Skippy B. Coyote

http://doxcade.com eBay: Account suspended as of May 2016 My initial arcade machine order from them last October went fine, but when I placed another order a month or so later they ripped me off and stole my money. The full story is as follows... After owning and using my custom machine for a few weeks it quickly became apparent that while it worked just fine for me it was very difficult for my wife (who has some physical mobility limitations) to reach the buttons while operating the joystick. I sent an email to the owner of Doxcade about it and they said that they could make us a new control panel for the machine with the buttons moved down a couple inches lower to accommodate my wife's disability. They gave me a price quote on it, I sent the payment promptly, they replied once to confirm that they had received the payment and would get to work on it soon, and that's the last I ever heard from them. That was last November and I must have sent them at least a dozen different emails since then, politely requesting that they please build and ship the replacement control panel that I paid for or issue me a refund, but I never got a reply to any of my emails. By the time I decided to give up and file a PayPal claim to get my money back the buyer protection period had expired so it was too late to get a refund through PayPal, and as far as I can tell Doxcade has no intention of ever making the replacement control panel that I paid for or issuing me a refund. Additionally, since I got the machine last October quite a bit of the printed artwork on the control panel has flaked off, the side artwork is starting to peel up, and all but a couple of the LEDs in the strip that backlights the marquee have burned out. Due to their shoddy workmanship and dishonest business practices I would recommend avoiding ordering anything from Doxcade.com and would suggest looking elsewhere if you're in the market for a bartop sized multicade.

I just wanted to update this thread to offer a warning about Doxcade.com. My initial arcade machine order from them went fine, but when I placed another order a month or so later they ripped me off and stole my money. The full story is as follows... After owning and using my custom machine for a few weeks it quickly became apparent that while it worked just fine for me it was very difficult for my wife (who has some physical mobility limitations) to reach the buttons while operating the joystick. I sent an email to the owner of Doxcade about it and they said that they could make us a new control panel for the machine with the buttons moved down a couple inches lower to accommodate my wife's disability. They gave me a price quote on it, I sent the payment promptly, they replied once to confirm that they had received the payment and would get to work on it soon, and that's the last I ever heard from them. That was last November and I must have sent them at least a dozen different emails since then, politely requesting that they please build and ship the replacement control panel that I paid for or issue me a refund, but I never got a reply to any of my emails. By the time I decided to give up and file a PayPal claim to get my money back the buyer protection period had expired so it was too late to get a refund through PayPal, and as far as I can tell Doxcade has no intention of ever making the replacement control panel that I paid for or issuing me a refund. Additionally, since I got the machine last October quite a bit of the printed artwork on the control panel has flaked off, the side artwork is starting to peel up, and all but a couple of the LEDs in the strip that backlights the marquee have burned out. Due to their shoddy workmanship and dishonest business practices I would now recommend avoiding ordering anything from Doxcade.com and would suggest looking elsewhere if you're in the market for a bartop sized multicade.

As a little news update, the backlit and biverted Game Boy is no longer for sale. Once I realized that I could make it playable both indoors and outside under bright light by turning the polarization film behind the screen 90° back to it's original orientation and removing the bivert chip (turning it into a regular old backlit Game Boy with no bivert) I decided to keep it.

For those interested in getting a better look at the size and build of the NES Mini, the Nintendo Life staff had a hands on with it at the Play Nintendo Family Lounge at the San Diego Comic-Con today and took lots of great pictures. http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/07/gallery_a_look_at_the_quirky_delights_of_the_play_nintendo_family_lounge_at_san_diego_comic-con

With the 30th anniversary of Aliens this week the misses and I just had to play some Alien series games, and watch the movies all over again while we were at it. Aliens: Thanatos Encounter (Game Boy Color) Alien Trilogy (PlayStation) Alien 3 (Game Boy)

I'm voting (and hoping) for Resident Evil 1.5

The six button Genesis controller and Zoop have been sold! The backlit Game Boy is still seeking a good home with warm batteries and lots of cartridges to feed it.

