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Rirse posted:How long does it take to get a cart from him anyway? That the main reason I was looking at these. 2-3 weeks, but you can also buy them from the US store I linked above.
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It's really not that long a wait, unless you're actually jonesing for retro gaming action every day all day (and LOL, who are we kidding?).
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Literally The Worst posted:first 13 years of nintendo power are online now https://archive.org/details/nintendopower?&sort=-downloads&page=2
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I bought my Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer and it got here in about a week, though I just bought a board only one. You pay slightly more at SAG, but I like the extra safety of not having to do overseas shipping. Also keep in mind if you want to get a Genesis one, he's releasing a new set that's gonna be a lot cheaper very soon.
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Elliotw2 posted:I bought my Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer and it got here in about a week, though I just bought a board only one. You pay slightly more at SAG, but I like the extra safety of not having to do overseas shipping. Already got a Genesis flash cart (probably a clone but meh), but I will get the NES flash cart from Stone Age Gamer for sure.
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Monitor Burn posted:Actual Everdrives come from the Ukraine, not China. Bootlegs also have the added bonus of not being able to update the firmware on it without buying a new one. I think this is the first time since the tube guitar amp era that I've heard "get the eastern european version it's more legit"
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Actually I said SAG is more expensive, but the Everdrive N8 is actually like a dollar cheaper before shipping through them.
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Scaramouche posted:I think this is the first time since the tube guitar amp era that I've heard "get the eastern european version it's more legit" I find it funnier that we are discussing the authenticity of flash carts.
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So I did a quick test run for my stream tonight, to make sure I had OBS set up right and play with my new controller In the process I got a game over playing SMB. On 1-1. Gonna be a good stream
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I love the cautionary illustrations from the original R.O.B. manual.  Do not present Rob with confusing equations or abstract artwork.
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Do NOT allow R.O.B.(tm) to see what's "under your pants" when he asks. e:  that kid straight up 'bows poor R.O.B. in the first panel
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Monitor Burn posted:Is there any mod to isolate the original GBA's audio circuit from interference yet? I know the GBA doesn't have great audio to begin with, but the background static and noise is pretty distracting when using headphones. (Also the beeps when the EZ Flash IV loads up a rom). I havent heard of one yet. I tried a ground loop isolator on my GB micro which didnt do anything. Does the SP have this issue too? Never bought a headphone adapter for it
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I ran across this today. For anyone whose GB Micro's battery doesn't hold a charge, this is interesting. Mine is still fine, but will keep for future reference.Monitor Burn posted:Is there any mod to isolate the original GBA's audio circuit from interference yet? I know the GBA doesn't have great audio to begin with, but the background static and noise is pretty distracting when using headphones. (Also the beeps when the EZ Flash IV loads up a rom). I don't think so. I know they sell that GBAmp3 to increase the volume for the speaker (and I think it cleans it up). However, nothing for the headphone. You may be able to use that for the headphone, but you'd get both L and R channels going through both L and R headphones.
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African AIDS cum posted:I havent heard of one yet. I tried a ground loop isolator on my GB micro which didnt do anything. Does the SP have this issue too? Never bought a headphone adapter for it The SP's still have it, but I can more easily find a sweet spot on the SP where it is loud enough to hear but the static/buzzing isn't annoying enough. I tried a cap swap on my GBC, and that removed the high freq hiss, but that low buzz is still there and annoying.
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If I remember my teenage years right, the SP was a hell of a handheld. Is it generally considered the best GBA? How have they generally held up over the years? Was there region-lock on GBA games? I seem to remember the DS didn't have it, but the 3DS does.
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I liked the form factor of the GBA, but the GBa SP basically made it a handheld that didn't look like a child's Nerf/Nickelodeon toy and finally gave it a backlight. Kind of a low effort example of the iPodening of electronics, too. The GBA was like the last bastion of fun sprite-based games too. The Lilo & Stitch game that came out for is was some awesome iteration on the Capcom platformer series of the 90s. And I'm sure Advance Wars was one of the prime reasons I tanked my grades the first year of University. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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The DS has quite a good selection of sprite-based games... I wish I could say the same for the 3DS.
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Drone posted:Was there region-lock on GBA games? I seem to remember the DS didn't have it, but the 3DS does. Nah. Portables really didn't until this gen, with a few exceptions over the years.
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The 3DS is the only portable to have region locking, actually. I guess the Vita and PSP technically can be region locked, but I don't think any games used the feature.
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I thought the Vita was too. edit: you also edited a thing. I swear there was something else, I'm gonna go look.
