madhatter667

Ha ha ha! Buy It Now is both a blessing and a curse in the auction world. If someone has it, and you want it, and are ok with the price, you can have it with no bidding hassle. However, if you play your cards carefully, you can nab the same item (provided that it is being sold at the time) for less without a B.I.N. option. Naturally, you can always hunt for it at some random online store as opposed to eBay, and see if you can get a better deal... that's what I'd do, unless I get it for a fair deal via auction (usually by being a miser, or by allowing my desire to get the better of me...depends on what it is).

I like to play games through to completion.. although most of those involve a save feature of some kind. I try on all of them. Older games, as in the ones that were designed for silly fun (as most of the Atari console stuff was), I play until I tire of it, run out of lives or whatever. I think if someone doesn't intend to complete a game that has a save function isn't less of a gamer...I think they wasted their money. Games like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame... all have enough going for them that one should want to play them through to the end.

Resident Evil series, Silent Hill series, Legacy of Kain series... Koudelka, any myriad of other awesome game titles... add on the fact that I play World of Warcraft...and that means that I have had plenty of sleep-deprived nights.

Last time I went to Game Crazy, I picked up a couple games (PSX) only to find that the manuals were purposely tirn down to the front and back covers, and the page with the instructions. This didn't bother me so much, as I didn't pay much for what I did get. But if I had laid down more than a couple bucks per title I would have been put off. I get very pissed over discs being sold with nothing else. I walk out when the employees get all uppity. Not often, but it does happen, and then they don't get my money. Since places have stopped taking PSX discs... and I have combed over the local chain stores' supply of PSX and Dreamcast, and what little NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn etc. so I don't have much reason to go in there anymore. It's just a waste of my time to pick through over priced sports games.

Any new pin connector will aid your NES. I do not know how much of a price difference there is between the gold coated and the standard connectors. Gold shouldn't corrode, and theoretically be better for the long haul.

Check your model/serial number against what listings you find.

rheffera scumdogg Shawn Sr. is a solid guy to work with. These are the only guys I have completed business with so far (I do have a few things in the mail, so I am sure that I will be adding more soon).

The Dragon Warrior series, 4 being a good one among them, but also probably the most expensive/hardest to find. Tengen made a few good ones...Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Pac-Man The Donkey Kong classics The Adventure Island series The Double Dragon series Trying to come up with stuff not mentioned.

I HATE the fact that there is a 50 Cent game (yeah, make a game involving a rapper who doesn't understand the concept of plural). Beyond Good and Evil was supposed to be a fun one. Never got a chance to play it though. Fill me, perhaps through a PM?

Oh, that was in regards to stuff like unreleased/prototype ISOs and whatnot. It wasn't really trouble, but the forums rules were update thanks to the situation. Harmless in my eyes, but not in everyone else's. I edited my posts to remove the "questionable" content, and just did a public apology to show that I really meant no harm by it. I am into playing games, as much as I am into preserving them. Therefore, I see no harm in accumulating prot/beta/NR ISO files, and burning them to disc. I have the means to play such things... as I have boot/swap discs, and I am also seriously contemplating getting a full on mod machine. I have a debugging unit, which is in my opinion better than a mod, since it is 100% first party ware...but also higher up on the rarity scale...so I have a tendency to baby it, and play such apps on compatible machines (like my famiclone vs. Twin Famicom). It's a fun forum, but still small. The curator is hoping to get sponsored by Sony... it would be cool, but I don't expect it to happen (despite my misgivings about Sony business practices, I still love the PSX/PS2, and they are probably my favorite playing console out of all of them). there is a lot of potential. I would say that if anyone wanted to learn anything about the titles that are not released, one could always email, and I would be happy to fill in the details from my experiences.

IF I could only go back, and do ONE thing, it would be zipping back to the heyday of arcades... and apply at Atari as a programmer... Stick with the company up to just before they started to lose serious profits. Quit while I am ahead. Live comfortably on the mad money I had earned in the process. At least, that's teh theory. Once I got in at Atari, I could accumulate protos, lab loaners, and then once they crashed, the friends I made on the inside could smuggle me goodies. Sell a bunch of the stuff at classic gaming conventions and auctions that might be held there, and live comfortably through my middle years thanks to foresight.

Was that one a fun game? I might have to add that to the titles to acquire list.

Can you play Megadrive carts through the Game Genie? I have one of those...it does have an on/off switch.