Last year in the fall I finally got the holy grail item that I had been wanting since I was a little kid: A custom Centipede style bartop 60-in-1 multicade. I had always dreamed about having my very own bartop arcade machine that I could play both Centipede (properly with a trackball) and Ms. Pac-Man at home on, and no cabinet art could even come close to matching the coolness of Centipede for my tastes. When I first got it I played it like crazy every single day for a few months, and now about a year later I've cooled off on it a lot but I still love it. I sit down and play a few games every week or two. Some Centipede, a round or two or Ms. Pac-Man, a little Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, maybe Galaga. You know, the big name classics. Most of the time my little grail just sits in my room on a small table 5 feet or so from the bed with the attract mode acting as the world's coolest night light, but whenever I sit down and play it I always remember why it was my holy grail and just how incredibly worth the wait it was.

I came out of the closet years ago, and I'm not going back in! In all seriousness though I'm actually pretty copacetic about the backlit Game Boy that I had been wanting for years not really working out in my brightly lit gaming areas. I suppose that just means that I never really needed it to begin with, and I can put the money from reselling it towards other things that I'll be able to enjoy more without having to sit in some dark corner to play them.

It was a really odd gaming week for me this week, with long awaited new arrivals and unexpected results. It was so odd in fact that instead of my usual single "games played this week" picture, this week there's three! Arcade Centipede - 4 minutes Donkey Kong - 7 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 4 minutes Pac-Man - 6 minutes Space Invaders - 9 minutes Game Boy Faceball 2000 - 290 minutes Mortal Kombat II - 38 minutes Operation C - 9 minutes Solar Striker - 21 minutes Super Battletank - 91 minutes Super Mario Land - 43 minutes Super R.C. Pro-Am - 9 minutes T2: The Arcade Game - 174 minutes Tetris - 12 minutes Xenon 2: Megablast - 99 minutes Game Boy Color Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory - 186 minutes Shanghai Pocket - 31 minutes PlayStation Dino Crisis - 530 minutes Total Play Time This Week 1,563 minutes (26 hours 3 minutes) [1,563 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Game Boy: 786 minutes PlayStation: 530 minutes Game Boy Color: 217 minutes Arcade: 30 minutes This week saw host to a whole slew of gaming related arrivals in the mail, including a new in box copy of Faceball 2000 for the Game Boy, a new in box Game Genie for the Game Boy, an original Game Boy system with an olive green backlight and bivert chip mod from Game Boy Mods UK (the last one to be made before they went out of business no less), and a few additional games including Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory, Super Battletank, and T2: The Arcade Game. The first order of business for me was to try out Faceball 2000, since I enjoyed it so much via emulation, and I am happy to report that it played even better and smoother on real hardware. Next up was the Game Genie, which much to my surprise fit in the Game Boy Color perfectly with no contact between the bottom of the Game Genie and the top of the system in spite of Wikipedia's claim to the contrary. Back when I was a kid I had a Game Genie for my Game Boy and used to spend hours and hours messing around with codes for the games I had at the time, so along with Faceball 2000 I also ended up using the Game Genie to go back and try out a lot of those codes that I used to use as a kid for games like Operation C, Solar Striker, Super R.C. Pro-Am, and Mortal Kombat II. It was a ton of fun and really brought back some great memories, and I can safely say that to this day using a Game Genie still feels like performing some sort of secret forbidden black magic on your game system; and I mean that in the best kind of way! Later in the week the aforementioned backlit and biverted original Game Boy from the now defunct Game Boy Mods UK arrived in the mail, and this is where things sadly took a turn for the worse. I ended up quickly encountering an unexpected problem with the system, or more accurately with my living and gaming environment. The problem for me