I was going to buy one when these were new but the whole IPS/TN screens made me not do it.
Impressive because the DS is superior in every way. Is it just Pokefags?
>>729456827You know what else is spiking too ?
>>729456827not too surprising, everyone gets nostalgic eventually
The nice thing about the 3DS is that you can just buy the original 3DS for like $50 and still play literally the entire library except for a wii and a minecraft port. Getting a new 3DS for $300 is a meme.
>>729456827Arent you supposed to buy Japanese, then hack it?
>>7294569873DS plays all DS games plus all 3DS games. It's a straight upgrade with no downsides in the eyes of normal people.
>>729456987DS has a superior library as a whole but it's first party offerings are pitiful compared to the 3DSI also doubt it's Pokemon because the DS Pokemon games are the most popular & expensive by far, though I wouldn't be surprised if the 3DS games spike in price soon too
>>729457002It's only the New 3ds that costs that much, probably because Nintendo produced fewer of them. The original 3ds is way cheaper. It can't play Xenoblade, but that's it.
>>729456827Why? 3DS batteries are starting to fail. Buy one of those DS clone chinkhelds instead
>>729457264so if the new model is barely worth the upgrade, why is it so much more pricey?
>>729456827Despite the potential, the 3DS was honestly bad. I really wanted to like it but in retrospect it was just a wasted opportunity.Resolution was laughably low, no proper 2nd stick for no reason whatsoever, poor performance, underwhelming library compared to previous Nintendo handhelds.
>>729457415Just people wanting the "best" version of something.New 3DS also runs some games better, has eye-tracking to adjust the 3D effect angle and can run heavier homebrew thanks to the improved hardware. New 3DS can emulate PS1, while the regular one tops out at SNES. New 3DS can also video stream your gameplay over WiFi.
>>729456827I know this thread probably isn't the place to ask but is it possible to get a natural GBA cart you can insert roms into like an R4 card or is inserting files onto your 3DS still the best way?
With the plates mines probably worth like $600 now. Pretty stupid.
>>729458558oh yeah, and it has a second analog built in so you don't have to get the "circle pad pro", although it's shrunk to a tiny little nub.
>>729456827i don't understand this at all the batteries are all dying
Wut? I have two of these. Maybe i can soon afford some RAM
>>729456827Because people are realizing that there’s zero chance of them rereleasing tons of first party games that still get referenced in newer material to this dayAll the fire emblems, kid icarus, the pokemons, kirbys, etc Not to mention third party stuff from Atlus and such It’s clear companies have abandoned the notion of rereleasing these games, with the starforce collection probably being the last time you’ll ever see an official DS/3DS rerelease And with emulation only really going so far (touch screen and gyro emulation isn’t the same), the DS/3DS library is largely lost media without an official console or chink console with those features
>>729456827My original 3DS XL's batteries fucking died
>>729459340buy a new one retard
>>729459436I haven't used my 3DS in years
>>729459516you still need to remove the battery itself unless you want a nice explosion and/or house fire in a few years
>>729457415Scarcity. Nintendo produced far fewer because there was considerably less demand. Used/collectible prices aren't based on quality, they're based on quantity.
>>729456827I don't get why they haven't just reissued an old system or made their own chinkslop backwards compatibility machine.Nostalgia is stronger than ever and these consoles aren't fading from the collective consciousness so why not?
>>729459617There's retards that actually believe this
>>729457415It's more worth it for the homebrew which everyone uses.If you're just pirating nintendo games, it's not worth as much.
>>729457415
>>729456827I just miss Yo-Kai Watch
>>729457397I have an early firmware, hacked, nearly unused 2DS. I can't use it because the hands/thumbs start bleeding after a few hours using those nubs and mushy buttons. I should smash it with a hammer into a million pieces.
>>729459791they don't want old hardware to maintain relevancy because it distracts from newer releases.Nintendo would firebomb your basement of N64 and GC games to ensure you subscribe to Switch Online Expansion Pass
>>729459339truke, the 3DS was powerful enough to house important titles, and they were usually more experimental and interesting because handheld gaming just lends itself to that kind of thing.
>>729459791Because basically everything Nintendo has is ports of decade old shit from the Wii U/3DS and it would be self cannibalization to still sell/support the hardware.And that's not even getting into the giant amount of child predation that's happening on hand me down systems with shit like Pretendo that Nintendo already has problems with on the Switch/2
>>729457124>3DS plays all DS gamesNot well
>>729458953is that an official plate or a custom?
>>729457124But can it play all Advance games? That's what I thought.
>>729461259Hacked ones can?
>>729461259I mean, yeah, all 3DSs can, it still has the functionality for it.You just need homebrew for stuff that wasn't in the ambassador program, including stuff to emulate the Guitar hero keys or the pong Dial.>I still use a DS/lite and didn't rip my GBA gamesNice try retard.
