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  1. I watched a youtube video today. Dumbest mod *I* ever seen. Complete and total sacrilege. I mean, c'mon, why would you put inferior flashback hardware into what was once a nice light-sixer? Bzzzzztt! Fail! Not to mention the piss poor workmanship. And the fake cartridge slot. It's upside-down for whatever reason. And the people commenting positively on it, what were they thinking??

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      I almost ended up putting my FB 2 in a 2600 Jr case. The 2600 Jr was broken at the time. Fortunately, I saved all the original insides, as it later mysteriously started working again (and I'm fairly sure I never replaced any components on it).

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  2. just saw Guardians of the Galaxy ... a second time ... and I was invited a third time on tuesday ... it was so good I am going again

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      jmetal88

      My roommate, who is in France right now, wants me to wait until he moves back in on the 15th to go see it with him. I managed to hold out past opening weekend, but I'm still not confident I can wait another 11 days. I did tell him that if I went to see it I wouldn't say anything about it until after I saw it with him for the second time, haha.

  3. Emulation.. The #1 way to play classic games!

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      I like using emulators on handhelds and mobile devices, but at home I'll always prefer to use the actual consoles.

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  4. Just snagged a Dreamcast for $20. http://burlington.craigslist.org/vgm/4478528734.html Sold mine back in 2001 and have missed it ever since. Good price for such a RARE system. All the games are super RARE as well, i might re-sell them for a few hundred dollars soon.

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      Sonic Adventure's worth about $15 or $20 now, if I remember correctly, so you didn't make out too badly.

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      jmetal88

      I paid $20 for my Master System bundle from a pawn shop a few years ago. Had the base unit, two gamepads, mini arcade stick type controller, light gun, and 10 games (almost all of which were boxed).

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  5. hahaha if you visit amazon.com homepage there's a big psycho picture of Gary Busey

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      Have you seen the TV commercial? I thought it was pretty funny.

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  6. Recapped my non TMSS Sega Genesis sure is a beauty connected to the Framemeister.

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      jmetal88

      So I have to keep my PVM around for now, since it's the only thing that produces a good-looking stable image from my Mega STE.

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  7. Recapped my non TMSS Sega Genesis sure is a beauty connected to the Framemeister.

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      jmetal88

      I wish I could afford a Framemeister. I tried a couple of cheaper video converters recently on my Mega STE, and one is fast but looks awful (GBS-8200), and the other looks good on static images, but has lag, ruins field-level flicker effects, and tends to leave trails behind moving objects (CVID SCART to HDMI).

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  8. What is the console at the top of the forum page? The one with the 2 circle things on it?

  9. Does anyone else find the stock 2600 joystick a bit stiff and awkward? What's the best 3rd party joystick for the VCS that you can actually find for a reasonable price?

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      I really like the Epyx 500XJ, although I've heard mixed opinions on it from other people.

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  10. Anyone in Vegas looking for a Sony Trinitron studio monitor? There is a sweet PVM-20 in great cosmetic shape for $49 at the Tropicana Goodw

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      Man, I'd love to get a 19"/20" PVM. I'm stuck with a 13"/14" for now, though, since that's the only one I've ever found close enough to pick up.

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  11. Your bios fear is too conspicuous.

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      jmetal88

      UEFI isn't actually that bad if you have a version that lets you disable SecureBoot. If not, then you have to mess around with keys and whatnot if you want to install an OS that your computer didn't come with.

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      jmetal88

      Funny thing is, one of my friends was trying to teach me how to beatbox one time and said I should start by saying 'boots and cats'. So whenever I see that Geico commercial, that's what I think of.

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  13. After visiting Dave & Busters, I really don't like it.

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      jmetal88

      D&B has been alright when I've been to it. The nearest one is a bit too much of a drive for me to go more than say twice a year at the moment, though.

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  14. You want to know where I learned to fly? I learned it from watching you, okay?

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      jmetal88

      Best Cybermorph response I've seen yet, haha.

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  15. Why must my Dreamcast sound like a smoke detector when I turn it on? It really annoys me.

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      jmetal88

      I can never keep up with my VMU batteries. Seems like every time I replace them, they run down before I want to do anything with my VMUs again.

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  16. If an item is untested, as is, with no returns - why do people want top dollar? Either test it fully and ask top dollar or sell it as is for $5. Lazy and greedy is a terrible combination for an ebay seller.

  17. If you're gonna pay for a Jaguar HW mod, be sure to save enough money so that you don't have to use a black sharpie to paint it.

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      That's kind of what he did with his first one, but he's got a nice new connector PCB between the Jag board and the Jag CD board that lets them sit much closer together in this one. The other PCB I got set up for him was the Link-Box, but it needs a second revision before it's perfect.

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  18. If you're gonna pay for a Jaguar HW mod, be sure to save enough money so that you don't have to use a black sharpie to paint it.

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      jmetal88

      I'm actually pretty sure he made the case himself. I did the PCB designs for him, which he gives me credit for at the end of his video, but I honestly do think he did the case himself.

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  19. just a warning: dont ever click links in youtube comments unless you trust the person. half the time its that damn screamer!

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      Yeah, that's true. I signed up for a Google+ account as soon as I heard about it, and started using it regularly once I had more than three friends on it, but I can see how someone being forced to sign up for a service like Google+ that they're not interested in would change their opinion from neutral to negative pretty quickly.

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  20. just a warning: dont ever click links in youtube comments unless you trust the person. half the time its that damn screamer!

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      Yeah... I actually like Google+, it's just that I don't want my personal profile linked to my YouTube account in any way.

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  21. Are you sick of Google trying to bully everyone into using Google+ so they can beat Facebook? Show your disapproval by switching to a different search engine like DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/

    1. jmetal88

      jmetal88

      I don't like DuckDuckGo. Last time I tried it, it didn't give me very good search results.

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