Dumbest things you've ever done? (video game related)

[Ora Ora!]

I haven't made too many financial blunders but I did pay a substantial amount of money for a Japanese PS3 at launch. I had the, "need shiny new electronic!" syndrome. I eventually picked up a North American system and sold the the other one for far less. I still rarely use it.

I also accidentally deleted my 50+ hour save for Tenchu Z. How, I don't know. That one really bummed me out.

[Lodestar]

I used a shitty tool called a Game Doctor and ruined a lot of perfectly playable games thinking it would remove scratches, as advertised. Instead, I ended up with a lot of ugly games with radial buff marks. I was a kid, so, lesson learned.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Thought of another one:

When I was in high school, I used the SNES9X emulator quite a bit. I mainly played turn-based RPGs so the keyboard was fine, but I eventually wanted to check out some more action-oriented games.

So I got a Garvis gamepad and went to program it for use on the computer. Here's the dumbass part: instead of configuring the controller right through SNES9X I programmed in the Gamepad buttons as Windows hotkeys and then configured those keys into the emulator.

Whenever I played a game there was about a one second lag between a button push and an action. I remember playing EVO and thinking "Wow this game sucks, glad I didn't get the real thing!"

Yeah...

[Zing]

I once spent $280 on an 8MB stick of RAM, bringing my system up to 16MB, strictly so I could play Primal Rage with the maximum animation quality.

I did that... but it wasn't for Primal Rage. It was with stuff like NHL '96, Terminal Velocity, Doom 2, Descent, etc. in mind. Not for... Primal Rage.

RAM was expensive back then!

Yes, my friend refused to play Descent with me anymore, since his game would often hitch due to using virtual memory on his 4MB system (DOS Descent had its own virtual memory system). Meanwhile, I was loading the entire game into RAM via smartdrv.

[Luke]

I signed up for this thing called xbox live. Netflix shitathons aside, it's useless.

[vlame]

i picked a snes over a sega saturn....when i was like 10.

[o.pwuaioc]

i picked a snes over a sega saturn....when i was like 10.

Smart move.

[MrPopo]

I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten that one game or another doesn't have an auto save feature.

[noiseredux]

I signed up for this thing called xbox live. Netflix shitathons aside, it's useless.

one of the key points that's kept me away from 360. I have a Wii and a PS3 (or two)... I just can't see paying for the online feature.

[MrPopo]

I signed up for this thing called xbox live. Netflix shitathons aside, it's useless.

one of the key points that's kept me away from 360. I have a Wii and a PS3 (or two)... I just can't see paying for the online feature.

So go with my solution; buy one and only play region free shmups and exclusive RPGs.