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o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

If any of you find a Dreamcast Arcade Stick knocking around in one of these gafs, let me know!

You have more chance of finding the Ark of Covenant in a charity shop than one of them! I tried for years, they just don't show up.

Only way of getting one is to keep an eye out on adverts or ebay.co.uk. There was a Dreamcast with an ASCII stick listed on ebay.ie a few months ago, but it's the first one I've seen in a very long time. And it sold for a lot.

So if you want one sometime soon (and not by freak chance!) then go to ebay.co.uk. Sometimes you'll get a UK seller who offers decent postage on the things over to here. A good price would be to find a stick that's being sold for around €25 with maybe €15-€20 on postage to Ireland.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

You have more chance of finding the Ark of Covenant in a charity shop than one of them! I tried for years, they just don't show up.

Only way of getting one is to keep an eye out on adverts or ebay.co.uk. There was a Dreamcast with an ASCII stick listed on ebay.ie a few months ago, but it's the first one I've seen in a very long time. And it sold for a lot.

So if you want one sometime soon (and not by freak chance!) then go to ebay.co.uk. Sometimes you'll get a UK seller who offers decent postage on the things over to here. A good price would be to find a stick that's being sold for around €25 with maybe €15-€20 on postage to Ireland.

Yep I checked eBay a few times recently. Prices are grand just the postage is ridiculous.

Was hoping there might be some sort of USB > Dreamcast converter so I could use my Hori on it, but I guess I'd be better off with one with the VMU slot anyway. I want to get the Green Goblin though, not the rotten orange looking thing doing the cheapo rounds.

Cheers for the info.

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

Was hoping there might be some sort of USB > Dreamcast converter so I could use my Hori on it

There is an adapter to do the opposite. I have one and use my Dreamcast stick with MAME. I'm pretty sure it lets you use it with the ps3 too. Cool little yolks. It's called the 'Trio Linker Plus II' I think. Also has a port for playstation and gamecube pads.

If you do find a stick for a decent price, sometimes it can be a good idea just to send the seller an email asking what their postage price is to Ireland. As we automatically fit in 'worldwide' or 'EU' as far as ebay goes, so the seller may in fact offer cheaper postage to Ireland.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

There is an adapter to do the opposite. I have one and use my Dreamcast stick with MAME. I'm pretty sure it lets you use it with the ps3 too. Cool little yolks. It's called the 'Trio Linker Plus II' I think. Also has a port for playstation and gamecube pads.

If you do find a stick for a decent price, sometimes it can be a good idea just to send the seller an email asking what their postage price is to Ireland. As we automatically fit in 'worldwide' or 'EU' as far as ebay goes, so the seller may in fact offer cheaper postage to Ireland.

Sage advice, thanks. What are these cheeky lads like? Any use for the money?

http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/product/x-arcade-solo-joystick/

bugs

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

Sage advice, thanks. What are these cheeky lads like? Any use for the money?

http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/product/x-arcade-solo-joystick/

Here's the thing about X Arcade sticks - they're built like a tank, the buttons are decent, but the stick is a bit unresponsive if you're used to Japanese ones. The whole thing has a very american feel to it.

They're not bad, but for the money you can do better.

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

Would love to hear what the Saturn games are. If he has Panzer Dragoon Saga tell him I have first dibs

Pyongyang

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

I CALL FIRST DIBS ON THE DREAMCAST ARCADE STICK!!!!!!*











*Assuming it's sensibly priced.

bugs

From memory the saturn games are fighting vipers, virtua fighter 2, virtua cop 2 (with gun in box), sega rally, fighters megamix, nights, christmas nights and maybe some more, not sure.

The stick will be suitably priced

Pyongyang

bugs wrote: »

The stick will be suitably priced

Suitably or sensibly?

bugs

Pyongyang wrote: »

Suitably or sensibly?

A suitably sensible price....

Pyongyang

bugs wrote: »

A suitably sensible price....

That's Asda Price!

Jimmy Bottlehead

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

Any idea what PS1, PS2 and N64 stuff might be going up?

bugs

N64 - Mario 64, F-zero X, Zelda OOT, Banjo, etc.
PS1 - MGS, wipeout 2097, wip3out, tempest x-3?, Resident evil, FF7, etc.
PS2 - Bunch of US NTSC games, tekken tag, blood omen, re-code veronica, etc.

I imagine it'll all be put up in the next day or so, keep an eye out. batman_oh is his username i think.

7sr2z3fely84g5

bugs wrote: »

A suitably sensible price....

CAW CAW

Pyongyang

bugs wrote: »

I imagine it'll all be put up in the next day or so, keep an eye out. batman_oh is his username i think.

*hovers around Adverts.ie like a skanger outside a Centra*

CiDeRmAn

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.
Stripped out the interior and wired it to the supergun, itself plugged into the mvs board.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

MontgomeryClift

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.
Stripped out the interior and wired it to the supergun, itself plugged into the mvs board.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

Just hang on to the Dreamcast stick PCB. They can be handy spares for somebody if a PCB from a DC stick fails.

