This might be the first time I've "seen" James genuinely upset, which is kind of saying something considering some of the vehicular misfortune I've seen him just stoically run with.
My parents actually turned it into a game, you won if you were quiet the longest. Worked pretty well until we got competitive and argued over what counts as a loss lol
I suspect that A) the card/USB need to be on FAT32 and a very specific name structure or B) the power supply is not enough, be by power supply amp limit or the 12V adapter being bad at the job it was designed to do...
as someone who always gets motion sick in cars and could never use technology, my friends wouldnt shut up about having these and i was kinda jealous, thank you james for showing that i didnt need to be jealous anyway
i was wondering if that usb port is only for multimedia, aka just to listen to mp3 and see movies, that's why there is a sd card slot. i'm speechless tho that even that didn't worked... the gritty must be wade's pkcells companions! we found their old brothers lol.
I worked at Dick Smith 12 odd years ago. DGTEC was one of the generic brands plastered on all kinds of bargain basement garbage. The stuff sucked then too.
Seeing a Sony optical drive was unsurprising. My first portable cd player was a Sony, and it rarely skipped. The thing could handle a lot of shaking and abuse while still playing a song. I even took it backpacking and it worked perfectly.
I remember when my Mother got a portable DVD Player. But this one came with a "Game Disc" which had a few NES Games on it. And just for fun i tried to burn a few NES Games on a Disc and it worked XD
I never had any of these as a kid because the old van my mom had from like 90s or something had a CRT in the back. We would plug a nintendo 64 into it lol
I want to get it now... Just so I can make it better. Imagine this, but you just plug a phone that has a desktop mode into it. Sure that would limit you to Samsung, Huawei, Asus, Librem, PinePhone and OnePlus... But it would still be awesome. Bigger screen, speakers, some ports. With some modifications (ripping out and replacing all the internals) I could see it being a fun little project. :)
I didn't think the sleazy NES knockoffs could get worse than the 999999 in 1 carts that had maybe a dozen games duplicated thousands of times, but just straight telling people "yeah just download roms from the internet, not like Nintendo isn't nuking every rom site from orbit" is a surprising new low. The fact that the shit thing didn't work is a blessing
There are totally legal-to-distribute NES homebrew ROMs out there, so they could've included SOMETHING. But, as James found out, even if they did, you couldn't play them!
Wouldn't this thing be kind of dangerous for the person whose seat it would be installed in? Doesn't the softness of the headrest protect you from impacts during a collision? Maybe I'm overreacting considering James is a mechanic and didn't mention anything about safety but that cd mechanism looks to extend pretty deep into the headrest pillow.