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22 minutes ago, DrVenkman said:Deoxit isn’t corrosive, nor abrasive and it works great for this kind of thing.
That's why I specified 'may' & doing some research- I don't want anyone scrounging around for what's on hand & opting for brasso & a brillo pad, for example.
I might need to look into some deoxit myself- I have a bottle of brite boy for the extreme cases (only needed it once so far), but it'd be nice to have a step between that & iso.
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1 hour ago, 0078265317 said:Those lil' black lines on your contacts? Not supposed to be there- that is the oxidation/corrosion mentioned. Basically, keep cleaning your cart. A lot. Over & over. I have literally spent DAYS with new carts doing this. Clean. Play. Clean. Play.
If you want to speed up the process, you can try a corrosion remover/polish of some kind- deoxit, brite boy, white vinegar... but keep in mind these can have the potential to take off a microscopic layer of the contact metal. It's usually fine, but there is a VERY small chance you could take out too much, sever a connection, & kill your cart. Do a lil' research on your chosen method before you do forward! Otherwise- just keep cleaning. You don't have to remove the lines entirely- just enough to get the connection solid again.
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18 hours ago, Stillagamer said:The Amico has potential to be more than an anemic party/retro console. It will be, but no one here has any foresight because they really only care about their childhood games getting remade and youre giving them their fix.
No one here has any foresight becuase we don't know the full lineup! We've been told time & again the retro angle is only a small part of the overall plan. We can't sit here playing armchair analyst & expect accuracy becuase we're missing too much information.
The only relevant consideration right now is: Am I excited enough about the retro titles shown so far to spend $300 dollars on this thing? And if the answer is yes- you're not gonna care if it turns out to not have much else. You got what you wanted. If you're not happy with it yet- don't buy one yet. I haven't. (I want more gameplay footage & a controller breakdown first).
hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:And for the record... "Wii lady" also launched the SNES, GameCube, N64 and (wait for it...) the DS.
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12 hours ago, Stillagamer said:Aside from the fact i have a lot of nieces and nephews and my family finds any excuse to get together all the time, just look at the sales of games. Without looking i can tell you Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. And without looking im going to say the Nintendo DS is the best selling video game console of all time. And the 3DS is probably up there as well. Ive already said enough, but lets not pretend the majority of kids wants an update to Shark! Shark! more than they want to play something that offers a novel experience and gets their imagination going. Most parents dont even know what it is.
Actually, the best selling console is the PS2, the DS is second & the 3DS doesn't even crack the top ten. (I did look.) Just becuase Minecraft is the top selling game doesn't mean my 6 year old niece will play it- I'm not sure she could figure out how. Perhaps your nieces & nephews are a game-savvy bunch who need something more substantial than old-school button mashing. Mine don't typically play games, and as such need that simplicity. They struggled with Mario Kart, for crying out loud!
This isn't a console trying for top of the mountain. This isn't aiming for the kids already engrossed in modern consoles. It's a CASUAL system. It's the plus one of the entertainment center. It will be similar to my old Wii that migrated to my parent's family room TV- a source of party entertainment, especially when folks with kids show up. It's not going to replace one of the major consoles for someone inclined to play on such a system. It's an alternative for someone who'd like some casual play without dropping $500+ dollars for a machine and 1 or 2 games. I'm not looking for the next Breath of The Wild on this thing- I'd be stoked if Jackbox came over.
Yes, so far, most of what we've seen is the retro lineup. Is that so surprising? It's an easier bunch of games to get to a presentable stage. It suits the demographic of this website. You expect Atariage to get hyped over an edutainment trailer? That's going on the mommy blogs if/when such a thing is made. We get retro- clearly, that's enough for a lot of Atari agers.
11 hours ago, Stillagamer said:I dont disagree with you. But this can be more than that. You guys used to entertain yourself with sticks lets be honest youll take anything you can get. The Ps2/xbox had Atari era arcade "greatest hits" im sure they sold well. That doesnt mean thats all there was to offer. The Amico is built to have interactive experiences you guys arent familiar with or even like.
Don't assume what 'interactive experiences' I've had. I've conversed with a sarcastic fish. I've yelled commands into a microphone to move an army away from a pinballing giant rock. I've used a plush doll as a controller. I've ridden plastic horses. I've dangled 2 stories in the air, dreading the inevitable drop when my balloon would finally get hit. And I STILL enjoy a game that's played with just a knob.
I'm allowed to be excited for a console that COULD do more, but hasn't yet, if what it's done is enough for me to have fun with it.
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On 6/6/2020 at 9:41 AM, cybercylon said:Off topic, how does one even start with studying Japanese, especially if one is not really good learning new languages. My daughter is much better at picking something yet, but even she has struggled with Japanese. We both want to visit someday, so I'd like to be at least functional.
