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Jesus H. Christ, that is an OP. I must now shamefully admit that I am almost done beating A Link to the Past for the first time in my life I hadn't ever even made it to the dark world before. What the hell was wrong with me? Also, RGBurgler, let me know when you're getting everything back in order. I'd like to have you do the S-Video mod on my Jr., but I know you've had a hell of a month so far.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Thanks! Info added to the OP. Did you ever get anything from that TimeWalkGames before? That is incredible. Not yet. I'm thinking of picking up Zelda Parallel Worlds Remodel as a christmas present to myself though. But I've watched the youtube unboxings of those repros, and they're incredible. I also want to get Mario Adventure but it seems to be out of stock at the moment.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Only thing is that display fix is almost impossible for most people (I've had expert solderers tell me they couldn't do it) and the baking fix is very temporary (I've done it a bunch of times). I was about to suggest adding a bit about contacting Upeer about having his game store's solder tech do the repair (a complicated fix no doubt, much like the NES RGB) but apparently his store has gone under fatpat268 posted:Also, another link I just want to mention is http://www.timewalkgames.com/ Can someone explain how places like this don't get C&D'd into oblivion? I mean, if Square could shut down a free fan project, surely they could shut down a for profit (for all intents and purposes) cart bootlegging operation if they wanted to, right? Not advocating that they should, but I am puzzled by the whole thing. Also, if JJJJJS is around, could you tell me how much you fear Nintendo threatening legal action against your repros? This grey market stuff fascinates me and I'd just like to better understand it all. testtubebaby fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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Man, that's a stellar OP you cooked up. My older brother has always been a fan of older Sega games, and he has a decently sized Genesis collection with some pretty cool gems tucked away. I think he managed to snag a copy of Alien Soldier at some point, though I dunno if he held onto it since it's on Wii's VC anyway.
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zenintrude posted:Can someone explain how places like this don't get C&D'd into oblivion? I mean, if Square could shut down a free fan project, surely they could shut down a for profit (for all intents and purposes) cart bootlegging operation if they wanted to, right? Beats me. The whole idea that repro makers take copyrighted code and resell verges into some grey territory, but a lot of hard work goes into creating these carts. You're mostly paying for the work, and not so much the game itself. At least thats how I look at it. Anyway, I'm almost ready to buy a poo poo ton of those universal game cases (100 to be exact). Got quoted for $59 shipped for them all. But, I don't need that many, so if I do buy it, I'll have plenty extras if anyone wants some.
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I just tried out the US Star Fox copy I got on my Super Famicom and it just doesn't display any graphics. I can hear the sound just fine, but the screen is just black. Weirdest thing is that when I tried to play it managed to show some sprite graphics, namely the map screen with the Arwing. None of the FX powered graphics are showing up, it seems. I'm playing the game through a Honeybee converter on Super Famicom. Non-FX chip games work just fine. Is it some kind of a weird regional lock out for the FX chip or could it be my copy is just busted? Don't have a gamebit to open that sucker up and look, if that would even help at this point. Edit: or could it be just that the Honeybee doesn't do anything with the US cartridges' extra pins? http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=86171 posted:It's an adapter to play JP SFC games in a US SNES. Guess my next purchase would be a US NTSC SNES along with a PAL SNES. Maybe I'll get a junior while I'm at it. jyrque fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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quote:Mega EverDrive How the hell did I not know this existed?!! Now I can (try to) sell the rest of my Genesis/32X games without being worried about never playing them again. I'll be using it on a JVC X'EYE. Any compatibility problems with that?
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:The Famicom Disk System: Just wanted to note that I shot this picture in 1998, back when I was living in Japan and buying unopened FDS games like Castlevania for the equivalent of $3 a pop at electronics resellers (Even then it was very hard to find a working FDS with an intact drive band, but at least Nintendo still offered repairs) SUPER HASSLER fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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I'd just like to throw out there for anyone new to the hobby or this thread that RGB isn't essential. It looks nice, but retro games are still perfectly playable over composite cables, and given the absurd amount of money and effort that you have to put in to get all of your systems working over RGB, the benefit is comparatively small. With that said, if you can afford to do RGB, do it. But don't be deterred by how people in this thread hunt down particular revisions of the SNES and drop 500 dollars on HDMI scalers and things like that, because that's not the core of the hobby and anyone who'd jump on you for just plugging your console in over composite like a normal person is dumb.
