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  2. Posted

    I haven't decided on the SVC Chaos boot, but, I did get a decent deal for $100 on a nice legit Bust a Move Again US cart. Very happy to have that as it tends to fly for more than that. BAM2 is my favorite of the franchise, though I prefer that burned into your skull for eternity theme of the original (much like the same effect just mentioning the Bubble Bobble theme would do to people too.)

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    Now in Stock is more reliable, and more locations.

    http://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/nesclassicmini/

     

    I'm going to still have to disagree about lag. I think it's entirely the classic HDMI (or not) input lag issue you get with classic games designed for the rate a CRT puts out. You have to be under a certain personal threshold (though generally 30ms would do it or less) and you should be fine. Yes the cord is a bloody joke. I got an extension for mine the day it came out, but then a day later I found the EMIO gamepad they put out with the turbo button on it and it has a stock 9ft cord (same length as the NES one with the extension cords you can buy.) Problem worked itself out that way and got a nice guide with it too with all sorts of goofy junk in it.

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    It's not that bad, you would really have to know the game well to tell. The first one that audio was garbage, sounded like the old Marat iNES WIndows emulator from the later 1990s which was atrocious. I'm fairly tolerant of stuff if it's not too off, I can deal with the atgames genesis outside of the screeching pitches of murdered Sonic, but this one, if all the audio is as bad as iNES was with the CV3 example I'd play it muted only and that says a lot as I can't stand dead silence playing games.

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    I just grabbed the pair too at walmart and they're amazingly fun and I like the quality put into them. Yes they're 'cheap' but they're solid and I really dig it.

     

    They're a solid step up from the first two. I'm comfortable at $20 on these, while I probably would not pay more than $5-10 on the first two. I hope they have some class and re-issue them with a good screen. Both Space Invaders and Pac-Man were on the NES anyway.

     

    I actually am familiar with it as I had the game not all that long ago, the Q-Bert release is a hacked NES release of the game. Instead of the area where you have the nerd looking kid showing how to control using the Nintendo control pad it's just a lame screen with a white text LOADING... for a moment. Within though the audio, the visuals, the mechanics are all the same. I'd actually argue it's better than the NES if for only one reason that the d-pad alignment on NES was awful and you'd have to retrain your mind to remember up was like up right and left was left up, and so on which got weird and it was loose. This little cabinet though, the plastic around the stick is molded into an X so you don't have those annoying hangups. Like the NES sadly, saving your high score isn't going to happen which is I guess a shame, but it would take more work than just jacking a rom and using a cheap system on a chip setup to do it. Centipede is the 7800 release, one player without the other fluff. Depending how you feel since it has a + style joystick mold you may not be happy or not care but obviously no 360 stick or little trackball.

     

    Interestingly enough I pulled down one of my Coleco tabletops (Donkey Kong) and did some comparisons. The unit itself 5 3/4" high, 3 1/2" wide, and 3" deep at the joystick panel that sticks out most. LCD is 2 1/4" wide and 1 5/8" high. The volume on them has a soft, med, loud and off setting. Interestingly enough the joystick hat and the white button are almost identical in size and feel to my Donkey Kong Coleco table top. The width of the DK is actually more narrow than the new toys, but obviously it is taller. They look relatively small next to DK, but they don't feel or look (to the play area) smaller or cramped at all. It's just a difference of 1980~ molding and capabilities of the sizes of boards, chips, and the screen panel compared to now.

     

    Basically what you have here is an emulator, a 6502 looking system on a chip with a solitary game included either within or stored to the side, have no interest opening it up to find out. They have similar quality stickers on the body, more so since the bezel art is that while the old coleco had the ink put on the plastic view area fringe. Plastic body feels as rigid as the old, but I would say more durable considering the old Coleco's have notorious for breaking/cracking design with the top part of those, usually cracking on the sides outside of the stick/buttons in front or in back where the tabs are. On the other side of it, I think the black plastic is likely more scuff prone since it's smooth and not textured, also I'm certain the screen area probably is far easier to scratch up than the thick old panel as well so it's a bit of a trade off. The Arcade Classics have a solid design with just 4 philips head screws in the back, so easily opened if someone wants to dissect it. The molding has a faux set of speakers, but just the one on the left has the actual speaker there.

     

     

    I hope this is helpful for anyone interested. Does anyone know names of what is coming after these? I recall reading somewhere it would go beyond the four I believe.

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    I take great pleasure in clicking on the auctions that accept Best Offers, and offering $45. I know I won't get it, but if you're going to be a douchenozzle and sit on three of these so you can quadruple your money, I'm going to give you an annoying lowball.

    If I bother I offer the msrp and in the comments I say since retail is this and its a modern new item I'll pay you retail and that's it. I did this twice on a local gaming board which a few found amusing since I was first to rub their nose in it adding it being part of a local community you shouldn't hammer people.

