Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Retr0gamer

A real shame because I think that Viva Pinata is one of Rares and the 360's best games so there was still a lot of talent there.

Mr.Saturn

Unrelated, but RAGE have a copy of Secret of Evermore. I, for one, will be crazy-interested in how much they'll be looking for with it.

safetyboy

wonder how much they go for?

Steve X2

safetyboy wrote: »

wonder how much they go for?

This is why the RAGE is a bit crap. Post the bloody prices online FFS guys.

Retr0gamer

I can tell you how much they are already. Too much.

Mr.Saturn

Steve SI wrote: »

This is why the RAGE is a bit crap. Post the bloody prices online FFS guys.

This isn't 5th Avenue, do they not see how woeful it looks that they refuse part with a price?

Myrddin

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

This isn't 5th Avenue, do they not see how woeful it looks that they refuse part with a price?

It screams rogue to me, & more like "we'll decide on the price based on who asks" kind of crap.

Retr0gamer

It would be all different if I was still allowed on their facebook :P

Steve X2

They just replied to a lad on facebook about prices.

We have have explained in previous posts why we do not post prices . Retro games prices shift so much that our prices could increase and decrease at any given time and if we were to display something online at a set price it could cause confusion at a later date.. As of today(20/07/2012) this item costs €149.95.

This is for the Donkey Kong Crate SNES.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

They just replied to a lad on facebook about prices.

What utter tripe. Funny how every other game shop around can do it.

Mr.Saturn

EnterNow wrote: »

It screams rogue to me, & more like "we'll decide on the price based on who asks" kind of crap.

They just posted this response to some chappy moaning about the fact he couldn't get a price on the DKC-SNES bundle:

We have have explained in previous posts why we do not post prices . Retro games prices shift so much that our prices could increase and decrease at any given time and if we were to display something online at a set price it could cause confusion at a later date.. As of today(20/07/2012) this item costs €149.95.

Feeds into your point nicely.

Edit: Opps, beaten to it.

Retr0gamer

Steve SI wrote: »

This is for the Donkey Kong Crate SNES.

Even boxed I'd say that price is madness. Might have to set up an alt account to terrorise them with the truth :P

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Even boxed I'd say that price is madness. Might have to set up an alt account to terrorise them with the truth :P

It's not even the prices that annoy me any more. It's the fact they wont tell you how much something costs until you're standing in front of them.

And retro prices do not fluctuate that quickly that if you bought something last week and sold it this week you'd have a massive price difference.
And don't get me started on mindset behind that way of thinking. It's really anti-consumer if you ask me.

Retr0gamer

It really is a very obsolete store. Anything you can get there can be gotten an awful lot cheaper on ebay since they are basing all their prices on average prices on ebay, which would be blown out of proportion by chancers selling with high BIN prices. Last time I was in there I asked if they had Megaman on the NES and told me it was very rare and they sold it for 90 euros. It's not that common but hardly 90 euro common. I can get the NTSC version for less than $30 dollars BIN and even then it's overpriced.

The days you could get good bargains in that place went away with Johny Ultimates copy of MUSHA.

They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.

The Last Bandit

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.

What !! They are not even selling overpriced originals ...

Retr0gamer

They're all copies of the master rom :P

Mr.Saturn

Patser wrote: »

I'm just cleaning up the house ahead of moving and found my old Dreamcast hiding behind my TV, checked it and still working. 2 Controllers and a house of the Dead gun and about 10 games including Shenmue, MSR, Ready to Rumble and Dynamite Cop (ultimate play with a friend while pissed game).

All pretty much free to a good home if anyone wants them, I'm in Clondalkin. Just Pm me

edit: Retrogamer claimed it!

You jambag!

Retr0gamer

Thought I wasn't quick enough. Anyway the DC and dupes will be going to a big Sega fan who never had one so in a way I'm doing it for charity

OwaynOTT

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Thought I wasn't quick enough. Anyway the DC and dupes will be going to a big Sega fan who never had one so in a way I'm doing it for charity

oH MY GOSH! Thanks Retro, ill pm my address there now.


Ah! Im so tired. Stuck in work and I haven't slept in ages. How much work will be done today in my shop is zero, actually more minus than zero, as my ineptitude will have to be made up for my the work of my colleagues.
Yes I'm one of those retail worker, the useless ones.


