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look at how adorable this thing is oh my God it's so small it's so tiny I can fit

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it in the palm of my hand just the Box not even the thing oh I'm so excited I

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am a Sega kid I had a Sega Master System when I was a very young kid we might

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have had it when I was born and then we got a Sega Genesis this was my life for

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a long time or well what this represents now I had a Genesis model one this is a

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model two and fittingly this is the Sega

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Genesis mini 2. I actually have the mini one it's a pretty nice little kit it's

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modeled after the first modeled Sega Genesis but it's got some issues with it

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the number one issue is that there aren't that many games for it and if you

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hack it which is possible with project lunar well I mean at that point it kind

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of feels the same as a Raspberry Pi because if you try to use the official

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interface for it it just like lags and freezes unlike the Sega Genesis mini one

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the mini 2 only has a single wired

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control pad but that control pad has six buttons whereas the previous one had

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three they gave you the big chunky three button controller for some reason even

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though some of the games used a six button controller yeah let's take a look

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at the back we've got afterburner 2 alien Soldier alien Soldier is actually

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kind of interesting lightning force that is a good game it's also known as

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Thunder Force 4. mostly the game is good for its soundtrack but the gameplay is

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really good too midnight resistance outrun outrunners Fantasy Star 2 that is

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an amazing game unfortunate the Fantasy Star 4 isn't there as well that's my

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favorite of the series so yeah over 60 classic and bonus titles let's get it

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out of its box

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this is a much stronger lineup than the Genesis mini one

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so I've got one

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six button controller that feels pretty much the way I remember them feeling

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when they were new although the uh the molding is not quite perfect it's

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catching a little on my fingers it also feels a little uh lighter than the

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original versions but it might just be misremembering we've got of course a

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little USB power adapter this thing only just takes I think five volts but it

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does have second corporation on here HDMI cable I don't think that even has a

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Sega logo on it nope and this here USB

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cable which does have Sega on it that's cute the USB cable is micro b so

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why am I unboxing the cables when I have

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the console right here let's get it out of its little baggie

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oh that is adorable oh that's not how

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the original power switch worked that's how it worked on the Genesis 1 but the

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Genesis 2 had a push button they messed up there

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the cartridge slot does open though and I don't think there's anything yet it's

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just bare down there I think with the Genesis mini one they did actually have

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like a fake PCB down there uh does this come off oh yeah it does there's nothing

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to attach a CD attachment to though although maybe they did release a CD

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attachment and I think a 32x attachment for the year of the Genesis mini one

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they didn't give you extra games or anything though it was literally just a

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cosmetic thing but it does have the mounts to go into a CD drive this

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here is where some posts would have grabbed on to the CD attachment I

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haven't been keeping up on this since it was announced because I wanted to do it

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for ShortCircuit so I'm kind of going in blind here and on the front oh that's

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the back HDMI out and DC in and nothing

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on the sides but on the front

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you get two USB ports and that's kind of where they were where the original

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controller ports were on the Genesis 2. and I guess fittingly for the Genesis

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Mini 2 it is smaller than the Genesis mini one which the Genesis 2 was

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actually smaller than the Genesis one so there you go I guess there's nothing

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else to do at this point but to turn it on and play some games but before we do

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14th I had it all set up here but before I go and start playing games I want to

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see because I think this is actually as light as the controller is okay 154

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grams okay 100 grams and with the cable it's

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with the cable that's the same weight okay

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so it is on or presumably I don't see

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any lights there's a little red indicator there to tell me that it's on though Fair number of languages built in

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we'll go with English for now

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okay all right similar interface to the

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original I'm going to turn this down a little bit this is a very similar

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interface to the Genesis Mini model one we've got all the box art here I think

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we can toggle it to we can toggle it to the side art as well

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and we can what's in the settings there

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we go languages game settings uh okay so we can do 4x3 which is kind

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of what I would prefer actually looks like an integer scale if I'm looking at

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that correct because there are borders along the entire image whereas that is

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stretched which I mean if you like that then

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good for you but that's not me the wallpaper I think I'll go with the TV

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oh sweet okay this is something that not

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a lot of people know about the original Sega Genesis had like a warmer sound

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whereas the newer Sega Genesis had like a kind of crunchier sound I prefer the

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original really depends on what your what your childhood Genesis sounded like

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you can just set it here which is great I love that that's that's attention to

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detail that you wouldn't really expect and I didn't get it in the Genesis model

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1 mini mode button setting okay so the

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mode button I guess will open the menu some games use the

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mode setting I don't know if there are any games in this compilation that use

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the mode setting so I'd probably do it for like hold for three seconds or maybe one second I'll leave it on quick open

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for now though and yeah there's no like screen resolution settings I think this

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is 720p credits legal notice receptive factory settings okay so let's play some

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games Echo the dolphin it's kind of a slower game but I can play it it's a

