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I wonder how a retro chain store would affect prices across the board.flyboi posted:Funny/ironic part is it will only work on model 1 Saturns Good thing that's exactly what I have! 
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mikeycp posted:I wonder how a retro chain store would affect prices across the board. I'd guess it would eventually stabilize pricing in areas where the stores were located. Rare games would probably go up a bit to account for no longer being able to find them on super-sale via craigslist or other unknowing sellers, meanwhile extremely common games would slowly stop being stamped as "RARE". The days of $25 Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt cart listings might fade away slowly.
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Agrias120 posted:I'd guess it would eventually stabilize pricing in areas where the stores were located. Rare games would probably go up a bit to account for no longer being able to find them on super-sale via craigslist or other unknowing sellers, meanwhile extremely common games would slowly stop being stamped as "RARE". The days of $25 Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt cart listings might fade away slowly. Either that or they hoard them in a warehouse and trickle titles out on specific days. "Would you like to pre-order Wild Gunman?"
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My replacement SNES controllers arrived today! They work great, they look great, I have no opinion one way or the other on X and Y being convex or concave so they feel as good as a SNES controller does. However I wish I'd done more research and found out how unreasonably short the cables are 
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Agrias120 posted:I'd guess it would eventually stabilize pricing in areas where the stores were located. Rare games would probably go up a bit to account for no longer being able to find them on super-sale via craigslist or other unknowing sellers, meanwhile extremely common games would slowly stop being stamped as "RARE". The days of $25 Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt cart listings might fade away slowly. Not only that, they would actually have Battletoads! But I would also imagine that they would start churning out Official Gamestop Retro Clone Consoles. I would think Clone consoles wouldn't be that much more expensive to mass produce than all their other Gamestop licenced stuff.
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Cubey posted:However I wish I'd done more research and found out how unreasonably short the cables are Yeah, I guess they expected you to pull the console out of whatever cubbyhole you store it in and sit it right next to you while you play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw729KAOSpU
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That has to be it, since the Famicom's cables are hilariously short.
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McCracAttack posted:Yeah, I guess they expected you to pull the console out of whatever cubbyhole you store it in and sit it right next to you while you play. Yup, that's just how things were organized in Japanese homes. TV's were small as poo poo. You wanted a big screen, you moved so you were right in front of it. 
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McCracAttack posted:Yeah, I guess they expected you to pull the console out of whatever cubbyhole you store it in and sit it right next to you while you play. Nope, Japanese homes are a lot smaller than American or European homes. So they made the cords shorter to account for that. If the cord length bothers you that bad, swap the case and/or just the buttons onto a SNES controller. They are exactly the same and on the inside of the case even tells you what color button goes where! That is my next project actually, I just need to get some SFC controllers for a not insane price.
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Squeegy posted:What up, fellas? I've had a Game Boy in a bag in my closet for several years now after loving up the lens by trying to superglue it back on. Today I was inspired to take it out and refurbish it. Here's a picture: Don't bother with acetone, it will ruin texturing on the plastic underneath it if it gets anywhere else and also the finish. You're better off filing and cleaning the stuff or trying with alcohol, otherwise most screen lenses will come self adhesive... just lay it over the glue and deal with it, the lens's paint will cover up the color anyway. EDIT : lol. Assume any Japanese system you purchase and/or the related accessories will have very short cables for the very reasons mentioned above. It amuses me that people are still surprised by this.
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Neo Rasa posted:I want to say this one's a little more known because it got a Japanese Virtual Console release and it was developed by Sting, but if you're a PC Engine fan check out Psycho Chaser (yet another game that is a synonym for Mad Stalker You keep reviewing games I love that I thought nobody gave a poo poo about, mad props. You probably have already but check out Override/Last Batallion on PCE/X68K respectively, it's another rad Sting shooter
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Everdrives in da house! Unfortunately I have to ignore them for the week because of Bloodborne. 
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Everdrives in da house! The heck you do. Fire up an RPG on the Mega, and play it during load screens for BB.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Everdrives in da house! How long did it take to get your Everdrives from when you ordered them? My Mega Everdrive is apparently sitting in Kiev MMPO, whatever that means.
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pairofdimes posted:How long did it take to get your Everdrives from when you ordered them? My Mega Everdrive is apparently sitting in Kiev MMPO, whatever that means. Ordered and shipped out on March 4th, received today, the 23rd. Kiev MMPO is probably it leaving the country looking at my tracking. After that point you're stuck there until it's in the receiving country.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Ordered and shipped out on March 4th, received today, the 23rd. That's good to know. I'm moving soon, so it sounds like it was a good idea to have it shipped to my parent's house instead.
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Djarum posted:If the cord length bothers you that bad, swap the case and/or just the buttons onto a SNES controller. They are exactly the same and on the inside of the case even tells you what color button goes where! I could swap the boards except for the fact that I got these because i managed to lose one SNES controller a few years back and the other recently had the L button die for no reason that I can figure out (everything looks good, cleaning the contact didn't help  ). They do sell controller cord extensions on ebay, so I will prolly just buy a couple of those.
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Cubey posted:They do sell controller cord extensions on ebay, so I will prolly just buy a couple of those. Amazon also sells them.
