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  4. Posted

    y'know..the first time I ever actually saw a PSP in the flesh as it were, the dude showed off the video capabilities with a porno vid that he had uploaded into it :ponder:

     

    now..with that being said... does the PSP not have any form of composite or what not out of the system?.. y'know? a way to hook it up to a TV?

    I'm thinking it doesn't

    in any case.. I think .. if not.. that should be some type of feature they should incorporate into future generations.. if anything for the UMB playback... I don't think they should make dedicated decks.. you saw what became of the consumer beta max.. and for that matter.. the Minicd's, while the minidisk is used in a lot of portable music mastering devices.. and beta was virtually a standard for video production until the prolification of Digital...

    the long term prospects for that format were very limited, and specialised..

     

    and that does not make for a succesful format option..and knowing soney..they'll do thier damdest to keep the format properitary.. they'll have to make a big push into the market place... and they'll have to license the technology

    porn? it'll be very nitch..but if thier is money to made.. they'll do thier damndest to make it

  5. Posted

    That Polystation console wasn't a Genesis clone, it was a Famicom clone. I've got one that I got last year. It's really cheesy. I didn't get a power supply with it, so I don't know what games are on it.

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    Okay..I'll give you the famicon clone.. I forgot wich one they were throwing all over the place..

    but this one clearly said playstation... not poly station.. on top and on the controler. and mind you I was kicking my ass for not having my cam on me.. it was just a precious Kodac moment....

  6. Posted

    there aren't any dangerous life threatning spiders that live in attics.. go check it out..

    and she' wouldn't have told you about them, if she didn't want help in at least getting it out of there..

     

    considering I have pulled some fun and interesting stuff out of the reminants of former residents in various houses that my step father owns.. you owe it to yourself to check it out

     

    have fun!

  8. Posted

    if they are both acting that way.. I would be under the assumption that the problem actually lies in the connector itself.. like the lead that conects the fire button is some how funcked up.

    is the fire button problem in just one paddle or both?

    that said..try shooting some contact cleaner into the plug.

    the horizontal rolling.. how are you connecting? are you useing the stock AB switch? maybe its some wierd interferance messing up that connection.. try using one of those direct connectors.. available at any radio shack.. or the AA store

  9. Posted

    went out to chop suey books.. and sold off some of the library that was just lieing around taking up space.. they only wanted one book.. so that trip only netted my $1.. so going back by fantastic thrift.. one of my favorites.. to drop off the left overs.. I had to step inside..

    dry...

    there was a colecovision there.. I was surpised.. but it was missing a controller, and the required power brick... I allready have one.. didn't have the $8 they were asking.. so I passed..

    also in the pile of electronics.. was what initially looked like a PS1.. on closer inspection.. it was a FS1.. i just busted it out laughing at this damn thing! it was I think.. a Genny on a chip.. in a playstation case.. I meen.. even the the insgnia looked like the playstation logo.. except it was FS (Fun station) instead of playstation.. even the controller was a rip off.. and when you pressed the "open button on top of the case.. teh clam shell opened up to show a cart port! :rofl:

     

    I allready have three gennys...

     

    so that little stop was a bust.. I was broke anyways...

     

    so I get home.. and a freind has dropped off for me.. a genny cart of toejam and earl... while not particualry rare.. a very saught after tittle.. he wanted me to have it becouse He knows I would appreciate it... play it.. and he knew where to go to play it again if he wanted to

    so that's todays schinagins

  10. Posted

    Today, I picked up a pair of 2600 Driving controllers, $1.91 each, a TI-99/4A Home Computer dual cassette cable (What? Your computer has two cassette decks attached to it? Swanky!) for 95¢, an unopened Logitech QuickCam USB for $4.94, and a book on cassette of Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, $1.91.

     

    I passed on a Genesis with the Master System Convertor attached to it, since I already have one, and I also couldn't find the price tag on it anywhere. There was an empty box nearby that looked like it held the console and all the wires and controllers, but the box was only marked $4.95, and that didn't seem like the right price, so I didn't bother throwing it all inside the box and attempt to pick it up for that price.

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    oh.. I would've dropped that genny in that bx and taken it to the front counter.. just becouse EB games sell complete packaged gennys for $30+ don't meen the thrifts are.. and besides.. I have like .. three of the things that people have just givin to me.. damn things are every where!

     

    all the other stuff.. nice haul!

  11. Posted

    something I recently picked up for my Box is State of emergancy..an early Rockstar games ported over from PS2 $10 off of fleabay. and basicly.. after playing it on the PS2 and now getting familiear with it on the box.. it seems more like a platforming Design excersize for all the other GTA universe things. still a really fun and funny brawler "mash the A button" game. me and the missus like to just pick it up and go crazy for points.

    and considering I'm a complete whore for tetris, I have to recomend Tetris Worlds, classic tetris, with interesting expanded gameplay vairables.. never bothered to play the "carreer mode" becoouse.. well.. how the hell can you really make a carreer out of playing friggin tetris. but its obnline capable so you can go head to head with other tetris whores accross the planet.

