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

CiDeRmAn

Looks like I've just agreed to buy a lovely Nes Advantage Stick, as well as an unboxed copy of Quackshot for the MD.
I honestly thought my MD/Gen cart buying days were over with the arrival of the Everdrive but, no, I am still enjoying the experience of the genuine article.
The Advantage stick looks nice, pity my Gradius titles for the format are on the Famicom, and I can't use the Advantage without modification!
I might see about putting an auxillary Nes port on the Fami, in the back, for just such events, must be doable, the devices are ultimately the same, might be a splitter to do the job for me.....
Oh, such fun, more burnt fingertips from inexpert soldering!!!

Steve X2

Achilles wrote: »

This is kind of videogame related... just took delivery of the following Vinyl record:



I love the last sentence on the back of it though:



I honestly have no idea what track this is... or even when I ordered it. I have no recollection of ordering it whatsoever but I assume it's something that was in my wishlist on discogs that popped up for sale. I'm slowly building a steady video game related vinyl collection.

If anybody is interested I may post it up here some day. :-)

*edit*

It seems this is the track in question:
http://www.sonicstadium.org/music/supersonic/

I don't think I'll be playing it too much, it's more for the collection I suppose.

I actually have that one on MP3.

MrVestek

Steve SI wrote: »

I actually have that one on MP3.

Yeah there's a copy of it in the link I posted too.

It's awful in a 90s synth kinda way.

CiDeRmAn

Give me the Sonic R soundtrack any day!

CiDeRmAn

I went a bit mad today and started checking prices of Wii U games in HMV, having seen the prices in the Sligo branch.
The prices down here were higher but today I phoned around and were the lower in Blanch.
I called into the Swords branch and ZombiU was still nearly 60 so I asked for a price check and it was actually 49.99, so I bought it.
Anyhow, happy with that.
Try and play it later....

Oh, my Wii LAN arrived today as well, my Wii U WiFi misery is over at last!

the groutch

Picked up a couple of gems in CeX today



not too bothered by the damage to the cover art as it was only €2.50



had to buy it because it has all the characters from Darkstalkers, probably my favorite fighting game ever

kevin2me

Nintendo Sent me Mario 3DSLand Free download today, its avail Until 15th Jan for 3DS XL Owners...
Fair dues to Nintendo, ive loads now on 3DS plus all ambassador games, plus some free DLC for NSMB 2 as well,

So traded in Physical copy for Nintendoland, Chuffed, Its simple game, but love it all the same.
Plus Im up to 6400 Stars now, 600 more for SNES Wii Controller ggggrrr come on

CiDeRmAn

Woohoo, Wii LAN adapter works a treat, everything is working nice, quick and lag free, so I'm watching Zombieland on the Gamepad display... Rule No. 1, Cardio!

TechnoFreek

Got Mortal Kombat 2 jamma pcb today.

Now I know its no Street Fighter but it was one of my fave games in the arcade games growing up.

Jack burton

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Woohoo, Wii LAN adapter works a treat, everything is working nice, quick and lag free, so I'm watching Zombieland on the Gamepad display... Rule No. 1, Cardio!

Rule #6: Do not sit in the corner and sulk. It draws attention in a negative way. Draw attention to yourself, but on your own terms.

Same rules right?

Steve X2

After a little bit of negotiation over the last couple of months and some bank transfers I will soon be in possession of a total of 6 Darius Alphas for my increasing collectible but crap game side collection

Now, how should I be storing these babies? At the moment my current copies of the game are stored in a simple wooden box with some padding and silica gel (not in my home by the way as I'm only renting and it's hard to get things like this covered under rental insurance).

So, any thoughts on how to store pricey collectible games for the long term?

o1s1n

Hah, serious?! That's truly insane man, I love it

Atavan-Halen

I think they'd look cool framed like the way they do platinum and gold certified albums. Not sure if its the best way to store them though!

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Hah, serious?! That's truly insane man, I love it

It would have been 7 copies but I traded one a while back to gain access to a group of collectors and their mental tasty collections. I think I mentioned it months ago here.
I'm not sure but I think I might have the most copies of Darius Alpha now. I know one other guy in Japan that has 3 and he says he knows an American with 2.
I have a problem, I know

atavan-halen wrote: »

I think they'd look cool framed like the way they do platinum and gold certified albums. Not sure if its the best way to store them though!

Yeah, that would look cool but probably not the besayeay to store them.
Maybe just a boring aluminium flight case and some cut foam?

Dr Bob

nabbed an amiga 600 box of games and a boxed gunship 2000 from a nice poster here
(in the middle of adding a hard disk at the mo , I'd forgotten how painful doing ANY modding on an amiga is , and just how helpfully unhelpful amiga forums are {basically they tend to assume you've used nothing but an a1200 for the past twenty years, and also are German).

