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This is a reminder that we still have an irc over at #retrochat on synirc.net And VonMankenstein would like to remember everyone of the No Homers rule.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I've been playing Kirby's Dream Land 3 on my Pi and any level with water, i.e. transparency, forces the emulator speed to its knees. It also reliably triggers the overheat alert. I mean, Kirby's Dreamland 3 is one of the games that pushed the SNES to it's limits, along with Yoshi's Island and Star Fox.
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Captain Rufus posted:I don't have the link handy but Play Asia has some upcoming US style game cabinets in 1/12 scale coming out soon. Namco titles only IIRC. So there are more choices for silly projects. I'd personally just say to chop up those new Pac Man and Space Invaders LCD games TRU and Walmart has. Not arcade authentic cabs but more room to putz with and make something nice out of. Oh man I can't wait for these. Since I will never have a full-size Pac-Man machine, I could always hope for a miniature one (not that crummy one from the 80s). Please please please post in this thread when they are available to buy!
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Oct 1, 2016 23:29
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Yeah, the RPi1 doesn't seem to hang as well as the 2, but the 3 is phenomenal for this. RADUCAL It's like the fulfillment of destiny!
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Oct 1, 2016 23:58
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 After bitching about it for so long, today was a good day for thrift, $5 xenophobe and 99 cents for the Gameboy games. Thank you, local Amvets for having no clue how to price old video games. Okay one bitch: why is it that I keep getting GBC games with broken solder joins coming from the leads on the rom chip? At least I can fix them but still hardly worth opening up Rampage to do it because, well, Rampage. (It's better on the n64)
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I was too young to care when I first played it, but in retrospect Yoshi has got to be one of the worst commercially released puzzle games, right? I mean, it's not painful to play, but there's really not much of a game there.
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I first played Yoshi on a TI-84 where it's called Dino Puzzle, and the symbols come from the side instead of down from the top. It was boring then too. But who cares when you've got 99 cent Turtles 3 to play! Sometimes I miss Konami, this is one of those times.
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Rollersnake posted:I was too young to care when I first played it, but in retrospect Yoshi has got to be one of the worst commercially released puzzle games, right? I mean, it's not painful to play, but there's really not much of a game there. It's really terrible. It's brainless in the worst way, even when you're playing for score. Nintendo just wasn't very good at puzzle games unless they were publishing someone else's work. No, I don't like Dr. Mario, either.
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Oct 2, 2016 01:03
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At least Kirby's Star Stacker get the "stack things between two specific things" formula right.
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Oct 2, 2016 01:15
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Pokemon Puzzle League is legit.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Pokemon Puzzle League is legit. Yeah Panel De Pon/Tertis Attack/Puzzle League is among the best puzzle games ever made.
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Oct 2, 2016 01:33
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I got a NES really late in the game (when toploaders were $50) and for some reason one of the few NES games you could still get new everywhere was Yoshi, which I got along with Zelda 1 grey cart version and SMB3. For some reason I enjoyed it and got pretty good, though now I'm like "wtf" when I try to play it. It's weird because it was developed by game freak who were responsible for the excellent mendel palace and some other games i think
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Oct 2, 2016 01:34
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Yes. Some other games. Like Pulseman.
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Gaz2k21 posted:I had an old Rpi B+ that was used to run Kodi but I barely used it so I set up retropie so I could play Nintendo, unfortunately it really struggles with playing most games there's often a lot of slow down even if I overclock the Rpi is this right? would I be better of using a newer Pi? is it possible that my power supply is not good enough as I'm using the charger from an Amazon Fire. Just overclock that pi up to 1ghz and it should run fine. Just make sure you get heat sink on Amazon, they sell them for like $5.
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I rented Yoshi and desperately wanted to return it after one day. That said I put way too much time into that weird Kirby golf game.
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My childhood dentist's office had Game Boys in the waiting room. Everybody wanted to play Mario and Zelda, so most of the time the only Game Boys that remained had Yoshi cartridges. Whenever I think of playing Yoshi, I think of trying to forget that I was getting braces.
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al-azad posted:I rented Yoshi and desperately wanted to return it after one day. Kirby's Dream Course was fun as hell, feel no shame. 
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Kirby's Dream Course is firmly in my top ten SNES games. Maaaybe five.Elliotw2 posted:I mean, Kirby's Dreamland 3 is one of the games that pushed the SNES to it's limits, along with Yoshi's Island and Star Fox.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Oh man I can't wait for these. Since I will never have a full-size Pac-Man machine, I could always hope for a miniature one (not that crummy one from the 80s). Please please please post in this thread when they are available to buy! http://www.play-asia.com/namco-arcade-machine-collection-112-scale-pre-painted-figure-ral/13/70ajqv Well here is one of them. On mobile so yall gotta go to the site to find out more information.
