Arkhan

www.celga.com or something. Use them to do the bidding for you.

^^^^^ What Rex Said.

The flash cart is excellent. It's got an SCC in it too, so Konami games have awesome music. http://soft.mundivia.es/mpazos/flashrom/index2.html Looks like the non-mega one is the only one left. You can make your own, if you're into soldering and hating your life. All you need is a 1mb flash rom, wires, a switch, and an SCC game cartridge to sacrifice to the MSX gods.

Celga is easy. Sign up-->Bid on stuff--->Click the "show fees" button to make sure you are fine with how much you will be paying---->press bid button, and send them money! its beyond easy.

Browse yahoo.jp in search of a cheap Sony, Sanyo, or Panasonic MSX2/2+, and use a proxy bidder like Celga to get the thing over here. I've bought a few MSXes off there over the past few years. Every one of them was ~50-60$. Plus shipping. Models to look for: Sony HB-F1XD, HB-F1XD mk2, XDJ, or XV. XDJ or XV are the best bet. You can also get a Sony HB-F700 or HB-F900, but they weigh alot and are massive. Sanyo Wavy PHC-70FD Panasonic FSA1-WX Ideally, you want a Japanese one, with a floppy drive. That way, you won't have to screw with voltage nonsense, its NTSC so the games are at the proper speed, and they are nicer looking in general. bas-ditta.info sells cables for these computers for use with various monitors... and he sells replacement floppy drive belts for the Sony and Panasonic models. Replacing these belts is trivial. You do NOT want an MSX1. It's a waste of money and time. You can't play MSX2 games. MSX2 can play MSX1, so just get that. If anyone tells you that you simply have to have an MSX Turbo-R, punch them. You don't need it. There are 5 games for it, give or take. It's not worth the high price unless you're doing development, or something strange. You can find cheaper models (Wavy 23 or 35 or whatever, or plain HB-F1) without floppy drives, but that sort of sucks... however: Once you've located an MSX2 or 2+ your next thing to do is to buy an SCC Megaflash cartridge for like 70$ so you can flash ANY games ever released, and play them on real hardware. You need a floppy drive on the MSX to flash the cart, as you have to boot up a floppy disk with the .ROM on it, and run the program directly on the MSX to flash it.... So, this goes great in conjunction with the NoWind interface which turns your cartridge port into a floppy drive that attaches to your PC via USB. With that, you can download disk images off the internet and send/run them on the MSX using the host program that runs on your PC. It's literally a matter of: Open program--->Drag and Drop game .dsk onto program--->boot up MSX--->Enjoy. You can even switch disks if a game asks you to, simply by dragging and dropping the new .dsk onto the program. It rules. Best crap ever, dude. Anyway: Metal Gear 2 has an english patch, and alot of other games have patches too. Aside from that, alot of the games are playable even in Japanese, since they are action oriented. While you're browsing yahoo.jp, you can also keep your eyes peeled for MSX cartridges. I always find them for like, 1 or 2$. Pretty fun MSX1 and 2 cartridge stuff! I think I recently just got Exerion for 80 cents + shipping, and some Ninja related games for 1-3$ each. Shipping and proxy bidding kinda blows, and makes the games more like 8 or 9$, but its still not bad. If you have any other questions I missed, keep em coming. I'm big into MSX collecting and developing. MSX = awesome.

It's nice to be able to read the text in a game like Neutopia 1 or 2, lol. Or incase you want to use your already existing TG16 library instead of buying the Japanese cards when you move to a Duo-R. and it's a bit trickier to region mod a Japanese system to do US games. ANYWAY: The plain Duo is always prone to capacitor disasters, regardless of what country it is from. You could find one that the seller claims doesn't have the issue. They may be right. Then you turn it on, play Ys 3 for a few minutes and go FDGALIJFGIF9TGAIJ4EURHGPOI*&^@*#^&@*^#&*@^#&*@#^&(!(!(!(!(!oiqjw when the sound cuts out. You want to do the legwork required to get a solid Duo-R. They're the best bang for your buck. You don't need a system card (unless you want an arcade card. That and the library of Arcade CD games are for the srs collectorspazzes. It's not entry level, and you aren't missing much). Also, you can just go to radio shack and buy a power supply and appropriate tip if your power brick dies. The Duo-R is also very solid, can read CD-Rs perfectly, and it looks nice on the shelf. You can find them cheap on Yahoo.jp, and use a proxy bidder service like Celga to get that stuff over here. I've found TWO duo-rs on Yahoo.jp. One boxed for 65$ and one loose for 40$ Sure it costs like 80$ to ship it over here, but hey, thats still cheaper than buying one stateside that is going to need cap work and a region mod... and way cheaper than getting a PCE+Interface Unit+CD drive that probably needs repaired+Possible Region Mods+SystemCard Go Go Duo-R!