was that where I usually play handheld games, outside on smoke breaks and inside on the couch, are both really bright and well lit environments, and I failed to consider the fact that older backlit LCD screens tend to wash out under bright light. In moderately lit, dim, and dark environments the backlight on this Game Boy is absolutely phenomenal and the pixels all look sharp as tacks thanks to the bivert mod, but outside on a sunny day or indoors directly under a bright light source the screen does wash out pretty badly. I really should have seen it coming, given that most backlit handhelds do this, but it honestly never even crossed my mind when I ordered the system. So, sadly, I'm now hoping to find this Game Boy a new home with someone who can put it to good use in a gaming environment that isn't super brightly lit like everywhere that I tend to play handheld games is. It's currently up for sale in my Marketplace sales thread and if someone here does want to take it off my hands then I plan to use the money from the sale to find myself a pristine condition unmodified original Game Boy system, since I now know that the areas I play in are well enough lit that a backlight won't be necessary. On a happier note, I'm absolutely loving all the games that arrived in the mail this week! Hexcite is an awesome competitive puzzle game once you use the in-game tutorial to learn the rules, Super Battletank is really technically impressive and loads of fun for anyone who likes Battlezone or Robot Tank on the Atari 2600, and T2: The Arcade Game is hands down my game of the week! It's hard to believe that the infamous LJN could have made a game this good, let alone that a light gun game for the Game Boy could be worth playing, but I've been getting my light gun shooting fix on the go with T2 all week long and have been enjoying it immensely. At this point I've beaten the game 3 times (the first time around getting the bad ending, and the second and third times getting the good ending by destroying all objects in the Cyberdyne labs level) and I'm sure that I'll go back and play through it many more times just because it's so darn fun and can be beaten in 20 minutes or so once you get the hang of it. The only complaint I could really make about T2: The Arcade Game for the Game Boy is that it really needs to be played on a Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, or a GameCube's Game Boy Player. On earlier monochrome hardware like the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, and Super Game Boy the graphics are just too detailed to be able to clearly make out everything happening on the screen without having the enemies often blend into the background; but when played on a GBC, GBA, or Game Boy Player the enemies and your aiming reticle are all automatically colored a different color than the background so that you can clearly see what is going on and where everything is. It's still a darn tough game even with the visual enhancements of later hardware, but definitely one I'd recommend picking up for any Game Boy fan looking for a fun, unique, and well crafted shooting challenge. Lastly, to wrap things up for the week, the misses ended up spending the whole week playing through Dino Crisis for the PlayStation two more times to unlock all the extras in the game and is currently about 2/3 of the way through her second play through. I'm darn lucky that I got some new handheld games to play this week, because the TV was all hers all week long! As far as what next week has in store... I'm actually not too sure. After the disappointment of the backlit Game Boy that I had waited so long to get being nearly unplayable in all the locations that I usually play games I'm feeling a little burnt out on original Game Boy games, so I might end up taking some time to play some of my other (and unfortunately tracker ineligible) handhelds instead. I haven't played the Game Boy Advance SP or DS Lite in a while, so maybe I'll give them a go next week. There's one thing I do know for certain though, and that's that my wife will continue to monopolize the retro gaming TV until she has acquired the grenade launcher with infinite ammo in Dino Crisis. That girl really loves her survival horror games!

I would accept a complimentary copy of Tyrannosaurus Tex (and maybe Duke Nukem 3D for the Genesis) as my fee for licensing the term Plug & Pray ©

