Csonicgo

Bumping this thread to say I got suckered AGAIN!!! Bought an AV Famicom. Beautiful machine. Even has the expansion cables for the Zapper and all that jazz. But, oh, my, no AC Adapter! I've been told that I can't use the japanese one, as it is rated 100V and the mains is 110 here, surely that's within threshold? Anyway, I ended up getting an aftermarket adapter. Of course there's noise in the signal! Why wouldn't there be? Once again, it's aftermarket trash!!! Does anyone give a damn anymore when it comes to clean DC output?

The sad part is that I'm not even surprised that Mike would do this. Mike, if you're reading these posts, please seek help. There is something seriously wrong with you. Illegal flipping like this is FRAUD. Willy could take you to court over the price of a mint condition product, since it was claimed as such in the auction descriptions, which would tally up over $500, WHICH CONSTITUTES A FELONY.

I know - they're so obsessed with trying something "new" that it hurts the games entirely. There's a reason we didn't see a Star Fox game on the Wii - they couldn't figure out how to force stick-waggle on it. This is what Nintendo has always done. Nintendo must make one boneheaded move that ruins the whole lot. From Cartridges and cutting corners on the N64 specs, to reduced capacity discs and no DVD support on the Gamecube, to 512MB of storage space on the Wii with no chance of HD video. It's as if Nintendo doesn't want to make something that might cost a little bit - except their handheld division, with that insane 3DS price at launch. It's as if they're having to "show off" the "innovative" use of their hardware to entice new buyers with every game they make, not realizing that coming out of the gate with impressive specs to woo third-party support would have been the best thing to do. Thing is, when they *do* put out a system with impressive specs, the suits insist engineers have to cut a corner *somewhere* to reduce price, out of fear of people not wanting to buy it. Well you know what? Sony put out a $600 monolith, we laughed at it, and then as soon as we were done laughing at it, we bought it. Nintendo is still in the frame of mind that they can't make a "game console". It's not 1985 anymore. We're not scared of video games. All we want is a video game, not a gimmicky, clunky piece of buyer's remorse. And furthermore, SEGA and the rest of them introduced the consumer market to "bit wars", which is now what the console fanboys still smack of when they talk about "system specs", about how the PS4 is better than the XBOX because something something FLOPS cores. Nintendo never was good at this game - They tried it with the N64 and still got eaten for lunch. Atari tried it too, and first, While Nintendo watched Atari fail due to their own stupidity, chalked up the failure to "3D polygons aren't good", which ended up with the head of Nintendo ditching all the 3D games in the pipeline. Of course, RARE didn't help, but I can't blame them for Nintendo's misunderstanding of the market. Gimmicks worked in 1985. ROB worked in 1985. Zapper worked in 1985. Running pads worked in 1985. However, it's 2016, and we just want a controller with a gamepad and buttons, or a joystick. We understand now that we were wrong about video games being a "fad" and that they can be fun if done correctly. The sad part is. Nintendo seemed to GET this in the 80s, because they gave us plenty of "traditional" games along with the gimmicky ROB, running pad, and Zapper games. Trying to "melt" these concepts together isn't going to save Nintendo, because Nintendo thinks that the same strategy will give them a foothold, when that doesn't work when video games as a market is doing just fine! Maybe if there weren't any video games to be had, the Gamepad/wigglewaggle would be okay, because we could lie to ourselves and say it's not Atari, which we collectively blamed for killing videogames or something. Now that I think about it - the same reason the Wii U failed is the reason the 3DS succeeded - where a console looks BAD to consumers due to it trailing behind the competition, a handheld is seen as an easy target for third-party devs in-between major releases to keep everyone working. At least there Nintendo's still seen as a legit contender.

Ever feel bad about your job? Be glad Alex St. John, creator of DirectX isn't your boss. He wrote an incredibly ignorant article "praising" the idea of crunch - basically unpaid/underpaid overtime for weeks and weeks at length. This BS about how if you're not breaking your back splitting logs for the fireplace for starving peasants in Siberia, you don't have a "real job", is insulting to say the least. And there you have it folks. What a dismissive attitude of the games industry in general. Either work for almost nothing, or you're not a game developer! Thankfully, even his daughter has told him to apologize. And then there is this British bloke who tears him apart (warning: video, language). I know there are a lot of game industry vets here that may have differing opinions about this, but "crunch" has been proven to not work. Overworking people, no matter what the position, causes more problems than it solves. That's just common sense, which seems to be missing in the games industry right now.

If you think that's impressive, I met a computer whose entire branding would change if you moved a jumper, from Texas Instruments to Acer. I also met a Dell Optiplex that could change its model number and the Speed of the CPU from a jumper. Amazing stuff.

Also, this is slightly off-topic, but the Coleco Chameleon article on Wikipedia really nails what all went down. Still kind of angry they don't consider us a reliable source though - but then again, when we have shysters around that generate 330+ pages of discussion... I suppose we all have a little Jesse Ventura inside us. Now that this Boolsheet is almost over, I'm in the mood to grab a Raspberry Pi 3 and make my own Coleco Chameleon. Any of those molds arrived, Al? I'll need around 50 cases. And 2 million bucks. Because 2 million makes you sound nice and legit. 2 legit 2 quit.

Really want to thank the people involved in exposing this scheme. We could have had this happen: People like this come forth and convince the press that they're "well known" in the "Retro Community", and they perpetuate this over and over, getting normal media readers to think we're all like this. Or that's what I feared, but thankfully we're depicted as the good guys this time. I'm so glad that the majority of the press did not fall for the deception. Most of the time, we get this self-proclaimed "representative" of a community that totally destroys any reputation the community had spent years, or even decades building up. Thankfully the gaming press is a little more competent than they used to be, given that they're usually gamers themselves. 10 years ago, I don't think I could have said that.

Honestly, I'd love to see a "refresher kit" like this on the AA store. Perhaps a little more comprehensive, including kits for specific revisions. If only new consoles were this easy

It's over. It's done...

*Ahem* ...So it WAS an SNES in a Jaguar case! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Short-eating and cow-having still okay?

Hey, If it pays the bills... Wow. Deleting tweets never works. If someone has a desktop Twitter client and follows him, those tweets are archived and are going absolutely nowhere. I'm starting to feel actual pity for these guys right now. A Mr. T kind of pity.

If an SD2SNES and a Super Famiclone is all it takes to make a "new retro console", why not make a Super Famiclone and be done with it? Oh, wait, that's already on the market for cheap. Crap. Better make some more Jaguar cases in the meantime.