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  1. Posted

    I enjoy making a gigantic 10 mile course with those white picket fences. When someone comes over to visit they have to walk through the mile long path. This path is built on the biggest plot (#2), and it goes back and forth, making the visiting sim walk back and forth to get to the house.

     

    If I call a sim over at like 10pm...they won't make it to my house till about 6am. By that time they are already really really tired, so they basically tell me that they have to go. So they start back on the 10 mile path, but along the way they fall asleep several times. Isn't this a cruel joke to play, even if it is just computer characters?

     

    I sometimes stick swimming pools along the way. I enjoy calling the police and making them swim in the pool just so they can bitch me out for coming over. After they get done getting angry at me, they'll still have to walk 10 miles.

  2. Posted

    Yeah, somehow I just don't get jazzed up about collecting for most sports games...for example:

     

    I have no need to collect 1993 Stanley Cup Hockey for Genesis

     

    Or Lakers vs. Blazers in 1991 or something.

     

     

    Possibly I could get into collecting different golf, pool, or even tennis sports games, just to see how different systems/companies simulate them.

     

    Playstation pool vs. Super Nintendo style pool...or even N64 pool. It is nice from a collector standpoint to see the comparisons (strengths/weaknesses)....at least for me.

     

    Baseball, Football, and Basketball are ones I don't collect for. But games like double dribble are still necessary to have. NBA Jam is another unique type basketball game worthy of consideration.

     

    Although nobody can get by being a Nintendo collector without some must-have type collector titles like: Bases Loaded, RBI Baseball, and that football game 10 yard fight or something.

     

    When you get into strings of sports games like: 1993, 94, 95, 96, 97

    Hockey for Genesis or Super Nintendo it gets a little tedious.

     

    I see a TON of those sports games in Unique, and no one ever grabs them.

  3. Posted

    You know something strange is going on when you go into a goodwill and find three Super Nintendo cartridges for $2.99 each...

     

    Then you walk over and find 5 nintendo cartridges selling for $5.99.

    Two of them were the ultra rare Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt

     

    The vision is complete when you notice the cashier. Her hair seems much like a nest in a tree. You wonder if you are really inside anymore.

     

     

    I've also seen 1 gatrillion genesis consoles and controllers.

     

    1 megaplexacatrillion billion Super Mario/Duck Hunts

     

    But not a single Atari cartridge has ever seen a certain Unique thrift

    store. I wonder if the employees are yanking the merchandise. They must be in league with Tree-Woman.

     

     

     

    Oh yeah, the three games I got for $2.99 each:

     

    Ms. Pac-Man

    Winter Games

    Donkey Kong Country

     

     

    I had to pick up Ms. Pac-Man, since I'm sorta on a quest to collect all the various versions of the game.

     

    Donkey Kong Country seemed like a bargain at $2.99, but I wasn't going to purchase it for any more than like $3.04

  4. Posted

    Yes, this is the type of picture I'm talking about. It is perfect.

     

    The size is too big, however, but it is still the type that I'm seeking.

     

    It would cause too much distortion if I shrank the image to fit on my cd front booklet.

     

    So far my cd has 4 logos on the cover...

    Atari 2600, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Genesis.

    With the words:

    Favorite Emulators

    Favorite Roms

     

    On the other side of the booklet, on the inside where the cd is...

    There will be three screenshots of Super Mario 1,2,3

    And three screenshots of Mega Man 1,2,3

     

    On the back will be text of some key emulators and roms.

     

    The picture you posted would be perfect for the inside of the front booklet...

     

    If I could somehow split that image into two equal parts, it would fit into the whole inside.

     

    Does anyone know of a way you can split an image, cut it in half?

     

    Thanks.

  5. Posted

    Ok, here's the thing. I've run out of creativity/images to use to create a certain emulator cd.

     

    I've got the following really nicely designed CDs...

     

    Atari emulators

    Nintendo

    Super Nintendo

    Sega Genesis

    Nintendo 64

    Playstation

     

    On each of these CDs I've got a really nice picture of the console on the front, with a cool screen shot on the inside. I've even got specifications on the inside of the label booklet. On the back, I usually have a nice list of the "best" games for that emulator CD.

     

    Ok, here's the issue.

    I'm being kinda obsessive, but here it goes.

    I'm going to make a "favorite emulators/roms" CD, that will have the my favorite emulators/roms from each of the disks. The individual CDs will serve as sort of a rom library of sorts, but playing roms like that is tedious, since I have to scroll through countless rows of games.

     

    But I'm having trouble figuring out a theme/decoration scheme to go on the CD. I'm looking for suggestions, and possibly useful images.

     

    An example might be a nice shot of several systems together...

    Like someone's room that has an Atari, snes, nes, and Genesis hooked in.

     

    I have logos for each of the consoles, but I'm lacking artistic vision to make the cd nice to look at.

     

     

    My mame cd, for instance, I found some really great images of three pacman cabinets...and I stuck those on the front of the cd...in sort of arcade-esque way.

     

    I have MAME on the front of the cd, with a "pacman" font used.

     

    That's kinda what I'm talking about, can anyone help think of neat design ideas? The making of the cd will be the easy part...I just find my favorite emulators/roms from my single CD compilations, and burn it.

  6. Posted

    This is just a random thought I had...

     

    I remember video game commercials from the 80's, it was amusing because most of the time there would be like .0002 seconds of the game advertised actually being shown. There would be more actors and props than anything.

     

    As we moved to the early 90's, there was more of a balance. It seemed that the advertisers weren't quite so "embarrased" by the quality of the games, so they decided that more of the actual gameplay of games would be shown.

     

    Jump to today, and it almost seems like entire commercials are what the game screens are like for real. Like ads for PS2 Spiderman come to mind.