Steve X2

Dr Bob wrote: »

nabbed an amiga 600 box of games and a boxed gunship 2000 from a nice poster here
(in the middle of adding a hard disk at the mo , I'd forgotten how painful doing ANY modding on an amiga is , and just how helpfully unhelpful amiga forums are {basically they tend to assume you've used nothing but an a1200 for the past twenty years, and also are German).

What mods are you doing? The A600 is a nice and easy Amiga to do most mods on.
You might need a new kickstart chip if your installing a hard disk/CF card etc.

Did you check out http://eab.abime.net ?

Dr Bob

Steve SI wrote: »

What mods are you doing? The A600 is a nice and easy Amiga to do most mods on.
You might need a new kickstart chip if your installing a hard disk/CF card etc.

Did you check out http://eab.abime.net ?

Hard disk mods, I've the cf/IDE adaptor and a CF/PCMCIA ADF one too.
ah yeah , tbh I reckon 90 percent of the problems I have are down to CF cards being a bit random with the amiga , in that some work and some dont.Also I've found a few 1 word replies to people having similar problems to me (basically I was getting the WB2.1 onto the CF card via Winuae) didnt help.Especially when the replies pointed at lha files (which when you finally get them working give you some errors in German and crash out.
I finally got it working , until Winuae complained and started looking for me to unmount the cf in windows, which isnt going to work, so I gave up and started installing WB on the amiga
Problem I've hit now is that I cant find the WB extras disk.I can make one from an ADF using the PCMCIA adaptor...except the only CF card I have that the amiga wants to use is now installed as a hard disk.So I'll have to pull that back out , reformat it , transfer the adfs to disk , then stick it back in the Amiga , and start the whole process again...le sigh.

deathrider

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Got Mortal Kombat 2 jamma pcb today.

Now I know its no Street Fighter but it was one of my fave games in the arcade games growing up.

I've got the old MK2 cab, and I fired it up for the first time in ages last night. Turns out that all this playing the latest Mortal Kombat has made me quite sh1te at the older ones.

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Woohoo, Wii LAN adapter works a treat, everything is working nice, quick and lag free, so I'm watching Zombieland on the Gamepad display... Rule No. 1, Cardio!

I bet the reason why it works was more to do with it being past Christmas day WiiU present turn on and over loading their services

Myrddin

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I bet the reason why it works was more to do with it being past Christmas day WiiU present turn on and over loading their services

It made an immediate difference for me straight away on Xmas night

MrVestek

The Wii U (along with a few other recent wifi enabled devices I own) seem very sensitive to interference in the air...

Where I live is saturated with various wifi networks on loads of different channels and despite the fact that the channel my wifi on is 'clean' devices like the Wii U and PSVita seem to disconnect regularly due to this.

CiDeRmAn

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I bet the reason why it works was more to do with it being past Christmas day WiiU present turn on and over loading their services

No, when I tried to use Netflix on Tuesday it just hung on a red loading screen, when I used it yesterday with the USB LAN adapter, it worked immediately and without lag.

Of course, now my screen is flickering, the main screen, I have a feeling it's a HDMI issue, the same one that gives HDCP problems with the Sky HD box.

TechnoFreek

deathrider wrote: »

I've got the old MK2 cab, and I fired it up for the first time in ages last night. Turns out that all this playing the latest Mortal Kombat has made me quite sh1te at the older ones.

Would love to have original mk2 cab

deathrider

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Would love to have original mk2 cab

It is a little bit sexy.

CiDeRmAn

Bugger it!
Was supposed to pick up an Advantage stick for the Nes and a copy of Quackshot for the MD from a guy in Dublin, first he was 30mins late, then was going to be another hour, so half my day wasted getting in and waiting around.
I left at the announcement of the second delay, wasn't worth it to loiter about, you know there would only be another delay, waiting in the wings
Not happy, I was looking forward to that stick, already had plans to integrate it into the Famicom

CiDeRmAn

Feel slightly better, getting the Advantage/Quackshot combo from RNB for the same money!
And called into Bookmart & Gamesexchange for the first time in about 7 years, got Motorhead for the PS, was looking for it for a while, got it for 7.50!
So, the day worked out ok in the end.....

Burkey0

I ****ing hate Majora's Mask tbh, but it is Zelda... with any luck it'll have a file past the first 2 dungeons.

And Unirally is always good to have



Ed: Well would ya lookit that!

CiDeRmAn

Nice, always liked Unirally too, odd as a 3 bob note mind you. feels like an Amiga game and I rather think it'd work well on an Android/IOS platform now

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

...and I rather think it'd work well on an Android/IOS platform now

Blame Pixar for that never happening!

Optimus Prime

Got this lot today, my first games ive bought this year. Have a few more bits coming too.

deathrider

Burkey0 wrote: »

I ****ing hate Majora's Mask tbh, but it is Zelda... with any luck it'll have a file past the first 2 dungeons.

