Raijin Z

Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Starcraft and Broodwar, just about any Doom clones that have Mac editions...

"Goodwill" my ass. Seems like most of the Goodwill stores people talk abour are nothing more than ebay hangers-on in disguise.

Not really. Unless the V is red, nobody will get it. Intellivision. Again, I've never even seen the actual system. October 29th will probably be the last time I go thrift hunting for a long time. Tired of this area having nothing but fucking garbage.

Like every other thread says, almost no other game shops carry anything older than PS2 anymore.

9_9 Just so you know, I'm not seeking from just Canada. That would be the fastest. I don't care about the origin.

In another episode of Shitty Thrift Adventures... Goodwill (Salem, Ohio): There are tons of InTV games there, but NOTHING ELSE. Oooh, a boxed Genesis game! Ah, with no game inside. 9_9 I ended up buying a boxed Tandy joystick ($1). Now I have 3, but Megabug is only 1 player. Goodwill (New Castle, Pennsylvania): Still cleaned out. More InTV games, but without a system, I have NO interest in them. Bought a USB Joystick ($2.50) and a mini-vac minus a few attachments ($1). There were a few PC keyboards, nothing special, and an IBM monitor, but the plug looked broken. There was some sort of small film projector that worked... or at least the batteries in it worked. I have no need for it. Goodwill (Hermitage, Pennsylvania): There's nothing there but Saturn and Genesis sports games. Maybe a few InTV games, I forget, but NOTHING else game-related. A few PC keyboards, nothing special, some oddly-shaped Xerox printer, that's pretty much it. I got a V. The only other Goodwill store in my now-curtailed range is the one in Andover, OH. It's generally shitty, the only good stuff I've ever gotten from it are Hydelide 3D for Saturn and an iomega tape drive with a 1GB tape. There's a store in Ashtabula, but that's a two hour drive ;_;, much too far for a longshot. There's another store close to Ashtabula, too, but I don't think I can stand four+ hours of driving through the more redneck-sections of Ohio. Anyone evern been on the Queen Elizabeth Way? It's like the section just outside of Niagra, only slower and more desolate.

I use an actual cloth for cleaning boards. Soak it in hot water, wring it out until no more water can be twisted out of it, fold into a thick square, then lightly dab and wipe the board. Of course, that's just for areas without things like capacitors, transistors, and LEDs sticking up off of the board. They're a bitch to replace if you accidentally snap them off. Cotton swabs around the more delicate areas, with alcohol.

Christ, it seems anyone with anything I need lives in the goddamn UK. I need a replacement screen cover for my Gamegear. Oh, there's on or two on ebay. Where? UK. For about triple the price of the Canadian auction I missed.

Not really. You can do a lot with enough video ram, but there comes a point when less complex geometry becomes distractingly bad.

Can you run Q2 in software mode? Does it only screw up in OpenGL?

I rinse my shells with cold water when they're done being washed to get rid of the soap, then towel/blowdry to get rid of the water.

Sounds like the problem is on your end. I've played Quake 2 in WinXP before. The only problem is when I played Q2 Extreme (graphically-enhanced executable), the gamma in Windows would go to shit after exiting the game.

You were supposed to say "boy, this chatroom sure is slow".

Comedy Google option. Is there a model number or something printed into the plastic?

