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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · 2d

If you see me at #PAXAUS say hi!

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · 12d

Ooofff and the set is only around for a month...

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · 23d

Request sent

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Sep 12

Gonna be honest... They had me at Virtual Boy

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Sep 11

Soon

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JFB...

King Boo - A Night at Boo's Opera (Song Level) | Super Mario Bros. Wonder

YouTube video by RetroArchive

www.youtube.com

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Sep 7

@brentalfloss.bsky.social I just want to say I rediscovered "What if CD had G Rated Lyrics?" To listen to in the car with my daughter, and it will now be part of our regular rotation.

But also man the Corey song really unlocks some core memories from a time gone bye...

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Aug 28

We did it. No more banana.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey @gonintendormc.bsky.social just wanted to give you an update on how my journey into getting into wrestling is going.

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Aug 2

Met Isabelle today. Life is good.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just played Dear Me I Was... Took maybe 40 mins to finish.

Cried a bunch. Very touching little story. Given how cheap it is, I do recommend it if you like the sound of a short narrative game that tugs on the heart strings.

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jul 31

I would pull the two new immersive cards in the first 24 hours when they are like this....

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jul 7

This feels like PlayStation and Xbox doing a Pokemon trade.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

For those curious what the screen fault looked like, here is a photo. It isn't always black/grey, would change based on whatever colour it is meant to show.

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

In the end, it all worked out fine, but man... it is such a convoluted process, and while there is only a small number of saves that don't go to cloud they are extremely popular and games where people form a connection to. They really need to solve for this.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

To be safe, I also ejected all virtual game cards from the faulty Switch 2, but I don't think that was necessary. I believe when I deleted my profile off the faulty unit, everything would have been "ejected". Either way I had no issue loading all my purchases back on the new Switch 2.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

and then yeah, all my Switch 2 saves, the cloud system worked as intended to restore them.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

For Animal Crossing, I did use it's bespoke transfer tool to send it from the faulty Switch 2 back to the OLED, and then it was picked up in the bulk system transfer when sending to the new switch 2.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

Essentially what I had to do, was move over those problematic save files (though I decided to just move all my Switch 1 saves) back to my OLED, and then when I got the new Switch 2, I just did the same onboarding full Switch 1 -> Switch 2 transfer process to put them all back.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

For 99% of save files, they store on the cloud fine (if you have NSO) and are fine, but there are a number of games like the main series Pokemon ones and Splatoon 2 that do not. Animal Crossing also a weird beast with it's own bespoke cloud backup process

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 26

Unfortunately I fell victim to launch hardware faults, with a line of pixel discolouration appearing on my Switch 2's screen on Tuesday evening.

Fortunately (thanks to Australia's sound consumer protection laws) it was easy enough to replace at EB, but man... was it a process to deal with saves...

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 21

This might be my greatest gaming achievement.

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Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 19

It is a very well put together review, though I do have on question (which may evolve to a criticism)

You said "battle mode has been off the roster for a minute" - what was that in reference to? Because Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had a fairly robust Battle Mode.

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 16

I bought Wii Music to simply hunt for the song in that game.

And I am still convinced it is somewhere there.

Part of me wants to pull out the Wii and just play Wii Music for now to try a few more potential methods of uncovering it.

Zach from Blowing Cartridges @eggmond.bsky.social · Jun 16

The news about Totaka's song on MKW just reminded me how these videos basically just created a permanent part of my brain that constantly thinks about that easter egg and where it may be hidden in his other credited games.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLMA...

Totaka's Song: Part 1 of 3

YouTube video by Phil Bond

www.youtube.com

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