Brothers of the Seventh Tier Dimension, I just opened my drawer and saw that yellowed-screen GBA again. I still remember back in the day at the electronics market, there were all those pirated game cards, and the shop owner would pat his chest saying, 'This card has over a hundred games, you definitely won't regret buying it.' But when I got home and plugged it in, the battery save wouldn't last more than three days, and losing my progress made me feel completely shattered 😭
Later, in the PSP era, memory sticks were filled with ISOs, and once I plugged in a flashcart on the NDS, I felt like I owned the whole world. But with these pirated cartridges, playing was fun, losing save files was painful, the quality of translations was uneven, and crashes and black screens were a daily occurrence. Now, occasionally using a mobile game emulator to relive those games, once I turn on the screen filters, my youth comes back, but that sense of ritual of inserting cartridges, cleaning the gold contacts, and changing the memory battery, is really gone 🎮
Recently, I saw someone talking about 'Dawn Survival' on Qitan Dimension, and I originally thought it was another