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DeathBySpoon posted:I definitely recommend it if you've never tried it out. Any other suggestions for lesser known NES titles? Is Vegas Dream lesser-known? I have no idea, but I don't really see many people talking about it, and it's really kind of fun. Sure, it's a casino game, but then you have people come up to you and interact with you. You can get married or robbed!
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:You have to sign in under the 'user' section. Took me a little while to find it, and ideally, there'd be a quick link to that section when you get to the retro achievements part, but no there isn't. There won't be any sort of confirmation that you've put in your credentials properly, but when you load up a game (RetroArch can either load a file, or you can scan folders for stuff, and I believe you can set up playlists later on, once your games are located by the emulator), the website will immediately show on your profile feed on the site that you've done so, so don't be putting on Barbie's Mall Nightmare. It didn't work for me. I have my credentials in the frontend, and started up a game I have achievements in, but checking the website it still says I haven't played it since last year. Also, if I F1 during play and go to Achievements List in the Quick Menu it is blank. Like I said before, I'm using No-Intro, do I need the GoodRoms version? Used the NEStopia core like you recommended.
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Star Man posted:There's one on a website called coinopexpress for $793 and I know that is not at all reasonable. Huh, weird. CoinOpExpress is usually reasonable to outright cheap for their PCBs. It's honestly made me a little worried about them, because some of their prices on stuff like MVS KoF games don't sound legit. e: on a refresher, their prices are all over the place, holy gently caress. Some games are dirt cheap, SamSho V Special is $1200. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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Ofecks posted:It didn't work for me. I have my credentials in the frontend, and started up a game I have achievements in, but checking the website it still says I haven't played it since last year. Also, if I F1 during play and go to Achievements List in the Quick Menu it is blank. Like I said before, I'm using No-Intro, do I need the GoodRoms version? Used the NEStopia core like you recommended. Maybe it's a thing with the no intro, not sure, I'm not familiar with that. I was just using nestopia as an example, any core should work.
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So, I kinda lucked out, and about half of my Saturn collection is games that currently go for $100 and up on Ebay. I know people were talking about a classic gaming bubble a year or so ago, but does anyone have opinions on whether the market has peaked yet?
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Improbable Lobster posted:One press. Did you not read my post? It's one, whether you've let go or not. Is your finger pressing down a button? That's a button press. Oh my god. Stop.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Maybe it's a thing with the no intro, not sure, I'm not familiar with that. I was just using nestopia as an example, any core should work. That is not the case. After some googling, it is apparently core-dependent. There's a half-assed compatibility list here: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/RetroAchievements Tried QuickNES, still didn't work. I give up.
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Krikkz' Black Friday sale is active. Go get yourself an Everdrive. https://krikzz.com/store/
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Improbable Lobster posted:One press. Did you not read my post? It's one, whether you've let go or not. Is your finger pressing down a button? That's a button press. How many times do you have to press A to get both stars in succession?
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Ludicrous Gibs! posted:So, I kinda lucked out, and about half of my Saturn collection is games that currently go for $100 and up on Ebay. I know people were talking about a classic gaming bubble a year or so ago, but does anyone have opinions on whether the market has peaked yet? A couple years ago I would've said that with various Everdrives and flashcarts becoming more readily available (in good quality) prices will come down, but it's not happening as much as I thought it would. In Saturn's case, perhaps when they get a similar system that reads ISOs off a SD working properly, it might drive prices down ... but who knows when that'll be, and like I said, it didn't have as big of an effect on various other consoles. I can only speak for my local collecting market but at least for NES market the biggest SCN (scandinavia) boom seems to already die down a bit. People aren't biting on the prices people put up and they have to drop a bit. Prices are still high, but not rising anymore, is my current estimate.
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TeaJay posted:I can only speak for my local collecting market but at least for NES market the biggest SCN (scandinavia) boom seems to already die down a bit. People aren't biting on the prices people put up and they have to drop a bit. Prices are still high, but not rising anymore, is my current estimate. This is certainly the case near me, a local store got a bunch of N64 games in recently and put the first ebay price they could find on them (£50 for Goldeneye cart only etc), then when they didn't sell after a month the price on them started dropping fairly rapidly. People have started to recognise the gouging going on and aren't going for the hugely inflated prices as much any more unless there's a box and manual as well. What's the opinion of most on Panasonic CRTs? There's what looks to be a 15" in decent condition being given away near me and I'm wondering if it's worth the 15 minute walk and lugging it back.
