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 Attention NES RGB folks!I've successfully reprogrammed my faulty board and all is well. If anyone needs a USB blaster to do the reprogramming themselves let me know soonish so we can work something out. Thanks again to the wonderful flyboi for providing the USB blaster in my time of need. A shrine in his honor:  
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Random Stranger posted:Japan does have a retro gaming magazine, though from what I've heard it isn't exactly big on dishing the dirt on development of early games. This must be a Japanese thing, RGM can barely get interviews with relatively known developers (at least within retro circles) like Nazca.
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Jan 31, 2014 05:37
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al-azad posted:This must be a Japanese thing, RGM can barely get interviews with relatively known developers (at least within retro circles) like Nazca. Every ex-Nazca dude I've heard from seems to regret their time there; they never go into specifics, but from what I gather they were basically forced away from active game development by SNK for quite a while in order to work on all sorts of boring non-game-related junk that never amounted to anything. More generally, a lot of these retro JP devs are simply hard to talk to unless you actually live in Japan and are fluent in Japanese.
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Jan 31, 2014 05:45
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McCracAttack posted:
I might need it. I contemplated just replacing the SRAM, but meh. Easier to use a software solution. Mine's supposed to arrive soon, but I don't even know if my board is even affected, because I got a shipping notice AFTER tim announced that the boards were hosed up. It's gonna be a while until I install the board, as I'm waiting for the multiout backpanel that some folks over on ASSEMBLER forums are designing: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?48990-Sourcing-a-Nintendo-multi-out-socket&p=725739&viewfull=1#post725739
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Jan 31, 2014 05:54
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McCracAttack posted:Well, they make an s-video to BNC splitter cable that does that. See here. Oh awesome. That's really tempting, I might throw that stuff in with my next amazon order. Thanks!
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Jan 31, 2014 05:57
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Random Stranger posted:Japan does have a retro gaming magazine, I have a nearly complete (from the period before it became something kinda different) collection of a magazine called Backup Technique/Game Labo, and while I can't read Japanese it looks like it would be SA Retro Thread: The Magazine. It's all about stuff like RGB mods, backup devices (the 90's versions of everdrives/flash carts etc) and generally obscure but awesome poo poo. There are issues dedicated to things like old Mac gaming, MSX/X68000/PC98 stuff, bootleg carts- here's a scan of that one, featuring Somari on the cover. I seriously wish I could ship these to some really good translator and have every word translated into English for this thread's enjoyment because I am sure it's pure gold. d0s fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 06:47
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d0s posted:I have a nearly complete (from the period before it became something kinda different) collection of a magazine called Backup Technique/Game Labo, and while I can't read Japanese it looks like it would be SA Retro Thread: The Magazine. It's all about stuff like RGB mods, backup devices (the 90's versions of everdrives/flash carts etc) and generally obscure but awesome poo poo. There are issues dedicated to things like old Mac gaming, MSX/X6800/PC98 stuff, bootleg carts- here's a scan of that one, featuring Somari on the cover. Got an email? I can probably hook you up. There are lots of JP retro magazines - not just general retro mags, but platform/genre-specific mags, collector guides, all sorts of junk, and that's before all the doujinshi - but there are still lots of taboos that prevent certain interview topics or articles. For example, I'm told the TCRF wiki gets a relatively high percentage of traffic from Japan because the JP fanbase doesn't openly catalogue or share the sorts of information seen on TCRF due to some vague fear of being on the wrong side of the law.
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Jan 31, 2014 06:53
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Things I have learned tonight: Super Gussun Oyoyo "co-op" is insane. It's not really competitive since if you want the other player dead you just land your brick on them but you can't move your pieces through each other and plans both conflict and go awry when you have twice as many pieces coming down.
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Jan 31, 2014 06:56
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Just bought a mortal kombat 3 kontrol pad for snes. New in box. I had no idea anything like this even existed. It was $22 and I couldn't pass it up. I love me some mortal kombat and weird controllers. Match made in heaven.
