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Shlomo Palestein posted:Looked up the list (just kinda pulled from the first forum post I found, so don't take this as gospel): Well, I guess I don't ever need a Nomad. Decapattack and Trouble Shooter are Vic Tokai games, so I wonder if Whip Rush, Socket, and the second Trouble Shooter (Battle Mania Daiginjoh) have any problems.
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Ugh, let me get my 60 batteries and find out. edit: Trouble Shooter 2, Socket, and Whip Rush work fine, I do not advise playing any of them on the Nomad's screen however. Trouble Shooter 1 and Decapattack don't work though, either with or without the mode switch. Karasu Tengu fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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Picked up this tv last night off a sidewalk and bought a model 1 (HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS YO) genesis with composite cables, AC adapter, OEM 3 button controller and Sonic 1 for $40. The tv seems pretty nice, especially for roadside free. How long is the shipping from krikzz to the US usually for everdrives? Also are the extra features of the mega everdrive x7 worth the extra $$ over the x5? The only thing that interests me is the save states but I don't think it "double the price" interests me. Is there something else the x7 does that I'm not thinking about? 
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I'm still using the Everdrive v3 without issues, so the x3/5's probably fine. It has the instant loading and it can load all but one retail released Genesis/SMS/32X game. If you intend to get a Sega CD the x5's probably the better choice. Minor things to note, if you have a 3rd party AC adapter check that it actually puts out at least 1amp, or it won't actually be able to power the newer Everdrives.
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Elliotw2 posted:I'm still using the Everdrive v3 without issues, so the x3/5's probably fine. It has the instant loading and it can load all but one retail released Genesis/SMS/32X game. Balls. It is a 3rd party and it only puts out 350ma.
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I'm actually surprised it's running the Genesis with that, since my Model 1 won't boot with those really weak ones.
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Elliotw2 posted:I'm actually surprised it's running the Genesis with that, since my Model 1 won't boot with those really weak ones. I'll just end up ordering the everdrive and a power adapter from stone age gamer because it looks like shipping will be faster than krikzz and they have a 1.2a power supply for $8. And I do plan on getting a sega cd eventually. I live in Salt Lake City and there's a game shop called The Game Changerz (where I got the genesis) that actually sells retro stuff at decent prices so I'll be back there when they get a sega cd in.
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GutBomb posted:I'll just end up ordering the everdrive and a power adapter from stone age gamer because it looks like shipping will be faster than krikzz and they have a 1.2a power supply for $8. I'd recommend spending a couple more bucks and picking up one of these power supplies for the Genesis; they also work on the NES, AV Famicom, and PC Engine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DTI9CJ4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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RichterIX posted:Similar to the Ranma conversation from a little while ago, I always get mixed up on the Sailor Moon games. Is the SNES beatemup the good one? I remember there being one on MD too. there are : two brawlers on the Super Famicom. they're both quite solid. one brawler on the Mega Drive, it's okay. arcade is good. two fighting games on the Super Famicom. both are fun, but the Super S one is better. one fighting game on the 3DO that is better than you think it is. one each on the Saturn and Playstation, it is not good.
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GutBomb posted:I'll just end up ordering the everdrive and a power adapter from stone age gamer because it looks like shipping will be faster than krikzz and they have a 1.2a power supply for $8. http://www.retrogamecave.com/ I have a 3 in 1 for Genv2/CDv2/32x and it's awfully convenient.
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TBH you're more likely to find a good priced X'Eye or CDX than a Sega Trio.
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GutBomb posted:I'll just end up ordering the everdrive and a power adapter from stone age gamer because it looks like shipping will be faster than krikzz and they have a 1.2a power supply for $8. Sup fellow Utah retro goon. I'm up in Davis County.
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Ballz posted:
You'd also need them if you had some reason you needed to use a really out of date NES emulator. So like maybe one of the ones that came with older portable emulation devices like a Dingoo A320 or like playing games on a PSP/DS. Of course, then you have to carefully figure out if the new mapper the game is hacked to will actually work with your old emulator.
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Does anyone have a Core Grafx that they imported and are using successfully here in the US? Without modifying or replacing the ac adapter? I'm thinking of importing one to replace my TG-16.
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Unless your home power is unusually hot, you can just use a stock Japanese 60hz AC adapter without any issues. If you're worried or your house really is out of spec, a Genesis Model 1 (1602) AC adapter will work fine.
