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The last switcher I bought was at The Source, which is/was old Radio Shack stores rebranded by Circuit City in Canada. It's an svideo/composite/audio 4 ports. I think I saw the same switches at Walmart. But someone with basic soldering skill could probably make his own switch for about $5 of cheap chinese parts from ebay.

Input-output...

I have a four port version of that switch...

I gave some thought to immersion in alcohol, to displace the water, and letting it dry in the sun for a day for some of my worst board cleaning job...

With all the new stuff coming out to replace the old Ti hardware by modern equivalent, at what point it stop being a Ti setup? I mean, the only thing left is the console & keyboard but how long before that is replaced by an FPGA or rPi?

From PushSquare: "A story that’s sure to have editorial overlord Damien McFerran perspiring like former SEGA America chief Tom Kalinske at a 90s PlayStation press conference, Strictly Limited Games has announced that it’s resurrecting an old 1994 shooter that was originally created for the Mega Drive and Mega CD. Project Hardcore was developed by DICE and set to be published by Psygnosis in 1994, but it never saw the light of day. Incredibly, it’ll now launch both physically and digitally on the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita next year. The press release reads: “Project Hardcore is a Euro-style Metroidvania-platformer appealing especially to classic 2D-action-game enthusiasts with its intricate level design and numerous mid- and end-bosses. Vertical-scrolling shoot ‘em up stages, originally planned to be exclusive to the SEGA Mega CD version, will also be integrated into the final version, delivering the most complete experience possible and bringing back memories of games like SWIV for the Commodore Amiga.” https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/08/unreleased_psygnosis_shooter_launches_on_ps4_ps_vita_next_year Nice! I love me some Psygnosys...

Seems to be the case, not just for the switch. I declared an interest in strating to collect RPG for the PS4 and was told to watch a lot of "boutique" retailer and PlayAsia as some of the physical releases only pop up there. It's either spend time to see what is coming out and hinting them all over the place or pay the ebay tax...

Great!

No problem. I made use of the ignore list function.

Yes, but some people here use broad statements that don't make any distinctions. The roms market isn't limited to the USA only.

I'll let John play by himself. It's way more important for his ego than it's for me to waste my time arguing with him. Have a nice life.

Canada is in the rain forest? Now you're really trolling...

Again, no it isn't. I already explain how it works where I live. The government instituted a tax to compensate media creators for the "loss" of revenue. But unless you are selling/distributing the copies that you are making for yourself then, no it isn't illegal here.

Again, that isn't true everywhere.

Again, it depends on the jurisdiction. Theft is a criminal offense pretty much everywhere, copyright infringement isn't.

Is the PS4 region locked?

And as I said previously, criminality depends on jurisdiction. Copyright infringment is, depending on jurisdiction, a civil matter not a criminal one.

You're borderline trolling now...

Well I went the PS4 way... I may get a Wii still but at a later time. And I needed a new BluRay player anyway for movie and I don't want to use the PS3 for that to save wear on the drive.

Came in today: Playstation 2 Fat model, with two controllers, one is broken though so I'll have to open it up to see what's wrong with it. Externaly the PS2 is mint but judging from the fan it will need a good internal cleaning. Need to check a few video on how to crack one open. I also won an auction for a mint PS3 80gig soft backward compatible model, tested of course. I ordered a controller from amazon prime since it doesn't comes with one. Would have prefered an original controller but they're harder to find new. I finaly bought a cheap silly anime based game to test it when it arrive. So now that makes 5 consoles: NES, SNES, Genesis, PS2, PS3... Still one spot left in my rack... Trying to decide between a wii with it's GC compatibility, making it a two for one but the whole wii mote gestures control seems silly to me, or an N64, but I never owned one and don't know the library, or finaly saving my money and get the updated PS4 Or XBone even thout I only play at 1080p. I love RPG, Action/Adventure, plateformers, arcade/shmups, strategy...

Well, depending on where you live you can be liable for injury caused by you to that burglar. We don't all live in the USA or have "Castle doctrine" in effect. Same as copyright infringement being criminal. Many country regard this as a civil offense not a criminal one. Case in point, in Canada it was until a couple of years ago illegal for me to make you a copy of a cd I own, but perfectly legal for you to borrow my CD and make yourself a copy. The music/movie industry petitionned the gov and the only solution they could find was adding a tax on blank media to compensate the music/movie industry as they wouldn't be able to criminalize all of the people doing it. The National Library in Montreal is probably the biggest piracy hub in the country where tables upon tables of people all equiped with laptop spend hours ripping music and movies... Hey, you can even reserve the titles you want in advance! Thirdly, you're parotting the hard core collectors/speculators point of view. In the end you see roms as a loss of an artificially inflated sales on ebay and thus a loss of revenu and unfair competition for speculators. There is a solutions to this problems. Companies dumps their roms on Steam or another such service with DRM preventing trading or resale. An other one will be a big used game price correction which will happen when the present speculators try to cash in and innondate the market.

New loots: PS2: Disgaea 1 & 2 High Roller Casino World Serie of Poker NES: Ultima Exodus Sega Genesis: 6-buttons controller The Lost Vikings

Guys, please disregard the Need for Speed Carbon. I didn't check the disk before including it in the lot and sadly the disc is probably the most scratched disc I ever saw. I would even call them grooves instead of scratches...

Got a few things that I want to get rid off for the price of shipping. My personal experience is that the CD jewel case probably won't survive so I'll be shipping them in 3mm DVD case instead. Some light scratches on the DC disc but they work and they're free... Jagged Aliance is sealed but it's a french reissue.

Don't want to sound dumb or anything but... Why not just buy a 1/8" to L-R rca cable at bestbuy and save the shipping from accross the Atlantic? It's what I do with mine...