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njsykora posted:We absolutely should keep tabs on the people who bought Eternal Ring. Hello
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I didn’t realize the Saroo can emulate the internal save RAM (and external) for games. If they can get to 100% comparability that will basically make FRAM mods irrelevant.
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May 17, 2024 02:04
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But ... my FRAM mod!
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:I didn’t realize the Saroo can emulate the internal save RAM (and external) for games. If they can get to 100% comparability that will basically make FRAM mods irrelevant. Getting excited for my Saroo to come in the mail so I can really dig into the Japanese Saturn I picked up from suruga-ya - it is in a boat crossing the Pacific as I'm posting this  For now though I'm having some drinks and test-driving the retrousb AVS I impulse bought because I make questionable retro game purchasing decisions - Crystalis looks really good through the retrotink 4k on my Hisense panel and the vibrant colors are deeply satisfying.
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May 17, 2024 02:34
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:But ... my FRAM mod! All my FRAMs, modded
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May 17, 2024 02:55
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My suruga-ya order came in in less than 3 days, I expected it to take at least 10 business days so I'm stuck on a work trip till Tuesday 
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May 17, 2024 03:26
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I put aside 5 hours today to fully revamp my battlestation so I'd like to post about it if that's cool. I remember a few pages ago someone was asking about entertainment center setups so I figured I might as well:     Left side is all consoles with component out, going into a gscartsw (except the xbox which is hdmi straight to the receiver) Right side is all scart consoles going into a shinybow scart switch (except the dreamcast, because there's some kind of issue with my TORO box I gotta fix. Or I might swap it for retrogamingcables' component cables. The gcompsw and shinybow go into a retrotink 5x Then everything goes into the receiver, the output is split between the tv and a philips hue sync box. The thing I'm most happy about is the way things are organized now, all the cables have plenty of play so I can pull out just about anything I need, and can pull the whole entertainment center away from the wall without putting unnecessary tension on any cables.
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May 17, 2024 05:20
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I encourage everyone to post their nerd stations because it gives me ideas on other poo poo to spend my money on.
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May 17, 2024 05:36
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njsykora posted:I will cede to this because I only have second hand accounts of Eternal Ring to go on and I tried playing Orphen a few months ago and can confirm it's a bad loving videogame. And a pity really, because the early-2000's show is actually pretty good.
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coupedeville posted:Getting excited for my Saroo to come in the mail so I can really dig into the Japanese Saturn I picked up from suruga-ya - it is in a boat crossing the Pacific as I'm posting this The Mainline firmware got a really really good update. Now you can choose your own background for the menu (even an animated GIF!) And also you can create genres which is a huge deal.
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Light Gun Man posted:Nuclear Launch Titles fantavision 2 taking a dark turn
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I encourage everyone to post their nerd stations because it gives me ideas on other poo poo to spend my money on.
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May 17, 2024 12:08
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A quick couple questions about the NES: I replaced the 72-pin connector a few years ago and the carts are really snug in the thing. Like it takes a little bit of effort to take the cart out. Is this normal? I don't want to damage the pins on the cart. My nephew is asking to play it and in turn is getting me back into playing it, so I remembered that it did this. (A cute fact: he's so used to turning modern consoles on to switch the games he always turns the NES on before asking to put the game in) Second question: what's the decent price for a top-loader NES? I'm just curious about this one.
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delfin posted:Well, yes, it's a TurboDuo so it's very likely to need new caps by now as a general rule. I have absolutely no idea who I would take it to for that kind of repairs, though. https://x.com/silvernutter/status/1779940618090820065 Yeah. The only people I know of are from Twitter, Voultar and Christa Lee https://soundretro.co/ This is some specialist-rear end work, so “How badly do you want it?” https://x.com/OhPoorPup/status/1781081481076727979
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Jimbot posted:A quick couple questions about the NES: It's not unusual, since the reason those connectors start to go bad in the first place is because of the pins getting loose over time. If it's a frontloader, there's a good chance that the new connector is snug enough that you don't have to push the game down after inserting it. That should lessen the tension on the cart, but either way it's pretty unlikely that the games would be damaged this way, unless they're those 3rd party repros without the beveled edges. Edit: For your second question, going price for a stock NES-101 is about 150 bucks right now, but they can only do RF out without modification, so getting a stock one would put you pretty much in a worse place than your existing frontloader If you're not into modding you'd be better off getting an AV famicom. It's the exact same machine (except it fits famicom games instead of nes games) but it has composite out. They can be found for a bit cheaper too despite having better video output. General rule for worm is to get an AV famicom that's been modded for RGB output. That's what I've got 
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May 17, 2024 14:47
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Yeah, pushing it down is fine, it's just pushing the cart in and pulling it out is what requires the effort. But that's good to know. I just wanted to double-check to see if that's normal. This is my original NES so it's a good ol' frontloader.
