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With my cursor hovering dangerously close to the buy-it-now button of a Sega Naomi I paused and reminded myself that on this path there be dragons. This is the path that leads to me owning an Apple Pippin. I do not need a Naomi and I definitely do not need a Pippin.
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Miles McCloud posted:With my cursor hovering dangerously close to the buy-it-now button of a Sega Naomi I paused and reminded myself that on this path there be dragons. You know you want both though....actually no. No-one wants a Pippin.
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Dec 1, 2016 04:58
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I still find it hilarious that the Pippin was even prototyped, let alone sold. "we need the vast range of Macintosh games!" said noone ever. And on that note, its surprising a similar console but wintel/dos based didn't happen. The Xbox was kinda that but you needed heavy recompilation, while the Pippin runs nearly untouched Mac executables primarily with patches so they don't try to write to hard drive.
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Dec 1, 2016 05:38
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Reading this has made me curious: is there a single positive thing to come out of Twin Galaxies or associating with them in the past decade?
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Dec 1, 2016 05:44
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The last time I heard Twin Galaxies mentioned as anything other than a thing that used to be around was the first Guinness World Records GAMER EDITION book that came out. I legit had no idea they were still around, since arcade score records seem to have been replaced in the general interest by speedrun records which no-one goes to Twin Galaxies for.
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Dec 1, 2016 06:03
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I just read that espn article, I'm really glad I don't have whatever mental illness this isquote:The orthodontist sat in front of his computer near the end of the auction on GameGavel.com, hoping to buy the Thompsons' copy and terrified that his account might not work correctly or that there would be just enough of a delay on the site for his bid to fail. I can understand paying obscene sums for like, a game you love that you enjoy playing a lot or have some connection with but I don't think anybody actually finds stadium events fun or has good memories of it, wtf is the point
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Miles McCloud posted:With my cursor hovering dangerously close to the buy-it-now button of a Sega Naomi I paused and reminded myself that on this path there be dragons. a dreamcast is like a naomi you can hook to your TV. You don't need a naomi
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Dec 1, 2016 06:23
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It seems to me that being a public person in gaming online only leads to trouble. As it is I have effectively almost completely have ended my social media presence I can't imagine how it is for someone better known and/or female. There are a lot of very nice people out there but the crazies ruin things for everyone else.
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Dec 1, 2016 06:27
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fishmech posted:I still find it hilarious that the Pippin was even prototyped, let alone sold. "we need the vast range of Macintosh games!" said noone ever. I think I vaguely recall that it was going to be positioned as a cheap Internet access / multimedia device first and foremost. This idea might have had some merit in the mid-1990s when the Internet was really starting to take off, full-fledged PCs were still pretty expensive even at the low-end, and the idea of CD-ROM-based multimedia still had some gas left in the tank. The games were probably an afterthought, or perhaps more of a pivot once it became apparent that spending $600 on a proprietary device in front of your TV for Internet access was not terribly appealing to most people.
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I just "watched" that Nintendo Quest doc, as in after about 15 minutes I skimmed through it, because most of it after the intro is just the guy looking through display cases. Starts off like it could be cool, but 2 days in he's already got 1/3rd of the collection (he has 30 days to complete it). Also in those first days, they were going to homes of friends buying prearranged lots of good games for very cheap, which takes a lot out of it to begin with. They don't really show in-store negotiations. You don't always know how much he's spending nor how much money he's working with. There was some weird scene involving a "rival collector" in Ohio, who seemed to just be some nice normal guy wondering who the hell these people from Canada are. The dad angle was pretty  out of nowhere.Also, that same Tod collector is featured in it, and that's where they get Little Samson from. They showed that cabinet discussed in the ESPN article; Tod has a gray NWC cart (there might've been two actually but I don't feel like looking again) and 4-5 VGA graded boxed NES games. VGA grading is the biggest scam in retro gaming, but when you obviously have money to burn I guess it doesn't matter. But anyway, overall the Nintendo Quest was actually just as I expected more or less. It seemed like a good premise but it just fell completely flat and never felt interesting nor compelling. edit: Apparently the money for this entire doc was raised via Kickstarter, and they raised about $17K for the quest itself, for game purchases and travel fees etc. I mean that's cool and all, but that's a lot more cash to work with than I had originally thought, and it's not even his, so yeah great job I guess. None of this outside of Stadium Events seemed all that challening if that's what the deal was. d0s posted:I can understand paying obscene sums for like, a game you love that you enjoy playing a lot or have some connection with but I don't think anybody actually finds stadium events fun or has good memories of it, wtf is the point shyduck fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Stadium events does weird things to people.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Reading this has made me curious: is there a single positive thing to come out of Twin Galaxies or associating with them in the past decade? Gonna go out on a limb here and say "nope".
