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  2. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    an oscillating voltage measured with who knows what doesn't mean much IMO, I guess it could be some measure but don't go down the rabbit hole, your measuring megahertz with a ruler... 

     

    sorry I have not provided more detail at this point, but I suggest you start a new thread tagging me in the title and in the first post ... I have sold over 200 machines since 2012 with this mod setup and it might be helpful to others in the future in case this comes up again (not blowing you off, but I do have a demanding day job 2 kids 2 cats and hobbies lol) 

     

    PS not intending you to do more work by creating a thread from scratch, but maybe a thread with linked bullet points to this non related thread and link from here

  8. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    the collective wisdom in PC land is that more than 16 gigs of ram "just for gaming" is where you start getting into diminishing returns, but that is starting to sound a bit dated as games like cyberpunk will suck down quite a bit of my 16 gigs while playing it. For what the VCS can pull off I think spending on more ram may not be the return one might expects... its a bit of a shame its limited to 2400mhz ram, ryzen LOVES fast ram and that's not it. (I mean you can put faster ram in it but from what I read its hardware limited) 

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  12. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    console 5 kits seem expensive until you spend hours on digikey or mouser doing a deep dive into million o parts 

     

    if you do not use digikey, mouser, or similar just spend a few extra bucks and get a kit, even the worst one on the market from no name china listing on ebay will be as good if not better than the originals cause ... time and advancement 

     

    just for reference those plastic top caps are not bad they dome totally brand new from the factory, cause the plastic is domed, and they blow out their arse, not their tops

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    might help if you did not make every single post from the perspective of "colecovision is the only thing I have ever known" CV was my one and only games machine until the sega genesis came out, I love it its a great machine for its era, I do not make it the main focal point of every post I make as if it was as popular as the NES or something ... its a bit of an obscure main line 80's console. 

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  14. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    9 hours ago, youki said:

    I think the console that disappointed me the most  is the Atari Jaguar. :(   I was expecting too much of it back in time.   There are some good games but  the first one i played give me a very bad impression. It was super cross 3D....

     

     

    I dunno about you but I saw the gag at the time as a teen and wondering then what the fuss was about, it looked like all the other next gen systems in terms of 2d (oh look there's a off brand shaq fu fighter with slightly better color) and far behind PC in terms of 3D. To be fair I had checked out of console gaming for the first time during that whole "death to 16 bit all hail the moar bit's" period until I got hold of a PlayStation ... even as a rabid fanboi of sega I was looking at the saturn going "well there's a meh copy of daytona, what the hell is nights, and where the hell is sonic ... oooh ridge racer and crash bandicoot!"

     

    3 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:

    I had a feeling mentioning the PS4 was going to get a lot of reactions from various people, so I'll just get everyone here all at once to make it easy. I know that nobody is going to agree with me, and that's fine, as I don't expect anyone to.

    I honestly forget the PS4 even exists as well, I havent seen anything that just makes me crap my pants (IE gta3 on PS2) and want to buy a dedicated thing to play A game, and anything that is multiport is generally available on my computer anyway

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  15. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    didn't say there wasn't, just a high crap factor 

     

    21 minutes ago, youxia said:

     it's up to a buyer to do their research first. 

    google says there's 606 north american games released for the system, there's some gem's, a lot of meh, and a ton of direct garbage, its tiresome

     

    I honestly think that entire generation, wii onwards killed console games for me, all systems from the time were just chocked full of shovelware and lazy rehashes and I havent owned a console newer than that generation

  16. Posted

    5 hours ago, turboxray said:

    Well, I'm sorry you were touched in the head hahah. I played the NES with friends.. as we took turns playing levels, etc - in all sort of games. I was never bored.

     

    Some of the weirdest people conjugate here at atariage. Some other guy said he doesn't like any type of game music and just puts the radio on. Why even bother playing games at that point???

     

     

    The Gamegear could have been a great handheld if it weren't for that nearly decade old SMS sound chip. Give it 4096 colors, but do nothing with the sound chip. GB's screen was crap, but the music in some of those games was fantastic. 

