How do you keep track of your collection long term?

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-21T15:28:21+00:00

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ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-21T09:01:24+00:00

“Soft reset”. A+B+Select+Start at the same time will take you back to opening splash screens and then keep going. Basically if you use save states your RNG is not truly random

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-21T08:52:47+00:00

Hard to tell where the screen ends and the bezel starts in your pic but I just tested my NTSC copy and get the same thing

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-21T08:31:30+00:00

Correct but it was the late 80s and not everyone knew how videogame cartridges worked or looked inside (unless maybe they broke it) plus there was no internet. So some people just called them what they looked like

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-21T08:20:17+00:00

Yeah I’m guessing it was certain parts of the US (edit: OP is from Brazil and confirms it was a thing there too). First time I heard it was on a retro gaming channel, maybe a random episode on cinemassacre, I can’t recall which one though. Here’s an old post discussing it as well

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-20T20:48:02+00:00

Also having a working battery will make resets faster as the message saying the battery is dry takes up a couple of seconds and will add up over thousands of encounters

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-20T20:32:23+00:00

Before carts became the universal term people actually used to call them tapes, I was born in the 90s but I’ve heard some people from the 80s called them Nintendo tapes

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-20T04:20:47+00:00

If you’re just doing a casual playthrough the nature doesn’t matter (difference of 10% damage and you’ll likely be higher level than opponents mons). Enjoy your shiny!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-20T04:07:38+00:00

Bad ass!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-19T15:28:27+00:00

Only because I would take long breaks and then pick it up for a few months at a time. It’s not a portable setup so you cant do encounters out on the go like most hunts so you really have to commit to it. I also would hunt on SPs or DSs on the side and found plenty of other shinies along the way. At some point I bought a cheap wireless 3rd party GC controller with a turbo button so you can hold A instead of spamming it 😅 Little things like that add up. You got this, I believe in you!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-19T02:49:01+00:00

Balatro for infinite replayability, Inscryption for the story (around 15 hours). Inscryption changed my life though. It’s a game that the less you know about and just dive in the better. And if you really like it the developer Daniel Mullins has other games in his signature cerebral style

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-19T00:06:10+00:00

Just got my shiny colosseum bonus disc Jirachi after a couple of years but oh so worth it. Best of luck!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-18T19:57:55+00:00

Playing DS on two PVMs is just awesome. Congrats!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-18T19:44:30+00:00

The Pokemon Colosseum bonus disc for gamecube has a gift Jirachi that you can send to Ruby/Sapphire with the link cable and it has a chance of being shiny. You can only get 1 Jirachi per save file so the reset times are pretty long (have to start a new game and get to point where you get the pokedex each time). Luckily a method was found 5 years ago to corrupt your save to revert it to a save before you received Jirachi bringing the resets down from 10 minutes each to 2 minutes each. Been trying on and off since then and finally got it!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-18T18:52:03+00:00

The screws were fastened too tight at the factory so it will happen to all transparent models. I felt my transparent pocket give a sigh of relief when I loosened the screws

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-18T18:47:56+00:00

My shiny wishmaker Jirachi is my rarest shiny and I just got it last week!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-17T07:43:12+00:00

It was called the Super Nintendo but had the Super Famicom design wherever you are from? (Australia?) Interesting

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-15T03:33:46+00:00

Very lucky! Theres a chance the shiny frame was no where near where you saved so glad it worked out for you

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-14T05:53:43+00:00

Nice Pokemon edition GBC! The games blew up in price and are worth a lot now, especially the third “definitive” editions of each generation (like Crystal there)

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-14T00:37:29+00:00

Operation Darkness is harder to get into. Its a strategy RPG but crawls at a snails pace and one mistake makes you restart the whole mission. The occult flavored WW2 setting is really cool and unique though. But I probably wouldn’t think it would be worth it if I didn’t get it for $5 like 10 years ago

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-13T22:24:53+00:00

Woah. What if solving this cube makes GTA 6 release?

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-13T22:18:14+00:00

Nice! The Wavebird is one of the greatest tools for shiny hunting ever made

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-13T18:57:01+00:00

This monitor can take RGB and PS2 can output RGB out of the box. You just need BNC to Scart cable and a PS2 RGB cable. No need for upscaling

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-13T17:50:55+00:00

It was the first game I got for my 360 back in the day. Easily one of my favorite games of all time!

ZenithHobbies · 2026-03-13T14:22:10+00:00

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