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Hello, my friends, and welcome to this second episode of 3DS Cast.

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in this episode, I'm Brian Rubin, by the way, your host.

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In this episode, I wanted to cover the 3DS itself.

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Basically ask the question why?

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Why the 3DS?

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Why cover this now defunct, officially defunct gaming platform?

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I'm trying not to pause.

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I'm trying to pause less.

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I noticed in the first episode I paused a lot more.

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I paused a lot.

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Excuse me.

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I'm trying to pause less.

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So I will try to get better at that as I go.

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I'm not used to this monologuing thing.

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But um if I do pause, it might be because I'm catching my breath or, you know,

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You know, whatever.

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So like that.

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Anyway, I want to talk about the 3DS in this episode and why I wanted to cover it.

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If you're unaware, I don't know why you'd be unaware listening to this, but the 3D 3DS was
basic basically had a nine year run.

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It started in 2011 with the original model, and then a year later the XL came out, the
original 3ds Excel, and then about a year later I think the 2DS came out, and that was the

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one that doesn't fold.

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people affectionately call that one the doorstop.

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But it is much beloved.

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It's wonderful.

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We could talk about that.

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I actually plan to have an episode later as to the benefits of a 2DS and why you should
buy one if you want to enter the ecosphere.

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ah And then a a year after that, I think the new quote-unquote, the new models came out.

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They actually called them the new Nintendo 3DS, the new Nintendo 3DS XL, and then

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The last model to come out was the new 2DS, the new 2DS XL.

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That was the last one to come out, and also the worst of them, I believe.

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Um it had a nine-year run, basically, officially from 2011 to 2020, when Nintendo stopped
making it.

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So even into the Switch's lifespan, there was still life in the 3DS.

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There were still games coming out.

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But I wanted to talk about why specifically I love

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The 3DS, why I feel like it's worth covering, and why I think, in my opinion, it is the
best pure handheld you can still get today.

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First issue I want to talk about is the portability.

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Now, sure, you can get a Switch 2, you can get a Steam Deck, you can get I can't remember
the name of the other ones, but there are some big Windows and Linux-based portable PCs.

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I don't think things like that are portable.

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I they're not.

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They're huge.

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I have a switch.

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It's not very portable.

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It's huge.

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I can't just throw it in a bag and go.

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I gotta put it in a case and yada yada.

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It is a a huge thing.

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It's it's god, the the old Atari Lynx is almost as big as the Switch.

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Or roughly they're not that far apart in size, I think.

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Um correct me if I'm wrong.

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But I don't think the Switch one or two or the Steam Deck or the ROC, I think they're
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I can't remember all of them.

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There's so many of them.

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I don't think it's very portable.

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I don't think they are very portable.

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And so one of the benefits of this of the 3DS line, taking out the the original two DS
because it doesn't fold, is the foldability.

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It folds.

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It's a clamshell device.

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It folds.

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And there are, you know, there are other devices that do that, the original Game Boy.

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Advanced SP, there are Android devices now that do this that copy the look of the SP, the
advanced SP and the 3DS that are that fold and have the clamshell design.

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But I think the 3ds, if we're just sticking to the 3ds, the 3ds has a portability because
of its clamshell design that really is unmatched.

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Um not only, not only that, um because of its clamshell design, it's a mostly mostly
well-built machine.

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Um, except for the hinge problem of the original 3D XL, 3D SXL, and the new 2DS XL.

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They're very sturdy and well built machines that will take a little bit of pounding in
your bag or in your pocket.

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So they are very well built for the most part, very sturdy designs.

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Um, of course they fail.

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They're getting older.

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Of course they fail, but we're not talking about that.

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We're talking about the inherent portability in the design.

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Which I think makes them special.

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I I love carrying around my 3DS.

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I I have a case for it and a shelf for it.

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I keep it very protected.

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But it's still, because I always have a backpack.

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Very easy to carry around.

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Doesn't take up a ton of space.

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Very easy to pull out and and play just at a moment's notice.

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Uh, you don't have to wait for a long boot up or anything.

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You know, even with my large one twenty-eight gig card, it only takes

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You know, a few seconds to boot, it's never that long.

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And the games themselves are very quick to load.

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So I think the inherent portability of 3DS, and I will say, I think the 2DS, the original
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It's not very big, it's smaller than a switch, for example.

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You can put it in a case, very easy to carry around.

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It's not very large.

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But the 3DS with its clamshell is a very good, very portable design.

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Now I'm just gonna side note here.

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If you have a 3DS and you haven't gotten screen protectors for them, please do that.

