The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah, happy to pick up my Allstars+World cart, despite having both as stand alone carts as well.
It's simply the best value cart on the Snes.
Oh, I know some (read Retr0) takes issue with some of the Nes conversions but it is a lovely cart.

It's not bad, just the physics seem a bit wonky and I enjoy Mario 2 on the NES more for some reason.

CiDeRmAn

Mario 2 and physics, not two words often used next to each other without the word "Bizarre" fixed be-twixt them!

Oh, Super Empire Strikes Back and Super Return of the Jedi arrived yesterday, SESB needed a lot of cleaning before it was servicable, those contacts looked like it was immersed in the u-bend of a mens urinal for some time before it arrived in Ireland, needed a lot of cleaning before I knew it worked...

Many alcohol swabs died to bring is this information.....


But, bugger me, those games are hard, and with some of the most pointless levels ever, Outside The Sandcrawler anyone?

The Last Bandit

'Outside the sandcrawler' is an annoying one alright, but it doesn't get any easier on the inside.

CiDeRmAn

And this misery continues for the sequels too, but it is still so compelling! Going to pick up it's cousin Indiana Jones, which has the best use of Mode 7 on record, the lifeboat racing down the mountain side!

CiDeRmAn

Oh, and my copy of Mother 2 is currently winging it's way across the skies.
I'm sure there'll be some report in Famitsu about the annual single game migration to Ireland from Japan.... this year it's Mother 2's turn!
Now to get the chips and tings...

o1s1n

Same here! Just got notification that it's on the way.

Enternow will be able to retire on this project

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Oh, and my copy of Mother 2 is currently winging it's way across the skies.
I'm sure there'll be some report in Famitsu about the annual single game migration to Ireland from Japan.... this year it's Mother 2's turn!
Now to get the chips and tings...

o1s1n wrote: »

Same here! Just got notification that it's on the way.

Enternow will be able to retire on this project

Yee lads will be waiting a while for those adapters, bout a month or so I'd say...but with Xmas post an all, could be next year!

CosmicSmash

EnterNow wrote: »

Yee lads will be waiting a while for those adapters, bout a month or so I'd say...but with Xmas post an all, could be next year!

Why did you have to go and rain on their parade? You better tell me what I will need for clock tower and I will order the two lots together. I have my eye on a copy of mother at the moment.

Myrddin

Monkeykube wrote: »

Why did you have to go and rain on their parade? You better tell me what I will need for clock tower and I will order the two lots together. I have my eye on a copy of mother at the moment.

Mother 2 Cart
Tsop adapter & chip as linked to in the thread I made
Cleaned up version of the Earthbound Rom

Clock Tower Cart
Tsop adapter & chip as linked to in the thread i made
English patched & cleaned up version of the Clock Tower rom

a5y

• Dreamcast keyboard (UK layout with numpad). Keyboards in nice condition, the box has seen better days though. International shipping from the UK for it was €21.75 for a €3.72 keyboard. Parcel motel was used instead, needless to say...
• Dreamcast VGA box, with 3.5mm stereo sound out.
• Science Gallery's GAME exhibition book.

Anyone who hasn't gone to see GAME in the Science Gallery in Dublin is doing themselves a disservice. In a time when 3D is getting dusted off and passed off as a the greatest thing since chest high walls' introduction to first person shooters it felt fantastic to see what genuine innovations and experimentation is happening.

CiDeRmAn

a5y wrote: »

Anyone who hasn't gone to see GAME in the Science Gallery in Dublin is doing themselves a disservice. In a time when 3D is getting dusted off and passed off as a the greatest thing since chest high walls' introduction to first person shooters it felt fantastic to see what genuine innovations and experimentation is happening.

And bit like the Game On exhibition I'm not sure I want to go to a gaming event where I own most of the exhibits already!
Also, about the need to see what real gaming looks like, I can kinda do that at home!

ghostchant

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And bit like the Game On exhibition I'm not sure I want to go to a gaming event where I own most of the exhibits already!
Also, about the need to see what real gaming looks like, I can kinda do that at home!

From what I've read the main exhibits aren't the kind of things you'd have at home.

http://sciencegallery.com/game/exhibits

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

...bugger me, those games are hard, and with some of the most pointless levels ever, Outside The Sandcrawler anyone?