This is going to a long list for me, going back to 1991 when I was 6 years old and got my first video game system (an original model Game Boy) for Christmas. It's going to be one heck of a task trying to remember all the systems I've owned over the years, since I've been pretty poor for most of my life and have constantly found myself in situations where I had to sell my systems and games to make ends meet, but I'll do my best to remember them all... Game Boy (sold) Sega Genesis Model 1 (sold) Tiger R-Zone (broke) Game Boy Color [Kiwi] (sold) PlayStation (sold) Game Boy Advance [indigo] (sold) PlayStation 2 (broke) PlayStation 2 (broke) PlayStation 2 (stolen) PlayStation 2 (sold) Sega Genesis Model 2 (stolen) NES (sold) GameCube [black] (sold) Game Boy Advance SP [Flame Red] (sold) Game Boy Advance SP [Flame Red] (sold) Nintendo DS [Titanium] (sold) Nintendo DS Lite [Polar White] (sold) Game Boy Micro [20th Anniversary Edition] (sold) PlayStation 2 w/ Swap Magic Case (sold) Game Boy Advance SP [Classic NES Series] (sold) NES (sold) GameCube [black] (broke) Xbox 360 (broke) Xbox 360 (still own) Nintendo Wii (broke) Nintendo Wii (still own) Game Boy Advance SP [Classic NES Series] (sold) NES (still own) Sega Genesis Model 2 (sold) PlayStation (still own) PlayStation 3 (sold) Atari 2600 [Vader] (broke) Game Boy Color [Grape w/ Custom Buttons] (still own) Game Boy (sold) Game Boy Advance w/ AGS-101 Screen [indigo] (sold) Game Boy Advance SP AGS-101 [Pearl Pink] (broke) Game Boy Advance SP AGS-101 [Custom Metallic Purple] (still own) Nintendo 3DS [Midnight Purple] (sold) Game Boy Micro [black w/ Custom NES Faceplate] (sold) Atari 2600 [Vader] (broke) Nintendo 3DS [Midnight Purple] (sold) Atari 2600 [Woodgrain 4 Switch] (broke) Sears Video Arcade II (broke) Nintendo DS Lite [Crimson Red] (broke) Atari 2600 [Vader] (broke) New Nintendo 3DS XL [New Black] (sold) Custom Centipede Bartop 60-in-1 Multicade (still own) Nintendo DS Lite [Crimson Red] (broke) Nintendo DS Lite [Crimson Red] (broke) Nintendo 2DS [Red] (broke) Nintendo DS Lite [silver] (sold) Nintendo DS Lite [Crimson Red] (still own) Game Boy w/ Olive Green Backlight & Bivert Chip (selling)

A backlit and biverted Game Boy has been added to the list of items for sale! I am now also accepting a pristine condition un-modified original Game Boy in trade.

All taken care of.

Great buyer! He recently purchased a DS Lite and some accessories from me and the transaction went smooth as silk. Excellent communication, fast payment, and a pleasure to do business with.

Finally, the Cyber Demons have arrived!

If it's Wisdom Tree, shouldn't it be called a "Plug & Pray" console? In all seriousness though it is a really neat project! I'll probably pass on this one since I'm not much for religious games, but I'll definitely be picking up a copy of Tyrannosaurus Tex for the Game Boy Color when it comes out.

I think it's mostly because, since it is made by Nintendo and not AtGames or another small third party company, it's expected that it will be of excellent quality in terms of both game emulation and physical construction. Nintendo generally puts a lot of work into releasing quality products, so I think the people who are excited about it are fully expecting the games to look and sound just like they remember them on the NES and the controller to feel just like they remember the NES controller feeling in their hands. And I think those are both safe bets, knowing Nintendo. The included games list is also really outstanding when it comes to system defining titles. Then there's the "It's Nintendo!" factor, which instantly makes the NES Mini a collectible item that people are going to want just to have it in their collection. Just look at how much more the Classic NES Series model Game Boy Advance SP goes for in comparison to any other model of GBA SP. If it's made by Nintendo and is styled like an NES then you can bet collectors are going to be all over it. The added benefit of being able to use the included NES controller with virtual console or emulated games on the Wii and Wii U is just icing on an already very pretty cake. While I do have a soft modded Wii that can already play everything that the NES Mini can, I still plan to get one for all of the above reasons and maybe pick up a few more of them to give as gifts. Most people just don't have the motivation or technical inclination to set up their Wii as an emulation box, and I think it'll make a great gift for many people I know who fall into that category.

Ahh, I misunderstood your question. I thought you were asking if you could plug the NES Mini controller into a Wii remote and use it as a Classic Controller on the Wii. You can totally do that, but there is no Bluetooth support in the NES Mini so you can't use a Wii remote as a NES Mini controller. Only Wii Classic Controllers and other controllers that use the Classic Controller plug.