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Neogeo AES Joystick - Has some scratches and dings and the usual cracking on the ball that is common with these controllers but does not hinder gameplay as it is just aesthetic. The controller is fully functional and works like new. I am only parting with it because I prefer the smaller neo cd controller and I don't have the room for this. $100 shipped OBO. Sega CD extension piece for model 1 - This is the somewhat rare extension piece so that you can add the model 1 original Genesis to a model 2 Sega CD and not have it hanging off for dear life It's just been kicking around for a few years and I don't even have a Sega CD anymore. Comes with the mounting plate attached and even the screw that goes into the bottom of the Sega CD (in the baggie). $40 shipped and it is yours. Set of two NEC Shuttle Grafx controllers. Nice, clean, work perfectly. Comes with two 10FT extension cables as well. $100 shipped takes the set. PM!

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Got this coming. Untested and the only picture. But, it was really cheap Crossing fingers it works and its a legit Sega MD2. I believe it is. There are more bootlegs of this version of the MegaDrive out there than legitimate consoles...lol. Not easy to get a hold of if you are not into importing and spending premium prices. This one was in the USA and $40 for the set...and will be a nice addition to my Japanese Sega console collection.

Nice 3D glasses set for your Sega Master System! The glasses are Asus brand. Much better than the original glasses in my opinion. For one they don't snap in half, lol. They also fit an adult sized head! And, of course the set is going to run you half of what the official glasses would cost. The glasses work great as you would expect. Comfortable and work just like the originals. This also includes the official Sega 3D glasses adapter. If you have a Sega Master System and a 3D game you are ready to go, BUT please be advised that these only work on a CRT display. $60 shipped takes the set. PM if you want it! ***SOLD***

I hear you, but MAME has never been about user experience at all. It has been about accurately documenting the hardware and how it functions. What did they used to say? Something like "being able to play games is just a nice side effect".

This is why you use clrmamepro to update your romsets. All you need really is clrmamepro, the most current mame executable and the updated romfiles. It will do the work and merge them into your mame folder. I have been using it to update the sets for years: https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/ MAME is not breaking sets. The sets that need replacing were already broken. There are many reasons for the updates. In the old days MAME had to use "samples" (sample sounds) for a lot of games because the sound ROMs were either not properly emulated or dumped. Some ROMs were dumped from corrupt chips or incorrectly dumped and not a 1:1 copy and so on. As donor boards are found things get redumped in order to correct the previous mistakes, MAME itself gets updated to look for the correct ROM, and then you run into the issue where either a game dumps an error or does not work at all anymore. In short, the updates are a good thing. Each time the sets are becoming more accurate and therefore the emulation more complete.

Just a spare controller I have in my arsenal and trying to lighten the load and of course gain funds to buy something else Its clean, works great. I have this listed on Mercari for $70. For an AA member here you can have it for $50 shipped. PM if you want it.

Then you haven't had that many I have a collection of working CRT displays thankfully, but I have also had quite a few go on me over the years in various ways. And, I am probably a whole lot older than you with a lot more experience with vintage hardware. Things were built better in the "old days" certainly, but you have to understand that it is all on borrowed time....even the "good stuff". You are on the other hand acting like all of these decades old hardware and media are just going to last you forever...no worries at all. I appreciate the positive attitude, but I hate to tell you that is not the reality....no matter how much you wish to will it to be.

Tell you what. If you advocate to the old CRT manufacturers on my behalf to start up production again I will do the same for you to those laser assembly people!

The ODE's are just a matter of modern convenience in my opinion. An evolution that we never had imagined (I certainly didn't) that we would see decades later for these old machines. For the Saturn however you can have the best of both worlds if you use the Satiator ODE. No mods are needed and especially no need to gut the original CD unit. While I will admit it has been ages since I actually put a real Saturn disc in the console at least I know the functionality is still there if I want to. If you put in a real game it boots the game as normal. Remove the game and power on the machine and it boots to the disc image select menu (I use Saturn Rings menu which is great). Bored of a game? No sweat, hold ABC and press start and the machine reboots to the menu again in order to select something different. And, with a nice 512GB card in the Satiator I have a very very solid selection to choose from. It is my preferred method of playing this machine nowadays. Everyone experiences their fun with the console in their own way and I am not going to bash you if you like original discs, burned copies with a mod chip, or an ODE. The important thing is that you are able to enjoy this console after all of these years.

I had heard about the CD resurgence during the pandemic as well. I think all of that at home time gave people time to sit back and reflect. It seems people are understanding the importance of owning physical media versus "renting" it. I am not surprised at all to see it returning.

