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Xenomrph posted:Yeah, that’s what I’m planning on doing? There's only three or four games that use the three and six button controllers, so unless you really want to play a bad version of Street Fighter II CE, you don't need them. Get the revised controllers with the built in turbo fire switches so you don't ruin your fingers playing shooters and you're good to go.
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Xenomrph posted:Yeah, that’s what I’m planning on doing. I love my Hori Fighting Commander but looks like the price shot up over the last few years.
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Random Stranger posted:There's only three or four games that use the three and six button controllers, so unless you really want to play a bad version of Street Fighter II CE, you don't need them. Get the revised controllers with the built in turbo fire switches so you don't ruin your fingers playing shooters and you're good to go. I was looking at the Hyperkin “Specialist”, is that a good call? Also, are there extension cables for the controllers? Edit—found extension cables on eBay, don’t know about their quality though. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 18:08
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The three button controller can be nice to have even with games that weren't designed for it because all it does is map the third button to either start or select. It's basically nice for any action game that assigns some kind of combat button to start or select like Rondo of Blood.
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If you wanna use a controller you already have, you could also pick up one of these: https://stoneagegamer.com/super-converter-for-sega-genesis-and-pc-engine-brook.html
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Part of me wants to pay the slight premium for an actual NEC controller just for the authenticity, unless OEM controllers are actually trash and known to break. If the controller has the switches on the upper right does that mean it has turbo functions? Also is it worth investing in a multi tap? Does the TG-16 have a good selection of multiplayer games?
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Xenomrph posted:Part of me wants to pay the slight premium for an actual NEC controller just for the authenticity, unless OEM controllers are actually trash and known to break. If the controller has the switches on the upper right does that mean it has turbo functions? If you're putting together a surugaya order, these are the two listings I ordered my controller and multitap from: https://www.suruga-ya.com/en/product/161002278 $21 turbo pad https://www.suruga-ya.com/en/product/161002268 $6 multitap I don't have any opinion on multiplayer games. I wish there were cheaper blue retro options out there.
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May 7, 2024 19:56
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Only get a multitap if you're interested in playing a great version of bomberman with 4 friends
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wa27 posted:Yeah the switches are turbo functions. I actually just did an order, but hey maybe I’ll do another!  Edit— narrator: he did another order Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 20:18 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 20:01
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I don't know why the TG16 controller is the only one 8Bitdo didn't make a 2.4G adapter for on the original console  Though how it handles the turbo buttons isn't really ideal compared to the original controller.
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katkillad2 posted:I don't know why the TG16 controller is the only one 8Bitdo didn't make a 2.4G adapter for on the original console I did actually leave them some feedback wishing for a Bluetooth adapter for PC Engine couple years ago, got pretty much a canned response to look forward for future releases.
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Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves?
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Medullah posted:Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves? I have a three layer TV stand that is big enough to fit 9 retro consoles, a pair of A/V switches, and a 24" CRT.
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Medullah posted:Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves? I have a big entertainment center with 4 shelves on either side and 5 in the middle, so I can keep everything perpetually connected at the same time via an elaborate network of switches and cables.
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Medullah posted:Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves? I have a long shelf-type entertainment center that runs under my TV. TV is mounted to the wall, and the old systems that don't have ventilation problems live in the shelves, while newer ones sit on top.  How it started  How it ended. This is from when I set it up, the only difference now is that there is also a slim PS2 next to the PS1 and they're both sitting vertical.  This was my crude wiring diagram, but it ended up incomplete and I had to make a few changes on the fly.
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I have an old 5-shelf 14" shelf that I got in college that has my PS5, Switch, and WiiU on the top, my Gamecube and SNES on the second, and my PS3 and PS2 on the third. Rest is just general storage. The N64 and Saturn are on the floor because, uh, I'm lazy as all hell.
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I have an Ikea besta with doors on the left and right compartments. I think the Bestas they have now are different than the one I got. Fits the consoles that I play the most and when the doors are closed it does a pretty good job of protecting them from dust and hiding my loser level. The rest of my consoles are in their pelican cases.
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Well, I finally broke and ordered a Famicom and a Super Famicom. I already have a perfectly functional US SNES and an AV Famicom but the Collection Must Grow.
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Null of Undefined posted:hiding my loser level. No such thing. 
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Null of Undefined posted:I have a GDEMU too. That guy was just a tech rear end in a top hat instead of a human rights rear end in a top hat (afaik). He was super paranoid about clone hardware eating his lunch, so the approach he took was to make his hardware hard to find and hard to use. Unsurprisingly this made his lunch look even more delicious to clone companies. It’s the epitome of making his bed and having to sleep in it. Just like cybdyn he burnt through all of the community’s good will at lightning speed. I can't blame them, at least in principle. It's expensive as gently caress to produce gadgets for a fleetingly small crowd of people, and anything that manages to function and get produced and sold is cloned by people who will charge only half or less.
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Zonekeeper posted:Well, I finally broke and ordered a Famicom and a Super Famicom. I already have a perfectly functional US SNES and an AV Famicom but the Collection Must Grow. Right there with you, goonbro. I broke my suruga-ya cherry this week and added a white Saturn and peripherals to my collection. Then realized my Saroo will be considerably slower from AliExpress (free DHL shipping is a hell of a drug) so my second order was a couple Saturn games and a Super Fami since it was so cheap (even though I already have a flawless two-chip SNES). The Collection Must Grow.
