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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Anyone have any thoughts on the best Dreamcast VGA box and where to find it for the best price? Miyamotos RGB NES posted:There's debate as to whether or not there's really any difference between them all. Unfortunately, the ones that came out in the Dreamcast's heyday are ridiculously expensive now (like $90+). Get yourself $60 and get one of these - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dreamcast-V...=item19d92fe97f It's shipping from the UK, but it's well worth it considering it'll also output to S-Video if you have anything that can't be played over VGA.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Hey you never responded to my post about the SNES! Miyamotos RGB NES posted:That definitely has to be from the Sony encoder then. The weird thing is that it didn't come up on my TV at all, or else I wouldn't have even bothered sending it to you (it was part of your Secret Santa gift, correct? It's hard to remember who I sent what and why). The easiest way to tell is that I bet it does not show up in RGB. That's because I completely bypassed any and all encoders for the RGB lines, and installed a Texas Instruments amp. So in RGB, do you get that blue crap and/or the vertical bar? You definitely should get neither. Let me know. Yeah, it only shows up on overscan. Currently don't have an RGB setup to test, but this is over S-Video. The white bar is gone for good though.
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Mar 21, 2013 01:37
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HKR posted:Yeah, it only shows up on overscan. Currently don't have an RGB setup to test, but this is over S-Video. The white bar is gone for good though. What kind of TV do you have? I am going to guess and say CRT? Does it have component inputs? Still crappy if it shows up on overscan; the garbled mess of graphics on Super Mario 3 for the NES that shows up in overscan annoys me to no end (  ) but if you want me to look into it, I don't mind. I don't want to have given you a lovely Christmas gift. I really didn't see at all on my plasma which is weird. If the screen is totally black, there is no blue in the middle of the screen, only on the edges?
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Mar 21, 2013 01:46
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Haha, the bar in Miyamoto's av is getting more and more obvious as the day wears on. Now I think I understand the tortured world he lives in.
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Mar 21, 2013 01:56
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Get yourself $60 and get one of these - The VGA screenshots I took earlier were with this box, I forgot to mention. Here they are again:   Miyamotos RGB NES posted:The garbled mess of graphics on Super Mario 3 for the NES that shows up in overscan annoys me to no end ( Never play Super Monkey Adventure, I swear there's an entire second game going on in the overscan area.
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Mar 21, 2013 02:00
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:What kind of TV do you have? I am going to guess and say CRT? Does it have component inputs? I wouldn't call it lovely since it only appears in very specific areas (When the game hasn't drawn anything on screen or in overscan). This is running on a CRT which has component, but I don't have the necessary RGB cable/converter. The capture in the video above was taken directly from the system to the capture card (In an effort to see if it was the snes or the TV). I can take the case off and take some pictures/do some continuity tests if you think something might have jiggled loose.
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Mar 21, 2013 02:05
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:
I spent hours reading through those a while ago, even emailed him because he left out the official nes players guide that had a partial walkthrough for Zelda 1 and 2. Completely forgot about the Famicom Mario thing, guess I know what I'm looking for next payday. Tomato, the starmen.net guy wrote them and he really knows his poo poo.
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Mar 21, 2013 03:49
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:3) This one has me completely floored and I am aghast at not knowing about it until now: Oh my god it works. haha! I just did it with my famicom. Thanks for this.
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Mar 21, 2013 04:03
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madpanda posted:
sell me one, but not for inflated prices
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Mar 21, 2013 04:06
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univbee posted:
Is it any better?
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Mar 21, 2013 04:11
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Mace Bacon posted:Oh my god it works. haha! I just did it with my famicom. Thanks for this. Has anyone tried this with a US toploader?
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Mar 21, 2013 04:49
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univbee posted:The VGA screenshots I took earlier were with this box, I forgot to mention. Here they are again: I loved Elemental Gimmick Gear. Fun story! If you beat the tutorial boss fight like 100 times you get an op item that somewhat breaks the game. I was determined to get that thing. After fighting him a few times I started to get the timing down so well that I was able to switch inputs on the television and watch tv while fighting him blind. I used the fact that the Dreamcast was so loud to my advantage. It was something like: Walk forward and mash confirm to start the fight. If the Dreamcast makes a loud noise then so far so good. Wait a particular number of seconds and start punching slowly. The enemy would keep getting knocked back and ruin straight at you until he died. Another loud noise from DC to confirm your victory. Repeat. I'm sure if I tried to do this as an adult I would fail miserably.
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Mar 21, 2013 04:50
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Woah, breaks the game how? I'm sure I could convince my roommates to take care of that while I'm busy during the day and stuff.
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Mar 21, 2013 05:25
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:http://legendsoflocalization.com/super-mario-bros/misc/ Hamburglar, you don't need to find Famicom copies of SMB1 or Tennis if you have the US variety --  if you've disabled the 10NES chip on your NES you can do the trick on a regular NES.How do I know? I JUST DID IT, AND IT'S RAD.
