taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

it has been shipped..!! now the nail biting part while I wait for it to arrive at the agent's warehouse.... it literally only has to move between two neighbouring cities in Guangdong province.. what could possibly go wrong

How difficult was it to dump the Sintax GBA games and what methods were used to crack them? Catponpon btw — extremely difficult! at least by my standards! Basically the only method of getting the data out of them is by allowing them to boot in a … https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/115924264732708782

roar! How did you get into bootleg games/dumping, if it hasn't been asked yet? —

rawr!!! I became interested in the games from reading about them in magazines and on the late 90s internet, they were rarely seen in the UK so it was like this ... https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/115924213905892837

One thing that's kind of unfortunate tbh is that Chinese business hours align almost perfectly with UK sleeping hours so if they contact me at the start of their work day I can only really reply at the end

The seller messaged me saying their store was temporarily unavailable due to reasons & could I please buy from this other one instead so I had to cancel the original order and get a refund
Apparently refunds were an issue with foreign CCs before but it seems to have been processed so... we go again

well I did it I placed the order
after all the pissing around setting up worldfirst it simply did not appear as an option at checkout and I have no idea why so i used credit card anyway 🤷
let's hope this all works...!!

@mavica_again god forbid someone from outside the country can see when the bus is coming?????

today's stupid problem: wanted to install 1688 android app which is available in Eng but only on google play & it is region blocked in the UK. Versions from other sources are Chinese only. I tried installing the eng version through Aurora but it refuses to launch if not installed from the play store

i'm still on the verge of doing this... still kind of "aah what if things go wrong and my shit gets stuck in China and i can't do anything about it"
but then what's the worst case scenario I suppose. I might lose 50 quid. It still wouldn't be the stupidest way I've lost 50 quid

@misty I definitely recall some web forums calling themselves BBS around the early 00s, maybe mostly East Asian ones? I still see that usage on Chinese sites sometimes

it still is btw. i'm pouring used brain oil down the sink and causing problems