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I remember "buy back games" being pretty good in the Denver area all through my childhood and the into 2004 (when I left the area). Most recently (2004) I bought a euro copy of shenmue 2 for the dreamcast for $20 there, as well as some obscure dreamcast soccer game UEFA Striker. If they are still around they are probably a good place to check out.
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I just had the worst Facebook discussion with a friend. Pat the NES Punk did a video on Wolverine and the digital war crime known as X MEN. You know, one of the worst commercially released NES era Videogames ever loving made that was released in the USA. LJN deciding to ruin every comic book and videogame fan's holiday with this abortion that singlehandedly proves the Nintendo Seal of Quality was complete horseshit. My friend was upset and is DEFENDING this game. Jesus loving wept. I mean infamous Kusoges like Friday the 13th NES, NES Spelunker? They have potential and some good ideas mired by critical flaws but X Men? Only the slow torture of everyone who allowed that weekend ruining pile of Nurgle's Rot until they plead for the sweet release of death that should never be granted no matter how many bloody tears they shed would forgive that evil unleashed upon the world.  (Course my friend is one of those who thinks everything he loved as a child is automatically great now and forever in spite of all evidence proving that like all of us he had generally terrible taste as a kid because we all didn't know any better. And he also has shared dumb poo poo a minute's Googling would lead to Snopes and prove false. And then not even go "Oops my bad!". Guy is one of the genuinely one of the loveliest people you will ever meet but ye gods can he be dumb as a goddamned brick.  )Defending NES X Men. I've seen it all. Vvvv geez. You sure do get salty on a fuckload of people in this thread don't you? vvvvvvv Captain Rufus fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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you know what, finally pulling the trigger on that block list addition let the man like his lovely games you insufferable goon  yeah man it's just me being salty 
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Sep 19, 2016 22:18
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Rufus sperg-rages so we don't have to. He's kind of Jesus-like, like that.
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Sep 19, 2016 22:39
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I got pretty decent at soldering in NES and SNES batteries after a certain point, but I'm not sure I'll ever do an OK job with my GB/GBA carts. GBA especially is such a bitch to even get the plastic casing closed after the fact.
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Sep 19, 2016 22:48
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Captain Rufus posted:I just had the worst Facebook discussion with a friend. Pat the NES Punk did a video on Wolverine and the digital war crime known as X MEN. You know, one of the worst commercially released NES era Videogames ever loving made that was released in the USA. LJN deciding to ruin every comic book and videogame fan's holiday with this abortion that singlehandedly proves the Nintendo Seal of Quality was complete horseshit. ffs chill dude
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I posted a while back about the SNES HD Retrovision component cable. It didn't work on my TV with SNES, but N64 did so I was ok with the $35 kickstarter purchase. Well, I decided to roll the dice and order the Genesis cables, hoping that it would work on my Vizio despite the SNES troubles. $55 shipped with the Model 1 adapter And.... they work! I'm honestly blown away at the quality difference here. I forgot just how bad the Genesis was over composite on HDTVs (and that is the reason I never play it anymore)   That first picture isn't out of focus, it's just that bad. It's probably not a huge improvement over S-video, but if anyone is stuck using composite on an LCD screen, I highly recommend those cables. And still top-quality workmanship on the cables themselves.
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I once got all ornery about the Guitar Vader song in JSR being the most obnoxious thing in that soundtrack (even moreso than Dragula), made even more obnoxious by its repetition during the "chase the dudes and tag them using the same button as something else" on the Dreamcast... but then I wound up on Gamers.txt in helldump and decided that nobody really cared about what I disliked. People will, time and again, disagree with what I dislike, and more power to them (some of you like the d-pad on Playstation controllers, for instance). But man. Some people are going to like what they're going to like. Like that whole "some guy did a cosmetic and systematic remake of Super Pitfall to make it less lovely" that takes a game that didn't seem like a good effort and turned it into... well... it's not GREAT, but it's a far cry from Pony's original port. Tee Ell Dee Arr say: Talk about what you like. It's not a crime to like things you don't.
