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Got my Brawler64 controller today. The joystick feels pretty great but the octagonal gate is horrible for sniping in Goldeneye. You'll go to move to a corner of hte screen and it will catch on one of the corners and will stop, creating a dead zone. However, you can compensate for that. It is nice otherwise. I did have the game freeze on me twice. Both times I was shooting with the rumble pak in, and it would do a partial rumble (say 1/2 the normal vibration) and then the game froze. I am not sure if the controller is capable of creating that freeze or not. I have not been able to replicate. I also had power issues all day with the high winds from nor'easter, so maybe they were mini surges or dips in power that caused it? I dunno. Will do some more testing. I like it over all. If they created a "shooter" version with a less pronounced octagonal gate or just a round one, I'd buy that over this one. However, for things like smash and left/right movement racing games, the gate won't affect you. I need to test on more games that require 360 movement (like spin attacks in Zelda). edit: Just tried it with Zelda, and boy is it noisy hitting all of those corners on the octagonal gate when doing spin attacks. I imagine Mario Party would sound like spinning a ratchet around in circles or these guys. I really hope they release a rounded one when they do the transparent colors. I will make sure to send them feedback in that regard. I get wanting the octagon for stuff like Smash (it is the Brawler after all), but most other things would have been fine with a rounded one, or much less pronounced octagon. The original one was nothing like this. FireMrshlBill fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Woah there, it matters a whole lot for Mischief Makers and Sin and Punishment! Treasure and wrestling games were good at reminding people the N64 had a d-pad.
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FireMrshlBill posted:Got my Brawler64 controller today. The joystick feels pretty great but the octagonal gate is horrible for sniping in Goldeneye. You'll go to move to a corner of hte screen and it will catch on one of the corners and will stop, creating a dead zone. However, you can compensate for that. It is nice otherwise. I can confirm most of this. Haven’t tried a rumble pack yet but the comments section on the Kickstarter shows other people seeing the same thing you did with lockup’s after a partial rumble. I don’t think it was the nor’easter.  You can see above the stick goes out beyond a normal controller. Which is better than not going as far as the stock controller.  You can see above here that the travel is a bit wonky on the left side of the stick. See how there are two separate tracks there? One is from moving the stick clockwise, one is from going counterclockwise. I don’t know enough yet about if this has any effect in game. Since the stick goes out beyond the bounds of a stock controller, it might not matter at all. The stick absolutely nails one thing though, and that’s returning to center, no matter how hard you use the stick, how crazy you go, it snaps right back to a 0,0 position on the x,y. Overall, it feels good and works good from my limited experience Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Is it just the rumble pak causing crashes or does it also crash on memory pak access?
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Seems to be rumble only at this point, based on comments in the Kickstarter. I can’t test it as I don’t have any rumble packs. It’s also not every rumble pack every time. I don’t think the root cause has been identified yet
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I can also confirm that the z triggers register pretty early in the pull. It still might take some getting used to though. I also don’t know how it will handle games that require you to rapidly press z
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:You can see above here that the travel is a bit wonky on the left side of the stick. See how there are two separate tracks there? One is from moving the stick clockwise, one is from going counterclockwise. I don’t know enough yet about if this has any effect in game. Since the stick goes out beyond the bounds of a stock controller, it might not matter at all. That is exactly where I was having issues with sniping in Goldeneye, slightly below the top left corner. There was a point where you are holding it all the way in that direction and it didn't move but if you rotate slight more up or slightly more left it would start moving again. At first I thought I misremembered Goldeneye and that there were limits to panning while looking through a scope, but then when I went in another direction I realized it was the controller.
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Cornflakes posted:Can anyone point me to a good HDMI to SDI adaptor for use with a multiformat PVM? Also, I should've mentioned earlier that AJA is a fairly high end converter. If you just want something cheap, there's always Monoprice which is probably the best and cheapest site for a consumer to buy SDI related gear from: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10318&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpfnm_9DQ2QIVElmGCh3EPg5WEAYYASABEgLrgPD_BwE Their stuff is cheap but it also may crap out on you after 6 months, but that's what you get for something that's $20 versus $350. Also, like Kthulhu5000 said there are different standards of SDI both for converters as well as the cables themselves. The main divisions are SDI, HD/SDI, and 3G HD/SDI. You're going to want a converter that does 3G HD/SDI and to be honest it'd be pretty odd if you even found a standard SDI-HDMI converter. The reason being that 3G HD/SDI allows you to get full 1080p 60pfs, whereas non-3G HD/SDI can only get up to 1080i. There's also 6G and 12G SDI but that's not something you'll really need to worry about. Lastly, one other thing this converter doesn't do that the AJA and other high end converters do is there is no separate audio out, the audio is only transmitted via the HDMI signal whereas the AJA converter has separate L-R RCA outputs for audio if needed. This is something you can tell by looking at any converter, with the Monoprice's output side on the top and the AJA converter's output on the bottom:  
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The AC port on my SNES broke! Well, half broke. Part of it is still in there so it works, but it's just a matter of time before that falls off. Is there anyone reliable online who repairs those? It's my childhood SNES and I'd like to keep it in working condition, since it has no other problems and I've got an awful lot of SNES games to play. I was thinking of grabbing the retrovision cables when those come back in stock and this throws a weird wrench in that plan. Sea Lily fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Kelp Plankton posted:The AC port on my SNES broke! Well, half broke. Part of it is still in there so it works, but it's just a matter of time before that falls off. Is there anyone reliable online who repairs those? It's my childhood SNES and I'd like to keep it in working condition, since it has no other problems and I've got an awful lot of SNES games to play. https://console5.com/store/snes-super-nintendo-power-input-jack-replacement.html I don't think its a super difficult repair, you could probably do it yourself if you have basic soldering skills. Polly Toodle fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Kelp Plankton posted:The AC port on my SNES broke! Well, half broke. Part of it is still in there so it works, but it's just a matter of time before that falls off. Is there anyone reliable online who repairs those? It's my childhood SNES and I'd like to keep it in working condition, since it has no other problems and I've got an awful lot of SNES games to play. Contact MonitorBurn on here. They do great mods, and I'd imagine could repair that as well.
