1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 David, what's your favorite piece of retro attack? Well, come on, let me show you. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,680 Let me show you. Full freaking drawer. Yeah, let me show you my drawer of Game Boy games. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:17,080 So I've got my Game Boy games, Game Boy Advance stuff, but I have a modded Game Boy Advance with the IPS display. 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,840 Is that your favorite? Oh, it's my favorite. I am in love with this thing so much. 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,840 It's a close second to my Vita. It's a close second to my Vita right over there. 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,680 Right, right, right. But this thing looks and plays amazing. 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,080 How long did it take you to mod that? Oh, like 20 minutes, 30 minutes. Wait, serious? 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,320 Yeah, it's super, super easy. I could show you how. Welcome back to Taran Tech Tips. 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,400 Today on Taran Tech Tips, the Wii. It's funny, I talked about this in another video. 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,280 People don't think of the Wii as being retro, but it is. It's old enough now. 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,280 Yeah, when did it come out, like 2006? Oh, I don't even remember. 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,000 It was ages ago, back when we still had CRT televisions. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,560 Oh, man. But what's so cool about it is that it's really, really moddable. 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,760 And even though they shut down the Wii online store, 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,040 there are ways to get all the games. 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,400 So I have been playing through like a ton of classics. 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,280 It's been really fun. I would say my Dreamcast, but that's 18 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,040 a bit of a cop out since I already showed that off in a video. 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,840 I'd say actually my favorite, just like a nostalgia thing, 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,680 is my first sound card, the ESS1868 audio drive. 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,760 That was a Sound Blaster 16 clone, ISA. 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:30,480 And it had an OPL3 clone on it that did actually pretty weird 23 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,920 things with the sound of MIDI instruments in Windows 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,000 and in DOS as well. It was actually pretty neat. It kind of was the first thing that opened my mind 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,840 to the idea that MIDI was actually kind of good. 26 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,760 Because otherwise, it just sounds like farts and stuff. But this actually sounded like instruments. 27 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,120 It was pretty good. Did you do any MIDI composing yourself during that time? 28 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,480 No, I never really had the mind for composing music, 29 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,720 unfortunately. I always wanted to. And I was super into the stuff that people were composing. 30 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,720 But it's never too late to learn. I just, I don't know. 31 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,720 I can't conceptualize how sound is supposed to work, especially if I don't have a keyboard or something. 32 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,320 And I'm just dragging notes around. What was the game you played the most on that sound card? 33 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,560 Probably Duke Nukem 3D. Classic. I played the crap out of that game. 34 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:21,120 I actually only ever had the regular version, not the atomic edition. 35 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,160 But I downloaded a whole bunch of maps and stuff, and total conversions like Platoon back in the day 36 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:31,080 to just kind of extend my game experience. I tried to make my own maps too, but I never really 37 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,520 got the hang of sector effectors and stuff. 38 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,520 Well, everything I own, the oldest camera that I have, 39 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,200 is the Contax T2. It's new to me. I've only had it for about two years, but I love this thing. 40 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,920 It's a point and shoot. So it's very portable. Look how tiny this 40mm lens is. 41 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:54,560 You can control the aperture on it. It takes full 35mm film, so you get very nice, interesting 42 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,760 images off of it. And I can walk around this. I just leave this in my car. 43 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,160 And whenever I see a photo opportunity when I'm driving, I'll pull over, take a photo. 44 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,440 That's great. No. Yeah. So you're saying I should break into your car? 45 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,680 Shit. No. So I couldn't think of anything, but I do have a clock at home. 46 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,000 And it's like an analog 2 bell clock thing. 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,240 I don't know. It looks pretty old, and it's the only thing that can wake me up. 48 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,240 And they're annoying as hell, and it wakes up everyone else. But that's my favorite, because if I didn't have that, 49 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,080 I wouldn't be here right now. Hey, I mean, that's fair enough. 50 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,400 Wait, when was this clock made? It was an Amazon thing, I don't know. 51 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,360 But it looks old. I'm probably going to have to say reel to reel tape. 52 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,720 They're like giant 12 inch reels of audio tape. 53 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,000 I'm sure you've seen them. They're like two of them, and they go through the middle thing. 54 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,360 So this giant ass audio tape thing. Audio quality, mostly the visual aspect of it too. 55 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,000 They look, I don't know, ridiculous. They're like the size of a computer monitor 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,120 almost to play low quality audio. 57 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,440 Can be very high quality too, but yeah. What's a music you're blasting out of that, though? 58 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,520 I think that's got to be vapor wave, just for the aesthetic. 59 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:09,240 Maybe some lo-fi hip hop beats to relax and study too. So basically my thought is that if it's older than 15 years, 60 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,240 it's got to be fair game. I know that some people might balk at that. 61 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,360 But I'd say that the top two for me 62 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,920 are the third gen iPod Nano. It was the stout little square one. 63 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:26,920 It was the perfect blend of size 64 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:32,960 and also having a good display. I remember watching probably the entirety of Invader Zim 65 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,960 on my iPod, because I bought all of the seasons on iTunes 66 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,400 because that's what I did with my allowance. How much did that cost? 67 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,680 Oh, probably like $60, like so. And then the other option would be the DS Lite. 68 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,180 King of handhelds, even if it's very small 69 00:04:52,180 --> 00:04:58,880 and now as an adult, I'm sure I would not want to use it. When I was a kid, I was doing all sorts of crazy shit 70 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,640 on that thing. DS was great. I had the DS FAT. 71 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,680 Oh, you had the OG? I had the OG and then I also had, 72 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,960 I remember I have a very vivid memory of my mind being absolutely blown because on Christmas day, 73 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,960 I was able to play a three-dimensional Mario game 74 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:21,120 on the toilet on Christmas day. It was the best Christmas of my life. 75 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,080 Best gift you could've ever got? Yeah, yeah. It's definitely my film like, huh? 76 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,200 I shoot that all the time and still loving it. 77 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,280 Is that like the oldest camera you regularly use? 78 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:37,360 My lens is pretty old. I have a 1966, 50mm, I have a 1975, 50mm, 79 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,160 I have a 1980-ish, like 35mm. 80 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,280 But that film looks the way to go, huh? Oh yeah, oh yeah. All right, Jamie, your favorite piece of retro tech. 81 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,840 All right, this isn't it, but it's close enough. 82 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,240 The first graphics card everyone out and bought was a GeForce 8800 GT, but it was a BFG card 83 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:02,520 and it had cool dog tags on it. It was fire. Why mess is the art and the graphics on these graphics cards? 84 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,740 Yeah, so this is back when graphics cards were cool 85 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:09,380 and they were also very thin. So that's a plus. 86 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:12,420 It only has one power plug on it. Oh my gosh. 87 00:06:12,420 --> 00:06:15,740 You don't need like four like these new ones do, right? But this thing was hot. 88 00:06:16,620 --> 00:06:22,060 It came with a copy of Company of Heroes. Was like the most played game on this card, you think, 89 00:06:22,060 --> 00:06:25,940 for you? Company of Heroes. Company of Heroes? Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. 90 00:06:25,940 --> 00:06:30,700 But yeah, this got me through university. Not this specific card, the other card, Rest in Peace, 91 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:37,740 the other card, like Rest in Peace, buddy. But I took it to QuakeCon twice, maybe three times. 92 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:40,780 And then I got replaced by like a 9800 GT 93 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:46,540 or something like that. This is probably like the last time I like vigorously researched the graphics card. 94 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:48,180 Ah, great memories.