Btw way guys what kind of condition is that crate in? The one thats in the rage. The country kong one. The snes console.

Steve X2

Off topic, sorry. But this is just mental, really mental.
I just witnessed the start of the end of the world. You can buy guns, ammo and explosives online and have them shipped (piece by piece) to any country, including Ireland :eek::eek::eek:

After reading an article on Gizmodo yesterday while looking through my usual retro and nerd websites I decided to test out this service they were talking about and see just how easy it is to get illegal weapons. Now just to be clear I didn't actually order anything as I'm not fecking mental enough to send guns to Ireland. I just wanted to see how it works and just how easy it would be. Spoiler alert, its mental easy:eek:

Well I setup the encrypted session via TOR and all the other secure stuff you have to do (its how i imagine you hire a hitman :eek:). Once everything was setup I browsed the marketplace until I found what I wanted. What I wanted for my pretend order was a Glock 19 and a AK47, all with ammo.
I contacted the seller via heavily encrypted messaging and he was more than happy to take my order and ship the things to Ireland. I wont say for how much but its not a huge amount like you might think. This guy even has good reviews, yes they have reviews.

Just gods damn mental that this exist and seems to be a place that is getting used by loads of people.

This is how it ends folks


http://gizmodo.com/5927379/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Off topic, sorry. But this is just mental, really mental.
I just witnessed the start of the end of the world. You can buy guns, ammo and explosives online and have them shipped (piece by piece) to any country, including Ireland :eek::eek::eek:

After reading an article on Gizmodo yesterday while looking through my usual retro and nerd websites I decided to test out this service they were talking about and see just how easy it is to get illegal weapons. Now just to be clear I didn't actually order anything as I'm not fecking mental enough to send guns to Ireland. I just wanted to see how it works and just how easy it would be. Spoiler alert, its mental easy:eek:

Well I setup the encrypted session via TOR and all the other secure stuff you have to do (its how i imagine you hire a hitman :eek:). Once everything was setup I browsed the marketplace until I found what I wanted. What I wanted for my pretend order was a Glock 19 and a AK47, all with ammo.
I contacted the seller via heavily encrypted messaging and he was more than happy to take my order and ship the things to Ireland. I wont say for how much but its not a huge amount like you might think. This guy even has good reviews, yes they have reviews.

Just gods damn mental that this exist and seems to be a place that is getting used by loads of people.

This is how it ends folks


http://gizmodo.com/5927379/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything

Isn't that termed the 'deep net' or something, it's a realm like the internet as we know it but much much much bigger & not searchable or browsable via normal methods. Some seriously sick stuff goes on there apparently, & it's a dangerous place to even browse. I suspect AK-47's are amongst the more good willed end of the subject matter there too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

Isn't that termed the 'deep net' or something, it's a realm like the internet as we know it but much much much bigger & not searchable or browsable via normal methods. Some seriously sick stuff goes on there apparently, & it's a dangerous place to even browse. I suspect AK-47's are amongst the more good willed end of the subject matter there too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

Hmm, kind of but this exist in a full encrypted and untraceable network. The "deep net" is still just the internet but harder to find.

johnny_ultimate

Not actually sure if it's a good or bad thing for gizmodo to be bringing this to people's attention? Could lead to tighter regulation, like the best investigative journalism. Or it could be used as an FAQ for slightly dumber sociopaths.

Steve X2

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Not actually sure if it's a good or bad thing for gizmodo to be bringing this to people's attention? Could lead to tighter regulation, like the best investigative journalism. Or it could be used as an FAQ for slightly dumber sociopaths.

The article reads like journalism to some but it really is a FAQ to others. And that is a problem. Same with the drugs version of the marketplace in an older article they wrote last year.

I mean I've no interesting in buying guns but with the info in the article and a bit of searching online I had all the info I needed to go ahead with a deal. It took a few mins to create an account. It uses bitcoin as currency which is easily made to be untraceable funds.

Professey Chin

Away from the buying AKs, big tale of guy buying Powerfest 94
http://blog.pricecharting.com/2012/07/how-i-got-nintendo-powerfest-94.html

a5y

Hmmm. I'd heard about sites like the Silk Road long before Gizmodo was getting all worked up about it and I guess I've always wondered why small time fixers didn't become indie arms dealers using the same infrastructure.

