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fatpat268 posted:*welp* I finally did. Ordered the xrgb mini ONE OF US ONE OF US
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fatpat268 posted:*welp* I finally did. Ordered the xrgb mini Buy this instead. JP21 cables are much more of a pain in the rear end to find than SCART cables and it'd be annoying to have to mod every cable you buy. So, how many of us does this make now? There's me, Hamburglar, now fatpat268, and I could swear there were a couple other people in the thread with XRGB minis.
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Nov 28, 2012 18:15
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I really want one someday, but gently caress me, that's a lot of cash. I wish I had it to burn, but I am hilariously broke right now. Not that I could normally afford $400 on something to make my videogames prettier, but my car ate itself this week, so yay new car shopping two months ahead of when I planned to when I'd have my bonus to, you know, actually pay for it.  In light of this, enjoy your crudely extracted kidney, secret santa partner who may or may not be reading this. I'll draw a Nintendo logo on it and call it promotional material for Dr. Mario or something.
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Code Jockey posted:I really want one someday, but gently caress me, that's a lot of cash. I wish I had it to burn, but I am hilariously broke right now. Not that I could normally afford $400 on something to make my videogames prettier, but my car ate itself this week, so yay new car shopping two months ahead of when I planned to when I'd have my bonus to, you know, actually pay for it. Even when your broke your still stopping by Goodwill and grabbing all the non sports genesis games they got in. Guess this is what an addict goes through.
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Nov 28, 2012 18:38
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Kreeblah posted:Buy this instead. JP21 cables are much more of a pain in the rear end to find than SCART cables and it'd be annoying to have to mod every cable you buy. More money down the hole.  Add to that, I'm trying to source some Gamecube component cables, but ebay prices are outrageous for an already outrageously priced item.Edit: Also, I'll be putting up some more stuff on SA-Mart soon, but I figure I give you retrogoons first dibs on two of these things if you're interested. Tetris Battle Gaiden for $30 shipped Legend of Zelda Links Awakening $12 shipped   These'll go up tomorrow (probably) on SA-Mart, but like I said, anyone in here has first dibs. fatpat268 fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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Nov 28, 2012 18:45
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lilcasino posted:Even when your broke your still stopping by Goodwill and grabbing all the non sports genesis games they got in. Guess this is what an addict goes through. Don't you judge me drat it 
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Nov 28, 2012 19:04
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fatpat268 posted:More money down the hole. I would take Link's Awakening, I've been looking for a copy for a decent price. Do you have PMs?
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Nov 28, 2012 19:33
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fatpat268 posted:More money down the hole. I'd like Tetris Battle Gaiden please and thank you. Where do I send my money! I didn't even know this existed!
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:The best thing I ever learned about a multimeter is the "continuity" check thing it has on it. The digital audio mod for the SNES is incredibly difficult, partially due to the soldering points being so ridiculously tiny and close to one another. I just followed the pin using the trace to one of those little holes (whatever those are called) and used a multimeter to make sure I was soldering it to the right place. Those little holes are called "vias" as in they move signals between the different layers of the board via the holes. PTH are another technically correct way to describe them as vias are almost always plated through holes. In expensive high-end multi-layer PCBs with certain mechanical requirements (like hermetic seals), sometimes you'll have blind vias which don't penetrate all the way through the board, but those are uncommon on most consumer goods. brian posted:Man I can't wait for my arcade cabinet to get here, I keep buying far too many arcade boards while it's getting its monitor chassis refurbished Oh man, Third Strike is totally my favorite Street Fighter. One can easily argue that it's The Best street fighter too! I know I'm a bit of a rarity in this thread for liking remakes and not really caring about original hardware too much, but the Online Edition of Third Strike on PS3/360 is super fantastic if you're looking to play the game. I played really frequently about a year ago and now I go in every other month or so for an evening to get absolutely wrecked by the only people who play Third Strike: the Japanese and crazy hard-core American fighting fans that I can barely stand a chance against. In summary, Oro supremacy! Speaking of cabinets, anyone have any suggestions on how to go about purchasing an inexpensive cabinet? Ideally I'm looking for a two-player Astro City form factor that I'll be using to house consoles. So I'll be replacing the monitor, controls etc so I really just care about the cabinet itself.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:I would take Link's Awakening, I've been looking for a copy for a decent price. Do you have PMs? Yes, I have pms. Sexy Slippers posted:I'd like Tetris Battle Gaiden please and thank you. Where do I send my money! paypal is plc268@gmail.com It'll likely go out in the mail tomorrow, as I'm heading to work in about an hour. VVVVVVV Label Printed and will be dropped off today. fatpat268 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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Nov 28, 2012 19:52
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Woot, some of my giftee stuff came today! Just waiting on one more package and I can get it sent off.  ^^^^ - Money sent since you just posted your email. Shipping address is included too. Thanks!
