Post here every time you get something new!

Optimus Prime

was at one today, just the usual rubbish. as psone with 5 games for 25quid, spotted a c64 light gun and tapedeck. MGS1 on psone missing disc1 though.

Atavan-Halen

Yeah there was 2 PS1's today. Really do not need any more!

pdbhp

Picked up Big Bang Mini DS brand new for €9.

Gamespot in the Square still has some PS2 games and Game in the Square has loads of PS2 games, some good ones aswell MegaMann X7 etc.might go back up and clean them out:D

Pyongyang

pdbhp wrote: »

Picked up Big Bang Mini DS brand new for €9.

That is a brilliant game, enjoy it!

pdbhp

Pyongyang wrote: »

That is a brilliant game, enjoy it!

Well I've been on the look out for it for ages amongst other shmups. Really trying to get a nice little shmup collection going at the moment

Pyongyang

A person after my own heart.

Collecting SHMUPs is addictive, but wildly expensive. One minute you have a Dreamcast, a few weeks later you have a Dreamcast a PS1 a PS2 a Saturn and the God of SHMUPs........
The PC Engine!

You also end up buying NEC 9801 games you haven't a hope of ever playing.

7sr2z3fely84g5

think the saturn had the best shoot em ups .

Pyongyang

Ah I'd say it's a close call between the two. The PC Engine had Sapphire, the Saturn had Radiant Silvergun. Level pegging pretty much I think.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Pyongyang wrote: »

Ah I'd say it's a close call between the two. The PC Engine had Sapphire, the Saturn had Radiant Silvergun. Level pegging pretty much I think.

had alot japan only releases,besides the obvious ones,who has heard of this cracking saturn port-

Pyongyang

Super taste mate! The thing I love most about it is the soundtrack. It sounds like it was lifted from an 80's family movie.

Retr0gamer

Sapphire is damn expensive and it's good but it doesn't come close to the saturns best. Saturn wins it for me as well but the PC-Engine has some great shooters a lot of which I'd rank ahead of sapphire. What I like about the saturn and PC-Engine is that most of the shooters aren't bullet hell which I don't like as much as the traditional type of shooters.

Pyongyang

Some say Batsugun is the original danmaku... Not played it yet but it looks great. Sapphire is a thing of beauty but probably more well known for it's rarity than anything else.

Gimme Mr. Heli any day!

For me the PC Engine is the better platform for SHMUP games. Why? You could argue the quality of the games was on par foreach system. But I love how what could be done with what essentially is an 8 bit machine. Couple that with the innovative coding to make Hu card games use spare RAM etc on the Super CD Rom and for me it makes the PC Engine just that little bit more special.

Retr0gamer

I have Batsugun on the saturn, it doesn't seem to work well in mame. It's definitely got a lot of hallmarks from Danmaku games, it's like the missing link between Raiden and Donpachi. The weapons cover the whole screen and the bullet patterns are very danmaku and you have a tiny hit box. Great game. It was made just before Toaplan went under and as we know most of the coders went to form Cave, Raizing and other danmaku developers.

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It was made just before Toaplan went under and as we know most of the coders went to form Cave, Raizing and other danmaku developers.

God bless each and every one one of them.

Retr0gamer

Pyongyang wrote: »

For me the PC Engine is the better platform for SHMUP games. Why? You could argue the quality of the games was on par foreach system. But I love how what could be done with what essentially is an 8 bit machine. Couple that with the innovative coding to make Hu card games use spare RAM etc on the Super CD Rom and for me it makes the PC Engine just that little bit more special.

The difference between an 8-bit and 16-bit processor isn't as big as Sega would have had you believe back in 1989. Put the clock speed up and it can still do amazing things. The PC Engine had an amazing CPU backed up by some great16-bit video hardware that could turf sprites about at a tremendous rate, probably as good as the Megadrive could. Sure ports from the PC Engine to the Megadrive and Mega CD were lacking compared to the PC Engine. Gates of Thunder and Lords of Thunder on the Mega CD had to have their colour palletes reduced and look a lot duller than the PC-Engine games.

