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Unfortunately that game might just be defective. There isn't a whole lot (to my knowledge) that you can do about a 3DS card dying. I suppose inspect it closely for damage, but unfortunately it might just be bad.

Have you tried it on another system/firmware?

If you are talking about comparing binaries, software like Beyond Compare 4 can do that. I use it at work and quite like it. HxD can also do comparisons but it isn't as good.

I guess the city council of Farmington Hills is voting to demolish Marvin's 3M for a Mejier grocery store. To me this is a rediculous move for the city and we would be losing a wonderful place. I really wish I knew about the hearing, I would have went yesterday being that I work very close to Farmington Hills.

Detroit Free Press Article:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/11/16/marvins-mechanical-museum-farmington-hills-close-meijer/71602617007/

Farmington Hills City Council, I would consider writting them a civil letter asking them to reconsider:

https://www.fhgov.com/government-business/mayor-and-city-council

Change.org petition:

Https://www.change.org/p/save-marvin-s-marvelous-mechanical-museum

13 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

as the NES typically uses 6264 chips, not 5160 chips.

Sharp had their own part number system to begin with. Standard 6264 SRAM for Sharp is LH5160. LH5160 is a 6264 pin and function compatible. Another example of this is Toshiba TC5565 and Sharp LH5168. Same deal except these two are low power equivalents.

Ultimately it doesn't matter which SRAM chip it is. Even if it doesn't match. Hell, even if it was replaced it doesn't change anything because 6264 RAMs are higher failure rate.

My previous monitors I had for most of college. I gave them away when I got my first real job because work provided monitors. After leaving that job I bought some dell LED ones. Been using them for like a year and a half now.

4 hours ago, Kguillemette said:

#18 Sonata Arctica- San Sebastian

 Sonata Arctica set a tone for what power metal could be. Toni Kakko is a heavy synth driver as well as the owner of a vocal range I am very jealous of. I really enjoy the early works too where their lyrics contained lots of melodrama, which was very unique for power metal at the time. All in all, great band with extremely high highs, "San Sebastián" being tops.

Excellent choice. I don't really like the band a ton, but San Sebastian kicks ass.

@Reed Rothchild we need more people who like power metal in the world. Glad that I am not the only one here...

Last thursday was dragonforce, amaranthe, nanowar of steel, and edge of paradise at the Majestic Theater in detroit. Missed edge of paradise due to traffic. I didn't particularly enjoy nanowar of steel but I've seen so much worse. Amaranthe put on a really good show and I might just have to listen to more of their music. Dragonforce kicked all the ass. They played a few songs from their upcoming album. Super glad I got to go to this one.

Friday night I saw Metallica and Pantera at Ford Field. Missed mammoth and half of Pantera because I guess Detroit is just terrible for these kinds of things. Not the biggest fan or Pantera but Metallica put on a really good show.

Finally got around to printing my back door sheet. If I had to change one thing, I'd make the text less bold. But it turned out great.

Compared to a DK Jr sheet

I'm down. Skipped last year but I am ready to go for this year!

Updated my coin mod to be a cleaner mod. I made a tiny pcb (as small as oshpark will let me make).

Also made an updated version of the power supply breakout to utilize the RQ-125B instead of RT-125B. It eliminates the need to include an inefficient 7905 on the breakout. Making it this was also reduces the size of the board.

21 minutes ago, Kguillemette said:

#26 Elvenking- Seasonspeech

There are more than a few dedicated folk metal bands I do enjoy as well as folk inspired metal bands. Unleash the Archers comes to mind. Tyr as well. FInntroll and Eluveitie have already been featured. As far as dedicated ones, Elvenking takes the crown with their song "Seasonspeech". It's an great ballad with really nicely blended polyrhythmic vocals. Then all the usual metal tropes such as fierce guitar playing, great aggressive drumming, and all the other things that make heavy metal great are done well here. It's very ambitious for what they were trying to do and they nailed it!

Elvenking is a neat band. I think Pagan Revolution is my favorite song up to this point.

1 hour ago, Sumez said:

Sony has been doing it for a couple of console generations now, and gotten away with it just fine

Forgot about that. Wonderful.

Very anti-consumer. Although microsoft is a big fan of that kind of practice. I also think that maybe there would be a class action because of this.

Excellent choice with Symphony X. I listened to a lot of them in High School and have been listening to them more recently. Smoke and Mirrors is an excellent choice. My absolute favorites are all on Iconoclast, although that is one of my favorite albums of all time.

I got to see Symphony X live last year, it was a hell of a show. Although I don't think that "The Odyssey" is a great closer, especially when they are starting it at midnight and you gotta wake up for work at 5:30AM the next day.

On 10/26/2023 at 12:51 AM, DefaultGen said:

My top 10 would be similar to a lot of top 10s from people who like older games, so these are the top 10 games I'd pick to compete on from a tournament row.

1. Wheel of Fortune
2. Volley
3. Flash Gordon
4. Jungle Queen
5. Wizard of Oz
6. Creature From the Black Lagoon
7. Meteor
8. Wizard
9. Eight Ball Deluxe
10. Quicksilver

Flash Gordon, like WOF, will immediately weed out weak players and doesn't ever let you get comfortable with multiballs or ball saves. Three drop target banks, all of them matter. Pop bumpers right in the middle of the game to ensure if you flail randomly, you're just going to die. I can't look at this game without getting excited to play it.

Flash gordon, like a lot of games from that era and before that, are brutal. This was actually the first pinball machine I ever worked on actually. If memory serves it was because of sound issues.

Another really fun one from that era (in my opinion) is Flight 2000. Love it to death.

13 hours ago, Friendsfa35 said:

- young people under 30 collecting NES/SNES,
and talking about said games being classics,
as if they were even alive when those games were released.

So because I am under thirty I am not able to recognize a game as influential or important and have fun with it? Nowadays the "classics" have been available new a number of times on various platforms, so many of us have been able to experience them. For example with me I played the Mario Advance series growing up, which were just remakes of "classics" plus mario bros (my favorite arcade game because of that". 

Part of what makes some of these games truly classics is that they span generations I think. 

Couple weeks ago I picked up a Nintendo Helifire cocktail table. Finally got it working tonite.

Finally got the board working enough to test my mod. Super happy that it is working as it should.

1 hour ago, captmorgandrinker said:

Have any of you tried mixing candy corn with peanuts?   Amazing!

 

I think it's the sugar and salt combo because I feel like that would actually be pretty good. Kinda like putting salted peanuts in a bottle of coca cola. It's a weird combo that tastes surprisingly good. I'll have to try it.

15 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

For a second you scared me, almost had a heart attack. 

Coffee isn't for everyone either. I only started drinking it because it was free. 

Also, I finally have a way to describe candy corn: it is the la croix water of candy.

I used to have a street fighter pinball. Had to sell it so I could get more arcade cabs.

1 hour ago, fcgamer said:

Wait! I'm calling you out! You got an issue with coffee?!?

No I quite enjoy coffee.

Candy corn is one of those things that I've never understood. Not a fan. Dunno maybe it's like enjoying coffee or something.