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  1. So a miscommunication led to me acquiring a Voodoo Banshee for free. What should I do with it?

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    2. eightbit

      eightbit

      The Banshee is not a bad card. It is essentially a voodoo2 missing a texturing unit. And, it does not take advantage of the AGP bus. But, it holds its own and still does a fairly decent job with Glide games. And, the 2D portion of the card used for other normal computer things is actually quite good. It is by default compatible with BeOS which is why its used in my machine (dual booting BeOS and Windows 98)

    3. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      BeOS? What are you running on that? I mean, I love it, but I gave up on it 20 years ago.

    4. eightbit

      eightbit

      I still have some games I play on it and I still like to mess around with media on it. Soundplay is still the only MP3 player that I know of that allows you to adjust the speed of a song while playing and even reverse it. You can listen to those Pink Floyd hidden messages without spinning the vinyl backward...lol. It was a pretty powerful OS for its time.

  2. After some alcohol and a good shower my Mac Classic II is back in business... apart from the hard drive and the floppy eject motor and seemingly the speaker. This might take some work, yeah.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I'm always better after some alcohol and a good shower too ;)

  3. Thanks! That glass case was a huge pain in the butt though. Had to hire a truck and some men and everything to have that son of a bitch moved out of an ex-office and carried up 7 stories into my apartment complex. It was worth it!
  4. Yeah, I just use the stock RF output tuned to channel 96. I haven’t had the time to do a composite mod and RF about works well enough anyways.
  5. It's been a long while, hasn't it? The last couple of years have been tremendously busy for me (as demonstrated my increasing lack of activity here in general) so my collection hasn't really changed much. I decided it would be for the best to spend what little's left of my free time enjoying the stuff I already own. That being said, there are just a few additions... S'pose the most major of which is this Famicom Disk System. My FC had been sitting unused for years because I didn't own any games, so I couldn't pass up on this local deal. It's a pain in the ass to find games for, but it's pretty much just a Zelda machine for me anyways. ...and I acquired both of them. I actually tool the opportunity to beat the original Zelda for the first time, but Zelda 2 is proving to be a far tougher challenge. I'm currently tackling the Maze Palace (#4). Next on the list is this monolith. I was getting tired of my existing PlayStation setup that consisted of a 20 year old Mac and a fat PS2 running composite to a 9" TV, so I figured it'd be neat to just replace the whole mess with a backwards compatible PS3. This one's a CECHE with the emulated emotion engine, so it doesn' suffer from the horrid reliability issues that plague CECHA and B systems at the expense of minor incompatibility issues. Just a couple more pics of my mini-museum. and finally my desk of random hardware. That Olympia SM7 is one sweet typewriter though. Peak West German technology. Guess that's it for this update, I'll catch ya up again in a couple of years.
  6. I generally dislike the Jaguar both as a system and especially as a system to collect for. I always held a vague fascination for the system and decided (like you) that it'd be an interesting system to own at some point. So I took the opportunity when eightbit offered one up for trade, and went ahead and got myself a GameDrive too as I had no intention of spending the many hundreds of dollars buying games for the thing. And yeah, I don't see the point. Don't get me wrong, it is still a fascinating system in many facets, but I really can't see the appeal of choosing to collect for it over any other mainstream system in 2024 besides just the sake of doing so. I still have yet to find a game for the Jag that's genuinely exciting to play that you couldn't have a similar if not better experience with on another platform (as opposed to, say, a 32x)—which is a huge turn off for me. I just can't justify spending so much for games I know I won't enjoy. So mine just sits there in my little tower of consoles only getting occasional use of 15 minutes at most every month or so. The homebrew scene seems to be where all the excitement is at nowadays, but while I have genuine respect and appreciation for the developers here and elsewhere who dedicate their time and effort into crafting these games, I personally see little value in them both as collector's pieces and video games in general. Again, not to belittle the work that is put into these games, but I consider them little more than toys for existing owners as opposed to something you'd sink a lot of time into let alone put the dough and effort of getting a Jag for in a world where there is a limitless supply of excellent games to play and systems to collect for. tldr expensive, little to no worthwhile games, infinitely better alternatives
  7. Neat collection! As someone who’d always had ample space for shit I always have an appreciation for compact setups like this, although I think it may be time for you to get a better camera Although I’m not really that much of a PS type of guy it does look like you have a lot of the stuff that I’d want to play. Perhaps you could check out the Burnout series though, if you haven’t already? Revenge is pretty fun. And since you’re so short on space I might recommend acquiring a backwards-compatible PS3. They’re pretty expensive and I do get the appeal of owning the original systems (as one who owns both myself) but the PS3 is HDMI capable and runs both PS1 and 2 games super well, and of course it’ll expand your library to the PS3 generation. My CECHE PS3 (80gb model with emulated emotion engine; imo the best compromise between PS2 compatibility and reliability) has been my go-to console for all my PlayStation games ever since I got it, and it’ll of course play SACDs and Blu-Rays too, if you happen to be one of the, like, 8 people who actually use them.
