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How much do you expect you'll spend on games & consoles in 2018?
£0 - £1 - Yar, yar and/or freeware for me yo. 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
£1 - £50 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
£50 - £100 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
£100 - £200 (~£12.50/month) 30%  30%  [ 6 ]
£200 - £300 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
£300 - £400 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
£400 - £600 (~£50/month) 20%  20%  [ 4 ]
£600 - £800 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
£800 - £1000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
£1000 - £1200 (~£100/month) 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
£1200 - £1500 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
£1500 - £2000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
£2000 - £mental 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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WoW subscription cancelled so I'll add this in now as I certainly won't be resubbing before the next expansion.

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Oh yeah, I did that too.

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That looks quite nifty, can you play entirely legal dumps of your own cartridges on it?


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That looks quite nifty, can you play entirely legal dumps of your own cartridges on it?

It says you can install games from cartridge, but I don't know if you could add your own ROM files directly, although if you were going to do that, you might as well be using a Raspberry Pi I guess. I'm mainly going to use it to test games on as it covers more formats than my trusty Retron 5.

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Hearthly wrote:
That looks quite nifty, can you play entirely legal dumps of your own cartridges on it?

It says you can install games from cartridge, but I don't know if you could add your own ROM files directly, although if you were going to do that, you might as well be using a Raspberry Pi I guess. I'm mainly going to use it to test games on as it covers more formats than my trusty Retron 5.



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At least it's smaller than the Retron 5, which is handy considering my lack of space here.

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I have a GPD XD and it's brilliant! You'll want to flash the Rom on it though. Have a look on YouTube as I followed the tutorial from Retro Rob. That was the easiest one I found.

Also, I've got some big purchases coming in the following months... I think I may have over spent this year a little. Whoops!


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What's the capacity on the rechargeables? The ones GAME gave me with my 1X were fucking abysmal at 600mAh or something. I quickly went back to decent normal alkalines. (Which clock in at 2500mAh.)


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What's the capacity on the rechargeables? The ones GAME gave me with my 1X were fucking abysmal at 600mAh or something. I quickly went back to decent normal alkalines. (Which clock in at 2500mAh.)

Y'know, I didn't check. Google says 700mAh.


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They might get through an evening, as long as you're not using a headset.

Mine were so bad I literally threw them in the bin along with the charger after a week.

I don't know how batteries work insofar as do you add the capacities together? i.e. 2500mAh + 2500mAh equals a total capacity of 5000mAh, against a total capacity of 600mAh for the rechargeable? Either way, normal alkalines last ages whereas the rechargeables were fucked by the end of an evening. I just buy JCB alkaline AAs from Battery Force in bulk, they're rebranded Duracells and are excellent. (And cheap!)


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There’s plenty of AA rechargeables that run 2500-3000 mAh. For example:

Panasonic Eneloop Pro AA 2500mAh Eneloop NiMH Ready to Use Rechargeable Battery BK 3HCDE/4BE (4 Eneloop Pro Batteries) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JWC40JY/ ... 2BbJ84D8Q3


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Oh for sure decent ones exist, but the ones GAME sell are total bullshit.

I like the convenience of just popping out the dying batteries and popping in new ones on the fly, with the rechargeables I'd need a spare set ready to go, and historically I found they tended to lose charge quite quickly if sat unused after being charged.


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That's where modern ones are much better, like those eneloops. There's no good reason for alkalines now really, I tend to put them in the central heating thermostat but that's about it.


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There's no good reason for alkalines now really.


How about when you've got around 250 batteries in various electric animals around the house at any given time? Not quite sure I'd like to take that on with rechargeables at £12.50 a set.....

As such we always have loads of batteries ready to go in the utility room (AA, AAA, C and D), so it seems daft to provision rechargeables and a charger separately just for my XBox pads. (There are over 200 AAs in the utility room at the moment.)


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If you've got an insane amount of toys that all need to be ready to go and have horded alkaline batteries as if for doomsday then yes that's a scenario where it might make sense to use them.


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High drain devices — anything with a battery life measured in hours instead of years — fuck up alkalines. You’ll get noticeably better battery life out of NiMHs.

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As long as they last from about 7pm until about 11pm, I'll be fine. Thanks for your concern, Hearthly!


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As long as they last from about 7pm until about 11pm, I'll be fine. Thanks for your concern, Hearthly!


I wouldn't bet on it if you're using a headset, those things fuck batteries like Ron Jeremy.


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As long as they last from about 7pm until about 11pm, I'll be fine. Thanks for your concern, Hearthly!


I wouldn't bet on it if you're using a headset, those things fuck batteries like Ron Jeremy.

Ron Jeremy doesn't fuck batteries, he fucks laydeez.

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Wot no LEDs?

Not really for gaming, more that with two browsers with 10 tabs each was making my PC grind to a halt with 99% memory usage, but I'm guessing it'll help anyway.

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