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TeaJay posted:A couple years ago I would've said that with various Everdrives and flashcarts becoming more readily available (in good quality) prices will come down, but it's not happening as much as I thought it would. In Saturn's case, perhaps when they get a similar system that reads ISOs off a SD working properly, it might drive prices down ... but who knows when that'll be, and like I said, it didn't have as big of an effect on various other consoles. Flashcarts would only have an impact if they were adopted en masse, and I don't think they really have been for whatever reason. Too complicated from the casual standpoint, not pure enough from the collector standpoint, and where are the bragging rights of having a mondo cart collection with one? They're kind of for the odd retro gamer, maybe - the one who is more invested in the hardware than the software, which I think might fit plenty of us in this thread. That all said, I think the rise is mostly over by this point. There are only so many people who will want a cartridge of Earthbound (and fewer still who will want it CIB) right now, only so many desirable games that actually merit their high prices, and many collectors have probably changed their collecting and pruning priorities - getting rid of the overly common games and the poo poo ones (increasing their supply), and keeping the decent ones for themselves since selling for $100 today probably means paying at least that much to get it back in the future. The boom has raised prices, for sure, but I think it has also focused priorities a lot more and demand is more honed to actual stuff that people will want, rather than everything being 5x more because "it's retrooooooooooooooo (only one million made)!". njsykora posted:What's the opinion of most on Panasonic CRTs? There's what looks to be a 15" in decent condition being given away near me and I'm wondering if it's worth the 15 minute walk and lugging it back. Is it a regular TV or some kind of actual video monitor (for video editing, broadcast monitoring, medical imaging, etcetera)? I'd bank on it being the former, but you never know. Regardless, I don't think you can go wrong with a small Panasonic so far as image quality goes. The bigger question is what inputs it has; here in the US, most small CRTs topped out at RF and composite video, with a few supporting S-Video also and fewer still supporting component video. Since you appear to be in the UK, you might get lucky and it might have a SCART plug with RGB.
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Ofecks posted:That is not the case. After some googling, it is apparently core-dependent. There's a half-assed compatibility list here: drat, sorry to hear it 
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Nov 24, 2016 23:55
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When I first arrived at college I bought a 14" Toshiba that had component, S-Video, and 3 composite inputs to play my Dreamcast, Saturn, and NES on in the dorms. Little did I know I'd still be using it 15 years later.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:They're kind of for the odd retro gamer, maybe - the one who is more invested in the hardware than the software, which I think might fit plenty of us in this thread. This is certainly me these days. I just bought a PC Engine Duo and a Dreamcast. I want a bigger scart switcher because my Joytech only has 5 RGB scart slots and it's already full. (chaining a few different ones together seems like a really dumb idea to me.) I love discovering new games and playing them. I did not enjoy spending hundreds of €'s on a game that mostly sat on the shelf. YMMV though and I respect serious collectors too. When it comes to Panasonic CRT's they are mostly very good, the Quintrix (TX) series is on par with Sony's Trinitrons.
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Ofecks posted:That is not the case. After some googling, it is apparently core-dependent. There's a half-assed compatibility list here: It's core-dependent and also game-dependent. FCEUX is the core it uses, afaik; try something super obvious and popular like Super Mario Bros. just to make sure the problem isn't the game (some games don't have achievements).
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does anyone have a sega _____ city cabinet? how much upkeep and maintenance has your cabinet required?
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I don't know if it's okay to talk about emulators and roms here since it's technically :files: but what is the best way to take a messy giant dump of roms with miscellaneous variations and whittle it down to a manageable list? Scrolling through 30 variations of Super Mario World is a pain in the tush.
