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200GB giga shock! They're trying to round it up to look cooler. It's not a bad deal and it's one of the better for read/write out too. Personally though for price and fastest speeds both ways the Samsung Evo+ is the way to go. 128GB is like around $40-45 and the new 256GB is around $140. If it's something you want to lease games from Nintendo and put on there instead of buying physical media I'd think the read/write speeds should be most important over cost within reason.

To that point within a point earlier ago -- 100% agree. PS TV shot itself in the foot 100%. They had a huge opportunity there and screwed it up badly. I could understand a few games totally based around the camera/touch controls not being compatible, but when a lot of games which had optional or bypass capable touch garbage (like the leader of the pack Uncharted) failed to run on there, and others which had none at all it was game over. For all the every few months $20 amazon sales on the device I not once could convince myself to pull the trigger on the thing because ... Sony. Yes I know you could whitelist it with an email backdoor hack, but Sony also annoyingly loves to force firmware updates and it felt like it could be a cycle of harassment. I still consider getting one and whitelisting it, figuring at this rate they don't care anymore to firmware update it or anything. I do miss Dragon's Crown. Truth though is I could just as easily buy a PS4 blu ray remote and swap my old PS3 with the PS4 in my room and leave the other for movie only play and go buy a cheap copy of the original game again. I know off topic there and on topic is far smaller, but that video says a lot to both back up and debunk some of the fans and trolling we see online about the system we get in another 8 days. Yes we're basically a week out here now. I do like his angle that it very well could be a pre-Pascal type system as it is marked as an X2 on the code not a X1, but those numbers can mean anything without a scan of the guts. You have to really wonder what's going on in there as we get more clues, it's just more questions since stuff still is buried inside or buried under a poor image so you can't read certain chip numbers to look them up.

I remember those old pieces, people getting all hyped like the Genesis was the most amazing looking/sounding system to date which really wasn't the case if you stacked the nicer colored and cleaner detailed TG16 HuCards at the time against it, and the audio too TG16 had that as well as it wasn't scratchy/tinny. Genesis did bring home a good feel of arcade goodness, but those earlier days before things changed with better efforts (second generation carts) and Sonic the system was sold on hype and childish 'Nintendon't' advertising. EGM was always to the end (of Sega) a big suck up to that company over Nintendo, and when Sega waned they ran right to Sony to latch onto. Ahh the early days of publication gaming media fanboyism, some things never change other than shoveling less than obvious misinformation and trolling.

Feel free to take your time to get it right. (I'm still shopping for a pristine NGPC)

I'm aware of that, but it's the price I paid for the kit I doubt I can match that's what bugs me as much as the problems with it. $250 shipped which is 99% of the time out of my financial wheel house but I've been selling off games/systems I no longer use lately so I treated myself. If it wasn't for a couple/single bad chip or loose joints on said chips I'd be good with a clear deal. I did splurge far less on something else I've wanted for years...the Zaxxon Coleco tabletop arcade as a runner up prize. Paid the price of a nice one and it came complete in the box with the manual and everything off ebay too, hopefully it's fine. I've got some of them already with Pac-Man, DK, and DKjr and now that. If I bothered to finish it out I'd get Ms PacMan, Frogger, and Galaxian for the set.

Yeah the blue cardboard retail box for the system. Normally I would ignore Sony stuff as there's no personal value or otherwise in it to me. I'm simplifying things now branching out, but in all fairness I saw a sony handheld box with a stupid cheap price on it I'd bite. ...and fuji I had a one handed semi/automatic machine gun back in the day that fired bullets like that and they can sting if you're close enough. I doubt they're made anymore, or even if they are, it's an effort as no toy store wants to get sued by some whiny snowflake or jerk with an agenda.

Picked this up for $35 today at goodwill, same one where the other n64 in early January and the pre-christmas Dreamcast popped up. This I missed the first walk by, I blew off the busted open original PS2 blue box but I'm glad I got curious and peeked inside. I didn't rummage it much, was hoping for the best yet figured seeing the system and mario 64 I was safe. Sadly there are no wires, and I don't have spare OEM AC Adapter or A/V cable, no shame here but likely not keeping any of it other than the N64 Jumper Pak and maybe one of the carts potentially. Aside from the N64 that's a working Konami/Logitech USB microphone there too. I'm conflicting eating the cost of the missing cables or just letting it ride as it tested out fine using my cables.

