I once called Nintendo as a kid when my DS hinge broke for no reason. I had it for under a year and there was info about a warranty. They told me that they had already fixed that defect and they would not cover it.
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Did you try flying to Japan to exchange it?
The most unrealistic thing about this post is the idea that you might drop a GBA and break it's screen. Those things were practically indestructible.
Who remembers where they bought their game consoles? Did he give the address of a Best Buy off the top of his head?
How the fuck did anon post from the future though?
Just America's stupid date format.
mm/dd/yy is a crime akin to min:sec:hour
I've been using yyyymmdd and was appalled when I found out the ones appaled by the American method uses ddmmyyyy. It doesn't even sort chronologicaly in alpha numeric ordering. Just why???
Edit: I just realized that ddmmyyyy looks like dummy and that's how I'm going to refer to it from now on.
When naming files that need to be alphanumerically sorted, yyyymmdd it’s absolutely what anyone I know will use. But in writing or language, mmddyyyy is the way to go. You start with the most gradual denominator, since it’s the most important and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident
You start with the most gradual denominator
So, the year. YYYY-MM-dd.
and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident
So, skip the month: dd-MM-YYYY.
There's no scenario in which MM-dd-YYYY makes more sense. Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?
Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?
I mean, that's not an argument for a better system, though; if you're saying, "Yeah; you won't be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds," a person can certainly do that but it's still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.
Were GBAs region-locked?
They're not even connected to the internet. Why would region matter?
DVD players used to be (probably still are?) region locked, and those didn't require internet service either. The region was either hard coded or could only be changed like 5 times.
It was an attempt to enforce geographic licensing fees and stop piracy.