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JumpinJackFlash posted:These look completely awesome! That lacquer looks... gross. Don't know why, but it's making my skin crawl. testtubebaby fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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So I've decided I'm not even going to bother with collecting games or systems in my town. I was speaking with one of the pawn shops and it turns out they, goodwill and other pawn shops take all their older stuff and have a local company sell it for them on ebay so there's pretty much 0 chance of finding anything here. gently caress you, ebay.
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Jan 18, 2013 20:37
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zenintrude posted:That lacquer looks... gross. The NES doesn't look as bad as the SNES but I am NOT a fan of that orange to white fade - it just looks unfinished and that gloss is so thick it looks like it'd be slimy if you touched it.
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Jan 18, 2013 20:46
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JumpinJackFlash posted:These look completely awesome!  I saw these on @NeoGafShitPosts first and thought it was a joke. That SNES is unbelievably bad.By the way, yeah places around here stopped keeping around their old game and computer stuff too. It sucks a lot but at least we have Craigslist.
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Jan 18, 2013 20:48
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zenintrude posted:That lacquer looks... gross. Give me that NES without the graphic on it, same color scheme, but matte finish. I think I could live with that. That SNES, though...
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Jan 18, 2013 20:58
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Printed a whole bunch of UGC covers. Printing them all at Random Office Goods Store was only $40, plus an additional $8 to have them cut. Considering I printed over 50 covers it seems like a fair deal as I know my printer would go through at least one whole cartridge to do that many prints. And it would probably be poo poo quality anyway.  
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Jan 18, 2013 21:17
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The NES looks kinda nifty but the SNES just looks awful. Wayyy too glossy for both.
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Jan 18, 2013 21:35
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Cicero posted:The NES looks kinda nifty but the SNES just looks awful. Wayyy too glossy for both. Not only that but the NES is using the Rockstar Grand Theft Auto font. Also going by the floor there's a real good chance it's one of those people who modeled their room after the Set of the live action segments for Super Mario Super Show.
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Jan 18, 2013 21:55
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WendigoJohnson posted:Not only that but the NES is using the Rockstar Grand Theft Auto font. Also going by the floor there's a real good chance it's one of those people who modeled their room after the Set of the live action segments for Super Mario Super Show. It's a mass produced sticker available in a Hot Topic near you. http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Super-Mushroom-Sticker-96-326/dp/B000NSF8FQ Or just on Amazon, whatever.
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Jan 18, 2013 22:21
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Chainclaw posted:I'm going to link you a site that has what you want, but I'm going to warn you, you'll think I accidentally linked you Time Cube or something. I can second using this company. They can be a bit goofy to deal with, but what they offer is pretty amazing. If you've really been bitten by the Atari collecting bug, I suggest ordering their catalog. I think I'm fortunate that I did most of my retro gaming collecting years ago by scouring thrift shops and picking things up from family and friends. I decided I've had too many systems and games and started to cut it down in the past month. N64 stuff is netting me some decent cash on ebay (I kept the boxes and instructions for most of the games I had), as well as any SNES stuff. In the past month, I've sold off my Atari 2600/5200/7800 collection, Colecovision stuff, Sega Saturn, N64, 3DO, SNES, Gameboy and GBA stuff, Sega Master System and Gamegear stuff, Commodore Vic 20, and am currently getting rid of my Intellivision collection. I'm probably forgetting a few things here. I hope I don't regret this. It was all a bit much though. I'm down to my NES stuff (getting my toploader AV modded!), Atari 8-bit and 16-bit computer stuff, C64, Vectrex, and Sega 16-bit stuff. I think that's a bit more manageable.
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Jan 18, 2013 22:36
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Let's just put it this way: neither of them got poo poo on custom Dreamcasts.      
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Jan 18, 2013 22:46
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Holy crap. I'm stoked to hear Best Electronics is legit. Put me in the "thought it was the time cube" camp. When I discovered that site, I assumed that there was no way it was still in business. Especially with their "no on-line ordering, we want you to call to make sure."
