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Katana Gomai posted:Oh cool, yet another thing that NoA offers but NoE doesn't. Terrific. Wait what? You can't order plastic cases in Europe? Why would NOE do that?
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On one hand, NOA has a fully stocked service/replacement parts shop, on the other you can actually buy games from NOE.
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Elliotw2 posted:On one hand, NOA has a fully stocked service/replacement parts shop, on the other you can actually buy games from NOE. And on the floor lies Nintendo of Australia, dropped on its head and not all there.
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RodShaft posted:Woah. Is it hated here? Cause granted, I'm only a few chapters in, but so far it's goddamned magical. The whole book is a guy going REMEMBER THING THING WAS GREAT gently caress YEAH 80S and then a curvy goonette girlfriend and then it ends. It sucks.
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Aug 30, 2015 15:31
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Pudding Huxtable posted:The concept is neat and fun, the references are nerdtastic, but when the author gets to the self-insertion-psuedo-romance, poo poo just gets cringey to no end. Hopefully Spielberg will make it a semi-fun summer popcorn flick at least. I just posted this in the PYF terrible book thread, but I started reading it, and it is pretty terrible. It's poorly written, has cringetastic moments (the whole romance thing) and is kind of just a list of things the author liked about the 80s. That said if it was handled by a competent author and a little more self aware it would be way better. Hopefully Spielberg can do it well. And rumor is he's trying to lure Gene Wilder out of retirement for it...
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There's a line in his new book that (probably paraphrasing a little) goes "I nodded. Not in agreement, but just to acknowledge that I understood the reference" and I feel like that sums up Clines oeuvre fairly well Also his new book is literally a teenagers rebuttal to his parents telling him to do something useful instead of just playing games all the time
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Literally The Worst posted:There's a line in his new book that (probably paraphrasing a little) goes "I nodded. Not in agreement, but just to acknowledge that I understood the reference" and I feel like that sums up Clines oeuvre fairly well The problem is that gives too much credit to the man, this is someone who writes every reference in the following fashion: quote:We walked out of the cavern and realized we were in front of an arcade machine, ostriches painted on the side, its screen flashing at us, beckoning us on. No reference can go unexplained, because otherwise how would those people who didn't have his exact same fetishization of this culture realize he was making a deep cut at every opportunity? Seriously, look for it. Basically every reference is "slightly subtle descriptor, call-out, response". For two whole novels now.
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Aug 30, 2015 19:05
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Looks like someone wrote a 3rd party Sunsoft 5A/5B/FME-7 mapper for the Everdrive N8. I guess they were mostly focused on getting Gimmick to sound better. It certainly sounds improved but beyond that I can only compare it to Youtube videos. Anyone else want to give a trip report? Edit: Messing around in the sound test (hold select then press start on the main menu) and Sophia sounds an awful lot like it does in this video so I'd have to say the results are good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKevE-_U4g0&t=640s wash bucket fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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Aug 30, 2015 21:09
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McCracAttack posted:Looks like someone wrote a 3rd party Sunsoft 5A/5B/FME-7 mapper for the Everdrive N8. I guess they were mostly focused on getting Gimmick to sound better. It certainly sounds improved but beyond that I can only compare it to Youtube videos. Anyone else want to give a trip report? I just tried this out, and while it does work pretty well with the music in Gimmick, the sound effects are still a little off. The effects when you're charging a star and jumping are a little scratchy. Still, much better than it was!
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ryden posted:I just tried this out, and while it does work pretty well with the music in Gimmick, the sound effects are still a little off. The effects when you're charging a star and jumping are a little scratchy. Still, much better than it was! Good to hear. Hopefully the sound effects can be dialed in with a revision or two. Edit: Or right now. wash bucket fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 31, 2015 |
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Dang, that was quick. Gimmick sounds perfect now!
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ryden posted:Dang, that was quick. Gimmick sounds perfect now! I guess yesterday was the perfect time to order an Everdrive N8. Looks like I get to experience this overlooked gem as intended.
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Look what I got today!  It's a Cosmic Guerilla conversion of a Galaxy Wars cab(just board and instruction stickers on the glass there). It is beautiful!
