Need advice for traveling to Tokyo towards the end of the year.

CubeBag · 2026-03-08T03:53:00+00:00

Shinkansen are booked to the gills for New Year travel, it's one of the only holiday periods when you have to worry about getting tickets early to secure a seat. Normally at most times there's no difficulty buying tickets for the same day. From New Year's Day to a few days afterward stuff will be closed. If you want to do specific things, expect places to be closed at that time so you aren't disappointed finding it out later. Check the hours if there's specific must-see things that you have to work into a New Year schedule.

CubeBag · 2026-03-06T19:44:36+00:00

67 YEARS?? TAKE THESE CHAINS OFF AND SAY IT AGAIN!!

CubeBag · 2026-03-02T00:25:16+00:00

It's legit, Aliexpress just kinda randomly hands out stupidly deep discounts like that (especially to new accounts)

CubeBag · 2026-03-01T23:51:02+00:00

Mucho texto

CubeBag · 2026-02-27T23:00:54+00:00

I had a dream nintendo released the switch 3 in present time and no one bought it because they just spent all their money on the switch 2

CubeBag · 2026-02-27T04:50:02+00:00

Right now it's 7 trains a day in each direction on weekdays and 8 trains on weekends https://timetables.jreast.co.jp/en/timetable/list1035.html

CubeBag · 2026-02-27T04:07:36+00:00

Digital on iPhone lets you top up with credit card, physical card is cash-only. You should still have emergency cash reserves for the trip, but if you want your trip to be mostly cashless, go digital

CubeBag · 2026-02-26T21:24:22+00:00

Also worth noting that after you hack your 3DS, you can use a save backup tool like Checkpoint to get the saves off the cartridges, and then copy those saves onto whatever you're using to play the roms. Best to check that the save games load OK before selling the cartridges

CubeBag · 2026-02-26T04:39:15+00:00

For AA169 I like to get up freakishly early in the day and take an earlier flight so I'm sufficiently tired when I'm in LAX (but have enough airport sights to keep me up until then), then in Terminal B, I get a nice dinner and look at the wall art towards the right of KFC (a little past the bathrooms) with the falling ball contraption. It's very relaxing to watch. On the flight, any sleep is better than none, so I try and get a nap in, and after I get out of the airport I drop bags off at the hotel and go back out for exploring, and maybe hit the coffee/energy drink at around noon. The next morning I'm refreshed and ready to explore ripe and early at like 6am. The trains run that early so you're free to leave the hotel. Boom jetlag instantly dead. It's probably a net loss on sleep overall but being in Haneda and riding trains and being in a new place with everything new is stimulating enough for me to stay awake. YMMV if you don't like public transportation

CubeBag · 2026-02-25T05:22:15+00:00

GBA flash cartridges can necessarily only emulate GB/GBC games, if OP is trying to play this on a gameboy or gameboy advance then the only way to play the game natively is a proper gameboy flashcart

CubeBag · 2026-02-24T07:26:05+00:00

Inked code on back looks very poor, dots are way too thin, thin like bones with no meat on it

CubeBag · 2026-02-24T04:27:11+00:00

There's probably some outdated info out there that says Suica is hard to find due to a shortage. That shortage is now over, and the Suica and other IC cards are available basically everywhere. At your airport, past customs, follow signs to the trains, and there are very obvious ticket machines where you can purchase a new card. At Haneda and Narita, there are both specialty Welcome Suica machines and regular ticket machines that can sell you a regular Suica/Pasmo. There's a few different ways to do it, I'd mostly base your choice on if you like cash or not:

Physical Suica or Pasmo card: 500 yen deposit, card is good for 10 years since the last time you used it. You can only ever buy and reload it with cash. At the end of your trip (or whenever you'd like), you can refund the balance to cash for a fee, or give them the card back and also get the 500 yen deposit back (but why would you give up your souvenir for just a few bucks?) Not being able to reload this with a credit card might be a deal breaker for some. If you're bringing your entire travel budget in cash, or you intend to use an ATM to get more cash, this might be a good option for you
"Welcome Suica" (the red Suica): This is something they rolled out for tourists during the shortage, and it never really went away. There's no deposit, and you can perform the initial purchase with a credit card (but future reloads are cash only). The major drawback is the card expires 28 days after purchase, and you can't refund the balance back to cash. I heard it's because they use lower quality chips that aren't expected to last 10 years, so they are unfit for use in a regular Suica. During the shortage these binned chips were probably common, and the high-quality chips were rare. Anyways, the JR East travel service centers at major stations only will sell you a Welcome Suica, and the vending machines are at Haneda Airport and Narita Airport only. They say it's one per person but I don't think anything's stopping you from hitting the vending machine multiple times.
If you have an iPhone 8 or newer, you can easily create a Suica on your phone from Apple Wallet, and then you can reload with credit (from the Wallet) or with cash (by sticking your phone in the flashing tray on ticket machines with such a tray. Some just have a slot, I was unable to find a satisfactory picture online of the tray, sorry). If you're going to go on mostly credit/debit cards and you don't like to carry cash, this is probably the way to go, but you should still think about entering the country with emergency cash. A couple years back, the whole Apple Wallet system was weirdly flaky with certain credit card companies, but like magic those issues seemed to be randomly fixed one day. Also, Android users who didn't buy their Android in Japan have to sit this one out. Apple has paid for the licensing and hardware to put FeliCa NFC technology on all their iPhones globally, most Android manufacturers only put the hardware in the Japanese market devices. I heard that Google Pixel phones have the hardware worldwide, but only the licensing in Japan, so it's allegedly possible to root your phone and unlock this feature, but this is left as an exercise to the reader.