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Because I think on some of the models, the top screen will scratch the bottom screen a bit
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I've read about this.

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So if you haven't gotten screen protectors for your 3DS, please do immediately.

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You gotta take care of these things because they're going up in price and you know they
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All electronics fails at some point.

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You want to take care of your babies.

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So I think again, portability is a is one big reason to love the 3DS and why I want to
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Um the library.

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We're just gonna talk about the library for what the native 3DS can cover.

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So it can play 3D, it can play 3DS games and it can play DS games.

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And uh because of its uh heritage with the DS, which could play Game Boy Advanced Games
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Console can also play Game Boy Advanced Games natively.

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So you're talking about a library with thousands and thousands of titles.

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I'm looking at Wikipedia from my source.

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There are 1800 roughly

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3DS games, and there are roughly 32, 3300 DS games.

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Even if you take shovelware and things out of that, you're still talking hundreds, if not
thousands, of quality, quality titles.

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And a lot of these titles haven't made their way elsewhere.

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They're not on the Switch.

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you can only play them through emulation if you're on another device.

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So yeah, and we won't get into the get legalities of that.

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So just looking at the pure library that you can play on a vanilla 3DS is hundreds of
amazing games, thousands of games.

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Just I feel the only console library that bests it is the PlayStation 2.

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I think the o I I don't think there's another console that has a better library than um
excuse me than the 3DS.

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It's just

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And that's one of the reasons I fell in love with it.

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Because like the uh like the PlayStation 2, it was a time of experimentation for both the
three DS and the 3DS.

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It was a time of trying all these different things.

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You could play strategy games.

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You could play you c you could play war games, you could play flight games, there's uh pet
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The variety of the library of the DS and 3DS is utterly astounding.

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Absolutely astounding.

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There, I think the only way you could do better, like I said, is the PlayStation 2 or the
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I don't think you, especially for a handheld, I don't think you can do better.

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No, I don't think anything bested.

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I mean, as the switch goes on, it's probably coming close, but I think because of the dual
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On that machine that are harder to do on a single screen device.

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So the library of the 3DS is another reason I love it and I wanted to celebrate it and
cover it because you can find just about any type of game on this thing, like I said.

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And it's amazing.

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But the first game I got when I got my 3DS XL was a DS strategy game based on the PC
series Age of Empires.

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I did not know there was a turn-based version of Age of Empires on the DS, but there is.

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And there's also Age of Mythology.

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And there's well.

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There's also, like, if you're talking just series that were on the PC, there's Sim City,
there's Anno, there's IL2, there are all these games that made their way to the DS and 3DS

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because of how amazing the system is and its touch screen and everything.

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SimCities Creators, I believe it's called, and the DS is an amazing city builder, for
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there's an IL2 game that I've been enjoying playing on the DS, um, which is a really fun
flight game.

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Uh there's a there's a I think it's called Panzer Tactics, which is a war game, very
similar to Panzer General on the DS.

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so just the DS alone, but also the 3DS has an amazing library.

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Unbeatable in terms of handhelds, I think.

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especially when you add on native Game Boy Advanced support um through its virtual
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my god, just just an astounding library.

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Absolutely astounding.

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So that's another reason I want to celebrate the thing.

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I also think this might be one of the last consoles that had character, that had a soul.

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If you've never played a 3DS, why are you listening to this if you never played it a 3DS?

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But if let's just say for the sake of argument, you'd never played it a 3DS before.

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Excuse me, the 3DS has custom themes with their own background music.

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Um when you when you get a new game on the 3DS through the eShop or however, excuse me,
you're unwrapped it it it appears on your home screen as a present.

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And you can you you you're unwrapping a present.

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The 3DS had a thing, and this this also goes into uni unique features called Street Pass,
which does not does not exist anywhere else.

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What that means if you're unaware is if you walked by someone else who had a closed
sleeping 3DS, it would exchange information for various games.

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So that person would show up in your Mii Plaza.

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Which you could use for other things like games and whatnot.

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But it would also exchange games for like things like Tamodachi Life and Animal Crossing
and Yokai Watch 2 and Yadda Yadda Yada.

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Just just some lovely little feature that just adds so much character and soul to this
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This console is just a it's a little piece of joy.

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And because you have unique uh themes with their own unique music, you can make your own
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You can make custom splash screens when it boots up.

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Um and and and with the 3D with the Street Pass, excuse me, you just have basically a
console that is yours, that is an extension of yourself and becomes a part of you that

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they lost with the Switch.

