The 3DS is well and alive

This story begins with a person asking me when the Nintendo switch was hot and new if he should buy it:

As I had already played some hours of mario kart 8 deluxe and was done with the breath of fresh air called breath of the wild I told him No

I told him there a not a ton of games on there, that its clunky and not really portable (try to fit it into a pocket and then tell me what pockets you got there :D) and thats expensive. The less expensive handheld he should get was a 3DS as you so many lovley games are on it. After a while I overheard him talking about his new PS4...

Why am I fond of that old and my old 3DS? I mean look at it:


I know what a sexy little thing. Packed with games, applications (I am looking at you FlipNote3D) and with a wonderful pastel pixel art sky that shows the sun setting behind its clouds.

That story i told is from way back in the day when the switch was new but did my 3DS look like this? No of course not. It took the combine effort of the home brewing scene, "inexpensive" games and some thoughts from the internet.

At first I had this card where you could cycle through a bunch of ROMs where I tried some new games out but mostly didnt needed to carry the cartridges of the games I already had. Then the card broke down so I cracked the 3DS as the instructions on the official site were easy to follow. With that I packed the ROMs onto the homescreen and gave it that beautiful look you can see here.

After that I read some time ago Remis goodnight 3DS. It shook something in me I should use it and enjoy it just as I said that guy in the beginning. So I tried to carry it around more. But not for lon.

I watched this super well animated love letter from Derrek a couple of months later the 3DS is so fucking back. I began to dive back into my 3DS. Not by playing it mind you but by modding, trying out the QR to download method I had seen. Finding my way around with some of the tools I had left on the side of the road when i started to mod the 3DS. It was some fun to play around with the possibilities and the thought of having all these games with me.

So let us come here to the final nail in the coffin: Your 3DS Can Do So Much More. The link here is timestamped as it quite far in the video but its about that segment. Here the videomaker asks the questions why. Why is he doing this all to his little 3DS buddy. When you read some retrospective its about the sunny days outside playing mario kart but here he is getting an old pinball game onto the device. He notics that he is only doing the modding not to play but to mod. He even calls himself "penny pinching datahoarder with a nostalgia addiction" as he hoards the same games again and again without seeing the second level.

Its almost as the Mariella Ending from Stanley Parable . Where Stanley screams to himself that he is real and who is in that reality only to be found Mariella, a office worker on her way to the morning shift, where she sees the maniac besides her and dosn't understand him so she just goes to work with her coffee.

I just want to touch some grass, look up into the sky and have Komorebi moments. Instead I build a local recipe local on my rp4 over the holidays...

I wish you a happy new year in a few days. I hope that the next post is a tiny bit more uplifting.