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Best bet probably is the discord I think it was setup by the site so they'd be there or could reach someone with that answer.

I actually kind of like the idea of that, except if you really are wanting to stop or get to a specific point if you keep stumbling into another and another on the same background tile. It seems like a novel idea that would be fairly fun to help as you said, speed up leveling up and the rewards around it that franchise is known for. It's nice you have the time to do this, even if I weren't working the extra I still in a way just have too many games/systems so it's hard to focus on anything for too long, let alone finish. I need to make time for gaming, anime I find too, and other stuff so it gets tricky. Maybe had i been smarter and just not got back into Sega (gen, gg) I'd have more time, less distraction.

Yeah I saw that, and it's fine by me. I gave up using flat rate after the USPS got greedy and started to do zones because the values between them make utterly no sense. You can ship (if you live on a zone edge) to the next one over...say an hour away, or to the other side of your own zone many more hours away and the short drive costs more because...stupid. Formerly I would just do a flat rate based on the weight of the package and I'd round up to the next dollar if the other dollar wasn't pretty close to cover my printing/supplies, packing/supplies, and tiny 5min drive in the wrong direction to the post office. No one cared, I always had high marks on it. Now with that garbage I just let ebay deal, and 99% of the time they don't foul it up. Before the lame virus, pre-zoning they'd goof up bad, I'd end up having to call them if I did let them handle it with combined packages or accidentally hit that because it would say...hmm $3something shipping, and it would cost me like $7 and I'd be pissed, so I'd get them to credit it back which stunk going through their phone hell zoo. I used to nail people to the wall for the shipping, sometimes I'd do it intentionally because the item was a good price and it worked. I'd buy the item, let them charge me double or triple for shipping. When it arrived and I see what the post office put on the thing, or what they stupidly shot themselves in the foot over on the sticker I'd just call it in to ebay, get a shipping refund, leave them negative feedback for stealing shipping, and ebay put them on a watch list and I'd see a few cases where it seemed to be someone who did it a lot they'd get nailed for it. It may not be nice financially catfishing a catfish, but screw them, it's theft. And their shitty theft is why that greedy FVF exists now which does actually steal some of your postage money so some of your actual 'profit' eats a shipping charge that's hidden too which is crap.

You're correct, and even if that strangely wouldn't deserve credit which would be wrong, in Japan Mother 1+2 also got a JP GBA release as well in the earlier-mid 2000s.

Yeah that would be nice, when BS2 finally overdue hit the ACA rolls up on iOS I grabbed it. THe game is just beyond perfect for on the go play given its timed arcade setup. I'd like a new one, the NGPC one was fine but lean. The SFC and also Gameboy of all things got some solid Neo Geo ports/versions of the arcade games those largely outside of Japan got screwed out of. Off the top of my head there are those Magical Drop games I mentioned along with Bust A Move which went to the NA market. There was a port of Art of Fighting 2 for SFC only. There is the side story non port but Sengoku Denshou game, and part of the Neo Drift out series got a release on SFC (Super Drift Out.) Gameboy strangely got a really good port of a few things like Money Idol/Puzzle Exchanger, Kof 96, Fatal Fury Special (and a shit port of Fatal Fury 2 too), and Samurai Shodown 3 (really good.) You know if it wasn't for the slow time on doing the main releases in order, I think it would make an excellent YT video to touch on the Neo Geo ports/spinoffs the home console and/or handheld market got.

Great seeing this one finally pop up. I might have played a few games of the original in the arcade back in the day, tried again when I had a copy when I got the cabinet I have, but after having done this sequel I can't go back to the other as it just is so off compared. And Magical Drop is solid, funny coincidence, a couple weeks back I got a SuperFamicom lot for almost nothing and it had both MD1 and 2 within the selection which really pleased me. I like to get some of the more off the path style NeoGeo type stuff on consoles that are NOT fighting games in general, specifically largely not released in the US (though I do have Bust-A-Move on SNES.) I've yet to get the Sengoku game on SFC though, do want it.