I voted for no impact. While I am fairly angry at the Lik-Sang ordeal, and I believe Sony is a bunch of uppity pricks... I love the PSX and the PS2. If the PS3 is as solid as they are making it out to be, I'd buy one after the prices go down. If it is good, it's good... I tend to not care as much about business politics (cause I don't think that anyone could afford to stop them in this latest endeavor) as I do about playability. There are other sources for import goods, after all. Just kinda bummer that a large company can flex its purse strings and snuff out whomever they wish. Things may definitely be different in the EU (I have lived stateside for many years now), and I am sure the laws for importing goods are quite different there.

Yeah, Hong Kong is a massive black market/grey area, I'll agree to that. It's just a bummer that a company would get shut down for providing an aleternative to gamers with broader tastes.

They're not stopping with just Lik-Sang it seems. Or shall I say, they didn't just stop with NuPlayer: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....t&aid=10238

"Probably to get them out of circulation and then why not use them too?" This does make some sense, but they could have been pulled from circulation through the lawsuit, no? Wouldn't it have been more economic to do it in that fashion? Wouldn't Nintendo have the ability to create these sort of devices for in house testing (like the EPROM carts from Atari)? Seems to be the roundabout way to accomplish a goal. I just don't see much wrong with what Lik-Sang was doing, and apparently neither do a lot of other consumers. Sure, one COULD load up a ton of ROMs on a flashcart, and theoretically play them on a GBA, but there are other uses for such technology... I don't think many people would actively advertise pirate capabilities with the products they are offering... instant hot water and a lot of red tape.

"And in a parallel of current events, Nintendo ordered large numbers of them for dev purposes before they sued" Ouch. That seems a bit on the shifty.

I too was hoping to get a few products from Lik-Sang, not just limited to the Pocket Fami (which is legit from all I have read...since patents expired, and were not renewed, Game Tech won the lawsuit on that end, and from what I remember it launched the PF in Japan). I too believe that either a) consoles should be region free, there is nothing stopping the idea... if oddball companies can make modchips to make it happen, then what is stopping the manufacturer from doing this? b) if I want a Japanese console, and I am willing to toss out the moeny for it, I should be entitled to that c) Lik-Sang would have had to buy the units, and therefore is doing nothing more than resale...Sony still made money off of those sales, and in turn, aren't losing anything (theoretically) from the people who purchased them... Hell, they might even make some money from import games purchased that were not released in the EU, or the US for that matter. The whole thing doesn't add up, and reeks of corporate strongarm BS. I sincerely hope that Lik-Sang will be able to continue business in some fashion... there were multiple products in their catalogue that I wanted.

I don't know if you can get a prison sentence for contempt. I don't know about the laws there, but in WA, it has to be at least a year and a day. Otherwise it's just county lockup (I have had some colorful friends, as well as being witness to some serious BS in the legal system). Not that I am agreeing with what this guy seems to do for a living mind you. Games ARE marketed towards ADULTS.... last time I checked something around 60% of the console market is over the age of 18. It isn't the developer/publisher's fault that parents assume that because it is a video game, it is meant for kids. Or that people just blindly assume that the medium is made for kids. Many current gen gamers are made up of earlier generation gamers... hence the whole 60% figure. People need to wise up, get a clue... and do some research on the topic (if you want to read a good article, go to www.pbs.org they have a section on debunking video game myths by an MIT professor). It's also worth mentioning that most video games have a fair amount of conservative elements to them. The gory, violent, or adult content games are the exception, not the rule (but they are typically fun!). Meh...rant done... I hope they nail this guy as hard as they can.

I've gotta find a copy of MK3/MK trilogy for the PSX. I have MK and MK II for the SNES, those were always fun. I wonder if the PSX version will still let you play Pong after winning 250 battles?

I have used XP more or less exclusively with my emulators. I have never had any problems once I had everything configured.

I still haven't figured out why they don't build consoles region free. If some off the wall company can build a mod-chip to bypass the region lockout, or a swap/boot disc to do it, the manufacturer can do it too, and potentially increase its market.

I thought that the 32X would just act as a "play through" connector when it didn't recognize a 32X game?

There are flashcarts that should work wonderfully with the DS platform, given that the sites that sell them boast about emulation using their products. It'd just be a matter of making sure that the emu is compatible, or having the software to write the program in a compatible format (this is usually supplied, I think flashcarts for the GBA would work fine in this instance too). I am totally new to the falsh media stuff...so this is just recycling bits and pieces that I have read.