Lies, they're the same type of buttons. I saw nothing in the DS2's button design that screamed variable pressure support. You would know this if you had ever envestigated the controllers on your own. What are you talking about? DS2 are analog. It's pretty well established. If they feel "mushy" is subjective, but it sure feels it to me...I switch to the old ones for GTA so I know I'm fully pressing the gas.I've taken the PS2 pad apart several times. The buttons are pretty standard. Contact pad, silicone button with conductive disc inside, hard plastic button on top of it all. I didn't see anything that looked pressure sensitive on the face of the board. Yes, it's like they decided to break into some alternate dimension where everybody's hands are backwards to steal plans for a design untested even there.It's a totally comfortable controller, it's just the "two different grips" idea was probably misguided. And then some games decided to use the D-pad and stick at the same time, which got a little awkward uh, what?Nintendo didn't take the proven design of the SNES pad and improve upon it, they made a whole new controller design and when people complained about it, they clammed up. At least MS made a better controller when the peasants revolted. Well, according to everybody else, Nintendo ripped Sony off (lol SNES CD, fuck you Sony, we're seeing someone else now) first. It's not like Nintendo couldn't have continued improving the SNES pad...SNES was out. The Sony/Nintendo deal after falls through. Sony copies the SNES pad, adds slightly bigger grips, makes the right side more like a crosspad, and adds shoulder buttons. Wheee. If N64 hadn't ripped off the 3D0 prototype, I wonder how long it would've taken Sony to add analog sticks in?=_= Not long. Look at the games that were available for PSX. Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, and several other games were improving and producing sequels, people wouldn't have tolerated pure digital control for much longer. I'm now surprised you haven't broken them.Nope, they seem pretty durable to me.Twisting them instead of cleaning them, though? Sega wasn't doing jack shit with the design when the XB's first controller was finalized.Your point being? XB ripped it off, enhancing it a bit and dropping the VMU, which was a nifty seeming idea, if weak in execution.The design wasn't fully flawed, and like I said, Sega killed the DC well before the XB was close to being done. Your lack of experience should not be used as a shield against logic.OK, Cap'n Logic, got any references about what popular brands of PC gamepads look like the Xbox controller? As far as I can see, PCs use big honking flight sticks, driving controllers, and some SNES/PSX ripoff gamepads.Jesus, google image search. There's more than one, more than two styles of gamepad bearing the name Microsoft Sidewinder. Go with what works. People complained about the original pad. I'm genuinely surprised that Microsoft listened.Same here...but overall Xbox has impressed me by doing so many things right, including listening to complaints about the controller (though some guys prefer the big'uns)Guys with gorilla hands, no doubt. The gamepad competition thread proved that everyone who liked the OG XB pad hated the DS because it was "too small". Sony has never been about multiplayer. How many linkable games have been released for the PSX and PS2? You could probably count each system's offerings on two hands. Well yeah...for lots of people, setting up two TVs near each other is too much of a hassle I don't care how cheap its become, if it's not builtin to the system fewer developers are going to support it. I think of it ias the other way around...online multiplayer is a possible substitute if my friends don't want to play games as often as I do. 4 player is a limitation, but still, I prefer the social element. Nintendo's failure to do squat with the adapter is annoying, though for the longest time, when PS2's primary online offering was SOCOM...blech. I bought all the goodies for that game and hated it, with its cheaters and no-respawn pseudo-stealth action. Only Xbox has done a decent job with online support.They knew to set up a serious online structure, but it's a given considering that it's Microsoft. There's not much to say to Sony about that, they were first out of the gate this generation, but there is -no- forgiving Nintendo.

Yeah, every time somebody has a disagreement, it's just fanboy rambling, isn't it?

One person can't make a difference. Unless they have weapons, rite.

I think the menacer uses a reciever too.

OMG I H8 CEL-DUH IT LOOKS ALL STUPID AND CARTOONY EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO WATCH TEEN TITANS.

At least Sony didn't arbitrarily place lettered buttons in yet ANOTHER configuration. ABXY? YXBA? AYXB? Or make BLACK AND WHITE buttons to throw the whole controller scheme right into the shitter. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

For real. I like it very much when all the face buttons are the same size and shape, and in a decent pattern. XBox = HAY LET'S PUT BLACK AND WHITE BUTTONS UP TOP.... NOW ON THE BOTTOM! Gamecube is like, someone spilled a bag of candy onto a blank Gamecube pad, and Nintendo built buttons wherever it didn't fall off.

Thanks, but no thanks, Superscope 6 is truly so annoying that I don't even want it for free.

That's my line. Lies, they're the same type of buttons. I saw nothing in the DS2's button design that screamed variable pressure support. You would know this if you had ever envestigated the controllers on your own. Yes, it's like they decided to break into some alternate dimension where everybody's hands are backwards to steal plans for a design untested even there. Who needs to improve their current design when they can change boats midstream? Well, according to everybody else, Nintendo ripped Sony off (lol SNES CD, fuck you Sony, we're seeing someone else now) first. It's not like Nintendo couldn't have continued improving the SNES pad... ...but no, the Gamecube pad is like the Dual Shock had anally raped the N64 controller, and this was the twisted assbaby. Hell on your index fingers, since their click point was too deep. That grinds itself loose under normal (non-Mario Party) use. Nintendo chucked symmetry out the paralellogram window with the N64. I'm now surprised you haven't broken them. Sega wasn't doing jack shit with the design when the XB's first controller was finalized. Your lack of experience should not be used as a shield against logic. Go with what works. People complained about the original pad. I'm genuinely surprised that Microsoft listened. Sony has never been about multiplayer. How many linkable games have been released for the PSX and PS2? You could probably count each system's offerings on two hands. Slightly more for multitap-capable games. I don't see purchasing a $15 device as a huge problem, should I want additional functionality from a game... but those FIRST PART, THIRD REICH people might insist that all multitap devices cost $40. Oh, my first party Gamecube broadband adapter sure is getting a lot of use. Fuck 4-player games when you could be playing online, right? So wouldn't Nintendo be the bigger badguy in the case of stupid hardware tricks?

Meh, I have a boxed Super Scope, but it was just the gun package, not the one that came with Superscope 6.

Hahaha, doubly dumb. Anything made in the USA will fall apart. It's not a knock against craftsmanship, it's a CURSE. If you took all the parts and workers and tools to Canada and had them build something, it would be fine. Anything constructed by ANYBODY within the borders of the USA will fail quickly, no matter how much care, planning, and effort went into its construction.