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Jan 18, 2013 22:57
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Holy crap. I'm stoked to hear Best Electronics is legit. Put me in the "thought it was the time cube" camp. When I discovered that site, I assumed that there was no way it was still in business. Especially with their "no on-line ordering, we want you to call to make sure." Here's an AtariAge thread on the subject if you want to read more on peoples dealings. It looks like it's all positive, and a lot of people are there for Atari 5200 controller stuff. http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/199536-best-electronics/
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Jan 18, 2013 23:06
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Holy crap. I'm stoked to hear Best Electronics is legit. Put me in the "thought it was the time cube" camp. When I discovered that site, I assumed that there was no way it was still in business. Especially with their "no on-line ordering, we want you to call to make sure." The guy that runs/is Best Electronics has had people offer to redesign his website and maintain his website completely for free and on several occasions and he has always refused. He also won't process orders on certain days if he gets grumpy. That should give you an idea of how business works there.
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Jan 18, 2013 23:36
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What game is this design based around? Looks really good.
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Jan 19, 2013 00:10
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Xik posted:What game is this design based around? Looks really good. Samba de Amigo which means they painted the wrong controller...
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Jan 19, 2013 00:11
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Found a snes + controller at a goodwill for $3.99. Has a SNS-CPU-GPM-02 board with the S-ENC chip that can output component  
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Jan 19, 2013 02:07
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Can you get in trouble for giving bullshit offers to people knowing they'll be declined? Whenever I want to feel better about myself I search VGA in video games and offer $20 to all the retarded listings for stuff that shouldn't have ever been graded Like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Final-Fantasy-XIII-Sony-Playstation-3-2010-BLACK-LABEL-NEW-VGA-90-GOLD-/230903765355
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Jan 19, 2013 02:55
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flyboi posted:Can you get in trouble for giving bullshit offers to people knowing they'll be declined? I do this all the time and have not gotten in trouble yet. Bullshit ebay listings trolling buddies
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Jan 19, 2013 03:08
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flyboi posted:Whenever I want to feel better about myself I search VGA in video games and offer $20 to all the retarded listings for stuff that shouldn't have ever been graded Jesus christ you can still get that on the shelf of any Gamestop in the country.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:09
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zenintrude posted:Let's just put it this way: neither of them got poo poo on custom Dreamcasts. Good lord. Those are so sexy.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:11
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So is there a place I can get one of them thar fancy Dreamcast paint jorbs?
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Jan 19, 2013 03:14
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Who do I have to 
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Install Gentoo posted:Jesus christ you can still get that on the shelf of any Gamestop in the country. Bu-but it's graded! 
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Jan 19, 2013 03:17
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SpazmasterX posted:Bu-but it's graded! I want them to point out the 10% of damage on that game that drops it down from 100. Why I might almost think that the grading collectables was a massive scam...
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Jan 19, 2013 03:24
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Cicero posted:So is there a place I can get one of them thar fancy Dreamcast paint jorbs? This actually has me thinking... Oh, Uncle Jenkins, do you think you'd be up for painting something for me? I have some amount of dollar bills I could give you.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:25
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Random Stranger posted:I want them to point out the 10% of damage on that game that drops it down from 100. They paid for the $25 "standard tier" grading service instead of the $70 "archival tier" grading service.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:30
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On one hand, the thought of a custom looking console is awesome, and on the other, I want the consoles to resemble what I grew up with. Sucks Nintendo never got into the non-portable mulit-color consoles until the N64.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:32
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:On one hand, the thought of a custom looking console is awesome, and on the other, I want the consoles to resemble what I grew up with. This is why I play all my consoles with an RF cable through a VCR on a TV from 1987.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:36
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wa27 posted:This is why I play all my consoles with an RF cable through a VCR on a TV from 1987. In this thread there's no way to tell if this is a joke or not...
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Jan 19, 2013 03:42
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Sad days... I rewired my EEPROM burner because I got some new pin headers in the mail today and it works great, have no issues flashing anything ...Super Demo World The Legend Continues is 64Mbit which means impossible to put on a reproduction card as far as I know
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Jan 19, 2013 03:45
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wa27 posted:This is why I play all my consoles with an RF cable through a VCR on a TV from 1987. But is it a Trinitron? 
