[Wanted: Interesting Auctions]

Lochjaw manual in this lot.

 

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/129066001

[No No Kuni Wrath White Witch]

Top two JRPG for me, especially to play with your kids. Finished it with my son when he was 10. He still talks about hunting Toko-Tokos. The soundtrack is amazing; same composer who did many soundtracks for Ghibli films. Other fav is DQ8. Both are developed by Level 5.

[Retrocomputing might be more fun now than BITD!]

For me, the nature of what is fun has changed. In the 80s and 90s, the software was what was fun. I was interested in the hardware only to the extent that it enabled me to run the software I wanted or needed.

 

Now what's fun is collecting the hardware and getting a system to run as smoothly as it possibly can. The software is just a tool to measure my success at doing that.

[Intellivision Ebay Roundup]

Math Fun is a divisive title.

[$30K NES Auction on Shopgoodwill]

My guess is that there's a ton of profit in slabbed NES games.

[$30K NES Auction on Shopgoodwill]

This one ended tonight for $20K. Not as many sealed games in this lot.

 

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/125424566

[$30K NES Auction on Shopgoodwill]

This auction ended tonight -- $30K for 27 sealed NES games. This follows the $10K Air Raid auction.

 

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/125194900

[Intellivision Purchases and Deals]

This auction recently ended on Shopgoodwill. I didn't buy it, but I think it is hilarious. I like to imagine that the owner got really excited to play chess on the Intellivision, even buying a pawn joystick for the disc, got beat down by the computer, and was so mad that they donated the whole thing.

 

[Broken HDMI Out Port on XB One]

I have an original XB One 500GB model that I bought from Goodwill a while back. It worked fine for a while, but then the display started to go on the fritz, and then I didn't get a display at all. I realized that the HDMI Out port had been damaged--a couple of pins are exposed. Maybe I pulled out the plastic around the pins when plugging and unplugging a cable. You can see it from a couple of angles in the photos below.

 

I don't want to pay to repair this, and I don't have the skills to do it myself. I'm still logged in with my user info from the last time the display worked. I was wondering if I could wipe the info from the unit and sell it for parts or just recycle it. Is it as easy as opening the case and removing the HDD?

 

Thanks for any advice!

[Are new Joycons safe to buy?]

Got my replacement joycons today. Look brand new. Took a little less than a month for turnaround. 

[Bluetooth to 7800]

The 8BitDo BT adapters are only $11.47 now on Amazon. 

[8BitDo M30 2.4g Sega Gamepad & 7800]

25 minutes ago, Trebor said:

Peace of mind.

&

Some extra peace.

Thank you! I went ahead and ordered a Seagull 78 to pair with it too.

[8BitDo M30 2.4g Sega Gamepad & 7800]

Apologies if this has been brought up in another thread, but I just got one of these and want to use it with my 7800, among other consoles. I realize that there won't be two-button functionality.

 

Looking for some peace of mind that it is safe to use with the 7800 from folks who have done so for a while. Thanks!

[Japan Vs. Rest of the World: Who has created the best games?]

The British have a pretty good catalog too, including Elite, Golden Eye, and Tomb Raider.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/03/30-greatest-british-video-games

[Japan Vs. Rest of the World: Who has created the best games?]

This is going to reveal my own ignorance, but I'm trying to think of truly world-beating games that were not from Japan and the US, and the only one I can think of is Tetris.

 

I'm thinking about games that even non-gamers would recognize and have played, but that's a little different from the OP's criteria, I think. 

[is the 7800 necessary?]

1 hour ago, christo930 said:

What games is it good for?  Seems like it would probably be useful for games like Star Gate/Defender II that needs buttons and directions off of the 2nd controller.  But it is hard to see how it is useful as a primary controller.  What games do you like with it?

I was using it with Asteroids because I had forgotten which bin I had stashed my Starplex in. I bought it mostly as a collectible. It worked pretty well with Beamrider.

[is the 7800 necessary?]

3 hours ago, sramirez2008 said:

Soo much to like about this pic.?
 

1. Cuttle Cart

2. Video Monitor

3. Lift that the VM is sitting on

4. Custom controller 

 

Oh yeah...the 7800. The most necessary item.

