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I got my copy of Lufia 2 from the Nintendoage forums for $50, but it took a while to find a seller.
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Crimson Harvest posted:The local retro store has a pretty large library of PS2 games for sale. What are some overlooked/underappreciated games I should look out for to play with my new setup? There is a thread for this very topic which has several treasures if you haven't seen it yet. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3495364
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Does the Genesis have any sort of region coding like modern games do? If I do start buying things up on Ebay or wherever, should I watch out for games from different countries?
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Unfortunately the blurring is because of it being an LCD, and a scaler won't do anything for that. I think it's worth noting that there's different ways that LCDs introduce blurring. One of the ways is the simple lag that's apparent in every LCD ever produced. Depending on the display technology (within LCD) there's a wide variety of display lag. Your average will likely have a PVA or MVA panel. It has great viewing angles (as a TV should), but a generally slow refresh rate. Jumping over to computer monitors, some use PVA/MVA panels, but the predominant panel technologies are TN and IPS. IPS panels are a little faster than PVA/MVA. They have great viewing angles with good color reproduction. Refresh rate will likely be about 8 milliseconds or so. TN panels are the cheapest panels, but also the fastest, with most nowadays at 2 milliseconds. Viewing angles aren't spectacular, and color reproduction is ok at best. That's just the lag introduced by the display itself. There'll be further lag introduced by the display actually processing the video itself (this really only applies to TVs, since computer monitors don't typically come with RCA/Svideo). And not only that, some TVs just introduce new artifacts and general bluriness into the video that shouldn't be there. And that's what a video processor like the xrgb does. It takes the input video and processes it separately from the TV's processor so the TV can just output that signal. It's something you'd have to experience in person to actually understand. Just seeing pictures don't really do justice, and I'm not sure if I can capture what I'm talking about via a video camera.
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crazkylo posted:Does the Genesis have any sort of region coding like modern games do? If I do start buying things up on Ebay or wherever, should I watch out for games from different countries? Yeah, Mega Drive games are shaped differently to begin with, and if I recall correctly, also have a "FOR USE WITH (blank) SYSTEMS ONLY" warning even if you were to get around that. I hear a good way to play import games on a Genesis is to use a Game Genie but I can't personally vouch for that.
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Santa's bounty came today! JJJJJS hit me up with a beautifully wrapped collection of gifts, and an old VHS rental case:   The packages instructed me open them in order and far be it for me to not follow orders blindly. I supposed I had to get the required EA Sports joke gift out of the way so I might as well start ther-   HOLY poo poo IT'S TERRANIGMAThere's really no reason to go on after such an incredible gift (or for JJJJJS to hit me up with anything else) but there's three more gifts left and it would seem rude to ignore them and just play Terranigma for the rest of the evening...  He really did tie a bow, but I had to untie the bow to see what was written on the card... Catch-22!  I guess SD cards are retro... I mean, if JJJJJS really wanted to go retro, he could have dropped a CF card on my lap.  JJJJJS must be smarter than me, because I'm still not sure what's going on...  The CD says "SD Loader" but the jewel case's spine says Jackass 1+2, so this thing could really be anything.  For some reason, the shape of this last package is very familiar to me... maybe too familiar?  Oh hey, a Dreamcast... thanks? I'm not sure if you've heard, but I have like a billion of these things laying around my house. But I can always use another Dreamcast, and with all the EGG talk it seems like a good way to test this beast out...  IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!  You magnificent bastard. In all honesty, when I opened the DC wrapping I expected to see one of these things taped to it, so this totally blew me out of the water.  Dat rear end.  Thanks so much, JJJJJS! This is an absolutely incredible collection of gifts. --- Update: It appears that the USPS is this year's Scrooge and somehow managed to rattle something loose in the DC... every time I turn it on, the video cuts out after a few seconds regardless of whether I'm using VGA or component  On the plus side, Terranigma is running like a champ and will undoubtedly eat up my entire vacation  
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Uncle Jenkins posted:I hear a good way to play import games on a Genesis is to use a Game Genie but I can't personally vouch for that. Sort of. Earlier titles run with no difficulty but later titles come into problems with regional settings. Bare Knuckle 1 works fine whereas 2 will refuse to load. Gunstar Heroes, TMNT: Return of the Shredder and Rocket Knight Adventures are some of the more prominent titles that cannot be played on a vanilla Genesis with a Game Genie. There are still tons that work fine, like Curse, Super Hang On, Double Dragon II: The Revenge and both years of Joe Montana Football  .... Yeah, those were part of a random lot. I also have Nobunaga's Ambition which is super incomprehensible as the extent of my written Japanese is 'yes' and 'no'  .