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Nov 28, 2012 19:58
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Recently got a good deal on a Sharp TwinFami Black Model from a guy currently in Japan. Just need to find the good FDS games for cheap now... I had fun checking out the insides and just making sure everything was nice and clean. The controllers aren't as good as the original fami's(in my opinion) but they are fine. I kinda wanted to take the controllers off my broke AV-modded Fami and replace the Twin, but It felt wrong to replace it with a different models parts.      
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Nov 28, 2012 20:00
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On top of finding a Gamecube with game boy player at Goodwill. Also managed to score some Genesis games and paperboy for NES http://i.imgur.com/Gxik1.jpg
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Nov 28, 2012 20:28
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Zackcat posted:Recently got a good deal on a Sharp TwinFami Black Model from a guy currently in Japan. Just need to find the good FDS games for cheap now... Welcome to the club!  Now go buy Zelda FDS and Metroid FDS. Cheap, no, but worth it. [also have fun replacing the belt, if it hasn't been replaced already]
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Nov 28, 2012 20:43
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Antillese posted:Oh man, Third Strike is totally my favorite Street Fighter. One can easily argue that it's The Best street fighter too! I know I'm a bit of a rarity in this thread for liking remakes and not really caring about original hardware too much, but the Online Edition of Third Strike on PS3/360 is super fantastic if you're looking to play the game. I played really frequently about a year ago and now I go in every other month or so for an evening to get absolutely wrecked by the only people who play Third Strike: the Japanese and crazy hard-core American fighting fans that I can barely stand a chance against. In summary, Oro supremacy! Yeah i'm one of those 3rd Strike super fans, to the point where most of the fighting game gang on here make fun of me for it  I bought the cab primarily to play 3S, there's some key timing differences between arcade and 3S:Online Edition that i'm not a huge fan of and playing it on arcade just feels so much better. I'm getting a JAMMA converted Naomi sit-down candy, looks a lot like a Sega New Net City.As for getting cabinets, I'm in the UK and in general the best places are arcadeotaku.com and jammaplus.co.uk, in america I believe Neo-Geo.com's Zelda Doll Trading Forum and Shmup's trading forum are the best places to look but candy cabinets aren't generally cheap anywhere (although in california they tend to be the cheapest that i've seen).
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A package has arrived! Surely it's too early for Secret Santa, but I'll tell you what. It's from incredible goon Pope Crunch  He charged a very fair amount for it because he wanted it to "go to a good home" rather than be flipped on eBay  I gotta say I subscribe to the same motto. This is so, so excellent because though I am not a big collector of SNES boxes (only because they wear out so easy) literally 3 of the boxes I always wanted were a part of this: Super Metroid, Illusion of Gaia (my favorite), and Final Fantasy 6 (my literal favorite game of all time) but I was too broke to buy it. And I only recently wanted the Super Metroid and IoG ones to go along with my big boxes of the same game (though it's called Illusion of Time in Germany). May Baby Jesus bless you this Christmas, Pope Crunch. Also I am going to up my Santee's gift even bigger this time around just to keep the warm fuzzy feeling going.
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I envy your in box illusion of gaia, it would look nice next to my boxed ff3  Grats on the haul!
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Has anyone who ordered from Rakuten (specifically Surugaya-a-too) gotten an order confirmation yet  ?
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Antillese posted:Speaking of cabinets, anyone have any suggestions on how to go about purchasing an inexpensive cabinet? Ideally I'm looking for a two-player Astro City form factor that I'll be using to house consoles. So I'll be replacing the monitor, controls etc so I really just care about the cabinet itself. I know a guy locally who has around 500 cabs. Me and a couple guys are trying to set up a deal with him for a couple cabs. I'll see if I can get this moving in the next week and let you know. Also, I have a 3rd Strike set up. I thought that was important to mention.
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JJJJJS posted:I know a guy locally who has around 500 cabs. Me and a couple guys are trying to set up a deal with him for a couple cabs. I'll see if I can get this moving in the next week and let you know. Sucks you're on the other end of the country! I'm also a 3rd Strike superfan and would kill to have it set up.
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iastudent posted:Surugaya-a-too finally got back to me on my Rakuten order. Unfortunately, there were several games on the order confirmation listed as out of stock, and with them missing they put my order under 10,000 yen so there were shipping charges added on as well. I replied to the order email asking them to cancel it, but then I got an email back saying this, according to Gmail's translator: Make another order before you get the 'last notification' for your first order and they will (eventually) combine it. I would ask them if this counts for free shipping. Also, just in case--if that email wasn't a reply to your email to them, that's just the Japanese confirmation email (they send two different ones, why I do not know). You are not charged until they are ready to ship, after you have confirmed your order.
