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A confession.

I love modding game consoles for homebrew & piracy, way back to the Dreamcast days. I like being able to do what I want with my hardware. I get as much enjoyment learning how to own the consoles as I do from playing video games I think.

I didn't have to work a real job for 3 years during the original Xbox run, just modded consoles for a living, installing 250GB drives loaded with games, TV and movies. My roommate at the time was a weed dealer and we had 4 networked Xbox in the house for epic halo lan parties, and people over constantly. That was good times. I even had a filesharing server on an Xbox running Gentoo Linux. Ever built Gentoo from source on a P3-733 with 64mb ram? Not recommended.

The original PSP had a pretty good scene as well, I did loads of those for friends. All my Nintendo handhelds have seen flashcards, and I helped my friends with that too. 3ds is a great retro handheld, get them while they are cheap! Software mods are crazy easy.

My current favorite is the Switch, love the form factor! Currently installing the new Zelda game 12 days early. I'll be back with spoilers soon!
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Maxim 2y ago

What do you think about Steam Deck? Tested one recently and oh boy, you can configure this thing to death. Almost now need to jailbreak it 😬 Kind of reminded me of Dreamcast…

I‘m a hardcore PC maxi for historical reasons (consoles were luxury where I grew up), but you’re totally right that being able to mod your hardware is the universal human right 🫡

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Ryan 2y ago

I want one so bad. There are some other cool options out there too, I'm not sure what to get. I'll probably pull the trigger once the switch is a retro console. Can't be much longer.