Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Monday 3/31/2025

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

We need to embark on a SEGA Saturn Quest.

Good morning everyone it is now 7 o 6. I didn't really sleep in late this morning I just spent some extra time my little buddies out there It take a while to clean them up this first thing I do when I get up all the guys cages are gonna be cleaned out And I always take my little precious my new guinea pig and I let him sit with man on my stomach on the couch Well, I watched he watch the news for a few minutes. He's pretty cool. He just sits down, hangs out. He's really, he's doing pretty good. So they take a lot of time. But I enjoy to do that first thing in the morning when I get up, make sure they're all got new fresh water, food, bedding, all that good stuff. So it takes a while. So, and then I'll kind of watch the news while I'm doing it. So let's see what's in. And then yesterday I worked on Gamecube pulled all the motherboards I have left which

is not many anymore and I went through them most of them the DOL-101 got a nice pile of ones that work quick test to work anyway. And those, except for the ports are either damaged, like broken pieces off of them, or they're just like lots of metalware rust and stuff like that. I think I counted 10. I'm gonna have to sell 10 of those as one lot as working, but a fair condition kind of thing.

They had made sure each one had power, video, and sound. Just up until playing the, just to the main screen, I didn't really go any further. So just a quick test. And then after that, I went to test the power boards. I had some other ones I found randomly around, always coming across them. So all of those works, except for the the I think the second to the last one or the last one

Had a no sound. So as I always say if you have a Gamecube you have no sound and it's the original motherboard the one the DOL-001 you might get lucky and it might be the Oh one you might get lucky and it might be the No, we get it might be the Powerboard always try to see you can swap that first you'll see No LED light, but you'll see that the fans still on so something about the it's not giving full power Different it's not getting sounded. I don't know what makes it do it, but it's definitely an issue very very common issue

So I get to show an example of that With no sound, but it did have video though. So sometime most many times Those power boards can cause no sound or no video you swap the board out and then it works again Most of the time it's the motherboard itself for whatever reason Shows multiple reasons why it does it I don't know any of them actually and then I went on to Gamecube games I'd spent a good hour maybe now. Yeah, but an hour using my JFJ easy pro and I buffed the heck out of all bunch of discs and

I don't think I made one of them work. I Think I was I was shot down 28 discs that don't work Some of them start up and they shut down I'm gonna retry to Do something else with them if not, I'm just gonna put along a big lot and just put them as as is Don't work. Some people just collect discs just to have them, even if it's just in the case, doesn't have to work. I've done that before.

So that was, I put another hour, good hour in that, testing that stuff. All the discs I had, and so most of them did not work. A lot of them will never work, pretty much. At this point, probably most of them will never work pretty much At this point probably most of those will never work for whatever reason mostly because deep scratches. I do have a refurbished Disc cleaner that I haven't done. I usually buff them which would mean to actually Clean off the whole complete disc with a almost like a sandpaper kind of thing. It's called a refurbisher

I gotta find it and I may try one and see if that makes a difference before I give up on the disc. Yeah, they don't work anyway. It doesn't really matter if I don't do it or if I do do it. Then it doesn't, it won't play. Some of them start up, some of them almost get them going. And then as it gets into a new track on the disc, it's where it's really scratchy and then it kicks off

And they're really kind of game cube discs so hard. That's why I don't sell them ever because they're just One little little ding in the wrong place and then they don't work and bless the ones I did dig it to work I have no idea where if you're playing if you're in the middle of a game if it's gonna hit another spot and then not Work again, so I can't even say that those fully work none basically fully work But I get some to play it's pretty much best I can do Then what else do we do? Oh, then we sat down. I've never finished stranger things for So I was watching that for a while with my dogs. My mother went out for a while

Two days ago I finished Electric State with Millie Bobby Brown in it, big fan. So I decided to watch The Rest of Strangers doing Four, which is pretty cool. Lots of things going on there, not quite finished with it yet, but I did that for a while and my mother came home and then I played some Resident Evil 2, huge fan. My favorite game game not Resident Evil 2. I keep saying that Silent Hill 2

Big big fan one of the best games. I think I just played in a long time For a spooky game makes me jump every once in a while those guys that with the four legs comes jumping out at you So that's pretty cool. Of course. I have it on the easiest setting and I can barely survive. I am still I'm still in the overworld hospital now, or changes to the overworld I guess you want to call it, or the upside down as we saw in Stranger Things. So I'm on that side of the hospital, just finished the cube with all the two padlocks on it.