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roffels posted:This might be terrible advice, but I think if you want to play 5200 quality games, but want to avoid using Atari 5200 controllers, just go for the Atari 8-bit computer systems and their games instead. A lot of the arcade classic ports are pretty much the same or similar, and you can use the 2600 controllers (or Genesis!) in place of those awful 5200 controllers. Back in the days of Atari 800  there were bootleg ports of a lot of 5200 games to run on the 8-bit computers. There are a few minor differences in the 5200 BIOS, but the CPU and video chip are the same on both platforms.Pretty much the only 5200 exclusive titles were Space Dungeon (which is a cool twin stick shooter, which means you'd need TWO working controllers to play on the original hardware) and Countermeasure (which looks neat but I've never tried it). Or I guess if you could get a hold of the trac-ball add on, you can play Centipede and Missile Command the way they were intended. The early 80s were really a golden age for lovely controllers though. I don't know how anybody ever thought the wobbly analog stick on the 5200 was a good idea, but then again its competition was the likes of the Colecovision 
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flyboi posted:Sad days... I rewired my EEPROM burner because I got some new pin headers in the mail today and it works great, have no issues flashing anything Don't a lot of SNES romhacks only work on some emulators, and not the actual hardware or BSNES because they rely on emulation inaccuracies? I seem to recall that being especially a problem for Super Mario World romhacks with custom music. h_double posted:The early 80s were really a golden age for lovely controllers though. I don't know how anybody ever thought the wobbly analog stick on the 5200 was a good idea, but then again its competition was the likes of the Colecovision I will never truly understand why hardware developers thought having telephone keypads was good idea for game controllers, nor why it had to take till 1983 for anyone to figure out the d-pad + buttons design for a controller.
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Install Gentoo posted:Don't a lot of SNES romhacks only work on some emulators, and not the actual hardware or BSNES because they rely on emulation inaccuracies? I seem to recall that being especially a problem for Super Mario World romhacks with custom music. Yeah, but super demo world the legend continues works in bsnes so in theory it should work on snes problem is idk if you can address that high through the cartridge mad-1 There is a way to wire up two tsop 32mbit carts to a single cart for ToP but idk if i'd really want to waste that many chips on such a thing. The memory alone would cost almost $25
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Install Gentoo posted:Jesus christ you can still get that on the shelf of any Gamestop in the country. If you get it from gamestop will it actually be unopened?
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Install Gentoo posted:I will never truly understand why hardware developers thought having telephone keypads was good idea for game controllers, nor why it had to take till 1983 for anyone to figure out the d-pad + buttons design for a controller. I actually liked the keypad controller for the Intellivision, which had a good number of strategy games which used the keypad to good effect, like instantly selecting different units in Sea Battle, or secretly calling plays in football. Also keep in mind that in the early 80s, it was non-trivial for consoles to display more than a line or two of text at a time (due to limits of both resolution and video memory), so it wasn't very practical to select stuff with onscreen menus or help messages. Complexity got offloaded to the controller because the console hardware itself wasn't sophisticated enough. The 5200 and Colecovision, on the other hand, hardly had any games that justified the keypad. It also amazes me that they had the keypad input, but still only a single action button. Arcade games had good controls since day one, it's weird it took home systems to get a point where controllers were consistently decent.
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Jan 19, 2013 04:41
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My consoles remain sticker free except for my nes which is covered in nintendo trading card stickers, just like my childhood one.
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Jan 19, 2013 04:50
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You can probably find brand new $30 copies of FFXIII at Wal-mart still. The whole video game grading thing is just a massive scam. People have sent him identical copies of games that get different ratings; one thing I read was two brand new, factory-fresh, impeccable copies of a newer game I forget, one got a high grade and one got like a 70 or something, and they paid for the same service for both.
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h_double posted:
The Intellivision's disc controller is even worse. Though they had some joystick adapter to partially offset the odd design.
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