  8. Yeah the manga is super cute, I enjoyed every page of it. I found a fan translation on an old website that now seems to be defunct. The translation was super well done, wish I could find it again. Seems that the archives weren't saved to the wayback machine. While I haven't read the TP series, I always felt that the rest of Himekawa manga was way too fast paced and just made everything seem so simple and easy (as opposed to epic adventure/quagmire the games were) so it sounds pretty cool that they made it super long I guess? I'll have to check that out.
  9. Just sayin, I liked trying to fight Goriyas and stuff head on with all the shield techniques and whatnot. Takes away some of the challenge and excitement, especially now that I have the life spell and am much less likely to die much less game over. The XP requirements in the FDS version may be lower but the XP payouts are lower as well. I grinded Parapa for 5-5-5 until I decided it became too tedious, especially since I had 5 more dungeons ahead of me. I’m really not regretting that decision, 5-5-5 was plenty to get me through DM and Midoro as I mentioned before. Parapa enemies give way too little XP anyways, perhaps 400-500 at most per run.
  10. I just made it past Death Mountain without dying once. I’m not one to call myself particularly good at video games of any sort, but where’s the challenge everyone’s been talking about? It wasn’t exactly a cakewalk but it was hardly more difficult that Parapa Palace. Meanwhile, I’ve learnt downthrust and it’s definitely made the game easier, but I’m not sure if I wholeheartedly appreciate this new easy way out of properly fighting an enemy. Meanwhile, the cumulative xp from beating Death Mountain and Midoro Palace brought me to 6-5-6 and 1472/1500xp to the final step before 6-6-6 where I could save my stats until I learnt that the level up bonus at the end of a palace does not save any XP progress gained prior. I lost my final life before regaining that 1500xp and therefore lost all my xp gains since before the palace and Death Mountain. Really Nintendo, was it so hard to program the game to save three fucking numbers accounting for a combined 9 bits of data separately?
  11. Oh, and what should I expect to pay for a system, depending on specs, peripherals, and upgrades?
  12. I've been considering acquiring an MSX machine for a while after finding out that my dad owned a Daewoo IQ-1000 many moons ago; in the hopes of shifting my hobby towards what he can feel more directly nostalgic for and perhaps enjoy together. MSX systems are relatively easier to find here, having been quite popular through the 1980s (that is, it's actually possible to find them as opposed to being completely unobtainium) but I know very little about the architecture and what to look out for. As I understand it, there's an MSX, and an enhanced MSX2, an MSX2+, and some other souped up variant? Will I be missing out on something crucial if I were to opt for a base MSX as opposed to any of the more powerful systems? Also, it appears that software came predominantly on ROM cartridges and to a lesser extent cassette tapes, but the Wikipedia page notes that there was a significant shift towards 3.5" floppy drives that were MS-DOS compatible once that became available. How much software became available on disk and are there methods and utilities for transferring "legally acquired" cartridge ROMs from the intenet and run them via floppy disk as is possible on Commodore machines? What's the aftermarket support like, and is there something that I "must get" to improve quality of life? Lastly, the particular machine on my radar is a Daewoo CPC-400 (MSX2), which struck me as especially interesting because it comes in a cool matte black desktop case with a built in floppy drive, but being a Korean system it comes with an English/Korean character set. Should I expect any hiccups from this?
  13. I figured I should just start over and grind Parapa Palace before completing it again. As a result I managed to rack up a solid 5-5-5 until I went to do something else. Now even the harder enemies die in two hits so completing Parapa is a cakewalk; it's too easy even to the point the combat no longer feels satisfying. Hopefully the difficulty spike that I keep hearing about will come soon as I head to the secone palace. Meanwhile, do Goriyas have a certain pattern in which they throw their boomerangs? They're the only enemies that I cannot consistently defeat without taking damage so far because I never know at what angle they'll throw their boomerangs, and if I keep a distance so I have time to react I'll never be able to land any hits.
  14. Yeah but in the FDS version not only do you lose your XP progress but you also lose upgrades that exceed your lowest stat. That is, if you were at 3-2-3 like I was before Game Over-ing then it will save your stats as 2-2-2. Anyhoo, I'll definitely check out that guide, thanks.
  15. @Tanooki Yeah I've certainly known Zelda II's controversial reputation, which was partly why I was interested in trying it out for myself. So far I find the combat to be enjoyable if a bit too challenging. The fact that you need to be strategic with your tiny dagger and shield to bring down armed enemies instead of button mashing like in most other NES side scrollers is definitely exciting, though I think I need more practice to be able to fight consistently. I can't read Japanese much less the katakana-only madness that is Zelda 2, so I sort of have to borrow the help of guides and walkthroughs from time to time. I feel that it detracts little from my experience considering its focus on combat and the overall crypticness of the game to begin with. I beat the horse man but died at 3-2-3 so there goes all the xp grinding I did during the buildup. Yeah I think the only gripe I have about this game is it not saving the stats properly. I understand that the US release doesn't have this issue but it is what it is.
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