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d0s posted:to me a collection is a hassle and I keep getting closer and closer to cashing out and getting all the flash carts If I would get a good offer on my collection right now, I might be tempted to do this, despite what I said earlier. I would keep the consoles, maybe even get a few more, but all my future purchases would be flashcarts.
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fishmech posted:I doubt Gamestop deliberately threw out cases and manuals in bulk, so much as people traded in disc only games, or games in hosed up cases missing the manual/cover art paper or with that stuff ripped up. I mean they had all those blank DVD cases available for games they only had a disc for after all. Last year I sold a Pokémon Diamond to Gamestop because it was an instant $30 and they explicitly told me they were gonna chuck the case into the trash and let me keep the empty case.
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Aug 20, 2016 22:32
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From what I remembered, when they were doing their clearance, I heard at least 3 employees from different stores say they were instructed to toss ps2 cases and manuals to make room for all the discs that needed to be on clearance.
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Aug 20, 2016 22:33
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fishmech posted:I doubt Gamestop deliberately threw out cases and manuals in bulk, so much as people traded in disc only games, or games in hosed up cases missing the manual/cover art paper or with that stuff ripped up. I mean they had all those blank DVD cases available for games they only had a disc for after all. A few years back, my fiancee and I went to a Gamestop to see if they had a DS game that had only come out a few months prior (Virtue's Last Reward). They had it, and insisted it was new, but cart-only. They just straight-up said they tossed the packaging. Gamestop is basically Satan's cockhole.
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Aug 20, 2016 22:36
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Allen Wren posted:A few years back, my fiancee and I went to a Gamestop to see if they had a DS game that had only come out a few months prior (Virtue's Last Reward). They had it, and insisted it was new, but cart-only. They just straight-up said they tossed the packaging. They probably were lying about it being new, yo.
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Aug 20, 2016 22:47
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fishmech posted:They probably were lying about it being new, yo. They tried to sell me a manual-less CD that was placed in their little paper sleeve things.
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Aug 20, 2016 23:27
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I don't believe for a second that it's company policy, but there's a hell of a lot of dishonest GameStop employees/managers out there.
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URL grey tea posted:Has anyone else experienced a slight buzzing with the NES30 plugged in? I haven't tried it on my setup yet but a friend had noticable audio buzzing as soon as the bluetooth light came on. Uncle at Nintendo posted:As for you wanting to replace the mushy d-pad in your NES30, though I cannot confirm with the NES30 because I do not own one, the SNES30 is absolutely identical to the original SNES controller inside (meaning the membranes and stuff). As an experiment I swapped out the d-pad, the d-pad membrane, the ABXY buttons, the ABXY membranes, and the L and R buttons and membranes between a real SNES controller and the SNES30 and it fit perfectly. xamphear fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Aug 20, 2016 23:33
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d0s posted:nah, improving functionality is cool in my book, same goes for RGB mods etc. kthulu5k's hot rod analogy works here i'm also cool with this, i realize that might not have been clear in my words post. mods that add something and don't take away from something else are as cool and fine as you can get, even if there is a tiny super-purist part of my brain that thinks flaws are an intrinsic part of a thing and should be kept that i 100% realize is kinda crazy and all me. and i don't have any sort of visceral disgusted reaction to made from scratch repros either, i feel like that got kinda muddled too. i just think they're tacky and impractical. trashing a vectrex to make it run milkdrop or whatever though, that's peak lame!
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Chainclaw posted:As someone who participates in a few hobbies, the defensiveness people get over the destruction of a SNES copy of a game you couldn't give away is baffling. Especially considering when these hobbies overlap, I imagine some of you would have heart attacks if you knew what the video synthesizer community was doing to Vectrexes. I'm even thinking about getting a second vectrex to gut and turn into a really slick video synthesizer. So I looked this up and video synthesizer fans... really like early 2000s screen savers? What an odd hobby.
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Cliff Racer posted:So I looked this up and video synthesizer fans... really like early 2000s screen savers? What an odd hobby. It doesn't really seem like it's destructive though, you basically disconnect the leads to the original circuit board and wire them into external equipment. So if you wanted to play Vectrex games again it'd be very minor work to reconnect the original stuff.
