Son Of General Retro Discussion

Retr0gamer

Nothing really unless you want them to hunt down obscure PSP and DS games.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah, slim-pickings. I'm not cruel enough to send them looking for Radiant Historia in the local Gamestop. The internet has done away with the need for such barbaric acts.

Some sites have Otomdeius Excellent slated for release today though. Others November. And no word on its region free status, or lack thereof. Boo.

Dr Bob

DinoRex wrote: »

I bet none of you have one of these:

indeed no
I have one that has all the same gumf with it , but looks like a cross between a famicom and a weird snes.no battman stuff though

Dr Bob

arrgh I 'm going out tommorrow and buying the following
solder , a new WORKING feckin soldering iron. a set of helping hands
There will then be a cermonial beating of the crappy 'oxidise within 10 seconds' maplin one I' was using tonight followed by a binning .
Worked out a way to make a combo C64/SMS/meg AV cable , and have it half finsihed at the mo , once I get an Iron that WORKS I should have it finished

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

because I found it, said may as well post it,
ages ago we were talking about phone covers (Andrew might remember lol) on the GRD (not SoGRD)

DinoRex

luas_dublin wrote: »

indeed no
I have one that has all the same gumf with it , but looks like a cross between a famicom and a weird snes.no battman stuff though

Not sure if that's two t's in the middle or pi

ondafly

CathalDublin wrote: »

Can anyone recommend someone who repairs Game PCB's?
Spent the whole afternoon on this board but am not having much luck, Definitely needs a professional to have a look, I don't mind posting anywhere in europe.
Oh its a Ghosts N Goblins Bootleg if anyones wondering
Cheers

I'm currently trying to trouble shoot my Bubble Bobble PCB, and when I finally give up - I'll be sending it to Jochen from www.arcadeforge.de, heres his youtube channel which shows some repair work. Also on his blog, hes done fairly long posts about repairing games etc

Dr Bob

Had some small success with that cable . sms meg and C64 use a similar enough 8 pin DIN socket for AV out . For component (i.e. phone/rca connectors) it actually only uses 5 , both use the middle pin for ground , and the far right carries audio .component video is the first pin on the left for the SMS and the second on the left for the c64.What I did was get a DIN 5 phono plug ,and 3 phono connectors (yellow white and red) from an old vcr system.
Cut off and bared the wires , the inner cable on red went to audio , white to c64 comp vid and yellow to SMS comp vid.The outer cables were spliced together badly and attached to ground.Like I said the iron I was using just kept oxidising within a few seconds , and I'd an awful time with the solder.
It was in the bottom of a box for a few years so I'm going to bite the bullet and replace it.
Plus I'd tried to get all 3 outer cables attached to the grnd pin and it was very messy.
When I was using the 64 I plugged in the white and red cables , the sms/meg plugged in the yellow and red.
The C64 gave me a very bad inverted screen that could just barely be made out.The SMS gave an almost perfect screen with the odd bit of static if I moved the cable. I reckon the yellow outer cable had come loose or wasnt spliced properly.So I took the cable apart and I'm going to retry it tonight
I reckon if I solder on a lead wire to the ground , it'll be easier to attach the 3 cables .Plus a decent set of helping hands and working soldering iron (as opposed to judacious use of blutack and a dodgy one) should mean it'll be neater. Any one have any handy tips for this sort of thing , its damn fiddly!

Retr0gamer

Mass Effect 2 DLC really isn't worth the money. Not bad, but I could have lived without it. Even the Shadow Broker DLC which was hyped up was a big disappointment. Another case of Giant Bomb getting it wrong.

johnny_ultimate

DLC is worthless in general. I can't think off the top of my head of many that are truly worth paying for (even Mushimesama Black Label was expensive at 1200 points or whatever it was). Apparently the Bioshock 2 single player one is good, though.

I mourn for the inevitable day when Gears of War 3's fantastic multiplayer is soured by the introduction of premium maps. Le sigh.

Professey Chin

Sera wrote: »

because I found it, said may as well post it,
ages ago we were talking about phone covers (Andrew might remember lol) on the GRD (not SoGRD)

Did this make anyone else automatically think of Tron?

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

DLC is worthless in general. I can't think off the top of my head of many that are truly worth paying for (even Mushimesama Black Label was expensive at 1200 points or whatever it was). Apparently the Bioshock 2 single player one is good, though.

I heard Minerva's Den is really good as well. Well at least Mass Effect 2 is a game I enjoyed so much that I got the DLC for it, the only other game I did that with was Fallout 3 which for me had DLC that was well worth playing, in particular The Pitt. Seems that it's usually designed by a 'B-team'.

o1s1n

Has anyone played the New Vegas add ons? Are they any good?