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May 17, 2024 14:53
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Jimbot posted:Yeah, pushing it down is fine, it's just pushing the cart in and pulling it out is what requires the effort. But that's good to know. I just wanted to double-check to see if that's normal. This is my original NES so it's a good ol' frontloader. Replacement 72 pin connectors have always had an issue with death gripping the cart. These days there are a few other options out there that are better, but if yours works, it's fine to keep using. It won't damage your carts.
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Realised that between my RG35XX, DS flashcart, modded 3DS, OPL'd PS2 and now CFW'd PSP, as well as PS3/4 titles picked up on eBay, I now have something like 500 games I hadn't played before but which caught my interest enough to obtain ready to try whenever I want. Wish I had the time and energy to get into more than a handful.  (My son has played more of them than me.)
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How difficult is the FRAM mod for Saturn if I have a decent amount of soldering experience including stuff like the HDMI mod for Dreamcast? I have a fenrir already so I don't need another ODE but am tired of dealing with the battery on mine.
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Small Strange Bird posted:I now have something like 500 games I hadn't played before but which caught my interest enough to obtain ready to try whenever I want. Congratulations on reaching Collector Level 2! Pretty soon you'll have a real backlog! More seriously, don't think of it as a backlog. And I don't mean that in an "embrace consumption!" way. There are more interesting games out there than you can possibly experiencenin your lifetime and more are released every day. So if you have more than two or three games awaiting you, abandon the concept of it as a backlog. You have a collection. You have a library. And once you understand that, then you can ask yourself, "Do I want a collection?" By acknowledging what it is, then you no longer feel the pressure that they must be played and instead can think about how you want to curate it and set reasonable boundaries for yourself.
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I have honestly played more of my PS3 collection than I expected to when I started rebuilding it.
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Mr E posted:How difficult is the FRAM mod for Saturn if I have a decent amount of soldering experience including stuff like the HDMI mod for Dreamcast? I have a fenrir already so I don't need another ODE but am tired of dealing with the battery on mine. You'll be fine if you managed the HDMI mod. Saturn traces tend to have that mid 90s "whoops I'm extremely fragile despite your caution!" to them, though. I thought mine went swimmingly but then I was getting a black screen, the FRAM and the BIOS are on the same lines so if you get that black screen do some continuity checking and be prepared to do a patch wire.
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Mr E posted:How difficult is the FRAM mod for Saturn if I have a decent amount of soldering experience including stuff like the HDMI mod for Dreamcast? I have a fenrir already so I don't need another ODE but am tired of dealing with the battery on mine. It’s pretty easy assuming two things: 1. You also have access to a heat station and 2. It doesn’t have the adhesive like a lot of motherboards do. A lot of Saturn boards used large globs of rubber cement to fix the SRAM and bios chips to the board. That poo poo is obnoxious and requires you to have a megaton amount of patience with the heat gun or you’ll rip the underlying masking and traces right off the board. It look me an hour at 600 degree before that poo poo started to soften enough to pry the chip off. But if you can successfully get it off, replacing it is simple. The real bitch is doing a bios swap because the replacement chips are about 2mm too thick, so you have to bend the legs in to get it to fit on the pads, and it’s super easy to break them off. (You also have to bend four pins up and wire some bypasses but that’s another headache.)
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Null of Undefined posted:I put aside 5 hours today to fully revamp my battlestation so I'd like to post about it if that's cool. I remember a few pages ago someone was asking about entertainment center setups so I figured I might as well: This is a really clean setup, props. Nice Pinhead mat on the turntable. There are some bootleg Giygas ones at a local shop I've been eyeballing. I have a pretty similar setup. Monitor Burn is working on my NES now, once I get it back I'm going to do a bit of cable running and after I'll share a pic of my stuff. edit: What cabinet is that?
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Big Bizness posted:edit: What cabinet is that? It’s an ikea besta but it’s from like 15 years ago so I think the ones they sell now are different
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Also I haven't played Eternal Ring but I have been checking out another old FromSoft RPG, Enchanted Arms on the 360. Not a great game but it has some interesting areas that feel like test runs for souls areas like Anor Londo. also this guy:
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Jimbot posted:
I bought a refurbed OEM 72-pin a while back that's supposed to be original tension but haven't bothered to put it on yet. I have another refurbed one in my NES right now and it's at least looser than the knock-off replacement I bought a long time ago, I regret throwing my original one away. https://www.ebay.com/itm/195952159953 this is the same guy but a different listing selling 3 at a time, probably aimed at people refurbishing in bulk.
