Retro Shops/Bargains/Auction Links

Optimus Prime

This isnt retro by any means but worth a mention, HMV are selling the 3DS, no games or anything for 139.99. I dunno if you can get cheaper but i thought that was a good deal.

Pyongyang

What a disgrace Adverts:Eddie is on Adverts.ie.

Removed our comments about the guy selling this:

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-megadrive-collection-game-system/1072732

Check out his reply. :mad:

Retr0gamer

Well done but I hope you don't get a slap on the wrist. It would be ironic if you got a ban for warning people that they got ripped off yet Jack Burton gets ripped off a few days ago and the seller got a slap on the wrist.

Pyongyang

To be honest I don't really care (so long as I get that Game & Watch ). The site is a wild west.

For a member of their staff to disregard sterling prices so flippantly and saying 'it doesn't apply here' is quite frankly shocking.

It's just advocating profiteering. Ridiculous.

I've sent in a complaint about Adverts Eddie, which will probably fall on deaf ears.

Myrddin

Pyongyang wrote: »

What a disgrace Adverts:Eddie is on Adverts.ie.

Removed our comments about the guy selling this:

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-megadrive-collection-game-system/1072732

Check out his reply. :mad:

You need to remember Adverts is now a commercial entity. Banning & discouraging people from using the service would be bad for business

Adverts whole model for the games section at least, is wrong. It's too big now to rely on good faith offers. It worked when the site was small & niche, but not anymore. I think auction format like ebay, with timed endings would work better than the current 'ignore the rules' format

o1s1n

Hah! Someone sold Neo Bomberman MVS over on AO for £14.

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=19160

For anyone unfamiliar with MVS carts, it's by far one of the rarer titles.

CiDeRmAn

Our good friend selling the Super Nintendo refused 100 blips today, hope it keeps fine for him, I really do...

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Hah! Someone sold Neo Bomberman MVS over on AO for £14.

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=19160

For anyone unfamiliar with MVS carts, it's by far one of the rarer titles.

WHAT?! FECK!!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE BEEN AFTER THAT FOR MY BOMBERMAN COLLECTION FOR AGES!

ARGH! :mad:

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

WHAT?! FECK!!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE BEEN AFTER THAT FOR MY BOMBERMAN COLLECTION FOR AGES!

ARGH! :mad:

Gotta love the first reply after the sale -

You just sold a £70 cart for £14

Pyongyang

This is on par with that.

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=19147

o1s1n

Hahahahahaha!

Really sums up this whole ridiculous collecting malarkey in one picture

o1s1n

Cave/Jaleco board.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/CAVE-ARCADE-JAMMA-FLYERS-UO-POKO-JAP-TRES-RARE--/220935195094?pt=FR_YO_Jeux_Jeux_JeuxCafes&hash=item3370c389d6

I've never heard of it, but this is hilarious -

It has gained some notoriety in gaming circles for the Japanese variant's engrish legal warning threatening that copyright violators will be "prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam"

Retr0gamer

The Dangun Feveron board has the same copyright notice, probably the same board then. Since it was a disco themed game I thought it was joke

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Holy ****balls, a Megadrive VR headset test cart! Okay so no headset, but this is the only one of these carts known to exist so far.

Want. Want so bad.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120848176563

Same seller also has this. That game was only released on the Snes. Megadrive one was canceled.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sega-Genesis-Michael-Jordan-Chaos-Windy-City-JORDAN-ADVENTURE-/120848177744?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item1c231cda50

- Tried offering $100 and then $150 but they were both automatically declined.

Seems he must know it's an unreleased proto. Really interesting though as you'd be getting the prototype Genesis box art too. The Snes one which was published was cropped down.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

He accepted $220 for the Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City proto.

Which was just over half price.

So going by that logic Steve, he should accept about $270 for the VR one if you're still interested.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

He accepted $220 for the Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City proto.

Which was just over half price.

So going by that logic Steve, he should accept about $270 for the VR one if you're still interested.

I just spent 714 euro x2 on a new graphics card (literally 2 mins ago)from overclockers so I think I'll give that cart a miss. The wallet is a bit to hot to touch right now.
I'm having a glass of wine and a sit down to get over the purchase.

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Jack burton

Thats only about 46c a MB, so tis savage value when you think about it. Assuming you got the awesome graphics cards that I'm thinking of, GTX580?

Steve X2

Jack burton wrote: »

Thats only about 46c a MB, so tis savage value when you think about it. Assuming you got the awesome graphics cards that I'm thinking of, GTX580?

I've already got dual GTX 580 Matrix Platinum's
These ones:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-260-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

I've upgraded to something a little beefier

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Jack burton

Suck me sideways

What kinda of a monster case you putting them in?

Doge

Lads, ye would really want to have a bit more cop on, on adverts ffs.