I had a real urge to play a Fallout game last night but couldn't bring myself to start 3 or New Vegas from the beginning.

johnny_ultimate

Ugh, you just reminded me I spent hours getting Fallout 1 up and running one evening and then promptly forgot to actually play it

One of these days. Although given the release schedule for the next few months, might be a while.

Dr Bob

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

DLC is worthless in general. I can't think off the top of my head of many that are truly worth paying for (even Mushimesama Black Label was expensive at 1200 points or whatever it was). Apparently the Bioshock 2 single player one is good, though.

I mourn for the inevitable day when Gears of War 3's fantastic multiplayer is soured by the introduction of premium maps. Le sigh.

The Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta (?? The Alien abduction one) was good .
although to be honest I hate the whole DLC thing .It were all full expansions or free mods back in my day.If DLC was rife back in the PS1 games I reckon the likes of Tekken and ridgeracer wouldnt have had half as many lovely unlockables like Tekken ball or Tekken Force .(Actually Namco arent too bad in this day and age , but I'd be curious to see if anything is "held back" for DLC on Tekken Tag Tournament 2)

Dr Bob

Mega Chin wrote: »

Did this make anyone else automatically think of Tron?

I've been looking at pinouts for the last few days , all I saw was GRounD

johnny_ultimate

luas_dublin wrote: »

The Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta (?? The Alien abduction one) was good .
although to be honest I hate the whole DLC thing .It were all full expansions or free mods back in my day.If DLC was rife back in the PS1 games I reckon the likes of Tekken and ridgeracer wouldnt have had half as many lovely unlockables like Tekken ball or Tekken Force .(Actually Namco arent too bad in this day and age , but I'd be curious to see if anything is "held back" for DLC on Tekken Tag Tournament 2)

I don't really mind cosmetic or optional (well, all DLC is optional) DLC. If a wealthy schmuck individual wants to buy their completely unnecessary costumes for Street Fighter IV, more power to them. Even single player stuff is grand, unless it's been purposefully cut out of the game - the Assassin's Creed 2 ones were beyond obnoxious, and the Dead Space 2 mini-campaign mere weeks after release was also a little suspect.

It's map packs that need to die in a fire. The ones that split a community between the haves and haves nots. Not everyone plays online enough to warrant purchasing them. If I want a quick, casual game of Halo: Reach or Modern Warfare 2 a few months after release, I can't jump straight in because map packs have meant the community have migrated to the new maps.

Retr0gamer

luas_dublin wrote: »

(Actually Namco arent too bad in this day and age , but I'd be curious to see if anything is "held back" for DLC on Tekken Tag Tournament 2)

Eh, the star wars characters in Soul Calibur 4 and take a look at the DLC list for Tales of Vesperia where you can buy gold and experience points.

o1s1n

Excellent, just got a confirmation that Xenoblade Chronicles has been posted.

Now I'm off to laugh at all the ebay recent ended auctions which look like this -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Nintendo-Wii-Sealed-Sold-Out-/300597519219?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item45fd022373

CathalDublin

ondafly wrote: »

I'm currently trying to trouble shoot my Bubble Bobble PCB, and when I finally give up - I'll be sending it to Jochen from www.arcadeforge.de, heres his youtube channel which shows some repair work. Also on his blog, hes done fairly long posts about repairing games etc

Got in contact with someone on http://www.ukvac.com/
Whats wrong with your bubble bobble?

ondafly

CathalDublin wrote: »

Got in contact with someone on http://www.ukvac.com/
Whats wrong with your bubble bobble?

see here http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=17325

DinoRex

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Mass Effect 2 DLC really isn't worth the money. Not bad, but I could have lived without it. Even the Shadow Broker DLC which was hyped up was a big disappointment. Another case of Giant Bomb getting it wrong.

It's pretty much the only DLC I've ever gotten. I liked the car chase bit a lot in Shadow Broker...

Overlord has some pretty cool creepy moments as well.

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Eh, the star wars characters in Soul Calibur 4 and take a look at the DLC list for Tales of Vesperia where you can buy gold and experience points.

true.The format 'exclusive' characters were added in later in the yearas DLC
Tales of Vesperia? thought it was a moped based Role playing game , but a google says its another Jrpg so(and I dont do JRPGs) .....no idea

On the other hand Tekken 6 had a ton of unlockables included on the disk , instead of being held back for DLC.

Mr Vengeance

o1s1n wrote: »

Excellent, just got a confirmation that Xenoblade Chronicles has been posted.

Now I'm off to laugh at all the ebay recent ended auctions which look like this -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Nintendo-Wii-Sealed-Sold-Out-/300597519219?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item45fd022373

Nintendo are really out of touch with gamers these days. Not printing enough copies of this and distrubuting it so poorly is a joke. They really are messing up EVERYTHING at the minute - Wii U looks.... meh, and not due out till late next year, the 3DS add-on is appallling, there's nothnig out on the Wii for months, and not releasing those Rainfall RPGs in the US is insane.

