Yeah chargers are like £5 on Amazon though so no biggie.

I just don’t want one thats been used is my problem.

Mind you does game and cex stuff have a 12 month warranty or 3?

What colour etc?

Just remembered I'm supposed to be looking at prices for djornson, he'll have first refusal. I'm crap at selling stuff. Info is two pages back in the selling thread.

Packed up and ready to go, selling to Hodge as djornson passed it up and Minky wanted a new one, plus he kindly offered me a bit more than I was asking.  

No regrets parting with it, but much happysadness.  Was looking through my stats last night - 110hrs on Mario Golf, 140ish-hrs of Fire Embleming in total.  Was also my Steamworld Heist machine, which I loved, and my Shovel Knight console for the main quest and first two rounds of DLC.  Big shout for the under-appreciated Azure striker Gunvolt games too, I reckon they might be worth a look for some (@Eric).  BoxBoy is a gem of a series too.    

I've had my fun and I'm done with it, but what fun it was.  I got so little from the DS I might as well not have bothered, but I bought a 3DS on a whim a couple of years after launch (had a hankering for Lylatt Wars iirc) and it rekindled my interest in contemporary handheld gaming.  From there I went big on the Vita as my indie heaven/'portable XBLA' machine and the Switch is basically a Vita mk.II with Nintendo stuff on top.  Love them handhelds.

Apart from when I'm playing co-op the Switch is a handheld as far as I'm concerned, which puts it well ahead of the chasing pack (the closest being the GBA), with the Vita and 3DS holding hands for third.  Then it's such a big drop to 5th it's not even worth considering.

Vita has ridiculous amount of top quality games available on PSN.   Even its imminent death rattle is world class.

I think I want to elaborate on that post. 


1) 3ds - I rarely used the 3d but the range of games was excellent, the quality of the graphics on the machine was really top tier and the sound was also way better than any other nintendo handhelf. A real leap in quality. The build quality was strong and i loved the natural online nature of it. Everything from online mk7 to streetpass. I remember fondly going to hamleys on oxford street and streetpassing with all of the demo machines on a weekly basis. Sad but i've no regrets. 

2) DSLite - this iteration of the DS was so so polished. The form factor has never really been matched by anything else (even the GBA SP). The range and diversity of games on the DSL was also wider than the DS (for a long time at least). I carried it absolutely everywhere, local DS meetup's where we would sit in a pub and play local mulitplayer - good times.

3) GBA - i think this is mainly here because of Fire Emblem and Advance Wars, this system got me into both games in a big way. Secred Stone and Black Hole Rising? I'd never ever really be into anything turn based in gaming and it really honed in with my love of chess. 

4) I was late to the party with this but as someone who loves tetris as much as i do this is the grandaddy of them all. I have some really great memories playing boxxle and mario land in my early teens when I got given a broken gameboy (back was off) for a 5er in the playground. Used to eat batteries though. 

5) brilliant machine but mainly because the screen was so good and it looked so nice. Always my favourite form factor of the gba. Everyone always goes on about the clam shell but i like the snes pad layout and feel of the original and then the mirco more. If the original GBA had a proper screen (which you can mod now with ips screens etc) then it becomes the best version for me.

What's the top 5 3DS games for someone coming new to the system??

Fire Emblem: Awakening
Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Super Mario 3D Land
Pullblox
Pokemon

Picross 3D: Round 2 is also worth checking out, as is Luigi's Mansion 2, Kid Icarus Uprising and the Boxboy series.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Fire Emblem: Awakening Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Super Mario 3D Land Pullblox Pokemon Picross 3D: Round 2 is also worth checking out, as is Luigi's Mansion 2, Kid Icarus Uprising and the Boxboy series.

good list but also 

Animal Crossing (not as good as switch version but still great) 
Mario Maker
Zelda a link between worlds
Mariokart 7

It's the best Luigi's Mansion too, imo.

I would go -

Mario 3D Land
ALBW
Fire Emblem Awakening
Bravely Default
Picross 3D Round 2

regmcfly wrote:

I would go -

Mario 3D Land
ALBW
Fire Emblem Awakening
Bravely Default
Picross 3D Round 2

This guy gets it.

Would swap Mario (sorry, didn’t play it!) for Persona Q or an etrian odyssey, mainly because I can’t ever see those games transferring to any other system very well.

But really you just need DQ7, that’ll see you for a couple of hundred hours.

VII is an absolute beast and I adore it. I know 8 is the critical / public darling but, I dunno, something just feels a little off about it to me. But 7, 7 is just amazing and unfolds at such a lovely pace, even if it is very, very, very, very long.