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    DDaniels I wasn't thinking of your post I got what you meant. It's more of the 'I know better and they're going to fail again' type posts. It gets tiring. I'd rather just take a good wait and see attitude about it instead of condemning them to industry death before the thing even is in the publics hands. So much of it is still unknown but you have plenty of armchair industry experts who can throw the word (or variants of) assume around like assume = fact drawing some pretty weak conclusions to stir the pot. I also thing you're right, at least about 32X. SCD could have been fine but Sega was so negligent in their business handlings they even screwed up the fairly decent thing that was. But in the end yup doorstop and footstool cover it pretty well.

     

     

    topten: I know, and all we can go by is what we see publicly or get told otherwise. I can't say I know crap about the online aspect of it other than anyone else in here, but the little I do know I get outside of what's seen online usually they are making some kind of better effort this time. What it would amount to for results in the end only time will tell. I get the fears, WiiU sickened me having it even in my presence eventually to the point it was the first modern era console I sold off in disgust. I just don't see so many parallels with this handheld/console combo, a few maybe sure, if they go a certain stupid direction with it, but they appear also to have grabbed up better support more in tune with their handheld efforts so I'm cautiously hopeful they haven't blown it. The last Nintendo console I've held onto was the Gamecube as I pitched the Wii too around the time of the WiiU because all the B-team poor man franchise spinoffs bugged me as did the lack of much unique to enjoy they at Nintendo didn't cook up (and which I found inferior to their Gamecube cousins.)

     

    The anti-consumer policy if you mean how their stupidly bind their downloaded game leases to the hardware and not an account, that would not surprise me one bit, which is why I don't buy games from them like that without a gift card or a severely low price involved. The online who knows, seems like they're going for maybe a last gen PSN style setup of some sort, yet tethered in some unknown ways to ios/android apps which they're not discussing so trolls are creating the story for it. I think the big two would be supply problems, and if they try and smother some third party games with their own releases as they did like real pricks in the past. I do see them getting franchise titles for a 'console' (they insist it is at least one) that a Nintendo home system hasn't had in some cases as far back as the late NES/SNES era which I find just a little encouraging. Truth is we really can't say until the 2nd gen run of titles pop up after a good year on the shelf. Crap ports, solid ports, solid new games, unique experiences, or just fluff and bluster.

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  11. Posted

    I think it could be a sticking point. I just saw how old the thread was and the recent conversation and felt a need to reply to help is all. I think Skies probably is along with the price is the problem. The thing is if someone wanted the original case art (which the case would come with most likely) and the missing busted disc they'd be better off not bothering.) But if the price were lowered and just had the other 2 games and the VMU with it you'd probably see it go faster.

     

    Perhaps sell the working skies disc and manual alone as a package deal for $20-25 just to get rid of it.

  14. Posted

    I bagged a couple more MVS games so far in the last couple days on ebay I'm happy about. One turned out better than originally intended.

     

    I had picked up days ago Samurai Shodown 3 with the marquee for $50 shipped, but the company when bench testing it found it was busted and couldn't get a replacement so I ended up annoyed with a refund. Hours later, someone else posts yet another one, slightly better shape (like the difference of a 8.5 and a 9/10 quality nothing crazy) with a marquee for $40 shipped. Score...and it shipped. ;) Then I have another game I wanted pop up for less than the average elsewhere, Bust-A-Move Again and scored a deal on that one too. Check and check off my want list. :P

     

    Also talking to a guy about a bootleg of SVC Chaos, curious to know if it's the game, plus, or super plus. Given the price tag being where it is I may pop for it if it's Super Plus or at least offer then a price on it if it's a bit high, have to look into it. That one is on my 161in1 like BAMA is, but they're both glitched with annoying audio/speed issues and SVC is hardwired at 8/8 difficulty rendering it infuriating.

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    There's a post in the thread over at gbatemp that does in fact have a user updated google drive excel sheet going which is mostly filled out for the US side for licensed/unlicensed and more is being added around it for regions and all that.

     

    It appears US side you have around I think a 95% usability factor going into it. Almost every licensed game works, select very few don't, but more of the garbage unlicensed stuff have problems dragging the percentage down. Japan should end up being the worst as they went through quite a few special company made mappers, but on the other side FDS games work, so that's a plus too.

     

    I'm still of the belief if/when I do it, I'll stay away from pages of it, it's too much and I'd never use the stuff. Loading up at the very minimum my current library of NES and (when not with special mapper) Famicom games would be mostly it, then round out the edges with other entries into popular franchises like Ninja Gaiden 2 and 3 to go with 1 which I don't own on NES but SNES. Yet I do have all 3 Turtles games so I'd stuff that on there already, same with Contra to their SuperC.

