Official Sega-16 Haul Thread. 4.0

[highlandcattle]

^ Cool!
Speaking of clones, I scored this Sega clon last weekend. It came with two 6-button wireless controllers, original box, and manuals.

Those controllers are massive. Is it a good clone?

[JFLY]

My haul for the month of June:

Blade Runner Soundtrack and Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact! The Complete Series


Super Mario Galaxy 2 Original Sound Track


Turn A Gundam Part 2


Crypt of the Living Dead (with bonus feature House of the Living Dead) and Patlabor 2 The Movie


Chappie, Spirited Away, T2: Judgement Day, and the Cat Returns


Ripper Street Season 3, Sugar Hill, and Batman Arkham Knight


XRGB-Mini Framemeister

My 32 inch Panasonic CRT died in a lightning storm last week, and I really don't feel like getting another CRT, so hopefully this thing will do. I've read on the Shmup forums it has some video noise problems, but it does a pretty good job at giving you a nice picture without the lag.

[Ace]

Man, where do you guys get those old Geniclones??? I really want to get a hold of one, preferably one that looks like a MegaDrive 2 and has a YM2612 clone in it.

XRGB-Mini Framemeister

My 32 inch Panasonic CRT died in a lightning storm last week, and I really don't feel like getting another CRT, so hopefully this thing will do. I've read on the Shmup forums it has some video noise problems, but it does a pretty good job at giving you a nice picture without the lag.

As an XRGB-Mini owner, I have to say it is the best investment for retro gaming on a modern TV. It is, however, somewhat finicky with certain things. I'll list the issues I found with mine:

-Takes forever to sync to a video signal (particularly bad with games that constantly switch between 240p and 480i and it also makes video capture highly problematic)
-1080p output doesn't work well for a 240p input (uneven scaling unless you use the SMART_X2 scaling mode, in which case, the output is scaled to a 960-pixel tall frame, resulting in a black border), but if you have a computer monitor that supports 1920x1200, you can set the XRGB-Mini to output at that resolution over DVI. Failing that, I suggest outputting at 720p with any Composite, S-Video, Component and RGB source (sole exception is if you have a computer running MS-DOS, in which case you should output at 1080p and fiddle with the vertical scaling to get a pixel-perfect picture with minimal visible overscan).
-Requires a sync combining circuit composed of a 74LS86 to work with VGA sources (not that big a deal, but the lack of support for separate sync is a bit of a nuisance)
-The Component input requires A LOT of fiddling to look right
-Some Composite sources are prone to signal dropout or vertical shifting (I found this to be the case with the Japanese Master System, the Mark III and any Genesis or Geniclone in Master System mode as well as the Sanyo Wavy2 MSX computer which has horribly dark Composite video to begin with)
-For some reason, the HDMI pass-through adds a black line on the left side of the screen

Even with the complaints I listed, this converter still performs better than any of the cheap $50 converters you can get pretty much anywhere. I personally use it on a Sharp LC-32LB261U LED TV and Sony KV-30HS420 CRT TV and the picture quality surpasses each TV's respective analog inputs (save for Sega consoles over Composite, which actually look better directly connected to each TV's Composite input than through the XRGB-Mini, but with an XRGB-Mini, you might as well just use RGB unless you have an SG-1000 with a TMS9918 instead of the Sega 315-5066 since those only output RF natively, meaning the RF output either needs to be replaced by Composite or demodulated via a VCR). Once you enable the fake scanlines, with a bit of fiddling, your flat-panel display can look like a CRT.

[needler420]

Flea market pickup today Sunday 6/28 2015 at about 10am eastern time. Sunny with a chance of rain. ( It did rain a little.)

For $37.50 $2.50 atm fees because my monkey self didn't bring enough cash else all this was $35
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[Thierry Henry]

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[JFLY]

Man, where do you guys get those old Geniclones??? I really want to get a hold of one, preferably one that looks like a MegaDrive 2 and has a YM2612 clone in it.



As an XRGB-Mini owner, I have to say it is the best investment for retro gaming on a modern TV. It is, however, somewhat finicky with certain things. I'll list the issues I found with mine:

-Takes forever to sync to a video signal (particularly bad with games that constantly switch between 240p and 480i and it also makes video capture highly problematic)
-1080p output doesn't work well for a 240p input (uneven scaling unless you use the SMART_X2 scaling mode, in which case, the output is scaled to a 960-pixel tall frame, resulting in a black border), but if you have a computer monitor that supports 1920x1200, you can set the XRGB-Mini to output at that resolution over DVI. Failing that, I suggest outputting at 720p with any Composite, S-Video, Component and RGB source (sole exception is if you have a computer running MS-DOS, in which case you should output at 1080p and fiddle with the vertical scaling to get a pixel-perfect picture with minimal visible overscan).
-Requires a sync combining circuit composed of a 74LS86 to work with VGA sources (not that big a deal, but the lack of support for separate sync is a bit of a nuisance)
-The Component input requires A LOT of fiddling to look right
-Some Composite sources are prone to signal dropout or vertical shifting (I found this to be the case with the Japanese Master System, the Mark III and any Genesis or Geniclone in Master System mode as well as the Sanyo Wavy2 MSX computer which has horribly dark Composite video to begin with)
-For some reason, the HDMI pass-through adds a black line on the left side of the screen

Even with the complaints I listed, this converter still performs better than any of the cheap $50 converters you can get pretty much anywhere. I personally use it on a Sharp LC-32LB261U LED TV and Sony KV-30HS420 CRT TV and the picture quality surpasses each TV's respective analog inputs (save for Sega consoles over Composite, which actually look better directly connected to each TV's Composite input than through the XRGB-Mini, but with an XRGB-Mini, you might as well just use RGB unless you have an SG-1000 with a TMS9918 instead of the Sega 315-5066 since those only output RF natively, meaning the RF output either needs to be replaced by Composite or demodulated via a VCR). Once you enable the fake scanlines, with a bit of fiddling, your flat-panel display can look like a CRT.

Thanks for the great info, Ace. I haven't done anything with yet since I don't have my Japanese scart cables. I hope you don't mind me messaging you up if I run into some problems setting it up?

[Ace]

Go right ahead. If you need assistance, I'll be standing by to help.

[chinitosoccer]

Today was a good day, I got the 64 mega power version of "The Punisher" for the Megadrive, this one was programed by Capcom itself and its arcade perfect, but the cart is even bigger than Virtua Racing.

[WarmSignal]

[WarmSignal]

Some CDs I picked up for way cheap.



Today's Dreamcast haul. So happy to have Toy Commander back in my collection!

[Lan Di]

Today was a good day, I got the 64 mega power version of "The Punisher" for the Megadrive, this one was programed by Capcom itself and its arcade perfect, but the cart is even bigger than Virtua Racing.

Congrats dude. I've been searching for that game for years with no luck. Enjoy.

[chinitosoccer]

Thanks man, I also have Warriors of Fate and C&D but those doesn't work on the Megadrive

[WarmSignal]

Buy 2 Get 1 sale picks.

[Thierry Henry]

A few GB/GBC/GBA related items,

[EddieJ1984]

Was in goodwill today, and saw this poor baby by itself, no wires and the cover for the side attachment is missing.
Ended up only spending $3 cause I'm an rewards member. And yep, it works! So I guess I got a backup genesis since my main one is the same model.