I need to order one, just hasn't been a priority because the being off speed a little kind of put me off it when it first arrived. The thing is, I can't find anyone to be straight about it, opinions vary, if it's that big of an issue. Is it off where you really can feel it and sound is off key too or messes with your jumps in Mario type stuff? Or is it just something some speed running princess will get panties in a twist over type problematic like the Super GB 1 vs SGB2 was with the corrected clock crystal?? I like the idea I can preserve my 8bit Gameboy's which now just are toxic to buy these days with this as an alternative. This seems far smarter and more sensible than that mis-spelled slighty buggy GB Boy Color out of HK for years now.

I ended up using a gift card I had from my birthday last month and snapped up Another Code. I kind of got distracted by some 8bit finds lately but remembers I put it into the system and in the last few days I've played it for a good stretch twice. It's nice, and if you own the DS game it's NOT the same, you can't just slide through and that's that. I'm up to Ch4, the father, or who I think is a fake dad being all shitty...Bill? went off with the code keys. For now he went off to be a wanker while I try and figure out D's memories. I have to get to bed sooner than later and do a few things before that or I'd keep going. So far, worth the value, and the fact that the Wii game we in the US got screwed out of is in there to play next is just perfect.

Yeah, me, it's why I PM'd him. I like famicom games, boots included. They cleaned up quite nicely. That adapter is fairly interesting, trying to figure that one out at the moment since I opened up all these while cleaning to figure things out. That one has a little extra wiring in it, not sure if it allows some more stuff to work that is a bit more extended mapper complex at this rate. I planned to ask around to a few people including a friend of mine very deep into this stuff, writes books on it. The carts so far are fairly interesting internally. Spelunker and MagMax for some strange reason had some cut in half famicom stickers unused (astro robo and star soldier) wrapped around the top edge of the board, kept them in there just because they been there so long. All of them but two are using old period chips, same ones you'd find in a legit cart pretty much. One of them is random and one with a window, the NTDEC SMB3j copycat has 5 huge chips with their own brand logo on them. All the games but baseball and smb3j have not only the original titles, but copyright info, they're not hacked. Baseball lacks the (c)nintendo, and SMB3 lacks the title and that, just has the 1/2 player lines. I grabbed them knowing they were cheap but curiosities and for the price, they do not disappoint on that grounds.

Well I took it easy this weekend, did stuff with the kiddo on Saturday near where the flea was but didn't make it a point to go there. I swung down there after to get gas thinking it would be less, oddly wasn't, so went across to look for all of 5-10min since neither of us were into it but she spotted what she thought was a turtles toy on a table. Surprised me, it was, not sure how she figured that out but it was Scale Tail from 1992 in good shape ($5) so I grabbed it (it's a $25 toy loose!) Today though I went to where I did want to, despite the colder day and a mix of mostly meh...one table was a veritable jackpot. I dropped just $40, but I walked away with Genesis Mini + Offroad + e-Reader and I can't complain, but not all mind you. I was passing a goodwill on the way back, that Famicom Mini WTF for here of all places, and wtf at $50 (assholes, no goodwill at goodwill these days) but I wasn't going to leave it there. People were NOT kidding just how damn small that thing is. The cords are utterly short, but the gamepad makes the gameboy micro feel a bit more cozy. The controller is small, length is like edge of NES pad (button side) up to d-pad side edge of select button molding and width is like bottom to top of d-pad, depth of the thing is 1/2 the thickness of the NES controller.... VERY DINKY. It didn't have the hdmi, usb, or power plug, no papers or cardboard inside either, just the system and the original box so I grabbed it (then ordered the cables, doubt I'll ever get the manual/box contents.) it's nice, like the unique titles it has, so I'll plug it in when I feel the need and set it on the floor. Stuns me what an e-reader goes for now, wtf and why? $60?? I'd love to find a way to print some of those cards.

