====Mid-2020 Updates====

Some of you have seen my backlog was shifting out again in that I stealth-added back my physical PC games, downloads, and Steam games from my main Steam account. I guess just because I wanted to play several of these games again? But they kind of contradict the main focus of my new backlog here, which was collection and things. The only irrelevant games which I really want to play will be put into Miscellaneous system. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to reset data on many of my Steam games, especially that with achievements, so I'll forget about them.

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I'm also playing Pokemon GO again! With a new monthly theme and account to go with it! (I've seem to lost my other account due to reasons unclear. Seriously, I don't even know). I'm already level 27 from two weeks ago and caught a good handful of shinies. I also walked 150+ km and have gotten 2000+ Pokemon total already. My friend code is in the online info of my Pokemon GO listing if anybody wants it.

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The last thing I wanted to talk about, and in detail about, is what new systems and games I will be getting down the road. As many of you know, the pandemic really slowed things down lately. But somehow the local pawnshop is open again and that's where I got a classic Game Boy today!

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With the Game Boy system added, I will talk about the other systems I plan to add down the road assuming most of the pandemic here blows over in the next few months:

Oculus: I plan to get an Oculus Quest next fall or so at a local store that has it. These games will be extra Steam games with VR support, except not following the criteria of my current Steam backlog. The games confirmed for "Oculus" system will be Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, and Beat Saber - Especially Beat Saber! The thing is, it MUST work on my gaming laptop because I can't use it in my room with my desktop.

Arcade: The idea was to assemble a lightweight/easy-to-move arcade cabinet out of properly-constructed cardboard and raspberry pi tech. It was all put on halt considering I get my cardboard from my work, which of course, am unable to due to the pandemic. But if there was an appropriate way to clean and sanitize each sheet well, then MAYBE I will continue. I will use RetroPie or whatever with my legally dumped roms off my collection.

NES, SNES, Genesis: I won't use an actual console for each of these systems. But if I collect at least one game of any of these systems, AND have a cartridge dumper for personal game preservation, I can transfer them to their respective classic console and play them from there. Though, I'm not going to play the pre-included games of each classic console because I want to progressively play these games with their physical copy on my shelf.

PS1 Same deal with the above systems, except I don't need a dumper device since it's all disc-based. Should be much easier to collect and play.

Hope you guys are all doing well for this midpoint of 2020 with how much chaos has been stirred up so far. Hopefully it all goes back the other way soon and hits full circle by Christmas.

It is a pretty fun game from what I had remember on the Wii VC it is tough but I'll probably beat it out on my cartridge. Got it for a good bundle deal with my copy of Snowboard Kids 2. I've accepted I am a collector but I only get games I really want to play not to finish any set at all but it is fun hunting down deals and games I always wanted to play as a kid and/or teenager. Getting near to the point of having obtained all the games from my memory I always wanted now it's mostly kinda filler to just get to try out see if I like it or not.

Jigsaw puzzles...I was doing 500s at age 7. 1000s at age 12 or so. I don't know if I ever actually did those baby 4 pieces ones or whatever they have. I did a few 3D puzzles probably two decades ago.

Some of you are probably aware, some of you are probably unaware... I got a snazzy new gaming laptop alongside my desktop one! Yes, the return of mobile computing after more than a half year of minimal, minimal use. I will be adding in extra games to go with it, though convoluted reasons, mind you.

One of the waves of games to add in are ones from a brand new Steam alt account... What? Yes, I said that correctly. An ALTERNATE Steam Account! While prepared for casual Steam to kill my wallet more, there are multiple other reasons why I'm doing this:

- Re-adding games that fit my Steam game criteria (On my page note)
- Start the badge collecting right, as I have interest in upping my level with them.
- No more permanent game file auto-saving, especially as per new Backlog rules - I start fresh and anew simply. (I don't have to do a "New Game +" fashion when it comes to playing games over again)
- Using the alt account on my laptop and my original on my desktop to play good online multiplayer games locally.

If anything, I could play the other games of my original account if I feel to. They just won't register as backlog status, so don't worry about my insanity or something...

I have deleted my whole Steam list of games on my backloggery, and have only five games I gifted to my alt account; Played and unplayed in the past:

- The Binding of Isaac
- Bit Blaster XL
- Hook
- LiEat
- Pony Island

Italic titles are ones I haven't played. No I have never played Isaac tyvm

With that being said, I also intend to add other system(s) down the road. Stuff like Arcade and POSSIBLY Oculus. Though said systems will have a bit of a twist similar to select systems on my backlog. But those will be for another day. Now let's see what this new laptop is capable of...

Neo Geo Pocket Color (DS cases)
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SNES/SFC/NES/FC/N64 [Link]

Still have yet to do Genesis, but here's some old pics I found of my cars (they're in storage now) [Link]

Saturn [Link]
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Dreamcast
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Master System/32X
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The way I made my N64 custom labels (and SNES/SFC/NES/FC) is just to stick printed out boxart from sites the the cover project on a Universal Game Case

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Game Highlight - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | I'm sure most of you noticed I have completed Ocarina of Time for N64. And I would like to talk about it in detail...

When I had my childhood N64 with this game, I kept being turned away by many points in the game mainly because of puzzles that don't make sense like the casual Zelda game it is. But having 100% both regular and Master quests in the 3DS port, I went forward to play through this game whole on the actual hardware (With a rumble pak) and in 100%, without reading a guide and relying on memory from 3DS. Sure I remember less about the master quest, but I knew where everything was and got them (Except maybe that last piece of heart I had to get before defeating Ganon).

To be honest, the most difficult scenario I had in the entire adventure was in Water Temple. Not actually the whole temple, which was really by tedium, but it was the miniboss: "Dark Slayer" (Yes yes, my Link was titled "Slayer" ). Dark Slayer took quite a while to defeat having taken up all three of my bottled fairies.

But probably the best distinctive detail about the whole run, was that I somehow managed to 100% the game without dying (As per the save file death counter). But then again, OoT was one of the easier Zelda titles out there; It's got nothing on its successor, Majora's Mask (Which I am scared of playing, believe me).

I have no intention of breaking the game via a speedrun of the whole thing, but seeing how knowledgeable I am at OoT. I will come up with a detailed map guide or something, followed by a 3-heart run with extra restrictions, for that Master Crystal.

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In other words, I have just finished adding in listdowns of nearly all the Wii games in a spreadsheet, as well as the top 30 best-selling Switch games as of now as a collection of its own. I will hardly order other old games online considering how mediocre Amazon's secondhand market has become for me; I will have to resort to the retro game stores around town in the long run.

Thanks! How are your Rubik cubes going? I have never learned how to solve even a simple 3x3, haha.

Yeah, two hundred. Might be more, I haven't checked my trainer card lately. I have 469 shinies (including duplicates) in Pokémon Home, most of which are from Sword, and I caught/hatched most of them myself. Some were traded for Meltans from Pokémon GO since that's a Mon not many people are able to get (you need GO and Let's Go). I even traded my shiny Melmetal for 20 (!) shinies at one point. It's insane.

Yes, I do have a couple square shinies. My first two were squares, in fact. A Gyarados (which was the very first Gyarados I saw in the game) and a Bronzor (the second one I ever encountered), both in the span of 10 minutes with unboosted odds. I also have some shiny G-MAX ones. I still couldn't hatch a Scorbunny - if you ever happen to get one, I would be willing to trade.

This reminds me. I still haven't transfered the Abras to Home. Eh. That can wait.