Don't mind me, just restarting the game for the third time.
SO. I was a dummy and did not set my stream to archive, so I lost my first stream.
Had you watched that stream, you would have seen me waste most of my money on armor in the first shop, forgetting that you need to buy your spells, and ALSO being unaware that inn visits are freaking 30gp, and don't resurrect your dead party members.
To resurrect your dead party members, you have to go to a different location (clinic? cleric?) and pay a guy 40gp to resurrect one of them.
So, basically screwed myself and had to start over.
Later that week, despite the fact in the NES I'm using I had replaced the 72-pin-connector, it started acting dodgy again. (And yes, I desperately tried the various methods for cleaning it and getting the pins back into position before buying a new one.)
So, in the interest of progress, I decided the NES mini was a decent compromise. Yes, it's emulation, but at least Nintendo made it, so it's good emulation (probably).
Alas, I missed the boat for the latest run of the Analog Nt Mini. Also it was $500, but I've made worse fiscal decisions.
ANYWAY, I actually plan on streaming at 2 today! So if you need some nice Final Fantasy background chatter while you do more productive things, I'm here for you.