    I had a buddy like that, would come over insist on playing sega sport game he dragged with him and turn down the volume and play some shallow garbage music (hey want to play NHL 95 and listen to Dave Matthews Band? GET OUT 🖕)

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    23 hours ago, zzip said:

    The problem with the Wii library is it has a relatively small handful of great gems buried in a sea of crap.   It's very easy to miss the good ones.  In retrospect, it's not one of my favorite consoles.

    PSP is like that as well, A lot of people say the library for it is great, but the problem is BITD you would walk into a game shop and be greeted with a wall larger than xbox or playstation, almost as big as wii full of games, and a 90% chance you were going to waste your money. It became tiresome real quick

  19. Posted

    20 bucks for an int and a foot ... sold 

     

    no wait what I hate about this garbage is outside of the int II its 4 bucks worth of scrap in unknown condition and its going to cost like 25 bucks so ship a friggin balance board half way across the country ... and since its from the middle of jack squat nowhere, every place in the country is half way 

     

    ditch the 99 cent balance board and the 95% chance bricked xbox, ill pay you 10 bucks for the controllers and the intellevision + postage, and you get to keep your foot

  20. Posted

    23 minutes ago, adamchevy said:

     I recently purchased New Super Mario Bros on the Wii to play with my kids. It’s an absolutely great game.es X, but changed my mind.

    im sure it is, I couldn't tell on my tiny 40 inch tv where every single thing on the screen was 16x16 pixels on a whopping 480p res and it thinks particles are the best thing since pixels , its one of those games you appreciate where you might accidentally whack the screen with the controller cord 

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  23. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    2 hours ago, Tanooki said:

    Hmm interesting.  I keep stock Gameboys around me/in my desk and I still can play just fine on them up to now 30~ years later. Yes the ghosting was a bit of an issue on the original with smaller things say like bullets in a shooter or in some like Mega Man, but it wasn't death.  Once the Pocket came around a few years later that fixed that up fairly well, pretty sharp and clear.  Gameboy was gameboy, it wasn't the bland colorless screen, it was the insane dozens of hours battery life coupled with some lower cost high quality games for various genres and age groups, it had a bit for everyone who wanted to care at all.  It's hard to ever call that system the worst, there really is nothing worst about it other than the blur, but unless your eyes are that bad, it's more of an excuse than a reality.

    not calling it the worst, just calling it the most overhyped garbage of its moment in time, a OG creme n spinach game oh boy's only redeeming factor is that its library is only 40% shitware, and if you mod the holy piss out of it, risking permanent destruction (I have killed two out of the 20 modded)  and it never got much better until the advance SP ... though to be fair, its got a better crap to meh ratio than the PSP

    Its also to note that batteries cost a butt ton less  back in the day, aside from vacation or trips, if your in your room burning 6 sets of batteries a day on a game gear ... buy a genesis 

  24. Posted

    44 minutes ago, MHaensel said:

    I guess it depends on the household. For me, the C64 really was a games machine I also started programming on. I learned BASIC, COMAL, binary logic, a little assembly language, did word processing, played sidplayer music, accessed BBSs and the internet . . . and played games.

     

    All my adult professional jobs have been computer-related, so it worked out as an investment in my future. Thanks, mom and dad. :- )

    I get that, I did all that as well ... just on a shat for console / arcade games Apple II, so instead it was carmen sandiego, trolls tale, the hobbit, and how to use a proper office suite. That's the thing, our non toy computer that was an over decade long (over due) investment that ran a biz, gave me entertainment, thought me math, science, research and harbored both my dad's and my masters thesis... 

     

    it was expensive, it was a sacrifice for us, it earned its keep ... its not worthless cause it plays a meh game of ms pac man, and that gets lost in these type of discussions

     

    DURH which game computer toys R us runs lode runner better, who gives a fuck, games on apple II suck in comparison ... they are still in use to this day driving cnc machines, its a better computer that can play ok, but not "better" games 

  25. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    6 hours ago, Hwlngmad said:

    I didn't like the Game Boy back in the day either.  I was more than happy to ditch it for a Lynx II system.  Still, the Game Boy does have a massive amounts of good games.  But, the screen on the OG Game Boy was crap imo, hence me ditching it.

    I didn't either, but now its my most played system, add a bivert mod and a backlight and most of its issues go away (bivert mod inverts the screen which helps contrast and speeds the apparent switching time up so blur is reduced greatly, then you use a polarize to flip it back normal again) 

     

     

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