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I hooked up my SNES to a lovely CRT and was still blown away by how much better it looked than emulation. I forgot that I had gotten used to things being kind of lovely and blurry, I guess
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Remember Pier Solar?
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WickedIcon posted:I'd just like to throw out there for anyone new to the hobby or this thread that RGB isn't essential. It looks nice, but retro games are still perfectly playable over composite cables, and given the absurd amount of money and effort that you have to put in to get all of your systems working over RGB, the benefit is comparatively small.
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WickedIcon posted:I'd just like to throw out there for anyone new to the hobby or this thread that RGB isn't essential. It looks nice, but retro games are still perfectly playable over composite cables, and given the absurd amount of money and effort that you have to put in to get all of your systems working over RGB, the benefit is comparatively small. Ha, I was thinking the same thing. If anyone read through the OP, be aware that most people in here don't mod their consoles or buy XRGB minis, though that might be what half of the posts are about. If you don't care about hyper-quality video, just know that composite and RF are supported by most all consoles, and if your TV has composite input, you should be using that because it looks significantly better than RF. And then S-video is a slight step up from that so use it if you can (TVs with S-video input are harder to find, and you won't usually find S-video cables bundled with consoles)
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:http://www.multimods.com/ - TurbografX/PC Engine/Duo modifications and repair Can anyone give me a second opinion on this guy? A Duo with region mod and full capacitor replacement sounds more promising than having to import one for about the same cost and having no idea of the actual quality of it.
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zenintrude posted:Can someone explain how places like this don't get C&D'd into oblivion? I mean, if Square could shut down a free fan project, surely they could shut down a for profit (for all intents and purposes) cart bootlegging operation if they wanted to, right? It's a small worry, but nothing that keeps me up at night. The people in the industry whom I've talked to have all been cool with it. Many people here know that I personally don't do games which the rights holders still make available on services such as virtual console, xbla, psn, so there isn't too much worry about a company claiming lost profits or something similar. I also don't do games that are simply imports without any patches. So no Rendering Ranger or Undercover Cops even though I get requests for them on a weekly basis. To fit my criteria the game code has to differ in some way from any released version. There's also the issue that many of the games, prototypes mostly, have either had the rights expired and never renewed or are otherwise null. That being said, should a c&d situation ever arrive the applicable products would be removed immediately. I have had the fortunate opportunity to talk with people at Nintendo and other companies about reproductions. So far I've not received any negative feedback. People who actually worked on these games like seeing them available instead of lost forever. As someone who dabbles in game dev myself I can totally understand that. No one wants to see something that they worked hard on disappear forever. Unless it sucks. There's one instance I know of where a reproduction maker was threatened with legal action. The circumstances were different from what I do and nothing ended up coming from it. I can't give out too many details, but I can say that the game was currently being sold at retail and very profitable at the same time. The version that the repro guy was selling was on a different platform where the game hadn't been released. In that case the stakes were just too small for legal action. The company rep asked that all copies (25 total I think) be destroyed and the guy selling them complied the same day he was notified. I do think that the whole reproduction biz is going to disappear in the next few years. Retro is getting bigger and eventually rights holders will be releasing their older unreleased, untranslated games digitally. I'm all for that. For me it's about making these games available for play in a format that people want. Even though we're rolling out boxes and manuals + shrink wrap for some of the more popular games before the end of the year, I'm more interested in doing original things. The 2600 game I did was a success and I'd really like to do more things like that. That's the future in my eyes. Less translations and more retro styled originals. Fortunately the retro craze has reached the point where that's starting to become viable. Congrats on the new thread! That OP is really well done. JJJJJS fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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Can anyone recommend me a decent RF modulator? I'm using an old magnavox for my retro gaming and the RF games look great, but there's a serious issue with some of the systems hooked up through the modulator. For example, both gamecube and playstation will show their starting logo, then blink back to static for a bit, blink back to the game, then blink back to static randomly. This seems to be happening on every system I have hooked up through composite to the modulator except the original Xbox. I really think it's an issue with the modulator since they play fine on the flatscreen. Really nice OP though I didn't see anything about the custom cases folks are making using the universal game cases (http://www.thevideostoreshopper.com/universal-game-case/universal-video-game-case-with-full-sleeve-insert/) and http://www.thecoverproject.net/ It was really cool to see the fancy cases folks were making for their loose games in the old thread.