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Aug 31, 2015 02:38
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So uhhhh with Gimmick finally fixed on the N8 anyone wanna buy my repro? Works fine, is for US NES systems. It's pretty.
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Aug 31, 2015 02:41
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ryden posted:Dang, that was quick. Gimmick sounds perfect now! What type of Famicom are you checking it on? I ask because the person who wrote it said they used an AV Famicom. It sounds good on my AV Famicom but when I tired it on a regular Famicom some of the sound effects were oddly quiet. Specifically, the jump and attack sounds are quiet but the item collection sound is much louder as is all of the music. I wonder if they corrected for the AV Famicom's audio mixing problems and inadvertently caused audio problems for regular Famicoms?
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flyboi posted:So uhhhh with Gimmick finally fixed on the N8 anyone wanna buy my repro? Works fine, is for US NES systems. It's pretty. for how many dollars? 
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McCracAttack posted:What type of Famicom are you checking it on? I ask because the person who wrote it said they used an AV Famicom. It sounds good on my AV Famicom but when I tired it on a regular Famicom some of the sound effects were oddly quiet. Specifically, the jump and attack sounds are quiet but the item collection sound is much louder as is all of the music. The everdrive has a "hi" and "lo" mixing mode to compensate for the volume differences between models. Did you toggle it when switching systems?
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McCracAttack posted:What type of Famicom are you checking it on? I ask because the person who wrote it said they used an AV Famicom. It sounds good on my AV Famicom but when I tired it on a regular Famicom some of the sound effects were oddly quiet. Specifically, the jump and attack sounds are quiet but the item collection sound is much louder as is all of the music. I'm using a toaster NES that has the expansion audio mod. Everything sounds as it should.
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Caitlin posted:for how many dollars? $50 shipped? The UGC label sucks but it's a very pretty cartridge made by fatpat. I'll even throw in the programmer since I have no use for it after fixing the gimmick cartridge. It currently has the JP rom on it. I think the flasher can also dump NES games/sram but not 100% on it. I own no NES games so  http://www.infiniteneslives.com/kazzo.php If you're interested I'll make a sa-mart thread 
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Zonekeeper posted:The everdrive has a "hi" and "lo" mixing mode to compensate for the volume differences between models. Did you toggle it when switching systems? I didn't toggle it switching systems. The TV I have my Famicom hooked up to has crummy speakers so maybe that's it. Or maybe I've got brain problems.
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I've been away from most of my stuff and also the internet for the better part of a month but now I'm back and that sure didn't stop me from making some dumb purchasing decisions in the meantime!   This isn't even what I'm talking about really, the actually dumb thing gets here in a couple of weeks!! gently caress!!!
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Actually that's a really smart purchase since you can now browse https://www.shenmue.com via archive.org on your Sega Dreamcast since you can no longer access it via disk 4 of Shenmue as the site is long dead.  http://web.archive.org/web/20010405144440/http://passport.shenmue.com/us/game/index.html There was a project to basically trawl all archives and reassemble all of the Dreamcast game websites and host them independently but I don't think it ever happened. Many of the archive snapshots are listed here so you can replicate what it was like when we played these games for the first time in 1999~2002. http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5813
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Aug 31, 2015 03:40
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Being able to use IRC on your TV was some next-gen poo poo.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Being able to use IRC on your TV was some next-gen poo poo. Pfft you could do that on the Saturn
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Literally The Worst posted:The whole book is a guy going REMEMBER THING THING WAS GREAT gently caress YEAH 80S and then a curvy redditor girlfriend and then it ends. It sucks. FTFY
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Was that wizard of oz rpg for ds any good? Been reading all the oz books and watched return to oz so I've been on a bit of an oz kick lately.
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As far as i'm concerned, the dumbest part of the book was that it relied on internet nerd culture no longer being about endless references to old rear end poo poo. In this world there are like teenagers who can quote you full Monty Python and Dr. Who episodes from the 60s verbatim, ain't no way so many people will forget about 80s pop culture and games that something can be hidden by putting it behind things based on that.