  18. Posted

    Yup I've noticed that as well. The only argument that made some sense to me was with the free ROM of the month club going on, is that they could be supposedly played online with/against others in 2P titles. That would be fairly huge to people who want to do any VC game online in general as well if that wasn't just someone pipe smoking making up stuff as I never dug to verify it. If it is true considering all the various 2(and some4) player NES and SNES titles I could see people really digging into using that service for that alone. Global balloon fight, tmnt4 (snes), gauntlet 2 on NES(4P game), Super Dodgeball, etc.

  19. Posted

    I don't know, probably. I'm not in the market for one having re-acquired one just days before Christmas. But it meant a lot of catch up and price evaluating online too so I'm up on various stuff, that's why I made the post to try and help out. Given the value of a DC in general and that of Shenmue as well, plus 1 good working Skies disc and manual I'd say you're not out of line since shipping is included in that. A good dreamcast is worth at least $30 or $40, with discoloring on yours lower end if someone was touchy over it and a VMU is like a $5 item which wasn't included with the system itself (just the 2 wires and controller were.). Shenmue complete in nice shape is a $30+ game on its own. That football game has less value than the VMU but makes for a nice sports game or at least a good replacement case for a future cracked one. :)

  20. Posted

    Yup if anything they're starting to become a bit more predictable instead of just predictably nuts because the market is forcing them to adapt (even if slowly) or die. They can't live on their own little island in the console industry anymore and survive which the Wii made fairly clear support wise, and WiiU fairly well brick to the skull obvious how that thing flopped unfortunately for them. I still believe they're probably a generation behind on the networking aspects of things, as with them now having a robust(?) paid service it's what Sony and MS had going firmly in the PS3 era. Things at least from that gen to this didn't really evolve much so the gap won't look so glaringly obvious, especially if they man up and make accounts for games, not games tagged to specific hardware.

  21. Posted

    If you have a decent PC, you should check this out:

     

    http://www.armada-online.com/

     

    I recall seeing this years ago is it really even supported anymore? It seemed like a nice idea but I think it had some heavier requirements back then that shouldn't be a problem now. Watching the video I can see some nice improvements like being able to fly by stuff and take shots while evading, not just run in and out while being shot up. Does it even have the capability to play on your own or does it require a server and a challenge in place you need friends to stay alive?

  22. Posted

    I know I read it. Like I said if it works 1:1 like I had a real game in there, other than a menu to select another (like an everdrive) I'd be completely happy with that until(if) the bottom drops out on this video game scalping racket. Your project seems to do that and it's very worth of consideration of buying it. Do you have even a guesstimate what they may cost once it's finished yet?

  23. Posted

    I have had a few of them over the years (3 technically 4) but not that one. I've had DK twice, Pac-Man and a DK Jr. I've seen it come up fairly regularly but in smaller numbers on ebay and elsewhere. It doesn't seem to get a whole lot more cash loose than some of the others, it's not up there like the oddball Zaxxon or the rebranded Game & Watch DKJr that go over $100.

     

    If it's going odds are a contact maybe having a solder joint just crack/go cold over the decades if pressure flares it up as it's pushing something loose enough to act up...but I think I recall any of them can do it if you push hard enough as it's just cheaply made tabletop toys.

     

    Currently I have a DK(had one in the past too) with the manual, Pac-Man, and the perma power pack I can use on them, wish I still had DK Jr. I've had a passing interest in Frogger and more so Galaxian but never pulled the trigger. I've had other brands too like Q-Bert and it had the same behavioral flaws so I don't think it's just Coleco being cheapskate by design unless Milton Bradley was being that ghetto too in construction. I'd just say be happy you have what you got, you get a couple fools going at it they get more expensive than they should be fast. Suddenly a $50 tabletop can hit $80 or something.

  25. Posted

    I haven't actually been able to buy anything here yet, sold a lot of games though which surprised me. I've got a tidy sum in my PP account but I'm also fairly stingy due to real life money issues so I have to sell to get. At this rate I'm eyeballing a NeoGeoX gold, but I can't get a clear easy image painted for me how to get one of those NGX Tool SD card adapters setup with an arcade game rom set on it. I'd be more inclined to pull the trigger, but I haven't. NGPC I want another too, but with such a small library and scalpers wrecking the market on them fairly recently in some years now I won't buy it yet when SAINT gets that NGPC flash kit ready I may just pop for that and a handheld and consider it a closed handheld like the non-SD using atgames GG/SMS device(I have it, it's excellent.) Another would be selling my retron5 and upgrading to a RetroFreak since it takes a SD card for ROMs and I can just dump my carts to it and keep them safe as they age. Stuff like that I'd do, but going hog wild on random stuff, thankfully I'm mostly over pissing cash on games or it would be gone quick. I'll probably end up saving much, using some on Switch, perhaps getting a MVS game or two but that won't eat up what's in there.

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