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I wish I'd known more about the Mega CD RAM cartridge when I had a Mega CD first time round. Games like Eye of the Beholder used ALL of the Mega CD's available storage to save one game, meaning everything else had to go.

Since then, I've not really needed backups for saved games. I did want to back up my Bejeweled 2 game on the 360 when I was gunning for the Endless Mode achievement as I was convinced I'd accidentally quit without saving which wipes any progress (it takes 100-300 hours to get the achievement) and unfortunately they blocked copying of that saved game anyway.

I had backup solutions for the PlayStation, PS2 and Dreamcast, but I think they were more of an "infinite number of memory cards" thing, rather than a backup thing.

I used to back up things like Harvest Moon and Animsl Crossing because there were lives going on there.

Yeah animal crossing would feel really terrible for that reason/.. (for other games i don't really care that much.. but maybe because never really have had a console get broke..knocks wood)

Could you summarise?

I've not watched it, but I'm guessing:

Nintendo users are annoyed that they cannot back up their saves unless they subscribe to the online service.

That's about the size of it.

It really is a dirtbag move though. It'd be no problem whatsoever if they allowed you to save your games to a local storage device, but it's £20 per year for the cloud saves, or nothing at all.

So what was the point of the video? We already knew that!

Why not watch the video? It's well argued and worth 7 minutes and 20 seconds of your time.

Yes, I didn't link the video for no reason at all, I like the guy who does that channel, he keeps his videos fairly short and snappy and offers some decent insights into what's going on in the world of gaming. It's almost a sort of 'daily videogame news bulletin' with some opinion and commentary.

That’s seven minutes and ten seconds longer than it takes to read this:

But that doesn't cover it at all.

I'm sorry that my post did not meet the expected high standards of the BEEX Quality Police, and will endeavour to do better in future.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to improve going forward from this low point of my life, and for helping to make BEEX such a pleasant, friendly, and inclusive environment.

Its continuing success in attracting new members, and retaining existing members as active participants speaks for itself.

New members are for the birds. I already have enough friends.

Beex is forever. Beex is eternal.

Beek is for right now. Got some?

We had a new member offer us informative insights into Windows 10 just a couple of days ago.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

Zelda hearts have burned into my tv screen:



Probably my own fault for leaving it on too long (without dimming - e.g. waiting for the weather to change!).

Tried running the "Clear Panel Noise" option a few times, to no avail.

I've got an extended warranty with Domestic & General, but it says the plan does not include "image retention on LCD screens, plasma or projection TV screens". Gave them a call to ask, as my tv is none of those (OLED), does that mean it is included after all? They don't know, but are sending an engineer to take a look anyway.

To be honest, I can't get too upset if they tell me to bugger off. As I say, probably my own fault, and it only really shows up when there's an area of solid bright red in the top left corner, which isn't that often. Expensive tv, mind, and I'd certainly advise against believe LG, when they tell you image retention isn't really anything to worry about with OLED TVs.

Yeah, I thought screen burn-in was a thing of the past until I borrowed my mate's old Galaxy S7 (also an OLED screen) at one point and noticed that the fucking Facebook navbar was burnt into the top of the screen.

Yeah, who has time for youtube videos, eh?

I don’t think many (if any) screen technologies are immune yet. I had a Dell LCD monitor about ten years ago that ended up with ghosts of various Windows icons burned in.

Not me when it's basically arguing the same obvious point I already broadly agree with.

This thread has gone to shit. Time to unsubscribe I guess.

Thanks for contributing

OLEDs don’t suffer from the same kind of burn-in as other TV technologies, but they do something else, and it’s what I think has happened here. They’re made up of a very large number of sub-pixel cells, each containing an organic light-emitting substance that illuminates when an electric current is passed through it. They use a different substance for each of the RGB sub-pixels. These substances have a finite life span — they slowly break down over time as they are lit up, so gradually (typically over thousands of hours) they get dimmer.

I think you’ve run Zelda enough that the red pixels in the parts of your screen where the hearts are have taken a battering and started to noticeably dim. That’s why the heart area in your screenshot looks darker than the surrounding red area. On normal TV playback, all the different sub pixels are being worn out at the same rate, and you just get an imperceptible drop in brightness over a few years. But here you’ve displayed the exact same data (the game’s UI) for a very long amount of time and the wear is concentrated to that one specific area.

Phones with OLED displays usually subtly shift their persistent UI around by a few pixels eg. if there’s a clock shown on the lock screen. Again, this is about spreading the wear caused by that image over a larger area of screen.