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StellarX posted:Can anyone recommend me a decent RF modulator? I'm using an old magnavox for my retro gaming and the RF games look great, but there's a serious issue with some of the systems hooked up through the modulator. For example, both gamecube and playstation will show their starting logo, then blink back to static for a bit, blink back to the game, then blink back to static randomly. This seems to be happening on every system I have hooked up through composite to the modulator except the original Xbox. I really think it's an issue with the modulator since they play fine on the flatscreen.
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hey hamburglar could you buy this, it apparently has multiple playchoice 10 boards in the lot http://www.ebay.com/itm/Piles-of-Ar...=item4abadc3231
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^^^ drat that looks sweet, if I were into arcade hardware I'd be looking for a way to fund that. I wonder what treasures are in that lot. Also, I can't imagine eBay being okay with saying "No Paypal"? I thought they made every auction support it as an option, anyway. Huh.triplexpac posted:I hooked up my SNES to a lovely CRT and was still blown away by how much better it looked than emulation. I forgot that I had gotten used to things being kind of lovely and blurry, I guess This is why I will never, ever touch an emulator that can't do nearest-neighbor, cut-yo-drat-retinas-because-they-so-sharp pixels. That's why I strongly recommend Robert Broglia's emulators, which I think are on the Apple App Store but I've been buying them on Android. They are loving incredible. Fast, look gorgeous [oh man, NeoGeo/PCE with no filter and 25% scanlines, especially output via HDMI to my LCD, hubba hubba] Another time to pimp the old XBox as a greeeeeat emulation platform. As big as that thing is, it's smaller than a pile of other consoles, dirt cheap [both of mine cost me maybe $20 each and controllers are like $5, just scour your local thrift shop], takes big hard drives, and yes yes emulation isn't the same experience, but you can't beat the convenience. Plus the xbox supports component out, and looks pretty darn good on my 27" component CRT. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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Speaking of video sperging, for those consoles which can't output RGB, S-video, or even composite, there's the Micomsoft DISPL TV. It upscales RF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYbyV7Ao4HA
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Bravo on that OP. Awesome. SECRET SANTA POST Since the old thread will probably fall off the face of the earth before the SARGSS names get passed out, I took it upon myself to save everyone's messages from the old thread and aggregate them here (except Wickedicon, who dropped out). This should be everyone. I'll link to this post from the Elfster page, too, so when the time comes, everyone can easily find it. (Note: Elfster says there are 28 participants, but there are 29 here. I can't figure out if I hosed up or if someone just hasn't registered on Elfster yet, but here they are anyway.) Agrias120 posted:SARGSS midge posted:SARGSS Katana Gomai posted:SARGSS by Katana Gomai, Age 4. zenintrude posted:SARGSS al-azad posted:SARGSS Code Jockey posted:SARGSS, he gasped with his last breath, the radiation from his enormous CRT TV overcoming him. Space Harrier posted:SARGSS Charles Get-Out posted:SARGSS Random Stranger posted:SARGSS Robolizard! posted:SARGSS Safari Disco Lion posted:SARGSS Awesomonster posted:SARGSS iastudent posted:SARGSS madpanda posted:SARGSS Miyamotos RGB NES posted:SARGSS JJJJJS posted:SARGSS Lepecard posted:SARGSS Ambitious Spider posted:SARGSS Kreeblah posted:SARGSS Sexy Slippers posted:SARGSS Uncle Jenkins posted:SARGSS Vegastar posted:SARGSS AwwJeah posted:SARGSS tvb posted:SARGSS absolutely anything posted:"SARGSS" -- The Nemesis, Residence Of Evil Three: The Nemesis Tyson Tomko posted:SARGSS Baldrash posted:SARGSS Mill Village posted:SARGSS Panic Restaurant posted:SARGSS
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iastudent posted:Can anyone give me a second opinion on this guy? A Duo with region mod and full capacitor replacement sounds more promising than having to import one for about the same cost and having no idea of the actual quality of it. He's an old and respected member of neo-geo.com, I've seen his custom work and it's clean and neat.
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Pinguliten posted:He's an old and respected member of neo-geo.com, I've seen his custom work and it's clean and neat. Is he still doing stuff? I tried to buy a modded DUO-R from him several times and never got any sort of response back (which is why I ended up going with doujindance). His superguns look a little too good to pass up.
