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

MrVestek

Ohh jesus I just remembered that I bought Sonic R for Saturn after watching JonTron's review of it. It's a terrible... terrible game... can someone tell me why I just did that?

Steve X2

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

That looks great. Where did you get it for that price steve? Amazon.co.uk has me for £25 stg including delivery. Is there a better price somewhere?

Amazon.co.uk is where I got it from.
It's gone up a bit now and it looks like they are out of stock and on back order (1-2 weeks).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1616550414/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else finding Parcel Motel insanely fast? I had a package posted in the UK on Tuesday and it's ready for my collection today. Absolutely amazing service.

I had stuff post from the UK on a Friday and it arrived Sunday evening!

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I had stuff post from the UK on a Friday and it arrived Sunday evening!

It's almost as if the delivery time is exactly the same as UK domestic delivery times. They must really put their skates on once it lands in their NI depo.

CiDeRmAn

I suppose you have to realise that those parcel trucks are on the road all day, lots of pickups, works great though!

Steve X2

I do get texts from Parcel Motel between 10pm-midnight a lot of the time. They certainly are on the ball with deliveries.

Atavan-Halen

I do like using parcel motel. I always feel like a Hitman collecting a gun from a secret location about to do a job.

o1s1n

Picked up the GNET. Absolutely lovely board! Has the largest volume pot I've seen, very handy.

Shikigami looks absolutely gorgeous. Another board tempting me to go vertical. Better get a horizontal game card in there to stop the temptation!

Jack burton

atavan-halen wrote: »

I do like using parcel motel. I always feel like a Hitman collecting a gun from a secret location about to do a job.

Everytime!

I always get a text at 7 in the morning, means another person needs cleaning

TechnoFreek

How does the GNET system operate oisin?

What sort of games are on it?

CiDeRmAn

I got something new today!
A hospital bed in Beaumont due to a suspected heart attack!
I'm in here now, no heart attack but having a sleep over just in case.
So, sleep overs in hospital, is this a girls in their pj's, lots of ice cream and we all watch Molly Ringwald movies?

Retr0gamer

Hope you remembered the DS.

Hopefully everything is alright.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I got something new today!
A hospital bed in Beaumont due to a suspected heart attack!
I'm in here now, no heart attack but having a sleep over just in case.
So, sleep overs in hospital, is this a girls in their pj's, lots of ice cream and we all watch Molly Ringwald movies?

Jesus man! Hope everything is alright with yourself???

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm in here now, no heart attack but having a sleep over just in case.
So, sleep overs in hospital, is this a girls in their pj's, lots of ice cream and we all watch Molly Ringwald movies?

you should ring the Corey hotline, it's only $4.95 a minute and we'll do our bit by cutting down on the moe so you don't hnnnng jkjkjkjkjkjk

Thankfully you're okay, one of my neighbours was in hospital for the same thing but he's flying it. I'm sure you've all your handhelds and stuff with you but you should be relaxing, take it easy

CiDeRmAn

I have my 3ds, all my ds and 3ds games, a charger and an outlet to plug it into, happy days!
If I had a Vita I'd say they'd have just shot me, horsey style, lost cause, then shipped me off to be in a Tesco burger!

TechnoFreek

Jesus cidey.

Your day really went downhill since we spoke in the morning.

I knew you must have been sick to pass on a Raiden pcb!

Atavan-Halen

Hope everything's ok cidey, get well soon!

The Last Bandit

Get well soon !!

johnny_ultimate

Hope all is well Ciderdude.

Copy of Ni No Kuni arrived this morning. Studio Ghibli + Old school JPRG? Unreasonably exciting proposition.

Myrddin

These things had to be expected in your 50's Cidey...you can't be playing full on action games at your age anymore.

Get well soon!

MrVestek

You should play some Trauma Centre for the laugh.

In all seriousness hope you're feeling better, I've had severe panic attacks in the past that have felt like a heart attack so I know what it's like.

Mr.Saturn

Keep calm, and finish OoT.

Hope all goes well, sir.

o1s1n

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Keep calm, and finish OoT.

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He really has no excuse now!

TechnoFreek wrote: »

How does the GNET system operate oisin?

What sort of games are on it?

Ah it operates in a similar fashion to other cart/mobo based arcade systems. The games come on those PCMCIA flash cards you see on the very top.

You can mod the GNet to boot images of games from standard PCMCIA flash cards.

Most of the games worth playing on it seem to be shmups. Chaos Heat is one horizontal game which looks pretty fun.

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

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Copy of Ni No Kuni arrived this morning. Studio Ghibli + Old school JPRG? Unreasonably exciting proposition.

Studio Ghibli art with a Akihiro Hino from Level 5 world, writing and story. Don't be expecting it to be the videogame version of Princess Mononoke and you'll be fine.

murphyebass

Came home to this in the post.
So that's my weekend sorted.

The Last Bandit

Picked up Taito Legends 1 & 2 for the PS2 today.



Was lazy so stuck them into the PS3 rather then walking upstairs. The emulation really sucked with some games stuttering to unplayable levels. I guess 68000 emulation on the Emotion Engine emulated on the Cell processor wasn't fully thought through

Plays perfectly on the PS2 so all is well. Looking forward to Midway Treasures 1,2 & 3 now

CosmicSmash

Check out Kiki KaiKai on the second one, love that game.

CiDeRmAn

Those Taito and Midway collections are pretty decent, Bubble Bobble, G Darius and the rest for a pittance.
My pride of place collection is the 4 disk Capcom collection for the PS, nicely presented too.
I'd love the total boxed set of Namco Museums, the Japanese editions.
Might make that my wanna get for '13

MrVestek

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Picked up Taito Legends 1 & 2 for the PS2 today.