I remember that as being particularly annoying. The mode 7 speeder level in empire strikes back did my head in too. Spending ages zooming around a fake 3D desert looking for stuff and getting lost because the graphics weren't good enough to distinguish one bit of brown sandy coloured desert from another. Ugh.

The debug menu cheat was good though. There were all sorts of options in it. One of the better cheat modes on the snes.

CiDeRmAn

And now I own a perfect copy of the Ibara, that cost me less than €70, thank you very much....

CiDeRmAn

Buying a great Shmup isn't the same without *his* approval...
Can't someone reach out?
Let him know it's all his fault that I'm spending money on so many awesome shooters!

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Buying a great Shmup isn't the same without *his* approval...
Can't someone reach out?
Let him know it's all his fault that I'm spending money on so many awesome shooters!

Could probably ask retr0 to try and reach around?

Andrew76

Late night drive up to Parcel Motel to pick up this chap - Magic Sword by Capcom. Fun hack n slash and my first venture into CPS1. Love the look of the game too. :cool:

CiDeRmAn

Kinda reminiscent of Black Tiger, are they related?
Pardon my ignorance and I'll accept all palm slaps to forehead...

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Kinda reminiscent of Black Tiger, are they related?
Pardon my ignorance and I'll accept all palm slaps to forehead...

Aye kind of similar. Black Tiger was out first but made by the same folks. 50 floors or so in Magic Sword so should keep me busy for a while.

CiDeRmAn

Looking at those boards its a wonder Capcom never made a consolized CPS system, as in the AES, could've been cool.

CiDeRmAn

I was on Parcel Motel myself in the last hour, collecting my son's Christmas present, Ravensburgers Labyrinth, the tin boxed anniversary set. Dragon Quest IX arrived this morning too.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Looking at those boards its a wonder Capcom never made a consolized CPS system, as in the AES, could've been cool.

They did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_System#Capcom_Power_System_Changer

Andrew76

Andrew76 wrote: »

Late night drive up to Parcel Motel to pick up this chap - Magic Sword by Capcom. Fun hack n slash and my first venture into CPS1. Love the look of the game too. :cool:

CPS1 was brilliant. Ghouls and ghosts, strider, Mercs, UN squadron, final fight, and the first 3 street fighter 2 games all came out on it. If I had any space to collect system boards/cabs, CPS1 would be where I'd start.

Myrddin

Whats the story if something goes missing during Parcel Motel postal transit? Do they compensate you or anything? I stopped short of ordering one or two things a while ago wondering what happens if they're lost in transit...

Andrew76

Deleted User wrote: »

CPS1 was brilliant. Ghouls and ghosts, strider, Mercs, UN squadron, final fight, and the first 3 street fighter 2 games all came out on it. If I had any space to collect system boards/cabs, CPS1 would be where I'd start.

Ah yeah well aware of the games for it. Would prefer Varth over all of the above though.

Steve X2

I just couldn't resist it.
Purchased and on the way

The Last Bandit

Ah f....n awesome !!

o1s1n

Lovely looking board Andrew76! Gotta love CPS1 boards - the quality of games on that system is amazing.

Retr0gamer

Picked up Pop n'Twinbee and Wetrix today.

Optimus Prime

Steve SI wrote: »

I just couldn't resist it.
Purchased and on the way

Where and how much. Want! Thats just pure amazing.

Optimus Prime

Got these two on the right today, one working one not, looks like the lopt is gone in one, so should be able to get it going at some stage. Need a good bit of work on the outside, spraying, new artwork, but i dont mind doing that! No golden axe unfortunately, the one pcb with the two is called "bomb kick"

the groutch

I can imagine the Golden Axe one having been in Dawson's in Bray back in the day.

Optimus Prime

the groutch wrote: »

I can imagine the Golden Axe one having been in Dawson's in Bray back in the day.

Would have loved it if the game was still in it!

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

I just couldn't resist it.
Purchased and on the way

Gotta pop on a Browncoat and play with the ship every now and then!
Is there a realistic smell of cattle dung coming from the main cargo doors?
Perhaps a view of Wash's dinosaur toys through the cockpit window?
Smell of s.e.x. from the shuttle?

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

Where and how much. Want! Thats just pure amazing.

