Happy Mar10 Day! Do you prefer the look of composite video from the NES on my Trinitron or through the RetroTINK 4K?

I’ll never forget the morning after. Two years ago this past weekend, Hurricane Helene didn’t just hit Western North Carolina. It tried to wipe it off the map. Record rain. Mountainsides coming down. Rivers that ate whole towns. Chimney Rock. Swannanoa. Marshall. Little hollers most of the country had never heard of. Damage across a footprint the size of Massachusetts. Homes gone. Roads gone. Water gone. Cell gone. Power gone. People cut off for days. It was apocalyptic. And for too long, it felt like we were abandoned. Minimal national coverage. Help that came late. A whole region in the dark while the rest of the country moved on. But mountain people don’t wait to be rescued. Neighbors became search teams. Churches became warehouses. Strangers drove all night with water, generators, and chainsaws. Volunteers hiked supplies up washed-out trails. Farmers, veterans, first responders, church ladies, teenagers stacking sandbags, they showed up when the cameras didn’t. To every soul who came when it counted. Thank you. Western North Carolina is still rebuilding. The scars are still there. So is the grit. We remember those we lost. We honor the ones still putting their lives back together. And we will not forget what it felt like when the mountains were left to save themselves. HurricaneHelene WNC WNCStrong

Which tiny NES would you rather play?

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I asked Grok to identify the “Crown Jewels” of my gaming collection. Here’s what I got. 1. Analogue NT Mini Noir 2. Pokémon Crystal CIB 3. EarthBound 4. Chrono Trigger 5. The NES wall as a whole — Bucky O’Hare, Mega Man 5, Kick Master, Metal Storm, and the complete mainline set sitting together 6. Conker’s Bad Fur Day 7. Virtual Boy system plus the ten games 8. Metroid Prime Trilogy CE (new) 9. Pokémon FireRed CIB 10. WarioWare: Twisted! CIB The honest version: the crown jewel is not one cart. It is a deep licensed NES collection with a serious SNES RPG shelf, a Rare/N64 core, and boxed Pokémon/Analogue pieces sitting on top of it. The expensive outliers are Crystal, EarthBound, the Analogue units, and FireRed. The thing that would be hardest to rebuild from scratch is the NES lot.

Dang! My GBA Consolizer crashed while playing the original cartridge. Apparently, it’s not just a problem with my EverDrive… The only other thing I can think of is upgrading the firmware on the GBA Consolizer, which requires buying new hardware (an SPI or JTAG programmer).

Since the save file on my EverDrive GB X7 got deleted, I’ve decided to unbox this beauty and play Pokemon Crystal using the original cartridge.

I had Grok create a word cloud based on my X posts this year. It appears that I post about the old video games and the Lord a lot.

I started a Pokémon Crystal game on my EverDrive GB X7 with my Analogue Pocket and put about 13 hours into it. Last night I tried playing on the TV with my GBA Consolizer. The system kept freezing or crashing after 5–10 minutes. Original carts run fine.

The 10 games that solidified my love for gaming as a kid.

I grew up with the grey model. How about you?

Mail call! Let’s check out the Wild Gunman manual!

This VCR? We spared no expense.

When this email came in, I knew it was my time to shine. I’ve been hoarding campus CRT TVs in my lab and office instead of letting them go to the dump. Here’s the one he’s going to borrow.

Here are nine films that I never get tired of watching.

Mike dropped another game changer feature for the Retrotink 4k/6x! N64 Auto Deblur and improved sampling detection We can have just one N64 & Saturn analog profile that auto switches between all console supported resolutions at the sharpest output!Next profiles update soon!👀

These are some of the most interesting unofficial NES carts in my collection. Can anybody tell me which country these are from?

I’ll jump on the 9 games bandwagon. Here are nine games that I’ve found to have great replay value.

$800 for an obituary in the local newspaper is insane. For a second, I wondered if hyperinflation happened today.