Post here every time you get something new!

Dr Bob

Good news Everyone!
Got a 'listed as non working' VCS from adverts fairly cheap.

It was in decent nick otherwise .One opening and RF cable replacement later its working perfectly!
Bad news everyone
In the process of testing it discovered my old VCS is actually dead
so breaking even I guess..;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px0R7F4QOa0

youtube video added for great justice
WHY AM I STILL UP!!?!?

Optimus Prime

Ive an Atari of that model at home myself, but no power supply for it. any ideas where i can get one and what type i need ?

Retr0gamer

It's a generic power supply, can get them in most electronic stores. I don't know off hand which one it is but the guys here directed me to one before.

Optimus Prime

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a generic power supply, can get them in most electronic stores. I don't know off hand which one it is but the guys here directed me to one before.

Cool, im always worried about getting the wrong one and blowing something on the consoles.

Dr Bob

Afaik the power supply from the newer 2600's will work as well
that's actually the one I used in the vid(although maybe this is why my other VCS has stopped working!:))

Atavan-Halen

Collected my PSP go from the sorting office a while ago and already have it set up and running with custom firmware

o1s1n

Oooh just realized something great about this supergun.

For ages I've wanted a decent arcade stick to use with Megadrive Shmups. Just haven't been able to find one though. Modding seems to be the only way to go.

This supergun takes Neo Geo arcade sticks. Which are fantastic.

I have a JAMMA Megadrive which has the controller ports wired to work with an arcade cab control panel.

So if I plug the JAMMA Megadrive into the supergun, I should be able to play Megadrive games on the tv with a Neo Geo stick.

AWESOME!

Atavan-Halen

Todays acquisitions:



Thanks to luas dublin for the book and games! Awesome present!

Jack burton

Just paid for my copy of Pirates of Dark Water for the Mega Drive

Got the paypal invoice from Giuseppe!

Jack burton

Just paid for my copy of Pirates of Dark Water for the Mega Drive

Got the paypal invoice from Giuseppe!

Dr Bob

atavan-halen wrote: »

Thanks to luas dublin for the book and games! Awesome present!

nay worries , sorry it was a bit late more of a secret new year..er guy than secret santa I guess!

CiDeRmAn

I got a year older this morning!
I becoming a collector of them now, I have 40 so far!
some the older ones are a bit hazy...
Come to think of it some of the more recent ones aren't much clearer either!

Also got the iCade up and running and its a lovely piece of kit.
The Atari app is sh1te though.
The A5 ipads will be jailbroken any day now and we'll have imame in full effect!

James Howlett

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I got a year older this morning!
I becoming a collector of them now, I have 40 so far!
some the older ones are a bit hazy...
Come to think of it some of the more recent ones aren't much clearer either!

Happy Birthday, but don't have a 40th party, go retro and replay your 21st

o1s1n

Happy birthday Appleflavouredbeveragedude. Here's to another 40 years of game playing bliss

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Happy birthday Appleflavouredbeveragedude. Here's to another 40 years of game playing bliss

His name is Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale and yes, Feliz Compleanios!

Retr0gamer

Happy Birthday.

Halo suckz

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

His name is Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale

And the tyrannical dictatorship of Kim Jong Pix-il strikes again

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

And the tyrannical dictatorship of Kim Jong Pix-il strikes again

Do as you're told or I'll have you de-stranding shipping rope until your fingers bleed and have you fired out of a cannon in to the sun (or Balbriggan, I haven't decided yet).

:pac:

Atavan-Halen

Happy birthday senior señor ciderman

CiDeRmAn

To paraphrase Mel Brooks in History of the World part 1 and Patrick Stewart in homage to same in Robin Hood: Men in Tights...

"It's Good To Be The King!"

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

"It's Good To Be The King!"

o1s1n

I knew I'd seen him somewhere before.

Optimus Prime

Got these yesterday, only had the one game for the VB before so looking forward to trying these ones..

o1s1n

You got them on ebay.ie, didn't ya? I knew when I saw them listed someone here would grab em Weird to see VB games for sale in Ireland.

Meant to post links actually but I forgot! Probably for the best, hope you got a bargain.

Teleboxer was listed too. Did you already have that one?

Optimus Prime

No i feckin wasnt logged in when i hit the bid button on that one!! amateur mistake, i missed it because I left bidding to the last few seconds. .. delivery was a bit much on them, originally he was looking for 16 quid!! in the end he was grand and i ended up paying around 8 or something delivery, still got them for cheap enough though in the end.

They where the ones on irish ebay though yeh..

o1s1n

Well he's relisted Teleboxer, so you have a second chance on that one

Glad you got them anyway! Didn't know you had a VB? Or is this one of these cases of buying the games before the console?

Didn't bid on it myself as it would have meant needing to buy a VB. No space for one!

Optimus Prime

yeh i have one, i didnt buy it though, i actually traded a guy on here a NES for it!! about a year ago he posted it in our trade forum here, probably the same lad selling the games, nice guy.

Doge

Just ordered an 8MB Memory Card for the PS2 with Free McBoot 1.8 pre-installed for €17 delivered.

It's a great deal when you consider the crappier solutions like SwapMagic go for the twice the price,
and it will save me from having to buy an exploitable game,
open up the case of the PS2 and risk breaking the drive when I horse out the game, and slam in the dvd-r,
just to install it on a memory card!

