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Reaperman last won the day on October 31 2009

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  1. Are ya winning, son?
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  3. I don't know why, but the above result bugged me. So I bought a zippy stick with a long shaft, since all the sanwas/clones I have around are shorter. some things I noticed: That mounting plate doesn't just have a corner off of it--it's entirely too small for a standard plate to fit down inside the routed area. also in addition to screws they glued it in, and soldered the contacts with fairly high temp solder. zippy sticks have a seimitsu-style 2/4/8 gate, but it's a bit sloppy. 'a bit sloppy' is still a considerable improvement over using the control panel's oval hole as a restrictor plate. I forgot that even from my standing-workbench here, the screen's viewing angle can't be played standing in front of it, and it's polarized off to one side as if they chose a horizontal screen and just said 'eff it.' Maybe a wedge to tip it backwards would help. galaga 88 control lags, never played enough to notice that before. played one life of galaga 88 and switched it off. this represents probably 1/3 of my time playing on this unit. Not sure I've ever made it to game-over I considered giving it a neo geo joystick port, because I'm clearly mentally ill. And I'm sure I'll have done that by the next post. It's basically the same result as before, but I got to use my hands to make something that's terrible, a bit less terrible, which is illogically, still a pretty good feeling. A zippy stick improved something! let that one sink in.
  4. Very long easy right...maybe.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      That's what she said 😉🙃

  5. Never leave HDDs in your laptops when you donate them to thrift shops. I like it when you do, but you don't like it when you do.

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    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Data from an unknown hard drive

      No Thank You Reaction GIF

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      I've never donated or thrown out a computer with a hard drive still in it.

      Then again, I've never donated or thrown out a computer, probably why my wife is so annoyed.

       

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      You wouldn't want stuff on yer computer to end up in the wrong hands...What about all your Porno For Pyros MP3s?   Thought I was gonna say something else huh?

  6. Anybody got NGPC turf masters? Mine plays the intro and menus, but goes to black-screen when I try any single player game (menu music still plays)--or a silent white screen if I choose to continue my last save before the intro plays. Speaking of saves, I'm a little surprised today. I assumed the 2032 battery in the NGPC would have been for both the rtc and gamesaves to the system itself, so a mild shock when my neo geo cup save was right there with my name on it in the pocket adapter. Huh, cart-saves, I probably should have put that connection together earlier.
  7. Adapters came in today, Lynx's low-contrast screen filter seems to look great, and the core really captures the crunchy-crappiness of lynx sound. I'm not turning that audio filter on--perfect the way it is. I will say the stereo separation from the side-firing stereo speakers can occasionally be a bit jarringly awesome when I only remember the games coming from the mono speaker. the roadblasters intro a big improvement in stereo. The STUN runner lower UI color flash seems a bit off to my memory. I'll have to compare it to real HW later, because the screen mod on my more-easily-accessible lynx seems to have died in storage...again. 🙄 so I have to dig up whatever thread I used to fix it last time. Motivation to fix it is very low as long as I'm looking at the pocket's screen.
  8. 100gb left of data cap to make it 5 days. Then it resets and I can finally get the cue/bins for the duo jailbreak.

  9. Dune2 was a neat movie, and now nobody'd better ever complain that David Lynch changed too much of the story.

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    2. Reaperman

      Reaperman

      Alia doesn't kill the baron, or even get born--that's the big one. But generally if it 'can' happen out of order, the movie does. I assume they cut fenrings from the end last minute and should have cut them entirely, the one bit left in was odd.

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      Spoiler alert!  Though I must admit I never read the books.  Just a fan of the 1984 movie - but also the director's edition that adds a bit more

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Still need to see the second one...I really liked the first one because it made sense.  Much as I like David Lynch stuff in general,  his version seemed to imply you were supposed to have read the book before viewing...But not unlike Star Trek The Motion Picture,  I got a whopper of a nap in when I saw it in the theater.

  10. New car has a hidden 5v source right up in the headliner next to where a dashcam would go--that's neighborly!

    1. x=usr(1536)

      x=usr(1536)

      Recently had to do an emergency replacement of vehicles courtesy of a blown head gasket.  The replacement has USB ports and 12V outlets everywhere.  Given how many electronic devices I typically travel with for work, that is an absolute godsend; installing that infrastructure in the old one was not something I was looking forward to.

  11. Just not worth the effort. And I was really trying to be positive about it. There are no generic 2-way JLF gates, so I spent WAY too much on this failure, but not enough to also sink time/effort into it too.
  12. Reversed course on a plan to chain HDMI switches--was stupid. Ended up setting up 2 quick-change stations w/ storage on current switch instead.

    1. Reaperman

      Reaperman

      Now my only permanent HDMIs are PC, Scaler, and MiSTer. The Switch Evercade, Analogues, etc store in a desktop mail sorter when not in use. Less clutter. 

    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Chained switchers is a PITA. I used to do them with harmony remotes, but the remote knew the settings, so it was just a single button to switch to any device.

  13. I recall Schaumburg, IL's Gameworks having a VF3 Team Battle back when I visited on my 21st birthday, so 2002. That arcade leaned way too heavily toward Sega. I didn't play it, because 'oh, it's on dreamcast' and promptly never played that one either, because of my memories of VF1 & 2... I think gameworks mostly all closed a couple years ago. I want to say I've encountered a VF4--but can't recall with the above degree of specificity. My 'arcade never-seen' is Ridge Racer--any of them. Or any Namco racer in general, for that matter. (except pole position, but that was atari). Only Midway/Atari, or Sega racers locally. East town mall in Madison had a Cyber Sled--which is the closest I've had to a namco racer.
  14. shantae advance preorders are open. The previous LRG order, I had a pirate rom from the internet MONTHS before my physical arrived...but fine here's some more money.

    1. Reaperman

      Reaperman

      wait, goddamn $75 for the standard release?  This thing better come shipped by rocket, maybe it'll beat the pirate version this time.

  15. And here I had stuff to do this weekend. Well, now that's all out the window 😆 Supah Grafx time.
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