Recent content by Thomascagger

Doug is posting about some sort of court thing which seems to be happening on the 30th, I take the implication to be something with Josh

I'm mostly surprised how many companies seem to be ignorant to how bad LRG (Josh) is at this point before putting ink down

The dump I have, which is fully functional, doesn't actually have a cart title, it's entirely 0x00. it was never in lot check so that's not entirely weird, I think they left it blank and the software etc reliea on it due to poor coding choices by whoever made it and it just picked some random...

Thoughts on the LRG PCB? Imo they look cleanly fabbed, just reused chips

I used to make repros for NES translations by hand by desoldering the original chips and then UV wiping and flashing EEPROMS that were drop in compatible or lifting and rewiring pins to match the pinout as needed. Nowadays you can get prefabbed PCBs designed to just let you drop in an eeprom...

The original NES ones could potentially, they weren't clamping voltage properly. The GBA carts shouldn't

I see no reason they should have. The carts work fine, some person using a poor dumping solution that uses an internal database of title IDs to identify carts then running to social to scream THEY REUSED CROUCHING TIGER CARTS like an absolute megadumbass is actually a worse look. I'm not reading...

I'm a big time LRG hater, but the actual PCBs look fine to me, and the soldering also looks clean. The chips are what look like they obtained bulk secondhand chips, which from a functional perspective isn't that big of a deal. (Edit: I think the soldering is too clean to think LRG assembled...

I would guess they could be old stock that was sitting in a box, or maybe it's leftover flux from fab. But yeah the top of the chip being dirty doesn't affect it's functionality, if you were mounting a heatsink sure, but not here

Yeah that's bullshit. You can't reflash GBA retail carts. Also the shantae board has an fpga on it, no retail cart does. The guy trying to dump it has no idea what he's talking about. There is a functional dump online, the game has no rom title assigned, whatever crappy software he's using...

I think it's still sustainable but you've got to be honest with what your company is doing. Too many of the "boutique" ones were making expectations they couldn't meet, botching stuff, etc. I would be fine if VGP takes things on, they've been doing a good job with securing reprints on stuff that...

They got called out on the PPP stuff awhile back but never said anything afaik. Their entire business type was basically unimpacted by covid besides delays, but considering they couldn't meet deadlines before it...... I would guess they used the loan to fund opening the retail spot / Josh's...

Yeah play the beat around the bush game buddy 30 normal 55 mk bundle confirmed by an actual manager at their store, accessories very limited in store by different manager

that mod doesn't currently work for GameStop fyi

Which mod, managers say they have not received allocations