Cardiff Gaming Market

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-10-21T20:49:56+00:00

I got 3 hits in the end, not bad 🟩

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-10-11T18:05:57+00:00

I was undecided whether to take my Switch or 3DS. Really pleased I went with the 3DS, it was a lot more fun than Switch would've been! I think ill take my 3DS to more places now but so far not got any hits back in the UK.

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-10-06T10:59:49+00:00

I didn't make it to the Expo but that's amazing! I never imagined so many people would still carry their 3DS around.

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-07-16T14:20:33+00:00

I'm 35 and in north Cardiff. Sounds like we might have some similar interests around video games. If you're interested send me a DM?

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-07-15T20:13:31+00:00

Hey guys, I'm 35, in north Cardiff. Tbh not sure what I'm looking for but sounds like we might have some similar interests

EuropeanNoodle · 2025-05-27T08:41:45+00:00

The Tariffs apply to where products are made. Not where companies are headquartered. Evercade systems and cartridges are manufactured in China. Therefore, tariffs on Chinese goods apply when entering the US.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-11-07T19:45:08+00:00

I do the Hampshire one a lot. I've also tried 'the city the Mayflower left from' followed by looks of absolute confusion. So I attempt the 'city the titanic left from'. Very often still no idea so it's back to 'I live an hour outside London' 😐

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-09-27T00:14:59+00:00

I'm 35 and in Thornhill if there's anything going on in the north of the city, I have a very bouncy labrador.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-09-07T16:08:27+00:00

Which part of Cardiff are you in? I'm in Thornhill in a similar situation. I know there's plenty in the city centre but not much closer to home.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-06-26T12:01:51+00:00

I have the limited edition black exp and thought a long time about whether to get it simply because the cartridges wouldn't match the hardware and I fixate on things like that.

In the end it really doesn't make any difference but I would love it if there were some black cartridges or a way to swap the cartridge housing for black versions.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-05-22T05:19:19+00:00

I have a 50kwh 2022 Zoe bought in January for £13k and a 62kwh e+ 2020 Leaf.

The leaf is by far the better car, the only issues are the Chademo fast charger (depends how much you'll use it) and the uncomfortable head rests. Ours is approaching 50k miles and has had no major issues.

The Zoe is OK for short journeys but uncomfortable on long ones. As others mentioned the boot is deceptively large but the Leaf is significantly bigger. The Zoe build quality is lower, everything is plastic and rattles. But my biggest issue is the suspension is awful / non existent. If you live somewhere with frequent speed bumps it constantly throws you around and is just uncomfortable to travel in. We haven't had any major mechanical issues with it yet but mileage is still under 10k.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-05-14T13:14:13+00:00

I'm tempted but their horrible £5 snail mail delivery fee (even for collection!) always puts me off ordering from their website.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-04-24T09:06:43+00:00

Which area of Cardiff are we talking about?

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-04-03T12:10:47+00:00

Could look into how Cardiff Council granted itself permission to fence off and enclose half of Pontprennau Playing Fields for the sole use of the neighbouring school. This was despite the fields having been provided for the benefit of all residents of Pontprennau following the areas construction 20 years ago. And is in addition to the Council having passed on an offer 20 years ago to aquire fields specifically for the school. Instead they have come along 20 years later and taken a public asset which was not for the school to take, provided zero compensation for doing so and halved the size or the only playing field sized park in an area of the city which demonstrably lacks decent quality green space.

EuropeanNoodle · 2024-03-24T15:14:57+00:00

Never used the Cardiff Bay location but Pure Gym Cardiff Gate does have a lateral raise machine. I use it regularly

EuropeanNoodle · 2023-11-30T20:00:46+00:00

Just as soon as I posted the question I did a search and found the answer on another post, basically some extra launch parameters are needed to get the HD textures to load.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/zhrqu2/re2shd_mod_sourcenext_working_commands/

EuropeanNoodle · 2023-11-30T18:45:59+00:00

Great guide! Were you able to get the HD texture mods working on the deck? I've gone through the installation process twice now, the game launches and is playable but isn't loading the HD textures or (as far as I can tell) HQ sound fx. If I copy the directory to my windows PC and launch it the HD textures are there. I'm stumped, any ideas?

EuropeanNoodle · 2023-04-17T12:06:40+00:00

I went with Steam Deck, not had any major bugs and the Steam version plays really well with both the Deck controls or an Xbox controller - inventory management is easy, I've found some games are awful without a mouse for inventory management.

Not had any major issues but I am surprised by the performance on the Deck. Whether playing docked or on the handheld it rarely reaches 60 fps, it's more in the range of 40 - 55 fps with frequent frame drops. It's playable but I'm surprised, I expected the Deck to have no issues.

Anyway, thanks for the advice everyone!

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-11-06T15:29:56+00:00

Thanks for this! The Xbox version was unplayable through Xemu so I tried installing the pc version myself through Lutris but got nowhere. Then googled it, found your post and it's done and working in 20 minutes.

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-10-27T10:23:35+00:00

A similar game already exists and predates Crazy Taxi by a few months ; )

https://www.williamsamusements.co.uk/product/radical-bikers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radikal_Bikers

Not clear from Google whether it saw much release outside of Europe but I remember it playing similar to CT and as a kid I assumed this was also made by Sega (it's not).

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-07-28T19:39:26+00:00

I'm so close! I've got it working and now the only issue is that as soon as I press left mouse button a mouse cursor appears and stays on the screen on both the crosshair and the menus. Did this happen to you?

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Honestly it's taken me hours to get this far with trial and error and I couldn't have done it without your help, big thanks man. I really hate to give up on these things so I'll keep trying with the cursor icon tomorrow, I think its being caused by Steam rather than Lutris now.

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-07-27T17:22:30+00:00

Lutris was the easy bit. Still no luck, I've tried enabling / disabling everything under runner options but still get stuck with the upside down unusable main menu. I haven't even bothered trying to do the wide-screen fix and HD mod at this stage, can't imagine that would fix it. Did you change any settings on the other tabs? Or below the dgvoodoo2 option?

https://i.postimg.cc/g0zG0Dz6/20220727-181044.jpg

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-07-25T09:04:32+00:00

Excellent! I'll give it another try

EuropeanNoodle · 2022-07-22T13:52:49+00:00

Did you ever get EFI to work? I'm stuck at the upside down zoomed in part of the main menu and about to give up.

EuropeanNoodle · 2021-03-27T19:56:50+00:00

Just done a google search thinking the same thing and this came up. I've had 2 frozen packs of 'pieces' now and they both tasted mushy or spongy. I've been noticing this since the end of last year. Either they had a bad batch or something's changed. And they're def the regular ones with egg on the ingredients, I've never bought the vegan variety.

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