Can somebody tell me what (Disney, right?) song this sounds like? Because this is very distinct, I swear I’ve heard this in some Disney movie from the early to mid 90s.
The beginning made me think of A Whole New World from Aladdin, but I don’t think that is it.
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Yeah, it sounds very Aladdin to me, too, but I couldn’t find anything close except for maybe The Kiss but I don’t think that’s close, either. Maybe I’m just hearing things.
It immediately made me think of the opening lyrics of a whole new world. Play it at 1.5 speed, then play this (timestamped):
Very similar
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Yeah I instantly started singing “I can show you the world…” when it started.
was the N64DD the last major console peripheral thing released? Was it the last major console/etc. to only be released in Japan? I feel like no one talks about it enough.
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I mean, unless you count stuff like the Kinect/Move and PSVR, yeah I think those were the last ones.
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oh yeah the vr things are a good example. i guess my thinking was that after that consoles moved on to having subsequent editions with marginally improved added functionality rather than using peripherals to expand the function of the same device.
in terms of regionally exclusive stuff i don’t really know what’s going on. i suppose china still has technically exclusive consoles like the ique
The GameCube had the Gameboy Player that you stuck on the bottom, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider that “major”.
There was also a broadband adapter for the Gamecube: GameCube online functionality - Wikipedia
The Wii had the upgraded motion controls things you would chunk onto the bottom of the Wiimote, OR buy the ones with it integrated. That was pretty major as some games would lock you out if you didn’t have it, IIRC.
So yeah, still some weirdness up until the Wii on Nintendo’s side. Not super familiar with PS2/PS3 whatever though
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BTW it turns out the 64DD was fucken weird and had some fucken weird games on it, and it’s still difficult to emulate properly for some reason, so it’s kind of a mysterious blindspot for me. But there was a Sim City 64!!! And you could walk around in the city!! so cool
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Well, the PS5 has better support than previous generations for expanding its storage space with a USB drive
In order to listen to Switch audio on my Bluetooth headphones, I bought an USB-C bluetooth adapter and plugged it to the bottom of the Switch
The flavor of the modularity we still have isn’t as spicy because it tends to be on standardized ports instead of ad-hoc console-specific gizmos though
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Other add-ons after the 64DD, albeit handheld:
GBA e-reader
DS Rumble Pack
Play-Yan (GBA/DS MP3 player)
Circle Pad Pro
Circle Pad Pro XL
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Forgot about the PS2 HDD/network adapter, which you can get modern SATA compatible clones of
I don’t think the original Xbox had any add-ons besides the DVD remote that came with the license to enable DVD playback
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Does the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on count
I say yes cuz what good is your copy of Peter Jackson’s King Kong for Xbox 360 without a high definition DVD version playable on the same console
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That remote was good tho I only used it for DLNA
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someone out there owns hddvds
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@AutomaticTiger and I love to check in on extinct media format subreddits.
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Nintendo Labo is the most recent. So nah this idea has not gone away.
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When I originally set up OneDrive on this computer, it had me select folders to include in OneDrive. Eventually I decided that I had included too much, and I thought I found a way to disinclude certain folders. Now, however, every resource I can find says that the only way to remove a folder from OneDrive is to delete it entirely—so if I want to remove my Documents folder, I need to create a duplicate, move all the content there, and then delete the original? There’s no actual way to say “this is not a OneDrive folder any more, only keep it on my local device”?
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When those hddvd drives were getting discontinued I got one because it was an extremely cheap usb dvd-rom which let me get rid of the optical drive in my thinkpad and replace it with a caddy for an extra hard drive
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