     

    the HALO series, as mentioned is a must have.. its the combat cart of the X-box, and really is the best FPS over all the consoles

     

    looking into the futurre.. and becouse I'ma big fan of cheesy mid 20th centry sci-fi/horror.. Destroy all humans will be out later this month and promises to be lots of cool cheesy open ended fun, and will probably be the only new release tittle I'll buy this year

  13. Posted

    Found a virtual boy for $1 with mario tennis, it is pretty fun acctually.

     

    Found a basket with a bunch of random 2600, coleco, and ti-84 games in it, along with a vader, some random controllers and such for $5. I was so glad to find anything game related that wasn't a $50 n64.

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    I was hip to get mine (virtua boy) for $15. good haul! I also got 2 other games besides so now I'm justifying cost... in any case.. it was a sytem I always wanted as a a kid.. and now I freakn gotit.. and so far playing.. no migranes, nor siezures! ROCK ON! WOOHOO!

     

    and yeah..really..why is N64 shit ging so high any ways? its getting ready to be three generations old.. aint nobody camping on nuthin!

  15. Posted

    Hey! This thread is finally a 'sticky'! Cool!

     

    Today, in one thrift, I found one lonely little Atari XE Jungle Hunt cart for 50¢. I searched all over, but couldn't find anything else Atari related. I hoped the computer or maybe some more carts would be around, but they weren't.  :sad:

     

    I found, mixed into the videotape section of a Goodwill, a CIB copy of Cyborg Hunter (Activision) for the Sega Master System with no price tag on it. I also picked up Great Golf for the SMS marked $5, and the saleslady sold them for $3 each. As I was standing at the counter, I also picked up a keychain version of Centipede for $3.

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    do you have the issue as i do that if an items price tag has become seperated from its item, said item must be returned back into the pricing circulation.. ie..they wont let you buy it or make an offer?

    of course.. I usually don't deal with good will anymore.. the only one fairly close to me, that deals in electronics is still a bit off the path for me so, I don't deal with them.

    besides.. I hear goodwill been getting alittle shady on the EBay side of things.

    my favorite thrift is usually always good for some gems, and they have astrict no employee purchase policy.. of course..there is no guarnentee the pricing guy isn't slipping some stuff in his coat before it hits the floor y'know

  16. Posted

    Clay decrypted Pacman Plus and I decrypted the other 2.

     

    Do you know if there were marquees for those games? I would love to see what one looked like. I have seen the PM Plus one, but never even heard of the others. Thats an amazing amount of work for you guys. I am always amazed by the work "the pros" put into this hobby (I just hack stuff and make it work again; most of the time!). Amazing, and thanks.

     

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    Here's a pic of my jumpshot. As you can see mine was a mspac instead of a pac. It had full vinyl sideart with hideous black, white, and red horizontal stripes and the bezel had matching stripes. The front was painted black. You can see the jumpshot control panel and marquee. I have some pics of what it origianlly looked like but they aren't digital. The color on my sideart is really nice since it's been covered since 1985.

     

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    Shoot the bull was the same I think. horizontal stipes on the side art. I had pics of the marquee and control panel but I can't find them now. KLOV has a pic of the marquee.

     

    http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9528

     

     

    BTW Here's Clays page on how he cracked Pac Plus I did mine completely differently.

    http://www.multigame.com/pacplus.html

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    the hacking the blob story is great.. and thanks for the insight on what I have here sitting on my desk. even if its not worth very much, at least its a little bit of history.. and who knows.. this might very well be the little gateway that gets me full time into the arcade side of the vintage gaming hobby

    any one gotta spare pacman board I could play with? :D

  17. Posted

    the thrift I raped today had binded the items in nylon threaded packing tape.. while not leaving any residue on the plastic, managed to get the label on one of my brand new to me NES virtuaboy carts torn and messed up :(

    other than that... I'm playing the hell out of it and.. no migranes or siezures so far! in fact... its pretty damn cool!

  18. Posted

    there was some CD-i stuff floating around one of my favorite vint stores for a while. I never picked them up becouse I really wasn't interested in hunting a unit down to play them.. and they were all sports related, and I'm not really into sports games.. so.. eeh

    I really ned to do a better job of grabbing stuff up as trade fodder at least.

    but that zelda game you grabbed.. the little lady is a big ass zelda fan.. most of the Nintendo units I got were got just for her to play itterations of zelda

    and from all the reviews, screenshots, and video out takes of that game..