Steve X2

Jack burton wrote: »

Suck me sideways

What kinda of a monster case you putting them in?

I'll probably stick to the Matrix Platinum's for my main pc. I've got them overclocked and running well. Although I've had a few driver issues tonight I'm working on(and sticking gameplay footage up on youtube to show the problems and fixes if ya want to see how Dirt 3 etc runs on it). The case is a Thermaltake Level 10 GT.

This baby here(click for bigger pic):



The new cards are for a render farm machine so thats a bit different.

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Jack burton

Fairly serious, I'll be doing some upgrading myself soon enough and I need a new case, I was waiting till Antec released a new P180 and the P280 looks to be my cup of tea


Delish!
Wont be anything like the beast up there though!

Dale Parish

Macintosh 512k


Again not my picture, but expect a disgustingly large barrage of photographs of epic size this time next week when I am in London to collect it all.

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

Macintosh 512k


Again not my picture, but expect a disgustingly large barrage of photographs of epic size this time next week when I am in London to collect it all.

I'm looking at a mac classic myself right now across the room from me

Mac 512k is a nice little machine sir. I'm a bit of a collector of old mac stuff.


Here's an old vid of my classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2F5FHLd9Xo

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Dale Parish

Steve SI wrote: »

I'm looking at a mac classic myself right now across the room from me

Mac 512k is a nice little machine sir. I'm a bit of a collector of old mac stuff.


Here's an old vid of my classic:

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Having an Apple I helps I guess :P
Must admit, I'm liking it even more now! Never used one before though (or seen one IRL for that matter!).
Personally prefer IBM stuff but I think one of these is a must. Shame there's no computer museum in Ireland for this sort of stuff

Dale Parish

I definetly posted this in the wrong thread.

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

I definetly posted this in the wrong thread.

Sometimes the threads go so far off topic here that you forget which one you're in

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CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

That looks like it contains Skynet!
And it fast on it's way to establish the premise of Pixars Cars on earth!!!


And, regarding the Apple, thats trés cool!
I have a hankering for an iMac myself, don't know why, one of the old ones with the CRT rather than the flat screen efforts of later.
Reckon it's make a nice Mame machine.
The Mackintosh looks superb though, remembering them as one of the most iconic devices of the 80's, I wonder how much one would cost?

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That looks like it contains Skynet!
And it fast on it's way to establish the premise of Pixars Cars on earth!!!


And, regarding the Apple, thats trés cool!
I have a hankering for an iMac myself, don't know why, one of the old ones with the CRT rather than the flat screen efforts of later.
Reckon it's make a nice Mame machine.
The Mackintosh looks superb though, remembering them as one of the most iconic devices of the 80's, I wonder how much one would cost?

The pc runs minesweeper and notepad fairly well all right. As for the mac I posted I think I paid about 100 Euro for it on adverts a year or two ago(mint condition with all manuals and disks etc). I like the fact it was built in Ireland and has the "Made in Ireland" thing at the back.
The guy I got it from used to work where they manufactured them and that's where he got it from(cork I think).

If you're looking for one of the old iMac type machines you'd pay about 50 quid or there abouts on adverts for one in decent enough condition.
Here's one:
http://www.adverts.ie/mac/mac-g3-computer/1175723

I think it'd make a nice little MAME system or something like that as well. But you'd probably have to gut it and install something else inside to make the most of it(but keep the crt).

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Pyongyang

We used to use Mac Classic's at school. Oh God I'm so old.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

I'll probably stick to the Matrix Platinum's for my main pc. I've got them overclocked and running well. Although I've had a few driver issues tonight I'm working on(and sticking gameplay footage up on youtube to show the problems and fixes if ya want to see how Dirt 3 etc runs on it). The case is a Thermaltake Level 10 GT.

This baby here(click for bigger pic):



The new cards are for a render farm machine so thats a bit different.

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And you were worried about a green Zelda light making the room tacky?

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

And you were worried about a green Zelda light making the room tacky?

:D

It's a gaming rig so tackiness is a prerequisite.

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Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

:D

It's a gaming rig so tackiness is a prerequisite.

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That's true. The more neon lights in those things the better really Serious rig though :cool:

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

That's true. The more neon lights in those things the better really Serious rig though :cool:

I'm usually one for an understated and classy case but decided to go all out vulgar for this one when I built it(plus I really wanted that case bad).

Anyway, I think you'll approve of my next pc build. It's going to be built into a Game Boy DMG-01 case.

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Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Anyway, I think you'll approve of my next pc build. It's going to be built into a Game Boy DMG-01 case.

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Now, that, will be impressive. Hardware details please...

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

Now, that, will be impressive. Hardware details please...

I've been meaning to do this for a while but just never found the right hardware to fit inside the game boy without completely ruining the look of it.

So I've decided to go with a Raspberry Pi board when they start selling them in the next week or so.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

It'll be a linux machine.