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Mar 21, 2013 05:33
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ACID POLICE posted:Woah, breaks the game how? I'm sure I could convince my roommates to take care of that while I'm busy during the day and stuff. It gives you unlimited use of the spinner move. I remember it being really powerful but it's been so long that I can't say for sure whether "breaks the game" is an exaggeration it not. The fact that you can literally get it immediately after starting the game if you want to put the work in is crazy.
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Mar 21, 2013 05:42
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:If you are not good with a soldering iron, this dude was just discovered selling VGA boxes he himself makes: I bought one just because it's also got a built in scanline generator and RGB/VGA switch. Also it's a new PCB design and cost less shipped than that eBay box so awesome. I'll post all about it when it gets here from Turkey~ When I get it i'll just put my VGA cable on eBay and turn a profit 
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Mar 21, 2013 08:37
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Hamburglar, you don't need to find Famicom copies of SMB1 or Tennis if you have the US variety -- Thanks for the link to that site, now I'll never get to sleep. 
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Mar 21, 2013 08:43
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Risky posted:Thanks for the link to that site, now I'll never get to sleep.
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Mar 21, 2013 14:53
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univbee posted:Never play Super Monkey Adventure, I swear there's an entire second game going on in the overscan area. What game is this? Did you mean Super Monkey Ball Adventures? I didn't know that overscan stuff happens with 3-d games. SUPER HASSLER posted:Haha, the bar in Miyamoto's av is getting more and more obvious as the day wears on. Now I think I understand the tortured world he lives in. haha what's torture is when you fix it, which is great, but then it justifies the mental illness so that next time that something like that comes up, the endless spergin' seems reasonable.  Mace Bacon posted:Oh my god it works. haha! I just did it with my famicom. Thanks for this. That's awesome. I can't wait to try it. It's going to be the new "cool thing I show my friends but they probably are just pretending to think is interesting while I blab on and on about it and show them for 40 minutes" so I can't wait! Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Hamburglar, you don't need to find Famicom copies of SMB1 or Tennis if you have the US variety -- drat it! Too late. Just as well though since I didn't have Tennis for NES anyway. I know this is just a glitch but I think the best thing about it is that how many times you make a step in Tennis. I know that's just how programming works but that makes it so much funnier/cool in my opinion. Harlock posted:It's a rabbit hole for sure. I started reading the Legend of Zelda article then got to reading all about the FDS and then the Satellaview. Before I knew it, the time was 2 AM. tcrf.net is good for doing that to me. I just found out there's a debug ROM of Zelda 64 and now I must try that. I wish some debug or prototypes of good SNES games were floating around somewhere!
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ACID POLICE posted:I bought one just because it's also got a built in scanline generator and RGB/VGA switch. Also it's a new PCB design and cost less shipped than that eBay box so awesome. I'll post all about it when it gets here from Turkey~ I saw that thread a while back and was interested in just the scanliner but I guess that's not a separate device? Would be neat to have a xrgb mini on the cheap 
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Mar 21, 2013 15:19
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flyboi posted:I saw that thread a while back and was interested in just the scanliner but I guess that's not a separate device? You might be confusing that with the SLG3000.
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Mar 21, 2013 15:20
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doujindance's PC-Engine Duo-Rs are the bee's knees and totally worth the price of admission, especially since you get pretty much everything you need with his units generally. I need to get a proper AC adapter though; it's very voltage-tolerant and works with a Genesis 2 AC Adapter but given what it cost I'd rather get a proper AC adapter with the exact correct voltage/amperage and not take chances. It also had the same "top of the screen is distorted problem" with my XRGB-3 but I finally found the option that fixes it (manually setting the AFC level to whatever works).
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Mar 21, 2013 15:36
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:What game is this? Did you mean Super Monkey Ball Adventures? I didn't know that overscan stuff happens with 3-d games. I think they're talking about this famicom game: 
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:tcrf.net is good for doing that to me. I just found out there's a debug ROM of Zelda 64 and now I must try that. Fun fact. One of the objects you can spawn is an Arwing. From Star Fox 64. (those games were made with the same engine, and they had an Arwing as a way to test the Z-targeting system) I believe it'll fly around and even shoot lasers at you.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:What game is this? Did you mean Super Monkey Ball Adventures? I didn't know that overscan stuff happens with 3-d games. Ambitious Spider posted:I think they're talking about this famicom game: This is correct. It was a Japanese-only game that's up there with Takeshi's Challenge for poo poo game infamy, and that I recently made an English translation patch for (and repro carts of my patch are available from lostclassicvgs). In testing I had to play a lot in an emulator, and the "overscan" border drove me insane.
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Mar 21, 2013 16:22
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It was also on Game Center CX as a regular segment one season, with Arino calling people that wrote to him in efforts to get any advice on how to do anything.
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univbee posted:This is correct. It was a Japanese-only game that's up there with Takeshi's Challenge for poo poo game infamy, and that I recently made an English translation patch for (and repro carts of my patch are available from lostclassicvgs). In testing I had to play a lot in an emulator, and the "overscan" border drove me insane. Between the two I'd play Takeshi's Challenge before I'd play Super Monkey Adventures. Takeshi's Challenge is awful but at least things happen in it.
