Taken from bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/simplyaj.com/post/3mtq6av6yp226

Plus a sidenote from this person on DS games: https://bsky.app/profile/simplyaj.com/post/3mttai4jaz22j

Not sure on the technical details of exactly how long they last, but I’ve heard similar things several times before.

Always depressing to be reminded of this. Haven’t had many fail, but honestly haven’t tried a lot of my 3DS/Vita games in a while, so who knows.

If nothing else tho, it’s nice to have an excuse to revisit some things. Once you boot it up, you might find yourself enjoying the reminiscing. :)

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Not always. Certain 3DS games require either lot of horse power and some don’t play well without touch screen or a second screen. I also recommend to get another 3DS and hack it, and dump all your games as Roms to play on the hacked machine without emulation. So that way you preserved your own save files and games at least for yourself, in case they say “bye bye” to you. Otherwise, yes, emulation is your friend. :-) (Me a big emulation fan, BTW.)

      • Lanvjscdlk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        For not playing well without the touch screen, there’s modern SBC clones like the Anbernic RG DS. Don’t know how good they are but they exist.

        • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          RG DS doesn’t have enough horsepower for 3DS. Some select titles work but stock Android eats up any overhead it might’ve had.

          The Ayn Thor can do more 3DS (and Wii U).

  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    This plus batteries are what has me thinking about selling my handheld collections. I have them all out so I can periodically keep them charged. I left my first switch uncharged for 6 months and the battery crapped out so I had to open it up and change it out.

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    It’s probably too late for me, but I don’t think I care about saves older than 10 years. I can’t even remember what I was doing in a game a week later, let alone a decade.

    Does it permanently bork any new saves, though? I know my SNES Z:LttP had permanent save issues but I think that’s a different story.

    • emb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I think it’s that the actual game itself gets corrupted. So it’s not even that you can’t save, it’s that you can’t play the game.

      Like @[email protected] pointed out in this thread tho, there may be ways to save a corrupted game.

  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I hacked my kids 2DS recently and now I just play it for fun :/

    Seriously though, keep it alive as the the DS consoles are still awesome.