>>729461849>Homebrew>Rip your gamesCan it play the GBA games physical cartridges? That's what I though retard.If I wanted to emulate my GBA games I already have a phone, PC and a Chinese emulator console.
>>729459968I don't think the games are bad, but I still kinda laugh when people say that this was going to be the new Pokemon. That's pie in the sky thinking.
>>729462019obviously, it was not going to take down Pokemon even if it did explode in popularity in Japan.I don't get how Level 5 managed to piss away all that money to the point where they can't even afford to localize their games in English anymore.
>>729456827Too bad my 3DS has a cracked top screen.
Just buy a Pocket DS or an Ayn Thor. Emulation is pretty much fine nowadays.
>>729461997>Ok so it can play all the gba games but can it specifically play cartridges????Nobody makes new gba cartridges and if you're using a og/lite DS you could have and should have dumped them years ago.If you actually play games it genuinely doesn't matter what the storage medium for the software is, and carrying around a bunch of GBA cartridges sucks penis.
>>729457397>>729459280>>729459340My A button got stuck and I gave up trying to play let alone charge it since 2+ years ago.
investors ruining yet another hobby
mine is picrel I'm playing Kirby Triple Deluxe :)
>>729462386surely you could get that fixed for a ten bucks
>>729456827On the subject of the n3ds, how the fuck do you mod it? By mod it I mean the colour btw. I have an n2ds in this colour but the rest of my consoles are white with black buttons. The turquoise is garish as fuck and I want to fix that.
>>729462340>Nobody makes new gba cartridgesbros...
>>729462340Like I don't KNOW if anyone here who actually plays games needs to be told this, but you can fit the ENTIRE gameboy library (GB/GBC/GBA) on a 32gb sd card and you can pick on of those up for like $15 these days.
>>729462340By that logic if your goal is to just emulate your games there's no point to own any DS, a PC or one of those 3rd party emulators can do the whole job.The thing is this thread is about the physical hardware.
>>729462669Isn't that non-functioning and effectively useless
>>729462286>Ayn Thor>1080 screen>120hzwhat do i need this for for a 3ds?
>>729462626Throw bleach at, it should work on the colors.
>>729462708>there's no point to own any DS, a PC or one of those 3rd party emulators can do the whole job.Chink handhelds suck, and as much as I like mine, my Steam Deck isn't going to fit into my pants.Maybe we could make the argument that a PSP would be better for playing Gameboy games.But that's neither here nor there since we're talking about having a new/3DS vs a DS and not inflating this conversation beyond it's scope because you're mad that you're pretty definitively stupid.
>>729456827>>729457002>not too surprisingMan, you zoomers really missed out.Old consoles and games (unless really rare) weren't that expensive. I got Pokemon Red with manual and box for 20€ with shipping.Retro gaming is so bad that Japan even bans gaijins from their stores because they have normal prices or at least used to. Or they give the gaijin tax
>>729462750it works but there was a big stink about limited run using shitty parts with an overly high voltage that could fry your system. Though like most internet dramas it's possible the issue was overblown.
>>729462889The fact that it works is what surprises me to be honest.
>>729462880secondhand gaming wasn't rly expensive until the pandemic, for whatever reason it fried everyones brains and now everything old is an investment opportunity to get rich quick, happened with tons of collectibles too.Even more strange is how this sudden blowup rly only affected the U.S. Most foreign markets still have reasonable prices for old games and systems. Do we just have more collectors here?
>>729457243not only that but there far more copies of x and onward compared to the actual good games from gens 1-5
>>729463063Again, you can't compare it to Japan because once they realized that foreigners would just buy up games to resell them with a %1000 markup, they started to change policies (allegedly, that's something somebody once told me). That was pre-pandemicThe trend was definitely there before the pandemic, it just blew up around that time.
>>729462851Chink handhelds suck, and as much as I like mine, my Steam Deck isn't going to fit into my pants.Implying you go out for walks, lol lmao even.
>>729463630Me being fat or not is also completely unrelated to you being completely wrong about a DS being "superior" to a 3ds.
>>729460339using twilight menuif you use a flashcart the games run as well as on a regular DSyou can't play GH on tour tho
>>729456918I bought one before reading about that and ended up with double TN.
>>729458953will never understood how fucking stingy Nintendo was with plates. barely made any and most were Japan only
>>729464389I sort of wonder if it's similar to the PSVita situation where the american branch just didn't give a shit.Of course it was way worse for the vita because the thing that wasn't available/overpriced was the fucking storage.