I'm a little stunned to see the NES left out and agreed, no handhelds? Game Boy/Color if you're sticking to 80s/90s stuff seems pretty weak to exclude. Also if price is a sticking point on the Nintendo side, the Famicom games and Super Famicom games come in moderately to a lot cheaper to their US counterparts, and plenty of the region exclusive stuff that's playable without translation isn't a wallet buster either. Some are, but a lot of it isn't in perspective of things. And if you're fine with Genesis you really should look at the SMS/GG options too, a very solid Sega piece of 8bit goodness.

Well yeah it is unfair, I mean even sticking to gaming realms the actual chip or a cloned variant of it were used in all sorts of stuff, and well if we delve into variants the Gameboy/Color uses a KO of the z80 and well, that outsold the shit out of Pac-Man. The z80 also was within both the Sega Master System and Game Gear which were virtually internally identical, and a co-pro for the Genesis/MegaDrive. Nintendo and Sega were neck deep in that...but hey Pac-man right? Let's not forget other worthy mentions with the MSX (1&2), Coleco, the Spectrum computer. Sad it's going out, it's cheap and has enough of an internal working to it that it can drive a lot of stuff and quite well for cheap electronics.

What he said, PICTURES PLEASE. We can then determine if it really has never left the box by some factory tells, but the box certainly one way or the other really can't be determined to be opened or not. They're opened and close as few times at the factory and are not sealed ever on their end so it comes down to how the contents rest in there. After that we can ballpark a value based on the condition of the box specifically so get all sides, but also the contents how they set within their spaces, bags, ties, location of it all, and so on. I know that sounds overly critical, but new collectors are OCD to a depraved and utterly draining level so it's best we know so you know because if they get a hint you have no idea what you have they'll lie their collective asses off making up stories how this and that is used or worn or whatever to beat you down. Sadly games now are full of disgusting money grubbing scum who will cut you and sell their mother for video games to turn a profit.

Yeah I'd grab that 14" PVM to upgrade from my 9 if I could and that SFC system to use with it since I've got an AV Famicocm already. :\

I'm not one of the few coders of the bunch here that would really read that, make sense of it, maybe offer up any tips and all that. What I can say though is I didn't follow a lot, but understood at a high level I think where this was going, but thanks to that YT sample that's utterly stunning. I can only imagine how far you could in theory push this within the limits of a standard SNES cart size allowed say if you wanted to make a game and have this level (or similar) music going as it would realy heighten the experience. Few went this deep into the weeds, Koshiro did with that epic set of streamed samples to do that music in ActRaiser and specifically the two pieces of symphony music he pulled for two events in the game. I could only really compare what you have here to something like that.

Shame that's only for locals, good stuff there with the variety, a little bit of everything. I see two things I'd even take, but, I haven't lived out there in over a decade.

Maybe it'll be like one of those dark comedies you see with an old medieval style. I mean I guess there's room for some lame humor around those characters and the backdrop but I can only begin to wonder if the fans will get annoyed with it who care about the franchise. Serious but not serious in the sligtest, like Lower Decks is to Star Trek?

Well you were smart enough to verify it isn't the TV and it's BOTH not either style of output cable it can handle too. Sadly, that means it's internal. Not that the Genesis is well known for it unlike the GG and other things, but they used some of the cheapest crappiest fish smelling caps possible to save a buck. It's possible the caps related to the audio visual areas of the game (one, both) are starting to die/dry out. I'd pop the top, get a loop(magnifier) and start looking at each one, see if you see any crust, crystals, yellow-white-green crap near any of them, or if one had an obvious bloat to the top. I just had a Genesis cart of all things, the singularly special mappered Capcom board for SSF2 fall into my hands over the weekend, sadly it was non-recoverable, it was made better but was still fried in the end so I had to pitch it. But the cap while not actually starting to crust had I guess dried out because the audio from the game was like 20% of normal, yet even after the fix wasn't near 100% either but improved, but it had other chip fail issues causing graphics problems. The point though is what I said, cap failure, I'd look into it.