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Kramdar posted:Does anyone have a Core Grafx that they imported and are using successfully here in the US? Without modifying or replacing the ac adapter? I'm thinking of importing one to replace my TG-16.  This is what the guy who sold me his Core Grafx included as my power. Worked just fine.
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Next question, what's the best site to get one from for a more reasonable price than eBay?
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Wait, if you own a TG16 already you can just use that power adapter, they're the same thing.
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Does anyone know if a good set of plans exist to build a DIY candy cab-size cabinet? I want to stuff my retropie set up into one and I've got a friend who's a woodworking ace...
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Elliotw2 posted:Wait, if you own a TG16 already you can just use that power adapter, they're the same thing. Yes, but if I can get a Core Grafx for X amount and can sell my TG16 for Y amount, then I'm importing one.
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Ballz posted:I have a few recommendations! I tried this and I gotta say I feel like it's meant for an advanced player. A semi-casual like me was completely lost and killed all the time even in the beginning (and I didn't even get far enough for it to get really hard?) I had no idea where to go, every area looked the same and all I could do was pick up a few missiles. I tried to look for bombs to no avail and felt like I had been everywhere I could. It didn't really feel like it rewards exploration in the sense that classic Metroids did, it's more of an exercise in frustration.
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Elliotw2 posted:TBH you're more likely to find a good priced X'Eye or CDX than a Sega Trio. No kidding. He advertised for weeks that he was going to have some for sale on Black Friday. I stayed up all morning refreshing his POS site only to have it crash when he put them on sale and every single one be sold out in about 5 minutes. I have to imagine he put maybe five up for sale. Not having a Trio is my biggest holdup for getting a 32X since I don't want to deal with yet another giant PSU with my setup.
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I'm waiting on the other, more universal adapter from RetroDC to be available again. http://retrodcpowered.com/
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I wouldn't use any of those three words to describe any atari. Even contemporarily.
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I'm guessing some way to play atari games in VR.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I wouldn't use any of those three words to describe any atari. Even contemporarily. Well, yeah. They said they'd let you play them in a whole new way. Didn't you read the message?  My money is on yet another Atari Flashback machine.
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Elliotw2 posted:Most of those actually work if you hold the mode button while loading the game, but Decap attack and Forgotten Worlds straight up never work on the Nomad, and Forgotten Worlds won't work on a normal Genesis unless you use a 3 button controller. Forgotten worlds works fine on a Genesis with a 6-button controller with the mode button held down. I learned that a year or two ago when I got Forgotten Worlds and couldn't figure out why I kept getting a game over as soon at the game started.
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Kramdar posted:Next question, what's the best site to get one from for a more reasonable price than eBay? You could try Buyee.jp, which is a proxy service for buying stuff from Yahoo! Auctions and other sites in Japan. It's hard to say you'll really save all that much, though, especially if you're paying for shipping within Japan to the Buyee warehouse, and then for shipping from them to the US, and their service fees on top of that. If you're buying a lot of stuff or something that is already kind of high-priced but still noticeably cheaper in Japan (say, a PC Engine Duo console or whatever), then it might be worth it. Otherwise, I'd say suck it up and buy on Ebay. Just make sure the console you get has at least one controller (since you can't interchange TG16 and PCE controllers without an adapter and neither form is necessarily cheap anyway) and a composite AV cable with stereo plugs. You can use a first model Genesis AV cable, but those are pretty much always mono since the Gen 1 AV port is mono. An AC adapter is nice and all, but you can get an aftermarket one like what Monitor Burn linked a bit up this page for not much money. Controllers can be upwards of $30 apiece in my experience. Value one as being at least $20. AV cables are $15, as mentioned. AC adapters...whatever. So keep that extra $35 in mind when you're looking at consoles to buy, since you'll probably be paying it one way or another. Otherwise, happy hunting!
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TeaJay posted:I tried this and I gotta say I feel like it's meant for an advanced player. A semi-casual like me was completely lost and killed all the time even in the beginning (and I didn't even get far enough for it to get really hard?) I had no idea where to go, every area looked the same and all I could do was pick up a few missiles. I tried to look for bombs to no avail and felt like I had been everywhere I could. It didn't really feel like it rewards exploration in the sense that classic Metroids did, it's more of an exercise in frustration. The newly added map function definitely helps to navigate the maze. I got stuck early on because I couldn't find a block that could be destroyed. When I was able to recognize floors and walls that could be destroyed the map really opened up. When I get to a new area I tend to start at the top and just work my way down.