Compared to the SNES the PC-Engine was much better at throwing around sprites. Just play the SNES version of Gradius 3 or games with multi segmented bosses and watch the framerate drop spectacularly.

Pyongyang

Out Run on the PC Engine, for me, is a perfect example and encapsulates everything you just stated above.

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Gradius 3

Oh, I saw that before you edited. For shame retr0, for shame :P

Retr0gamer

My heads just full of Treasure at the moment :P

Steve X2

Few bits I got during the week fom eBay and other sources.


New in box Neo Geo Pocket color (Stone Blue version):





Neo Geo Pocket color games(All complete and mint)




Atari Lynx II and Batman Returns game:




Some Megadrive games (all complete):




Shenmue for DC(box is a little tatty but it is new and unused) :




TV Tuner for Sega Game Gear

CiDeRmAn

Picked up an N64 with Goldeneye, Mario64 and Magical Tetris Challenge together with a.couple of controllers.
There was a Snes with Mario Allstars that I let go, also a c64 cart and some Ps1 games here and there, but nothing extraordinary today.
All at the Balbriggan market.

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

All at the Balbriggan market.

Based on your previous posts I went up to Baille Brigin market today too.

I saw:

An A500 Cartoon Classics system. Boxed.

2x PS2 Slim consoles. Bare bones, no cables etc.

Loads of XBOX consoles, nearly went for a crystal one.

An N64 with Goldeneye and 2 other carts. The N64 sounded in bits when you shook it though! Is that the one you bought? We probably stood next to each other looking at it!

An N64 clone with a multiple game cart.

Misc PS1 and PS2 and PC games.


I bought:

A PS1 with controller, games, leads and an AV to Scart converter I can use on my PC Engine until I mod it.

A PSOne slim, just the console, no cables, games, leads or anything.

Virtua Cop Elite for PS2.

Toki and a 4 in 1 set feat Flimbo's Quest. Both C64 carts unboxed. Toki had a manual though.


Not a bad little market that, enjoyed my first visit.

P.s I never saw that SNES, where was it? Was it PAL?

o1s1n

Why didn't you buy the boxed A500?! Was it too expensive? If not, I'd at least have bought that and flogged it on ebay or adverts.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Why didn't you buy the boxed A500?! Was it too expensive? If not, I'd at least have bought that and flogged it on ebay or adverts.

I thought about it, honest. But the good woman was with me and I'd have been scowled at. I'm not lucky enough to wear the trousers when it comes to video games.

Sigh, they just don't understand...

...wait til she sees my new PC Engine and Saturn next week in the post though.

If I'm offline longer than a day I've either emigrated or I'll be on the RTE News at 6........being carried out of a lake.

In a body bag.

7sr2z3fely84g5

o1s1n wrote: »

Why didn't you buy the boxed A500?! Was it too expensive? If not, I'd at least have kept that after a while

fyp .

CiDeRmAn

I was there to get the A500 but it was nowhere to be found!
The N64 is fine, someone jammed a coin side so I'll extract it later.
The Snes was a pal one alright and you must have bought that c64 cart from the same fella.

7sr2z3fely84g5

A500 is a nice machine,tight memory and now lack of floppies can be a disadvantage,hard drives+other cards could be added to the machine,of course which are now scarce and command a big price.

pdbhp

got Zelda Ocarina of Time on 3DS:D

Dr Bob

Trip to RAGE at lunch today (cheap lunches for the rest of the week to make up for it!)

2 sms carts , but best of all a Spectrum Kempston interface card (the adaptor that basically lets you use a regular joystick)for a fiver
may actually be able PLAY something on one of the spectrums I own now!
Still some crazy prices on carts there , 20 quid for bubble bobble on the sms ?

Steve X2

luas_dublin wrote: »

Trip to RAGE at lunch today (cheap lunches for the rest of the week to make up for it!)

2 sms carts , but best of all a Spectrum Kempston interface card (the adaptor that basically lets you use a regular joystick)for a fiver
may actually be able PLAY something on one of the spectrums I own now!
Still some crazy prices on carts there , 20 quid for bubble bobble on the sms ?

Did they still have the Sega Multi Mega in there?

If its there at the end of the week I'm going in to put an offer on it, not €175 though.