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Random Stranger posted:There are plenty of combination Hard/Book/all of their half dozen other chains/Offs around, but not in Tokyo itself. You have to get out a bit to find those locations oh yeah, those combo stores are pretty good, we hit a bunch of those while in Japan. I was more talking about standalone Book-offs which really don't have much in the way of games older than PS2 era at all. I've never been to California but NYC has a Book Off and unfortunately it's very lame for game stuff
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Medullah posted:I don't know if it's okay to talk about emulators and roms here since it's technically :files: but what is the best way to take a messy giant dump of roms with miscellaneous variations and whittle it down to a manageable list? Scrolling through 30 variations of Super Mario World is a pain in the tush. Do a search for *usa* 
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TeaJay posted:A couple years ago I would've said that with various Everdrives and flashcarts becoming more readily available (in good quality) prices will come down, but it's not happening as much as I thought it would. In Saturn's case, perhaps when they get a similar system that reads ISOs off a SD working properly, it might drive prices down ... but who knows when that'll be, and like I said, it didn't have as big of an effect on various other consoles. The saturn is a weird one to me because so many of it's expensive games are ports of arcade games that have long since been surpassed by emulation. It's the reason I sold off all my JP saturn stuff (and made bank) and put it into real arcade hardware. Saturn ports are rarely even interesting enough to stand on their own like a lot of 16-bit ports are, and with Pseudo Saturn now you don't even need the real thing to play garegga in tate on a big CRT TV. Like I'd get it if the expensive games were exclusives you could only play on Saturn but you're seriously paying hundreds for a worse experience than emulation on a PC. I can make the exception for ST-V stuff since that board is essentially a Saturn anyway, so it's like the Dreamcast where it's basically a consolized arcade system, but the prices for a lot of the other arcade ports completely mystify me.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Do a search for *usa* Brother I do a search for USA every morning! :Merica:
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DeathBySpoon posted:I never had many NES titles growing up so I've been digging through the library on RetroPie. I came across VICE: Project Doom. It's a really fun action game. Driving levels play like Spy Hunter, but after the opening you get a pretty sweet sidescrolling action game. It sorta feels like an unlicensed Big Trouble in Little China game. The Guardian Legend and Crystalis aren't that far off the radar, but they're usually my first answers when people ask about NES games. You can also try Gun-Nac, Metal Storm, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Legacy of the Wizard, Gremlins 2, Shatterhand, Secret Ties (unreleased back in the day, but it's probably in most ROM sets), Mr. Gimmick, Ufouria, Journey to Silius, Chester Field (also unreleased on the NES, though there's a translated ROM), Clash at Demonhead, and Power Blade 2. WURM is my favorite not-so-great NES game. It's sloppy at everything it tries, but it's weirdly ambitious and fascinating. Ludicrous Gibs! posted:So, I kinda lucked out, and about half of my Saturn collection is games that currently go for $100 and up on Ebay. I know people were talking about a classic gaming bubble a year or so ago, but does anyone have opinions on whether the market has peaked yet? I don't think we'll ever see a bubble-pop where everyone wakes up and realizes they have shelves of complete NES games they don't even like, but we might have a reached a plateau as far as the prices on middle-ground, relatively common games. The truly rare stuff will climb a little and a few crazy standouts will emerge (Magical Chase, for example), but I'll be surprised if prices keep rising a lot across the board.
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conquest of the crystal palace, kabuki quantum fighter, star soldier, xexyz, burai fighter, and built to win (if you like racing games) are some more good lesser known NES games not already mentioned
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Is it a regular TV or some kind of actual video monitor (for video editing, broadcast monitoring, medical imaging, etcetera)? I'd bank on it being the former, but you never know. It's a TV for sure, has a remote so I'm thinking it's a mid to late 90s one. I'd be surprised if it doesn't have a SCART connection, that basically was the standard for VCRs and consoles from PS1 onwards. I've said I'll go pick it up Saturday anyway so I'll find out for sure then.
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I wouldn't use coinopexpress as a gauge of pcb prices personally. Their pricing is extremely inconsistent and most all of the items "for sale" aren't actually in stock and is more of a buying service. Most of the time they can't even find whatever it is you're trying to purchase either.
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Zand posted:does anyone have a sega _____ city cabinet? how much upkeep and maintenance has your cabinet required? I have an Astro City. Had to send my monitor chassis off to a guy to check some pots because I have no electrical skills. Also scared my monitor is on the way out and will die soon Otherwise it's good and the 90s aesthetic loving rules. I only use it with some shoddy all in one jamma carts and a wonder boy pcb of questionable origin though.