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Pudding Huxtable posted:Pseudo Saturn Unless you can read Japanese, it's basically a home arcade machine. In fact, Sega had an arcade hardware platform based on it (ST-V), which meant pretty much perfect home ports such as the following: Radiant Silvergun Soukyugurentai Prikura Daisakusen Batman Forever Cotton Boomerang Die Hard Arcade Shienryu Guardian Force Among others. If you like fighting games, there's plenty of those, a near-perfect port of Street Fighter Zero 3 being the highlight. Lots of other shmups, too - Batsugun, Strikers 1945, Battle Garegga, Layer Section/Galactic Attack, Salamander Deluxe Pack, and slowdown-free Thunder Force IV (Thunderforce Gold Pack 2) among my favorites. For the vert shmups, be sure to put your display upright on its left side for the full arcade experience  . There's also a double-pack of the Dungeons & Dragons arcade games, which are awesome.
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That sad, sad moment when you plug in your Saturn after all this Saturn talk to realize the CR2032 ran out of juice AND you forgot to backup a few saves before you last unplugged it ...And you don't have any spare 2032s laying around 
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flyboi posted:That sad, sad moment when you plug in your Saturn after all this Saturn talk to realize the CR2032 ran out of juice AND you forgot to backup a few saves before you last unplugged it I bought like 100 CR2032s all at once off dealextreme for cheap back when i was using VMUs actively. 
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Can we collectively agree to never mention Batman Forever ever again?
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Can we collectively agree to never mention Batman Forever ever again? Forever and ever?
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Nintendo Kid posted:I bought like 100 CR2032s all at once off dealextreme for cheap back when i was using VMUs actively. And the VMUs burned through them in a week.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Forever and ever?
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Forever and ever? That would be a forever endeavor.  ...I'll show myself out.
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elf help book posted:And the VMUs burned through them in a week. I only used 50 of them in VMUs over the 3 years.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Can we collectively agree to never mention Batman Forever ever again? WHEN GOOD BAT-TLES EVIL THE REAL GAME BEGINS
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So how do you guys recommend getting GBA games? They are apparently absurdly expensive, up to $75 more than a first-gen DS game. Original Game Boy games seem like they'd be cheaper to get, but most of the good games of my childhood are on the GBA, and they know it.
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Squeegy posted:So how do you guys recommend getting GBA games? They are apparently absurdly expensive, up to $75 more than a first-gen DS game. Original Game Boy games seem like they'd be cheaper to get, but most of the good games of my childhood are on the GBA, and they know it. If a collection isn't in the cards, a EZFlash IV flash cart will be the way.
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If nothing else comes from the Toejam & Earl KS, we'll at least have learned that some pro-marijuana organisation tried to buy the IP so they could use TJ&E as their mascots:quote:Josh: So, back to ToeJam & Earl… This is going to be a super weird question probably, but this is something I’ve genuinely always been curious about. How much would you say that drugs influenced ToeJam & Earl? http://geekparty.com/talking-toejam-earl-with-greg-johnson-part-3-drugs/
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Squeegy posted:So how do you guys recommend getting GBA games? They are apparently absurdly expensive, up to $75 more than a first-gen DS game. Original Game Boy games seem like they'd be cheaper to get, but most of the good games of my childhood are on the GBA, and they know it. http://www.ezflash.cn/ez-flash-iv-microsd/ Not sure about a reputable seller these days but this plays pretty much everything and takes micro SDHC and was launched a few months ago. Edit: Looks like gbatemp's sponsor has them for sale and is pretty reliable https://nds-card.com flyboi fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Squeegy posted:So how do you guys recommend getting GBA games? They are apparently absurdly expensive, up to $75 more than a first-gen DS game. Original Game Boy games seem like they'd be cheaper to get, but most of the good games of my childhood are on the GBA, and they know it. Loose GBA games tend to be cheap-ish. Partly because they printed a lot of them but also because there's a poo poo ton of counterfeits out there.
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The heck GBA games are that expensive?
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Caitlin posted:The heck GBA games are that expensive? Yes. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3690809
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Caitlin posted:The heck GBA games are that expensive? Ninja Five-O, and Car Battler Joe is starting to creep up there.
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 Discount Viscount posted:Ninja Five-O, and Car Battler Joe is starting to creep up there. so we have, like, two. I mean, there's always a few expensive ones for any system you throw out there, it was just the "absurdly expensive, $75 more than first gen DS" that made me 
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Caitlin posted:The heck GBA games are that expensive? GBA games are expensive because there's hella counterfeits out there.
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Nintendo Kid posted:GBA games are expensive because there's hella counterfeits out there. that was not what I asked at all
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I don't think GBA is particularly expensive either yet. Any system where the packaging is cardboard it's going to be way more expensive to get the game complete, that's not unique to GBA, and once you exit Nintendo/Atlus/Konami land there a ton of awesome GBA games that are cheap.  d0s posted:You keep reviewing games I love that I thought nobody gave a poo poo about, mad props. You probably have already but check out Override/Last Batallion on PCE/X68K respectively, it's another rad Sting shooter  Thanks! Hopefully more people give these rad games a chance now. I LOVE Override!
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