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fishmech posted:It doesn't really seem like it's destructive though, you basically disconnect the leads to the original circuit board and wire them into external equipment. So if you wanted to play Vectrex games again it'd be very minor work to reconnect the original stuff. if that's the case then that's fine and that dude really should have picked a word other than "gut"
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Got my GBA everdrive in today. Obviously the first thing anyone does is get a complete romset and clean it up. Any cool hacks/translations I should do with this thing? I know there's a good sound fix for final fantasy and pokemon light platinum sees to be the best of the million pokemon hacks.
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absolutely anything posted:if that's the case then that's fine and that dude really should have picked a word other than "gut" Well you usually would take most of the original components out and set them aside, so gut sounds like a fair enough description. They're just not getting thrown out unless the Vectrex board was already broken.
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I'm going to assume me and fishmech read the same synthesizer thread. The guys made it sound as if it was really easy solder work. But I might have been misreading them.
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fishmech posted:Well you usually would take most of the original components out and set them aside, so gut sounds like a fair enough description. They're just not getting thrown out unless the Vectrex board was already broken. for me "gut" implies a permanent removal and the way you're describing it makes it sounds like if the vectrex magically had more space inside it you could wire up a toggle switch to change between the vectrex and winamp visualizer boards e: which is to say, nothing's really happening to the "vectrex" part of the vectrex. you're basically just unplugging it and plugging in something totally different, and as long as you're not a dirtbag that would throw away a working vectrex board you can plug it back in whenever you want. and that's fine absolutely anything fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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I really like the overlap in retro gaming and video synthesis right now, and the cool things people are doing in both places. The big downsides right now are the price and the compatibility gotchas between different video synthesizer manufactures. One item on my list to get eventually is something I think I originally found in this thread a few years ago, the Special Stage Systems World Core. It's a voltage controlled video synthesizer wrapped around an '80s style game console: http://www.specialstagesystems.com/system-overview/ Mixing that with a full Eurorack synthesizer setup, you could build a simple video game driven by modules inputting and outputting control voltages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGtVMaN07tc
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absolutely anything posted:for me "gut" implies a permanent removal and the way you're describing it makes it sounds like if the vectrex magically had more space inside it you could wire up a toggle switch to change between the vectrex and winamp visualizer boards Yeah pretty much. You also end up cutting holes into the back plastic to run the new signals most of the time so the system won't look pristine but it's no big deal. But hell, my Atari 7800 has big ol chunks of the plastic missing because they cracked off when it got dropped down a staircase once, so it's no big deal.
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fishmech posted:They probably were lying about it being new, yo. If that's the case, they actually took the time to clean off the save files? I dunno, man. Crazy poo poo happens out there.
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Ineffiable posted:Got my GBA everdrive in today. Obviously the first thing anyone does is get a complete romset and clean it up. I liked the various Final Fantasy VI Advance hacks that fix up a lot of the issues that version had in comparison to the SNES version.
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lets talk about mame cabs again
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Zand posted:lets talk about mame cabs again that one's cool because the monitor and speakers look like a face frozen in a pained expression
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Zand posted:lets talk about mame cabs again Wow, you can even see it screaming out for an end to its suffering 
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Zand posted:lets talk about mame cabs again 
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Little? Its bigger than Donkey Kong!
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Ineffiable posted:Yeah its funny but I think ps2 is already too late. The turning point was when gamestop was clearing out about 3 years ago. And sadly, gamestop threw out a lot of cases and manuals and sold them as disc only to save space. Getting good ps2 game cases and manuals might be almost as rare as cart games which is funny because you'd think it'd just be an easy thing to get complete. I held on to a lot of PS2 games just because Gamestop was only taking pennies for them back when they still carried PS2 games and I was too lazy to list them so that ended up working out in my favor. I was sad however to open my Parappa 2 box and not find a CD in it. Apparently it got lost somewhere along the way 
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I really hate when MAME cabinets have artwork for a thousand different games on it. I'm not sure why it bothers me but it does. When I found out the gutted machine I bought was originally an 1989 TMNT cabinet I went out and got all the original sideart and original marquee. Not even a reprint. The original one. It doesn't need to advertise that it has multiple games unless you're putting it in a pizzeria or something. Another thing that annoys me in MAME cabinets: LCD screens  To be honest I am actually jealous of people who are happy with not caring about details like that. xamphear posted:No more so than usual. Audio out of an NES, even/especially if you have an nesrgb, is pretty noisy. I'll second the recommendation to check the power supply. Are you sure that your replacement membranes are from an actual SNES controller and not some ebay reprint? I lined the 8BITDO ones up with my actual SNES ones and they were exact! xamphear posted:That little steering wheel! I have no idea how well they work because why would you want a steering wheel without a gas and brake pedal and without the manual transmission shifter but supposedly those are like $5 wheels you just slap on a spinner and they are supposed to be not terrible. I'm not into racing that much so I never cared to try though. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I really hate when MAME cabinets have artwork for a thousand different games on it. I'm not sure why it bothers me but it does. I don't know why cabinet art designed by a middle schooler with a Trapper Keeper and a pack of Garbage Pail Kid stickers should bother you.
