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I've always thought the 6-player X-Men game should be ported to XBLA or some such service. Turtles in Time (a similar game) got the console treatment; I've always wanted to play X-Men at home.

Interesting, I just got my very first set of gamebits today and opened up one of my SNESes (I'd opened all my standard-phillips-screwed systems already and I had to see what was inside the SNES). I don't know anything about electronics, but it looked like there was a separate sound board on this one; this one isn't yellowed at all. Is there a good set of pictures of the different internal hardware somewhere? Does the separate sound board coincide with the painted "eject" text (vs. the molded text)?

I got a 2600jr at Goodwill yesterday. It works great, but the cartridge slot has some broken and missing plastic. One of the prongs that opens/holds the carts in place is missing, and two of the corners are chipped. I've never had a Jr. before, but I'm wondering what the general consensus is on this sort of thing. Are they often busted like this? Should I keep it or return it and wait for one in better shape? What would you do?

None of my SNESes seem to have yellowed (and I have a small army of SNESes). I must be lucky.

Eep. I hadn't heard that. I should probably take my Dreamcast out of direct sunlight, then eh?

I've never seen a Dreamcast yellow without cause, the way SNESes do. I kept one in a basement for years and it just got dusty.

I saw an SNES listed on Craig's List as "Gold color" once

The SNES yellowing thing is well known and reasonably well documented. It's due to... well... bad plastic, not sunlight or anything like that. Joystiq has a pretty good link/story about it here.

Now I'm starting to get embarrassed. Same Goodwill, new find, need some advice on some of it. Atari2600jr with power adapter $8 This system is a little beat up; one of the prongs that holds the carts in place is broken off and the cartridge slot in general has some other broken plastic in it. The system boots just fine, but with the cosmetic damage, it might not be worth keeping. Opinions? A set of paddles $0.50 Two 2600 controllers and a power adapter $Free (convinced them they should have gone with the bare 2600 I got the other day) 2600 Games: Basketball Bowling Enduro (green label, the one I got the other day had a blue label). $1/ea Gamegear, beautiful shape, AC adapter included (the screen is kinda blurry, but I've never owned a Gamegear before, so I don't know how crisp the LCD is meant to be. Should it be really blurry? The Gamegear was in a soft case with the following games: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The Majors Pro Baseball Winter Olympic Games Sonic 2 Outrun Jeopardy! Columns Spider-Man In one of the outer pockets there was something that calls itself a Nuby Converter (Master System cartridge converter) along with Mono Poly (??) and Black Belt for the SMS The whole soft case and all its contents, $25

Whatever someone will pay (I'll give you $10 ), but who cares, what a great find!

They go on eBay for, like $6 before shipping. I'll probably just do that.

I went back to the scene of the find to see if there was anything I'd missed, or if there was more to the collection that hadn't made it out to the floor yet and found the following: All loose 2600: Football Super Football Dodge 'Em Flag Capture Haunted House Raiders of the Lost Ark Boxing Laser Blast Desert Falcon Air-Sea Battle (no end label) Home Run Space Invaders Space Attack Defender Enduro Asteroids Math Gran Prix E.T. Pole Position Star Wars Jedi Arena Galaxian Centipede Combat (no end label, but who cares, I'm just going to shim a table leg with it) Astroblast (someone decided the end label should be blue and colored it with a marker) 7800: Super Skateboardin' On-on-One Basketball All in an ugly blue case not at all designed for games All together, $10

Thanks for all the replies. I have to take it slow with all this stuff to keep the wife happy, but eventually I'll eBay up myself some controllers and a power cord (the real tragedy is that I just traded all my found 7800 games to wccw mark a week ago because I didn't have a 7800). As I posted elsewhere, I scored a complete (with box!) 5200 on the same ridiculously lucky Goodwill run, so I have to save some time and dollars for filling out that new branch of my collection as well! Apparently I'm the only person in history to like the 5200 controllers.

Thanks! Hopefully I can score a power cable on eBay or something soon and try it out. The video cable looks like it's the same kind of thing as the 2600, so I can probably just replace it with a single RCA cable and then use one of those RF-to-coax connectors.

I scored a bare 7800 at Goodwill tonight. It's my first 7800, so I don't have the power or video cables to test it with. How likely is this to be broken? I realize that's a tough question to answer, but with some systems, like the three-plug original PSX, you can pretty much assume they're broken, so what's the ratio on 7800s? Edit: I've opened it up, there's no rusting or anything like that. There was a piece of broken black plastic rattling around, but I coulnd't find where it came from. I assume it's from a game.

Oh no! My 5200 doesn't fit on my system shelving! It was about to be my ninth simultaneously plugged-in system but nooo, I have to go buy more shelves first Anyway, after my few minutes of testing, I really like the 5200; I've never had one before; I hope the 7800 is as rewarding when I can get it set up! Since we rolled over to a new page, I want to ask again incase it gets lost: my just-found-at-Goodwill 7800 was bare and I've never owned a 7800 before. I don't have a power or video cable for it. How likely is it that a 7800 would be broken? I realize anything's possible, but do they break often? I've got the Goodwill 2-day return policy, but I have no idea whether to expect it to work.

It was a good night at the Goodwill. I walked in and sitting on the case where they usually put the one copy of Combat they keep to taunt me was a boxed 5200. No manuals or internal packing, but the system is in fantastic shape and there were games with it. Here's the haul: Atari 5200 (with box) Two controllers All cords Berzerk Pac-Man Galaxian Star Raiders (with book) All together, $20 No overlays, but I'm gonna guess I can print those out from the interwebs somewhere. Tested it and it works perfectly. What a great system! But there was more back on the electronics shelves! Atari 7800 with a copy of Fight Night in the slot $10 No controllers or cords, and this is my first 7800, so I have no idea how to tell if it works. How often are these things broken? There's something rattling around inside; I'll open it up later to figure out what. Meanwhile, some insight on how often these break would be great. Atari 2600 (four-switch woodgrain) Just like my existing 2600, but in worse shape. I figured I'd snap it up just incase I ever need a second one. $10 E.T. CIB (box crushed) $1 I had a good night.

I'll PM you if/when the unit shows up. It may not have a power cord.

Good idea. I figured the Genny's wouldn't go anywhere, but I'm going to find myself with a spare SegaCD pretty soon, and that might help to sweeten a deal. Thanks for the advice.

Do you have a list of your tradables? My NES collection is very spotty and it's easier to pick from a list than to try to think of stuff I want. PM me a list if you have one!

Had a great trade experience with... wccw mark Looking forward to more trades!

I have a few! I can make a bundle with power, RF adapter, one controller and a copy of Super Marioworld. Make an offer? I collect for NES and SNES primarily right now and would be willing to look at trade material.

Hi, Like many of you I've ended up with a number of extra consoles over the years. I have something like five SNESes, three Genny's and three NESes, all in addition to the ones I have plugged in. I have controllers and cables for most of them and I'm wondering whether you all think it's worth the time and effort to try to hawk them either here in the Marketplace or on eBay? Do you guys have luck moving your spare systems?

Thanks for the part numbers. Basically I was wondering if it's possible to get the eyeshield (and snap-on thingie) separately, which opens up the range of Virtual Boys I can look at

Oof. While I was waiting and researching this, the auction ended (I could have sworn I had more time!). Oh'well, better to know for next time than to be stuck with half a system. Thanks for the replies!