Learning to READ Japanese, and learning to SPEAK Japanese, are two very different things. Pronouncing Japanese words is really pretty simple since there's not a lot of odd linguistic tricks you'll have to learn. Take a basic Japanese class somewhere, once the teacher's explained what vowels sound like and the few hiragana with quirks you'll be able to say any words you learn pretty easily.
Reading is harder becuase of kanji, since there's so many of them- that's just gonna take time, period. If you do opt to put effort into the reading though, do yourself a favor- try & avoid textbooks that use a lot of romanji (Japanese words written in the roman alphabet.). You'll want to spend as much time with kana/kanji characters as possible so the words come more naturally- using romanji just forces you to re-learn words once you start using the proper characters.
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Trading with friends means I have access to pretty much every item I want right now... but that doesn't mean I won't find things I want! I only found out a few days ago you could get a shaved ice maker, for example.
Right now the one I covet is the strawberry & flowers cake. I have since learned it's a random thing your 'mom' mails you on your birthday, it can't be bought, & there's 6 versions of mom's cake so no guarantee you'll get a specific one. *grumbles*
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I think also, with so many game stores closed due to stay at home orders, many people are seeing Ebay as the only game in town right now- so they're just paying whatever Ebay is charging.
Not surprisingly, most of the collectors I know have largely stopped buying new games & are waiting for things to 'normal out' a bit.
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Just checking in to see how this is progressing- not expecting much with how weird things are. But, since I'm now 6 weeks into being fully furloughed (job 2 closed a couple days after job 1), I figured I might as well figure out what things I've paid for might ship soon. I mean, it's this or more Animal Crossing 🤣
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Time for a lil' thread revival so I can pick ya'lls brains. I grabbed the Persona Endless Night collection on clearance recently- I don't know who decided 'stacked discs in a digicase' was a good idea, but I hope they got fired. Anyway- I was hoping to find a protector to fit this (it's a bit taller and wider than a standard blu-ray), but I'd love it to be a bit thicker so I can slip in a 2-disc slim blu-ray case to store the discs better. There's a lot of collector's edition the right thickness, but the height/width is wrong. Anybody got any ideas?
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How they heck did I miss this thread?
I picked this up a few days after release, sliding into the space between my state going into lockdown & Amazon delaying non-essential shipments. As for MY island rating...
When Isabelle showed, my island rating went up 1 star daily til 4, then it took a week or so of tweaking to get 5. My advice is: remember the 3 Fs (flowers, fencing, furniture), don't cut down trees unless you need the space for the above immediately, & work on your infrastructure (bridges/inclines).
As soon as I get my hybrids grown, I can take down my flower breeding pens & build my arcade!
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I've never had to, no- I've voluntarily gotten rid of things here & there, and my non-gaming collections have had massive purges. It's always been by choice though- sort of a 'between shelf space & having this DVD set, I choose shelf space'.
For games it's not been an issue as, by the time I could afford to really amass stuff quickly, I was already at the point of finding the space first, then getting the new thing. I think having a Steel Battalion controller would be neat, but I've nowhere to put that behemoth, so I don't buy one. As a result, my game collection's grown much more slowly- the higher costs help too. I may find myself downsizing in the near future, but I don't see much coming out of the game collection, quite frankly.
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I think it's gonna be more like the Switch's Devil's Third- something that got touted as being rare during the system's lifetime, so collectors grabbed it up. It'll have value just due to low print run, but nothing like the Holy Grails of the NES era- whose value comes from people not caring so few copies survived to today.
I'm honestly not sure we'll see anything modern reach those kinds of numbers, just becuase too many people these days are actively collecting so more copies are being kept instead of used, ruined & thrown away. Maybe that poop game on the PS4, since no one believed it was real so practically none got out to the public.
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The only box I can think of that I threw away over condition is an Odyssey 2 console box that was wrinkled/warped & popped apart on several seams. In all honesty, a dedicated soul might've kept it together, but I lack the storage space for something that kind of big & delicate, nor do I know anyone close by to give such a thing to.
Game boxes are pretty simple- pop it in a box protector & treat it like any other copy. I'm not immediately aware of anything I've had/have with mold issues, but I can't imagine I'd keep one. Too risky, both for personal health & keeping the rest of the collection clean.
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1 hour ago, dj_convoy said:Largely what I was gonna say. I had no problem whatsoever when you couldn't get the game any other way and you weren't hurting anyone as they were not monetizing the games. I guess it's like being in the early 2000s and using Limewire or Kazaa before there were easy, legal ways to buy music online.