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Dec 1, 2016 07:50
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Today I bought Bushido Blade. One step closer to owning every fighting game except Sculptor's Cut.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I'm thinking of just getting an 8bitdo wireless receiver and using that. Clever girl.
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d0s posted:I just read that espn article, I'm really glad I don't have whatever mental illness this is You don't buy it to play it, you buy it to possess it
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Discount Viscount posted:Today I bought Bushido Blade. The real question there is why didn't you have Bushido Blade already? Smoking Crow posted:You don't buy it to play it, you buy it to possess it Yeah. Stadium Events is a collection capstone. You have to be into collecting things just to have them in order to want it. I'm a ginormous collector and it has no appeal to me beyond the fact that if a copy appeared before me for $10 I'd buy it.
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Guy that runs RetroRGB had an interview with a retired Sony PVM/BVM technician. Had some pretty good info for anyone interested in CRTs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqQMzS1dLc&t=1539s Man, this guy is like 15 minutes away from me. I should keep this guy in mind in the future. 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Dec 1, 2016 13:36
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Random Stranger posted:The real question there is why didn't you have Bushido Blade already? Maybe he used to have a copy but his brother gave it away along with their copy of Intelligent Qube. 
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I've been sitting on various twitters and e-mail newsletters and sites for any kind of update on N64 UltraHDMI mods for months now and haven't seen a peep  Either it's all happening under the table or the PCB boards just really haven't been getting made or sent or whatever.
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Nate RFB posted:I've been sitting on various twitters and e-mail newsletters and sites for any kind of update on N64 UltraHDMI mods for months now and haven't seen a peep Marshall has always beat to the rhythm of his own drum. Just how he is.
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Random Stranger posted:Those things are solid steel and weigh a metric ton.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Reading this has made me curious: is there a single positive thing to come out of Twin Galaxies or associating with them in the past decade? What happens in someone's life to make them this invested in being the world's greatest player of Home Alone for the NES?
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fastbilly1 posted:Really? I move mine without much issue with just a furniture dolly. It's a figurative metric ton which is the unit of measurement for anything you wouldn't want to carry up a flight of steps.
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Random Stranger posted:It's a figurative metric ton which is the unit of measurement for anything you wouldn't want to carry up a flight of steps.
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Nate RFB posted:I've been sitting on various twitters and e-mail newsletters and sites for any kind of update on N64 UltraHDMI mods for months now and haven't seen a peep Yeah, I haven't received any availability updates from the guy in almost a year. I'm guessing that its easier to ship to a small number of bulk purchasers than individual orders to the general public. It's too bad as the graphical options like disabling blur make a noticeable difference. Fortunately, it looks like Tim Worthington's N64RGB board can be programmed to support the Deblur function for similar image quality over RGB. There's also MikejMoffitt's upcoming N64 board so at least there are some decent options that are widely available. N64RGB Deblur discussion: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=56988&start=180 Monitor Burn fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Is deblur the same as disabling AA with gameshark codes?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Is deblur the same as disabling AA with gameshark codes? Edit: here's a better comparison from the linked thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=56988 "The blur is not just anti-aliasing. It's a horizontal 50% blur. The N64 outputs a 640 pixel wide image, even if the backbuffer is 320 pixels wide, and it doubles the backbuffer's width to fill the line. The appearance is an "off by half pixel" blur done horizontally. Correcting it produces a sharp 320px wide image. The scene's rendering and use of AA shouldn't affect it. Because the blur is exactly 50% "between pixels", that means every other column is a 100% intact part of the original 320px image. So, if we simply drop the blurred columns (odd columns) and re-use the good columns (even columns) we have a restored 320 pixel image. Naturally there is zero lag in this technique. Here is a before and after comparison, with Super Smash Bros - a game which uses AA. Patched games are an expensive option because all the flash carts are pricy, and not all games have patches."    
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Ok but is it the same as deblurring with a gameshark code?