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Nate RFB posted:I got pretty decent at soldering in NES and SNES batteries after a certain point, but I'm not sure I'll ever do an OK job with my GB/GBA carts. GBA especially is such a bitch to even get the plastic casing closed after the fact. The batteries they sell on ebay have the pins at an incorrect angle for the GBA games (those OEM batteries sit over a chip, and the replacement batteries are manufactured to lay flush). I have had a lot of luck using a set of needlenose pliers to bend the pins to a similar angle as the OEM battery. If it's because the battery is physically too big, try using another size. The pokemon GBA games use Edit: poo poo, got my sizes mixed up. Zonekeeper fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2016 23:34
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wa27 posted:I posted a while back about the SNES HD Retrovision component cable. It didn't work on my TV with SNES, but N64 did so I was ok with the $35 kickstarter purchase. Well, I decided to roll the dice and order the Genesis cables, hoping that it would work on my Vizio despite the SNES troubles. $55 shipped with the Model 1 adapter And.... they work! Nice! I've said it before, but the Genesis is really good for highlighting the quality difference between composite and RGB(esque) video, not least because its composite video quality really is particularly awful even on CRTs, and there's no default S-Video support for the system. What kind of TV do you have, that the Retrovision cable works on?
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Sep 19, 2016 23:37
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Yeah they're 2025's, Zero Mission seems to be fine but Circle of the Moon is definitely bent a tiny bit in the middle (it still can plug in). GBAs are mostly dumb if only because the battery has to sit over a bunch of ICs.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Nice! I've said it before, but the Genesis is really good for highlighting the quality difference between composite and RGB(esque) video, not least because its composite video quality really is particularly awful even on CRTs, and there's no default S-Video support for the system. What kind of TV do you have, that the Retrovision cable works on? It's a Vizio e480i-B2, probably the most popular TV from 3-4 years ago. SNES over component doesn't work, but modded N64 and now Genesis does, so I guess it's just something weird with the SNES timings or something.
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Nate RFB posted:Yeah they're 2025's, Zero Mission seems to be fine but Circle of the Moon is definitely bent a tiny bit in the middle (it still can plug in). GBAs are mostly dumb if only because the battery has to sit over a bunch of ICs. Got my sizes mixed up - 2032s are used in NES/SNES carts, 2025s are the "large" save batteries used in GB games, and GBA/small GB batteries are 1616s. If you're trying to shove 2025s into GBA carts designed for 1616s, then that's what your problem is. The number descrives the diameter and thickness of the battery, i.e. a 2032 battery is 20mm in dameter and 3.2 mm thick.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Rufus sperg-rages so we don't have to. He's kind of Jesus-like, like that. Rufus is a good EGG (Elemental Gimmick Gear).
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That's weird that the HD Retrovision cables work with the Genesis and N64, but not the SNES. I wonder if the HDTV is reading the Genesis as 480i somehow.
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The SNES is always a bit finicky with it's RGB output though, even some normal RGB SCART> whatever boxes have trouble with it. The Genesis's regular composite output is finicky with capture cards and converter boxes, on the other hand.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Rufus sperg-rages so we don't have to. He's kind of Jesus-like, like that. I have more reason to be angry over the NES X-Men game than any person in this thread and I thought that was a bit much.
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Monitor Burn posted:That's weird that the HD Retrovision cables work with the Genesis and N64, but not the SNES. I wonder if the HDTV is reading the Genesis as 480i somehow. I know that one of those videos showing a Genesis hooked up to a Samsung PC monitor suggested that it treated the signal as being 480i. The Genesis might just be fairly generic, overall, but who knows? Random Stranger posted:I have more reason to be angry over the NES X-Men game than any person in this thread and I thought that was a bit much. Rufus sperged for our sins. Question it not.
