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  2. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I've owned this 35" KV-35S42 Sony Triniton CRT for about 6 years. Picked it up from Goodwill (when they still did TVs) to fit the massive entertainment center the previous homeowner left in the basement. My wife thinks I'm nuts for keeping it. It weighs 180 pounds. I'm not kidding. It weighs more than I do. It took two people to get it downstairs and I shudder to think what it would take to get it back up again. MSRP was $999 when it came out around 1999.

     

    I have a bunch of systems hooked up to it, including an xbox360, mostly so we can watch netflix on it. I don't regret owning it. It has a beautiful picture. Colors are vibrant and playing vintage systems is a joy.

     

    Doh. Sideways. Stupid phone.

     

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    Good Gravy. This will be an interesting project to watch. I've never seen Baby Pacman in person, but I've read about it.I'm really curious how the pinball aspect will play out. You have your work cut out for you!

     

    So awesome to see you working on another game!

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  5. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    When Rogers was booted I thought it was a good time to get into playing the TG game, as there are a few games I can play at a near world record level. Now I'm wondering if there is ever going to be any point. Who didn't think it would be awesome to have a world record as a kid? I know I have always thought it would be pretty cool. TG has damaged itself beyond anything that looks like trust to me at this point. Now that TG has had to send notice to GWR twice in a few months I'm thinking GWR will probably start agreeing with me soon.

     

    TLDR: I'm all for killing the entire score board and starting over, else I can see no way to trust anything on it. Very unfair to people that actually earned their record, but I just can't see another way to regain lost trust.

     

    The thing is, Twin Galaxies is under new management. The old Walter Day era was where the bad records came from. Lack of diligence and consistency and bad actors led to a lot of the fraud in the records.

     

    What else can Jace Hall, the new owner do? He wants to make TG a e-sports hub. IF he's to do that, he's got to build credibility for his organization. That means, when serious allegations come up, he can't sweep them under the rug. I see this as a positive thing. It shows that they're trying to create a sense of integrity in the organization that wasn't there before.

     

    And honestly? I think they did their due diligence in this case. The proof is incontrovertible. The tape shows something that is not original hardware... something Mitchell presented himself as using when he set his record. We can argue about why that was or if Mitchell knew, but as far as Twin Galaxies is concerned, the record was not done on real hardware and might have been done through various cheat methods. In the end, that's what matters to Twin Galaxies because their integrity is on the line if they validate records that turn out to be fraudulent.

     

     

    I'll be straight with you guys (and gals)... there's really only three people I've ever looked up to as an idol or role model or whatever you want to call it. The first two are Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the third is Billy Mitchell. Throughout this whole accusation process I've been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, because in spite of his portrayal as the villian in King of Kong he's actually a darn nice guy and I've always found him to be something of an inspiration.

     

    He's got this larger-than-life persona that, while slightly intimidating, just exudes greatness and self-confidence. To some people that may make him seem like a bit of a dick, but I've always wished that I could be that cool, collected, and self-confident whenever I've gone into a high score competition. And watching Billy Mitchell play and listening to his presentations on competitive classic gaming taught me a few things, namely to always "Believe that you can do it" and "Never give up", as he would say.

     

    I took his messages to heart and as of last month I just hit 50 world record high scores on HighScore.com. I know they're unofficial records and nothing as prestigious as holding a Twin Galaxies of Guinness world record, but they still mean something to me and I'm not sure I would have had the guts to even try if it wasn't for Billy Mitchell's inspiration.

     

    So yeah... maybe he cheated somewhere along the line or maybe he didn't and this is all one big witch hunt, but I'd still like to think the best of him and I appreciate all the inspiration he gave me. If he truly did no wrong then I'm glad to see him out there at conventions defending his integrity, and regardless of how this all turns out I still think that the world needs people like Billy Mitchell in it. Larger-than-life legends that little people lacking in self-confidence can look up to and draw inspiration from, so maybe one day they might be great too.

    I totally get what you're saying and I agree. Heroes are wonderful things. They inspire us and they help us strive for greater things. But we also need to remember that heroes are usually larger than life and the reality of their hero-dom is often very different than what we perceive from the outside. So take inspiration in what he represented and take his fall from grace as a warning. Success is a great thing to achieve, but not at the expense of other very important things, such as integrity.
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  6. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I feel like this outcome is something that is a natural result of Jace Hall's attempt to turn the revived Twin Galaxies into a world E-sport leader. TG has had no end of shenanigans over the years. Even before Todd Rogers was finally and completely outed as a cheat, there were allegations of cronyism in the Adjudicating. The fact that Rogers had so many bogus records that were approved by the PTB of Twin Galaxies of the time is proof of that.