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The Switch has this bare bones interface that is so corporate, just so corporate.

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It just makes me sad.

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Because you open up the 3DS or 2DS and you turn it on and it's just a little slice of joy
with its themes and its music presence and uh Street Pass and everything.

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No other machine has this level of personality, has this level of joy, I don't think.

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Like some other machines come close, like the the Xbox 360s, their menu has a lot of
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For for sheer personality, I don't think and the Wii was like this also.

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If I uh I never had a Wii U, uh, so I don't know.

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But I have a Wii, and I know the Wii was like this also, just full of personality and
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And it had a soul, it's different channels and everything.

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And the 3DS is very similar.

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So I I think that's another reason I love the 3DS and I want to celebrate the 3DS with
this podcast, is that it's maybe the last console.

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Especially the last handheld, maybe the last console that had just a soul, had charm, had
personality that that I don't think anything else has to its extent.

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So another reason I want to uh cover the 3DS, moving on from that, is the 3DS is going
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Um, if you look it up on YouTube, there are tons of videos talking about this.

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I think there are a few reasons why it's going through a resurgence.

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I'm an older gamer.

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I'm in my 50s.

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But I think a lot of gamers of a certain age that were kids when this came out, um, either
they didn't have one or they had one and because they were a kid, they didn't take very

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good care of it, and so it got broken, or what have you.

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A lot of those kids are now adults with their own income.

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And they want a slice of that nostalgia, they want a slice of that igon era.

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Uh and it's happening with younger people I've noticed.

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Like I have a friend who has a 19, I think now, or 20-year-old daughter, and she's buying
things from the 90s, digital cameras and things from the early 2000s, like original iPods.

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Like I think people are getting tired of their phones, I say as I pick my phone up.

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I love my phone.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I love my phone.

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But I think people are getting tired of the phone.

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Having to draw you in, all the notifications, all the all, all those things.

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I I think people are getting tired of things like doom scrolling.

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I think people are seeking out a little more simplicity, a little more focus.

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And so I think because of that, the 3DS is having a resurgence, a renaissance, if you
will, because not only are people of a certain age reacquiring or rediscovering it.

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younger people are finding out about it.

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I'm I'm noticing on YouTube, for example, and discovering it as well.

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And discovering what a joyful device it is.

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Joyful device.

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It's one of the reasons I love it because it's so joyful.

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And I think that's one of the reasons I wanted to talk about it is because going through a
resurgence, more people are talking about it, more people are discovering it.

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And I thought that I want to be a part of that conversation.

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I want to I I and I've been I want to help people

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discover this thing.

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I want to help people find the joy that the 3DS offers that few other devices can.

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Uh so that's another reason I want to talk about the 3DS is just how joyful this thing
still is and what a unique place it has in technology today.

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Because yes, you can game on your phone.

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Yes, you can game on your tablet.

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I have a I have an Android gaming tablet that I absolutely love.

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And I I do play games on that, but I also read on it.

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It's it has it has specific functions.

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And I have a Switch that I haven't touched in over a year.

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But I play my 3DS every day.

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Uh that it is my now primary gaming device.

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My three DS and my two DS are my primary gaming device.

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And I think there's something to be said for that.

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And I think

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Not only are people rediscovering that, but new people are discovering the joy of this
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So you could see the resurgence in the prices online.

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Like these machines are going for hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

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They're going for the same price as a switch, switch two.

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They're they're they're they're more than their original original price.

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I'm very lucky in that my

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new 3DS Excel Galaxy edition I got through a friend that I know online, and he was willing
to sell it to me at a reasonable price.

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So I got it for only a couple hundred bucks.

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I feel very lucky about that.

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And I got my DS, pristine conditioned DS a month ago for $90.

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I didn't need to charge it, didn't have a charger.

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I didn't need one.

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I've got like so many cables and chargers at this point.

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but still $90.

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And that's

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A reason, and if you look at like pricecharting.com, that's a reasonable price for a 2DS
in this day and age of good condition.

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So there is a renaissance of this thing.

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And one of the reasons there's a renaissance, which I'm going to talk about, is the
homebrew community modding.

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Um, this thing has a wonderful, beautiful modding community.

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The 3DS and 2DS are very easy to mod.

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I've said this before, but

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I'm an idiot.

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And I was able to not only mod my new 3ds Excel, I modd 2DS as well.

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I did it myself.

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There's a guide at 3ds.hacks.guide, I believe.

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And I can link it.

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I I should in the in the show notes.

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And it is such a well-written guide.