     

    I wonder what the commercial for 2600 Spiderman was like. Probably like 1 second of actually showing the game being played on a TV, the rest was probably all cartoonish, or actors.

  8. Posted

    That wasn't funny at all...what a Quadrun was really like that? :) I was wondering if the magic marker is for sale however.

     

    The actual magic marker that was used to write that legendary name Michael Reeder.

     

    Anyone remember the Simpsons episode when Mr. Burns hires Homer to go into the Comic Book Guy's store, and purchase an ultra rare comic. The comic book guy presses some buttons, and that cryogenics tube appears. Homer buys it for 20k, and then tears it all up and eats it.

  12. Posted

    My Super Nintendo has this wierd yellow tint around it. I thought it was nothing before, but I'm starting to wonder if over time it has actually started to change color...

     

    I don't have anything to compare it to...

     

    Where the letters: "Super Nintendo"

    entertainment system

    It looks like a pretty clean tan color.

     

    I tried a little goo-gone, some alcohol, and a little dish soap, but the yellow still remains, unless it always looked like this.

     

    So the question is, do Super Nintendos get a yellowish tint over time, and if so...how do you remove the color?

     

    The sound sometimes seems to be going out on it sometimes, I don't know what that is either.

  14. Posted

    Myself I absolutely LOVE save states...Like it has been one of my "goals" to make it to the end of each stage in Mega Man 2, so that I can just do a couple clicks, and play any of the bosses anytime...

     

    Nesticle supports movie saving, but the emulation itself is not as good as others. It was fun downloading some save movies from the net of people beating Mega Man 1 without dying once...or stuff like that.

     

     

    On the Windows XP I was playing a crazy fun game of Golden Axe, when the whole screen just froze! It put me back out to the desktop, and some stupid antivirus update screen came up!! God that pissed me off, but the game was still where I last left off. So you run into that with emulators.

    I would've never been able to see some of the 2600 or nintendo games if it weren't for emulation.

  15. Posted

    I love emulation too. Whenever I visit my folks, I play Golden Axe, Street Fighter 2, or Mortal Kombat on Mame, and those games will never never get old...it is as close as you can get to coin-op.

     

    Stella never has worked right for me...

    Z26 doesn't run on Windows XP for some odd reason.

     

    Atari 5200 emulators aren't very good in my opinion...I still don't know of one that can handle Galaxian right.

     

    Nintendo emulators are crazy fun...

     

    But when I play Super Mario 2 on fceu.

    and then on the real thing, there is a subtle difference.

     

    The playstation emu worked on my parents, but there were wierd issues like FF7 not having text, or the start button going wacky, like it is sticking.

     

     

    What I'm trying to say is make sure to go to church, or you'll be sorry!

  16. Posted

    I just got a magazine in the mail yesterday, an item won thru EBAY.  I was completely blown away by the packing this guy did on the thin magazine.  Listing from the inside out, we first have the magazine, carefully wrapped in plastic.  That was sandwiched between 2 pieces of cardboard.  That was inside an envelope.  That was then encased in another 2 pieces of cardboard.  That was wrapped in several sheets of newspaper.  Finally all that was inside the original shipping envelope.  It felt like Christmas time opening all that up!

     

    Rofl, thanks for making me laugh :)

     

    I guess there's the two extremes. I've had stuff arrive very well packaged in the past.

  18. Posted

    Unique in New Hope, off of hiway 169.

     

    I even spoke to the cashier for more than 7 seconds about my unfortunate experience. He was merely amused by my SMB2 cartridge, and said he remembered how cool it was.

     

    I've been to the Unique in St. Paul...they had a saturn there not long ago. Unique stores are unique in that they are the only thrift stores to not feature restrooms.

     

    It is neat going to Goodwill, and noticing that they have "antique" items decorating their restroom.

     

    Oh lost golden Zelda, where art thou.

  20. Posted

    Ok, so I went out on my daily Unique Thrift Store run tonight...

     

    So I waltz in, and started scoping out the place.

     

    I noticed that an N64 selling for $30 from several days back was gone.

     

    I walked to the main section full of random stuff. I run across 3 nintendo cartridges: Rygar, Castle game something (can't remember), and a gold colored Legend of Zelda.

     

    Neat! I thought it was pretty cool. It was the standard $2.80 they charge for most all of their cartridges. I'm not too much into collecting for NES, so I decided to just look around some more...

     

    I eventually ran across a Super Mario 2 for NES for $2.80.

     

    So I was thinking, hey! I think I'll pick em both up, and it'll be considered a rather good net.

     

    I returned to the place where I knew Legend of Zelda was at, and it was GONE!! wtf is going on I thought. I looked around feverishly for the guy that swiped my score. :twisted:

     

    It was not even 10 minutes I was away from that cartridge, and it was taken. Of course I was pissed, but more because someone else got it instead.

     

    So I went home with SMB2, and a little sore :sad:

     

    repurcussions let me tell ya, repur-fuckin'-cussions

     

    j/k :)

  24. Posted

    My mind has been changed several times (4 times), and I now think that Colecovision is better. Next week my mind will possibly change again, but it won't be related to this discussion.

     

    My love for the Atari 5200 has also been reduced, if ever so slightly.

     

    I feel even more attached to Sega Master System for some strange reason.

     

    j/k, I'm just bein' silly-I feel more attached to the 3DO, that's what I really meant deep down in my heart.

     

    Coke is starting to taste a little better than Pepsi also, I wonder if this is related. Hmmm

  25. Posted

    Slapping 15ft. of USPS packing tape a mailing label and about 47 stamps on the thing!!:sad:

     

    I wonder if you could've thrown the box into a GIANT VAT full of Goo-Gone , maybe all of the tape and junk would've come off :)

     

    But you said the box was in bad condition also...

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