Thinkgeek, $100 plus shipping.
It's 8 inches long, uh arrr

Edit:
Better idea of the scale in this pic.

o1s1n

keithgeo wrote: »

Electrocoins! Where'd you get them??

Optimus Prime

adverts, yeh two electrocoin xenons, got a good deal on them two. they need a good bit of work, but the price was worth it.

Optimus Prime

I was cleaning those two, hoovering out etc, getting rid of the woodlice, apart from a big black spider i found this, check out the address, i live in athy. what are the odds!

o1s1n

Nice to know the history of where they came from

Dale Parish

Got ahold of a nice 486.... Well no Cyrix 486 clone clocked at a blistering 100Mhz, with 15360K RAM (plus 640k) making a whopping 16MB. Havn't powered it up yet but I am guessing the hard disk is no more than 120MB.. And yes, the mouse is serial. This is the perfect Command & Conquer, Syndicate, Silent Thunder, (Wolf3d?), Duke Nukem, Doom etc machine! (and whatever else I have at home)
Complete with a "turbo" button - although it tends to give the opposite of the expect effect >_>


I also have a Cyrix Pentium clone on the way for another Boardsie who's on the lookout for one! (you know who you are!):pac:

Myrddin

Picked this up from KeithGeo





Really have a softspot for this game, used to rent it back yonder. Must pick up the sequels!

Retr0gamer

It's a great game and as usual for capcom it's bastard hard.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a great game and as usual for capcom it's bastard hard.

Hmm, I don't remember it being bastard hard...but then, maybe I used to play on easy It is a highly polished, if a little slow paced, platformer that has a nice little character to it.

o1s1n

I've never heard of that one. Sure were a lot of good Disney games back then.

CiDeRmAn

I can remember playing it, as rental, back in the day.
I used to rent Snes games from a little video shop near the train station in Sligo and play them when on nights, as a trainee nurse, good times.... and no one died whilst I was gaming so.... WIN!

I don't remember it being that hard though, although I certainly didn't finish it.

EnterNow

EnterNow wrote: »

...It is a highly polished, if a little slow paced, platformer that has a nice little character to it...

A lot of the disney games i remember were like that. Animaniacs, taz, anything with mickey mouse, etc. They were very polished and pretty and cartoony looking (as you'd expect) but usually had just average or samey gameplay. The SNES was no stranger to cash-in shovelware back in the day, and Disney seemed to target itself squarely at the "clueless parents" category of shopper who already trusted the brand. Typically cynical marketing from them, in fairness...

"Little johnny said he wants that mortal kombat game i read about in the paper. It looks awfully violent. This one has bugs bunny in it. That's nice. Maybe he'd like that instead"

keithgeo wrote: »

Got these two on the right today....

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I'm mad jealous of your cab collection, but seriously well done on putting it together. I'd love to have that kind of space for a few cabs. I'd give my right nut for that street fighter....

Retr0gamer

Deleted User wrote: »

They were very polished and pretty and cartoony looking (as you'd expect) but usually had just average or samey gameplay. The SNES was no stranger to cash-in shovelware back in the day, and Disney seemed to target itself squarely at the "clueless parents" category of shopper who already trusted the brand. Typically cynical marketing from them, in fairness...

To be fair, the Capcom Disney games were always the exceptions to the rule. They were usually some of the best platform games ever made and their three mickey mouse games on the SNES would be included in that. Once other companies took over disney games from Capcom and Sega the quality went down.

Deleted User wrote: »

A lot of the disney games i remember were like that. Animaniacs,

Disney? Animaniacs on the Megadrive and SNES was pretty good I thought. Konami were pretty good back then.

Retr0gamer

Big thank you to RNB for this one since he tracked the game down for me.

It's not retro but I had an awful time finding this game. Finally got my hands on Theresia for the DS in brand new condition. One step closer to my perfect DS collection

CosmicSmash

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Konami were pretty good back then.

Konami and Capcom helped to make Nintendo what it is today. Just think no Contra or Castlevania, Nes or Snes. The difficulty level on games back then was unforgiving, you died and you started the level again. Plenty of other games by both had so much polish back then, I felt a lot of this was lost on the N64 platform.:(

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Big thank you to RNB. Finally got my hands on Theresia

since I'm so good at Panel de Pon, that's my prize right? when you getting your own copy?