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Folks on Twitter are saying that Micomsoft announced they're stopping production of the Framemeister, no word of a successor so far but I'm guessing they'll be releasing something with 4k support at some point. edit: Micomsoft's official announcement: https://twitter.com/MicomsoftX/status/804226382259634176 DMorbid fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Doc Morbid posted:Folks on Twitter are saying that Micomsoft announced they're stopping production of the Framemeister, no word of a successor so far but I'm guessing they'll be releasing something with 4k support at some point. The one drawback is that 480p becomes the odd-man out, dividing into 2160p the same crappy 4.5 times that 240p did into 1080p. We'll have to wait for 8K to get proper integer scaling for everything. Edit: Here's the google translate for the tweet. Sounds like the chip they use inside the unit is going EOL, but they're buying a bunch to keep production going for another year. [Important Notice Regarding the End of FRAMEMEISTER Production] The end of production of the main IC was announced. Next February will be the IC's last byte. We plan to purchase enough stock to continue production for more than 1 year, but will end as soon as it is lost. For details, please visit http://www.micomsoft.co.jp/micomsoft_news
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Kthulhu5000 posted:I think I vaguely recall that it was going to be positioned as a cheap Internet access / multimedia device first and foremost. This idea might have had some merit in the mid-1990s when the Internet was really starting to take off, full-fledged PCs were still pretty expensive even at the low-end, and the idea of CD-ROM-based multimedia still had some gas left in the tank. The games were probably an afterthought, or perhaps more of a pivot once it became apparent that spending $600 on a proprietary device in front of your TV for Internet access was not terribly appealing to most people. Yeah the thing is the Macs of the time was still a terrible platform to build off for that as well. Because of the extra cost of all the parts you needed versus building a wintel machine with a shell - and the lack of stability of the versions of System 7 that were available for it. Of course the project originated with Apple themselves, so they were going to use the Mac platform anyway. But Bandai and Katz should have been smart enough to not buy in.
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jfc, a friend of mine stopped in a pawn shop and apparently the security guard was like "hey you know anyone who wants a super nintendo" and produced a box with a snes and like 60 games. he bought it for $100 and, in addition to pretty much all the big nintendo games and some good 3rd party stuff, there's poo poo like dracula x and demon's crest in there. i'm stupid fuckin jealous
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I'd like to see that happen at one of the pawn shops in my neighborhood (The LBC).
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the only good thing I ever found at a pawn shop was robo aleste for 5 bucks and this was no joke like 17 years ago
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Baron Snow posted:Maybe he used to have a copy but his brother gave it away along with their copy of Intelligent Qube.  Nah I just didn't have a Playstation back in the day and a copy just showed up at the local game store for $15. If I can be fine paying $12 for Masters of Teras Kasi I'm certainly fine with that! I'd toyed with getting it off the Japanese PSN, though.
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Code Jockey posted:Finally got my RetroPie setup going and holy crap this is awesome, it's incredibly easy and just works so well. Just need to order a few of those buffalo USB SNES pads. What controllers are you using now? I can't for the life of me get my two 8bitdo controllers to exit games by pressing start + select. I end up having to find my usb keyboard, plugging it in, and hitting the keys bound to start and select or I just get lazy and reboot the Raspberry Pi from my phone... If I could get the exiting games thing to work I'd be using my retropie a whole lot more.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Reading this has made me curious: is there a single positive thing to come out of Twin Galaxies or associating with them in the past decade? The guy she's writing about is the psychopath who harassed and stalked me (thankfully I'm only briefly mentioned here). The best things to come out of Twin Galaxies are A. the tracking of competitive gaming scores as a concept and B. Walter Day - most other people genuinely invested in TG at this point are complete psychos or only barely involved at best. Inexplicably they are the ones who are still partnered with Guinness, which is the only shred of relevancy they have to hang on to post Walter. Some of us are loathe to actually use his name so we call him Fruity Gay Spaghetti. Yes it's childish, no I don't care.
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fishmech posted:Yeah the thing is the Macs of the time was still a terrible platform to build off for that as well. Because of the extra cost of all the parts you needed versus building a wintel machine with a shell - and the lack of stability of the versions of System 7 that were available for it. Well, I wonder if part of it was Apple drinking their own Kool-Aid back in the day about being the platform that is most user-friendly, "it all just works", and being a preeminent multimedia platform because Quicktime that's why (something I kind of recall the more education and home user-focused advertising of the company touting). Part of it, too, is that the Pippin was developed and pushed by Apple before Steve Jobs returned, and they were probably trying anything that would expand the brand, market share, and mind share (recall that Apple was allowing for Mac clones to be made at this point). Being at the "Internet appliance" and home multimedia forefront was probably viewed as a viable market option to enter at the time, especially if entering it was just a matter of using an older but still viable PowerPC CPU, including some AV hardware to display on TVs (thus obviating the explicit need for a dedicated monitor), not including a hard drive, and doing some revamping of MacOS. It wouldn't be dead simple to bring together, but tying existing hardware and software together was probably still easier and cheaper than starting from scratch. The key point, though, is that I think Apple wasn't willing to put itself out on a limb; the Mac clone producers would take all their own lumps in the market, pretty much, and the same would apply for Pippin licensees. And yeah, Bandai and Katz should have been leery as hell of jumping on board, especially since Apple didn't appear to be willing to release a version of the Pippin with its own branding. That alone should have set off klaxon warnings about its viability, if the parent company had no plans to commit itself to it.
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On the other hand, where else are you gonna play Super Marathon? (Then again, why would you want to play Super Marathon)
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