Oh. I wasn't aware of this detail. Thanks for the heads up. I might just sell the IIC+, if I can get the IIc's internals working. Are the drives prone to misalignments, etc, and easy to remedy? Really I'd rather have a IIe, but I take what I can get, lol

LOL, I should specify: "I realign mine every 30 seconds when the stupid thing wacks out again". Realigning the alps mechanism ones is a nightmare and a half.

Turbo Grafx-16 and Playstation 3.

I have an Apple IIC for sale. Since I have a IIC+ w/ external drive and serial transfer cable, I really do not have a use for the IIC. It does power on and work, but the internal drive doesn't seem to read disks. It probably needs realigned, or something of that nature. It has the power brick. I also have the floppy drive for it, which again, seems to need alignment work. I am a C64 person, and realign the 1541s alot. I am guessing this is the same, but I don't really want to experiment. I tested the computer out with my working external drive and played some games on it (Horizon V and Falcons), so it all appears to be working. I can provide pictures if needed. I think 100$ for the computer and floppy drive sounds fair. They are in really nice shape. Alternatively, I would be willing to sell the IIC+ instead, if someone really wants that one instead. It's fairly yellowed though. I basically just want to slim down to one Apple IIC related setup. 125$ for the IIC+ seems reasonable. I would be keeping the working external drive either way... so I can play stuff in the meantime until I actually realign the drive! I will take pictures of them this weekend for everyone interested. Thanks!

Turbo Grafx-16: Bomberman (not platforming, but it is great multiplayer stuff) Platforming wise, its not 2 player but you can't go wrong with Bonk. Bonk 3 has multiplayer.

Turbo Grafx-16: none. bwhahahahaha actually, no power light so you can't tell if its a power or a video issue if you can't get a game to appear.

pretty sure thats the issue. The booster has an amp in it, I think.

Are you using a Booster? It's possible its just all gooned up. My setup is very bright and colorful.

Not that it matters much. RF isn't that bad until you can find a booster or a interface unit for the CD addon.

I dunno, I thought it was funny when I used to sit and play it. Of course its extremely simplified. Its an Atari 2600 game

Does Atlantis count? I really enjoy that game, alot. It's like a not-shitty Missile Command!

CHUCK ROCK 2 SON OF CHUCK. man, that game was sweet. Not as cool as Bonk though.

I guess the bonus discs we are supposed to get for being the first batch of preorderers aren't totally done yet.

As unclose to the arcade as Vanguard is, its still pretty awesome for the 2600. I vote for Beamrider too. and Solaris. I also vote for Thunder Ground. That's sort of a shooter, maybe. I am not really sure, but it's a fun friggin' game.

Astroblast: It's really twitchy and fun to play. Easy to get into.. Demon Attack: It's really well done visually, controls very well, and has some fun attack waves to deal with. Phoenix: Same as above Demons To Diamonds: It's a sort-of-retarded game, but for some reason it's fun anyways. It looks pretty stupid to be honest, but I like it. Mega Mania: It's really great. The sounds, attack wave patterns, and franticness make it really fun. Non-Usual Shooters: Yar's Revenge: You have to just play it to get it. Star Raiders: First Person flight shooter sim space thing with keypad controller. Defender: Duh Seaquest: Defender Underwater basically River Raid: This game is frigging great. You have to manage fuel while not crashing into stuff, and it's really fun to blow through the gates and try not to die. I approve These are all really cheap games too, IIRC.

I have that Dig Dug shirt. It sucks because its that irritating thin-stretchy-soft shirt material that feels funny after you've worn it for more than 30 seconds. This kid at my highschool (who also went to my college) was talking about how he loves SNES, and his favorite game for it is Kid Icarus, because its such an underrated game that noone talks about. Punch in the face worthy.

I should point out, my modern PC has Windows 7 64 bit, and a parallel port... and writes d64's fine still.

That stuff was marketed towards kids during the normal lifespan of the NES/SNES. The stuff you see now has corny jokes geared towards teens/adults, mostly using NES related Nintendo stuff.. and the end result is a bunch of idiots wearing shirts they don't fully understand because they weren't coherent for the NES, or never even had one. all those 5 year olds with Mario and Zelda lunchboxes typically knew wtf it was, and knew Zelda wasn't the boy in the game. and they knew Samus was a girl.