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  1. Posted

    Hi,

    My wife recently fell in love with the NES version of Dr. Mario. Not wanting to pass on an opportunity to increase her interest in gaming, I'm trying to snag a copy of the Tetris & Dr. Mario cart that was released for the SNES.

     

    Eventually I'll probably score a copy of the N64 one, too, but right now I have no controllers for my N64 :)

     

    So! Does anyone have a copy of this game they're willing to trade for or sell? I have some minor trade stock which I can list later today once I get home.

     

    Thanks for your attention!

  2. Posted

    I score a lot of stuff through my mother-in-law's eBay business (as I've mentioned in the Thrift Finds thread). She buys foreclosed storage units and on rare occasion she's pulled some good game stuff. Managed to get a incomplete-in-box NES "Action Set" (the SMB3 pack), an N64, a couple sets of Atari paddles, some Zappers and NES controllers here and there. She never makes me pay for any of it, so it's a pretty good deal :)

  4. Posted

    I'd have 'em all hooked up if I could, but I lack the shelf space and system selector space.

     

    I currently have my PSOne, Dreamcast, Genesis/SegaCD, Saturn, SNES, 2600 and NES hooked up through daisy-chained system-selectors and my Wii hooked up directly to the TV (Component). They're all on those stackable wire shelves to the left of my couch and the system-selector "out" snakes along the wall over to the TV.

     

    In storage are my 5200 (badly wish I could fit the bugger on a shelf --any shelf! it's so freaking huge!), 7800, N64 and Gamecube (and all my duplicate systems).

  5. Posted

    My mother-in-law runs an eBay business that she fuels by buying foreclosed storage units which, every once in a while, have games in them which she never makes me pay for. When we were there for Christmas this morning, I got to dig through her stock a bit and came up with the following:

     

    2 sets of 2600 paddles, no idea if they work yet, but they're pretty simple to fix if they don't

    1 Grey NES Zapper

    1 Orange NES Zapper (no idea if either one works yet)

    1 NES controller

    Super Mario Bros 2 for NES

    Rampage for NES

    Super Empire Strikes Back for SNES

    and the best possible score ever:

    My very first N64. No games, controllers or expansion pack, but it was FREE!

  9. Posted

    I paid about $80 for my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga. I think that's the most I've paid for an individual game, not counting, like, Guitar Hero with the guitar.

     

    I did own a copy of that mech game for the XBox that came with practically the whole cockpit as a custom controller, but I didn't like the game so I returned it. That was like $200, but I didn't keep it.

     

    I also managed to pick up a copy of Dragonball GT Final Bout for about $50 from Gamestop back when it was super rare (I was in the store when it was traded in, and it didn't hurt that I worked there at the time) and turned it around on eBay for about $350. The game is so bad that it wasn't even worth keeping for rarity's sake, and now that it's no longer as desirable, I'm even more sure of the decision.

  13. Posted

    -Update -

     

    I got another SNES at the local Vintage Stock... NO JITTERS!!!

    So yeah, turns out it was my SNES and not the cables, nor the TV.

     

    Guess my original SNES didn't fare to well with all the hot/cold cycles while in storage in the attic

    But I'm still curious as to why Composite works, but not S-Vid for that particular TV... guess the innards of the SNES are different depending on what output signal is required? Oh well, no big deal.

     

    Now I just gotta return this SNES I bought at Vintage Stock, ha.. paid $70 for it!!! ACK! And then find another cheaper replacement :)

     

     

    Or return the broken one... :ponder:

  15. Posted

    Allow me to add that my wife has been bugging me about the ugly cardboard boxes that I keep the controllers in (she's fine with the game stuff when it's properly shelved, she thinks it all looks cool, even likes the action figures. I love her).

     

    Has anyone determined a good storage solution for loose controllers? I considered a pegboard briefly, but I feel like that's not an efficient use of space.

  16. Posted

    I have a couple of these which I find invaluable, but my collection is reasonably small.

     

    These shelving units have adjustable shelves, though, so in addition to being movable (not built-in), if you have a couple of them, as I do, chances are you have a few shelves left over from the first which can be used on the second to create smaller spaces for loose Atari games and such.

     

    But as I said, my collection is small.

  24. Posted

    Hi,

    I've never owned an N64 before, but I find that I may have one soon, sans expansion pack. Looking on eBay, there are a ton of off-brand Expansion Packs for between $5 and $10, whereas the official Nintendo branded packs sell at the Nintendo Online Store for $30.

     

    How good are the off-brand packs? Should I pony up and get a branded Expansion Pack?

  25. Posted

    I'll try the vhs/dvd pass thru tonight.

     

    There's something quite funky.. I was able to get it to work w/ Composite.... but it still jitters with S-vid.... lol this is frustrating. I cleaned the contacts on the SNES, maybe it just isn't providing enough 'juice' to the TV?

     

    This seems obvious, but do you have another SNES you could try? Does a friend have one? Does your Goodwill?

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