colours. It does boot up on NDS with the pass card but there isn't any game flashed to it and I haven't tested further atm.


I never got around to looking it up... but I was wondering if the usb flasher could be used to flash bootleg GBA carts (I know some of these can be reflashed). Probably not I guess :shrug:

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Some nice person gave me a PSVR v2, but it's missing the power supply and also the stand for the camera.
No controllers either, but I have at least 4 move controllers (one is CiB move starter pack), one navigation controller and official move charging stand.
The headset looks quite good, no damage or stains and doesn't smell. I'll be giving it a good clean anyway though :P

So I've ordered a PSVR psu :pwacko:
The camera stand I've had a look around but can't see any cheap solutions right now. I could just print one I guess...

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Don't run into any walls.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

Don't run into any walls.

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So I should buy a treadmill too? :revwacko:

finally I got my usb cable I ordered 2 weeks ago, though I somewhat suspect the seller sent a replacement after I filed a complaint about it on friday.

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

So I should buy a treadmill too? :revwacko:

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:nod:

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

http://linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/

A good resource for flash cart FW.

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That's quite nice, seeing how tons of old sources for these sorts of files are just gone.

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Originally Posted by Ragnar

That's quite nice, seeing how tons of old sources for these sorts of files are just gone.

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I rediscovered it when I was bumbling around looking for the correct FW for an R4 clone. Loads of dead links on GBATemp.

Power getting turned off in an hour :ahhh:.

at least you got notified first.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

at least you got notified first.

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Scheduled for work to be done in this case. I don't think my power company would tell anyone (unless forced) if they were doing rolling outages.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

Scheduled for work to be done in this case. I don't think my power company would tell anyone (unless forced) if they were doing rolling outages.

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same here.

how can I check if an external hdd that's formatted to NTFS has an MBR partition and not GPT?
I was looking through amazon yesterday for android boxes or digital media players to possibly replace my pos when I seen a mention on one of the digital media players I looked at saying that external hdds 1tb or over needed to have be NTFS and MBR partitioned and not GPT partitioned.
I got to thinking maybe that's why my media player won't properly detect my external(even when it powered externally). I just assumed the drive was MBR and not GPT I knew it was NTFS as that was the default.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

how can I check if an external hdd that's formatted to NTFS has an MBR partition and not GPT?
I was looking through amazon yesterday for android boxes or digital media players to possibly replace my pos when I seen a mention on one of the digital media players I looked at saying that external hdds 1tb or over needed to have be NTFS and MBR partitioned and not GPT partitioned.
I got to thinking maybe that's why my media player won't properly detect my external(even when it powered externally). I just assumed the drive was MBR and not GPT I knew it was NTFS as that was the default.

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If you're using Windows, you can check in disk management.

https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how...tween-the-two/

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Originally Posted by Jackhammer

If you're using Windows, you can check in disk management.

https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how...tween-the-two/

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thanks. had to use the command prompt as disk management wasn't showing me the partition type, at least now I know that it's gpt now I get to backup around 600gb so I can format it to mbr there goes the next several days.

Uhh, my computer just had a forreal blue screen of death. Coincidentally like a week ago my brother raided my PC for 2x8GB sticks of ram, and dropped 4x4GB sticks on me. They passed a memory test, but the BSoD is far from the only PC hiccup since, so I'm guessing there's some problem the memory test didn't catch. Luckily memory prices have dropped a ton since I looked a year or 2 ago, so I just grabbed another 2x8GB for only $45 bucks. Would've cost $80-90 a couple months ago
https://ca.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00453R90W

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Originally Posted by Grouch

thanks. had to use the command prompt as disk management wasn't showing me the partition type, at least now I know that it's gpt now I get to backup around 600gb so I can format it to mbr there goes the next several days.

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Strange. Are you using Windows 10. Did you click on the far left were it says which disk?

Spoiler warning:

https://i.imgur.com/g5jrKzK.png

There is red scribble on the part to click, then click properties, you should see a volumes tab.

I suggest you check compatibility after reformatting before loading the disk up with files.

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Originally Posted by Jackhammer

Strange. Are you using Windows 10. Did you click on the far left were it says which disk?

Spoiler warning:

https://i.imgur.com/g5jrKzK.png

There is red scribble on the part to click, then click properties, you should see a volumes tab.

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no I'm using 8.1 on my desktop.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

I suggest you check compatibility after reformatting before loading the disk up with files.

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that's the plan

<_<

so I spent all day moving files off one hdd to another and now I have my drive converted to mbr. I'll check it tomorrow with my media player(I'm currently using it and don't feel like shutting it off today)
so now I think I'll play a game :)

Yeah купитьстреРРїР »РµРЅРєСѓРІСР°Р±Р°СЂРѕРІС ЃРєРµ to you too :Yoshi:

:yawn:

Been so busy with work lately. Been unable to come pop in. :wacko:

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Originally Posted by Grouch

no I'm using 8.1 on my desktop.

that's the plan

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Windows 8.1?! I mean I guess its not terrible. You can probably upgrade to 10 for free. Its not as bad as it used to be. Would have been nice if MS just kept upgrading Windows 7, but of course they won't/wouldn't.

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Originally Posted by Ace Ventura

:yawn:

Been so busy with work lately. Been unable to come pop in. :wacko:

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:wav:

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Originally Posted by LeftyGuitar

Windows 8.1?! I mean I guess its not terrible. You can probably upgrade to 10 for free. Its not as bad as it used to be. Would have been nice if MS just kept upgrading Windows 7, but of course they won't/wouldn't.

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I thought 8.1 was alright when I tried it briefly. Better than "you're the QA tester and you'll like it" W10+.

after getting my external hdd partition set to mbr and setting it up I added a couple of empty folders to test it(and for organizing). I connected it to my media player with success :w00t:
now I'm currently transferring all my files back.

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Originally Posted by Ragnar

Yeah купитьстреРРїР »РµРЅРєСѓРІСР°Р±Р°СЂРѕРІС ЃРєРµ to you too :Yoshi:

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Lol

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Originally Posted by Grouch

no I'm using 8.1 on my desktop.

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I would have thought it'd still be the same method.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

after getting my external hdd partition set to mbr and setting it up I added a couple of empty folders to test it(and for organizing). I connected it to my media player with success :w00t:
now I'm currently transferring all my files back.

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Glad you managed to sort it.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

after getting my external hdd partition set to mbr and setting it up I added a couple of empty folders to test it(and for organizing). I connected it to my media player with success :w00t:
now I'm currently transferring all my files back.

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=^.^=

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

I thought 8.1 was alright when I tried it briefly. Better than "you're the QA tester and you'll like it" W10+.

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I used Windows 7 for years and only upgraded to 10 when I had to. I'm on Win11 now. If it has anything going for it, being able to run linux graphical apps is nice/fun through WSL. Its possible to get a linux desktop going, sorta, but with a lot of steps and workarounds involved.

Rage quit Callisto Protocol at the final boss fight >.>
I'll give another go some other day, just need a break from it now so I'm playing Witcher 3.