     

    So if Hall is to make Twin Galaxies into a serious organization, reforms have to be made. I sense that the efforts are sincere and aimed at creating credibility for the organization. If Hall is to succeed in his quest with Twin Galaxies, he has to convince the community that there is integrity in what they do.

     

    Throwing Rogers out completely was a positive and necessary first step.

     

    Moving to Mitchell... Given the serious questions as to the source of Mitchell's gameplay videos and the inconsistency in his explanations, I think TG did the right thing. I feel like they did their due diligence in researching the matter and don't fault them in their decision.

     

    Frankly, it raises my opinion of TG because they DID make the hard decision to toss out someone because they cheated. Here's hoping they keep working on tossing out other bogus records.

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    Oh man. I wasn't familiar with who this was until I saw it was Kenfused. I've been around about 9 years new and I've seen him jump in and help folks repeatedly. I've long held him in great respect from reading his many posts over the years.He really was an asset to the community and a nice guy to boot. His presence here will surely be missed. I'll be praying for his family. At 49, he truly was still young. I can't imagine what they must be going through. :(

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    Looks like we'll be waiting longer. It's listed out of stock in the AA store. No bother though. I was planning on waiting for Assembloids and LEM to be available without the box so I could purchase them cheaper... :P

    Darn. Having a budget sucks sometimes. :(

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  14. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I have a roller controller I bought a year or two ago and I recently decided to revisit it. After looking up compatible games, I found that Centipede is the only game I own that works with the roller setting. It doesn't do anything when it's on. On joystick mode, it's pretty slow, requiring a lot of spinning to move the "player" very far. How responsive is the trackball supposed to be? And has anyone ever dealt with issues like this? Any suggestions?

     

    I suspect I have a turkey. Shame, cause it's in great cosmetic shape and I love trackballs in general.

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    You know, I totally forgot the 360 had backward compatibility! That said I've a chipped Xbox and all my games loaded onto a big HDD, which is nice ;)

     

    But yeah, losing the 480p and widescreen options on both would hurt, I'm too used to them. I suppose if I bag one of these HDMI for the GC and a component to HDMI box for the XBox I'll have future proofing covered.

     

    Not 100% compatibility. There are quite a few games that don't work on it. In fact, only about 280 games are officially compatible IIRC. Total released games is well above that. I got me an original Xbox for that reason. Sad to say I only got it to play Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Don't Judge me.

  16. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I honestly didn't even know there was more than one model of GameCube. But as soon as I saw that in the video I checked mine and saw that it is the compatible one.

     

    To my understanding, there were two models. DOL-001 (Original Indigo Model) and DOL-101. (The Panasonic Q obviously doesn't count as a model exactly.) In addition to removing the digital AV out, the 101 removed serial port 2 on the bottom and the top faceplate is no longer removable. The newer models also had an upgraded laser that supposedly had less issues with read errors. I believe the release version was the original 001 and all the other colors are 101s.

     

    I'd be curious to see a comparison between SVideo and HDMI. Obviously, I know that HDMI will be better, but I'm curious as to how much better.

  18. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I wonder if this would be a good candidate for a kickstarter campaign to get it professionally built, if he is indeed making them by hand. If he's really being inundated by the interests for it, perhaps it would be something for him to look into. If it was cheap enough, (30 to 50 dollar range) I could see a real market for the thing... although, being limited to only the original GC release does limit the market a bit.

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    I have a 35" Sony Triniton CRT from 2001, the KV-35S42.

     

    When we bought our house, the previous owner left this massive monstrosity of a wooden TV stand in the basement. You'd have to cut it up with an ax to get it out of there. So, I did the next best thing and went out and got the largest TV I could find that would fit in it. (That should give you an idea of the size of the TV stand!)

     

    It's my main retro gaming monitor. I got it at Goodwill for less than $10 when they still sold CRT TVs about 5 years ago. It's not a flat screen, but definitely not as curvy as some tube tvs. Thing weighs at least 180 pounds. It took two people struggling to get it into my basement and I shudder to think of how close I was to getting crushed by the damn thing taking it down the stairs. Heaven forbid I ever have to get rid of it.

     

    I've been impressed with it. It's clearly a high end TV from the end of the SD era (a quick check says the MSRP was $1200), though not as high end as the WEGAs. The picture is very nice and crisp and games look great on it. I have a HDTV LCD upstairs that's used for modern gaming and TV, but I find I truly prefer the oldschool CRT for gaming. I even use it to watch Netflix on occasion (my xbox360 is hooked up to it because I never use it anyway).