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It is available in multiple languages if you're curious, but it is such a well-written,
elegant.

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efficient, beautiful guide that even a moron like myself can follow it.

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And I am shocked at how straightforward this thing was to hack.

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Now, yes, one of the reasons people hack it is for piracy.

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We are not going to talk about that.

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We're going to talk, and I'm going to go into another a a whole episode about the benefits
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But this thing has a like one of the things

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Modded 3ds has is is an FTP client, file transfer protocol.

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So you can use an FTP client to wirelessly take files to and from the 3DS to your computer
or laptop or whatever, uh, rather than having to take out the physical SD card.

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Just stuff like that.

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But there are also ports like someone made a Diablo port for the 3DS, where you copy your
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And you could play Diablo on your 3DS.

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And there are other ports that do stuff like that.

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Apparently, there's a Fallout 2 one.

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I want to do an episode on ports.

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Um, I'm learning more about ports as we go.

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And there are ports that use your legal game files, like Diablo, to play Diablo and the
3DS.

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And they're all and there are like all these other ports.

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Like I've never heard of the game Lego Island, but there's a port of that.

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there are all these.

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Apps and games that people make in the homebrew community that you can just download
through a program called Universal Updater.

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Um, and it's through another app called Anemone, I believe, that you can get custom themes
and you can have these themes cycle.

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So you can have random themes every time you turn it on or open it up.

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That's just some of the things you can do with a modded 3DS.

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And the homebrew community is astounding.

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I lurk on the 3DS home.

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homebrew server, the Nintendo homebrew server, excuse me.

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I just watch as these patient, patient helpers help dozens of people every day to either
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And they are patient and they are honest and they are kind.

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And it is just wonderful to see.

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And I'm learning so much about

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How the 3DS works, how it's mod been modded.

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The homebrew community is maybe one of the best communities I've seen surrounding any kind
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helpful, patient, kind, like I've said before.

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It's just amazing to sit in that server and watch people be helped throughout the day.

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It just gives me some joy, it just gives me hope for humanity because.

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It's such a positive place where people want to help each other and and people want to get
everyone's 3DS properly working.

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So I'm gonna do episodes about modding in the homebrew community as well, but I wanted to
touch on it here as a reason why I want to cover this machine.

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So I know I keep pausing.

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It's because I'm you know hydrating myself a little bit.

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I apologize for that.

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These are the main reasons I wanted to cover this wonderful little machine.

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It has an amazing library.

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It's got character and soul.

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It's insanely portable.

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It respects I I don't know if I covered the fact that it respects your time, but it
respects your time because of its wonderful sleep mode.

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And it's got an amazing community surrounding it, even to this day, that has breathed new
life into this machine that might not have been possible otherwise.

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So th those are the main reasons I want to cover the 3DS on this podcast.

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I love the 3DS.

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I want to talk about it more.

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And in future episodes, I'm going to focus a little more on some of these topics that I
talked about today briefly.

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And I want to have interviews with I want to have people, I want to talk to people from
the homebrew community.

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I want to talk to people who develop games, you know, their own homebrew games for these
things.

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I want to talk to maybe

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The people who worked on the hardware.

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I want to talk to the people who behind this thing, not only about its past, but about its
present and its future.

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So I'm very excited to make this podcast.

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I'm very excited to talk to you all about the 3DS, this little machine that I love so
dearly.

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And I'm excited to see where this podcast goes.

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As long as Nintendo doesn't shut me down.

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I really hope they don't.

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I mean, it's advertising for them.

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Really, it's advertising for a machine that they gave up on, sadly.

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I mean, can you imagine if they released another one?

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I'm gonna ramble a bit.

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Can you imagine if they released a new three DS today with backwards compatibility with
all the old stuff, but newer hardware, n newer better screens, that sort of thing?

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Joe.

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I think it would sell better than the Switch one or two.

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Honestly, if it was priced reasonably, it would kill the secondary market.

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But I think that's okay.

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Secondary market's kind of crazy right now.

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But my God.

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Just just can you imagine if they made a new 3DS?

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Anyway, I'll leave you with that thought.

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Thank you so much for listening and hanging out with me.

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uh I've got more episodes planned.

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This is going to be in a regular podcast.

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It's not going to be weekly or monthly.

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It's going to be as I do it.

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So I'll try to do one at least a once a month, but I can't promise that because of one, I
have two other podcasts and a full time job.

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We'll see how this goes.

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But I'm excited to talk to you all about the 3DS.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Have a great day.

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And uh find your joy.

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You know, find your joy out there.

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Take care.