Purchase an emulator if you want physical
>>729464389The regular N3DS wasn't released in the west until some time after the XL. Few bought it and even fewer bought plates, I doubt they were that popular in japan either
>>729465169I remember preordering the pokemon 20th anniversary one and being unsure if I wanted it. I was walking to the GameStop to cancel it on release when I saw a crowd of rabid people asking for it and if they had any extras. I decided to keep it and I'm glad, this bitch goes for a ton of money now
I found my old original launch model 3ds with Stella glow and Bravely Default installed on it. It’s gaming time
>>729456827AI has gone too far
>>729462880Hey retard, we were literally the demographic that this era of consoles targeted. We remember the games being $30-$40, and even the price drop of the original 3ds when it wasn’t selling well. You’re not special because “muh pixelated gen 1 slop” was cheap as shitEmulation is also a thing now and has been for a while, but I wouldn’t expect Unc to figure all that complicated stuff out
>>729462707Nobody cares about immaterial emulator slop
>>729456827It's been crazy watching this over the last few years. Nintendo was practically giving them away when I bought mine five years ago. Got mine for $119.
>>729457000My pingas
>>729464389I bought my plates from Japan. Wasn't hard to get them at the time. I paid like $20 shipped for those Pokemon plates.
>>729465995People that actually play games do.
>>729459739no they're based on whether or not theres interest for said product
>still got my modded one working as a charmThe ultimate emulation device, chinkhelds would never
I have the MH version.
>>729456827My tablet has 3M of Antutu points and emulate 3DS and PC Vita, and have cheats, savestates, etc
>>729459185Reminder to replace the nub with either a thinkpad nipple or a PSP-1000 joystick capIt sucks ass
>>729456827I got 6 New 3DS XLs from Target in like 2019 for around 75 bucks a pop and so did my sisters and their husbands. Been holding onto 4 of them until now. It is time to offload them.
>>729456827I have the Majora's Mask New 3DSXL. Wonder what that's worth in good condition. Not going to sell it but I'm still confused how I managed to snag one. I think the Best Buy website was having all sorts of fuck-ups that day...
>>729462340Uhh, Shantae?
>>729461259yes retard lmao
>>729462889That was NES (or was it SNES?) games, the GBA ones aren't an issueThe stink here was from the fact that some cartridges seem to use recycled FRAM / FPGAs and that the header is non-standard
>>729462626This thing? You don't. the 2DS XL is cheap shit and is not designed to be disassembled.
Still have my launch window 3DS, homebrewed it like 3 years ago and play it regularly now.
>>729467147>The ultimate emulation device, chinkhelds would neverCuck mentality. If you use GBA injects of trannyarch, then you're fucking retarded. If you use trannyarch, then you're doing it on a device shittier than any chinkheld
>>729465797I was talking about retro consoles, not the 3DS.During the seventh gen, all of the older console were pretty cheap and most games were usually cheap too.>Emulation is also a thing now and has been for a while, but I wouldn’t expect Unc to figure all that complicated stuff outIt's a different experience with the original hardware. Not that I have anything against emulation.
I'm pretty sure my original model black 3ds is worth nothing from how beat up it is. Not that I would've sold it anyways.
>>729457415The New 3DS is worth it for the faceplates and size.The New 3DS XL is not worth it because the pixel density sucks ass.The New 2DS is if you really do not like 3D or faceplates.The New 2/3DS in general is worth it because everyone will hack their 3DS and if they don't their opinion is not worth listening to. Hacking it grants significantly better performance in some games (Senran Kagura goes from 10 FPS with drops to locked 30 as the most basic example) due to overclocking, the ability to play SNES VC games, runs GBA VC games a bit better to my understanding, allows homebrew to work smoother, allows NTR to work properly in extended memory games, has the UI work smoother, etc. In addition to this the New 3DS has eye tracking 3DS which is infinitely better than the base solution.The problem is that if you want a New 3DS to system transfer to and you're not in Japan/PAL regions enjoy the $500 because they're either hacked (So potential online bans) or they're region changed (Like LLs) so you can't even system transfer at all meaning stuff like Pokemon Bank can't work at all. Nintendo USA made barely any normal New 3DS models because they followed the logic of "Bigger is better" so the New 3DS XL got all the limited editions and prints whereas the New 3DS was Black Friday in one single year only. Just that single Black Friday. If you want an NTSC-U New 3DS that isn't hacked and can likely run Pokemon Bank enjoy the late tax. Europe and Japan have it cheap by comparison since it was mass produced in both regions compared to the XL.
>>729465515I only found out about it like a week before it came out and I walked into a Target and got the last one. Still very happy to have purchased, and I was even on the fence since I already owned an XL and won the screen lottery.
>>729456827>Laughs in Citra.
>>729456827It spiked years ago and has remained pretty steady since then.
>>729456827Guess now's the time to sell mine with peeling paint and no battery
