I bought a 3DS XL sometimes last year. It was under $200.

After seeing the surge in demand, I feel lucky that I bought it when I did. I also decided to take it out and play some animal crossing new leaf for the first time and I’m really enjoying it.

I sometimes wonder if I should have bought the “new” variant back then, but they were much more expensive and I’m still not sure if the performance improvements would have been worth it.

I’m basically just using not for ds and 3ds games, so, I’m guessing the power difference would not really matter.

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    Holy fuck, how much money did you blow on all these devices to know all this stuff?

    Fuck, that much N addiction makes a crack cocaine habit seem healthy.

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      21 hours ago

      Dude, you asked for information and then you attack everyone who answers with knowledge you can find on wikipedia.

      What’s wrong with you? If you don’t want answers don’t ask questions.

      If you ask a question and someone answers it, the proper response is “Thank you for the detailed answer”, and not claiming that anyone who has knowledge you don’t must be a drug addict.

      Get a grip, man.

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        21 hours ago

        Maybe teach the toddlers to grip their handheld game consoles and not drop them in the toilet, or maybe even prevent them from taking them into the restroom in the first place, then techs like me won’t get upset.

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          21 hours ago

          I didn’t say anything about toilets. In fact, I have never seen anyone drop handheld consoles into toilets. Is that something you do?

          Please stop posting while drunk. Makes you look really dumb.

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            Bruh, my point is, it was freaking obvious that some toddler dropped the thing in the toilet, and the parents waited like 6 months while the thing rusted from the inside out before bringing it to a shop to attempt to fix it.

            It was already practically hopeless, but I was tasked with trying to fix it, by my boss at work. Hell, the kid’s parents even bought the new screen.

            Whether I’m drunk or not, point is I’m smart enough to not give toddlers electronics.

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              16 hours ago

              What do I care if you dropped a DS in a toilet?

              Stop posting while drunk. You are obviously not smart enough to make sense while drunk.

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                Did you even read my comment?

                Let’s start from the beginning…

                  1. Customer brings in a months long water damaged 2DS
                  1. Front desk checks it in for diagnostics and repair, $60 up front
                  1. Nasty rotten device comes to my repair bench to diagnose
                  1. Open it up, slap full of months of corrosion and literal rust
                  1. Inform front desk, they inform customer, grim odds
                  1. Customer insists, try to clean it up and fix it
                  1. Customer pays to order a new screen
                  1. Alright fuckit, they’re determined, so I clean the corrosion
                  1. Hurry up and wait while the screen is on order
                  1. Screen comes in, clean the board again for good measure
                  1. Install the screen, even test with a spare battery
                  1. No dice, it never had a chance in the first place

                And I literally told the front desk and even the company boss that it had no chance to begin with. Was no sweat off my back, hell I probably made $80 wasting my time on the piece of literal shit anyways.

                Now, where in the hell did you get the idea that I was the one that dropped it in the toilet?

                Point is, stop giving toddlers electronics!

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      22 hours ago

      Believe it or not, sometimes a person can interact with many other people to learn things. They can also use the internet to look up information.

      Money need not be spent for this knowledge.

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        No, but much time must be spent on this knowledge between all these various devices. It’s a waste of time.

        I collect games that I’ve never played. You expect me to arrange a means to play over 5000 games to see if they even work?

        Fuck, I’m an archiver, not a player.

        https://tinyurl.com/172games

        That’s only a fragment of what I have here, I ain’t got time to play every game I have…

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          I mean this in a genuine way - I actually don’t expect you to spend your free time on things you don’t have interest in. That would, indeed, be a waste of your time.

          Your archival of games is a great effort and a positive thing.

          Some folks enjoy gaming, game history, and cultural critique of generational hardware. Those interests/hobbies are also valid. That’s not a waste of their time.

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            LOL, I didn’t upload those games from my own system!

            Most of those games I never even downloaded in the first place, I just found a loophole in the systems out there at the time and tricked the archive to upload stuff from other servers…