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Jan 31, 2014 06:57
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McCracAttack posted:So do the serial numbers for the SNES apply to the Super Famicom too? In other words, looks for a Super Famicom with a UN3 serial number? There is a different numbering system for Super Famicoms. This google doc helped me find 1 chip for only 600 yen. It's crusty yellow, but I love it.
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Jan 31, 2014 06:59
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Got an email? I can probably hook you up. It's a LOT of text and I have a shelf full of them. Nobody would do this much work for free and I can't afford to pay- it's hundreds of hours of work. If you really think there is someone out there who would be interested in doing this for free, shoot me a PM- I only have one e-mail address and I don't post it on the forums. EDIT: PaletteSwappedNinja posted:There are lots of JP retro magazines - not just general retro mags, but platform/genre-specific mags, collector guides, all sorts of junk, and that's before all the doujinshi - but there are still lots of taboos that prevent certain interview topics or articles. For example, I'm told the TCRF wiki gets a relatively high percentage of traffic from Japan because the JP fanbase doesn't openly catalogue or share the sorts of information seen on TCRF due to some vague fear of being on the wrong side of the law. Whoa, missed this part. That's really weird since a lot of this magazine seems to be about straight up breaking the law, and it's not some 2600-esque UNDERGROUND H4X0R "'zine" but a normal magazine published by a big corporation. Weird poo poo. I have one special issue that's a world travel guide on the best places on earth to buy pirated games/copiers/etc. d0s fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 07:07
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I don't know if it was posted here but Nintendo is giving away Four Swords for a limited time in NA. This is the fixed version that's playable single. I wish they would update it to work on Wii U but this is Nintendo so... yeah. If you ever wanted to play the game this is your chance short of finding three friends and who has that?
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Jan 31, 2014 08:14
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fatpat268 posted:I might need it. I contemplated just replacing the SRAM, but meh. Easier to use a software solution. Mine's supposed to arrive soon, but I don't even know if my board is even affected, because I got a shipping notice AFTER tim announced that the boards were hosed up. MediumWellDone posted:There is a different numbering system for Super Famicoms. This google doc helped me find 1 chip for only 600 yen. It's crusty yellow, but I love it.
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Jan 31, 2014 13:35
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 I just scored this lot for 65€. May I direct your attention to the top row, including the copy of Stranded Kids (that's Survival Kids for  ) I now own. Gonna sell most of the rest again and make some profit. 
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Jan 31, 2014 13:51
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McCracAttack posted:Okay, just let me know when you're close to needing it and we'll sort stuff out. I'm going to be wanting it at some point as well, although I'm in Canada. I'd also contemplate just selling it if anyone's interested.
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Jan 31, 2014 14:49
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univbee posted:I'm going to be wanting it at some point as well, although I'm in Canada. I'd also contemplate just selling it if anyone's interested. If you'll cover the shipping I'm sure we can make something work.
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Jan 31, 2014 15:15
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McCracAttack posted:If you'll cover the shipping I'm sure we can make something work. Yeah, I should at least be able to do that. Anyway, I'm patient (and probably won't have the console it would actually be installed in for a while) so it can do its US grand tour first.
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Jan 31, 2014 15:30
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fatpat268 posted:It's gonna be a while until I install the board, as I'm waiting for the multiout backpanel that some folks over on ASSEMBLER forums are designing: Without sounding ignorant, why are you wanting to use a multiout on an NES? The only reasons I can think of is to look neat, it'll use same cable as SNES/N64/Gamecube, or maybe with some combination of adapters it lets you use some other cables/equipment easier/cheaper. NEO GEO KIND OF NEWS Back when I had an AES, I bought an official power adapter from the neostore website. Ever since then I've been on their email list which is actually pretty cool given their non-spamness. Anyway I got this email this morning for all that's interested:  http://www.neostore.com/Daedalus-MVS-to-AES-Neo-Geo-Converter-p/20.htm Yes that's the infamous Daedalus converter back in stock. It's a steal at only Also holy crap they are located in Memphis TN! That's crazy to think of all places a Neo Geo store would be in the US and it's in TN less than 5 hours away from me.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:04
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Katana Gomai posted:
GBC Mr. Driller, Survival Kids, and some radical multicarts. Nice! Some reputable guy from Qatar on GBAtemp is selling a bunch of old modchips. I'm in for a couple XenoGCs. If anyone else is interested in what he has, especially from the Euro zone, chime in. http://gbatemp.net/threads/rare-original-retro-modchips.359378/
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Jan 31, 2014 16:19
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Katana Gomai posted:
Legend of the River King is a good game. I have the PS2 version - I wonder if the GBC game is any different?