There’s no fix for this, I’m afraid. It’s not like some forms of plasma or LCD retention that can be cleared with test patterns, because it’s actually a minor amount of damage to the screen itself.

Nice explanation Doc! That makes perfect sense.

Aye, that's more or less what I figured. I still think what LG say on their site (strongly hinting that any damage is repairable) is a tad misleading. My tv has built-in pixel shifting, but obviously that hasn't helped (or maybe it would be even worse had that not been enabled).

I'm guessing the engineer (who hopefully is coming Tuesday, but didn't call to confirm...) will tell me a less-articulate version of what you said, Doc. The question then is whether Domestic & General feel like buying me a new tv. I'm guessing not, but c'est la vie. (It'll be interesting to hear them arguing that, for the purpose of their exclusion, "LCD screens, plasma or projection TV screens" implies "oh, or OLED screens", though.)

(And, to be fair, we did indeed play Zelda for a hell of a long time!)

(And it's still a bloody lovely tv, occasionally-visible dim hearts or not!)

It just looks like you love that show, or menu, or whatever it is in the box with the red header

I hope you can get it fixed, but if not at least it’s something nice that’s burned in. Sir Taxalot has got just the nicest way of looking at this!

Indeed!

There are so many worse things to have stuck on a tv screen. I could have been playing some WWII game and paused it with a dirty great swastika on there.

*emails Graham Linehan with idea for script*

Taiko drum controller announced for Nintendo Switch https://twitter.com/japanese3ds/status/ ... 45/photo/1

cool

Nice! Like the water bottle holders too.

Yeah the water makes it a bit more steady too probably..

https://gematsu.com/2018/04/taiko-drum- ... creenshots


do hope it's more than just this drum game (donkey kong jungle beat hd anyone?)

Do love some burger time, so was looking forward to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SiczeRZ2lg

sin europe a bit later alas http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/0 ... urger_time

Why are you using the European eShop.

Also Burger Time is shite.

From Lewie's post - You can basically setup a Nintendo account from any country

You can pay for stuff on those using a credit card like Revolut (which will do the various currencies and not charge you for non sterling fee's)

https://eshop-prices.com/

This website gives you the costs for anything on the eshop and will show you which ones are worth region shifting for.

Did they employ children who have been blind since birth then tie their hands behind their back and make them type code with their feet after being submerged in ice water whilst wearing thick socks to do the art for Super Burger King?

Ok, had forgotten that i could change e-shops

but now i tried

so made an american account - check

first tried to pay with PayPal -> blocks

then tried that revolut option (took 10 photos and two days( for them to recognize my id.. failed as well 'the country that is issuing your credit card is not supported).. so now trying to get my money back

any other option?

:-(

Two things - one Revolut works for most of Europe , however there are some countries it does not - there are other similar banks who do special offers for paying in different currencies , unfortunately the only others i know are again UK centric (Starling bank and Monzo) worth checking for other European banks who do something similar ?

Your other options are slightly more limited :

1) Pay with your normal credit card and incur a non-standard fee , that can eat into the savings your getting by getting the games from another region
2) Buy 'pre paid' cards for the other regions , I've done this for both the US and Canadian store (and both the US and Canadian playstation store) via these guys http://www.pcgamesupply.com/

Well revolut does work for me, (after some hassling), but the problem is that it doesn't work with the american nintendo shop ..since they won't give me an american virtual card..

I use the European eShop because it's easy! Also, Burger Time was good. Super Burger Time is not.

So Revolut is probably worthy of a thread of its own and I'll set that up in a sec and link it here but you dont need an american virtual card you can use any virtual card with your details and thats it - if you were in America you can quite happily use a non american Mastercard to pay for stuff and they charge it the same as any other.

Your only thing would be you would need some currency on Revolut to pay for it but i'm assuming you've topped that up.

Perhaps not on the thread but if you want to message me with the error you get when using it i can see if i can spot whats wrong.

Revolut and other online banking stuff thread : https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... &sk=t&sd=a

Yes i topped it up, helpdesk say the virtual card is issued basis of your id , so probably dutch, and they are uk them selves... and that is not accepted by the american shop..

Donkey kong dlc out in june.. look fun.. (still not finished main game though, kind had forgotten about it :O )

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... ng-in-june

switch is apparently for masochists.. https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/24/17384 ... -of-legend

I've never been that into Pokemon games, but it's hard not to feel positive about the stuff in the video. Even if the first twenty seconds looks like some AR burglary app.

I was watching like “fuck your pokeball tat” until they gently rocked Pikachu in the ball and it sounded like he was sleeping. Now I’m getting it and the pokeball.