Sonic Adventure 2 hidden Green Hill Zone level...

[Sonic Adventure 2 hidden Green Hill Zone level...]

If you're playing the Dreamcast version you can simply download the save file from the net.

[Nintendo want list update]

the have bubble bobble 1 on ebay know for 19.99 buy it now

 

Kinda pricey. I'm getting my copy through a trade!

[I'M ADDICTED TO SONIC MUSIC!]

Check out zophar.net for the original music files ripped from the rom, and their respective player plugins for Winamp.

 

You're a smart lad, you should figure it out.

[Which NES games have the Famicom adapter??]

@ Ferris:

 

The mask roms were likely the english versions, Nintendo probably just didn't have enough US boards, or an overstock of Famicom boards and decided to get rid of them. Another possibility is that it was so early in production they didn't even have a US board conceived yet.

 

As for the difficulty in getting early games to work, here's what I've found. All of the first generation games (NROM, UNROM, CROM MMC1 chip boards) have trace connectors filling up either side, instead of missing sections like you'd see on the card edge of Super Mario Bros. 3, for example. Thus, in order for the game to work properly, it's very dependant that every single one of those traces are in contact with the generally faulty 72-pin connector of the NES. Additionally these games have thinner circuit boards than later revisions, if you compare them.

[First GTA is now free from Rockstar]

I played this game when it was new, and while it is simplistic by today's standards (and graphically horrendous, probably, though it's been years since I last looked at it) the game was very good in my opinion. Plus the freeform nature and scope was just something nobody else was doing at the time. It led up to GTAIII, please give this program the respect it is due.

[Super Mario Bros... it was bound to happen.]

Betcha nobody knows how to do the latter, and it does not require a gamegenie or emulator

 

Have firepower at the bridge with Bowser, get touched by Bowser and get the axe at the same time. What do I win?

 

Super Mario Bros never appealed to me when I was younger, and surprisingly, the target audience of the NES during its heyday. However now that I have 'matured' so to speak I can observe the subtleties of the program and how it really comes together as a very balanced, challenging but fair experience. You play enough of this game and you attain a sort of zen after a while.

[GBA TV TUNER]

Some flash carts have to be sanded down along the sides in order to fit the GBA SPs. While I haven't got an SP yet I will probably eventually have to resort to this, and it seems to me that hacking off the obstructing plastic on the tuner will be easier than making an extender bridge.

[SNES Rarity List]

Mega Man X listed as uncommon? Whoever did this list was probably influenced by ebay prices.

[LOL, someone paid $50+ for a socketed hacked Atari PCB]

That is a monster of a socket, I might add.

[Need some advice, please]

A word of warning: not all Sega Genesis games use batteries but a type of flash memory. Games that use this are as old as Wonderboy in Monsterworld and 'recent' as Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

 

If it uses a flash chip and it is dead (unable to be written to anymore) you may be able to swap it out from a cheap donor cart.

[What to do with a flaky HuCard (ear-ly in the mor-nin'...)]

or have someone custom meld a Game Genie into the inside of your deck for you.

 

You make it sound so easy.

[What to do with a flaky HuCard (ear-ly in the mor-nin'...)]

If the tape trick doesn't work out, have you tried running an eraser across the contacts of the hucard yet? Amazingly that gets dirt off that alchohol and swabs do not.

[Buy it for beefcake!]

One of these days I'm going to get a pug or french bulldog and call it 'McMeaties.'

[Shipping the NES]

Just the core unit? Maybe 6-7 bucks. With controllers, AC adaptor, etc. etc. could get up to 10-13. Really varies based on the shipping rate, I'm going by first class within the continental states USA.

[A/V mod for NES 2 (Toploader)]

You are in luck. I have 6 spare screws I would be willing to send you. I've had bad experiences sending small things like that through regular envelopes though, the USPS sorting machines eat them up and spit them out. PM me and we'll working something out, maybe use a bubble mailer.

[And the award for ''Most Creative Display Photography''...]

Now that is a single game collection. I just love the pagoda he made out of those. I just wish I knew what game that was.

 

It appears to be a Famicom baseball game. He had to have gotten those for the equivalent of 25-50 cents a piece.

[Sega CD: Star Wars Chess]

I have the PC version of that somewhere. It's okay, the animated segments draw out the game needlessly after you've seen them all.

 

I imagine the load times would be crazy-inducing if it reads the disc each time a piece is captured.

[NES: It's what's for dinner.]

Indeed. The very largest NES cart I've seen uses about half the space available.  

Likely due to the fact that japanese carts were a lot shorter.

 

Yes, Kirby's Adventure is the only one I know that uses the entire space, very big circuit board.

[my gameroom in print!]

Methinks you'll like this issue in particular MMF, they cover X7.

 

Pretty cool christianscott27, I look forward to December, my 32X box should be in there.

[NES: It's what's for dinner.]

I wonder how difficult it would be to transfer the label to a SMB/DH cart.  Probably tear it.

 

If he heated it up with a hair dryer and slowly peeled it away it might come off intact. Considering the game I'd say it was too much effort, might as well just get another one. Or keep as-is, makes a nice conversation piece.

[Beanie Babies -- Hilarious Ebay Listing!]

Checking the feedback of the highbidder indicates he did pay for the auction. Awesome listing. His response to the crazy lady that emailed him about them being fakes is great.

[Cool surprise]

Man, that's like bringing home a bag of charcoal only to find a diamond studded circus midget on a unicycle in the middle of it.

[My commons for your commons!]

Bump!

[Most *Technically* Advanced machine of each generation?]

32-bit: Saturn.

 

I have to agree, sheerly on the merit of it's dual-processor architectures. Still hasn't been emulated properly. The 32X comes in at a close second, Sega was needlessly complex.

[Megaman X7]

I read (from a devout Mega Man fanatic) that it was pretty stinky. Judging from how sorry X5 and X6 were I can believe it, I won't be touching this one.

 

Capcom hasn't given the X or original series much care lately and it shows.