PISSED OFF! That reveal isn't happening. My MVS kit arrived today and the sound chips or the PCM chip, whichever it is, at the least needs a reflow of the solder if not a chip replacement. The sfx are mostly scratchy, and the music runs from dead to near that up to full volume or higher, it's a playable mess that makes you wish you were deaf. It's going back. I had got Blazing Star with a holo label as a full (non matching) kit. It's going back tomorrow. >:\

...and you'll be selling me that NGPC collection when?

Trust me I tried anything I could do tearing it down to fix it and it was just done. People back then didn't have a bunch of spare boards for it lying around as it had been discontinued already at that rate so I was screwed as ebay came up dry.

Gradius III was really the pinnacle of the franchise.

The tablet releases of Neo Turf Masters do the game pretty good justice and are fun to play. One of very few NG gams you don't have to worry about crap touch controls ruining the experience really.

Don't feel bad I didn't get to it until the later 90s and I didn't get much further. I cheated on that one and printed up a minimalists move guide and played it for like a couple hours to finish it using that so I could figure it out. The game is so obtuse you need able to pick up on the really dumb nuances and flawed logic of this do this for that setup they placed into it to get anywhere. Only after going that route I figured out how it worked, years later the GBC release popped up and I was able to slug that out but haven't since as that style of game just does nothing for me beyond that one.

The only version I ever dug was the original and the emulated or closely simulated copies from back in the 90s. Outside of that I was big into the DOS Tempest 2000 game which was identical to the Jaguar title as far as I know.

Yes the arcade play version, but the home one was just a re-sticker of the common Playtime pinball setup. Google it you'll see what I mean as they did quite a few. You're right it does sound like a loop but would a power supply cause a loop? It sounds more like a feedback loop somewhere, perhaps a short causing the problem so it won't kick over. It could be something as stupid as a popped piece of solder/wire so it can't detect the start button of all things so it just runs and runs. When my zizzle was bad in the first spot I had to rewire a few things from the parts John mailed me. The volume wheel was mostly fried so it was either off, almost off, or ear bleeding were the choices. The right solenoid was basically toast, it decided when it felt the need to work. The power button was somewhere between those 2 annoyances so it would just light up and act like it wanted to go and just sat there and played dumb. Once I pulled off the bad parts and wired in the new ones it lived for that time I said until the main board rolled over and died. That was one very sad trip to the apartment dumpster outside that day once I realized I couldn't get a replacement board without ruining another working unit.

118.69M would be more accurate for Gameboy since we're having fun nitpicking. Nintendo didn't consider the GBC its own system any more than they did the GB Pocket or the Japan only GB Light. They're all just 8bit Gameboy with a difference in style in output and with the last one being a bit better inside (along with a color panel) which had a few games only it could run. It really wasn't until they got into having online services they considered a system ugprade a new system even on the same name which is what they pulled with DSi (death of backwards compatibility until the Switch) and again with New3DS because they double beefed up the guts inside like GBC crudely put and rolled with it. But when they pitch sales figures they put them all under one umbrella. GB+P+L+C is just Gameboy. DS+Lite+i is is the DS and 3DS+XL+2DS+New3DS+New3DSXL is just 3DS when they run the data. It's kind of weird, but given they basically run all the same stuff aside from a few games it makes sense. So with that nitpick GB actually edged out the PS1 sales but not PS2 since GBA (GBA+SP+Micro) are their own thing. Reality is though you're probably right on the nose, Nintendo saw no reason to compete against itself when it was a loss leading prospect which had one anomaly that performed nice for 3-4 years, the Wii. Otherwise it was like watching a painful episode of Jackass where Steve-O wanted to just repeatedly be punched in the balls as that's the kind of mentality Nintendo had sticking with consoles...doubled over pain and loss. Going with the Switch you can still use it on a TV, it upscales to feel like a console, but the damn thing to anyone with half a brain knows it's a handheld and even the advertising isn't even all that sly about it with all the hipster roof parties and backyard bbqs with it with the kickstand out on a table.