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Kelp Plankton posted:The AC port on my SNES broke! Well, half broke. Part of it is still in there so it works, but it's just a matter of time before that falls off. Is there anyone reliable online who repairs those? It's my childhood SNES and I'd like to keep it in working condition, since it has no other problems and I've got an awful lot of SNES games to play. Miles McCloud posted:https://console5.com/store/snes-super-nintendo-power-input-jack-replacement.html I did this very fix. Only the most basic of soldering skill. Ridiculously easy fix.
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Working on softmodding my XBOX. The guide I'm using says I should drag and drop an NTSC folder of some kind into the drive via Xplorer360, but I can't find anything in the included ZIP actually labelled "NTSC", so I must be missing something. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:A wild successful kickstarter appears!!! Mine came yesterday too. Are all the Kickstarter ones just gray? I know it wasn't one of my preferences in the survey.
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I picked up a Super Nintendo Classic a few weeks ago, but honestly I've been having a blast using its controllers with SNES9x GX on my Wii. I've had a Wii Classic Controller for years but for some reason the real controllers make a difference--they just feel right. The Classic itself is great, but it's missing some games and, although I dumped the ROMs, I'm not really interested in hacking it further. With the Wii I can use the controllers wirelessly too which is a big help. I haven't tried the 8bitdo ones to see how close they are but this is a pretty solid setup. Plus whatever mode SNES9x is doing (not sure if it's 240p or double-scanned 480p) works great with the component inputs on my 10 year old TV.
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The Milkman posted:Mine came yesterday too. Are all the Kickstarter ones just gray? I know it wasn't one of my preferences in the survey. Yep. Survey was for future colors, they are doing the top 2 (black and atomic purple) and will try to do top 4 or 5. We’ll get codes next week to get a colored one at the Kickstarter price of $20 instead of the $25 or $30 retail price. I plan to get purple and maybe gold if they get that far, was 5th place. Especially if they offer a round gate option.
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FireMrshlBill posted:Yep. Survey was for future colors, they are doing the top 2 (black and atomic purple) and will try to do top 4 or 5. We’ll get codes next week to get a colored one at the Kickstarter price of $20 instead of the $25 or $30 retail price. I'm really hoping the colors, or at least the shells, come out in Smash player colors to match my old N64 set. Even better if they do the translucent ones (Extreme Green substituting for yellow). And even better still if there's a translucent white back so I can match my clear blue/white N64. If the gate is a problem, I wonder if it'd be possible to open up the controller and just file down the shell to round it out. Mine showed up today, but I haven't been home yet to get a good look at them. I didn't think it'd be a problem since the original N64 stick had an octagonal well, but maybe something is a little bit off.
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FireMrshlBill posted:Yep. Survey was for future colors, they are doing the top 2 (black and atomic purple) and will try to do top 4 or 5. We’ll get codes next week to get a colored one at the Kickstarter price of $20 instead of the $25 or $30 retail price. That’s awesome I’ll definitely buy another at that price.
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Lizard Wizard posted:Working on softmodding my XBOX. The guide I'm using says I should drag and drop an NTSC folder of some kind into the drive via Xplorer360, but I can't find anything in the included ZIP actually labelled "NTSC", so I must be missing something. Can someone point me in the right direction? That's because those files are what were inside of the NTSC folder originally, just copy that udata folder entirely to the drive.
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Well that's done, but my Xbox displays the save as corrupted. No option to copy.
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Got my N64 controller in today and it's very nice. Played some Mario Kart 64 and it felt very responsive there.
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FireMrshlBill posted:Yep. Survey was for future colors, they are doing the top 2 (black and atomic purple) and will try to do top 4 or 5. We’ll get codes next week to get a colored one at the Kickstarter price of $20 instead of the $25 or $30 retail price. Oh okay. That works I guess. Atomic Purple was one I wanted.
