Iconic

Came across an old Acer Iconia W700P, battery said it was healthy but wouldn't charge, SSD would handle clean OS installations and then fail to boot consistently, Acer's BIOS-update download links are dead, disassembly was brutal (so much adhesive, so many annoying cable runs), and I finally just gave-up on it figuring something's not working on the motherboard. Would've been a cool little tablet PC; ran Linux really well...

...But then someone gave me an (also old) HP Stream - 14-ax010ca (ENERGY STAR) and despite a dual-core/single-thread CPU and a 32GB eMMC for storage, that thing is not bad at all when running EndeavourOS (Windows 11 was a different story) and comes in a delightful blue shell :) I think I may just carry that around for meetings to freak people out.

I was given a box of old video games with along with Stream, and this is just what I'm choosing to keep from it:

GC:

• Baten Kaitos
• Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
• Donkey Konga
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Star Wars Rogue Leader

PS2:

• Dirge of Cerberus
• Haunting Ground (!!!)
• Radiata Stories

XBOX 360:

• LEGO Rock Band
• Rock Band 3
  

...And the rest should net me $100~$300

Translated!

I've already talked about Sylvan Tale here, but now I'm going through Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (delightfully weird) and Makai Toushi SaGa (my childhood!) before finally getting around to Mother 3.

Makai Toushi SaGa is especially nice though; what a great remake to a cultural touchstone, warts and all. Criminal that it's stuck on the WonderSwan.

Finished Gargoyle's Quest, may have abused some save states along the way, and what a gem! Flawed like so many of its contemporaries - this one is just full of character and good ideas, and deserves a modern take.

Played around with Mega Man World 5 DX; impressive, though the Mega Man games still just don't really do it for me. I kinda liked IV on both platforms, I liked the Game Gear one, I liked Rockman & Forte... I'm not sure why, but the series just hasn't clicked with me.