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

K.O.Kiki

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

Just hang on to the Dreamcast stick PCB. They can be handy spares for somebody if a PCB from a DC stick fails.

The MC Cthulhu works on Dreamcast now, and AkihabaraShop have (had?) a new DC PCB, too.

Plus you could always use Saturn or PS1 converters.

Warren3

just got Xenosaga episode 2 in the post

megaten

Warren3 wrote: »

just got Xenosaga episode 2 in the post

How awful.

Warren3

megaten wrote: »

How awful.

Is it that bad??

megaten

Warren3 wrote: »

Is it that bad??

It been years since I played it but from what I can remember the whole series is was meant to be 5 or 6 games and was pushed into 3. I found it to be pretty disjointed. There was some decent characters but that all I can remember really.

Retr0gamer

The first Xenosaga started off great but ended up terrible. The battle system was a total joke and the story was utter ****e. I stopped playing xenosaga 2 halfway through because it was god awful, even worse! I heard the third one is actually great but unfortunately after people thought it would be rubbish after the first 2 games nobody bought it and it's now quite rare.

Xenosaga was meant to be an unofficial follow up to Xenogears. Xenogears was a squaresoft project that was meant to span 6 episodes. Xenogears was the fifth. Unfortunately the production trouble of FF7 poured over into Xenogears and it became a bit of a mess and square dropped the project after the Xenogears. Most of the team left Squaresoft and formed their own company to continue it on. Namco took them up. Then the original creator and creative mind behind Xenogears up and left early in the creative process which put a spanner in the works. Xenosaga still went ahead as the second chapter of the xenogears saga, skipping over chapter 1. Anyway Xenosaga was successful, Xenosaga 2 even less so. The team decided to finish the saga up with Xenosaga 3 since they were about to become a Nintendo second party and wouldn;t have a chance to work with on it and the Xenosaga story had strayed away from what was originally intended anyway. It's strange how bad the Xenosaga games are considering I love the rest of the games monolithsoft have done.

K.O.Kiki

Big thanks to whackball for the Namco, here's what I did to it:

Stock buttons & stick (except for 1 new switch)
Triple-modded with PS360 board.


The USB is (probably) temporary until I can get a Neutrik.
Extra button is Home/Guide.

Pyongyang

I'm a complete oaf at soldering. That's some mercurial work there chief.

K.O.Kiki

Pyongyang wrote: »

I'm a complete oaf at soldering. That's some mercurial work there chief.

The trick is a clean tip, and to use thin solid-core wire.

Never going back to stranded!

CiDeRmAn

My Dreamcast stick knob fell off!
But not to worry, a quick screw and it was back on again!

Also, just picked up my lovely Batman Returns for the Snes, the scrolling beat'em up I like, good times!

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My Dreamcast stick knob fell off!

Seriously, there has to be an SPCDA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dreamcast Arcade Sticks) so I can get yours rehoused to a loving, caring home. I.E. Mine!

Pyongyang

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

The trick is a clean tip, and to use thin solid-core wire.

Never going back to stranded!

My top tip is to pay someone else to do the work for me. Talking of which my chipped Dreamcast should be ready to collect today.

megaten

Got a ps2 network adapter of adverts. One step closer to Hard drive loading games! Though from the looks of things the only way to put games on is to plug the hard drive into your pc or an enclosure. I was hoping that ethernet port on the back might be useful for something.

o1s1n

megaten wrote: »

Got a ps2 network adapto rof adverts. One step closer to Hard drive loading games! Though from the looks of things the only way to put games on is to plug the hard drive into your pc or an enclosure. I was hoping that ethernet port on the back might be useful for something.

You can FTP games over via the network port on the back. It's meant to take a while though.

Retr0gamer

megaten wrote: »

Got a ps2 network adapto rof adverts. One step closer to Hard drive loading games! Though from the looks of things the only way to put games on is to plug the hard drive into your pc or an enclosure. I was hoping that ethernet port on the back might be useful for something.

You can also copy it straight from the disk. HD Loader allows you to copy games in the PS2 drive to the disk. However it has to be a genuine disc and be the same region as the PS2. The best way is hooking it up with an IDE to a PC.

CiDeRmAn

I must fiddle more with the Test console, never really tried to install to the harddrive although previous tenants did. It's not as easy as a modded Xbox that's for sure!

Dr Bob

hurray!
Vaguely retro related but I got a hori FS3 for 15 quid in game.

I'd actually just picked it up for SF IV fun on the ps3 , but it works perfectly well in MAME on windows
Its a decent enough stick and apparently its fairly easy to swap higher quality parts in.

K.O.Kiki

luas_dublin wrote:

apparently its fairly easy to swap higher quality parts in.

Not really, no

A touch easier than EX2, a LOT harder than Madcatz.

