not that I'm saying the 3DS's battery is bad, but sometimes we look at things with recency. Back in the day you could get 12-14 hours on the DSLite, more if you lowered the brigtness down to almost unplayable levels. we can only dream of that.
I don't consider the 3DS's battery to be super great. It's acceptable and we're used to it, but if i leave it on standby in my bag for a couple of days if I go to grab it to play it's pretty close to dead, which I don't love.
Think you meant to say Tegra X2 since the Tegra 2 chip is really old at this point.
Edit: To be on topic, has anybody bought a refurbed N3DS from Nintendo before? I was considering one but was wondering of there was any reason to just wait for a sale on a brand new one instead.
I bought a refurbished og 3ds from Nintendo's website. It arrived in a timely fashion and it was basically brand new except that it wasn't.
Think you meant to say Tegra X2 since the Tegra 2 chip is really old at this point.
Edit: To be on topic, has anybody bought a refurbed N3DS from Nintendo before? I was considering one but was wondering of there was any reason to just wait for a sale on a brand new one instead.
I bought a refurbished og 3ds from Nintendo's website. It arrived in a timely fashion and it was basically brand new except that it wasn't.
Great, thanks for the input. I saw they also sell them on eBay so might go that route if I have another coupon for it.
Yeah Nintendo's refurbishes tend to be so close to brand new condition that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I don't know as much about 3DS but lots of people bought refurbished Wii Us and were claiming they were even actually new, as a way to liquidate stock or something. My sister got a refurb Wii U and it was pretty much new condition.
not that I'm saying the 3DS's battery is bad, but sometimes we look at things with recency. Back in the day you could get 12-14 hours on the DSLite, more if you lowered the brigtness down to almost unplayable levels. we can only dream of that.
I don't consider the 3DS's battery to be super great. It's acceptable and we're used to it, but if i leave it on standby in my bag for a couple of days if I go to grab it to play it's pretty close to dead, which I don't love.
The DS lite was even crazier than that, it topped out at about 19 hours if you kept the light low. I have fond memories of starting a game of Tetris, closing the system, forgetting I had a game running in my purse, and then finishing it a few days after.
If you turn off WiFi when you're not using it, you get a lot more battery life.
I always forget about this because, as I said, I don't use my 3DS in a way that results in me having battery life problems. But its true, disabling WiFi probably doubles, if not triples the battery life.
I don't think we're ever going to get those days back of devices lasting 30+ hours on a single charge. Simply on the grounds that devices are getting more and more powerful, which means bigger battery drain. Meanwhile battery tech hasn't really kept up. So far the next big leap seems to be faster charging, not longer charges.
I mean we can make batteries that last that long. But you're paying out the nose for them.
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I may have unintentionally over exaggerated the number. The meaning seemed clear enough though, devices that lasted a really long time vs today's that only last 2 and a half hours.
If you want to nitpick the actual number down to the minutes and seconds, go nuts buddy.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
If you turn off WiFi when you're not using it, you get a lot more battery life.
I always forget about this because, as I said, I don't use my 3DS in a way that results in me having battery life problems. But its true, disabling WiFi probably doubles, if not triples the battery life.
She identifies herself as Layton's daughter. Fat lady was wondering who she was when she requested Layton to come.
I wonder if her brother will make an appearance. I never played his game so I don't really know anything about him.
I've seen a little of the Mystery Brothers game, but I've seen enough to know that Professor Layton's son, uh, has problems:
Alfendi Layton doesn't talk about his dad very much, and doesn't seem particularly happy with him. His mother isn't mentioned at all. Also Alfendi may or may not have shot someone and seems to have a split personality? One of those personalities is a dick.
And Hershel doesn't have a great track record with the rest of his family, either.
(All-over franchise spoilers, especially for the second trilogy)
Like his birth parents are kidnapped by an evil organization (Targent) and his Dad decides the best way to deal is to be in charge of Targent and become one of the two major villains in the last game. Meanwhile Hershel and his older brother (!) both get adopted by different families, and then the older brother eventually has a wife and a kid and they get killed by Targent so he decides to become Jean Descole, the mask wearing asshole who is the other franchise villian. Meanwhile Hershel's best friend seems to die but instead he just has amnesia for 18 years and is the unwitting antagonist in Miracle Mask. Then Hershel goes to college and his girlfriend dies in a complicated time travel incident. (She does not turn evil.)
