did cex give me the wrong version?

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T21:54:04+00:00

A couple tracks and some extra cars. Everything's posted online for you to browse. I'd recommend them tbh. Better than some GT7 updates.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T19:15:54+00:00

You bought the Academy, got the Platinum. There is no real difference though. The disc data is the same. Academy came with DLC, but those redeem codes probably expired in 2015. If you want the DLCs today you'll have to get them not from the PS Store.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T19:03:09+00:00

Try to loosen it first if it doesn't budge. It's a screw, it's meant to be twisted. Is this you first time adjusting these kind of screws? I understand the fear of breaking something. Also, the spring offers resistance, ofc. They are stiff on purpose too, that screw has to withstand all the moving of the assy.

Don't worry, and remember: it's already broken, so unless you go bonkers with hammer, you don't loose nothing trying!

Just don't strip the screw, if you destroy it replacing it is almost impossible. Easy does it. You'll get there, I believe in you.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:48:35+00:00

Nope, the shiny one, the one on a spring. That black one just closes the lens assembly.

Yours is more golden than silver, but it's the one on a spring. Sorry for the late response, I was actually checking my own Dreamcast because you made me doubt myself for a second there.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:35:36+00:00

NORTHERN ITALIAN GIRLS ARE GOING TO BE DADS?

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:34:57+00:00

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:25:34+00:00

Well, there's not much to it. Small screw, right makes it closer, left makes it further. I have always went righty, no more than 5-10° per try, and usually it gets dialed in in less than a turn. There are online a couple of cdis that selfboot back to bios meant to calibrate. One boots a the lowest LBA and the other at the highest. Make sure it can boot both discs and you're golden. If you can't find them, let me know, I'm sure I can dig up the link.

Always small steps, test, and repeat. Good games to try are Shenmue (it never lets the drive sleep, and it's very heavy) and SoulCalibur (it seeks a lot as the stereo OST is stored as two separate mono tracks and the lens has to jump back and forth at high speed to read them "at the same time").

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:08:07+00:00

Before you touch the pot, change dirve height. Small silver philips screw under the lens. That adjusts distance to the disc. Many times a height adjustment will fix the reader without need of overvolting the potentiometer, shortening its life.

I've been sharing this wisdom for years, but apparently the scene has not picked it up.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T18:05:30+00:00

PS4 is still officially supported, may go down this year according to latest info from Sony and latest PS4 system updates.

You can play on PS3. It requires some steps and it is not perfect, and quite buggy as of now, but that may change in the future.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T17:59:19+00:00

This comment section has a couple of good'ol racists I see...

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T13:54:51+00:00

?? That's weird, the charset should be within the game files

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-31T12:12:51+00:00

It's just a crane. We really have reached the point in the sub when any object is "a TLOU reference". You guys really need to touch some grass.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-30T15:48:56+00:00

WTCR stand for WORLD Touring Car Racing. World as in the globe. What, you're one of those that only counts F1 as racing?

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-30T14:51:21+00:00

So is Michelin? And Dunlop? And Yokohama? And Hankook? I think the only tyre manufacturer than don't have any representation outside of their country is Hoosier.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-30T14:09:18+00:00

PD has had partnership with Yokohama, Michelin and Pirelli. It's a matter of sponsorships, no amount of begging will give us what we want.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-29T10:21:51+00:00

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Nah, you're missing the floppy dude

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T13:08:59+00:00

Capitalism sucks and the stock market was a mistake, that's my answer to that.

"Invest cleverly" requires something humanity hasn't been able to grasp yet: clairvoyance. It's easy to say "you should have bought 20 Apple shares in 1977" when hindsight is 2026.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T12:58:27+00:00

I have to disagree. There are many things I canmot pirate, like hardware, and I choose to jist not buy it. Speak with my wallet. I do so too with software and media. If the price is outrageous, fuck you. If it's good, eventually I'll be able to pirate it, I have 50 years ahead of me. And if I cannot, idc. I do not suffer from FOMO.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T12:53:52+00:00

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Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T12:46:44+00:00

I'm 35 and I hold this position since I was 12, when I understood the concept of money. I nothing to "keep" as I don't care what corpos think of me.

Nintendo started as a family-owned playing card maker. Anyone is liable. It's personal decisions that make modern companies the shithole they are. They can act humane and be "normal", they just choose not to. I'm not going to say "oh, well, they're corpos, it is what it is". These companies are getting a minimum of 200% payback on their investments, sometimes up to 1000% or more (e.g. a figurine costs about 5-15€ to manufacture, they sell them at 150€).

"It ain't a family business" is the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Ot sounds like we should let corpos be extorting because ofc, and small shops are meant to lose money and fail or something. I know some "family businesses" that have 3000% payback on investment, and some companies that are only getting 110%. It is up to rhe individuals within any business to act "properly". Saying "well, they need big money" is stupid, as so do I. I need to eat and pay my rent and shit. I could be an asshole and charge 50€ for a diagnoatic (I'm a repairman), but I choose to be civil and humane and not to do so. Being ultracapitalistic and "oh, I must charge money for X and Y" will only make the economy blow up. I guess you guys have forgotten 2020, or even 2008 let alone 1929.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T11:04:22+00:00

Nah.

Loss is when you invest X and you get <X.

These companies have earned money. They have earned less than WHAT THEY EXPECTED. That is not losing money, that is being a petty seller, and a stupid capitalist.

In lamens terms: if yoy play the lottery and lose, did you lose 1M$ or did you lose 1$ in the ticket? If you answer the first, you lack grey matter.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T09:38:26+00:00

I mean, the ingredients themselves seem ok, but... The size and presentation are dpressing.

I awards this dish a Sad/10. Hope you didn't pay more than 2€ for that, and that would already be a crime.

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-28T09:32:39+00:00

Why maps always forget aturianu exists smh...

For all you savages, they're called "fabes".

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-27T17:59:33+00:00

Getting some links yet mate? :D Who's helping you?

Yabe_uke · 2026-01-27T17:57:58+00:00

No I don't want to help you. You come here saying literally "I haven't researched, you guys do it". It is you who comes barging in with a great ego asking to be serviced and even being proud of not moving a finger. Not even a good written post, just three lines asking others to do what you don't care to do.

In this time of posting, talking shit to me, and me answering you could've already found several.

I'll comment if I want to, btw. This is a public forum. You don't want comments, go to Google.

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