I will say this; I don't mind pirating old stuff or stuff you can't get any other way, but I don't pirate new games. I guess that distinction makes it morally "okay" for me.
This is largely where I sit- current, or even last-gen games are largely off limits unless there's no legal way to obtain them (Scott Pilgrim being a famous case). When a game is young, it makes the most money, & the people who created it deserve to get paid. Last gen titles are typically only available secondhand so they aren't getting a cut, but keeping some value in the secondhand market is good for said creators- many people only pay full price becuase they know they can sell later.
Anything older is largely fair game becuase access, if available, is prone to change- use the wii virtual console! Nevermind, pay again to have it on Wii U! Nevermind, buy an online subscription & we'll hook up with some stuff! Plus, most of the time these games are being peddled after the ROM's been out some time. You're not getting that horse back in the barn, so to speak.
Of course, this is all a moot point because I'm one of those folks who'd prefer to muck about with old hardware then fiddle with ROMs. I've considered picking up/"commissioning" someone to make a Retro Pi for my sister- she gets the retro bug from time to time & has a retro duo (or similar machine)... but she's tight on cash & has a VERY small apartment, so a tiny box with every old title she could ever want would be a great thing for her. Of course, many of the people who'd actually set up such a thing for me are shady & probably not worth dealing with, so I haven't seriously looked into it.
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On 3/19/2020 at 12:48 PM, Cranker said:They just piss me of at this point. I haven’t even watched this yet. They are always ready to be negative. And saying you can play these on mobile devices is so ridiculous.
Behind as usual, but- I'm just under the impression at this point that they never spend any serious time with kids.
I gave my six year old niece my old Galaxy S4 so she'd quit stealing her parents phones, and filling up their SD cards with new games from the app store- she doesn't always play them, she downloads whatever strike her fancy. Now, I password-locked & hid the appstore icon on this phone- and she still more than doubled the apps tied to my account in 2 days (since this was an S4, you've got an idea of how many years I've had the account.) Similarly, my mom let her borrow her tablet- I asked her if that was a good idea, did she lock down her accounts? "It's fine", she says, "I don't think I even have Google Play on this." A couple hours later, niece goes home & mom checks her email- DOZENS of app download confirmations. From Amazon. Which wasn't locked down- kid spent $20 (thankfully not everything she got was paid.)
You tell me there's a doo-dad I can give this kid, to play mobile-type games, where she CAN'T go hog-wild in the app store? This is a selling point for me! I'm honestly a little bit impressed these guys can't see any sort of market for this... it's not gonna change the world, but there is an appeal there.
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12 minutes ago, masschamber said:you can actually specify a time window on best offers now
That's handy, but it doesn't necessarily solve the problem- it just means I now have to decide what's enough time to give for them to see & decide, versus how long I'll have to wait if they flake & ignore it.
I'd personally love a 'revoke offer' button so if a better option comes along I can just cancel out. Might make some of the offenders reconsider if they know they don't have a guaranteed window of time to wait for a better offer.
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10 hours ago, bluejay said:I really think thrift store shouldn't charge anything more than $50 for something, no matter how valuable it might be, as they are just selling donated stuff, and it's all 100% profit except for the rent, some maintenance, and other housekeeping stuff. It's really not fair for the buyers when Goodwill decides to put a $600 price tag for a PC 5150 because it's what it goes for on eBay. It's damn thrift shop! It's supposed to be cheap!
I don't know about a $50 limit, but I agree it should be under Ebay value. The odds that the store took the time to properly test an item is unlikely, assuming there's even someone with the knowledge to do that in the building. Plus, Ebay has a better return policy.
But, that's on them- either someone's willing to pay it or they get no money at all. If they wanna gamble on a big payout they can.
8 hours ago, homerhomer said:Goodwill is all about making as much money on donated items to train unfortunate individuals work skills. This is good for the community but not for finding a good deal. Sort of sucks seeing Goodwill's everywhere because they mostly work the same way.
Yeah... here's the thing- those 'unfortunate individuals'? Usually less unfortunate & more complete jerks. Think of it this way- a lot of people who end up in a thrift, are people who can't handle working at McDonald's, & only company policy prevents them from getting fired. Things I have heard about include:
-employees in donations taking stuff they want home before pricing the rest
-people taking 1 hour breaks, 3 hour lunches, or just leaving mid-shift
-refusing to work on anything a manager asks becuase they're female and/or poc
-refusing to do anything at all becuase they haven't been promoted (usually within a week of starting)
-actively arguing with a customer & accusing them of lying/stealing becuase they found a double charge on their receipt
And so on. This is ignoring the managers who tried to frame my sister for their embezzlement years ago, I imagine that one was an outlier.