Professor Layton then takes on a ten year old apprentice and he is either kidnapped or almost killed, like, two or three times a game. Because this is not enough child endangerment, he goes on to adopt (?) Flora, who has a similar kidnapping/peril record.
So honestly I hope that Lady Layton isn't actually his daughter and is just using the name to get better business.
Yeah, as I was clearly just defending the 3DS' battery life as being not that big of a deal, I am also not shy about admitting that the GBA SP's and DS/DSlite's batteries last longer. The 3DS is also doing a lot more than the GBA and DS ever did: it has a background OS that is always doing some low-level processing, is working with a much bigger and more power-hungry screen, and is running much beefier hardware.
Quick google suggests that GBA SP lasted 7-10 hours, DS lite lasted 17-19(dim) or 5-8 (bright), and 3DS is 3.5-5 (3DS mode?). Obviously circumstances change in all of these depending on how you play, say, if your DS lite is continually in Wireless mode, or if you turn the 3DS Wireless mode OFF, so they're not perfect comparisons, but you can see differences. The jump from GBA SP to DSlite makes sense: the DSlite is much bigger, has room for a bigger battery. It also lists 3DS in DS mode as being 5-9 hours, and we all know battery tech doesn't advance as quickly as other stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if the 3DS battery was just a slightly beefier DSlite battery, and the DSlite battery was just a bigger GBA SP battery.
3DS has some good GG games available in Virtual Console. Shining Force feels like a portable version of the console games at the time, it's awesome. I don't even have any Game Gear nostalgia, it's Shining Force!
I had numerous chances to buya Nomad , but was pumping money into the PS and GB at the time. Plus the thought of having to buy Genesis games put it out of my mind.
Now the Lynx was a handheld that nobody remembers.
Speaking of memories, does anybody remember modding their GBA to have backlight? Man it makes me marvel at playing the 3DS these days.
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I was 13 when the GBA came out so thank goodness I was too young and too broke to install a backlight. Also I was in Canada so there was now way I was going to mail my precious GBA to the USA to make someone else do it. At that age I vaguely assumed that any electronic devices I mailed to another country would be pilfered by gremlins, or something. Anyway the GBA SP came out like 2 years later so it was fine.
She identifies herself as Layton's daughter. Fat lady was wondering who she was when she requested Layton to come.
I wonder if her brother will make an appearance. I never played his game so I don't really know anything about him.
I've seen a little of the Mystery Brothers game, but I've seen enough to know that Professor Layton's son, uh, has problems:
Alfendi Layton doesn't talk about his dad very much, and doesn't seem particularly happy with him. His mother isn't mentioned at all. Also Alfendi may or may not have shot someone and seems to have a split personality? One of those personalities is a dick.
And Hershel doesn't have a great track record with the rest of his family, either.
(All-over franchise spoilers, especially for the second trilogy)
Like his birth parents are kidnapped by an evil organization (Targent) and his Dad decides the best way to deal is to be in charge of Targent and become one of the two major villains in the last game. Meanwhile Hershel and his older brother (!) both get adopted by different families, and then the older brother eventually has a wife and a kid and they get killed by Targent so he decides to become Jean Descole, the mask wearing asshole who is the other franchise villian. Meanwhile Hershel's best friend seems to die but instead he just has amnesia for 18 years and is the unwitting antagonist in Miracle Mask. Then Hershel goes to college and his girlfriend dies in a complicated time travel incident. (She does not turn evil.)
Professor Layton then takes on a ten year old apprentice and he is either kidnapped or almost killed, like, two or three times a game. Because this is not enough child endangerment, he goes on to adopt (?) Flora, who has a similar kidnapping/peril record.
So honestly I hope that Lady Layton isn't actually his daughter and is just using the name to get better business.
The Layton links are pretty tenuous and tacked on, and it's not surprising as it started life as a stand alone new ip and had the Layton name added mid development.
Gameplay-wise it's more Phoenix Wright than it is Layton. And whilst final culprits are revealed there is pretty much zero motivation given so they were likely trying to set up a series that didn't happen. That said if you enjoy the genre it's well worth playing IMO.
Speaking of memories, does anybody remember modding their GBA to have backlight? Man it makes me marvel at playing the 3DS these days.