And now I just got the thing the thing for the elevator so I gotta put the minus one back in the elevator so that's where I'm at yeah man it's pretty fun big fan I've gone a lot of it has a little bit of a lot of places we went I went through so that's why I liked it because it just kept going to new places and like oh cool something fun so that's why I liked it because it just kept going to new places and I'm like, ah cool, something fun. So that's what we did yesterday for my Sunday. Of course as always, and I had a couple orders, but not that many, but some that, one that was pretty big. So let's see what this morning brings. Let's look around for the news.

I heard the government talking about a third term. Interesting. Let's see if that will happen. I just keep it generalized. It's just the government because it's easier that way. As the chaos ensues there, every week it's more. It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be so far, but I'm expecting things to ramp up especially towards the end of the fourth year here so let's see oh Saturday live I don't watch that at all I sleep I go to bed at 430 so definitely not seen up for Saturday live somebody stormed off at the end there the singer I guess weird all right so let's see what we got going on SpaceX set to launch four people around the poles okay so I'm not seeing anything so lets jump into

Etsy, I think I might have saw an Etsy sale, oh offer listing offer for ten dollars so I have an offer, its the first time I have an offer on Etsy, let's see what that is so message offer for ten dollars on Etsy. Let's see what that is. Some message, offer for $10, $13. How do I accept the offer or review offer? So offer for $10, these are all around the screws. Send final price.

I don't know. I've never done an offer before so I don't see where it says to accept it or not. Oh, so I guess I, I guess I agreed on it. So I've got one, so two screw sets. For the, um, Nintendo GameCube. One of my most popular sale item ever

is all the inside, outside screw sets I still have a lot of them, but I've gone through I must have sold thousands of them literally so I put a little bit of a March Madness sale on Etsy.

Learned how to do that. So that got me a sale. And then I just sent a, accepted an offer for a few bucks less. Well, lower than I should be going, but. For Etsy I'll do a little bit lower. I'll make a few bucks no matter what. All right, let's look at my RSS feed here.

Looks like lots of good games coming out soon. April should be a good month. I'm interested in Forever Skies and of course the remaster of Days Gone. It's only for 10 bucks. How the heck can you not beat that? So I'm all into that. So that'll be the first thing we get. Oh I messed up that's why. Alright so we're gonna sign in here Sign in here That's what we want to do So our RSS feeds been quiet, but I'm consistently every day putting on my morning Groundhog Day podcast just because I can do it while I'm looking through I had one download pretty cool

Japan oh Tokyo, oh very exciting. That's a new dot that I never had before. Oh now I see it. There's a map I can see here on RSS feed, RSS.com that shows a map and I can see all around the world and I can see where dots are done, so that's really exciting. Welcome to Japan, that's a first.

Again, it's my message in a bottle over the internet ocean. It goes wherever it goes. And then, of course, it goes to my YouTube page. So anybody that's new, make sure you come check out my YouTube. I have links to my channel, eBay, Etsy, all that good stuff. So let's segue into YouTube here, see what we got going on. We were climbing, trying to get to the 30,000 subscribers let's see what we're at not quite there yet oh we're getting

there 29,000 746 subscribers my average duration went up to well just for today went up to nine minutes in one second, which is a lot. However, my revenue has not at all. $31.80. My views have gone up the hours, 97.4k, as well as my watched hours, 962.8. Yet no increase at all in revenue. Which is kind of a bummer, but it's I'm kind of used to it now, so I'm not expecting it to ever change

at this point. It means I'll make a hundred dollars every three or four months. But I've cut back on promoting. I'm kind of gonna really cut back now on promoting. Because it's just, I'm just spinning my wheels. It's not I'm losing money I'm not really gaining. Well, I am gaining but we'll see then when I promoted was my long one my last YouTube insight my wish list. I got 1.5 K on that so far 17 views per minute

3 times So and I had 14 views for my game cube when I did all the discs yesterday I struck out big time on that one so those machines are really don't too much well they do but it's not gonna save anything most of the Alright, let's see where we're at. Let's go to eBay. I only had a couple orders. My sale ended and I started another sale. Less though, not as much as I did the first time. I have one order and, oops, we had a negative something one something one backwards let's see if I

have a backwards feedback here no no I thought I had a backwards feedback these are all just so good feedback still sure it's been really good. The feedback's been good lately. So I've got two messages. Let's see what we got for message here. Let's look at an offer. $20. Oh yeah, we'll have to take those now. So we'll do it.

