Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Tuesday 4/1/2025

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

Today is April Fool's Day. I however have no tricks up my sleeve.

Good morning, everyone. It is now 641 a.m. We are on April 1st my birthday is in April 8th so in a few days, I'll be 57 and as always they say thank goodness. I've been clean and sober since 2011 that basically saved me and also got my mental health and in in order so everything has been good since then Took a while from then from to now now but we're enjoying my best life I can at this stage of my life so doing lots of fun stuff enjoying electronics all the new stuff coming out for technology including AI and all that I'm excited to see where it's gonna go so that's my overall motivation pretty much.

Technology, gaming, vintage computing, all that stuff. So I guess if you can find that one thing that really kind of motivates you every day, then you're pretty good. It just took me a while to figure that out. It took me a long time actually. It took me until in my 40s to finally get straightened out where I could concentrate on one thing. I like to do almost make it into a First it was a side hustle and then now it's a survival hustle

I call it and I'm still trying to make it into a thrive hustle Which is selling my gaming parts on eBay and Etsy and eventually someday my YouTube will pay off As another right now, it's not even a side hustle but someday I'd like to see it get to a thrive hustle but as of right now it's just a more of a side quest thing I do including this podcast in the morning which I do it every morning just because it's kind of fits right in well what I'm doing when I first wake up well I go out and clean my buddies out for a while it takes takes me a little bit. I Got my new guy a little precious my mother changed her mind

She wants to call him treasure because he's really cool. We put him on the couch and he hangs out with us So call him treasure now And so put a little extra time. I take him out and let him sit on my stomach for a little bit Pat him on and stuff. It's pretty cool. So we get him out And now all my other guys so I gave each one the same amount of attention Except I don't take the other guys out my little rocket. I could never get him out. He's way too fast My other little buddy. I'm gonna get him out. I call him spot. He's my guinea pig I've had for four years or so. I lost Brownie a few months ago. That was his buddy

He's been really sad since then but he seems a little bit happier. The cage is smaller but it's the one I had for him. But I have a corral. I'm going to put my buddy Treasure and Spot into the corral. It's a little like pull out thing for maybe like a kid or something. And then we'll introduce them together. The way I set up the cages now between Spot and Treasure is they can see each other through the cages, so that's pretty cool. So they do look over at each other, so it's kind of neat. I'm trying to make them a little more happier.

My buddy Spot. Because he had his buddy Brownie with him pretty much for the whole time. I had the two of them. So it was kind of sad. My little buddies I call them little hot breakers all my guinea pigs and well mostly the hamsters those those are the guys that don't really last that long maybe a few years you get a couple of them I got a couple years out of them but then they just something

happens to them and they just pass away so it's pretty sad but then they're always fun that for to help take care and for caretaking and all that that's why I get them. So, because they depend on you 110%. So I know I'm doing the best job I can to try to take care of them each morning. Fresh water, food, clean bedding, then at night time before I go to bed, same deal. So yesterday we did PS3 fats, but all the others, as I call them, the others as I called the others I had somebody looking for some the ae and be disk drives I had a couple left for partials and

Also, he wanted the L and P which is similar the thin drive cables So I pulled out the rest of the L and P's I had Not every piece just all else and I had one H, because H's never work. And as I always say, it's a Sony alphabet soup. A, E, and B, where A and B are your true backwards compatible. And then you go to G, which is a transition. It's not backwards compatible, but it has the same

type of power supply and This drive you can use on A E and B because those are the ones you want to really want Then after that it goes to H. There's a K and L an M and a P So that's the alphabet. So I was working on L's yesterday For a while. I had five I found five L's to work. Most of them of course it was always the on and off, on and off, on and off, on and off, which just means the motherboard is no good for whatever reason. They overheat is what happens.

The inside of those has a heat sink and fan that's like a car radiator in it, so the energy those things must use, oh my god in it so the energy those things must use oh my god I can imagine energy those things must pull and the heat they draw so the really only true backwards is the a and b which is the original motherboard the co k-o-o one that has the e chip which is the same as the ps2 fat So that's the one you want. The E will only play some PS2 games. Even the A and B doesn't play every single PS game

that I'm aware of. There is some that it will not play. So we played around that for a while. That was my day, pretty much. Then I shut it down around two, I think. Somewhere around there. And then I was playing, I was sitting with my buddies for a while there and then I was playing I was at my buddies for a while and then I was Oh

Silent Hill 2 really into it. I'm getting far into the I want to finish it. I'm finished a game forever So we are way into the hospital. I've gone down to the basement now found there minus one key For the keypad to gone down to the basement now found the minus one key for the keypad to go down on the basement I am somewhere oh I found two little bands now back with the girl Maria not Maria but the other girl that's with him she follows me around not a fan of characters following around other characters I just it doesn't really make any sense to me but I I got her back again now so that's where I'm at. I'm only doing a little bit a day maybe like an hour just to keep it going but it's probably one of the best games. It may be better than any of the