     

    it's fucking cheesy ass awful, I meen, if you take vcs ET, and pacman, and combine them into some sort of hybrid creature that epidimises all that is wrong in the world.. nay.. verily to make the insidisdiously evil darth sidious, get up with Mr. burns and have them both twiddle thier fingers and say "egggselent" and the prospect of something so evil and barbouse to all that is holy..

     

    you've got a gem

     

    in any case.. I coul'dnt leave well enough alone today, and after the little lad got off of work from waitressing.. we slid on back there and did some more cleaning. I managed to get a VCS keyboard controller with teh star raiders inlay still in there, and a original gameboy with Tetris and street fighter. actually.. the game boy I got didn't have tetris in it.. but the nice young lady with the purple hair let me switch the games between the normal GB, and the Clear one that I actually got.

    and now.. the GB shall never leave my side as now I have tetris on demand, and its not the tiny little K7Rave virgin mobile tetris.. original gameboy tetris luvin :D

    so lets see todays haul...

    crazy arcade PCB kit .... 3.89

    VCS keyboard controller..1.98

    NES virtua boy, complete, 3 games 14.95

    game boy with tetris and sfII 6.98

    damn cool finds, and I spent 27.80

    not a bad day thrifting, evenif I didn't turn up any VCS games

  19. Posted

    That does look like one of the factory plus kits.  Plugs into the Z80 socket by that ribbon cable, and you should be good to go.  Then you swap the ROMS on the Pac board (not sure why they would be different, maybe somebody here knows...).  IIRC, when you are playing, if you push the 2 player start, that makes you go MEGA fast.

     

    Bizarre to find it in a thrift, but VERY cool!!!  Anybody near you have a pac you can try it in?

     

    Cassidy

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    while I hope to get into arcadeing at some point.. nope.. however.. down the street from me is a little shop called "games people play" on Boulivard here in richmond ( I can virtually spit at the place) they deal in pin ops for private sale and concession. but yeah.. it came with 6 ROM chips as well as this big hunk of plastic stuff..

     

    so Pack plus is the speed up hack? I need to check KLOV.

     

    also the board is incased in this lexan material.. like laminated, and it has broken away from its nylon standings..

    and I did pick it up becouse I knew it was something strange to find in a thrift, and considering it was a coin op related product.. I knew that $3.98 was a really low price for it.. seems like some specialised equipment

    anyone know what type of prices items like this might go for? I'm sure back in the day this would be a couple of bills to the arcade operators

  21. Posted

    found this over at Fantastic thrift, for $3.98, I had to grab it up :D

     

    now..what the hell is it? and what the hell do I do with it?

    basicly, it sez right on the front, "authorized enhancement kit no. 12802 and its all the chips for pac plus. So at this point, to see if it would work, I would have to get a pacman PCB, then gut that to put this in huh?

     

    in anycase..check out the pics...

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  22. Posted

    managed to find a pacman, pacplus kit for an arcade PCB! price? $3.98

    also, a complete, working, Nintendo virtua boy, with three games for $14.95

     

    I didn't find the virtua boy to be that uncomfortable ecept where I had it set up.. I'm a rather tall fellow, so there needs to be special accomodation.. other than that.. something interesting for the collection, and something I always wanted as a kid

     

    the PCB.. not sure what to make of it.. I have to hit the arcade boards for this one, but anything pacman related, I'm sure less than $5 is a pretty good score

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  24. Posted

    becouse I lent out my copy years ago and never got it back, and the expansion disk is useless with out it.

    or if some one could direct me to someplace where I could bootlegg it :D

  25. Posted

    I like the small form factor mods for all the wierdness folks have been doing.. but theres something to be said about the looks on folks faces when they enter the den of inequity here with all the operating and networked equipment and assorted "crap"

    seems as though the wall of technology is impressive.

    my actual latests mod is complety on computer related.. well.. sorta..

    my new entertainment center is a late 60's console stereo, the kind that had the runers and turntables and 8track players and speakers all built into one giant piece of furnature.

    the thing is made of oak with a birds eyemaple vaneer. unfortunatly all the componants were long stripped from it, and the only thing left in it were the speakers.

    wich turned out to be of remarcably good quality. once I rewired them.. they sounded perfect.. and incredible! so here we are with it having new electronics in the form of my old stuff with satilite TIVO dvd player, and considering the bottom cabinet where one would store records was so huge.. all that stuff fit in there to one side, with a fabricated shelf hold four vint game consoles into a installed sytem selector switch going to the TV. damn thing looks damn classy and allthe componants are hidden perfectly with the doors closed. now.. i could move the TIVO from the middle cubby, and turn that space into a speaker enclosure for center channel so at this point I would have the front surrond up front all in one enclosed space..

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