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Sir_Seth posted:poo poo, that sucks. Being able to play my GC and PS1/2 without having to deal with the horrible blurring caused by LCD screens without having to get a bulky old CRT TV is really the only reason I'm considering getting the XRGB mini. I am going to run a bunch of tests for you this week Don't discount the mini just yet.
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Sir_Seth posted:poo poo, that sucks. Being able to play my GC and PS1/2 without having to deal with the horrible blurring caused by LCD screens without having to get a bulky old CRT TV is really the only reason I'm considering getting the XRGB mini. Edit: double post Zenintrude that haul is incredible! Jjjjjjjjjs rocks
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zenintrude posted:
Glad it all got there. The DC looks like a power supply issue. Sometimes the pins which connect the power supply to the main pcb can have issues. Or it could be the supply itself. I can send another power supply board along if you'd like, it's an easy replacement.
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Speaking of Genesis games is there any reason why Valis games are far more expensive than others? Trying to find a complete copy for cheap seems to be non-existant.
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I could be wrong, but I thought Terranigma only got a PAL and Japanese release. Is this a reproduction?
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the wizards beard posted:I could be wrong, but I thought Terranigma only got a PAL and Japanese release. Is this a reproduction? Yes
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the wizards beard posted:I could be wrong, but I thought Terranigma only got a PAL and Japanese release. Is this a reproduction? Yup, made lovingly by JJJJJS himself 
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al-azad posted:Yu Yu Hakusho and Alien Soldier are probably the most expensive must-have Genesis titles (not counting the holy grail Tetris). What? The Mega Drive (Genesis) Yuu Yuu Hakusho isn't that expensive or rare (it's uncommon) and I wouldn't call it a 'must have' game. There's a lot of much better, rarer Mega Drive titles if you go in to the Japanese-only side.
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Crimson Harvest posted:The local retro store has a pretty large library of PS2 games for sale. What are some overlooked/underappreciated games I should look out for to play with my new setup? First of all, if you don't care about the cases go the Gamestop website. It's buy 2 get 2 free for PS2 games and they have several hundred for $2 each. Get an order that's more than $25 before discount and you get free shipping. Because of how they calculate the discount you shouldn't mix pricing in an order (getting four $4 games and four $2 games costs $16 instead of $12). You can fill up your PS2 collection very quickly there. Second, use that drive to play import games. You'll have to install them across the network adapter but it's time to start buying arm loads of stuff from Japan.
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zenintrude posted:Yup, made lovingly by JJJJJS himself That is the coolest thing. This thread is full of awesome people. Sucks about the DC getting knocked around but it sounds like a fairly easy fix.
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Seriously, Terranigma alone would have been an incredible gift. But man I am legit jealous of that Dreamcast. JJJJJS, what did you do? Buy that SD2DC thingy that normally goes in the serial port and you just internally mounted it or something? How is it for running actual DC games?
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Random Stranger posted:First of all, if you don't care about the cases go the Gamestop website. It's buy 2 get 2 free for PS2 games and they have several hundred for $2 each. Get an order that's more than $25 before discount and you get free shipping. Because of how they calculate the discount you shouldn't mix pricing in an order (getting four $4 games and four $2 games costs $16 instead of $12). You can fill up your PS2 collection very quickly there. Gamestop employees don't throw out those boxes they're told to get rid of, they keep the empty boxes and sell them in lots for around 15 dollars for 20 covered DVD cases. It's also not uncommon to find lots of just the covers themselves and missing the PS2 case. There also always the option of just printing the covers from source images yourself. Either way you're maybe paying at most 3 dollars extra at the absolute most to just reaquire the cover.
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zenintrude posted:Yup, made lovingly by JJJJJS himself I'm trying to learn how to make repros myself, but I want to be sure I can make one before I start buying an eprom programmer and chips. Basically on every tutorial I see, they just start rewiring everything without explaining why it needs to rewired, and why some games are rewired differently. I know some of the rewiring is because the pinout of the maskrom and eprom are different, but still confusing.
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My Santee's main thing came today, so I packed up the box and I'll be shipping it out tomorrow. In the bought for myself news, I scored a headphone adapter for my gba. That has to be one of the biggest design flaws ever.