If it wasn't for @newtmonkey I'd forget this post exists which kind of saddens me. Nice choice of game there. I actually had not touched the SNES/SFC for a long stretch outside of Baja there. That said, I think I posted in finds that I got a cheap lot of SFC games in the mail, 10 in all for $30 and 3 of them I already own/so it'll be a free lot in the end. I've been slowly whittling away at trying them out and having a bit of fun when I can around jobs. The lot consisted of (to go first: brawler Sailor Moon, DBZ Super Butoden, Fatal Fury Special) and the keepers being the Sailor Moon S puzzler, Panel de Pon, Magical Drop 1 & 2, Shanghai 3(matching mahjong), Super Strike Eagle, and Super Pang. As you can see it's a mix of puzzles but also some arcade/action stuff. Shanghai surprised me with the number of layouts and customization it has where you can have a pressure clock by default or flip it off, and it has a path to unlock around the chinese animal zodiac. Super Strike Eagle I feared would be a WTF moment because of the langauge in it, but oddly the Japanese got hosed -- it's a 100% US port with no translated info into Japanese so it's just the US game with a far better bit of sticker art. The puzzles are pretty much obvious what they are other than Sailor Moon which is more like the Sega Swirl style of drop/clear a mass space of colors type game and it's quite good. Super Pang was thrown in as he found it after for free, such a nice Capcom arcade port of that classic. I re-attached the image here, you can see what I mean by stuff using it better.

@ReyVGM @wongojack You just both gave me a flashback of a memory of a page that has stood up since the 90s, shockingly it is still there in its true 90s glory of old school fonts and obnxious tiled graphics for the background. The Elite page from Ian Bell co-author of it. Anything, everything you want to know he thought was a good idea is there, including the unpublised US-NTSC release of the game as a free download. http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/ Enjoy the cheese value of this site.

It was the first dry and warm weekend here to try out the flea market kind of like how testing the water a week ago worked out fairly well. This time it cost me a bit but far less than one would think as stuff is these days. On Saturday the weather helped as did the old grass area being open again it loaded up and more, not old days good but between than and the sad stuff the last few years did. The vendors were cheap cheap cheap which surprised me. Inside I only got one thing, the turtle from a guy I've known for years it was $10, no stink, no damage, all there, Leo is on my shelf now. Outside was just all where it was at. The first thing I came across was that N64 with baseball and cruis'n usa, all the accessories, PVC Felix, a freebie mattel handheld(not viewed, explain later), and the Callie(splatoon amiibo) and that was the costly end of the day at all of $45. I did later in another pass pay another $10 to get that genesis stick with the saint saiya pegasus figure. Another vendor I got those other 4 amiibo off of for $3(silver was free due to damage.) And then another vendor had 50cents per toy/even bagged toy, so that's where the 2 wind up godzillas from 1994 came from, the white robot micronaut, and the complete gargoyles figure too. The whole day was just $70 (value, minimally $300.) ** The Mattel I got from him(he forgot) last year, it had a rotted battery terminal that crusted, but I kept it as touching 9v to remaining wires worked, he had a beat to death one that was done, but had a good terminal so he gave me it, I mentioned the rot after the fact so he was happy. In return he's the same guy I got the dead DMG gameboy last year for $10 off of, promised him then I'd show him my repair/restoration and did, he was impressed with the new screen/pokemon GBC style shell which I showed in here last year too. For now I spliced the good terminal and wire bits to the original pieces, it's ugly and too long, so I may tear it open and do it better, but for now it's tied off and with some electrical tape over the twists. It's not for sale it's in my desk so I really don't care. Sunday did the smaller one east I hit weekly when it's no too cold/wet and met up with my friend. I've got to know a few vendors there so I seek them out, my old NES guy is missing, I think he maybe sadly not coming back. But another one was there and he gets some really random stuff, this time a big stack of PS2, lesser so PS3/4, xbox360, some wii and pc games...and a genesis console (needed power port soldered down but still worked) and a stack of games. He only wanted $3 a game! I grabbed those, and yes I blacked out that one. I was all over those, they're good titles, as was the dead one I tried to save which was Super Street FIghter II. The sound was mostly gone, background graphics garbled. I tried to fix it, put a new cap on the board which got the sound up some but not full, tried to reflow it, tried to replace another ceramic cap, but in the end I thikn someone screwed with it, as it just failed failed failed. I kept the shell as it was really clean for a replacement but it just wasn't meant to be. :\ $18 day for 6 then 5 games, can't feel bad about it.

