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  2. Posted

    Hey ya'll.

     

    I had a beautiful AGS-101 Onyx SP a few months back in my possession, but unfortunate financial circumstances forced me to sell it. Now after resetting my collecting focus on Nintendo, and specifically right now Nintendo handhelds, I am wondering if anyone here has an AGS-101 they are looking to part with and how much they might want for that? I don't need games with it, just the handheld (and a charger would be nice). Colour also doesn't matter, as long as it isn't pink :P

     

    I'm not sure if the eBay prices are correct, but I'm consistently seeing $70-$100 by the time shipping is done, and that's for just the system. That seems insane to me, but maybe I'm just crazy?

     

     

    Cheers!

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    Who am I to care about your copyright infringing things that you sell for forty bucks a pop? While you lecture me about the "only way to play these games other than going into debt is by illegal methods?"

     

    What annoyed me was your bitching about Nintendo's selection of embedded games on their $60 toy.

     

    I think a selection of excellent games, at $2 each, is a more than reasonable price.

     

    Maybe he's worried repro prices will go down :P

     

    Pot, meet kettle....

     

    On topic: I also hope this could be powered by the USB port on my TV, that would make things a little tidier. Another interesting thing this console may allow is some neat case-hacking to make a portable version of it. Depending on what the board inside looks like, it could be a fun project to take one and turn it into a handheld unit. Not that there's much point to it, as there's a bunch of ways to play these games on the go as it is but it's more for the hell of it that anything else.

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  4. Posted

     

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    Hopefully this thread won't "speculate" until november, there's not much we don't know aside the quality and how it looks on a TV, menu screenshots that kind of thing.

     

    Spent any time in the Coleco Chameleon thread? Speculation is the life-giver around here.

     

     

    I like it. But I never owned a GBC, only a brck Game Boy, so I can't compare both.

    The built quality is decent. The D-pad and action buttons are a bit "gummy" but this isn't as bad as the Master System pads if you know those. The screen ratio is stretched, but so far I havent' noticed it in games. It's not 4/3 to 16/9 stretching. The LCD is of decent quality, no ghosting, no tearing, nothing odd or out of place. The clco kspeed is slightly off so game and music run at a superior speed, but again, not by a huge marging.

    I successfully transferred data with the Game Link cable between two Pokemon carts, the second one being into a Game Boy Advance so it's compatible enough to support this at least.

    The mains defaults would be that the inner speaker is wired only to one channel, so unless you play with earbuds, you'll be missing some music or sounds in several games, and the plastic facade protecting the screen is very poorly resistant and will catch scratches in seconds.

    I use mine with the Everdrive which is know to draw more pwoer than a real cart, and I get about 12/14 hours of gameplay out of two R6 batteries, and 10/12 hours out of two 2500Mah R6 rechargeable batteries.

     

    Bottomline : I like it for that I get to play GB and GBA games on the go with a GB looking device with the advantage of a decent backlit screen. If you do'nt wanna use a SP or mod a GBC, it's a decent tradeoff. Or if you're like me and fidn the GBA SP too small for our big adult hands.

     

    Thanks for the review, with how inexpensive they are I might pick one up to use with an Everdrive. Though if I had a choice I'd like a lit Gameboy Colour, I really like that form-factor (well, and of course nostalgia).

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  5. Posted

    Nope, I have this GB Boy Colour, and all games are GB games, not NES games. There isn't Zelda on it, but there is the first Mario on it, Tetris of course, and I think there is a Kirby game as well, and lots odf second tier interesting games. Plus filler games of course The hardware is made of off the shelves parts, kind of a mix of real RAM and CPU and ASIC for others, so it's hardware wise a Game Boy Color, not an ARM based emulation box, neither a portable NOAC machine. so this machine at least will not and will never run NES games. But it takes real GB and GBC carts, and even the Everdrive GB works on it.

    But it isn't a Nintendo product for sure.

     

    Huh, guess I had bad information. How do you like the unit? I've thought a few times about getting one, I like the idea that the Everdrive works on it. I know it stretches the games abit, but is that a big deal? I don't know if I feel like backlighting a Gameboy Colour, so getting what is essentially a pre-backlit one might be better.

     

    And to stay on topic, there's no information about how long these might be sold. I imagine as long as the demand is there, they'll be available for sale.

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    Tho it's more like 64 games, the other additionnal games being repeats.

     

    Yeah, I've seen those before but it just isn't the same as playing an 'official' one from Nintendo. Plus, it doesn't have a nice curated list of games. A lot of the games on those units are actually NES games. My plan is to grab an Everdrive for the Game Boy in any case, it would just be cool if Nintendo would release something like that.

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    Right because there is no way to play those games already. The whole point I'm getting at is they release the same games over and over. How many ways can you sell Mario?

     

     

    I meant person not thread.

     

    Releasing the same things over and over? Welcome to the entire entertainment industry, especially in the gaming field. Not only will you get multiple iterations of essentially the same game, you then get HD remakes and re-releases of them. No one on planet earth is better at milking a dessicated bovine corpse for milk than the entertainment industry. Fact is, most of the time it totally works so there really isn't a compelling reason for companies to not do it.

