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I called for a PS5 boycott on here and the mods to ban anyone who admitted to buying one. Didn't work. I called for a PS5 Pro boycott and not only did the mods still not ban anyone, in their responses

they started appending "- sent from my PS5 Pro" to the ends of their snide responses to my requests for solidarity.

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  • Those things are expensive and have expensive games but I did wish for a console in my childhood. I would buy a retro game handheld though. All the games I never got to play for around 60-100 dollars. Plus the prices we have to pay here is a lot more than what Americans and Europeans are used to paying and the pay is abysmal but I see people save up for years or buy with loans and installments.

    • I've still got a added original Xbox with full rom sets and emulators of everything up to and including n64 for Nintendo and also a Genesis emulated. Still use it from time to time.

      • Thats neat! I would too if I had one. I guess they might be still available on the used market if I looked for one but I like the idea of using handhelds on the bed. I have only played a few console games on emulators so there is so much I could play when I get one. Alternatively I could also buy a sipeed tang fpga and get two hobbies at the price of one.

        • They were pumped out into the use market en mass. This is the 3rd that I've had since around 2010 and with the same menu systems and stuff installed. All the emulators have neat little custom game select menues. Mario pulls a lever as you scroll for the snes one

          • That sounds so cool. I remember hearing so much about homebrew stuff back then.

            • Og Xboxes just had like...a normal PC hard drive built in. So they are super super super easy to homebrew. Even when they were newish most kids I knew who had it had it cause their older brother got it and then never paid for a single game. For ps2 you had to have a dvd burner and a gameshark

              • I thought you had to screw around to flash it with a JTAG connector or something but that makes it convenient. I didn't know about gameshark either tbh. They used to sell pirated video game cd/dvds for pennies on the street here since the late 90s but I assumed they were all for PC. Magazines always gave free cds which was nice. I didn't know any kids with playstation or xbox personally but nes era stuff is something I did see. The old psp was kind of common as well when it came out.

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