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Agrias120 posted:Is he still doing stuff? I tried to buy a modded DUO-R from him several times and never got any sort of response back (which is why I ended up going with doujindance). His superguns look a little too good to pass up. To be honest I don't know, it wouldn't surprise me if he burned out a long time ago. And yes, his superguns are really nice. They're a bit too high tech for Europe due to us having scart and everything on our TVs but man are they sweet. The one I saw had a real arcade PSU in it cut down to fit inside the case, a scart socket, a video encoder for all the lesser video standards (component included) and some pretty sweet wiring.
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Agrias120 posted:Is he still doing stuff? I tried to buy a modded DUO-R from him several times and never got any sort of response back (which is why I ended up going with doujindance). His superguns look a little too good to pass up. How often does doujindance offer stuff on eBay? Currently he doesn't have any consoles for sale, the last one it looks like was sold on the 27th of last month.
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zenintrude posted:I was about to suggest adding a bit about contacting Upeer about having his game store's solder tech do the repair (a complicated fix no doubt, much like the NES RGB) but apparently his store has gone under Oh man that sucks. Any time I hear a retro store go under I get a bit depressed; and it also sucks because his place is the only place I ever found that could do it. SUPER HASSLER posted:Just wanted to note that I shot this picture in 1998, back when I was living in Japan and buying unopened FDS games like Castlevania for the equivalent of $3 a pop at electronics resellers Wow, small world. Thanks for the pic! It was simply the first picture I found of the FDS on the model 2 Famicom. WickedIcon posted:I'd just like to throw out there for anyone new to the hobby or this thread that RGB isn't essential. It looks nice, but retro games are still perfectly playable over composite cables, and given the absurd amount of money and effort that you have to put in to get all of your systems working over RGB, the benefit is comparatively small. I actually agree with this, believe it or not. Well, except for the composite part. S-Video is so incredible that on a CRT, I really can't see a difference between that and RGB. Problem is I do not have the space for a CRT, and would like my plasma TV to be "all in one" rather than have to go to a different room to play. Other things I plan to add to the OP shortly: the best type of TVs for retro gamin', the best solution for retro gamin' emulation on the go, and the Virtual Boy which I conveniently completely left out even though I have 4 of them (all with display problems). Robolizard! posted:hey hamburglar could you buy this, it apparently has multiple playchoice 10 boards in the lot http://www.ebay.com/itm/Piles-of-Ar...=item4abadc3231 The funny/sad thing is if he had only 7 PC10 motherboards and that was all, it would be worth it. Code Jockey posted:This is why I will never, ever touch an emulator that can't do nearest-neighbor, cut-yo-drat-retinas-because-they-so-sharp pixels. Yeah I used to sperg the hell out about that back when I was trying to use emulators instead of real consoles. Sperged so hard in fact that I donated a bunch of XBox 1 hardware to a dude on the ZSNES team and Lantus (the guy who ended up making an SNES emulator for the XBox1) simply because, at the time, no one made an SNES emulator on the XBox1 that did nearest-neighbor, cut-yo-drat-retinas-because-they-so-sharp pixels. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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iastudent posted:How often does doujindance offer stuff on eBay? Currently he doesn't have any consoles for sale, the last one it looks like was sold on the 27th of last month. Put them as a favorite seller or setup a saved search for rgb pc engine and have it email results. It took me a few weeks of checking to get one. For scart switches there is a middle ground between the lovely plastic grey ones and the expensive as hell shinybow. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hama-Scart-Switch-Box-AV-100S-Silver-/350630494199?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51a334bff7 I have the metal version of this and it works great. Someone in IRC was talking about hama switches also. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Slightly-Us...=item4d06786c2d These are goddamn horrible. ChaiCalico fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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Anyone put those kitsch-bent backlit Game Boy screens in a Game Boy Pocket? such a reasonable price for them, but I also kind of want to wait for new colors to get back in stock.
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I played about an hour of Pier Solar today, and I'm still not sure what to think about this game. The backgrounds and environments are really great. The character sprites are muddy and indecipherable. The CD music soundtrack (if you have a SegaCD you can download the ISO of the enhanced soundtrack and it will play instead of the on-chip soundtrack) is quite good. The enemy sprites are really cool and interesting. I don't know if it's buggy or supposed to be balls hard or what though. The second dungeon exploration area is like 5x harder than the first, and even if you gain a level (from 2 to 3) it doesn't get any easier because you literally gain no stats from that levelup. Magic points are scarce and spells are expensive. The beginner health items cost like 30 gold each and heal for 40 (at this point I'm getting ~41 gold per fight). Basically every 4 fights I have to run back to the inn. Experience builds slowly.