I can name three. I have already experienced bitrot on a few games in the past. Do you think the original discs that are now over two decades old are going to last forever? If you believe that you are living in a fantasy world. They will all rot as time goes by. But, you don't have to believe me. Keep buying those pricey discs and don't say I didn't warn you when one day they refuse to read. I am not saying collecting disc based media (games) is not fun. It's nice to have the original game, original artwork, original manuals. But, don't believe for a minute that these last longer than cartridge based media. Both will fail eventually, but discs are much more prone. In my experience they fail (or start experiencing errors) at the 20 some-odd year mark. Some last much longer, some do not. Like I said I have had three rot and they spent their lives in their cases in a climate controlled environment. That said, unless the disc is free or close to it I won't buy it. I'd much rather use an ODE and maintain digital backups of the discs. Those don't rot

Now that I own a GameDrive and a BackBit I can give them a fair comparison. The GameDrive is a beautiful piece to start. The cartridge looks great and fits perfectly in the 7800. The firmware is easy to update and every 7800 game I have thrown at it including the advanced homebrews works perfectly and the games load instantly. The RGB out is absolutely awesome. I have a Sony Wega Trinitron TV that has component in and using this cart with an HDRetroVision cable is just a thing of beauty. As a matter of fact, I still have the old RF connected as well so that I can look back and wonder how I had dealt with it before The BackBit uses a 7800 cartridge adapter that has POKEY sound integrated. It fits fine in the 7800 but does look a little funny plugged into the 7800 as it is smaller and stands up due to the adapter PCB. But, it does indeed work fine and all retail games work including those with POKEY sound, and it sounds perfect. The vast majority of homebrews do work but there are some that do not (Rikki & Vikki, 1942, and some others). All 2600 games that I have tested work, but I am unsure of ARM games. The BackBit does have the ability to fast reset back to the menu however you do need to add a wire to a chip leg on the motherboard (no solder, its just a clip) for the reset to be reliable or even work at all. If you don't you'll have to power cycle the console in order to get back to the menu. But, with the wire, resetting any game back to the menu works reliably, all of the time. So, in the end, which did I choose? Well, I am keeping the GameDrive in the machine as I just can't live without the RGB (now!) and the access to the modern homebrew games. The BackBit should not be discounted however as it does do a great job and the biggest benefit is that it works with a dozen (or more) consoles now so it will always go to good use. I use one in my Colecovision, Japanese SMS, Atari 600, C64, and Intellivision. And I have adapters for other consoles I haven't gotten yet. They are really both great devices to have, but I think if your primary focus is only the 7800 the GameDrive wins.

Awesome tool to back up or create floppies for various computers. I used this to flux copy a bunch of Amiga floppy disks and it worked out great. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle Comes with everything you need. A new old stock 3 1/2 floppy drive (Panasonic), power cables, USB C power cable, floppy data cable, and cased Greaseweazle device. Just plug it into a PC USB port, run the software and you are ready to go. $50 SHIPPED takes the set. **SOLD**

PMed, I'll take it.

I purchased two of these as I thought at one point I would need a second one for a second C64 machine, but I did not. I use one right now and I have to say it is great. If you have a bad PLA or a suspect bad PLA you need this. Even if your PLA chip is fine (now) you need this. It is a plug and play solution and works just like the stock MOS version. I paid $22 plus shipping for this. If someone wants it (in the USA), take it for $20 shipped. ***SOLD***

And yes, you will have a sale as soon as payday hits next week. I will PM you then!

An Itch.io or GOG style purchase system for Atari ROMS would be great. I have used https://itch.io/ to buy Commodore 64 games for use with a flash cart there and that experience has been quite great. Sometimes the disk images come with special extras like a soundtrack and they always come with some sort of PDF manual. I dream of something like that becoming a reality for homebrew vintage console games across multiple consoles really. As I had mentioned, I just do not collect cartridges anymore much like I do not collect music CD's anymore. I just don't have the space anymore to store game collections and its really convenient to download a ROM, pop it on an SD card and add it to the digital collection. Not only that, the delivery would be instant. No waiting for the game to arrive, no shipping issues, etc. Buy the game, download, play. If there is a fear of the game ROM being "traded" and hurting the sales of the game there are ways to handle that as well. Time the ROM release months or even a year after the physical release could be one. You can also create a method to encode the buyer's name into the rom code so that if it is traded you'll know who did it. Companies have done that in the past on PC digital software purchases. One day I am confident we will have a centralized way to buy ROMS.....one day...

Please excuse my ignorance as I did not find a comprehensive list and admittedly while I am a very old 7800 fan I have not been up on the latest and greatest when it comes to the system. That is, other than just purchasing a GameDrive! That said, I have not been a collector of physical carts for any system really in some years. I use devices like the GameDrive to play good and fun games, and of course I am willing to buy them if they are appealing. Is there a good comprehensive list (with links) of 7800 games available in ROM format from the various homebrew developers that I would be able to purchase?

Lol, intentionally I am well known for my self-deprecating humor!

Agreed entirely. It certainly breathes new life into the 7800. I am now experiencing homebrews I have never seen before and experiencing them in glorious RGB. Because of the picture quality I am even seeing things I never did before in original 7800 retail games. I never noticed those fine details! Not only is what is under the hood of this device incredible but the addition of the RGB port on the cartridge itself is pure genius. Really great not to have to mod anything at all in order to achieve that level of picture image. Now we need an Atari 8-bit cartridge just like this!

That's like saying don't eat paint chips. I did that all through the 70's and 80's as a kid and I turned out just fine and dandy!

Maybe this reveals an opportunity for a future run. Scented shells!

I always use the 4:3 setting on these displays for the retro computers I have connected, but I do have the say that it does look "proper" at 16:9 on the ST medium res as mentioned above.

I think it is just as SainT said that the heatsink for the 5V regulator is making the plastic shell warm and that is what is smelling. It makes sense now that it sort of smelt that way when I retrieved it from the mailbox yesterday as it was a warm day in NC.