madhatter667

I still need a Sega CD, stinker games and all... sad emoticon! Serious, I have a power base converter, and the 32X... just need the CD add on.

Interesting. I am wanting to know more about them too... just different than anything else I have seen (which is comparatively little in comparison to some).

"Old School" is an overused, and abused term. Even by me. I use it to refer to almost anything that is a few generations back. I also tend to use it very broadly as well. As an avid player/collector I play just about everything from the early era (Atari VCS, Odyssey 2, Coleco, Vectrex, 5200, 7800) all the way up to the current gen (XBox, PS2, GC). I do get really annoyed at the pricing of the old cartridges. They usually are overpriced. I can swallow that, depending on what it is, and how bad I want it vs. how much it would cost me getting it online + shipping. I see you are from Fort Smith (and not just from your mentioning it) PressureCooker... I used to live there many, many years back. Just intersting how you can run into people just randomly in such fashions.

Sony seems to have gotten a bit cocky period. They did everything right with the PSX, and the PS2... absolutely wonderful systems with great libraries and a lot of variety... then over the past half year or so... they've just gotten really uppity it seems.

"I've gotten a few games and movies on burned discs for instance" That's Balls right there. It may be ok if a prototype was produced on CD-R media (debug consoles play them), but it is NOT ok to sell bunred disc items as the real thing if they are not. That's where you straight up report them for the nefarious act. Not that I am opposed to obtaining burned media, as sometimes ya gotta take what you can get. But in the case of an auction... that is questionable at best, especially if that fact isn't listed.

What do you think of game companies segmenting the market via region locklouts? I cannot be the only one who hates this. If it is a good game, it's a good game, and the audience should not be limited to a particular region. I feel even more strongly about it since I read an article where Sony sued Lik-Sang for selling Japanese consoles to people in the UK/EU. It isn't like Sony wasn't profiting either way, right? But yet they won the suit somehow. Since when is it not ok to buy a Jap. console if you live elsewhere and want to play the games? Hell, the people who bought the import systems could have been real bastards and mod-chipped what they already had. From what I gather, this is the typical method of bypassing the lockout.

I think any version will be a good game. I have the PSX versions, and they are pretty fun. I evem have a Lunar game for the GBA, which I have sunk some time into. If you like RPGs, it is a safe bet that you'll like the Lunar series.

I paid $50 for mine, used. People charge a lot for it because people will pay it... it's also got some kind of cult status as well. Then you get the over zealous anime freaks...who I blame for insanely high prices on used items that are even remotely anime-connected (not that I don't like anime, just most of the fan base).

I am not sure about using USA power supplies on JAP consoles. I have seen people run JAP consoles on USA outlets without any negative consequences, but I'm still trying to find a step down converter just to be on the safe side. For a Twin Famicom, you are likely to pay a collector premium on it, no matter where you go. I got a boxed 2nd wave one for around $200, in almost perfect shape...so I considered it a decent deal. As far as the Japangamestock conundrum... It's been long enough for me to cut my losses...I have a semi-local shop to go to for imports.

A Gold Finger is the same thing as a Game Shark... you can play import and backup games with it. You have to use a standard (whatever region you are in) PSX disc, let it spin until it prompts you to enter cheats (or whatever), then swap in your disc. You need a spring to trick the door though.

I just always assume that carts are dirty and give them a once over. If the once over reveals a lot of grime, I'll go over it more until I am satisfied. I have heard that goo-gone is safe for cart pins... as it is gentler than alcohol (I am guessing, as a game shop employee told me this), but works great on removing "mystery goo." Cd based games have rarely presented the same amount hassles when it comes down to cleanliness.

Shmup= shoot 'em up? Einhander has gotten some good reviews. Basically grabbed the emu just cause I wanted to mess with it.

No the refund wasn't issued. I paid through my wife's paypal, and we both watched that beast afterwards. They said they would issue the refund when the cart came back.... months and months down the road... probably close to a year...nada, eventhough the cart went back safely.

Oh man, there is nothing more despicable than feedback held hostage. It makes me think that the seller IS indeed a shady bastard when they don't leave you feedback once you've completed your ned of the deal. There should be someway to tell when feedback has been left, and who left it first. I mean: I win an auction, pay through paypal, with a verified address, then send an immediate follow up email to notify the seller that I sent the payment, and then double check my mailing address with the seller... shouldn't that deserve feedback then, and there for upholding all responsibilities on my end of the bargain, and being quick and efficient in the process? When I buy in such a fashion, and uphold more than my end of the bargain, I SHOULD NOT have to leave the seller feedback FIRST. Porbably my biggest beef w/the feedback system on ebay.