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  9. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I am seeing lots of sad things with accidents over this but its a new thing so they have to have someone or something to blame. That sneaky Snorelax might just push you off a cliff.....wait that happened already.

     

    Will this be another issuing of Darwinism at work?

     

    Only if we're lucky.

     

    Really, the developers could probably stop a lot of the issues if they just disable the app over a certain speed, let's say 10 or 15 km/hr. Then people just couldn't use it while driving. It wouldn't stop fools from getting hit by a car while on foot, but at least they won't be piloting a 2-ton death machine while hunting for a Charizard.

     

     

    LifeLine is one of the few games on the Apple Watch. Get little messages from some needy person all day long? No thanks

     

    I have a spouse for that.

  10. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I'm going be straight blunt wtf is your problem?

     

    Obviously a cartridge slot to play ummm duh cartridges, yes from 30 years ago would be nice.

     

    30 of the best games.....ummm how about NO.

     

    As far as the rom thing goes, I really don't understand your problem. I said previously!

     

    "I suppose if they made the entire nes library available that would be different. A legal way to purchase and play all the rare/expensive games would be cool."

     

    I would love Nintendo to serve them for bargain prices. They sell roms on virtual console already, what would be the difference if they sell them for this as well? Sorry for not being crazy excited for the same exact games being resold 100 thousand different ways on 20 different systems. Yay another way to play Mario, forget about the other 700+ nes titles that exist.

     

    To be equally blunt, most of those 700+ titles are shit that aren't worth playing. True of every console.

     

    Point of this console is to appeal primarily to people who want to play some of the games they fondly remember without a bunch of shit they don't give a crap about being tacked-on. Joe or Sally Consumer doesn't give a flying fuck if this has an SD card slot or cartridge slot, because they aren't going to go out and load up an SD card with roms or hunt down cartridges from 30+ years ago. They want to plug it into their TV and reminisce for awhile, while having a neat little conversation piece. The $60 price tag should make it pretty evident the market they're targeting with this, and it ain't hardcore NES collectors. Ancillary features like SD slots and cart slots would just confuse their target market.

     

    I'll save the thread and just add to ignore.

     

    Aw gee, thanks for letting us know.

     

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  13. Posted

    Nintendo should have known better then to not include a cartridge slot, and that ticks me off. They have to know that at least some of the people who will buy this have NES games. I'd save my money for the Retrousb AVS.

     

     

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    $185 for the AVS vs $60 for this, plus the AVS has no built-in games. They're not even competing for the same market segment.

     

    Nintendo is creating a Flashback, basically. The point isn't really to have a cartridge slot and play all NES games, the idea is to have a cheap, simple unit that plays a curated list of great games that most people will remember. The AVS is designed for people that really care about NES gaming, so to shit on Nintendo for not adding features that go beyond the point of the console is a head scratcher.

     

    Each feature = more money, so if they added all the features people want (cart slot, SD card slot, espresso maker) they'd end up with a $150 console that people would complain is too expensive.

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  15. Posted

     

    I suspect that unlike something from AtGames, where we have a list price of $60 US and it actually retails for $40 (or less, depending upon sales), this will really be $60 at retail, with the occasional special or minor discount. Still a great deal in my opinion even at the straight up $60 price.

     

    I noticed it was noted at $60 US, so conversion will have to be factored in for Canucks. It's like all new-release games that are $60 in the States but $80 out here. Still, even at $80 it's worth it for me.

  16. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I have a gameboy camera. Wait I might of sold that. But anyohw it was not very good. I think that era just sucked all together.

     

    I think this era sucks all together.

     

     

    These are garbage. They were on clearance at bestbuy back in the old days. They were useless even back then. It uses dial-up and has no wifi. And is extremely slow and outdated.

     

    You do realize you're on a forum based around a game console that's over 40 years old, right?

     

     

     

    Anyway, for 25c it's a neat piece of history!

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  17. Posted

    There is discussion of this console being available in "North America". Is that a euphemism for "United States", or will this be available at retail in Canada too?

     

    I've found traditionally North America refers to Canada too. At $60 in freedom-dollars I assume it'll come in at a price point of $80 here in the frozen North.

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  20. Posted

    Hey all,

     

    Been playing my DS Lite like an absolute fiend lately, but the smaller screens are starting to give me a headache whenever I play it for more than a half hour or so. Long road trip coming up in a couple weeks, so I'm hoping to get my hands on a cheap DSI XL so the bigger screens go easier on my eyes. I don't need complete in box and whatnot, just the handheld and charger.

     

    I'm in Canada-land so that will have to be taken into account for shipping, and as much as I like my Southern brethren I prefer Canadian sellers because I don't have to do a US dollar conversion which currently is deadly owing to the crap exchange rate.

  23. Posted

    I didn't know anything about this game until this thread, which caused me to read about it. Now I am more convinced than ever this game will single-handedly remove the majority of goppish morons who prance around glued to their phones, dead to the world. City buses, cars, cliffs, rivers, etc. It's going to be a great time for personal injury lawyers everywhere.

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