How reliable is steam link anyway? I've never heard of that before.

Made some updates removing things, I should be adding a bit more next time

Some people just like to troll with make offer to sucker people into looking and hoping they get paranoid or annoyed enough the right way to just pay up anyway almost to the dollar and I wouldn't be surprised if it worked. I put a question in on a tabletop game I was looking at and the price was a specific amount OBO as usual, I asked a few questions as the one image sucked and got what I wanted out of that and in the last one said I didn't want to play lowball games, what would they be willing to take. And the answer I got was that he already had offers just 18% off the asking price and he wasn't willing to take that. My guess would be he'd need it down to like $5 off at best or something around that proportionately speaking which is just stupid so I stopped bothering. It gets me when people put that stuff up and just get greedy or abuse it with intent, worse is when they knowingly put something up for a high price well over what comparable or even better shape/complete units of some item go for, slap a OBO on it, then get crappy about taking offers. Sometimes you get snark back, often you even ask for like a 10-15% off and it's a no return counter straight up decline and it's just infuriating as they're time wasters.

No problem. Reddit kind of sucks unless you get lucky usually with a recommendation or an accidental google find. I went poking around looking for info and bumped into links back to those two and they were the most steadily informative, active, and not immature place I could think of with plenty of reading and help there to use. The only system based one I found worth a steady use at all was just /Nintendo which basically bags up everything from the 80s forward which kind of explains that one.

Ahh so you work for them, now I get it. Sorry, I guess it just depends where you go and how much respect the crew has I guess. What gets me is the company is based out of Louisville where I live, main hub, distro, corporate and secondary corporate offices all over. You would think with the damages they rack up they'd be just a bit worried about someone getting angry in town here and showing up at one of those locations.

Perhaps but people say Zizzles were garbage too and some lasted a long time and still do and others broke pretty quickly. I think it's more of a your mileage may vary thing. If you could score one for $50 or something not much north of that I'd say go for it. My zizzle I got second hand after fixing it lasted a couple of years and I only had $20 into it so I was sad it died but I got more than $20 in fake quarters out of it and then some. I think I saw that star galaxy one somewhere, maybe craigslist around here not too long ago.

Same here I knew of the Williams conversions of both Earthshaker and Black Knight 2000 done by the Playtime company who did all those branded overly basic tables in the 80s which had the popular Super Mario Bros table among others (TMNT, etc.) But that one I've never seen or heard of that before. I loved High Speed 1 and 2 (Getaway) and I'd love to have an opportunity to buy that. Is the maker known for that one? Also I do agree on the Zizzle's. I already wrote the repair story on the one I had in the last post.

Wow amusing a resurrection of a Castlevania thread. Reading back I also very much enjoy Castlevania Legends on GB. Also the parodius spinoff of the franchie Kid Dracula is very fantastic too. Currently I'm still trying to find a cart only copy from the UK of KOnami GB Collection 4 (I have 1-3) and it has Castlevania 2 Belmonts Curse which is fantastic. I try and get my franchise fix from typically the better versions of the games when I can, and the old titles colorized on GBC into packages is a solid pick up, but also I do keep around the Famicom Castlevania 3 too if for anything it just not being censored but also the audio when I have the ability to hear it too. If that Redacted CV2 version is what I believe it to be I've been running that on my Retron5 in the past with the hot patching it does. The translation is gone back to the original JP script and correctly done, plus they hack it out to a MMC1 cart and add an overworld map to the game that's beautifully drawn to help you not get lost so easy. It's still a game I like a lot and back in the day I finished it a few times, but admittedly it was a slog until Nintendo Power brought up that issue with the full fold out map for the entire terrain of the game along with some picture based guides over a few pages because of the dumb issues Konami let it slip with.

I just leave all my systems plugged in. Even when I was neck deep in stuff at one point I had 2 4port RCA switcher boxes going along with another 2-3 ports used on the back of the TV. I then had power strips for the various plugs, and the few that were big annoying boxes I'd put towards the end or I'd get a short extension cord for it alone just so it wouldn't hog 3 jacks. It worked out fine and it really didn't eat up much space since I had some shelves/cabinets around the TV area. It's the games and if you're an accessory hoarder that really gets you.