I had a feeling ASCII was behind it. From what I've played with it so far it's really solid.
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I had a feeling ASCII was behind it. From what I've played with it so far it's really solid.
Wow that is a cool controller, I want one!
It's a good controller indeed, and it is built around the "controle dos feras" as we used to call here the grip where you use your thumb, index, middle and ring fingers for piannoying each button on the controller, I had a brazilian magazine featuring an article about ways to improve your gameplay in Battletoads using this method. The directional pad on the MD and 3DO versions is quite bad, the SSF2 version for the Super Famicom with the classic Nintendo cross is the best of them all.
I'm still trying to get a hold of Kickmaster for a decent price myself. It's a nifty game.
Today was a good Craigslist find. This ad had went up about 15 mins before I started searching so I jumped on it. The seller posted his number and a price which was $50. I paid $50 for all of this stuff on the spot. I am not too keen on Nintendo pricing but I figured 24 Nes/N64 titles and now this is my 4th Game Gear but I got a couple of games that I didn't have before. I figured it's less than $2 a game plus a Game Gear and the system bag plus the two game boxes.
The NES games were all new to me except Ducktales which now I have two copies. I am beginning to get a decent NES setup but I won't go nuts.
After digging through the NES box that came with the set I found a "Hommie". Who remembers those?
The Yo Bro is a Raffle I won. I am
currently raffling off The Legendary Ax. The drawing is March 1st for those who want in.
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Nice!
Myself I'm still looking for a working Game Gear. A bunch of games but nothing to play them on.
So I managed to pick up a few PC-FX games.
I already had the system and three of the games shown in the pic.
The recent ones I got are Team Innocent, Last Imperial Prince, Return To Zork, and Chip Chan Kick. The latter is actually quite a fun game. Something which can't be said for the majority of this systems library.
I'm still after Zeroigar, and Zenki. But those aren't exactly easy to come by.
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A couple 3DO games and a boxed mouse for the system.
(I managed to find a 3DO video module as well. That should arrive by next week).
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I see they advertised it on the box for SSFII Turbo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barone
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Yup that was the deal with the 3DO version as well.Quote:
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A few NES/Famicom games.
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SNES/Super Famicom stuff,
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Interestingly those two Game Genies look the same but really aren't.
I found this bit of info:
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The original GG 1.0 is the one with the dashes already entered on bootup and is the better option for owners of a launch-era SNES for playing special chip games. It does work with Yoshi's Island despite not having the extra connectors, and I've read Megaman X2 and X3 does as well.
Somewhere along the way newer SNES systems released wouldn't work with GG 1.0 (it would still boot and everything, but the codes simply had no effect) The GG 2.0, which enters the dashes as you type, was compatible. However, no compatibility with YI.
These issues got worse with the SNES mini - only the GG 2.0 works, and even then it's limited to 2/5 codes, as only the first and last code lines have an effect.
N64,
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Saturn,
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Dreamcast,
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Xbox,
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Gamecube,
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PS One
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^ Very nice. Were many consoles and games ever officially brought over to South Africa?
For the Game Gear, you should do what I did: buy a cheap broken one off ebay and have someone recap it for you. I had Bratwurst fix mine and he even added an LED backlight. Idk how bad shipping from SA is though. I'm sure there are people there who can do it too.
I'm going to say from the PS1 onwards, yes. I can't comment with much authority before that as I wasn't here to experience it. I'm originally from Greece.Quote:
Originally Posted by zetastrike
A few years ago getting a fully working unit for around $20 was commonplace. How things have changed.Quote:
For the Game Gear, you should do what I did: buy a cheap broken one off ebay and have someone recap it for you. I had Bratwurst fix mine and he even added an LED backlight. Idk how bad shipping from SA is though. I'm sure there are people there who can do it too.
Re the shipping; it's not really worth it to ship a unit to be repaired. Rather get a fully functional re-capped system. In any case I'm after one of those Majesco units with the slightly better screen.
I've always wanted one of those Hori N64 controllers.
Thierry, I'd sell you a fully recapped Game Gear if you're interested, it has a few scratches on the screen otherwise it's really nice. It's an older Sega one and not a Majesco one though. If you're interested I'd want $75 for it plus shipping. PM me if you want more details.
I think I found quite possibly the most insane computer ever at a Salvation Army ever and this might be the find of the year so far at least for value.
I was walking through a SA that I normally go to just to waste time as it's usually a dump of a store. As I was walking through the tornado of a media area with stuff thrown all over the place I decided to glance at the electronics area and notice what looks like some old Pentium III era PC in an old black case and someone had the cover off and was digging around in it so I decided to walk past since it looked so old but then he walked away and left it there so I decided to take a look. I took the cover off and noticed a Raid array inside with plug and play slots for up to four HDDs. I took a look at the drives and it had 2 250 GB sata drives, nice! Great for rebuilding other PCs, I then see a decent graphics cart, an old Nvidia Quaddro 512MB card; OK, decent enough to slap into another computer for sale. I took a look at the power supply and it says 645 watts; now I'm starting to get excited for how many parts I'm finding. I then realize this baby has eight ram slots in it and four ram sticks. I look at the ram and holy crap, fully buffered, ECC PC2-6400 ram! Good lord, I just found a server!.
I bought this thing for only $25.99 plus tax and still thought it to be some old low end server and thought it was just going to be a whole slew of parts but I take it home and hook and the bios says it has two processors on it and I thought for sure this was going to be some old low end Pentium II with two 32 bit single core processors on it. I let it boot up expecting Windows XP on it since there's a Windows XP Pro sticker on it. Low and behold, Windows 7 Pro pops up instead. Now excitement is starting to stir. I decide to run CPU-Z on it to see what this thing is really made of. I let it run and to my excitement it says 64 bit and has two 3Ghz quad core processors in this beast. I then go to Crucial.com to see how much ram this maxes out at and it I couldn't even believe my eyes! I didn't think I was reading it right and I had to stare at the screen for a few minutes to believe what I saw but it said 65,536MB. Good lord, this thing will handle 64GB of ram!
So I just found a computer that's older but still blaze fast even in todays specs for only $25. I looked this up on Feebay and computers with lesser specs than this one were selling in the $500-$600 range!
I actually got the shakes when I saw the value and specs of this machine
It's in an Aberdeen case that still has a floppy drive in it.
The system is a Supermicro X7DWA-N with a Xeon processor in it!
Thanks for the offer!Quote:
Originally Posted by vintagegamecrazy
Maybe currently not the best time though as I see our Postal workers are gearing up for another strike.
But if things cool down and your offer still stands I'll be sure to let you know. :)
It maybe noticeably faster than some common today's PCs for some applications, given the two CPU configuration and the huge amount of cache that they might have.Quote:
Originally Posted by vintagegamecrazy
Some emulators may take a good advantage of it, as well as video and sound processing applications. A bit older PC games, not tailored for the latest processors, might allow you to set them to maximum quality running on this beast - especially the ones heavy on CPU resources consumption, like racing and flight simulation.
That's an awesome haul Thierry! Lots of really cool goodies there!