Do you leave your consoles on while you’re not playing them and if so, whats the longest you’ve left it on? does it matter if the system is disc based, cartridge etc?? why do you leave it on?

personally i was told by my parents to always turn it off when i was done. thinking this was a pretty normal thing to do until one of my friends shared with me that he always has his n64 running conkers bad fur day. if it isn’t, the powers out. I’m rather surprised, but curious if anyone else does this.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I think i left my Nintendo wii on for a month on a menu screen or something lol. It was early in a save file so I was still in the tutorial and had 800 hours lol.

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      6 hours ago

      Bet you a nickel that old Wii now has a toasted GPU chip and graphical artifacts. The Wi-Fi chip apparently cooks the GPU if you has Wii24 enabled.

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        4 hours ago

        Oh it died a LONG time ago. There were issues with video so maybe that’s exactly what happened.