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sacrilege it might be, but I saw a guy play an entire electronic music set on a pair of modded game boys and it was honestly really cool. I know that sounds totally insane, but his soundcloud is here and I was super impressed. I don't think he makes music anymore, sadly. e: check out the top track, hyperspace v1.2, it's very 'vvvvvv soundtrack', but i love it
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Anyone have an opinion on the piko interactive games they sell on their store? I want to pick up a Super Noah's Ark 3d cartridge but have no clue on the quality they produce
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I actually have one (the aforementioned only repro I own) and its fine as far as I can tell. The cart is in good shape, comes with a hard plastic case and manual. edit: FWIW I have the SNES version. Cliff Racer fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:Hmm well I guess it does depend on the game but I've not had too much trouble collecting yet. It helps that I already had a lot of the hits already before I started. It is true that the cases sometimes aren't included. I have some PS2/Xbox cases for really lovely trash that I don't mind replacing the boxart for but it's a finite limit compared to, say, jewel cases. Ultimately I'm getting these games to play them so that's the most important thing, not how nice my shelf looks. That's how honestly most people have a big collection, they manage to stock up during the bottom of the prices. I only have 100+ PS2 titles because I ordered 30+ back when Rakuten was still a thing and it would be like a dollar each, and I managed to get rule of rose for less than $40, Kuon for 8 dollars and more deals. I really picked up a lot of things before the prices hit. The PS2 had one of the biggest customer base, so there's plenty of copies of any of the big mainstream stuff. It's the more niche stuff that's really starting to increase in value as more people want it, and start paying more for one of the last few complete copies. I almost broke down and bought a copy of blood will tell last year, it's one of the elusive ones for me.
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fishmech posted:I doubt Gamestop deliberately threw out cases and manuals in bulk why do you doubt that it's a store practice they still follow I had a manager at one tell me they literally threw away every DS/3DS case they had to make space and were selling cart only at CIB cost.  e : also, you guys found THE WORST mame cabs 
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pft I don't even have 100 PS2 titles. I have a few dozen though. apparently Xenosaga III is worth something, I dont know why, the entire Xenosaga series is loving garbage, why did I buy them. why
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bpc908 posted:Anyone have an opinion on the piko interactive games they sell on their store? I want to pick up a Super Noah's Ark 3d cartridge but have no clue on the quality they produce My half assed opinion is it seems okay-ish? They're using a snap together shell for the genesis games it seems, and I can easily tell where the sprue was for each half. The case was quite good at least. Still haven't had time to actually stick the game in the console though. So cheapish components but nothing thats made me worry about holding up to normal use as of yet. Edit: Oddly expensive PS2 games? Can some one explain why the .hack series is up there in price too? Is it because of Project X Zone? Surprisingly for some one who wasn't gonna get into PS2 games I've got about two dozen and just about everything I ever wanted for it. Turbinosamente fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Caitlin posted:why do you doubt that it's a store practice they still follow Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing DS games go up in value, just because there's a lot of counterfeits, and legit games with boxes and manuals, are quickly becoming more scarce. And they still play fine on a 3DS so I can see some desire for them still in 2016.
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Ineffiable posted:Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing DS games go up in value, just because there's a lot of counterfeits, and legit games with boxes and manuals, are quickly becoming more scarce. The usual suspects are certainly keeping up their prices. I doubt we're going to see the absurdities we get elsewhere with DS, though, just because no one seems to want to collect portables.
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Ineffiable posted:That's why I bought the dream cast gdu flash drive thing. Someone may have answered this at some point, but are there original GD-ROM images out there? All I ever came across were hacked-up DiscJuggler shits made to fit on a CDR, which was fine I guess, but that's not gonna cut it for proper preservation.
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