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Bills aren't cool and I'm parting with a few things to help out. So far I'm selling an adapter/converter to play SMS games on the Game Gear and also selling the supremely cool Bubble Bobble for GG. This adapter is one of the coolest things ever I just don't really use it anymore. I primarily used it for testing SMS games on the fly but honestly right now I'm fine "only" being able to play my SMS games via my Genesis Power Base Converter. I randomly happened to grab a blue label game to test it but don't think that means it won't work with standard colored games. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3739448   VVV Son of a gun this is news to me, I had no idea. Apparently the 2 GGs I've tried this on both happened to be compatible. I see the info with the Majesco GGs now, thanks again for the heads up. Learn something new every day! Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Aug 31, 2015 |
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Probably worth mentioning that the Game Gears with the monochrome logo can't use that revision of the adapter.
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What's a good way to store a collection of game boy and game boy advance games? And anyone know of a cheap place to get plastic game cases? I have found them for around $2 each which seems high
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The Taint Reaper posted:Use blank 3ds cases and get the sized covers from coverproject Ah this looks cool but takes up way too much space. I just need some kind of "box" to store loose games in. Probably should just use some wood box with silica gel packets in it.
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So I got my SuFam controllers in the mail today and just finished making SuFam controllers with 6 foot US cords. It is surprisingly easy to swap out parts between US and Japanese controllers and Nintendo is nice enough to tell you what color button goes where. I think I got two solid controllers now thankfully too as the D-Pad on one of my controllers was getting pretty bad. Sadly I am not going to be able to enjoy them for awhile as I am moving in 24 hours and it will be a bit until I can get all my retro stuff up to Chicago. A side note I found Street Fighter 4 3D for 8 bucks at Target this morning. Pretty good deal.
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African AIDS cum posted:What's a good way to store a collection of game boy and game boy advance games? Trading card binder sleeves work great, some people have said they don't fit theirs but I'm using this exact one: http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Pro-9-Pocket-Trading-Pages/dp/B00095M5DQ/  Only problem is you kind of need to keep it upright or they'll fall out. Tape would fix that if you want to put your binder upside down, I guess? The original GB cases are a little pricey as you need them to make games "complete", and there don't seem to be many cheap third party replacements.
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I would probably look for cheap plastic rulers to tape to the back of the sheets as some sort of reinforcement splint.
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Ready Player One was a fun book that didn't take itself seriously and is worth reading. Everyone here is taking it way too seriously, which is the exact wrong way to read it. Armada was not good, though. Don't bother.
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I definitely need a better Mac, OpenEmu is really good. It's actually really nice having all the covers laid out, it's making me notice games I hadn't before. But my Mac is super-old so performance is a mess. 
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Ambitious Spider posted:Was that wizard of oz rpg for ds any good? Been reading all the oz books and watched return to oz so I've been on a bit of an oz kick lately. I don't know, but I do recommend Emerald City Confidential, which is a pretty decent LucasArts-style point and click adventure by Wadjet Eye.
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TheRedEye posted:I don't know, but I do recommend Emerald City Confidential, which is a pretty decent LucasArts-style point and click adventure by Wadjet Eye. That looks really cool. Thanks
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Kthulhu5000 posted:The one I had worked pretty well. It definitely made Sega Genesis stuff look a hell of a lot nicer, and SNES games were also quite nice, too. Be aware (and I'm sure Asbrandt will chime in about it) that you may need to adjust some color potentiometers inside the converter to get correct color balance. I will say that the one I had was purchased used off of Ebay, so it didn't seem to need any adjusting, but that could have been due to the previous owner putting in the time to make sure the picture looked normal, color-wise. Thanks for all of this. I picked the TV up today (stupid Salvation Army is closed on Sundays because Jesus) and it's really great for $20. The only problem I have with it is that the component input is doing really funky things. The only console I have at the moment with component cables to test against is my OG Xbox, and when I start the system it works fine for the intro splash screen, but as soon as it tries to move to the dashboard the screen goes all fucky and unreadable with vertical and horizontal sync problems like an old analog scrambled pay per view channel. Since it works fine for the splash screen I'm guessing it's changing resolution after that to something that the TV can't handle, but I've hooked the system up to my LCD and made sure that it's in 480i mode over component yet it still doesn't seem to fix anything. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? S-video and every other input seems to work fine, so I'll just get S-video cables for all of my systems if I have to, but this is driving me nuts.
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