Resident Evil remakes I think except for the reason that Resident Evil 2 was really fun. 3 was good too. I didn't mind any of them for 4 was really cool But this one is just really creepy as Silent Hill was if I remember when I played it as a kid Silent Hill 1 2 those are all things I grew up on and those were freaky back then So Let's see what's going on the news today, so we'll get to the news now here Lots of new games starting to come out showing previews of all kinds tons and tons of games But I have to keep it to just what I can play

Forever skies I'm thinking about and definitely days gone the remaster It's only ten bucks. So Sinking see looks sinking city is gonna have a remaster too big fan of sinking city. I never really played a lot of it But it was really cool. It's really cool. It's it's really dark and gray, which it is But then that's how it was all set up. The actual fighting stuff was really hard So, but the second city too, which looks more like or as an evil actually. So that'll be cool.

It's down the line sometime. Oh, let's see. I have an order here on Etsy. I see we have an order. Oh yeah, I do have an order here. So let's renew some of these I got more of these All right, so we'll renew that so it's fretsy it's the complete game

Inside and out screws so so many of those Luckily, I have bins them, but I'm getting getting lower the party's not over yet for fair game queue But it's a certain screws. I'm getting low on I can't seem to find them, but We'll keep keep selling them as long as I can find them as I always say screw sets Always give back way after everything else is sold Which is what keeps me going here, so I sort of got that one order Let's go check out my RSSV oh I had something from Tokyo yesterday as a download which is awesome loves sharing

my message in a bottle of an internet ocean I like to see where it goes some days doesn't go anywhere nobody downloads but some days I get a few and right now as I've been doing just the one podcast in the morning here Giving you a little wake up What I have going on for the day. I don't know at all. It's like an anticipation They had zero downloads, but I did have that one from Tokyo Spain. I don't from Spain to speak setting San Antonio. Yay so Spain and Japan Yeah, so I never know where my day's going as

I'm doing the podcast so it's kind of fun for me anyway All right, and then YouTube is growing. Let's see where we're at now. We're going over to YouTube now My four or five main things I hate well four is eBay YouTube Etsy and the RSS feed My four or five made things I hate well force eBay YouTube Etsy and the RSS feed That tells me where my day will go Again I was gonna do Sega Saturn just today Alright, so I have a question here. Alright, so I'm at 29,821 subscribers.

The tick of them has gone a lot slower. Did you solve the issue, the T1000? Oh no, I have to. Somebody asked me a question about, no. Where'd it go? Just lost it. Did you solve the issue T1000 will not power on until the internal battery reaches a full sufficient charge? The T1000 will not power on until the internal battery reaches a full sufficient charge?

The T1000 will not power up until an initial battery reaches a full Sufficient charge. I had one plugged in for some time for that to happen also the compatibility. Oh Awesome Awesome to know I have I had gotten a second one with same issue issues I will go back visit these re test these we test these again is does not need does not need the caps replaced. Awesome to know. I'll put a thank you there. That should be a thank you. Awesome thank you. I'd gotten a second one with the same issues. I will go back and retest these. Is there not a gaming system or vintage computer? Gaming system or vintage computer.

So it needs to charge up before it will turn on. It will not power up until the internal battery reaches a sufficient charge. That's pretty interesting. I have to go, I'll make that as a, it's not in the cash replaced. That's pretty awesome. See sometimes I learn something. That's why I have one point I had all my comments taken off but then since then I've had them on and most people have been pretty cool. Did you, did you saw the T100 will not power on awesome to know? cool not that it's gonna fix it, but

That's all right. See what else we got going here on my YouTube this morning so my Revenue hasn't changed $31.88 So we're not making a million here, so it take me another that another four months to get another payment However, I stopped really I have one Just my main you one-on-one. I did the other day about YouTube where I'm at. I Promoted that for a lot and it's not really getting a lot of views but more than it would if I didn't for a lot and it's not really getting a lot of views but more than it would if I didn't. Yesterday we did, let's see, we did PS3 Fats not promoting it and usually if I don't promote

I'm down to like 18 views at a minute. If I put, if I would have taken that same thing and then added a $5 promotion, it would probably bring up to like 200 or 300 views. So it's significantly different. And no matter closing in on 30,000 subscribers, it doesn't really matter. Because I also put those views, I also post on my views, same with my podcast, so that anybody

that's in the 29,821 should get the update for a new video, but it doesn't really seem to help at all. So, I mean, I think I have a few regular people that come in and check things out, but that's about it. And then people just add as your subscriber, but you really can't see them. I auto subscribe back where I can. If I can but I most of my can't see like today is the only two that I can auto subscribe back to because the rest of them I mean manually subscribe I wish I could auto subscribe back click a little button said always subscribe to those

that subscribe to you even even if hidden that would be awesome because then I would have my subscription on 29,829 other subscribers right I'd show up somewhere can't it can't hurt but it doesn't let me so I might have I was able to manually subscribe to maybe a couple thousand of the ones that I can see so that's kind of a bummer I really bummed out about that just doesn't seem like there's something's missing so all right let's go to eBay I had a few orders and what else yeah we had a lot of we had a few orders yesterday oh yeah let's see all right I'll go on eBay. Lots of questions yesterday.

