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Does Bomb Jack fit in? If so, maybe we call them 'Jackers.' That'll really confuse the zoomers. Gamers have named/renamed a number of genres after the fact. Shmup, replaced plain old shooters. About the time 'shooter' came to commonly mean FPS (a trend that's mostly ended now). and I seem to recall platformers were run-and-jump (or jump-and-run) games BITD Two I named after the fact (names which refuse to catch on 😁) are sub-genres of racing/driving: -
Finished refurb of odd twin-stick arcade controller today. Nope, still suck at crazy climber. 🙄
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The Official "Thrift finds" Thread
Reaperman replied to Happy_Dude's topic in Classic Console Discussion
I'm probably the only one waiting in suspense of figuring out what's inside the custom twin stick, but: better than I expected. IL parts with cherry switches--not my favorite of IL's sticks, but I've been told I'm wrong about that opinion 😉 100% plywood construction. I'm more of an MDF guy, but it's largely done well. some of the exterior countertop artwork is coming off, which offers a view of joinery below--there's a surprise. Gluing/clamping that is tonight's job. electronics is a ps/2 ipac from ultimarc with a usb adapter cable--must date to before they offered dedicated usb ones. It looks like the latency numbers on ultimarc stuff is still absolute top notch. One edge is missing a 3" strip of t molding, and is a slightly odd size, so of course that comes in 20ft rolls (ordered from spain) very clean wiring. All things considered this stick lucked out and is now back in the hands of somebody who knows what it is and gives at least half a darn. RIP to previous owner, we'll get it polished up. -
The Official "Thrift finds" Thread
Reaperman replied to Happy_Dude's topic in Classic Console Discussion
this one was a bit expensive to be thrifty, but it's pretty fun. I collect custom arcade sticks, and while searching for right-handers, came across this gem of a twin-stick. I don't use eBay's 'make offer' button, since I don't like interacting with sellers or being a low-baller, but the last couple years I really like how eBay has been doing semi-automated(?) price offers on watched buy-it-now items. Whenever I see a make-offer button, now I just watch the item, and more often than not get an offer message in an hour or two. Maybe current eBay sellers could let me know about the seller half of this process and if it's really automated? This one came to $60 plus $21 shipping. Even if it's the cheapest controls and encoder, that's close to what I could source the parts for. But generally these custom sticks come with pretty nice stuff, and I'm guessing IL or SUZO-HAPP. It feels like it's from an estate sale reseller, so RIP to the deceased fan of crazy climber or robotron. My retirement plan is to move to a 55+ community with a woodshop and make crazy arcade sticks, so right in the feels there. -
There's no per-controller setup or save like usb controllers, loading the appropriate core, and setting a controller to snac is all that's required. from my understanding, the cores hook to the snac controller port as the original systems did. So the controllers can't manipulate MiSTer menus. It's a little weird in some core menus, when you have a snac-connected light gun in hand, the correct answer to what kind of controller is attached is 'snac,' and not light gun. SNAC is pretty great. About the only bummer I've ever had while using them was finding out the 2600 one didn't support paddles. But it's great to be able to use an nes zapper, or back up my ps1 saves from back in the day.
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The PiTrex came in today. That sure seems to add a lot of gaming to vectrex. Wow.
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https://www.ombertech.com/pitrex.php $54(aud) ~$35(usd), plus shipping from AUS and supplying SD+Pi Zero WH. Came pretty fast, I ordered the night of 3/21.
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Yep, velcro cable ties. I go for quick folds and chuck them into a bag, because I have a drawer system for controllers and they'll still find a way to tangle if I don't. (an old vid I made on controller storage)
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Are we in the middle of a collecting bubble?
Reaperman replied to Boschloo's topic in Classic Console Discussion
Were they ever meant to be livable? I don't think that's been the play at any point in my lifetime. I think many of the fast food, grocery, and retail jobs were meant to take advantage of highschooler, retiree, and disabled labor who didn't actually need to fully support themselves with work. These days it seems immigrants entered the equation to replace the highschooler component. Not sure how they survive on the money. My guess is 'barely.' Since you sound pretty young, note that money gets considerably easier to acquire as people age. Salaries increase with experience, investments snowball, and lifestyle expenses drop greatly. But, it's a great time to be a gamer. Here's some relatively nice gaming things that are cheaper than ever: -
Saw Gary Numan a couple nights ago. Incredible show. No idea why he tours with Ministry, they were far less great.
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I've been having n64 controller-pak saving issues with the core, so I've got an n64 snac on order to see if my saving problems go away. ...or if they start spreading to my real saves. 😅 Between the n64 turbo core, 0mhz collection, and replacing ps1 cue/bins with chds, MiSTer's really been monopolizing my free time.
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The Official "Thrift finds" Thread
Reaperman replied to Happy_Dude's topic in Classic Console Discussion
My first thrift store Dart Zone find. For the last 5 years, Nerf blasters have consistently come up well short of their Dart Zone competition, so I'm a bit surprised it's taken this long for them to trickle out to the thrift shops. Today's find is a $4 Dart Zone Max Dictator, which is a half-dart blaster with a weird, stock-feeding magazine system. (video going over the mechanism) The cats clearly love chasing after the darts, but as with many other Dart Zone Max/Pro blasters, it shoots a bit hard for inside--and unlike some other DZ blasters there's no easy way to drop that velocity without taking the whole thing apart. If you see Dart Zone MAX/Pro or their walmart-branded 'Adventure Force Pro' options at the thrift shop go for them. They hit a bit hard for the kids, at fully twice Nerf's 'elite dart' standard of 75fps (these days nerf's more like 65-67 tbh...). -
My current fave for modern gaming is a Gulikit KingKong 2 Pro--but a coworker let me handle the KingKong 3 Max, and I'll be switching to them in the next few months for the option for increased trigger throw. This is my choice on PC, switch and the MiSTer cores that benefit from analog sticks. Its tiny analog deadzone is incredibly refreshing, and I can't go back to Alps sticks after that. For arcade sticks, my favorite is my MAS Prostick, and I build tons of adapters to use it on other systems. Not too many options for american style arcade sticks, and neo geo controllers adapt easily&laglessly. I may someday need more buttons and start building adapters for MAS Supernova 25-pin controllers, but I don't care that much for street fighter, and have a few other options on the days I do. For pre-crash, I go for the Epyx 500xj/Konix Speedking for it's precise, microswitched stick, and its attempt at ergonomics. The NES version pairs especially well with NT Mini, especially the Atari 7800 core (which never got a 500xj variant of its own). Saturn batwing and Neo Geo gamepads are up there, especially back in the day these would have topped my list. but even owning modern/wireless equivalents, I find myself reaching for an 8bitdo M30 over both--which surprises me. This is generally my first choice for MiSTer use, because it's got enough buttons in the right places to do a lot of things. If I spend more than a day or two with a core, I'll generally switch to something more nostalgic, but the M30 is good at many tasks. In theory I should be grabbing the retro bit wireless batwing, but I just don't.
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Did the world forget what mini golf was? 'Regular golf' is not an appropriate theme for a mini golf course.
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@Reaperman yeah that's the sterilization of America/the world. Make everything boring and plain, dull. Try to appeal to everyone. you see this in architecture as well
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