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Very nice OP! So anyway earlier this year I embarked on a quest to collect every single NES Zapper game, and much like any NES collector would tell you, most of them are easy to find but the last few are gently caress hard and expensive. There are 17 released in America that I know of, and about half of them just required a trip up to a local second-hand book/game/music store. Wild Gunman is the priciest licensed game at a grand total of $15 on eBay, but I found it and a few other uncommons at a convention for $6. Also, four of the Zapper games are black label games, too, which I also casually collect because they look nice. The real motherfuckers are a couple of unlicensed games named Baby Boomer and Chiller. Last I checked, their eBay prices were $40 and $80 respectively.
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Woo, found Frog Bog and Night Stalker for the Intellivision CIB at a thrift store today. Sometimes dreams do come true....I guess?
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ACID POLICE posted:Anyone put those kitsch-bent backlit Game Boy screens in a Game Boy Pocket? such a reasonable price for them, but I also kind of want to wait for new colors to get back in stock. You could if you wanted (I haven't), but it's a much more finicky install.
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Perfect timing with this thread, I just picked up a Factor-5 NES player this weekend along with 7 games. I'm really pleased with the console, the controllers especially are responsive and it's nice having an AV out for my TV. The main drawback is it's finicky with some games, especially dirty ones. I went to town with qtips and Windex but I am SOL it seems for The Three Stooges and Robocop. All in all though, the factor 5 is not a bad deal, especially at 20 bucks. I'm having lots of fun scouring eBay and Retro gaming stores for low priced gems. Just ordered the original TMNT for $1.99, and I found Skate or Die for 99 cents. Something tells me I am going to spend a lot more time collecting these games than actually playing them...
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iastudent posted:How often does doujindance offer stuff on eBay? Currently he doesn't have any consoles for sale, the last one it looks like was sold on the 27th of last month.
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ohnoitschris posted:Very nice OP! Oh Chiller, my OTHER regret. Amazing Heroes had a boxed [for all I know, sealed] copy once. I never asked about the price, but I should have, since it isn't there anymore. Chiller is too awesome / too "wait, what?" not to own, especially since I collect unlicensed games. e. Just realized the OP is missing something critical from the other thread's OP: Still gets me every time. Yes, I am 12. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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I updated my post after 4 failed edit I have something manageable. Also I did meant Yoshi's Island and not the terrible Yoshi's Story.
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If we're going to post screenshots and summaries of games, why not make it a link in the OP and have it link to a new wiki page titled 'Recommended/Legacy games of *system here*' Then we can go crazy with pictures and summaries of why you should play this game. In recent retro playing news, I actually managed to complete RE1 Dualshock edition. Man, RE1 is balls hard and it really is survival horror as I was dreading there being more hunters in the next room so I wouldn't have to use my limited shotgun bullets/herbs. Gonna work on RE2 next and most people seem to say Leon A/Claire B is how it's intended. I assume I have to play Leon and Claire to get the full story? (Can't just quit after finishing Leon A)
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Ineffiable posted:If we're going to post screenshots and summaries of games, why not make it a link in the OP and have it link to a new wiki page titled 'Recommended/Legacy games of *system here*' We totally can do that; I just feel like things are more likely to be seen than if it's just a link to it. Also, people would be less likely to give their two cents in on the topic.
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From late in the last thread/Nintendo World Catalog: This would go nicely under the section in the OP on why not just emulate. You can't emulate Castlevania-forged friendship OR juice, motherfuckah!
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:We totally can do that; I just feel like things are more likely to be seen than if it's just a link to it. Also, people would be less likely to give their two cents in on the topic. This is the problem we have with the wiki as stated before. It could be a good reference but nobody contributes to it. Why? Because we assume nobody will use it. Why not list the major systems (and revisions), give a few teasers of screenshots of games on the system and have a text list of notable/legacy games? We can have the extra pictures/summaries inside the wiki link (hotlink the games to wiki articles in the same post) This would make a pretty good 3rd post of the OP. Tobaccrow posted:From late in the last thread/Nintendo World Catalog: I am always going to associate the 90s with radical hot neon colors. You would never see a kid's room painted that color these days. Is there any retro magazines (note, actually released in the 90s) that people like to reread? I'm thinking of grabbing some old EGMs and old NPs and throwing it on a tablet.
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