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Maybe old news but I had no idea that GBSControl was cloned and PCB'd to be in a nicer form factor. FYI. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804924080813.html Certainly better than my arduino and wire solution in my arcade cab 
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Big Bizness posted:Also I haven't played Eternal Ring but I have been checking out another old FromSoft RPG, Enchanted Arms on the 360. Not a great game but it has some interesting areas that feel like test runs for souls areas like Anor Londo. also this guy: Also has an openly gay character which was rare even then. Weird game but with some cool ideas
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Small Strange Bird posted:Realised that between my RG35XX, DS flashcart, modded 3DS, OPL'd PS2 and now CFW'd PSP, as well as PS3/4 titles picked up on eBay, I now have something like 500 games I hadn't played before but which caught my interest enough to obtain ready to try whenever I want. It's time to find that one game you always wanted to find time for and just start while ignoring all others. Even better if you can cheat, since you can finish it faster.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Weird game but with some cool ideas Fromsoftware.txt
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Null of Undefined posted:I put aside 5 hours today to fully revamp my battlestation so I'd like to post about it if that's cool. I remember a few pages ago someone was asking about entertainment center setups so I figured I might as well: Wow and wow. I dream of sorting something this clean myself. One day. Really. But just thinking about all the cables involved immediately destroys any will towards that idea. I'm seeing how all the TV cables are setup plus that little wall chute thingy for the final cables heading straight to the TV, but how are you dealing with all them power cables/bricks?
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Mr E posted:How difficult is the FRAM mod for Saturn if I have a decent amount of soldering experience including stuff like the HDMI mod for Dreamcast? I have a fenrir already so I don't need another ODE but am tired of dealing with the battery on mine. Soldering is the easy part of the FRAM mod. The hard part is some Saturns have the chip secured with some kind of epoxy that can be very difficult to remove.
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Saoshyant posted:Wow and wow. I dream of sorting something this clean myself. One day. Really. But just thinking about all the cables involved immediately destroys any will towards that idea. There's 2 separate outlets behind the entertainment center which gives me 4 sockets to play with, so I've got 2 8-port + 2 usb port surge protectors back there, plus a 3 port extension cable running up to behind the tv. The numbers work out about perfectly and I've got space for 1 more surge protector back there but I don't need it yet. Only one of the controller chargers on the right is actually plugged in. There's no power strips plugged into each other and there's only a few devices on at a time so there's no real danger of spontaneous cable fires or anything (Do those really even ever happen?) We're working on other parts of the house right now but the plan for the next few years is to add another outlet near the tv mount point, and an in-wall conduit for the hdmi cable and wii sensor bar so we don't need a visible cable raceway anymore. I'll also be running ethernet back there so I can have the consoles that support it plugged in directly. Edit: And thanks for the kind words! This is a decade long work in progress that's finally starting to feel nice and clean Edit 2: Also one big goof up that I didn't realize until this morning is that the hdmi splitter I'm using to split output between the tv and hue sync box doesn't pass cec so we have to use 2 remotes until I replace it 
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I feel like whenever I neatly organize my setup it feels great for about a week, then I will inevitably make some minor change that is a huge pain in the rear end to do because of all of the organizing. Then I just revert to my natural state: rats nest of wires everywhere.
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One trick I've brought over from years of recording/live sound/drunkenly trying to assemble my pedalboard before a set in shithole bar that you might upgrade to "dive" if they cleaned the place up a bit: those colored Velcro cable ties they put out as impulse buys in lines at computer stores. If you can coil the cables (as neatly as circumstances allow), you can color code so that both the power and output of any given system are the same color. It won't completely eliminate visible wires, but getting the excess under control helps immensely.NyetscapeNavigator posted:I feel like whenever I neatly organize my setup it feels great for about a week, then I will inevitably make some minor change that is a huge pain in the rear end to do because of all of the organizing. Then I just revert to my natural state: rats nest of wires everywhere. Until this inevitably happens and you uncoil everything to move something around. Speaking of which, I should probably dress my own nerd tower before inflicting it on the group... Oh, and if you have more systems than colors in your Velcro tie pack, you might have a problem. Which can be solved by getting some from another brand with different colors.
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Speaking of NES pin connectors, someone is making a new one that looks pretty good and Macho Nacho did a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lpCNMxGW3s https://www.etsy.com/listing/1716411596/pre-order-ninten-drawer-nes-72-pin
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RetroTink 4K coming back in stock TOMORROW.  I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 17, 2024 |
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Xenomrph posted:RetroTink 4K coming back in stock TOMORROW. Between my Mister, Switch, Dreamcast, and Steamdeck im thinking it’s time.
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