Miles McCloud posted:

Djarum posted:

Since I'll have my SD2SNES sometime today finally, what are the best MSU-1 games I should get?

URL grey tea posted:

Think of all of the money you'll save not buying carts.

*continues buying carts*

beergod posted:

But what is lacking about them? That's what interests me.

The OP of this thread posted:

This is a thread about old console and arcade video games. Some computer talk happens here but if you want to get deep into that this thread is probably a better place for it. "Retro games" at the moment are generally accepted to be games that predate the 360/PS3 era, but nobody's going to care if you want to tell us about an awesome PS3 game you found.

A lot of people in this hobby like playing games on their original hardware for various reasons, whether it's accuracy, nostalgia, or simply the fun of tinkering with old electronics. Some people don't really care about all that and stick to emulation, which for most systems is good enough these days. Most of the people in this thread tend to use real hardware and you'll see a lot of discussion about it, don't let it discourage you if you only use emulators, you're still playing the same games.

There are various clone systems out there, licensed or unlicensed copies of old consoles. They all have accuracy issues. If you care enough to ask if you should get a clone, you probably shouldn't get a clone.

d0s posted:

also I guarantee you that every person with a bunch of real hardware is also emulating like crazy because it's an amazing way to learn about new stuff to play, and when you're constantly switching back and forth the drawbacks of emulation become really clear. it's not really something of "oh I'm above emulation so I don't touch it", I like the real thing because I use emulation so much

Nate RFB posted:

I assume a whole big batch came in for a lot of folks, because yeah those long dormant feelers I had placed out looking for UltraHDMI news suddenly came alive. Here's hoping all goes well.

LegoMan posted:

I bought an SNES off craigslist for $60 hoping to relive the glory days of college. My first trip to a retro gaming shop had Super Metroid for 125 dollars. I'm really not interested in creating a wall of games to stare at, I'm just a tired dad who wants to get high in his shed and play Super Nintendo when the kids go to bed. Is there a definitive list of ROMs the SD2SNES cart won't play so I don't waste 200 bux on it before realizing it won't play the games I want to play?

*edit* ok I found this as usual seconds after I post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_chips#List_of_Super_NES_games_that_use_enhancement_chips

Charles Get-Out posted:

I know it's super subjective, to me Link to the Past just doesn't sound 'right' and I bet I'd feel the same way if FF6's opera was in something other than sound chip warbles.

I think my brain just constantly double-takes at how different the music is from when I was playing these as a kid.

Djarum posted:

So evidently of you get the light pipes installed on your cart shell (and you should they look great and are functional as hell) they glue on their cart label and then drill the hole for the light pipe so it looks flawless. Problem is for myself is I have access to a printer that printed original screen printed OEM labels in the 80s and 90s. So I wanted to print a label I designed and put it on. I put on my order to not put it on but in the Black Friday rush he didn't get a chance to talk to me about it. He apologized and I am not THAT upset about it.

Getting the glue off of the label and cart shell seems to be harder than I expected. I might just order a replacement shell and craft my own. Again I am the 1% of the 1% so don't take my problem as anything again Stoneage Gamer since they do great work there and have been perfectly happy otherwise.

RichterIX posted:

Hard Corps is so loving good. I have a huge boner for Konami's "historically Nintendo games but for Genesis!" phase. Well, I don't know if two games is enough for a phase, but they are cool anyway for how Genesis-y they are compared to the contemporary Nintendo games in those series.

azurite posted:

The clicking might be the focus mechanism, as stated, but that should not be happening while the system is off. Is the light coming on too? There could be a transistor issue, but I really doubt it.

For the buzzing power supply, I've been testing this with my PC Engine and Sega CD with success so far. Doesn't get as hot, and no loud buzzing to speak of (unlike the popular Velleman adapter, in my experience). It's also UL-listed, so it most likely won't burn your house down.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DTI9CJ4/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Edit: It's also worth noting that I've heard the plastic cases shifting as the systems got warm. Maybe that could be what you heard.

A Yolo Wizard posted:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m6NBLNLDoFyvwPPTYS8AVPJNTMw1CE-mzberE6Tm9fg/edit?usp=sharing (I guess it was no longer 600+)

There are countless other controllers / power supplies / cabling I've sorted into other bins but thats the meat of it. Also got some random stuff I didn't list like a few unopened everdrives, a ps1 skateboard platform and a super scope with the eye piece missing.

I'll probably add price notes for myself later when I get back to this.

TheRedEye posted:

I do RGB (not component) so I do homebrew loader > Swiss > Game Boy Interpreter > RGB out on a PAL Gamecube, because only PAL supports RGB natively. It works because you're not ultimately spitting out a PAL signal, you're spitting out 240p.