Oh, I didn't have to take that. It was an offer, but now it's gone sometimes that happens I can offer then it goes away sometimes they rescind them do you have any any button metal any bottom metal oh yeah so oh yeah always remember so yes i have those this guy who's bought a lot from me always remember so yes I have those this guy who's bought a lot for me always remember free not free my minimum order now is $13

at the rate the world is going, it will increase to $20. At that point, I will be in the United States. Remember, free shipping is not free for me. Free shipping is not free for me. Even at one ounce with all fees

it is eight dollars my cost out the door. Minimum, minimum order. cost. The rate the world is going, it will increase to $20. At that point, I will be UPS'd, uh, priced, priced out. And not ship, not sell parts anymore.

I am working to find other options. Yes, I have some. I will get them listed. Always remember free shipping is not free for me. Even at one ounce with all the fees, it is $8 my cost out the door. My minimum order now is $13. At the rate the world is going it will increase to $20. At that point I will be USP priced out and not sell parts anymore. I'm

working to find other options. Which YouTube is supposed to be my other option. However I just can't seem to make it. And as we, now here's a good good segue and now I have an offer for five dollars and That's a heck no So Sounds like you could do it, but it's gonna cost me eight dollars, so that's a heck no And actually people like that now. I'm starting to just put in as Bly just block them. I won't do it yet. Someone had a $2 offer the other day, I said, yeah, I'm definitely blocking you. Because you're gonna come throw us...

What am I gonna do with $2? What am I gonna do with $5? It's a service you pay for. So it's kind of like a door dash. Except you're door dashing your computer part. So I gotta make money to do it. You gotta pay me to do get your part to you. I usually ship it the same day and I have to make I'm only making two or three bucks so if you're saying here's a five dollar offer that means I would have to pay you three dollars and that ain't happening that's a heck no so all right so now we're looking at another message. Do you still have the purple version of this? If so, we'll buy it.

I can make one. I can make one for you. Just note it with the sale Purchase so it's the Nintendo Gamecube. I do the bottom cover with all the metal It's just I can make one for you just

Just know it with the purchase that you want purple. I can't spell, I can't spell, I can't spell purple. I still got it wrong, god darn it all. I spelled it wrong, purple. Understand though, understand. The ones, these, these are the ones, these are dark. you the best I have, which is just OK at best. So I'll try to make that point. All bottom covers for the purple,

for Nintendo GameCube, they're really dark. I may have one or two that's, I can make one for you, just make a note. Purchase that you want purple. Understand these are dark. I can, can best you be the best I have. I can show, I forgot to put the word show in there. All right, so then we have our onto another offer here,

$12. Now I can't do it. So it's a metal frame for the Original Xbox 0 1 through 0 5. It's a middle frame just the inner frame. It's not for the 1.6 1.6 has a less hole than the rest of them and he's offered me $12 I Gotta put this this frame has got to go in like a 12 by 14 box which is over a dollar just to get the box just for the box and he's offering me $12. I'm selling at 19 I can barely make a couple dollars at 19 so that's another heck no it's not happening

things like that just it's not worth it for me. I mean, it has to be a point where buyers have to understand that. In order to ship that, anything within the original Xbox, 01 through 05, is very big and bulky. Therefore, the shipping, even now, with just ground advantage, is the only thing I use now. I don't use priority at all.

Because basically, ground advantage is priority back in the day prices So to go to priority and add anything priority than you it really jumps up. So Lots of heck knows there today. It's morning. I like to climb most office because it just it's just not worth it Okay, so this guy did buy it at the regular price, yay. Cool, so I have one order. And I had a couple orders over the weekend. So not too, too bad.

But I did sell some big stuff on when I had my other sale, so that kinda helped me get to the, over this, now we're going into the new bill cycle but I'm going to just pay my other bills off so that's cool alright, so that's awesome so I'll throw some in so that's my morning

a lot of things going on like I said every morning it's kind of the same routine but things are always significantly different which makes it fun and you know, I like to kind of the same routine, but things are always significantly different, which makes it fun. And, you know, I like to kind of share it each morning. Alright, so you guys have a good day, and we'll talk to you tomorrow.

I'll come up with some ideas to do today for YouTube. I'm not sure what I'm doing today. Oh, Sega Saturn. That's when I really got to get into Sega Saturn. I haven't done anything, and then I have so many of them that I need to get the motherboards listed and all that. So let's pull out some Sega Saturn today. Yeah, Sega is one of my favorite kind of games.

I like them all, but Sega Saturn is pretty awesome. Alright, so I'll pull some of that stuff out and we'll look through those, the different ones and all that. Alright, I'll talk to you later. Alright, bye. Bye.