I did, I started another sale. Not as much as I had the first time. Let's see, somebody wanted photos and then I ran out of time. I don't feel like doing anymore. Hello, I received your package today, but the piece holding the power board are missing. Could you ship it? But the piece holding the power board are missing. Could you ship it? But the piece holding the power board...

Oh, really? Sorry if I... So I must have... I always double check each full set Set before shipping It should have been complete complete Yeah, I suppose like I missed something that's the worst thing you can do is these orders these little orders

That's the worst thing you can do is these little orders. Oh, what's going on now? Oh, heat sink. All is usually as clean as possible. Game cubes are very dirty inside. I clean each piece the best I can but once in a while I miss something. Many most. many most most game cubes so this is a

as i call damage control because i messed up somewhere but he says i have to look at him, he gave me a photo too. She says I missed a piece Which piece did I miss? Um heat sink, oh yeah, no I put that in there. Oh, yeah In my defense in my defense, in my defense, I do everything, everything myself as a one-man, one- man shop. I try to get items shipped as quickly as possible, but in my haste, once in a blue moon, I miss putting in a part. I don't remember, remember, in the hundreds,

hundreds of these sets sold where any buyer, where any buyer ever had a issue until now. I am just not perfect. But I give it all I have. Women shop, but in my haste, but in my haste. I'm just not perfect, but I... So, alright, so that's a mess. We're gonna figure that all out. Uh, you have an offer, Sega Genesis...

Which is what happens is, Sega Genesis 18, high def. Yeah, that's fine, I can do that. I declined some orders yesterday, and most of the time I do. But at the same time, I'm trying to take more offers, but if it's on the low end, so if I'm selling things for $13 and you're offering me five That's not gonna happen if I have something for $50, and you're gonna offer me $30 that I can do that that's different It's all about shipping costs, so if it's uh $100 ps

$35 defective donor 5 times 20 for a hundred Yeah, I'll take that. Let's just go that makes sense to me So these are motherboards a defective donor. I'm taking a lower offer, but I'm getting I'll sell five of them at one time. So that'll be cool All right I'll sell five of them at one time so that'll be cool. Alright. I must have missed something. Let's see. Let's check the feedback.

Item as described, which is the two Sega Dreamcast VA-0 motherboards. It was part of the sale I had. The other one is another power supply for the PS3 fat the APS-226 so we got that right away. Of course again you do just about everything right but it's always something every once in a while that I mess up. I don't know why I didn't put the, must've forgot the cage, I don't remember doing. Oh yeah. Yeah.

I will get a set to show you. This is about the Xbox 360 S1439, the top and bottom chrome silver bezel trims. They're hard to come I've got a lot of them but a lot of them are really bad and worn some somebody which I'd rather have the buyers asking me to see it first that makes more sense to me always ask me to see things first as opposed to me shipping something the best I could find and then you don't like it and then I get a return which we don't like so I got a ship out of this guy's stuff I had to he's gonna make me give that back I don't want to do that but I will hard drive text instrument whole plug type 2 so I have a Texas Instrument whole plug type 2.

So I have one of those. Xbox 360 controller white shell. A Xbox One 1540 Seagate hard drive. And this guy's gonna want two, so I'll just cancel the other one. Can't see him wanting both, but maybe we'll see. We'll wait. What he did is he ordered it at original price and I didn't realize he's already paid for it and then he had an offer so I took the offer so now I got a sale for two different ones.

Obviously He's gonna want the one that he got three dollars off of and so I'll have to refund him for the one that was original price so it's kind of where I were out there so it's pretty much my morning let's see what got going on here so I just got one little casualty just one silly thing I missed again I said I'm shipping you know hundreds of things a week thousands thousands of things a month, and it's been my only problem for a while, so it's pretty good. There will always be another problem.

There's nothing I can do about that. But if I can try to get as least problems as I can, it's not from the effort of not trying to get things out to to buyers as quickly as possible again that's there as soon as something's ordered I'm already running around trying to find it and get it packed and get shipped that Gamecube set is a whole bunch of different metal pieces and I've never missed one I don't know why I missed that it says I missed the grill that seems like a weird but I must have alright so alright so that's my morning

I'm sticking to it and so you guys have a good afternoon and maybe I'll try to get the Sega Saturn today but I did get three package little teeny packages so we'll look at those the first thing this morning and then Sega Saturn is coming and now the t100s have got me I got box. I know what those are so we may pull those up to sheep at t100 Or t1000 once t1000s to 1000s. Yeah. Alright, so you guys have a good day and I'll talk to you soon. Alright, bye