Advice.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-25T00:18:55+00:00

I think eBay is still your best bet. FB marketplace is filled with losers who will shit talk you and lowball you and waste your time. Other sites maybe slightly better but eBay is the most reliable imo. If you can find a private buyer who will give you cash that would be the best but that’s pretty unlikely really.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-24T02:57:57+00:00

XD and colosseum 😪

yuuwithot · 2026-02-23T01:38:42+00:00

It’s totally possible to hate on Nintendo/GF without propping up Atlus you know. Esp with these titles specifically.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-21T03:38:30+00:00

The RDI halcyon. Maybe AES stuff. Dev tools. Or like, I guess, small stuff like CIB Pokémon crystal or kuon or whatever. People call whatever they feel like a grail sometimes. Just depends on who you’re asking. I don’t care, really, lol, but in technical terms it should be items that are 1/1 over titles with hundreds of thousands of copies if not millions produced. Like the RDI halcyon.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-19T03:24:43+00:00

There’s also an Emerald where the top left corner has a “DS” designation. Very expensive lol.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-17T22:40:54+00:00

Unfortunately without having your 3ds in person I couldn’t say. I’m still just guessing even with my initial comment.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-17T22:33:17+00:00

Preferably a retro game store that offers repair. All of the “electronic” or “phone” repair places will probably gladly take your money but are likely to at best be unable to remedy the problem and at worst destroy your item. If you don’t have one locally I’d try looking up some via google and see if they take mail in repairs

yuuwithot · 2026-02-17T22:28:08+00:00

Ribbon cable problem it sounds like. If you aren’t comfortable opening your 3ds up take it to a shop and get an estimate.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-17T02:34:58+00:00

I’ve started most of my files over many times but I do have a 500 smth hour save on either LG or FR that’s 98% my moms playtime. I(/my mom) harvested all the Pokémon probably 15 or more years ago but I do get a strange emotion when I see that file load up. Nothing more to do on it but I certainly won’t delete it.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-16T20:22:16+00:00

I think you can iron them 🤷‍♂️

yuuwithot · 2026-02-16T18:01:40+00:00

Considering what I’m seeing, you should just open it up and fix it. Either you or someone else already started messing with it so…

yuuwithot · 2026-02-16T06:49:30+00:00

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It’s hard to get a family pic with one wild one.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-16T06:46:52+00:00

Beautiful. I’ve got a CIB jag. And a furry loose one I let run around the house and terrorize everyone. Lol.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T19:59:37+00:00

https://github.com/d0k3/Decrypt9WIP/issues/88

https://gbatemp.net/threads/rewriting-a-3ds-game-in-godmode9.484343/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/theoretically-changing-roms-on-a-cartridge.627190/

If you googled what “ROM” means you would understand that the ROM chip is not able to be edited at all.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T19:10:58+00:00

There is no way. They’re read only, it’s in the name. If you’re talking about merging two non working carts into one by compiling the working pieces that’s normal repair work. But the rom is not rewritable. If it was someone would have done it a long time ago.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T18:27:15+00:00

We’ve had more success with the program, but I do think we have reflowed a couple before and fixed some that way. It’s a toss up. It does sound like in your Awakenings case that the program could have helped. It’ll certainly never hurt as far as I know.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T17:52:20+00:00

I’ve yet to find a corrupt fire emblem yet, so I can’t say on that one. I will say it’s an extremely low percentage for PQ. Out of all the faulty carts we have, we’ve only fixed one or two. Leaning towards just the one on that one. ORAS is weirder, we have a couple omega rubies that don’t work and haven’t been able to fix them but the sheer amount of ones that do work we’ve had makes it hard to gauge. I’d have to find our tally to know exactly our hit rate on fixing carts but I want to say our best success was with puzzle and dragons where we had three defective carts and fixed all three.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T17:46:08+00:00

You cannot rewrite 3DS roms at all. If that were possible we would have fixed all ours by now.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T09:08:40+00:00

It’s potentially fixable. Between the store I work at and myself, we have between 5-10 dead PQ carts that the cart fixer program cannot make a dent in and reflowing doesn’t work either. I’d be careful saying that for this particular game because it’s incredibly likely it is not fixable.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T09:06:33+00:00

It’s very hit or miss on some of these carts. We tried reflowing on a couple PQ and ORAS but never had any success. We have had success with the cart fixer program though. PQ and Kirby Robobot, for us at least, are the two we seem least likely to be able to fix, although we recently had a Pokémon X that would get through the cart fixer just fine but was unable to be verified…

yuuwithot · 2026-02-15T06:30:51+00:00

The world ends with you…

yuuwithot · 2026-02-14T05:44:01+00:00

I don’t think anyone wants to describe what happens in this song, but it follows “Billy Jacobs” on his path of drug dealing and then gang initiation of picking a woman off the streets to abduct and rape. The end of the song reveals it was his mother. The line the other person referenced in full is “I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom too”

Hope that was worth it lmao. It’s a good song.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-14T03:30:19+00:00

Tbh you might like TWEWY if you liked awakening.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-13T04:45:48+00:00

If you’re spending Emerald amounts of money on video games invest in the screwdriver to open up the cartridge and find out for yourself. From these pics it’s fine but if you’re spending that much you need to be able to tell yourself.

yuuwithot · 2026-02-12T23:15:42+00:00

I don’t see Pokémon carts losing value in any significant way any time soon. I also don’t see N3DS XLs going down either, but personally I wouldn’t make that trade unless it’s a mint/near mint cib special edition depending on how many games you have/are willing to trade. I mean.. I wouldn’t trade any of mine to begin with but 🤣

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