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Sega CD game the display output is really good they are not filtering this

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in any way I don't think so that's excellent I guess I would prefer to have

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the option to have like composite video because a lot of Genesis games

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especially made use of composite video for extra colors so you can see in the

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background here with the clouds oh well you can see in the title screen here

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that there are a lot of colors that are just kind of like dithered and on a

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composite display those would have just become new colors uh it would kind of

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blur together and they would make it so that this this whole scene wouldn't be

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like Bandy and look kind of weird with different colors I'd also like to have

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the option of scan lines but that's kind of a Hit or Miss Thing

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oh there's the CRT filter Okay so we've got scan lines I think we've got a

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slight blur as well so you might see that effect this is more what the

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developers originally intended at least for this game I think

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because of all the heavy use of dithering the clouds when it stops

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scrolling here look a lot more natural it's not quite

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perfect but we go back to the title screen here we should also see that the

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colors are kind of again it's not perfect it needs a little bit more of a

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horizontal blur but you can see that it looks a lot more natural in terms of the

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shading this is a good game by the way it's like it's kind of like a puzzle

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game sort of

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yeah I think I need to talk to that guy specifically and then I do this

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there we go and everyone got abducted all right

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let's swap out to a different game a game like uh lightning force would be a

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lot better to take a look at input like oh original mode in high speed mode

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right the original version of this game

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had a lot of slowdown and that actually affected not only the gameplay but also

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the music so if high speed mode is what I think it is then it'll remove that

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slowdown so I'm gonna go with that

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all right seems pretty okay uh this display is kind of low end but it looks

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like everything is good my assessment of what high speed mode was is correct I

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think we'll see it here yeah this guy has a lot of Sprites this would slow

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down tremendously if uh if not for that

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mode thing about this game is you can actually adjust how fast you're going

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so I'm currently at the slowest speed higher higher higher

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I didn't say I was good at the game it's been a while since I played through it

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oh I forgot that's not a background object I thought it was in the in the

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early part wow I am just sucking right now like half of this kind of game is

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like Remembrance in the patterns and I do not remember anything well I mean

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this this would make me happy as a Sega

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fan as someone who likes a lot of these games like this is a very solid lineup

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here and as someone who you know likes video

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game history like having access to Japanese games European games and games

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that I might not have previously played like Mansion of hidden Souls which is

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supposed actually if I remember correctly a pretty good FMV game which

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is strange to say uh they're actually coming back in style

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how many games did the original have

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foreign yeah 40. so you're getting 20

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more games it's also 20 more dollars than the original so it's an extra

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bucket game but the original also had two controllers if you want a second

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controller you're looking at another 20 in total a 40 premium over the previous

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version honestly I think it's worth it the previous version kinda went on super

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sale after a little while just because it was I mean let's be honest it didn't have a

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huge number of really good games like it had some really good games like I think

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it had the entire Sonic series on it whereas this doesn't seem to have much

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of anything Sonic on it so you kind of need two of them to get the the full

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breadth of the the Sega Genesis library but at the same time like this is more

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representative of what the whole Library had to offer than what the Sega Genesis

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mini one had you can you can set up an emulator box for less than this to put

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the Raspberry Pi but it won't look as nice as this and this is kind of a

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collector's item yeah I mean

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shutting down yeah it even has like a little shutdown sequence I really like

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it and that's why I'm gonna take it apart the thing about the previous Genesis mini is that it had a lot of

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little Easter eggs in it like there's a fake PCB on the inside that made it look

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like there was a cartridge slot there was that attachment for the Sega CD

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there was the attachment for the 32x and I think there was also an attachment for

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like Sonic 3 and Knuckles to kind of make the full tower of power which was

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really amusing I don't know if they're doing that with this one or not and

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let's be clear it kind of is a cash grabby product too just because of

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I don't know how many times have you bought these games right if you're a Sega fan

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right in there that's all that's on the inside of that I don't see anything super like fan

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servicey in here ltdstore.com by the way

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I need to flex the plastic a little to do that it's really stiff plastic

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yeah nothing that's a little disappointing but I mean I guess it's to

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be expected this is the second generation of the products the first one

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was really kind of the big celebration so if you want something that goes on

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your shelf and looks pretty it also can play some really good games

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then the Genesis Mini 2 is a honestly

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really good little collection I love it I do wish that it had 32x games those

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are notoriously difficult to uh to emulate those so I don't really know if

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I can blame them too much for that so yeah for 100 bucks us you're getting

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legal copies of the games you're getting a box that can handle them and

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presumably that'll be hacked the same way that the previous one was too so if

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you wanted to expand the library you probably could not that I would

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recommend piracy but if you own the games and say you've dumped them with uh

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I don't know uh Sani V3 or whatever then

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yeah that would be a totally a thing you could do and it looks really cute on

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your shelf just like you look cute when you watch a ShortCircuit you should uh

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