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Star Man posted:I can't blame them, at least in principle. It's expensive as gently caress to produce gadgets for a fleetingly small crowd of people, and anything that manages to function and get produced and sold is cloned by people who will charge only half or less. Which is why it would be smarter to be a member of the community and rely on people wanting to buy the original product instead of intentionally making the original product worse, thereby giving the clone companies an easy win of simply removing the unnecessary bullshit. Edit: There's a reason that he's not in business anymore and krikzz is Null of Undefined fucked around with this message at 01:41 on May 8, 2024 |
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Medullah posted:Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves? I don't have a dedicated game room yet, but when I do I'm gonna buy some grandma's old entertainment center from the 80s and toss everything in it, the kind that looks like an armoire
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that's just my normal set up right there.
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Medullah posted:Here's a non specific game question. For those of you that keep multiple old consoles connected to a TV, how do you store them? Shelves? I have a big real TV with PS5/Switch setup, and then at my work desk I have my wife’s old 19” 1080p LCD with a Series S, PS3, Dreamcast and Super Famicom hooked into it. The Series S stands behind the TV on the back corner of the desk, the PS3 is vertical on the floor, and the Dreamcast and SF both fit into a small storage trolley that lives on that side of the desk. One moment about the TV: Her dad found a good one, because it’s got multiple HDMI inputs, the Japanese D-terminal equivalent to component, and RCA jacks for good measure. Series S, PS3 native HDMI, Dreamcast uses a cheap HDMI cable to make it think it’s VGA adapter, SF to RCA.
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My PS5, Switch and dual PS2s (JP slim on top of the EU fat) sit next to the TV and the PS3 and Xbox go on the shelf underneath. Then the 360 is on the other side of the TV on the coffee table.
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My messy setup involves 2 monitors on arms that open like cabinet doors to reveal a little CRT behind them. All atop a mangled Ikea Alex desk with consoles wired up inside the drawers
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https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/05/multiple-copies-of-delayed-mega-drive-game-paprium-discovered-in-french-warehouse lmao
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/05/multiple-copies-of-delayed-mega-drive-game-paprium-discovered-in-french-warehouse That's totally Fonzie stirring poo poo
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I had forgotten about Paprium altogether. Can't believe that circus is still going around towns all these years later!
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Saoshyant posted:I had forgotten about Paprium altogether. Can't believe that circus is still going around towns all these years later! "LRG acting like douchebags?Well I never! Time to up the ante" (in french)
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Humphreys posted:That's totally Fonzie stirring poo poo Sounds like this whole situation really jumped the shark 
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I'm curious, do you folks also have the problem of used game stores over-charging on older games? There's one place close by and two others like 25 minutes away from me and their prices are bananas high. I've looked on ebay for similar games in similar conditions and they cost half or less as much as it was in the store. CiB and everything. I'm not a collector either, I actually play these games. I full well know that the prices of these things won't be cheap but these places, like I said, overcharge something fierce.
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Jimbot posted:I'm curious, do you folks also have the problem of used game stores over-charging on older games? There's one place close by and two others like 25 minutes away from me and their prices are bananas high. I've looked on ebay for similar games in similar conditions and they cost half or less as much as it was in the store. CiB and everything. I'm not a collector either, I actually play these games. I full well know that the prices of these things won't be cheap but these places, like I said, overcharge something fierce. Brick and mortar often charges way more for stuff than online. This has been an issue since people noticed the retrogame market going completely irrational. I've called the "my local overpriced video game store" for a while specifically for that reason. Some of it comes down to overhead, but there's a fair amount of sleezy shop owners taking advantage of people, an endemic problem with any shop for collectables. The best you might get are places who use eBay buy it now prices or pricecharting to slap a sticker on a cart, something that has its own problems.
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Yeah. Those local stores are at least decent for picking up PS3 and 360 games that I missed the first time around for decent prices, especially if it's a popular series. But anything older than that it starts to get bananas expensive. I'm really glad I bought my Neo Geo stuff several years ago, I can't imagine what sort of prices those are going for these days.
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Mine for sure uses the price charting barcode scanning for boxed trade in and they manually look up loose carts on it. I generally just dump crap that can't or won't easily sell online to them, haven't bought from them in years. Prices are usually just under the VGPC average but I think most of their business is being the last resort for current console games when the chains sell out.
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We had a lot of competition in the area for a while, and a lot of the folks that worked at one of the original local game stores have made their own attempt at it. So the people who were going the swindle route either left town or went out of business, and what we're left with is the chill guy that starts the prices slightly higher but who will eventually relent and make it a deal and also run sales and poo poo and it owns. I don't tend to see the really rare poo poo like I do when I travel, but they're almost always giving me some sort of deal and giving decent trade in rates and seemingly will take anything. Like right now he still has late-gen sealed 3DS games he has left over from when he was getting them new, and they're just for sale at original MSRP.
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Meanwhile I go one town over to see the local store run by the ex-EB manager that was scamming customers back in the day by selling higher than MSRP copies of new games and all their stuff is exactly like you described.
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Jimbot posted:I'm curious, do you folks also have the problem of used game stores over-charging on older games? There's one place close by and two others like 25 minutes away from me and their prices are bananas high. I've looked on ebay for similar games in similar conditions and they cost half or less as much as it was in the store. CiB and everything. I'm not a collector either, I actually play these games. I full well know that the prices of these things won't be cheap but these places, like I said, overcharge something fierce. Yeah most brick and mortar massively overcharge. It's worth a little extra money to be able to see the thing you're buying in person before dropping the money, but only marginally because ebay's return policy is so good. I still like to check them out though because sometimes I'll find something in my price range that I wasn't even considering (Like when I got my 5200 a few years ago).
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The only thing I look for when I'm in actual stores is cheaper common PS2 games and the 360/PS3 stuff which is still usually dirt cheap. Anything older (or with a Nintendo logo on) has its price massively jacked to where it's not worth the time.
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