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What's the going price range for PVMs these days? I have a PVM-2530 that I can't find a space for in my house. What's the best way to approach selling this? I imagine eBay and shipping it is a no go? Pretty sure it weighs more than I do. Edit: it's the 25" not the 32" WaitsUp fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dec 13, 2017 19:09
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WaitsUp posted:What's the going price range for PVMs these days? Oh they don't sell for much. You can put it for sale for like 10 bucks and ship it straight to my address.  Seriously though, I guess $5,000 or more might be reasonable.
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Dec 13, 2017 19:20
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WaitsUp posted:What's the going price range for PVMs these days? 13 inch are about $150 give or take, usually not including shipping. 19 inch are typically $200 to $300, plus shipping. Some models, like the PVM20L5, command a higher price because they can display 480p video modes that most PVMs dont; $400 to $500 seems to be the going price range, outliers aside. Without more details about operating condition, physical condition, and so on...$750 without shipping is probably realistic as an middle ground asking price. You can always ask a bit higher and negotiate down. As for selling it, you could try Craigslist, you could look for some retro Facebook group in your area and advertise it there, and there are the dedicated communities like Shmups and Assemblergames that might be good to advertise on (though it's not "sign up and sell" easy there, though I could be wrong). You could also Ebay it and limit your shipping to local pickup, but that would mean storing it a lot longer as you wait for the rare buyer combo of being down to buy, local, and able to haul it away.
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Dec 13, 2017 19:55
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Thanks, appreciate the feedback. It's in great condition, geometry is near perfect, so might give it a go on Craigslist and the like. I'm in Toronto so hopefully it won't take forever to sell. Wanted to hook everything up to it, but after struggling to even find a good looking shelf that could hold the weight, decided it might be better to just invest in an upscaler.
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Dec 13, 2017 20:05
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WaitsUp posted:Thanks, appreciate the feedback. Where did it come from?
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Dec 13, 2017 20:25
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GutBomb posted:Where did it come from?
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Dec 13, 2017 20:30
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WaitsUp posted:I work in TV, had a friend who let me have it when a company was clearing out old production gear. I have made the wrong friends
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Dec 13, 2017 20:53
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Speaking of PVM, is there a good configuration guide for one? I have a 19 inch one, but think it wasn't properly tuned either by the previous owner or myself.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:10
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Rirse posted:Speaking of PVM, is there a good configuration guide for one? I have a 19 inch one, but think it wasn't properly tuned either by the previous owner or myself. For the very basics, grab a hold of a blue gel filter and Artemio's 240p suite. That'll get you started for things like brightness, contrast and colors. If things like geometry need tweaking, then that'll be a bit more involved and every display will be different and depending on the model, you'll have to open up the TV itself do them manually and on that note, almost no TV will have perfect geometry so there's going to be some compromise.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:14
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Rirse posted:Speaking of PVM, is there a good configuration guide for one? I have a 19 inch one, but think it wasn't properly tuned either by the previous owner or myself. It depends on the PVM. Some have service menus you can access, while others might involve having to take the cover off and make some adjustments to pots and the like.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:15
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Mine has a service menu where I can access the geometry. Think that part is good, but the other settings are in need of tweeting. I probably look into the suite 8-Boss suggested to get it going, as I tried using a guide that didn't work that well in the past.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:24
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WaitsUp posted:Thanks, appreciate the feedback. Wish I still lived in Toronto. There are a few active SHMUPS forum users from Toronto or the GTA I think. Outside of that advertising on Craigslist, Kijiji, and some Facebook groups would be a good bet. I have a feeling you won't have a problem finding a local buyer.
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WaitsUp posted:What's the going price range for PVMs these days? Hey send me an email, might have an option you'd be interested in. edited Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dec 14, 2017 01:36
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Found the only cartridges anyone needs to collect for the GBA at the Urban Renewals in Allston: (there's more of the Cartoon Network ones in the next box over so don't worry about missing out on those!)
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Dec 14, 2017 02:25
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Huh, I'd actually buy the lot of them.
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fishmech posted:Found the only cartridges anyone needs to collect for the GBA at the Urban Renewals in Allston: 
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Dec 14, 2017 03:20
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Aren’t those like the one thing that won’t run off a gba flash cart?
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Dec 14, 2017 04:35
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Kid Fenris posted:Legacy of the Wizard. It's a neat action-RPG where you explore a huge, complicated maze with multiple characters. It's difficult, but it's also fun to just mess around. And you can get it for under five bucks. So I've gotten #75 and it's this, because prices at my usual local game shop have been inflating lately ($35 Zelda, Contra and Castlevania 1 and 3, $25 Zelda II, $20 SMB/DH for the dumb people, etc.) and I had some gifts for other people to buy tonight, and this was only a tenner. Hopefully it's a good time!
