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AMenard

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  1. I need one of these in my life!

    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.


  2. 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?


  3. 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...

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  4. 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...


  5. 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.

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