Dashopepper

August 20, 2015

Writing down passwords is a thing of the past! Whip out your phone and take a picture, you'll never have another bad code.

I replaced my gear on the turbo CD. Was a pretty big pain plus the tiny washer flung off never to be seen again.

The next thing you'll want to do is region mod it so you can buy a Japanes 3.0 card. Lots of the CD games need it and the us ones are expensive.

July 19, 2015

I'm going to say Gamecube/PS2 and earlier. I think video games have changed a lot durring the last fifteen years. I'd say ever since Call of Duty and the rise of indy games and the death of the 3rd party the market has changed enough so that GC/PS2 feel like a time gone by. I recently replayed through Eternal Darkness and absolutely consider it classic gaming. Retro on the other hand I equate with 8 bit and older.

But I do also play modern games so I may have a different perspective. If you haven't really played anything newer then 1995 you're probably not going to see the changes.

July 15, 2015

It might be blasphemy here but i'd have M.U.L.E and North Vs South around 5 and 6. I also love zelda II. Probably my #2

June 18, 2015

N64 game Craigslist deal. Was too good to pass up even for $120 with 9 games to add to my collection and the rest are doubles. Looking through them at home I noticed Banjo has some stickers on the back "property of Nintendo" awesome its a NFR!

I hit up some thrift stores on the way home and was on the phone with my Dad at Goodwill when I nearly missed this in a wicker basket waiting to be stocked on the shelf. Great day to be off of work.

April 18, 2015

I had a real good time at the show. Definitely will have to go both days next year. There is way too much to see/sensory overload for one day. Seemed like vendors and exhibitors were packing up and ready to get out of there by the time noon rolled around Sunday.

I thought the Odyssey display was nice and in a good spot for people to notice it. Liked the Steal Battalion room and the FM Towns Marty caught my attention.

Unbelievable that there were open seats at the bar when the presentations were going on. Sitting there and watching the speakers was the highlight of the day for me.

Only spent $5 in the Tent. I was looking for 3 uncommon but cheep snes games ($5-10) and literally couldn't find them at any table. Vendors either had good games they wanted top dollar for or Garbage for top dollar. Ebay here I come...

(although my dad did pick up Alien Vs. Predator Jag for $15 which was a good deal).

Tons of freebees at the Nintendo room for me and the nieces. I got a nice Xenoblade cardboard counter display from them.

April 8, 2015

I'll be going on Sunday. Last year I spent a majority of my time in the vendor tent even though I think its more of a sellers market there and really didn't bring anything home. I plan to spend a lot more time in the museum putting some hands on time with some stuff I don't have. What I would love to see there is a CD-i with one of the Zelda games. Also I've heard a lot about the Castlevania and Metal Gear for the MSX, not sure what your planning on bringing Tempest but I'd like to check those out. Other then that I'm sure i'll be on my 3ds clearing out the Street Pass a lot of the time.

*And my Dad is looking for a Jaguar CD so if anyone has a line on one let me know.

April 3, 2015

*New Addition*

This Space Invaders cabinet has been up in the family barn for 25 years and was in pretty bad shape. After a long time thinking about it I finally decided to go ahead with a MAME conversion. I kept the cabinets mirror, moon and background intact. It really is a striking image and optical illusion that pictures do not do justice to (The moon is a plastic half circle and behind the glass, florescent light behind that and the cardboard sky behind that). There is a switch in the coin door for turning the moon background on and off.

I definitely have more I would like to do/re-do latter on but it's working out great for now with Bubble Bobble being played most often. I might make make a post in the Arcade section latter on if anyone is interested explaining setting up the LCD, Running MAME and GameEx Front-End mirrored, making a working Multi Cabinet with no Mouse/Keyboard, setting up IPac for controls. It was definitely a lot to figure out. Best thing is since most of it was completed from used parts I have less then $100 into it.

January 18, 2015

Here is a video of a Bally Astrocade Space Invaders cart that I have that appears to be still in development. You can see the cartridge at the end of the video. It has a blank sticker label with "Space Invaders (demo)" typed on it. It's a little glitchy and buggy at this point, but as my first Proto find I definitely enjoy playing around with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3rWANP2aRg

The Cartridge ROM has been dumped and I believe is available on Bally Alley.

December 29, 2014

Very Nice. I wouldn't have the games and TV next to the water heater.

Why's that? No one's ever mentioned it being a hazard. And I'm sure my Father-in-law who has serviced it wouldn't miss the opportunity to lecture me

I did have a water valve go out on the opposite end of the basement 2 months ago when the weather turned cold. Got my Commodore 64 and games, a dozen boxed Genesis games and some PS2 games including Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

November 22, 2014

Sold

November 12, 2014

November 10, 2014

After taking a look at my photos I realized I could present it a little better. It's always going to be an unfinished basement but I made some improvements. So with a large poster frame, a fake brick wall, and spray painting one of my junk shelves I came up with this (also helped that I picked up a giant statue recently).

September 14, 2014

Here are some pictures of my game collection. A little bit of everything explained by virtually everything coming from Craigslist, Thrift Stores and Flea Markets.

I keep a fairly rigorous account of my video game transactions on a massive Excel spread sheet. Here are some of my counts.

3do-47, Game Gear-97, Dreamcast-18, tg16-18,sms-118,Sega Genesis-122,gc- 57, nes-263, snes-95, n64-60,Neo Geo-7, Saturn- 9,atari xe- 32,Odyssey2-48, Bally Astrocade-19, Arcadia- 9, 5200 -26, Atari 2600- 300, Atari 7800- 75, intellivision-110,colicovision-108,gba/c- 40,Ps1- 15