Thank you for noticing the hydraulic lift. The PVM rolls around like butter on it. The controller is a KY Enterprises Fingertip Controller that was a DIY back in the day.

[keep 7800 in box]

36 minutes ago, Keatah said:

Wear and tear caused by plugging and unplugging things. Contacts rotating and jiggling. If kept in a box, nothing is moving. Nothing is connected-disconnected-reconnected over and over. I'm certain that was the OP's goal, to reduce that activity. Keeping everything immobile in a box would certainly accomplish that.

 

Torque and weight are not likely concerns. But I'd say the daily contact wear can be.

 

My favorite and most effective & practical solution is a little bit of dielectric silicone grease on metal-metal moving contacts. This prevents oxidation and is always good practice. Leave it at that. YMMV.

I know, but why not keep all the connections in place while the console is in the box? There would be no plugging and unplugging from the console at all. You carefully lift the console out of the box, connections in place, and put it on the floor or a shelf.

 

And wearing out the prongs on the AC adapter? Or breaking a connection in the wire itself because the wire bends the wrong way? Man, if the console is really that fragile a box isn't going to help. I'm going to bow out here because I'm beginning to realize that the need to take these steps this isn't about the console at all.

[keep 7800 in box]

31 minutes ago, Keatah said:

The OP wants to protect a 7800 from daily wear & tear by keeping it semi-permanently set up in a plastic box. In addition to that he wants to reduce/eliminate wear & tear on plug-in connectors like the power jack & plug, AC adapter wall prongs. Maybe even cut back on wire flexing too. Things like that.

 

Considering this stuff is 35+ years old; it's just another precaution against failure. There are many ways to go about it. And no one should denounce attempts at finding a solution or someone's communication style. Believe it or not it is a learnable skill.

But I don't understand how keeping it in a box will reduce wear and tear on the connectors. If you hold the console in one hand and the AC adapter in another, is the weight of six inches of the cord going to produce enough torque to KO your 7800? This is a serious question--not trying to troll.

[keep 7800 in box]

OK, I'll play.

 

What, exactly, is the problem expressed by the OP?

[is the 7800 necessary?]

Yes, necessary.

[Which classic computer was/is most fun to collect for?]

2 hours ago, Bill Loguidice said:

As someone who has a few dozen systems now and used to have hundreds more, I'd say most vintage computers with a decent lifespan and lots of software can be equally fun to collect for. I certainly agree that an Apple II more than qualifies because it was around for over a decade and has countless hardware and software in all types of formats and packaging. Same goes for C-64, Atari 8-bit, CoCo, TRS-80, PC DOS (and Tandy/PCjr), TI-99/4a, etc. It seems like there's always something new or obscure to discover with these platforms.

 

Lesser systems (lesser in terms of lifespan or commercial software libraries), like the Mattel Aquarius, Coleco Adam, Spectravideo (pre-MSX), etc., can also be fun to collect for, but there's generally less available content or a higher difficulty in getting more things. With that said, fun is relative and I guess it really depends upon what you're most passionate about.

Bill, a little off-topic, but have you written anything about what the hobby (and life in general) is like after you sold most of your collection? It would be a welcome read.

[keep 7800 in box]

1 hour ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

I'm totally lost here. What is the op stating and trying to do exactly?

 

You can still get a barrel Jack added without case modification and still have a stock console. Pm for info on that if interested but otherwise I'm confused on what is being said here exactly?

 

Yes, it's almost like they are speaking a language that only the two of them understand. 

[Which classic computer was/is most fun to collect for?]

For me, it's 486 to Pentium 3 era PCs, a roughly 12-year period. Mostly hardware, and then mostly sound and video cards. The ISA sound cards are most interesting to me because there was so much difference across them that they capture the range of innovation and imagination of the period for me. I have about 70 ISA sound cards (not all unique).

 

Most had to be Sound Blaster compatible, but some were good at the FM synth implementation and others weren't. But it is the variety of wavetable synths that makes these cards collectible to me. Video cards may make playing Doom a little faster or slower, but sound cards really change the experience, almost like the feeling you get playing a console game on different platforms.

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