It seemed to operate fine with the bios ROMs where they were. The ROM directory was already set up and in place too. So, it seems like I more or less got NeoRageX pre-configured...which is snazz...but this is one that definitely will need a gamepad. Something like atari or NES emulation... not so important...more complex things... hard to get along without one. I have 4 emulation programs I am very keen on VBA, which is a great GBAemulator, NeoRageX which just awesome, MagicEngine which is about the best TG16/PCEngine emulator (but the designer wants 16 bucks or so to send you a code to unlock it to full mode, which isn't too bad, and it is the best out there right now), and good old MAME32 something like V.107 or something like that. Good times. I try to use hardware as much as possible, but sometimes, emulators are great for portability.

It WAS Japanesegamestock. The cart was shipped via EMS, tracked, supposedly one attempt to delivery was made, no one was home, and the damn thing got sent back... which I tracked. I sent an email asking for a refund since something was bogus. They said they'd issue a refund when the cart came back. Cart went back, refund never happened. That place doesn't get my business. If they are willing to burn someone that bad on their first time out... they don't deserve it. It isn't even so much that the game wasn't delivered, it could have been a bullshit delivery person, who was just lazy about it...we've recently had a batch of 4 rebate checks sent back to the company that issued them (Verizon) because the postal worker was a lazy jackass. So we now have a complaint filed with the Post Office, and they are looking into which carrier it was at the time. My beef was that I tracked the package all the way back to Japan using the EMS site, and I never got my money back for it. No refund issued for goods not delivered. Which EMS is supposed to be guranteed if I recall correctly. Really a bummer, as they had many games I wanted to buy.

I snapped up pSX, the bios (SCPH1001), the diagnostic/debug, and the readme. I was never able to get the ePSXe to work either, even after grabbing a ton of plug ins. So, now I have two to mess with for the sake of comparison. Perhaps the downloaded version of ePSXe I picked up last came half configured (he, it was through bittorrent, and my NeoRageX came set up). Here's to hoping on that one!

Did I fail to mention a number of Japanese Dreamcast titles, as well as some Jap. PSX, and a few PAL titles? Fun times!

Hey, I have an old Game Boy... the brick, not the slim...ha ha ha.

Do you use ePSXe for emulation? I heard that's a good one. Do check the site out, you'll probably have fun. I go by shoggoth80 on there if any of y'all sign up.

Oops. Missed that part. Could it still be said that the Odyssey wast the first home console that utilized an interchangable game system then? This is also one of those machines I don't own, which is kind of a bummer. I do have an O2 though. Thanks for the input though... really reaffirms what I had already believed. Perhaps I will post this all in an email to him and shout "PWNED" or something doofy-cliche-humour at him for grins in that silly way that my friends and I have with each other. With permission from the forum members of course.

Hey guys, I found a new forum dedicated to the Playstation. The main site is www.playstationmuseum.com, and there is a link to the forums right off the main page (after entering by clicking on the really wacked graphic). The forum is really new, and there are only like 9 members, and only three of us are actually posting. One is the curator of the museum, so that one' a given. If there are any PSX fans in the AA crowd, then I encourage you guys to check it out... it could bve a really fun forum...and the main site alone is worth visiting.

You're right, Nintendo is an old company. The Famicom did launch in '83...unless my book is wrong (which I doubt). As far as video games are concerned: was there anything made prior to the oscillator table tennis in 1958? Or anything more like an honest video game before Space War? The Fairchild Channel F predates the Odyssey? I am sure it would predate the Odyssey2, but I have always heard that the Odyssey was the first home console with interchangable games (I think it actually used cards...which could connect various bits inside the machine to run a different program)??? When did the Channel F come out (this is one of those consoles I do not have in my collection, so I have relatively little info on it)?

It would be neat if someone could homebrew that for the Dreamcast, or the 7800.

Well, I plan on buying a Wii anyway, and this is a title I want. I have no plans of ditching my GC, I have a number of titles on there that are absolute keepers (RE 0, 1, 4...Eternal Darkness, Windwaker)... so it doesn't bother me one way or the other. Nintendo should always cater to their long time fans/customers with their first party titles, on whatever console they put out. I mean, with every Nintendo machine, there has been a Mario, Zelda, and Metroid.