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I think I just warped an NES cart. I was using a blowdryer to get rid of a rather stubborn pricetag, and after I cleaned it up, put the guts back in and re-assembled it, I noticed the side of the lip where the contacts come out was curled up a bit, so the seam at the edge no longer meets. (I don't remember if it was like that before, but I thiiink I would have noticed something odd like that, so I'm sure it was me taking far too long with the blowdryer.) It still fits in my NES, but it's pretty unsightly to look at. Do you think I could fix it if I used woodworking clamps to force it back to the proper closed shape(which it looks perfect again when held, but just pops open again if you release it), and re-heat it with the hairdryer for a long time to try and get it to stay that way? Miyamotos RGB NES posted:tcrf.net is good for doing that to me. I just found out there's a debug ROM of Zelda 64 and now I must try that. TCRF is excellent and I love it, beta or debug game information fascinates me endlessly. But it is one of those sites where I'll start clicking around and then magically lose five hours. I have a feeling that Legends of Localization will do similar, now.
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Ineffiable posted:Fun fact. One of the objects you can spawn is an Arwing. From Star Fox 64. Yea you can spawn the Arwing at the beginning of the game then tell the game to change it to like Gannon or something and there you are fighting Gannon in the forest at the beginning of the game. I adore stuff like that. I just found a walk through walls Game Genie code for A Link to the Past and man is that going to be fun to mess with!
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Ineffiable posted:Fun fact. One of the objects you can spawn is an Arwing. From Star Fox 64. I believe the arwing was in there as a test for Volvagia's Flight animations
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Mar 21, 2013 17:07
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Another one to throw on the Saturn import pile. Had to wait a bit for it to get here though.
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flyboi posted:I saw that thread a while back and was interested in just the scanliner but I guess that's not a separate device? Would be neat to have a xrgb mini on the cheap IIRC he literally just listed the Scanliner as a separate device for sale the other night. Iast your Saturn collection is starting to get awesome (PS did you guys know you can get a SFC from Surugaya for $15)
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Saturn shmups will be the death of my wallet... or would be if I hadn't gotten smacked with bills last week.  First chance I have disposable income again, I'm grabbing Soukyugurentai Otokuyo from someone. Playing with slowdown in MAME is not cutting it.
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I'm hoping to pickup a decently priced of Donpachi for Saturn at MGC this weekend. The local arcade has a cab of it (galloping ghost if you are in IL) that I've been pretty close to getting into the high score table on. The only sat shooters I have are galactic attack/layer section (plz get this if you have a saturn its dirt cheap) gunbird and radiant silvergun. Looking to improve that a bit, maybe pickup some psx ones as well.
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iastudent posted:Saturn shmups will be the death of my wallet... or would be if I hadn't gotten smacked with bills last week. I assume you already have but have you tried it in shmupmame? I'd also really like to track down that game...
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ACID POLICE posted:I assume you already have but have you tried it in shmupmame? I'd also really like to track down that game... I've gotten nothing but errors trying to run it in shumpmame. I managed to get it to run in an old version of MAME++ but not at full speed. Apparently it's never worked completely well in MAME.
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ACID POLICE posted:
I just googled "Surugaya". Holy crap, an AV Famicom for $60.  This...this is awesome! (Is there a better search term I should be looking for for the Satellaview since nothing really comes up for it?)
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I'm plugging away at Rastan and still having a bitch of a time getting anywhere in stage 4. There's a spot early on where if you fall in the water, every single possible jump you can make either dumps you back in the same pool or in another pool. You can't jump high enough to go forward so you have to backtrack through several more pools, taking damage from each along the way. There's an infinite lives code which I'm going to need to make use of. Love this game but I could be a tour guide on the first three levels at this point. And yet I feel whiny after finding a long play video of the arcade version, which looks twelves times as hard. The guy who played it made it through without losing any lives or even taking damage.  Prior to picking up the Master System version, I'd played the arcade one maybe once or twice almost a quarter century ago. Watching this make me realize why this game stuck with me for so many years; the action is just non-stop. There's fire coming out of the walls and fire coming out of the floors and fire underneath you and lizards and skeletons and gladiators and wizards all trying to murder you and spikes and spears and bats and pretty much everything and its cousin out to murder the ever loving hell out of you. I'll write a review if and when I beat it.
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If anyone's interested, there's a Japanese stream going on right now of Itoi playing Mother 2 (Earthbound) to commemorate its VC release. Hopefully the stream is being saved and someone can translate it afterwards, or at least the more interesting tidbits they're sharing with one another. iastudent fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Mar 22, 2013 |
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iastudent posted:If anyone's interested, there's a Japanese stream going on right now of Itoi playing Mother 2 (Earthbound) to commemorate its VC release. Holy crap, I've been playing EarthBound again, trying to actually beat it. It's great that it's finally getting a VC release. I also managed to finish Castlevania IV last week. God, that game is so much fun. Side-scrolling platforming at its finest. Death and Dracula are absolute bullshit, though. So loving satisfying when I finally murdered them.
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