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Jan 31, 2014 16:21
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Wow that's awesome, congratulations on that haul. I feel like just the Game Boy and Pokemon games would run about that much.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:24
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Tyson Tomko posted:Without sounding ignorant, why are you wanting to use a multiout on an NES? The only reasons I can think of is to look neat, it'll use same cable as SNES/N64/Gamecube, or maybe with some combination of adapters it lets you use some other cables/equipment easier/cheaper. $400 for a passive adapter? I know the NeoGeo commounity is weird but geeeeez
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Jan 31, 2014 16:51
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RadicalR posted:Legend of the River King is a good game. I have the PS2 version - I wonder if the GBC game is any different? The principles are the same but the GameBoy Color games are the third and fourth games in the series and the PS2 one is the sixth game in the series (not counting various remakes). For the Europeans in the audience, that game was known as Harvest Fishing.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:59
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Katana Gomai posted:
Go play Pocket Bomberman. I loved that junk when it was new. It's not a normal Bomberman game, it's 1 player only and it's seen from the side like a platformer instead of topdown like Bomberman. You go around and clear out rooms of monsters. There's also a "Jump Mode" where you climb a giant tower and can't stop jumping. Very cool game!
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Jan 31, 2014 17:13
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al-azad posted:This must be a Japanese thing, RGM can barely get interviews with relatively known developers (at least within retro circles) like Nazca.
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Jan 31, 2014 17:38
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Tyson Tomko posted:Without sounding ignorant, why are you wanting to use a multiout on an NES? The only reasons I can think of is to look neat, it'll use same cable as SNES/N64/Gamecube, or maybe with some combination of adapters it lets you use some other cables/equipment easier/cheaper. The AV Famicom has it and its great because you can use your existing SNES/N64/GC cables and it has all the pins you need for things like s-video and RGB. That replacement looks like it could be dropped in without having to do any cutting on the case. Currently to get RGB out of say a top-loader NES you would probably have to install a mini din connector and cut a hole for it in the case.
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Jan 31, 2014 17:43
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TheRedEye posted:Hey do you guys want to see this really beautifully shot video of my vintage video game magazine collection? Uh this owns and I dont know why more people didnt respond to this. Are you working to catalog all that information online somewhere, or is your intent to use it simply as a personal reference and library?
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Jan 31, 2014 18:02
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Uh this owns and I dont know why more people didnt respond to this. Are you working to catalog all that information online somewhere, or is your intent to use it simply as a personal reference and library? I think I asked this before, but do people care much about 90s Euro games magazines? I have a few stacks of old magazines in storage I want to get rid of. I should really cut the ties and dump them though.
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Jan 31, 2014 18:28
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:It's mostly a Europe thing, but it's also a "all the decent games were made by old Japanese dudes we can't talk to or even identify, so it's easier to just talk to Random C64 Dev #56847586 instead" thing. Yeah, old uncredited Japanese arcade games are the worst about that. And even if you can find the people involved, they often don't want to talk or are out of reach. I managed to convince Namco's PR team to track down the uncredited original designer of Rolling Thunder last year, but it turns out he's now a high-level executive at the company and doesn't want to talk to media, especially about some 30-year-old game the company doesn't care to capitalize on anymore. Whereas some accountant living over on the outskirts of Ipswich who designed a Spectrum game in 1983 that sold 1000 units is more than happy to tell you about his little pet project no one else remembers.