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Keyboard Kid posted:Make another order before you get the 'last notification' for your first order and they will (eventually) combine it. I would ask them if this counts for free shipping. Yeah, the email I got after my first reply was the Japanese confirmation email. My items though aren't slated to be back in stock for awhile, so I just sent them another cancellation request through their reference email for safety's sake.
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Where do you obtain the game cases that people are using for making the "collector" cases up on ebay? I don't want to pay 10 (before shipping) dollars for a custom case if I can get the base case and do my own printing for the cover. Need to start getting my better games into something other than the little dust covers. Kilazar fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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Nov 28, 2012 22:35
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That FF3 box looks like it's in very nice condition. Treat it well! Followup to getting Turtles in time: Our boxes aren't in great condition, but we love them all the same. This is basically just our snes gems right here. (all English, and PAL where applicable.) 
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:A package has arrived! Yesssssss so glad it arrived safe. The SNES I sent to another goon died in transit, sadly - but this is why I always insure packages. I can just kick the dude an instant refund and yell at the post office to recoup the loss. Note that the DW3 manual comes complete with a note or two from a previous owner, and a GENUINE 100% ACTUAL VINTAGE garfield strip apparently used as a bookmark 
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Kilazar posted:Where do you obtain the game cases that people are using for making the "collector" cases up on ebay? You can get them at mediashelving.com for $42 for a pack of 100. http://www.mediashelving.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=W&Product_Code=USCG If you don't need that many, Racketboy sells them for $1.59 a case. http://www.racketboy.com/store/featured/universale-game-case.html
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Hammond Edgar posted:You can get them at mediashelving.com for $42 for a pack of 100. Thanks, I just found them about 2 minutes before you posted. Previously I kept hitting my companies websense >.< Racketboy is blocked. But I do think I need at least 30. So I'll save that link for future expansions.
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Kilazar posted:Where do you obtain the game cases that people are using for making the "collector" cases up on ebay? You can get a goddamn hundred of them here for $42US+Shipping. Have fun printing them out. And these people make pretty rad covers for those boxes, too. edit: Beaten hard, but check out The Cover Project at least.
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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:You can get a goddamn hundred of them here for $42US+Shipping. Have fun printing them out. Yeah I already knew about the cover project And if didn't have a ginormous headache, I would have realized that there is a link to the 100 case somewhere on their site, and not bothered you all.Thanks for the help though! Hoping my inkjet is up to the task of making decent quality prints! *edit* Anyone have a scan of the label for dracula x? The copy I have has a really lovely barely even there label and I'd like to replace it. I hate my games looking like crap. Cover project only has the box's that I see. Kilazar fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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Nov 28, 2012 23:30
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I'm ready for all the Secret Santa porn to be posted.
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Kilazar posted:Where do you obtain the game cases that people are using for making the "collector" cases up on ebay? The dude over at http://www.videogameboxprotectors.com/ has some pretty high-quality, thin plastic casing that you can use for cartridges and boxes. It's not airtight or waterproof or anything, if that's what you're looking for. I'm personally not a fan of the collector case stuff (uses too much space and I don't really care for silly boxes).
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Keyboard Kid posted:The dude over at http://www.videogameboxprotectors.com/ has some pretty high-quality, thin plastic casing that you can use for cartridges and boxes. It's not airtight or waterproof or anything, if that's what you're looking for. I'm personally not a fan of the collector case stuff (uses too much space and I don't really care for silly boxes). As far as those universal game cases go, they're nearly the exact same size as the snes boxes.
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 Well, I walked into a local used game store today, saw it, and bought it on the spot. Still though, only $50 for the rarest Zapper game?  
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The game or the kitty?  I wish I had more retro game stores around me. There's only one relatively close by and it's still a 45 minute drive (People Play Games by Wrigley Stadium), and his prices aren't great. Good but not great, not completely awful. Plus 90% of what he had was NES and Atari, very few of anything PS1/N64 era and newer.
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^^^ That store briefly made me want to move to chicago. I stumbled upon it after eating at Lucky's and bought a disc only copy of Parasite Eve 2. In retrospect I could have been wiser with my money.
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Ambitious Spider posted:In retrospect I could have been wiser with my money. That's the exact opposite of what this thread is about.
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I'm in Texas this week for work, so I got a chance to drop in a local Game X Change. Prices were pretty good, and I'm excited I walked out with all this for $24.
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JJJJJS posted:That's the exact opposite of what this thread is about. I meant in retro gaming terms. Parasite Eve 2 disc only for 40 bucks isn't exactly a killer deal and I probably could have gotten more bang for my retrogaming buck. But Third Birthday was coming out, which I didn't like and never got around to playing 2. Ah well.
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