TeaJay posted:

The Everdrive N8 handles expansion audio poorly even if you have an AV Famicom, and it's downright terribad for FDS games. I have a patched version of Gimmick and I still don't get all the expansion audio because N8 doesn't support all the necessary mappers.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

I was thinking about a single cable solution for a person like me that doesn't want to have to go buy an SCART cable (or SCART modded SNES) in addition to a converter (which there are a ton of, and you don't ever know if you're getting a good one because even this thread is foggy on recommendations from more than one person) in addition to the converter's power supply, who just wants to play their goddamned SNES on a modern TV without it looking like poo poo?

I've had this thread bookmarked for about two years, now, and a lot of regular posters here get caught up in feature creep and collection building and getting the "best of the best," but forget about two tenents of products: ease-of-use (simplicity), and cost. And I understand that. It's the "retro gaming thread," which in the past 5-8 years, has become synonymous with the "expensive old gaming thread."


Or am I wrong on that count? What the gently caress do I need to play a SNES and my sweet, sweet Star Fox 2 cart on my HDTV without spending, like, $200? Preferably without hooking six things up in-between the actual console and the television. The HD Retrovision looked to fill out that niche nicely.


I don't want a thing I can plug other things into in case I move on to a Genesis or N64 or whatever. I want to make my UM3 SNES look "less poo poo" on a screen. That's it. Is the HD Retrovision really poo poo, as the replies I've gotten imply? Return to Dinosaur Land and Star Fox 2 await.

falz posted:

Cool. I have SCART to BNC cables purchased from A Yolo Wizard a while back. I presume that Black BNC connector carries sync. I believe I should be able to connect these to the existing three console->SCART cables I have to make a console->bnc connector. I'm not a fan of that big bulge and extra connector in the middle but if it works its fine for now, and could always be swapped out later.



It looks like I already dumped enough that now I just need that one SCART Male to BNC Male! The one I linked to on ebay was just sorta the first one I saw, it seems like they've sold many so maybe it's ok. Going to grab said cable and report back.

A few days ago there was SCART switcher vs BNC switcher discussion, I really do think BNC is cheaper. There are several of these switchers on Ebay for double digits, at that price one could get console specific BNC cables (~$50/ea?) and still be cheaper than a nice SCART switch + cables.

Speaking of , my switcher plan doesn't leave room for a future Neo Geo purchase, dammit.

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.

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.

falz posted:

Curious what issues you had with this before? I got my cable but I appear to have sync issues. Only had a minute to plug it in so haven't tested much other than two sources (Genesis + Duo) to attempt to confirm that its not the console's fault:



This is my wiring:



It seems like it could be the fault of anyhting between the AV switch and TV I guess? (switch -> new rgb cable ->component converter)

Edit the Switchbox has a "VD" vertical sync too, hopefully that's not reqiured? http://www.curtpalme.com/docs/sony-pc1270.pdf

Rirse posted:

That looks really good on the right. Yeah I am done trying to match the color. And that last picture I posted earlier of Sonic 2 looks about perfect in my eye so I am not going to readjust anymore at this point.

Rirse posted:

I have no idea why i thought it was a good idea to compare a lcd to a crt. The 240p test suite was what I used to finally get it configured right, so no more messing with that poo poo.

With that done, what a good colorful game on the Genesis to try out beyond the usual Sonic games?

azurite posted:

Drag and drop the bin file onto binpatch.bat, it should patch and spit out an iso and wav files. Burn with the provided cue sheet.

You'll need to view the readme in WordPad or Notepad++. It probably uses UNIX-style line breaks, which Notepad won't handle correctly.

e: fb

azurite posted:

See my edit above. Sorry, I missed that.

EDIT: I meant the cue sheet included with the patch. My original one didn't work after patching. I should really learn to read entire posts.

Nate RFB posted:

Well, it's a bit late now but I think I've found the reason for why my N64 with RGB was behaving so poorly with my TV. The N64 outputs 59.82 Hz, while the SNES and NES output at 60.09 Hz. In my infinite wisdom I never thought to check into the "Full_status" option see what the input/output streams were actually doing. That 0.27 Hz difference apparently is what was causing my TV to stutter. I don't know why necessarily this matters, especially when the XRGB itself should be outputting 60 Hz exact anyway, but there it is. Conversely with the UltraHDMI it of course does 60 exactly when in 1080p mode and works flawlessly.

TheRedEye posted:

My take isn't much different from some of the others here. I think it's lost in transit and is just going to show up one day without any fanfare, and that he should save the fundraising talk for when it's ACTUALLY hopeless.