It runs XBMC at full speed @1080p as was posted here before and I'm working on porting a few emulators across to it at the moment myself as I've got the dev virtual image to work from.
Grab it here for those interested:
http://russelldavis.org/2012/01/20/new-raspberry-pi-development-vm-v0-2/





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Myrddin

I only heard of this Raspberry thing yesterday, it's some kind of revolutionary 'PC on a board' thing? Looks, very very impressive. Any idea how it's able to process so much so fast?

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

I only heard of this Raspberry thing yesterday, it's some kind of revolutionary 'PC on a board' thing? Looks, very very impressive. Any idea how it's able to process so much so fast?

Its not really a super powerful beast or anything. It's a system on a chip thing like you have in lots of phones(but i think it uses older tech).
As its not designed to run on a battery that sits in your pocket they don't have to worry about battery life and can run it at full speed.

Those Broadcom BCM2835 SoC things are just powerful little chips I guess.

I mean my old iPhone 3GS could playback 1080p video when jailbroken. Apple just didn't allow it officially and thats an old phone with an old SoC.

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Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Its not really a super powerful beast or anything. It's a system on a chip thing like you have in lots of phones(but i think it uses older tech).
As its not designed to run on a battery that sits in your pocket they don't have to worry about battery life and can run it at full speed.

Those Broadcom BCM2835 SoC things are just powerful little chips I guess.

I mean my old iPhone 3GS could playback 1080p video when jailbroken. Apple just didn't allow it officially and thats an old phone with an old SoC.

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But this system is fully open to devs for homebrew coding etc I take it then?

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

But this system is fully open to devs for homebrew coding etc I take it then?

Oh yes. Very much so. Its main purpose is to encourage kids (and adults) to learn to code it at home and in schools. As they are a charity they are selling it for next to nothing to try and get it out there and into homes and schools.

You don't need to know how to code to get some use out of it though as there will be loads of stuff you can just download and run on it(like XBMC etc).

$25 for the low end model and $35 for the high end. You cant really go wrong with it. Prices are in dollars but its a UK thing.

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Steve X2

And as the Rasp Pi is open source you can even get your hands on 3D models to work with so you can design a case or whatever.

I'm using this model to work out roughly how I'm going to stick it in the Game Boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QoXUaHqWM

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megaten

There's a copy of Okami in the big oxfam of parnell street for 3 or 4 euro if anyone's interested.

Retr0gamer

I'm thinking of getting the Raspberry Pi for a while now. Going to get two, one to make an emulation machine and another to mess around with.

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting the Raspberry Pi for a while now. Going to get two, one to make an emulation machine and another to mess around with.

I want to get a few myself. Trying to figure out the best way to get a bunch of them. It's only 1 per person/address/credit card number for the first batch of them.

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Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting the Raspberry Pi for a while now. Going to get two, one to make an emulation machine and another to mess around with.

What can it handle emulation wise?

Retr0gamer

It's got a 700 mhz ARM CPU so pretty much anything up to PS1/N64, saturn needs a bit more grunt. An older version of mame would also run nicely on it. Lots of emulators for linux as well.

Steve X2

I'm working on a port of MAME at the moment on the Rasp Pi virtual machine.
It'll run MAME well once its working properly but might have issues with the newer larger roms. So classic games are fine anyway.

The CPU isnt great on it but you want to get the GPU involved as that's where the power lies in this thing(XBMC wouldn't run well without GPU support). Bad news for the MAME emulator as that's very much CPU dependant.

And don't forget this is an ARM Linux machine and you need to work from emulators that support the old ARM systems as that whats in this. The emulators you see in lots of repos are for different architectures(generally).

Either way this is a tech tinkerers dream

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Atavan-Halen

megaten wrote: »

There's a copy of Okami in the big oxfam of parnell street for 3 or 4 euro if anyone's interested.

I swear if any of you even attempt to buy that...

megaten

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's got a 700 mhz ARM CPU so pretty much anything up to PS1/N64, saturn needs a bit more grunt. An older version of mame would also run nicely on it. Lots of emulators for linux as well.

Ps1 will require a significant amount of work. Notaz is making a great ps1 emulator for pandora but it relies on a specific instruction set that I don't think arm11 has. That said he did release a version of it for caanoo(which run on a 500mhz arm9) with the more advanced stuff removed and it could still play most 2D games very well.

CiDeRmAn

Picture it, a PSone with the screen, gutted and with a Raspberry Pi and using the cd-rom drive to load Saturn/PS/what ever game disks you might have into an emu, maybe it autodetects the disk type and loads the appropriate emu, playing through the screen and speakers, input from the PS controller...
Possible??

docentore

Got few to shift, bare consoles only. With soldered region free bios chip - meaning no more switches and flashing bios every time to change region.

http://www.adverts.ie/1305283