Would it? Depends, but in enough cases the answer is yes it's a concern. LCDs have been around a good 25years now about on the market. The early 720p TVs didn't do all that fluffy post processing junk that added layers of display lag, or would muddy up and foul up the visuals in various ways. The odd thing it was never even uniform by the maker or price point of the things, sometimes a cheap one did great and an expensive one was a lag monster. But as far as a certain color dropping out or flickering a LCD shouldn't do that for an old game, that wouldn't make sense. My personal experience I went from an early panasonic viera 720p tv and it had no processing effects by default (and few at all) and I had no lag issues with old games, and they displayed clean and clear. Yet I had this huge (still have it, main room, no games on it) 40s range TV from Samsung and that one would cause 2D games to look blurry and splotchy from NES to N64, it also had enough god awful lag for at ime I thought Nintendo halfassed Wii Mario Allstars because I couldn't even hop a goomba reliably in world2 next to a pit where I'd either hit that, fall in the hole, or get chomped by a pipe piranha...so I sold the game off. Only finding over a year later with a joke comment turning into honoring a cheap buy of another, run on another newer TV, it was a shit processor in the TV. That better TV also again got to where 2D games were clear, 2D assets weren't mudded out or splotchy. Ever since the Samsung I always research the TV for display lag and 2D performance before buying, and my latest ffrom last year, a roku tv, basically is a non-touch tablet with display lag levels of a computer LCD and crystal clear visuals across the board. The point is if you have issues with lag or wonk visuals the TV is likely to blame, and it could be in your case too if it can't process that color so well, but as it is a specific color/range it could be the cabling. I'd try another set of cables and another TV as I'm sure you have more than just 1 in the home, or have a friend with one. You need to rule out stuff.

@Punisher5.0 Delisted entirely or just from GoG? STEAM has the same identical sale up with the same 13 titles (though it posts 15 since 2 sets of games are paired as bundles too.) The sale is 50% off -- GOG and Steam both at 3.49/game https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Data East

Ok see now I've always liked Kendo Rage, knew it was a (for the time) edited the best it could game without ruining it from overseas, but had no idea there was some spinoff sequel of sorts. Shame it's not another of the same style, but the fighter, just dug up a video. It had a SFC release, shortly after (months) PS1 too both stuck in Japan except much later when it got some oddball PSN type release under some import label to download which I'm sure got ignored being just weird. It looks like a good bit of fun, curious, after posting this I'll see what it goes for. There are a few oddities I had at a time not known came to the system. That said, I was thinking, and did you know aside from the usually known Neo Geo ports that we got to the SNES/SFC that there were a number of spinoff titles from the franchise, if not just sequels that annoyingly were not localized? I keep forgetting to grab these as I know I'd enjoy them, and here's a top 3 of such things (in no interesting order.) #1 Sengoku (Sengoku Denshou) #2 Neo Drift Out (Super Drift Out) -- this one I looked up before, super cheap grab #3 Art of Fighting 2 (Ryuko no Ken 2) -- also fairly cheap ($20 range) There are others, but people are I think a bit more aware, just got 2 of them myself from a soon to be cheap to free lot of SFC titles online.

I've had it off and on over time, not seen a real cart around here in some years. The reputation is well set on it being hard. THe earlier stages if you're well up on gravity type games that drag you down aren't much of a challenge, but it does pick up both in challenge and survivability with both the attacks and ever growing size of the stages and varying gravity effects.