This has actually become really difficult in recent years. For ages there was a plentiful supply of the parts needed to do it, but they just dried up seemingly overnight.
My co-worker found his old SP in his house last year. He brought it in to play some yugi-oh game in our downtime, and played it a few times before leaving it in his desk drawer. It's still in there over a year later, and every once in a while we pull it out and see if it switches on... and it does. The red light comes on, but it's still kickin'! Just last week he pulled it out and played for a good 20 minutes.
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I don't consider the 3DS's battery to be super great. It's acceptable and we're used to it, but if i leave it on standby in my bag for a couple of days if I go to grab it to play it's pretty close to dead, which I don't love.
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I bought a refurbished og 3ds from Nintendo's website. It arrived in a timely fashion and it was basically brand new except that it wasn't.
Great, thanks for the input. I saw they also sell them on eBay so might go that route if I have another coupon for it.
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The DS lite was even crazier than that, it topped out at about 19 hours if you kept the light low. I have fond memories of starting a game of Tetris, closing the system, forgetting I had a game running in my purse, and then finishing it a few days after.
I wonder if her brother will make an appearance. I never played his game so I don't really know anything about him.
I always forget about this because, as I said, I don't use my 3DS in a way that results in me having battery life problems. But its true, disabling WiFi probably doubles, if not triples the battery life.
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I mean we can make batteries that last that long. But you're paying out the nose for them.
Are you sure you didn't make those days up
If you want to nitpick the actual number down to the minutes and seconds, go nuts buddy.
My experience tells me it's more like 1.5x.
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5-6 hours max for those, probably?
I've seen a little of the Mystery Brothers game, but I've seen enough to know that Professor Layton's son, uh, has problems:
And Hershel doesn't have a great track record with the rest of his family, either.
(All-over franchise spoilers, especially for the second trilogy)
Professor Layton then takes on a ten year old apprentice and he is either kidnapped or almost killed, like, two or three times a game. Because this is not enough child endangerment, he goes on to adopt (?) Flora, who has a similar kidnapping/peril record.
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Quick google suggests that GBA SP lasted 7-10 hours, DS lite lasted 17-19(dim) or 5-8 (bright), and 3DS is 3.5-5 (3DS mode?). Obviously circumstances change in all of these depending on how you play, say, if your DS lite is continually in Wireless mode, or if you turn the 3DS Wireless mode OFF, so they're not perfect comparisons, but you can see differences. The jump from GBA SP to DSlite makes sense: the DSlite is much bigger, has room for a bigger battery. It also lists 3DS in DS mode as being 5-9 hours, and we all know battery tech doesn't advance as quickly as other stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if the 3DS battery was just a slightly beefier DSlite battery, and the DSlite battery was just a bigger GBA SP battery.
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I only had two games for it. Taz-Mania and that one Sonic game with no ending, just sonic jumping around in a Chaos Emerald. It was rather unsettling.
I do
I still have all the Shining force games that came out for it
It ate batteries the nomad went full duck on them
I still have mine. Loved playing the Xmen game for it.
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Was only released in the USA and was literally just a portable Genesis/Mega Drive.
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Now the Lynx was a handheld that nobody remembers.
Speaking of memories, does anybody remember modding their GBA to have backlight? Man it makes me marvel at playing the 3DS these days.
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The Layton links are pretty tenuous and tacked on, and it's not surprising as it started life as a stand alone new ip and had the Layton name added mid development.
Gameplay-wise it's more Phoenix Wright than it is Layton. And whilst final culprits are revealed there is pretty much zero motivation given so they were likely trying to set up a series that didn't happen. That said if you enjoy the genre it's well worth playing IMO.
This has actually become really difficult in recent years. For ages there was a plentiful supply of the parts needed to do it, but they just dried up seemingly overnight.
My co-worker found his old SP in his house last year. He brought it in to play some yugi-oh game in our downtime, and played it a few times before leaving it in his desk drawer. It's still in there over a year later, and every once in a while we pull it out and see if it switches on... and it does. The red light comes on, but it's still kickin'! Just last week he pulled it out and played for a good 20 minutes.
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It was certainly a very physically impressive bit of hardware for the time, especially as compared to the vanilla GBA.
Actually pocket sized.
Clamshell to protect screen.
Backlit.
Integral battery that didn't quit.
I was more than a bit in love with mine.