  20. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    I have Adventures of Lomax. Given that I almost exclusively collect from Goodwill, you can imagine my shock when I discovered I'd just bought a 120 dollar game for just 1.

     

    It's the most valuable game in my collection, and I found it on a fluke. Crazy enough, it happened less than 2 years ago.

     

    My second most valuable ps1 game is Clock tower, followed by the longbox version of Silverload.

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    I thrift primarily. I probably wouldn't spend more than $25 for a single game. The most I ever paid for anything not in the current or previous gen or new was $70 and that was for a lot containing a Colecovioson and 20 games and an Intellivision with 40. Not a bad deal..

     

    Much of my collection has been amassed over the years from thriving. Do I have a lot of really valuable stuff? No. I don't have money for that, though I've had one or two lucky finds here and there.. Have I spent far less than the value of my collection? Yes.

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    Hate to revive this topic but it relates to a few questions I have so no point in starting a new topic. :)

     

    1) Do CD-Rs regardless of quality damage the 3DO in any way?

    2) If any do not damage the 3DO can you please tell me which specific discs are 100% the best quality.

    3) Is ImgBurn a good program to do the actual burning of discs or should I use another program?

     

    I have a US FZ-1 from 1994 and I just bought a mint condition Japanese FZ-10 (date unknown as it is in transit) and a few games (so far) and as a test I ripped a couple of my retail discs to ISOs and burned them with my fairly new-ish Lite-On DVDRW drive (circa 2010?) at the slowest speed using cheap Memorex discs. All but 1 disc worked on my US FZ-1 but I mainly did that as a test to verify functionality of the 3DO reading CD-Rs because I'd use higher quality discs next time.

     

    Now that the background is set let me explain what I want to do specifically so I can get some advice/information. I'm a ROM hacker by trade (mostly SNES RPGs) and I like poking around with games to do various things the main thing being hard or easy versions of games by request to name a couple. In 2014 I made a Supreme Warrior Easy mod by both request from someone and for my personal use. So I'd like to burn my mod of Supreme Warrior and other mods I'm working on to disc so I can both test them to and play them once finished. I am working on doing easy or hard mods for Star Control II, Lucienne's Quest, and Guardian War. Right now I'm data mining but I'd love to know if I'll have to use 4DO to test or if I can test them on real hardware.

     

    Any help or advice is appreciated.

     

    Haven't done this in a while, but my FZ-10 never has had a problem reading burned games. I do know that because the speed of the system is only 2X (or lower), you do need to burn them at the slowest speed your burner allows, or they won't read.

     

    The CDs I used were decent quality, but certainly not top of the line. Never had an issue, though I certainly haven't spend hours and hours playing them. Imgburn was what I used to burn the discs. I've used that program for years

  25. Posted · Edited by Lendorien

    It's been fun reading people's memories of this machine. I've always been fond of the 3DO. I think if the price point hadn't been so high, it could have been a serious contender. As it is, it's still a respectable system with some very good games. Definately ahead of its time with some features that broke new ground.

     

    I'm pretty sure I encountered one of these at a store around '94 when I was in high school in Saginaw. I remember being at a Sears and seeing the CDi (and being slightly unimpressed by the Zelda game with it's slow loading times and cheesy animations), and later, the 3DO playing Gex, I think.. It's hard to know. I was 17 at the time.

     

    My first real encounter with the 3DO was about 7 years ago. I was at a Goodwill and saw a Goldstar one sitting on a shelf. At that point I wasn't collecting yet, so I thought maybe it was an early DVD player or something. I did see the controller port and the 3DO label, but without a smart phone, I had no way of knowing what it was. I kick myself about that once an a while.

     

    About 6 months later, now a little more informed, I found a Panasonic Fz-10 at another Goodwill and snapped it up for 10 bucks. It came with two controllers and I happened to get four games with it at the same time. Need for Speed, Jurassic Park Interactive, and both of the Shockwaves. I've had it ever since. I have about 6 games for it as it's never been one of my main collecting focuses. I have a more than a few AHEM... downloaded games for it, but when I play it, I tend to play Need for Speed on it.

     

    I would love to get Star Control II for it as Star Control II is easily in my top 10 games overall. Definitely one of my favorite thrifting pickups. I can't think of a system I got through thrifting that I'm more fond of, perhaps aside from my APF TV-Fun 401 that still gets pulled out at parties.

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