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Yes!!! Glad it came in safely! Lemme know how the coffee tastes, I do wanna try some myself hehehe

(Here's one of the gifts being played in the plane towards Czech Republic hehehe)

Was Santa sadikyo? Either way, lemme start by posting my gift, courtesy of @Splain It was nicely wrapped and I'm super happy for some handheld games that are pretty much impossible to get in Japan. Many thanks, and I'm enjoying the presents as I took my Game Gear with me to Europe when I went to see family for Christmas. Merry Christmas to all, and I hope my own package arrived safely

My package just went out! Hope it makes it safely. Excited to see what I get too

YES!!! Remembered to properly sign up this year (Unlike last one). DM sent, and looking forward to gift-giving

PM sent

Hmph, a few things I need/want but no ¥/$ GLWS!

I promised someone else I'd let them look at them first, but I can certainly show you as well if the end up passing

As a sanity check, just to be 120% sure that is indeed a broken trace (It most certainly is), when you locate the point where that trace goes, try probing it from the pin side with your metre. If it does not beep - congratulations, you've got a winner

Yup, that looks like a broken trace to me. Use a multimetre to probe the part on the board side and try and locate where that goes. Then a solder bodge wire from that point to the pin by scraping off some of the solder mask, soldering it to the now exposed copper and you're good to go! (EDIT: Furthermore, it looks to be on the CHR side, and seeing as it messes with the graphics that's an extra clue that it might be it!)

Since I'm here, might as well post my sweet Mercari find of a week or so ago. I happened to be at the right place at the right time - this ad selling this lot just got posted a minute ago. I did wonder if I should for a few seconds but I ended up pulling the trigger (And I should have done it earlier). Obviously the GT was in dire need of a recap... But it was a successful one. The corner where the lanyard is also got a bit smashed up so I has to superglue the plastic back in place. I'm thinking about epoxying it down the line, but it'll have to do for now - solid enough. As for the Famicom stuff, I did have most of these, but there's a few I didn't have, which is always nice But enough talk, here's the haul!

Ever since moving to Japan my main goal for now is a complete HuCard set for the PC Engine. I think I have like 18 to go now. I'm still looking for NES stuff on and off though, I've been wanting a complete set since forever and I'm down to 19 carts, most being PAL exclusive/variants and unlicensed I'll still be doing the CD set for the PC Engine probably after I'm done with the cards, but after that I really don't know . Maybe get into the X68000? After playing Bubblegum Crash on the PC Engine I do want to get into playing some more Japanese text adventures (No not just *those* ones... More like Snatcher or Onryo Senki)

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Late as in Late NES

Played one more game before going to bed. This time I got to Stage 60. Next time I got this!