Not saying they're aren't genuinely hard workers in these places- usually people who are disabled, still learning English, or just had something put a gap in their work history that needs to be filled. But I'd wager about half of these employees are people who are literally too selfish to hold a job.
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21 hours ago, bluejay said:The No Tag No Sale policy must be because people might remove tags bc it might be more than what they might pay? Why couldn't they just print a new tag for it?
Because thrift store pricing is INCREDIBLY arbitrary. One person's 'rare collectible' is another's '$1 junk disc'. As a result, only people that actually get some training on pricing are usually allowed to do it (or at least have to look things over for a final OK.) If that pricer isn't available, the cashier isn't supposed to fill in just in case someone intentionally popped a tag off to get a better deal- or worse, is having their friends do it so they have an excuse to mark down merch for them. My sister-in-law used to be a backroom manager at a thrift, so all the sorting/pricing stuff was in her wheelhouse. Honestly? Knowing what goes on behind the scenes, it's a miracle thrift stores can run even remotely smoothly!
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I'm not super worried about it- I imagine the high-end prices will come down for sure, but I don't see any serious market changes. On the one hand, people can't get out to buy games. On the other, so many are sold online these days & people are stuck indoors & after games as a result. There is certainly some kind of recession on the way, which will hurt sales of frivolous things like games- but it also means cheaper options will be more desirable, which could pull more people into retro since, typically, it IS cheaper (especially if you can get an everdrive).
As far as sanitation- either you're buying from a good seller who did the cleaning for you, or you really should have some sort of hand covering until you can clean the item... that's just always been the case. It's not like gamers are known for their cleanliness- everyone's got their stories!
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There's two main reasons I don't bother with Best Offers- the number of sellers who won't accept even 5% off, the number of sellers who don't respond to an offer so I have to wait for 2 days without trying other auctions, and eBay Bucks (need to make the purchase within the window to qualify).
It's a nice feature, & I've gotten some great deals from it- but it's not often the best way to go.
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It's a nice option, but it's hardly a requirement- it's genuinely difficult force lot of retro players- myself included- to get others to even consider playing with them. Just the reality of things.
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On 3/17/2020 at 7:44 PM, LePionnier said:And I have a question about the next screen from this same game.
I think we have to be realistic that with this kind of game it will be difficult to translate for other countries !?
Exemple, the first picture is a Rat ! ( Same thing in french, so for this one no problem. )
But for the second picture, we have to find the letters A T. In english no problem with a Hat, but in french it's "chapeau". Nothing to help.
So Tommy, can you confirm that worldwide, to play this game we will have to think in English !? 🙄
Thank you, and again, great job !
While you're probably right about the translation hurdle, this isn't a good example- these aren't letter based hints (I see no way for fried egg & ramen to become 'ouille'). This is just 'rat, cook, food'- a description of the movie, holds for any language. We'd need to see more clues to know just how important spelling tricks are to solving the pictograms.
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So far, so good- job 1 went on a 2 week furlough. Paid, but about half of what I'd make working. Job 2 is currently still going, so maybe I can get extra hours out of them.
A bit concerned since I naturally have a cough from my blood pressure medication, so the only symptom to watch for is a fever. Got a thermometer & check myself every morning- seems I run a degree or so lower than most (explains why I hate the cold!) More concerned about passing it to others than actually having it myself- I'm young enough that I should be OK, but even the job that's open still has a lot of elderly customers, so I don't want to be a carrier!
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On 3/16/2020 at 12:26 PM, Tempest said:Turns out my wife, who is decidedly NOT a gamer picked up a SNES when they were clearing them out when she was in college. She's had this SNES sitting in our closet with some boxed games since I've known her and she never mentioned it. I'm going to dig it out tonight and see what happens. Hopefully it's a one chip!
Of all the things not to bring up!
Anyway- I'd open up your system & just start taking bits off & cleaning them. My SNES did a similar thing awhile ago- I even bought a replacement deck to try and fix it, but neither output video (it wasn't the cable, I checked it on my N64). I just started messing with pieces- why not, if it's not working? It randomly sprung back to life after about an hour & it's been fine since. I wasn't paying too much attention, so I don't know if I managed to swap the right components or just cleaned the right connection- but it certainly couldn't hurt anything to just poke its guts awhile.
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2) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A great time killer during lockdown, but honestly? If it weren't for that I might not have picked it up. I usually avoid these kind of daily check-in games. It's not bad! Just not a staple of my gaming diet.
3) Yakuza Kiwami
How did I not play this until now?! This is amazing! I have never played a game so familiar and so surprising all at once! You can go from cradling a bloody, dying loved one to racing toy cars to help a man get married within 30 minutes! It's ridiculous! It's fantastic! I already bought a copy of part 2! 🤣