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TheRedEye posted:Hey do you guys want to see this really beautifully shot video of my vintage video game magazine collection? That's pretty neat. Does that big rear end encyclopedia of that magazine have an ISBN? I know you said it's super rare but I'd love to pass the number around to see if my friends in book dealing could find it for me. Edit: oh I see you had all the issues scanned into the internet archive I found one of them https://archive.org/details/Computer_Update_1987 Happen to know where the others are hiding? This is the only one I can find in their awful interface flyboi fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 18:58
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I would go to TheRedEye's house and carefully go through each magazine looking for Renovation and Virtual Boy ads. Then I would challenge him to every Magical Drop in order and Plasma Sword  edit: Stopping at Magical Drop F - Daibouken Mo Rakujyanai! because as far as I'm concerned Touch and V don't exist Bing the Noize fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 19:06
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I would go to TheRedEye's house and carefully sneak in my old PC Gamer magazines to get rid of them without anyone noticing. 
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Tyson Tomko posted:Without sounding ignorant, why are you wanting to use a multiout on an NES? The only reasons I can think of is to look neat, it'll use same cable as SNES/N64/Gamecube, or maybe with some combination of adapters it lets you use some other cables/equipment easier/cheaper. Why wouldn't you want multiout? It's a single connector that provides composite, svideo, rgb, and audio. You could mount a Genesis style multi-din connector if you wanted as well, and that'd work, but a multiout is much cleaner. Plus, it's a standardized plug, and there's a ton of them out there. There's been talk in that assembler thread of making a Wii AV Multiout version. It's basically the same principle, but with the Wii's connector. This connector adds in the ability for component video, so you could throw in a RGB to component converter ( http://tg16pcemods.bigcartel.com/product/tg-16-pce-mod-chip-rgb-to-component-converter ), and in theory you'll have one plug that can accomodate 4 different types of video output. Wii cables are still common, and official wii rgb scart cables can still be imported from europe for cheap.
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The problem is being limited to the quality of the cables you can find with that connector. For example, there was recently a discussion about how very few snes/n64 s-video cables don't suck. I'm about to start doing my first console mods, and with everything I've seen I'm just going to put standard cable jacks on so I can use any standard rca/svideo/whatever cable.
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RZA Encryption posted:The problem is being limited to the quality of the cables you can find with that connector. For example, there was recently a discussion about how very few snes/n64 s-video cables don't suck. Well, in order to do that and get the same range of options as the multi-out you would need: -2 RCA audio jacks for stereo -1 RCA jack for composite video -1 S-Video jack -1 other connector of some sort for RGB. Probably a big ol' DIN connector. Fitting 5 separate jacks on the back of an NES top loader would be kinda hard. I guess the sort of people who are into making multi out jacks are also the sort of people that can gin up their own custom AV cables. Edit: Have a look at this picture:  That's just three of the five jacks mentioned. It's an even tighter fit on the inside because there are a bunch of internal components that the backs of those jacks have to dodge around. wash bucket fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 20:24
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Mounting jacks scares me cause I'd never forgive myself if I drill holes in a console and they weren't perfectly aligned 
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Bing the Noize posted:Mounting jacks scares me cause I'd never forgive myself if I drill holes in a console and they weren't perfectly aligned Also this. Mostly this in fact.
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Jan 31, 2014 20:42
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It honestly isn't hard if you do it right. http://longhornengineer.com/diy/atarivideomods/2600-6switch-ntsc/ This page shows how to do it properly
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Jan 31, 2014 20:43
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the wizards beard posted:I think I asked this before, but do people care much about 90s Euro games magazines? I have a few stacks of old magazines in storage I want to get rid of. I should really cut the ties and dump them though. By Euro, I assume you mean non-UK? If no one else wants them, you could check around at Retromags.com and see if anyone in the off-topic section might want to take them off your hands.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:By Euro, I assume you mean non-UK? Nah, mostly UK.
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