And Unirally is always good to have



Ed: Well would ya lookit that!

"You shouldn't have done that..."

Jack burton

keithgeo wrote: »

Got this lot today, my first games ive bought this year. Have a few more bits coming too.

MINTY

Where'd you score those?

Optimus Prime

all off adverts, in a set of 8 and 2, the boxes off the 8 are in mint condition, its like they where played once. ive already rotated out my less good condition ones i had onto adverts.

Jack burton

I just noticed it on the front page of the consoles and games section right now haha

Optimus Prime

Jack burton wrote: »

I just noticed it on the front page of the consoles and games section right now haha

Yeh i had a few of them already, but the ones i had where not in as good condition, so may as well sell off the doubles.

Danonino.

Burkey0 wrote: »

Man Uni-Rally was the first game I hunted down when I rebought a Snes. I remember spending a fortune renting it from Groovy Movies with the brother years ago ha ha. Love that game.
I'll have to take a picture of the Christmas grabs now I'm home. Mostly all new games but also got some PSN cards. Just had my first go of Tokyo Jungle and downloading Journey now I have to say I hate how damn slow the Playstation store is, everything from buying to downloading and installing takes an age. Compared to xboxlive its pathetically slow

Danonino.

Danonino. wrote: »

...I hate how damn slow the Playstation store is, everything from buying to downloading and installing takes an age. Compared to xboxlive its pathetically slow...

PS3 generally seems to be all about endless updates, installs, add ons, firmware downloads, and all sorts of other crap that isn't anything to do with actual gaming. I find it's a very frustrating console to use in general.

I got wipeout HD fury for it last week as DLC from the PSN store, as it isn't available on disc. It downloaded in 5 different parts, each of which took an age, and then when i finally installed each of the parts, the game told me it had to update to the latest version so it downloaded that as well.

I had a spare hour to play, and by the time the game was ready to go i got about 3 minutes in it. Have still yet to play it properly.

CiDeRmAn

Wipeout HD is available on physical disk, not so sure about if it includes the Fury update though.
Pity that they never applied themselves to a big Wipeout release on the format, limiting that to the excellent releases on the PSP and 'Vita.

Myrddin

The ironic thing is the PS3 has a gigabit NIC...whereas the 360 has a standard 10/100 :rolleyes: Its obviously a Sony side issue because ftp on the modded ps3 is lightning quick

CiDeRmAn

It's obvious, Sony hate us, view customers as a necessary evil, a bit of the people behind MAME, end users are grubby little necessities, barely tolerated.
In Sonys case, it doesn't help that we are gaigin...

CosmicSmash

Deleted User wrote: »

PS3 generally seems to be all about endless updates, installs, add ons, firmware downloads, and all sorts of other crap that isn't anything to do with actual gaming. I find it's a very frustrating console to use in general.

I got wipeout HD fury for it last week as DLC from the PSN store, as it isn't available on disc. It downloaded in 5 different parts, each of which took an age, and then when i finally installed each of the parts, the game told me it had to update to the latest version so it downloaded that as well.

This is exactly the sort of thing that has made the current generation of games less appealing for me as a collector. In time to come how many of todays consoles will be around given their fragility to actually play these games on. With all the single use codes along with paid dlc and patches I just can see things improving, It will probably just go download only in time to come.:(

Danonino.

Journey is absolutely jaw dropping... amazing

CiDeRmAn

Danonino. wrote: »

Journey is absolutely jaw dropping... amazing

I know!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I know!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0

If I never hear that song again it'll be too soon

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

If I never hear that song again it'll be too soon

It's a shame, as they actually do have some good songs

Warning though, insanely cheese videos

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA

I was looking for the 'any way you want it' scene in the Simpsons (the end of the episode with Burn's son) and came across this, homer's trip where he meets the coyote.

The coyote is Johnny Cash! How the hell have I never noticed that before???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMR53zHrdzg

Burkey0

o1s1n wrote: »

The coyote is Johnny Cash! How the hell have I never noticed that before???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMR53zHrdzg

Holy ****

I was certain I dreamt up this mad episode

CiDeRmAn

Is that the episode where Homer eats the chilli and winds up hallucinating?
That was a cracker!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

The talking dog is Johnny Cash!

Fixed

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Is that the episode where Homer eats the chilli and winds up hallucinating?

It is indeed

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That was a cracker!

Watching it made me sad as it was a reminded to just how good that show was. I must have watched it every day for almost ten years. Was by far the best thing on television.

The end line of that clip is just amazing

Homer: Oh, I give up.
Coyote: [voiceover] Find your soulmate, Homer. Find your soulmate.
Homer: Where? Where?
Coyote: This is just your memory. I can’t give you any new information.

Optimus Prime

Got these today off adverts, didnt even realise the scope was included when i made an offer on them. great price for the lot too.