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Captain Rufus posted:I just had the worst Facebook discussion with a friend. Pat the NES Punk did a video on Wolverine and the digital war crime known as X MEN. You know, one of the worst commercially released NES era Videogames ever loving made that was released in the USA. LJN deciding to ruin every comic book and videogame fan's holiday with this abortion that singlehandedly proves the Nintendo Seal of Quality was complete horseshit. I picture everything you write coming out in a kind of male "this one time, at band camp" voice e: what the hell is nurgles rot d0s fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Zonekeeper posted:Got my sizes mixed up - 2032s are used in NES/SNES carts, 2025s are the "large" save batteries used in GB games, and GBA/small GB batteries are 1616s. If you're trying to shove 2025s into GBA carts designed for 1616s, then that's what your problem is.  If anything I guess it will last longer.
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FilthyImp posted:The Saturn could, though, right? That's the code base I assume they used. Saturn can do transparency, but most developers didn't bother https://youtu.be/f_OchOV_WDg edit: beaten
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Yeah, most/all of the button cell batteries are 3.0v, so the bigger ones will last longer if you can make them fit inside the case. This is also how people make AA/AAA holders work in the Sega CD or TG16 in place of a 2032.
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d0s posted:
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kirbysuperstar posted:Sounds like a sex act. It's from Warhammer, so more like an anti-sex act.
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Captain Rufus posted:I just had the worst Facebook discussion with a friend. Pat the NES Punk did a video on Wolverine and the digital war crime known as X MEN. You know, one of the worst commercially released NES era Videogames ever loving made that was released in the USA. LJN deciding to ruin every comic book and videogame fan's holiday with this abortion that singlehandedly proves the Nintendo Seal of Quality was complete horseshit. your dumb freakout posts would be (very) slightly less embarrassing if you could talk like a normal person instead of like you somehow got kidnapped and held hostage in an early 2000s video game message board until today
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Random Stranger posted:I have more reason to be angry over the NES X-Men game than any person in this thread and I thought that was a bit much. I was kind of exaggerating for comedic effect. (As I am wont to do.) It's a very very very bad game. So bad. Like Hydlide is better. Spelunker. Arcade Pit Fighter. Time Killers. No for the record I did not post my rage hate on my Facebook when I linked to the Pat video. Which I merely did to my own wall as it was nice to see someone who also suffered through that pos. I think AVGN also might have endured it? Or Projared? My friend did not really approve. But he is pure nostalgia goggles for everything. But watching him see or play things from his childhood causes him to try to excuse their awfulness. One thing I shared directly with him was the recent Phelous Transformers stupidity countdown. He tried to defend CARBOMBYA. It was not good. Yet he hates Beast Wars because it's not G1. Which is heresy. (He makes amazingly dumb excuses when he fucks up. Something he used to do quite often. Instead of apologizing when he pissed us off for his latest derp.) It still blows my mind somebody could like that game at all. I will have to ask him how old he was when he first played it and how long has it been since he played it last? I am betting 10 years old played it and 25 years ago. I mean it's just pop culture poo poo either way so it's just harmless fun really. He can like it if he wishes. Imma still give him friendly ribbing over it. I did show him the AVGN Festers Quest video back in the day because he said he loved that game. His reactions were adorable. That's Rufus' lesson for the day kids: your childhood loves were probably stupid. Cherish the memories but don't try refreshing them. That leads to pain and wondering why you were supposed to root for the Nerds in Revenge of the Nerds.  Edit : vvvv. I'm not. I'm more mad at people mad at me bemused at a friend who is kinda mad at my sharing the opinion of an ok Youtuber that an LJN NES game was quite awful. What does it all mean? I dunno! Nobody should give enough of a gently caress to figure it out. And all of my extended circle of people IRL should quit trying to help my friend have good taste in irrelevant entertainment choices. Like the dude actually liked the Jem movie. One of the biggest flops of 2016 except without the internet trainwrecks all the higher profile failures had. Vvvv Captain Rufus fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Captain Rufus posted:I was kind of exaggerating for comedic effect. (As I am wont to do.) It's a very very very bad game. So bad. Like Hydlide is better. Spelunker. Arcade Pit Fighter. Time Killers. No for the record I did not post my rage hate on my Facebook when I linked to the Pat video. Which I merely did to my own wall as it was nice to see someone who also suffered through that pos. I think AVGN also might have endured it? Or Projared? My friend did not really approve. But he is pure nostalgia goggles for everything. But watching him see or play things from his childhood causes him to try to excuse their awfulness. One thing I shared directly with him was the recent Phelous Transformers stupidity countdown. He tried to defend CARBOMBYA. It was not good. Yet he hates Beast Wars because it's not G1. Which is heresy. (He makes amazingly dumb excuses when he fucks up. Something he used to do quite often. Instead of apologizing when he pissed us off for his latest derp.) 
