Some advice for a higher quality of life; pull out your DS and just game on that for a while sometime. Not 3DS backwards compatibility, but your honest to goodness plain jane Nintendo DS

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The 3DS resolution makes DS games look like hot garbo, but pull that shit up on the original hardware and buddy it'll cure what ails the soul
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I never really noticed.

...Now I need to pull out my different ones and look...
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I need that R4 with 200 games on the cart
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plus: rumble pak!

Picross DS puts it to great use!
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I want DSi XL for this specific reason but they’re annoyingly expensive
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I haven't checked the going rate lately, but I grabbed one last year for about $60 which wasn't too bad. It's a nice piece of hardware
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It's still in perfect working order so I just take my GBA SP with me most places I go, because of the Puzzle League games I have for it, and whatever else I feel like using it for.
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I play my original NES still...when I can get it to work.
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What if I don't have a DS? :(
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Then disregard, I suppose
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3DS but I just started a new Chrono Trigger playthrough this weekend.
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I'm a bad gamer I still need to play it, but I did just grab it for my steam deck since it seems like the PC version is fixed now
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After having read all of Dragon Ball through Super in the last year, I really got the itch to play some Toriyama character design games.
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I highly recommend Dragon Ball Origins 1 & 2 on DS. Very cute, DS-Zelda-likes that go through almost all of the original Dragon Ball story. First game even has a lost woods section in a dessert.
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Time for some Meteos
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Would if I could. I had 3 but they all snapped in half.
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Why not go four for four
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Don’t tempt me! Honestly if someone does custom cases that fix the hinge issue I’d be interested.
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I sold my DS 😭😭😭 (I regret it really hard)
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Anyone know a good quality replacement battery for the DS Lite? I really don’t want to risk the hardware trying some $3 aliexpress special.
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if you've got a local store, hit em up, they're likely selling a reliable alternative. you're not gonna find OEM in 2025, but you can largely trust many of the third party ones retro stores are keeping on hand these days
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