Dear oh dear. Also - apparently it was too expensive to put in an online mode into N64 port Star Fox 64 3D.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-21-why-star-fox-64-3d-isnt-online

Really, a tarted-up port of a 13 year old N64 game. And its full price. And its too expensive to put in an online mode into a project that cost Nintendo far less than say, making a Gears of War game, which is the same price as Star Fox.

Unbelievable.

DinoRex

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer

I've gone full nerd. Hadmy first experience of a D&D type game yesterday and I enjoyed it

o1s1n

Is there no end to your depravity?

Retr0gamer

I wish to take a diplomacy roll on my D20.

Professey Chin

Remember being on the train to Dublin before and a girl sat down next to me, had a bag she finished knitting and then started rolling D&D dice.
Im pretty sure that nearly scared me as much as the guy in an overcoat looking around constantly and holding a backpack tight to his chest.

o1s1n

Mega Chin wrote: »

Remember being on the train to Dublin before and a girl sat down next to me, had a bag she finished knitting and then started rolling D&D dice.
Im pretty sure that nearly scared me as much as the guy in an overcoat looking around constantly and holding a backpack tight to his chest.

By the sounds of things it was quite possibly Retr0 who sat beside you.

Did 'she' also smell of freshly baked cakes?

johnny_ultimate

Myself and my friends were curious to try Dungeons & Dragons one time. We went looking for a starter pack or whatever, but the books were crazy expensive and you needed two or three of them. And they didn't even come with the dice. So we went and did something less nerdy instead, like playing Magic the Gathering.

So yeah, screw you Wizards of the Coast.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Myself and my friends were curious to try Dungeons & Dragons one time. We went looking for a starter pack or whatever, but the books were crazy expensive and you needed two or three of them. And they didn't even come with the dice. So we went and did something less nerdy instead, like playing Magic the Gathering.

So yeah, screw you Wizards of the Coast.

cough *pdf* cough.

DinoRex

I was playing a game called Fiasco on Sunday and it's a huge amount of fun.

The whole thing plays out like a Cohen brothers film. So each player has a character that wants something and has a connection to 2 other players characters. Once you have all that worked out you collectively play out the scenes and the plot develops form there and it actually works really well.

Retr0gamer

It always amazes me how many weird boards games have come out that I've never heard of and how diverse they are. The most exotic I've played was Settlers of Catan.

CiDeRmAn

I used to play MERPs and a bit of AD&D in college, some 20 years ago.
Also played some Battletech, the gaming space Mechwarrior is a part of and that the PC games captured very well.

Mr.Saturn

I just had a 10 year old child trying to sell me a SNES for 100 euro. Nice try, little git. I politely declined, and pointed him (or well, his mother) toward Adverts.ie. He's either going to get his 100 or get bargained into reconsidering his choices in life.

o1s1n

By any chance does this kid enjoy a packet of Tayto crisps?

Jack burton

Well for a snes I might see what he thinks of a packet of Walkers Sensations!

DinoRex

What would you trade for a packet of ultra rare Cheese Flavoured Moments?

Atavan-Halen

DinoRex wrote: »

What would you trade for a packet of ultra rare Cheese Flavoured Moments?

You have the mythical cheese flavoured moments?!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

DinoRex

atavan-halen wrote: »

You have the mythical cheese flavoured moments?!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I know a guy...

Atavan-Halen

DinoRex wrote: »

I know a guy...

You lie! Everyone knows they don't exist and are secretly an elabourate ploy that's so elaborate no one knows what it is.

DinoRex

Who remembers this bad boy?

Atavan-Halen

Me! I had one, it was so cool!

CiDeRmAn

It's Joey, the hand model!

Retr0gamer

Slightly disappointed by Mass Effect 2. The rotten combat of the first game was improved but it's still not great. However that's not my main contention. I didn't think the story was nearly as good as the first game. I think the collectors were a much worse antagonist than the excellent Saren ultimately. Still don't let that put you off it. It was still utterly enjoyable and an absolute steal for the 13 euros I spent on it.

Pyongyang

Taito are currently going for the world record longest arcade cabinet. Prepare to soil yourselves and behold Darius Burst 48!* :eek:

WARNING!
A GIANT 48 SCREEN ARCADE CABINET
IS APPROACHING FAST!


*Sadly it was an April Fool.

Pyongyang

DinoRex wrote: »

Who remembers this bad boy?

I dreamed I would own that one day. I left Argos catalogs open on that page for months before Christmas the year that was released hoping for the folks to see it in the hopes I'd get one.

Alas I never did.