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where do you even get a candy cab in the US I've been looking for one for ages and everything has to be shipped from the UK or japan and that's super expensive
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d0s posted:where do you even get a candy cab in the US I've been looking for one for ages and everything has to be shipped from the UK or japan and that's super expensive there's... people that buy cabinets and bring them over by the crate load and usually you just add your order to theirs and then get it shipped. it's still not as cheap as say finding <insert cab from craigslist here> but it's the cheapest way or if you want enough cabinets bally's shipping from japan is hella cheap as well the lovely part tho is you will be waiting 6+ months for your game to arrive
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Medullah posted:I don't know if it's okay to talk about emulators and roms here since it's technically :files: but what is the best way to take a messy giant dump of roms with miscellaneous variations and whittle it down to a manageable list? Scrolling through 30 variations of Super Mario World is a pain in the tush. last time I sorted all my roms, I audited them with Good Tools, which i think is probably the best for completeness without having a ton of different weird versions of games and hacks and what-have-you.
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it is definitely OK to talk about emulation and roms here fyi
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fruitpunch posted:last time I sorted all my roms, I audited them with Good Tools, which i think is probably the best for completeness without having a ton of different weird versions of games and hacks and what-have-you. This. What you do is grab the Good Tool for your system (say, SNES), unzip it to an empty folder, punt all your ROMs into there and then in a command prompt go "goodnes rename dirs", which will audit and throw all the ROMs into subfolders. There will be country-level subfolders which will only contain the untouched original ROM dumps of respective games. Certain Good Tools will include Beta/Prototype/Unreleased stuff in these folders, and some games will have multiple versions, but otherwise it's pretty clean. Hacks will be in "hacks" (which may further sort by ROMs with trainers, ROMs with a different mapper), the newest versions of translation patches with be in "NewTranslations", and so on. Only other gotcha will be an "Unlicensed" folder which could contain some non-Seal of Quality releases like Super Noah's Ark 3D, Wisdom Tree and Tengen games and the like. Also some consoles will have "World" folders for games which aren't bit-wise different between regions, NTSC for games unchanged between US and Japan (such as Super Metroid and Mario Paint), and possibly other similar folders depending on the console.
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Ah yeah I used Good Tools a few years back when I was playing around with emulation. Forgot all about it, thanks!
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Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but what is considered the best way to play GBA games? DS? GBA SP? Micro?
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Pappyland posted:Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but what is considered the best way to play GBA games? DS? GBA SP? Micro? If you can find a Micro that's the best option in my opinion because the screen on it is excellent. Failing that get a SP. The DS isn't a great option just because it's not that comfortable to hold.
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Pappyland posted:Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but what is considered the best way to play GBA games? DS? GBA SP? Micro? It's the soft-revision of the SP with the better backlight, imo. I've never used a Micro, but there's no way RPGs are fun to read on that thing. I regret selling my good SP. Probably gonna buy another one at some point.
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DeathBySpoon posted:Any other suggestions for lesser known NES titles? When I brought my NES to the dorms, my housemates and I all ended up hooked on (and actively competing to get farther in) 3D Adventures of World Runner, of all things. I'm still not sure why that happened. Orb-3D definitely belongs in the "great concept, horrible execution" pile, but I'd recommend it if you think a deeply flawed, experimental Breakout variant would be at all your kind of thing.
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Amazon is doing $10 off any $25 book order with the code HOLIDAYBOOK. I picked up The Art of Atari for $19. Seems like a pretty good chance to get some art books that never seem to get cheap.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Krikkz' Black Friday sale is active. Go get yourself an Everdrive. Sweet, ordered a Super Everdrive, contemplating a GBA.
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Medullah posted:I don't know if it's okay to talk about emulators and roms here since it's technically :files: but what is the best way to take a messy giant dump of roms with miscellaneous variations and whittle it down to a manageable list? Scrolling through 30 variations of Super Mario World is a pain in the tush. Delete all ROMs marked as "bad dump" or "[b]" or "[b1]" etc. There's no reason to have them as someone who wants to play the games, because they're just hosed up versions that used to be the only easily available versions. Similarly, you'll want to get rid of those marked as being for like Spain or Germany etc, unless you really want to play in the corresponding foreign language. I also advise just deleting any sports ROMs for a sport you don't really like, and only keeping the best version of Madden/NHL/whatever for a given system.
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