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I once got all ornery about the Guitar Vader song in JSR being the most obnoxious thing in that soundtrack (even moreso than Dragula), made even more obnoxious by its repetition during the "chase the dudes and tag them using the same button as something else" on the Dreamcast... but then I wound up on Gamers.txt in helldump and decided that nobody really cared about what I disliked. That's because the tedious noise pollution that is Birthday Cake exists in JSRF. 
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Captain Rufus posted:I was kind of exaggerating for comedic effect. (As I am wont to do.)
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That's because the tedious noise pollution that is Birthday Cake exists in JSRF. Actually that song is very sweet.
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Captain Rufus posted:(He makes amazingly dumb excuses when he fucks up. Something he used to do quite often. Instead of apologizing when he pissed us off for his latest derp.)
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Kashuno posted:I like Pat's podcast but NES punk is pretty bad All of the old youtube personalities realized in the past few years that people were tuning in for them, not their fecal obsessed characters.
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Just FYI, Massdrop has a drop going for the 8bitdo SFC30 pad, it's like $22, I bought myself another one. e. it ends tomorrow, so get on it! Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Captain Rufus posted:I just had the worst Facebook discussion with a friend I'm betting "friend" is only a one-way designation here
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Kashuno posted:I like Pat's podcast but NES punk is pretty bad
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Harlock posted:Segue into good video gaming podcasts? CoolGames Inc
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Harlock posted:Segue into good video gaming podcasts? Retronauts. For non-retro stuff I really like 8-4 Play, but it relies heavily on you liking the personalities of the hosts.
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Harlock posted:Segue into good video gaming podcasts? My commute listening Idle Thumbs: Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Sean Vaneman, and Nick Breckon (Telltale alumni, three of them went on to do Firewatch) talk about games. They almost always find the weirdest aspects of games to discuss, usually resulting in hilarious stories and videos like this and this. e: this should be the only argument you need for why Idle Thumbs is the best. Three Moves Ahead: A really critical show focused on PC strategy titles new and old. The hosts and guests have vastly different tastes resulting in very interesting arguments. The Last Express episode is one of the best retrospectives on a video game I've listened to. Watch Out For Fireballs/Abject Suffering: Two goofball goons bad at games talk about old poo poo. Fireballs is like a book club format, usually 2+ hours. Abject suffering is them playing a really lovely game. The result is a 30 minute show with about 3 minutes devoted to the topic and 27 minutes of gamers.txt. My favorite running joke involves drafting the developers of these bad games into a war of Good vs. Evil. Retronauts: doesn't need explaining. Legacy Music Hour/VGMpire: two separate podcasts dealing with video game music. LMH is 8-16 bit only, VGM covers whole series or genres. No Quarter: Retro arcade podcast by two old farts. Most of the stuff is early 80s which is interesting because my knowledge of arcade games doesn't really begin until Capcom's CPS so learning about stuff pre-1988 is great.
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Nate RFB posted:That would explain it. As I understand the voltage is exactly the same across these sort of batteries, just with the larger ones being able to last longer. CotM and Zero Mission were my only GBA battery games and they're already in there, albeit snugly, so I guess in the end it's not the end of the world Yup, button cells are all usually 3v, so they're interchangeable. Bigger ones last longer, so smaller/thinner ones only get used when bigger ones can't physically fit. As long as it isn't interfering with your carts' physical usability, go ahead and leave 'em.
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