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TeaJay posted:I tried this and I gotta say I feel like it's meant for an advanced player. A semi-casual like me was completely lost and killed all the time even in the beginning (and I didn't even get far enough for it to get really hard?) I had no idea where to go, every area looked the same and all I could do was pick up a few missiles. I tried to look for bombs to no avail and felt like I had been everywhere I could. It didn't really feel like it rewards exploration in the sense that classic Metroids did, it's more of an exercise in frustration. I had the same issues early on. I think printing out the map and marking off dead ends with what item you'd need would probably help a lot. I stuck with it for a bit (you get high jump boots before bombs), and once you get an e-tank you become much less vulnerable. I'm not sure if I'm going to bother going back to it though. It's very difficult to tell where you should be going next or if you've completely explored a section. Super Metroid does a nicer job of letting the player know they can't proceed down a branch early on, with Rogue Dawn it seems like you explore a dozen map tiles before being sure you're supposed to have the ice beam or something.
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Ballz posted:I have a few recommendations! Rogue Dawn looks extremely my poo poo. Thanks!
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I wouldn't use any of those three words to describe any atari. Even contemporarily. The Atari 800 was a loving beast of a machine in 79-83. (And it still held it's own against the C64 and the 7800 and pre 87 onwards NES.) Like nothing could touch it especially for the price. There was a very short window of time where the ST was god tier as was the Lynx. Course I am sure the owners of Atari don't remember or care they had a superior platform out there but they did. It would kind of be like how Nintendo if they remembered the Game Boy but forgot the Advance existed almost. That's how much better the A800 was. Also it's the most awesomely ugly rear end machine with only the Sears Intellivision being more 70s uggo than it. (I love the looks of both. To the point I had the 130xe and bought an 800 just to have the giant beige and brown typewriter lookin machine. It is made of steel. With another layer... OF STEEL. Said layers are also examples of why it didn't have expansion cards like the Apple 2. FCC restrictions in the age of Star Wars. The XL and XE systems were much smaller cuz Reagan era and the freedoms that the blessed St Ron Paul may have been inspired by. Like the Triangle Shirtwaist Company! ) Course Activision and EA pretty much forget they actually made things post 2600 till Genesis as well and they had a lot less being torn apart and sold off to other companies. (They just did it to companies they bought.)
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Star Man posted:Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: the Fighting Edition is a pretty okay licensed IP game. At first I didn't like it, but then I got the hang of the unique power bar system and found out it was pretty cool. Could use some more stages/backgrounds, though; all the Megazords use the Zordon one. Also disappointed at no OG Megazord or Dragon Zord in the lineup. The base engine was later used for Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, if the internet isn't lying to me. I have a soft spot for the MMPR Game Boy game as well. It's nothing spectacular in the least, just a pretty short side-scrolling single plane beat-em-up/platformer with no depth, but there's also nothing really wrong with it. It avoids tedium and confusion, the later levels introduce vertical scrolling, and the license is used to good effect in the Megazord boss battles. Also the music is pretty  even aside from the TV theme.
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Captain Rufus posted:Course I am sure the owners of Atari don't remember or care they had a superior platform out there but they did. It would kind of be like how Nintendo if they remembered the Game Boy but forgot the Advance existed almost. That's how much better the A800 was. Also it's the most awesomely ugly rear end machine with only the Sears Intellivision being more 70s uggo than it. (I love the looks of both. To the point I had the 130xe and bought an 800 just to have the giant beige and brown typewriter lookin machine. It is made of steel. With another layer... OF STEEL. Said layers are also examples of why it didn't have expansion cards like the Apple 2. FCC restrictions in the age of Star Wars. The XL and XE systems were much smaller cuz Reagan era and the freedoms that the blessed St Ron Paul may have been inspired by. Like the Triangle Shirtwaist Company! ) 
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Discount Viscount posted:Gundam Wing: Endless Duel totally forgot to add this to my list of good licensed games
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Dr. Dos posted:I had the same issues early on. I think printing out the map and marking off dead ends with what item you'd need would probably help a lot. I stuck with it for a bit (you get high jump boots before bombs), and once you get an e-tank you become much less vulnerable. I'm not sure if I'm going to bother going back to it though. It's very difficult to tell where you should be going next or if you've completely explored a section. Here is the Metroid Rogue Dawn map for anyone who would like a version to print out/mark up. I remember making my own map of the original Metroid to help navigate through it back when I was like, 11, so this is definitely hitting all the right nostalgia notes.
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