Dr Bob

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Not really, no

A touch easier than EX2, a LOT harder than Madcatz.

ah fair enough
still though its good enough for me , especially at that price:)

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I must fiddle more with the Test console, never really tried to install to the harddrive although previous tenants did. It's not as easy as a modded Xbox that's for sure!

I'm having awful trouble with mine. Can get ps1 backups running on it but that's about it.

You have to make a ps2 game a master disc to run on it. Something which just won't work for me at the moment.

CiDeRmAn

tbh given the cheap nature of PS2 games I see little reason, aside from saving space, to bother installing games.
Unless you are getting some "back ups" of NTSC games...
Remember kids, Piracy is wrong....

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

tbh given the cheap nature of PS2 games I see little reason, aside from saving space, to bother installing games.
Unless you are getting some "back ups" of NTSC games...
Remember kids, Piracy is wrong....

Saving your ps2 laser is one of the big reasons for doing it. Especially if it's a lovely test unit

edit- just FYI Ciderdude, if you are interested in getting games running on that test ps2, the program for patching them is called 'losers master patcher' or something like that. It's very hard to find. If you need it give me a shout and I can email it to you.

Pyongyang

Just ordered an official Dreamcast arcade stick from Console Passion for €38 delivered to Eire!

Maybe it's a coincidence but as I clicked the purchase button to finalize payment, this just plopped on to my desk:

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

Just ordered an official Dreamcast arcade stick from Console Passion for €38 delivered to Eire!

Maybe it's a coincidence but as I clicked the purchase button to finalize payment, this just plopped on to my desk:

€38 is a really good price. Glad you finally got one!

Enjoy the new arrival by the way. I'm jealous. Was going to pick up a stick for my 360 yesterday in Gamestop but I had the girlfriend with me so I thought I better not

megaten

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

tbh given the cheap nature of PS2 games I see little reason, aside from saving space, to bother installing games.
Unless you are getting some "back ups" of NTSC games...
Remember kids, Piracy is wrong....

I was looking up this loader called open ps2 loader which lets you use Virtual memory cards for hard drive installed games. Thats a pretty useful feature for those games that eat up an entire memory card by themselves.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

€38 is a really good price. Glad you finally got one!

Enjoy the new arrival by the way. I'm jealous. Was going to pick up a stick for my 360 yesterday in Gamestop but I had the girlfriend with me so I thought I better not

Thanks! The list price for a loose stick was £25 plus £7 delivery, which worked out to about €38 all in to Eire. Says it's in stock and they have my money now so I hope the goods come through. Excited for Mushimesama Futari too, especially considering I've waited nearly a month for the thing to arrive! Means my Dreamcast VGA box I bought from HK shouldn't be too far behind now!

I got the Hori EX2 from Gamestop brand new for €25. I'm happy with it but in future (and when funds allow) I'd like to buy a TE and modify it with 'fun stuff'.

Nickel's worth of advice, don't take the good woman to a video games store. However, if you do, casually remind them that men spend an average of 4% of their entire lifetime waiting outside a clothes shop for women (not in a weird, creepy way; more a statstical err... 'y'know' kind of way). Forget where I read that fact, probably a Schotts book or something. It's true nonetheless.

johnny_ultimate

Pyongyang wrote: »

Maybe it's a coincidence but as I clicked the purchase button to finalize payment, this just plopped on to my desk:

Futari Arrange Mode ftw.

Also, the Black Label content is actually available on the Xbox Irish marketplace if you're looking for it. Expensive enough, and not a massive change from the original version, but if you're itching for a new, remixed mode it is available!

Pyongyang

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Futari Arrange Mode ftw.

Also, the Black Label content is actually available on the Xbox Irish marketplace if you're looking for it. Expensive enough, and not a massive change from the original version, but if you're itching for a new, remixed mode it is available!

Thanks for the tips. I did indeed see Black Label DLC on Eire XBLA. It's 1200 MP though, so pricey as you rightfully said. Maybe next month I'll nab that, whatever happens though it's definitely getting bought.

ghostchant

Picked up a TE round 2 fightstick (PS3) in HMV over the weekend, birthday present to myself

K.O.Kiki

The Dreamcast Agetec, aka Green Goblin is a very nice stick.

The stock stick uses Omron switches (same as Sanwa JLF), though you can NOT sub in Sanwa TP-MA substrate as they had to make it a different shape to prevent patent-infringement.

If the stick feels a bit loose, you could try a simple spring-mod (I *should* have some fresh springs lying around).

Buttons IIRC were pretty nice too.

Pyongyang

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

The Dreamcast Agetec, aka Green Goblin is a very nice stick.

Yep that's the one I ordered. Glad to hear it has 'fun stuff' in it as stock. Though I like to fiddle so will look to add more 'fun stuff' further down the road.

Can you change the sticks to bats instead of ball tops? I think I'd prefer a bat, I have trouble finding a comfortable grip with the Hori EX2 on my 360S.

pdbhp

Picked up Steel Diver 3DS (dont bother buying it)
Nemesis on Gameboy
Toe Jam and Earl on MD for €5