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Oct 2, 2016 08:10
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Anyone have any experience with those backlit gbas on eBay that are all out of Hong Kong?
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Oct 2, 2016 16:30
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I have this GameCube NR reader that I acquired several years back before moving countries. I came home this weekend and decided to take some pictures and figured this was place would be the best way to get info on it. After some basic testing, it won't boot any JPN or USA retail games, which makes sense, but it won't boot the disc that came with it either. Is it possible to get more (blank) discs or does anyone know if the system can boot retail discs with a mod or anything? https://imgur.com/gallery/C6VEv
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fruitpunch posted:I have this GameCube NR reader that I acquired several years back before moving countries. I came home this weekend and decided to take some pictures and figured this was place would be the best way to get info on it. Whoa that's really pretty.
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fruitpunch posted:I have this GameCube NR reader that I acquired several years back before moving countries. I came home this weekend and decided to take some pictures and figured this was place would be the best way to get info on it. http://www.nesworld.com/gcn-nrreader.php quote:You've probably never heard of a Gamecube called the NR Reader right? Well if you haven't there's a very good reason why, it was not available for purchase in any retail shops. The NR reader was used by game testers who would receive a game build on a special 8 cm DVD-R, called DOT-003. These DVD's were written with a special device called an NR writer and the discs are only playable on the NR Reader version of the Gamecube.
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So by the sounds of it, it's not moddable to play retail discs or anything? Still a cool thing to have I guess!
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Oct 2, 2016 21:25
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Nope, but a used gamecube is cheap and you can solder in your own USA-JAP switch.
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Gonna try to play through Cho Aniki (and beat the final boss this time): http://twitch.tv/redfeyerthepulserifle
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Gonna try to play through Cho Aniki (and beat the final boss this time): Watched, saw the horrible secret of Cho Aniki, would probably do again.
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I'm glad I finally beat it. The final boss was a little bit of a disappointment. That penultimate boss, though. My goodness. 
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Trigger warning: https://imgur.com/gallery/n8FKM
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Trigger warning: https://imgur.com/gallery/n8FKM 
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Trigger warning: https://imgur.com/gallery/n8FKM Nothing could have prepared me for the horrors I saw there.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Trigger warning: https://imgur.com/gallery/n8FKM Wtf I thought I was on Liveleak for a second 
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Gorgolflox posted:What was even the point of that? They may be crappy games but give them away before you do something like that. Those are exactly the kinds of bad cabinets that no one is going to shed tears over a MAME conversion, too.
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Random Stranger posted:They may be crappy games but give them away before you do something like that. Those are exactly the kinds of bad cabinets that no one is going to shed tears over a MAME conversion, too. There was an AfterBurner cab in there though. It wasn't the sit down cab so no major loss but still...
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Anyone know much info about Neo Geo cabinets? I see one available locally-ish for a reasonable price, it appears to be the one that takes 4 carts. It has a 150 in one multicart in one which sounds sane. My weird requirement would be to keep it Neo Geo but attempt to easily flip over to something Jamma-ish, perhaps exclusively to play Burger Time on (emulated I guess). I see that there are Neo Geo / Jamma adaptors in both directions, anyone know if you can more or less hook up both at once and switch between with a swtich? I already have two arcade cabs and cant possibly have more, so I'd purge one (Karate Champ) for this one (which will go along side Star Wars [vector]).
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Gorgolflox posted:What was even the point of that? Seriously, what the gently caress? Even if you want to get rid of them, all they did was make a HUGE mess. This is so loving dumb.
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falz posted:Anyone know much info about Neo Geo cabinets? I see one available locally-ish for a reasonable price, it appears to be the one that takes 4 carts. It has a 150 in one multicart in one which sounds sane. I'm sure you could rig up a switch, but swapping what is installed takes like 1 minute, especially since you're already familiar with arcade guts. I keep a CPS board inside of my neogeo candy, along with the MVS motherboard. If I want to play one or the other, I just open it up, swap the wire from one to the other (I just leave the adapter on the end of my CPS board) and then restart.
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I guess that's not that bad, I'm just tight on space in that rolling the cabinet out far enough to do that would be a chore and would greatly reduce its usefulness. It seems that MVS and Jamma pinouts are really really similar, maybe I do something weird like get a 2-to-1 jamma adaptor (they seem to exist), wire the OUT of that adaptor to be MVS, wire one IN to be MVS, leave the other at Jamma. Seems ugly but I guess it would work? Sounds like a bit of a mess though.
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