Was lazy so stuck them into the PS3 rather then walking upstairs. The emulation really sucked with some games stuttering to unplayable levels. I guess 68000 emulation on the Emotion Engine emulated on the Cell processor wasn't fully thought through

Plays perfectly on the PS2 so all is well. Looking forward to Midway Treasures 1,2 & 3 now

Yo dawg I herd you like emulation...

The last time I did something like that was running the Windows version of Kega on Linux. Worked surprisingly well.

CiDeRmAn

Speaking of emulation, I was always fond of the Bubble Bobble on the PS1, probably sacrilege but it did me for some time.
I have the same title for the Saturn as well, oddly unaffected by the change in format!
I know though that it was built from the ground up due to the source code being lost by Taito, so I'm not sure how accurate the game is, especially in terms of secrets and enemy patterns.
But, unlike a poor emulation, at least, in this instance, Acclaim had little choice and so did the best they could.

CosmicSmash

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Those Taito and Midway collections are pretty decent, Bubble Bobble, G Darius and the rest for a pittance.
My pride of place collection is the 4 disk Capcom collection for the PS, nicely presented too.
I'd love the total boxed set of Namco Museums, the Japanese editions.
Might make that my wanna get for '13

I remember a lad that posted here in days gone by had that Namco set;) It's a nice collection to have in that case, hope the body is feeling a bit better Ciderman.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Speaking of emulation, I was always fond of the Bubble Bobble on the PS1, probably sacrilege but it did me for some time.
I have the same title for the Saturn as well, oddly unaffected by the change in format!
I know though that it was built from the ground up due to the source code being lost by Taito, so I'm not sure how accurate the game is, especially in terms of secrets and enemy patterns.
But, unlike a poor emulation, at least, in this instance, Acclaim had little choice and so did the best they could.

Actually the PS1 and Saturn versions are emulated and emulated rather poorly. They suffer from issues early versions of mame had with secrets and stuff not acting correctly. Add in PAL 50 Hz mode and it running in the wrong resolution which makes it look really weird and it's not great at all. Taito collections are the way to go for them.

The Last Bandit

Taito collection is well packaged alright. You can select either 50 or 60Hz and adjust the screen size & position.

Dr Bob

nabbed these in a charity shop here , might end up trading/selling mind you as I'm probably not going to have much time to play them

Ianobeano

Dr Bob wrote: »

nabbed these in a charity shop here , might end up trading/selling mind you as I'm probably not going to have much time to play them

I'd be interested in a trade if you want to pm me ?

TechnoFreek

Mortal Kombat 1 upgrade roms

CosmicSmash

Picked up a couple of sfc games that arrived during the week along with some empty boxes and manuals. Seiken Densetsu 3 and Darius Twin.

Atavan-Halen

Dr Bob wrote: »

nabbed these in a charity shop here , might end up trading/selling mind you as I'm probably not going to have much time to play them

Dibs on okami!

Myrddin

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Mortal Kombat 1 upgrade roms

Very nice. Did you get these on a specific site or just a random spot? I'm half looking for a Ridge Racer to Ridge Racer 2 upgrade kit but its nigh on impossible to find info on it

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

atavan-halen wrote: »

Dibs on okami!

you're such a ghowl, go buy your own :P

Steve X2

Okami is only £8.24 on Amazon at the moment brand new if anyones looking for it.

CiDeRmAn

I was going to buy the new masterpiece from Level 5 and Studio Ghibli but was shocked to see that it was 60 is GS, along with most of their new stock.
Is this the future of a market place without HMV as a competitor?
Thinking my purchases will be online in future

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Thinking my purchases will be online in future

TechnoFreek

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I was going to buy the new masterpiece from Level 5 and Studio Ghibli but was shocked to see that it was 60 is GS, along with most of their new stock.
Is this the future of a market place without HMV as a competitor?
Thinking my purchases will be online in future

I think its also 60 on psn!

TechnoFreek

EnterNow wrote: »

Very nice. Did you get these on a specific site or just a random spot? I'm half looking for a Ridge Racer to Ridge Racer 2 upgrade kit but its nigh on impossible to find info on it

I just stuck a wanted post over on the dark side (j+). Response was weak enough but good few guys on there have Rom burners. One guy offered to do it for my for more or less cost. He identified the roms to be upgraded, burnt them and posted.

Between all that and paypal fees it cost under a tenner (euro). Sweet

Dr Bob

Save a random 4:3 19" TV from being sent to the dump yesterday.
Had it working with the meg and once I got over a hiccup with the RGB cable (you need to tell the TV its an rgb signal , once you do its fine) it was working grand .Better than grand in fact.
Tempted to use it as the basis for an el cheapo mame cab (as I'm never going to be able to afford a proper one in the near future...)

Atavan-Halen

Went into town the other day and got a few bits. Nothing retro though I had a look in the rage but nothing caught my eye.

Psp games were €2 each in a charity shop. Don't judge me on FIFA, I got it so when my cousins come over it keeps them away from my nice games :P

o1s1n

Check out what arrived today. I still cannot believe I got this so cheap. MVS complete kits are usually pretty expensive - let alone Neo Drift Out, which is even expensive cart only.

I got really lucky with this. He was all sold out of his ebay carts. Fired off a pm to him and he had one left

These things are so minty it looks like they just rolled off the factory conveyor belt. I have about 50-60 MVS carts now and I've never seen one with a sheen like this. It's almost silky to the touch!











The Flip Shot kit still hasn't arrived. Which is odd as it was posted before this one!

Arrival from Amazon this morning, all set for the weekend

CiDeRmAn

There's a copy of Ni no Kuni on Adverts for €50, not sure if I want it that much.....