CiDeRmAn

Got a second controller for my G-Net devoted Supergun.
Happy days,


Worked out at 30 with postage included, probably take a couple of weeks to get here but don't mind.

Dale Parish

When I get to London next month I'll have to do a mammoth picture upload... for the meantime... stock photos shall do!


And yes, it does come with the monitor:

purplec

It's amazing what you can pick up when you are nice to people,



It plays nicely I have to say



I think another member stole my colour scheme :eek:

Now to load some Rambo action.

Nice

CathalDublin

Who beat me?
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/200695243448?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

Jack burton

Nice looking cap there purplec

Doge

CathalDublin wrote: »

Who beat me?
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/200695243448?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

Used to love that game!

Have you got a cab with a wheel?

CathalDublin

waveform wrote: »

Used to love that game!

Have you got a cab with a wheel?

WRC plays on a joystick, I actually have it already but it's inside a friends cab which is stored away and I've been trying to get it back for years:rolleyes:

Never even knew you could play it with a wheel, I use to play it in kebab house in Portmarnock as a teenager

CathalDublin

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/200695243448?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649
Second chance offer! Get in there.
I can't help but think the seller used a second account to beat me

o1s1n

Hmm, interesting.

You put in a bid of 120.00 at 13:57:13 GMT.

Someone then put in a bid of 143.00 at 14:44:19 GMT

Your two following bids were automatically outbid by proxy.

So either -

Some guy came along and really wanted the board and put down 143.00

OR

The seller saw you were interested and second chance offer scammed you.

143.00 seems like an odd bid for a seller to put down. Bidders usually use uneven numbers in an attempt to outbid someone by a margin. It's a weird number for a seller scamming to use.

But then, maybe he used this to cover up his shill bid.

Who knows!

Jack burton

I was thinking maybe 143.00 PLN could be an even number in another currency. Its very close to 41usd but thats just the way I'd be thinking, 143.00 is a very odd number. Usually when I'm trying to outbid people I get those decimal points involved

XX.51, now that's a dickhead bid and I have won a nice few auctions with it!

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Hmm, interesting.

You put in a bid of 120.00 at 13:57:13 GMT.

Someone then put in a bid of 143.00 at 14:44:19 GMT

Your two following bids were automatically outbid by proxy.

So either -

Some guy came along and really wanted the board and put down 143.00

OR

The seller saw you were interested and second chance offer scammed you.

143.00 seems like an odd bid for a seller to put down. Bidders usually use uneven numbers in an attempt to outbid someone by a margin. It's a weird number for a seller scamming to use.

But then, maybe he used this to cover up his shill bid.

Who knows!

I bid on something that seller was flogging recently. A Siouiosfkjttlskjfelhflkgkjlhgjreogsddfsdfelkhjklhjrefkhgonmcvoiwerhklqqwwwrurehtjnrentai ST-V cart. I carelessly bid on it before checking out some bootleg cart comparisons.

The cart, I allege, appeared to be a bootleg. When I asked the seller (on about 3 separate occasions) I got no response back. Thankfully I didn't win the auction. It went for a good few quid too, whoever won that auction I hope got an original cart.

Jack burton

Did get these in the post today



might trade the mega man 2 as I dont really want to get too into boxed nes games, and I only got it because it was ending cheap

Retr0gamer

Unless you own it already don't trade it! It's sublime!

Steve X2

Just got another batch of sugru, black and white this time for more professional looking repairs/hacks(green and blue are nice but stand out a mile).

Not retro really but it will be used to do some retro repairs on an Amiga and a few other retro bits.



.

Atavan-Halen

Got obscure on the PS2 in the post this morning. Have been dying to play it again since dinorex's beers!

Pyongyang

WARNING!
A HUGE RAKE OF STUFF
SG-OCD/RC-OCD NTSC-J GOODIES
IS APPROACHING FAST!

o1s1n

It better be Darius Alpha and Batrider

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

It better be Darius Alpha and Batrider

Nope. Unless I win the lotto, that's the only time I'd buy Darius Alpha. As for Batrider, I'm buying it in person, in Japan and having my photo taken with the shopkeeper when I hand over the Yen. Special moment to savour before I get dragged out the shop by an impatient wife frog marching me clothes shopping at Never 21, Old Look, Trimark and Before... :pac:

Atavan-Halen

Pyongyang wrote: »

Nope. Unless I win the lotto, that's the only time I'd buy Darius Alpha. As for Batrider, I'm buying it in person, in Japan and having my photo taken with the shopkeeper when I hand over the Yen. Special moment to savour before I get dragged out the shop by an impatient wife frog marching me clothes shopping at Never 21, Old Look, Trimark and Before... :pac:

Pick us up a jap ps2 while you're over there, ta

Pyongyang

atavan-halen wrote: »

Pick us up a jap ps2 while you're over there, ta

Sure, I've always wanted a Jap PS2, thanks for reminding me of this Adrian Van Halen. :pac:

Dale Parish

1 step closer to building a full PC/XT

Pyongyang

Mr. Parish, I think an X68000 or a Fujitsu FM Towns II would look utterly spectacular in your collection!