Enjoy! Remake is really great and I’ve heard it runs like a charm on pretty much any recent handheld

I finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth a couple days ago after about 110 hours, what a journey!

I’m currently playing a few shmups since I just purchased a (very cheap but perfectly adequate) arcade stick, easy modes for now and “moving up the chain”:

• DoDonPachi Resurrection
• ESP Ra De
• Espgaluda II
• Radiant Silvergun

After that, I’ll probably pick Cyberpunk 2077 back up (only 10 hours in from the free trial a few weeks ago).

The Nathan Drake Collection. Uncharted 1 is a bit rough around the edges, but I would recommend going in order of release either way.
Enjoy, those are wonderful games! (I might be slightly biased, Uncharted is probably my favourite video game series tbh)

You’re absolutely right, only the AGS 101 is backlit, my mistake!

Many options exist, depending on your budget:

• IPS screen mod for your GB, these are usually not too costly iirc ($60 USD?)
• GBA SP (AGS 001 is frontlit and AGS 101 is backlit), around the same budget for the former, the latter is more coveted and expensive. (EDIT - initial mistake, the GBA is not front/backlit)
• Open source cartreader to dump your carts and saves (and play ROMs wherever you want) - no idea about the budget tbh
• Analogue Pocket, it’s great but very likely overkill if all you want to do is play some GB games ($220 USD)
• Depending on how comfortable you are with downloading ROMs (and how ethical you feel that is, given you already have the games), you could just do that without spending a penny since GB games have been preserved and are easily accessible.

There’s also a handful of other options (GameCube GB Player, SNES Super GameBoy, etc), but that’s likely more consoles and accessories for you to purchase so I didn’t mention those in detail.

Simple Alarm Clock.
Extremely reliable during the ~10 months I’ve used it so far and it is indeed simple enough.

That’s mostly true, except for games made specifically harder so that you’d have to rent them multiple times (eg: ActRaiser 2 NTSC-U/C / SNES is much harder than its NTSC-J / SFC counterpart).

NB: Careful, that reporter has apparently been wrong on a number of accounts regarding Sony’s PlayStation business in the past, eg:

• Sony: “We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5”
• Sony: “We have not cut PSVR 2 production numbers”

I wouldn’t take this article too seriously / as gospel (although PSVR2 has probably not been selling like hot cakes).

FF VII Rebirth, which will probably keep me occupied for a few more weeks - I might go for 100%, albeit no hard mode.

A bit hard to tell from my side - I would say I have an average-ish head so it might not be representative for you.
I have no issues with neck pain / clamping force around my neck and jaw pressure is minimal (I have TMJ issues and that is a great concern of mine, but the Pulse Elite has not been putting pressure on my jaw so far).

That being said, if you want to try for yourself, I’d make sure to get it from a retailer with a good return policy.

I don’t anymore, but from memory the clamp force was quite a bit stronger with the first model than with this Pulse Elite one. I’ve kept it on for a 4hr gaming session the other day without any comfort issues whatsoever.

Disclaimer: I’m about as inexperienced as you are (and ended up giving up on CRTs for the time being, but mostly for lack of space tbh).

With that out of the way, my research from a couple years ago netted a couple of results, which might or might not be relevant to you (and I’m guessing you could have already found those), depending on where on the globe you are located.

• This person in the Bay Area, who also happens to manage the super useful CRT Database website.
• This person in the Lower Mainland.

If those two are not relevant to you, you might want to check your local CL / Kijiji / FB Marketplace / local equivalent(s) for potential listings.

Otherwise you could certainly YOLO it with the Trinitron since it’s well documented, assuming you feel confident enough around high voltage and are equipped with the necessary tools to discharge the tube, etc. From what I’ve seen it’s not as bad as it seems, as long as you you’re careful and follow the right steps/tutorials.
Do you have any spare PCB / whatever lying around you could use to practice soldering with? Components on CRT PCBs are indeed not so small, so I don’t know what sort of prior experience you have with soldering, but bigger components = easier to solder (as long as you use a bigger tip on your soldering iron, and feel free to use flux / add fresh solder).

Yep, it’s the developer options to be specific and all available codecs would show up there.
Here’s the main bluetooth settings page fwiw:

I completely forgot I bought those at launch as well, thank you for reminding me! I had the same exact issue happen to mine and I ended up reselling them for half-off iirc.
The glued-on design of the Elite earpads does not inspire confidence, even though the build quality is certainly a step-up from the Pulse 3D’s.

It’s much less “bass-y” by default compared to the XMs and you’d have trouble EQ-ing it to get some of that bass back (watch this video for more info), if that’s something you’re after. Comfort wise, the XM line is better, but the Elite is really much better than I thought it’d be.
I would say XMs are better for music listening overall, but the Elite is much better for gaming (and the mic is infinitely better tbh).
The Elite does not support LDAC unfortunately, per screenshot, only SBC or AAC.

• Wii, you’d be perfectly fine either way, you’ll be able to get 480p 2x on the OSSC or 3x on the 5X.
• PS2, you’d really benefit from the 5X for a vast majority of games, which output 480i, as the deinterlacing on the 5X is much better than the OSSC, here’s an example on GT4, and you’d again get 3x (1440p) vs 2x (960p) on the OSSC.
  You could try and force 480p via GSM otherwise, if your PS2 is nodded, but I’ve had pretty poor luck with that method so I wouldn’t recommend it.
• PS1, that’s debatable, for most games you’d be completely fine either way, but there’s a fair number of them with res switching, which the 5X tends to handle better / without any delay vs the OSSC, so if that matters to you, that could be another pro for the 5X.

You’re kinda in the perfect “target demographic” for the 5X with a PS2 in a way, but it’s a matter of how much flickering bothers you or not, and whether or not the higher output res, more features, etc, is worth the price or not.
Again, both options are absolutely great and you wouldn’t go wrong with either!

Are you using scanlines per chance? Because otherwise the amount of flickering produced via bob deinterlacing is extremely distracting tbh.

This will be dependent on a few things:

• What’s your budget?
• What consoles are you looking to play?

I can personally vouch for the OSSC as a great entry point, however there’s a caveat - if you’ll be mostly playing PS2 / inputting interlaced content and you have the budget for it, you might want to consider the RetroTink 5X, as the OSSC’s bob deinterlacing is not up to par IMO. The 5X is well worth it for that reason alone, otherwise they are both great options.

FYI, nitter is no more, sadly.

Still making my way through FF VII Remake and I’m really enjoying it.
I only played VII a couple years back and it never really “clicked” for me, but Remake is way more up my alley!