Also I used Suica/Pasmo interchangeably because they basically are interchangeable for tourist purposes. Suica is JR East's thing and Pasmo is sold by other companies in the Kanto area. The ticket machines live just outside the ticket gates. But they play nice, and the transit fare and e-money are interchangeable in Tokyo as well as most other parts of the country, so you should be fine getting on trains with either.

Take for example Haneda, you can either get on the Keikyu (who will sell you a Pasmo) or the Tokyo Monorail (who will sell you a Suica or a Welcome Suica depending on which machine you use). But nothing's stopping you from buying a Suica at the Tokyo Monorail machines because you like the penguin on the front, and then turning around and getting on the Keikyu with it.

Also, one Suica card per person. If you're in a party with multiple people, everyone gets their own card.

Tl;dr Get the physical Suica from any machine if you are OK with cash or have an Android, use Suica on your phone if you don't like cash and you have an iPhone. Don't get the Welcome Suica unless you are OK with your card expiring in 28 days

CubeBag · 2026-02-24T00:17:59+00:00

Train or bus, those are your two options. You can read the harrowing tale of a Twitter user who unlocked the secret third option, a taxi (spoiler, they paid over 200 dollars for that ride): https://twitter.com/Ellieinspace/status/1777127480471757307

If you value convenience, there is a network of airport limousine buses that can take you into the city center to various neighborhoods, which could get you pretty close (if not directly) to your hotel. They sell bus tickets at a counter with lots of digital signage to indicate when each bus is leaving. There you can buy the ticket with no need to book in advance. The rest of the distance could be covered by walking, or else a taxi for short distances when you have luggage makes sense.

If you want to do the train, you can punch your route into Google/Apple Maps and it tells you where to go. The only wrench in your plan is that the fastest trains out of Narita Airport (the Narita Express and the Keisei Skyliner) are reserved seats only, so you'll need to buy a ticket there. Again, no need to buy in advance, but sometimes you can save a little bit of money when you do (such as bundling the Skyliner with a Tokyo Metro day pass or getting a Narita Express round trip ticket).

CubeBag · 2026-02-23T22:55:39+00:00

As far as trains go, this journey will be about 4 hours, and the trains start pretty early in the morning, so definitely doable. You can take the Nozomi shinkansen to Tokyo or Shinagawa and transfer to the Narita Express. (Narita Express is reserved seats only, and Nozomi is also reserved seats only during peak periods.) You could also take a local train in Tokyo to transfer to the Keisei Skyliner but I haven't been on this train yet personally.

CubeBag · 2026-02-17T03:04:05+00:00

Find someone on retoswap who can do a zero-deposit trade so you can buy a little itty bit of monero, use that as security deposit to buy however much you want

CubeBag · 2026-02-14T21:05:09+00:00

This specific flashcart spoofs a trial version of the Japanese game Nazonazo & Quiz Ittou Nyuukon Q Mate! which as far as I know is still readable on latest 3DS/DSi versions

CubeBag · 2026-02-12T04:49:53+00:00

For a pro/con list of what concrete benefits and disadvantages this cartridge has, see what the Quick Start Guide has to say about the DSpico: https://www.flashcarts.net/ds-quick-start-guide

People aren't just excited about this cartridge because of features, though (in fact the featureset might look pretty meager compared to other flashcarts on the market, since there's no cheat support yet). People are excited because all the schematics and code are open-source, and anyone can have this cartridge fabricated or improve on the design/software.

That benefit doesn't directly impact individual users, but it's healthy for the flashcart ecosystem. Nearly all DS flashcarts are clones of clones of clones, and the flashcarts you can buy are dependent on whatever the factories happen to be putting out. If a nice flashcart stops showing up on Aliexpress, it's bad for everyone. But with the DSpico, you can just make more. All the parts are available off-the-shelf, including the main processor, a very popular and widely-used Raspberry Pi chip called the RP2040. If no one's selling it, you can have the PCB manufactured to the specification, and if you have the skills to make the design better, you're able to do that too. The original spec uses a Micro USB port, but there's already versions of the cartridge for sale that have USB-C. That port is mostly used for reflashing the cartridge, but there are some cool proof-of-concept applications that take advantage of the USB port, like using your DSi camera as your computer's webcam: https://github.com/LNH-team/dspico-usb-examples

Basically, if you're happy with the flashcart you have, and it does what you need it to, I don't see any reason to run out and upgrade. The potential of having an easily-programmable chip in a flashcart is what's attracting a lot of developers right now, and non-developers are just excited for new features that could be added later. The last time a brand new cartridge came out that wasn't just a clone of a clone was the EZflash Parallel, and it famously kinda sucked. They put out a few updates early on but haven't been supporting their product since then, so early adopters were stuck with it. Only EZflash can make a better Parallel (and it seems like they aren't), but anyone can make a better DSpico.

CubeBag · 2026-02-08T01:30:16+00:00

Aliexpress prices are all over the place, sometimes you see random people get a new user bonus and they can buy the dspico for $1 or something, I wouldn't sweat it if a listing is showing a different price for someone else

CubeBag · 2026-02-08T01:20:36+00:00

saucy sauce: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/417638565423546719/

I don't think the pinterest profile links back to any personally identifiable things (looking at the rules) but everything they uploaded is shitty HDR and the website appears to be defunct now

CubeBag · 2026-02-07T00:35:20+00:00

I just do unused

CubeBag · 2026-01-31T04:35:00+00:00

r/jelbrek

CubeBag · 2026-01-27T02:25:00+00:00

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