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fatpat268 posted:
That's weird. As soon as I pulled the tab on the positive side to make it fit through the hole it ripped the top part right off. I soldered the battery holder right to the opposite side. No cutting, no bending. And hell, I personally think it looks even better since the battery is looking at ya as soon as you open it up! 
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It took a little longer than I wanted, but my Santee's stuff was wrapped and dropped in the mail today. Hope they like it. 
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Oh poo poo, my santa is Hamburglar    Oh gently caress, the best PS1 shooter ever.  I completely forgot we were supposed to trade controllers Hamburglar. You'll be getting a six button genesis controller soon.  (SNES with sony encoder and digital audio mod)  Best christmas ever (Well, next to the one where my grandma got me my first NES, but close). All of these are going to be well used. Thanks a ton Hamburglar. (Also, did you lace the packing material with catnip? The cats are going nuts) HKR fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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HKR posted:Oh poo poo, my santa is Hamburglar You can't really read the letter so people don't know why that SNES is so special! Also I was doing your secret Santa and the YOSPOS one at the same time; and yep: the YOPOS gift contained the CAT DRUGS brand catnip sold in SA mart. My cats were going nuts for DAYS after it shipped.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:You can't really read the letter so people don't know why that SNES is so special! Oh yeah, edited that to reflect it's a "Miyamoto's RGB NES Brand SNES" (You should get stickers with this on it). That catnip is some good poo poo then, gonna have to buy a bag.
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I look forward to your opinion on the visual quality upgrade from your current SNES! Especially since I noticed you said you saw the vertical line in your old one and it bothered you. Do you have an audio receiver with optical by any chance?
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I look forward to your opinion on the visual quality upgrade from your current SNES! Especially since I noticed you said you saw the vertical line in your old one and it bothered you. I'll be hooking that badboy up tonight and playing with Super Metroid and FF6. As for audio, right now all my receivers are from the 70s so I don't have digital, however I had been planning on picking up a late 90s/early 2000s AV receiver for my retrogames setup so I'll be using that soon.
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HKR posted:I'll be hooking that badboy up tonight and playing with Super Metroid and FF6. As for audio, right now all my receivers are from the 70s so I don't have digital, however I had been planning on picking up a late 90s/early 2000s AV receiver for my retrogames setup so I'll be using that soon. Awesome! Even my 2002 receiver with nothing but composite and s-video has a digital audio port. I recommend Onkyo! Can't wait to hear your impressions on the visual quality 
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HKR posted:
God drat. This is my favorite game that ever happened for the PS1, no lies.
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As someone who just recently started following this thread, these Secret Santa presents are very intimidating.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I look forward to your opinion on the visual quality upgrade from your current SNES! Especially since I noticed you said you saw the vertical line in your old one and it bothered you. Speaking of which... I notice the vertical line as well, but only in super metroid. And even then, doesn't even bother me much.
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fatpat268 posted:Speaking of which... I notice the vertical line as well, but only in super metroid. And even then, doesn't even bother me much. Ah so that's what not having OCD must be like. 
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Ah so that's what not having OCD must be like. I've never sympathized with a use of more(Also does anyone who visits this thread need/want a 4MB Saturn RAM cart? I have an extra now!) (edit: what connector is this on the EMS version of the Saturn Action Replay Plus, and can you do anything with it now, like transferring save files? http://segaretro.org/Action_Replay_Plus) Bing the Noize fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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So today I got a package in the mail from Canada. Hmm, that's odd...I don't recall buying anything that would ship from there. Could it be? It's from Santa! Can I...can I get a gift receipt with that dildo? Inside the box we have... A gift adorned with adorable skiing robots! What could it be?   Holy poo poo! After Burner, Rastan, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, and mother fuckin' Phantasy Star and Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap! My incredibly mediocre SMS collection has nearly doubled in size and septupled in quality!Thanks a ton, Midge, both for the awesome gift and setting this all up!  Can't wait 'till next year!
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Cicero posted:As someone who just recently started following this thread, these Secret Santa presents are very intimidating. It's making me seriously glad I didn't participate. To feel like I kept up with the gift giving here I'd have to have dug into my own collection. 
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fatpat268 posted:Speaking of which... I notice the vertical line as well, but only in super metroid. And even then, doesn't even bother me much. Thanks to this thread I've started noticing it in Game Center CX episodes...
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Panic Restaurant posted:
I don't know if you've ever played Phantasy Star before, but if you haven't, here's a pro-tip:Graph Paper. You'll need tons.
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