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My multicart has arrived. The shell and scaler should arrive today with Evri.

BTW talking of enabling... Did you know the Summer Cart 64 can emulate the 64DD? and the one thing worth emulating for it? (the extra tracks for F Zero X :O )

Kind of annoyed I did not find that out before buying my ED.
 
OK not going to be able to work on the N64 til around the 24th. However I did notice that the shell I bought was not the same as my funtastic red console. The real ones have a clear bottom and cart slot. Sigh.

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Still I would rather have it right. I can then buy a second console maybe and do it in reverse lol.
 
OK N64 all good. I scored it so cheap that at £42 the expansion pak I just bought actually cost more ffs.

Hmm blah the upscaler is awesome. I'm using it on my 4k TN 28" panel i use as a TV and it's better than I thought it would be. I'm hoping my TV at home will do 4:3 as I prefer it boxed like that but yeah, super. I'll get some pics soon.

I've also fitted the 8bitdo stick. The original in the blue controller isn't the worst I've ever seen but yeah crap compared to the smoothness of the 8bitdo.

I also bought a summercart 64. Just as after all these years I'm desperate to see what the 64DD was like and don't want to spend 4k on one ffs.
 
OK N64 all good. I scored it so cheap that at £42 the expansion pak I just bought actually cost more ffs.

Hmm blah the upscaler is awesome. I'm using it on my 4k TN 28" panel i use as a TV and it's better than I thought it would be. I'm hoping my TV at home will do 4:3 as I prefer it boxed like that but yeah, super. I'll get some pics soon.

I've also fitted the 8bitdo stick. The original in the blue controller isn't the worst I've ever seen but yeah crap compared to the smoothness of the 8bitdo.

I also bought a summercart 64. Just as after all these years I'm desperate to see what the 64DD was like and don't want to spend 4k on one ffs.

I'm just starting the fire temple in OoT. Really pleased with the RetroScaler. I'm playing on a 49" 1080p screen, but it has actually made it playable. It's so bad without it. Don't get me wrong, still dated graphics and there issues with seeing things in the distance, but for a $35 purchase it was well worth it.

I put in the 8bitdo stick too and that's great as well. The one I have doesn't sit exactly center when you look at in the controller, but it hasn't affected gameplay at all and works fine. I was afraid that it would feel too different from the original stick, but that isn't the case at all.

Edit: 64DD! I had that as my desktop background for like a year before they cancelled bringing it to the US. I was so disappointed.
 
Yeah it sucked bad when they cancelled the DD.

I realised last night that there were a handful of games my Doctor could not run. It was limited to 32mb carts, and a few came out with more than that. So would you believe I never played Paper Mario before. Madness. And now I am hooked lol.
 
I got a very large glossy poster print out of this to put on my wall specifically to annoy my cousin for when he comes over, He has stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome even though like me he has never been to the US... at stage 5 he gets blue hair, a septum piercing and puts pro nouns in his bio, I expect a full soy grade melt down 😁

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The saxophone I'd wanted to try learning since younger but i played brass whole other story but an absolute bargain far more than you might realise.

So while the iphone is a good deal pales in comparison, intended to get the S25 but I'm after using this 16 pro max not so sure the reviews are being fully honest on the comparison.

Cause few days back i was testing siri been testing different AI things for a while now and siri with the apple intelligence is the smartest I've used so far.

I simply asked the salt content of marmite as i wanted a replacement when baking bread. Siri says im not certain can i enable chat gtp to ask them, so i say okay and about 1min later comes back with a full detailed reply.

Otherwise it's a great phone nothing bad to say about it at all thou did have to get a better camera app and while final cut pro is good i needed multi camera so went duogram and that does the job nicely.

The rest of the AI stuff doesn't bother me as i use adobe express subscription and that app will do most anything you want in photo and video with AI built in and a vast libary of resources certainly way faster editing on that than the S23 was.

Overall happy with both items and the key ones for a fair while rest of things ive been picking up over time was a basic laptop 12th gen and lots of lighting and items for room over winter.

Getting bike very ready just gotta put kit on it but it's fully ready had new tyres and added a camera mount, thou did actually get a helmet this time around which is a bit like a pilots helmet as has built in sun visors 🤣
 
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About 18 months ago I bought a small Dell laptop. About 60 quid IIRC with a RAM upgrade. The battery was dead from the beginning which was fine because I used it plugged in, mostly to run the CNC.

I ended up using it a lot more than I thought. Mostly to do mum's bills and shopping sat next to her as she can't get in my room any more. Got a message the other day telling me Windows was only going to be supported til September, and really just could not be arsed to hack it around. So I will leave it as CNC only.

I ended up buying this. Refurb, arrived like new in the original box. 107500K 16gb RAM 1tb NVME and a 2070 Max Q. Cost me 475 delivered.

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Seems the GPU is on par with the 4050. Well, somewhere between the 4050 and 4060 laptop. So I will take that, given a basic laptop with no GPU costs around the same or more and doesn't have a 144hz screen.
 
I used the same sort of dell laptop with ram upgrade as a retro and playstation remote play laptop was 110 with case as well,as a 1tb sata ssd but i went onto a 12th gen 15inch decent little integrated laptop with 256gb nvme purely due to streaming as doing that on the older dell was just too taxing on the older chip think it was even pre vega but for retro it was solid. The new 12th gen generally does well but had to get a hd60x capture card to do things correctly off playstation 5 but there got through to spring and soon pukka weather again 😀

Had to get this card as a fair few would’nt fit otherwise and happy as this was one of the lower price msrp models but nah pob didn’t get msrp had it in cart three times at overclockers could i pay nah couldn’t even get into the cart.

By the way my internet is a gig up and down hate to think how others got on but amazon were late by an hour and i gave up on the other sites but was ready on amazon waiting looking seeing when they went up at first xfx brands but it was actually this card i needed as, as much as the sapphire nitro plus i wanted it was too much of a big boy to fit correctly where as this is same size as replacing so im happy don’t matter what others think.

Cause yeah certainly been more than vocal at times especially me and alien however that hba card is still going strong and is actually the reason for me choosing this card due to size issues.

But tbh if you got one of the cards today you most definitely wont be disappointed i never have been on my 6800XT

But there i paid for this one alien ok 😂😂😂


We have lift off i hope it's here tomorrow 😻
 
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I bought some things.

My Tag Mclaren AV is currently 5.1. However, I have another pair of speakers and another Tag amp sat doing nothing. Been looking for the 7.1 upgrade for years. They are very rare as it was a £2k upgrade. Yesterday I not only found one....

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But also the £1k Bosch DAB upgrade.

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£175. Only other thing needed is this.

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Been doing some research and it will be a huge upgrade. Mostly as the 7.1 board is not just a 7.1 board. It also updates the unit to Prologic 2x.

So yeah, quite excited now !
 
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