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TVs Ian posted:I'm really hoping the colors, or at least the shells, come out in Smash player colors to match my old N64 set. Even better if they do the translucent ones (Extreme Green substituting for yellow). And even better still if there's a translucent white back so I can match my clear blue/white N64. It’s not a huge problem, it just feels weird on a modern style stick and is definitely more pronounced than the N64 controller. It does cause some issues with stuff like fine aiming in a FPS but probably a problem otherwise. Ya, I think you can file it down, but they originally designed it as a normal round gate, but after enough requests they went to octagonal and that’s why it was delayed a few months. So hoping they have the designs for the original round version close enough to finished product so they could manufacture both.
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Does the legit arcade board for zerowing flash the screen red when you kill an enemy? I'm playing in mame-2003 on retropie and it's doing that, and seems like it's an emulation related glitch but I've never played the real thing so I have no idea.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I picked up a Super Nintendo Classic a few weeks ago, but honestly I've been having a blast using its controllers with SNES9x GX on my Wii. I've had a Wii Classic Controller for years but for some reason the real controllers make a difference--they just feel right. I think emulators on the Wii can output in 240p. A modded Wii is a pretty fantastic emulation box
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GutBomb posted:Does the legit arcade board for zerowing flash the screen red when you kill an enemy? I'm playing in mame-2003 on retropie and it's doing that, and seems like it's an emulation related glitch but I've never played the real thing so I have no idea. yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gChUOuVUU
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Tried the Brawler64 on some more games. Works fine on Mario64. However, for 1080 Snowboarding, trying to do a 720 or above was a chore. No freezes since the two that first day. Unloading double guns on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark has not caused it since. I started using the L button for aiming since using the right Z trigger doesn’t interfere with aiming like using the left Z (caused my finger to move the analog stick slightly). But if I hold down L and push the analog stick to the upper left, I can feel L button move. FireMrshlBill fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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This is a dumb question, but do receivers introduce a perceivable amount of lag in general? I remember googling it at some point but got very inconsistent answers.
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A/V receivers? Good ones usually don’t but I’ve seen some that add a noticeable large amount of lag. Usually an A/V receivers job is just to keep the audio and video in sync, it usually doesn’t matter how long they take to do that, so some of them are quite laggy I had an onkyo that I’m not kidding added half a second of lag
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They tend to have settings to add lag if you choose to sync up audio to your display since that's usually where video lag is added. I think they introduced an HDMI audio sync thing in HDMI like 8yrs ago though in whatever came after HDMI 1.3.
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Yeah this is mine: https://docs.sony.com/release//STRDH520.pdf , and it does have an A/V synch option (page 59). But it seems to be in reference to delaying the audio as falz mentions. My primary concern is of course whether the video signal has a significant amount added to it on the way to the television. I definitely like having an A/V receiver on hand because it's a convenient HDMI switch and the speakers on my TV are terrible.
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So last night I finally got around to hooking up, and configuring, the RetroTink RGB board for my raspberry pi. I need to figure out a new case solution, the cases I have won't accommodate that behemoth. Thinking about getting an extender cable for the GPIO pins and making a little box for it to sit beside the pi. Anyway, I decided to try it with SoTN, and...    (click for massive) ... words and cell phone pictures can't do this justice, at all. Holy poo poo it is beautiful. I'm still tweaking the settings, but... holy poo poo. Snagging that Ikegami was entirely worth it. I want to pick up the other RetroTink board now, that has composite/component/svideo/RGB, so I can stop using HDMI-to-X converter boxes.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:If you have any consoles capable of homebrew, display lag tester roms are pretty common
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Nate RFB posted:I did a few months ago, but sadly sold off my original Wii with the HBC. can't you find working wiis in the literal trash nowadays? the exploit for HBC is piss easy, too
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I just picked up a Sega Genesis. It came with a third party controller. Does anyone make quality reproduction controllers or should I get some used original ones? 3 or 6 buttons, doesn't matter.
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GutBomb posted:Does the legit arcade board for zerowing flash the screen red when you kill an enemy? I'm playing in mame-2003 on retropie and it's doing that, and seems like it's an emulation related glitch but I've never played the real thing so I have no idea. Dunno about retropie mame, but on PC there's a cheat available to turn that off if it bothers you. If I ever saw the game in an arcade I would not be able to play it, I can't stand the red flash.
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mariooncrack posted:I just picked up a Sega Genesis. It came with a third party controller. Does anyone make quality reproduction controllers or should I get some used original ones? 3 or 6 buttons, doesn't matter. Get a used original 6 button controller, but you want this one:  not this one 
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d0s posted:Get a used original 6 button controller, but you want this one: Thanks for the recommendation. I'll go check out a local game store. What's wrong with the second one? I found this while looking for controllers. Looks promising: https://twitter.com/krikzz/status/969730392868737025
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