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END ME SCOOB posted:I thought the Vita was too. Sort of, but not exactly. The hardware itself isn't region locked, and physical game cartridges aren't region locked, but you can only have one PSN account registered on the system at a time and all digital content is restricted to what's available in the location your account is registered to.
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Gotta Protectors loving owns.
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Got this today:
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I ordered the parts to set up a RetroPie, anyone have any gotchas I need to look out for?
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Elliotw2 posted:The 3DS is the only portable to have region locking, actually. The Nomad had region locking, though not every title did it. 
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Elliotw2 posted:The 3DS is the only portable to have region locking, actually. The DSi preceded it. There were maybe five retail games that made use of DSi's much-hyped under-the-hood power boosts, but the majority of DS releases quietly made use of the region lock once it became available, even if they weren't designated as DSi-enhanced release. So you could play any pre-DSi DS game on any hardware, and you could play any post-DSi DS game on DS or DS Lite, but if you used a DSi you had to be mindful of regions.
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Dr. Spitesworth posted:The DSi preceded it. There were maybe five retail games that made use of DSi's much-hyped under-the-hood power boosts, but the majority of DS releases quietly made use of the region lock once it became available, even if they weren't designated as DSi-enhanced release. So you could play any pre-DSi DS game on any hardware, and you could play any post-DSi DS game on DS or DS Lite, but if you used a DSi you had to be mindful of regions. The DSi region lock didn't affect the majority of post-DSi DS games, by any means - most the of the post-DSi games released were entirely region-free and even Nintendo would only region-lock their own games if they actually used the DSi hardware (mostly for WPA2 wireless compatibility). The only noteworthy third-party games I can think of offhand that were hit by the region lock are Korg DS-10+ (which only came out in NA and genuinely uses the DSi processor for more simultaneous tracks) and Solatorobo (which came out in both regions but is/was much easier to find in Europe, but did some completely trivial poo poo with the camera).
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There were a lot more than that. Pretty much everything from SEGA, for one — Sands of Destruction and Sonic Collection come to mind. I picked up a Japan DSi at launch and ended up having to buy an American system in order to review American DS releases. It was a giant pain in my rear end (and bank account).
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Sands of Destruction, really? I'll give you that one, I had no idea. I do remember wishing Sega would add WPA2 support to Phantasy Star Zero but they never did, which sucks because that's a game that really needed it. (I knew about Sonic but didn't mention it because it's thoroughly inessential. It did use the DSi processor for slightly less bad emulation but it didn't help a whole lot.) It is worth mentioning that several region-locked games were only JP-locked - you can play the NA Pokemon games on a PAL system and vice-versa but you can't play them on JP hardware, for example - so I guess it's a more acute issue for someone with a JP system.
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In any case, I think we can both agree that region-locked handhelds are Dumb and Not Good.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Gotta Protectors loving owns.
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Dr. Spitesworth posted:In any case, I think we can both agree that region-locked handhelds are Dumb and Not Good. Region-locked anything is dumb and not good, drat happy it's mostly behind us; Blu-ray uses it pretty sparsely, and UHD Blu-ray doesn't have region coding at all loving finally. There's just the odd quirk with PSN stuff on PS4, like in Street Fighter V, DLC is only usable by the purchasing account, and that account is restricted to playing in its home territory (NA, Europe, Asia).
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You know, I never understood how terrible Donkey Kong 64 was until I sat down last night and tried playing it for more than two hours. It's like I could tell it was a bad game before and thus stopped playing it before getting too far, but you can't fully appreciate the awfulness until you're a few levels in.
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Random Stranger posted:You know, I never understood how terrible Donkey Kong 64 was until I sat down last night and tried playing it for more than two hours. It's like I could tell it was a bad game before and thus stopped playing it before getting too far, but you can't fully appreciate the awfulness until you're a few levels in. I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails. 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails. Probably around the planning phase when they went "Hey we should make Banjo-Tooie but even bigger."
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails. "I'm concerned that we just don't have enough things to collect."
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails. This game will randomly crash for no reason if the expansion pack isn't in the system, let's just bundle the expansion pack with it since we can't find the bug.
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I blame the 64DD. It was supposed to be flipped out in a year and then that dumb thing crashed and burned. Majora's Mask was a similar casualty where you have this incredibly repetitive game built on re-used assets that demands you to play its same four levels over and over again. I really want to like Majora, and maybe when I play the 3DS version in 10 years it'll be the light switch flipping on, but god drat does that game feel cheap.
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Getting a PVM-2530 that's been sitting around at work. It works, has good colour and no ghosting. Anything else I should know?
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