Pyongyang

luas_dublin wrote: »

Still some crazy prices on carts there

Hence I don't go there no more. eBay and misc dedicated resources are my staples now.

I'd love to put a few bob in their coffers but they need to be a bit more realistic with their pricing.

OwaynOTT

Just got big box Super Metroid in post today. In good condition apart from one flap missing.
Never seen a big box snes game before and it really is big!
Also got a boxed Zelda for snes and thats a mint copy .

Happy to say they were comparatively dirt cheap. Not happy to say what I'm comparing prices on.

Retr0gamer

You can complete the collection with a big box Earthbound. That won't cost much.....

OwaynOTT

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You can complete the collection with a big box Earthbound. That won't cost much.....

Should get one for at least 20 id say.

Retr0gamer

Good luck with that

Dr Bob

Pyongyang wrote: »

Hence I don't go there no more. eBay and misc dedicated resources are my staples now.

I'd love to put a few bob in their coffers but they need to be a bit more realistic with their pricing.

some of the pricing isnt too bad , Super monaco was 3, shooting gallery there was 5 , and thats generally what I'm happy paying for boxed SMS stuff.
I think rageguys rule is still "have I heard of this game/franchise? yes? quadriple price!!"
I didnt check re the multi mega steve , tbh I didnt want to look at the back wall incase I was tempted to buy something!!

Steve X2

luas_dublin wrote: »

some of the pricing isnt too bad , Super monaco was 3, shooting gallery there was 5 , and thats generally what I'm happy paying for boxed SMS stuff.
I think rageguys rule is still "have I heard of this game/franchise? yes? quadriple price!!"
I didnt check re the multi mega steve , tbh I didnt want to look at the back wall incase I was tempted to buy something!!

If they had all the stuff from the back wall out the front it would sell so much faster. Having to ask every time I go in what they have is a pain really. I like to look at everything in a shop and I don't want to ask them to hand me all the 12 n64's and 8 snes they have etc

OwaynOTT

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Should get one for at least 20 id say.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Good luck with that

Why cant retro games be cheap.

Pyongyang

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Why cant retro games be cheap.

You sound like my financial advisor (aka: the good woman).

OwaynOTT

Ah it just annoys me having to buy these games for the prices of them. Secret of Mana - 40
Turtles in time - 20
super street fighter 2 - 20
zelda - 20

and so on.

Thats cart only prices on ebay. I had all these games, boxes n all boxed up in a box in the attic. Went looking for them last year and there were gone. SO PAYING REALLY GETS MY GOAT

batari

Steve SI wrote: »

Atari Lynx II and Batman Returns game:

That Lynx looks in amazing condition! What's the picture like on it?

Steve X2

batari wrote: »

That Lynx looks in amazing condition! What's the picture like on it?

Picture quality is pretty good. Cant really remember how good a new lynx screen looks but I'd say it's close to new quality.

Pyongyang

This lot landed in the post from the USA, Japan and the UK today (and Virtua Cop from Balbriggan market yesterday!).

Retr0gamer

Nice. Gradius V is a work of unadulterated genius and the Warriors is a great game.

Pyongyang

Cheers.

Gradius V was a high ranker on my SHMUP swag list. Can't wait to get stuck in to it, my PS2 is sick though.

CiDeRmAn

Not to worry, another PS2 is peanuts now, well worth picking up a slim for next to nothing.
Such a great library of games on it too, amazing...

I wonder if we might have seen a groovy slimline Dreamcast had it stayed the distance?

Retr0gamer

Dreamcast was small enough as is. Far better designed than the fugly PS2. Now a Dreamcast that didn't sound like it was about to take off would have been nice.

Pyongyang

Video of my latest picks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4fYTzuWeM

CiDeRmAn

The noisiest console in my collection has been the first 360 I owned, it sounded like a hairdryer going full tilt.
I seem to remember some MS fanboys taking great offence to this, poor backstards!

Retr0gamer

Think the dreamcast is the noisiest for me especially when the disc is accessing.

Retr0gamer

Pyongyang wrote: »

Video of my latest picks.

If you liked the Warriors film you'll love the game