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Dec 14, 2017 04:42
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Aren’t those like the one thing that won’t run off a gba flash cart? They should run fine on a flashcart, you might need to apply a patch because they do have a bit of anti-piracy stuff in them. They're also the largest GBA ROMs released to fit all the video, so some of the older flashcarts couldn't load the whole file into their temporary storage. The one place they definitely don't work unless you patch or iirc use a series of codes on a cheat device, is the Game Boy Player. Because otherwise kids would record that 240x160 15 frame per second heavily compressed video to their VHS tapes dontchaknow. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Huh, I'd actually buy the lot of them. I mean if you want some I can go hit up the place again before this trip's over tomorrow afternoon 
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Dec 14, 2017 04:50
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Along those lines, I miss the $1 retro gift exchanges, those were great and terrible at the same time.
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Dec 14, 2017 05:26
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The GBA video stuff has macrovision copy protection so yeah, it doesn't work on the Gameboy Player or emulators quite right.
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Dec 14, 2017 06:29
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Elliotw2 posted:The GBA video stuff has macrovision copy protection so yeah, it doesn't work on the Gameboy Player or emulators quite right. There's no way to embed Macrovision in a GBA program. The cart just checks what hardware it's being played on and locks up if it's not a GBA or DS. I dunno why emulators would have trouble with it, unless it uses some poorly-documented hardware features or something.
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All New Sonic posted:There's no way to embed Macrovision in a GBA program. The cart just checks what hardware it's being played on and locks up if it's not a GBA or DS. I dunno why emulators would have trouble with it, unless it uses some poorly-documented hardware features or something. Old inaccurate emulators weren't coded well enough to work.
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Dec 14, 2017 14:51
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 Got this in the mail recently and just fired it up. Really cool thing.
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Dec 14, 2017 15:01
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Interestingly the GBA movies used a unique bank switching chip that was never used by any actual games, and it wasn't reverse engineered until a couple of years ago. The mGBA dev wrote about it here: https://mgba.io/2015/10/20/dumping-the-undumped
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repiv posted:Interestingly the GBA movies used a unique bank switching chip that was never used by any actual games, and it wasn't reverse engineered until a couple of years ago. Very interesting. I'm not terribly surprised these video carts were a thing, in an age when that was a possible approach that wasn't prohibitively expensive, I imagine there was this perceived need for anything that could play kids' TV and movies cost-effectively for long plane and car rides, no matter how terrible the picture and sound quality. I can also see them opting to keep those dumps out of the greater collections since having complete copies of actual theatrical movies in a "complete" ROMset brings on a whole other level of legal scrutiny for essentially no gain.
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Dec 14, 2017 15:19
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'Tis the season to say, "I know I don't own one of the games in this long series, but which one?" Lousy holiday sales; I didn't need a third copy of that game!
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Dec 15, 2017 01:58
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Things I just learned and had to share: they did not make a Fist of the North Star typing tutor game. There's an entire series of them. Apparently the last release is only a couple of years old and almost all of the youtube videos are of that one, but there are one or two of the games from the 90's and early 2000's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKlcPG0Hghw It does not look great even as a typing tutor game. And to answer the obvious question for the feature you'd expect in the Fist of the North Star Typing: no, it doesn't. In the videos I've seen, they don't even seem to have you type out your attack names. The newest game does seem to go "ATATATATATATA!!" in rhythm with your typing, though. So the addage holds true that the only good Fist of the North Star game is the arcade game where you physically punch targets.
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Dec 15, 2017 22:21
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Random Stranger posted:So the addage holds true that the only good Fist of the North Star game is the arcade game where you physically punch targets. the fighting game owns actually
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Dec 15, 2017 23:29
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I'm getting antsy waiting for my Everdrive shipment. It shipped a little over a week ago. How long do these things tend to take to get to the US?
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Dec 15, 2017 23:51
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Tree Dude posted:I'm getting antsy waiting for my Everdrive shipment. It shipped a little over a week ago. How long do these things tend to take to get to the US? From Retrogate? About a month give or take a week.
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Tree Dude posted:I'm getting antsy waiting for my Everdrive shipment. It shipped a little over a week ago. How long do these things tend to take to get to the US? It can take a few weeks, and the postal slam this time of year due to Christmas probably isn't helping things, especially for international mail that has to go through customs and then be sorted out for domestic delivery.
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Dec 15, 2017 23:59
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From Krikzz black friday sale. Thanks y'all I'll be patient.
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Dec 16, 2017 00:02
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Tree Dude posted:From Krikzz black friday sale. Thanks y'all I'll be patient. I’m waiting on an ED64 from the same sale so don’t worry. They’ll show up eventually.
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Dec 16, 2017 00:12
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mine hasn't even shipped but then again i did order three
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Dec 16, 2017 00:13
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My GBA Everdrive just arrived from Krikkz yesterday and I ordered late thanksgiving day when he opened up.
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Dec 16, 2017 00:25
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Tree Dude posted:From Krikzz black friday sale. Thanks y'all I'll be patient. Same here, an N64 ver3 and an SD2SNES. From Ukraine to the US about a week, but after that tracking is a no-go, nothing yet, but I'm in Hawaii. Last year, after it hit the US it took 20 days, so I guess I'm getting close to getting it.
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Dec 16, 2017 00:35
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The only thing I ever ordered from Krikkz took nearly two months to arrive.
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absolutely anything posted:the fighting game owns actually It's the eighth or ninth best fighting game on Game Boy! But yeah, the PS2/arcade one by Arc System Works is pretty good.
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