23rd July 2015, 3:44 PM
This isn't a game, but hardware. Early this year I backed the kickstarter for Blinking Light Win, a replacement tray and connector for the NES, hoping that it'd finally make my original NES actually work, something it never has since I got it for cheap more than five years ago.
Well, after a few too many delays, it finally arrived, and I installed it yesterday... and it works! There is one drawback, but the thing does its job great as far as playing games goes. Games actually work with this thing as they never have in this Nintendo, and with the good picture quality composite gives you on a NES. None of those awful vertical lines through the picture here, unlike my NES 2! The drawback is that getting games OUT of this thing is hard -- it has a death-grip on the cartridges, unfortunately. I do understand that the "Zero Insertion Force" mechanism is the problem that causes NES connectors to fail, so there may be no way to have a reliable and also easy-to-remove original NES cartridge connector, but this definitely isn't it. Still, it's far better than what I had before, so I'm happy with it. The only other issue is that there's no real way to play my Japanese games with this, because if I put my Honey Bee Converter in there I'll probably never get it out... so it's the NES 2 for those, I guess, until/unless a Famicom converter for the BLW is made. I'd probably get one if it is.
Also, the new X360 Games with Gold title is out.
Xbox 360 DD - Games with Gold
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Gears of War 3 - With this, now I have all four of the 360 Gears games, so that's nice. It's not a series I care for much, but if I have part of a series I like to have it all... so it's nice to have them give me the last one for free. (Judgment I got from GwG last year. The other two I have in a disc collection, though I think I have the first game from GwG as well.)
Well, after a few too many delays, it finally arrived, and I installed it yesterday... and it works! There is one drawback, but the thing does its job great as far as playing games goes. Games actually work with this thing as they never have in this Nintendo, and with the good picture quality composite gives you on a NES. None of those awful vertical lines through the picture here, unlike my NES 2! The drawback is that getting games OUT of this thing is hard -- it has a death-grip on the cartridges, unfortunately. I do understand that the "Zero Insertion Force" mechanism is the problem that causes NES connectors to fail, so there may be no way to have a reliable and also easy-to-remove original NES cartridge connector, but this definitely isn't it. Still, it's far better than what I had before, so I'm happy with it. The only other issue is that there's no real way to play my Japanese games with this, because if I put my Honey Bee Converter in there I'll probably never get it out... so it's the NES 2 for those, I guess, until/unless a Famicom converter for the BLW is made. I'd probably get one if it is.
Also, the new X360 Games with Gold title is out.
Xbox 360 DD - Games with Gold
--
Gears of War 3 - With this, now I have all four of the 360 Gears games, so that's nice. It's not a series I care for much, but if I have part of a series I like to have it all... so it's nice to have them give me the last one for free. (Judgment I got from GwG last year. The other two I have in a disc collection, though I think I have the first game from GwG as well.)