Guess they just have the same hassle with customs a lot of the guys on this thread do. Small world eh?

I figure the need to use Bitcoins will be in the end what stops it becoming a real problem. There's a lot of blind trust in that currency" just working".

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd much rather old Rare back.... And Blast Corps 2.

I'd settle for a remastered Blast Corp on the 3ds or WiiU!

And yes, Donkey Kong 64 is a p1ss poor excuse for a game, after Banjo and Jet forceit was a real let down.

Sparks43

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151119706774359

Smegging brilliant:D

johnny_ultimate

After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.

Sparks43

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.

Stop slagging BTE ffs:mad:

Looks very Season 1-3 with the jokes so this can be only smegging top class

ghostchant

I only saw Back to Earth a couple of months ago, having been warned off it previously. Apart from the godawful Coronation Street scenes, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it! Zero expectations will do that I suppose!

Jack burton

Steve SI wrote: »

Hmm, kind of but this exist in a full encrypted and untraceable network. The "deep net" is still just the internet but harder to find.

When you stop to think about whats readily available from google searches, deep web stuff actually makes me feel really bad for being human. Of course there's some legit stuff there too I'm sure...but I still shudder

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It really is a very obsolete store. Anything you can get there can be gotten an awful lot cheaper on ebay since they are basing all their prices on average prices on ebay, which would be blown out of proportion by chancers selling with high BIN prices. Last time I was in there I asked if they had Megaman on the NES and told me it was very rare and they sold it for 90 euros. It's not that common but hardly 90 euro common. I can get the NTSC version for less than $30 dollars BIN and even then it's overpriced.

The days you could get good bargains in that place went away with Jcoughohny Ultimates copy of MUSHA.

They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.

Cough .. Boxed ntsc snes for twenty blips last week..cough.
They're overpriced quite often, but in fairness you can usually haggle a little ,especially the likes of us who have a rough idea of what things are worth. And having a bricks and mortar retro shop is a good thing...

Steve X2

Haha,

Jack burton

So...Just back from Batman. Being a big fan of the comics and following the character for a long time I can safely say that in my opinion the new Batman picture is quite simply....Batastic!

Everyone go see it. Its fantastic, it just feels like a comic, and definitely one of the best films I've seen in the past few years. Plus if your a fan of the comics, expect to see a few little bits in the film just for you

DinoRex

I only liked about 50% of it and the 50% I did like didn't involve Batman.

Overall I thought it was a very poor effort. Amazing Spider-man and Avengers are substantially better films and don't have any deluded pretensions that they are anything but comic book movies.

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

Amazing Spider-man and Avengers are substantially better films and don't have any deluded pretensions that they are anything but comic book movies.

Could literally not disagree more with that statement. If The Dark Knight Rises is a gem, The Avengers is a pebble and The Amazing Spiderman is the **** I scrape off my shoes (I'm too lazy to make up any other analogy). Deluded pretensions for the win.

The Dark Knight Rises has a few niggling issues, but that it was a thrilling and smart film that pretty much owns any recent blockbusters in terms of execution, ambition and intelligence.

DinoRex

Thrilling? Those were the worst fight scenes ever committed to celluloid!

johnny_ultimate

I thought the action scenes were mostly very well handled, although hardly the most interesting part of the film. I didn't care for The Bat at all, but thought the fight scenes were engaging. The plot, the characters, the visual identity and the depth of the themes explored were far more interesting overall, though. For the first forty five minutes I didn't know what to make of it. From the

stock exchange sequence

onwards, I was hooked.

CiDeRmAn

Well, I saw it this morning with Dino and again this evening, still a cracking film, but please Warner, now Nolan had made his trilogy please don't reboot for a few years, please?
Spiderman and Avengers were both great, Dark Knight Rises was better.
Be interesting to see how Superman fares with Snyder at the helm.
Dredd though, that is going to be fun.
And I've seen The Three Stooges and really enjoyed it, so there!

DinoRex

I quite liked the Man of Steel teaser trailer. It's definitely got a Batman Begins bang off it.

Sparks43

Hate the new Batman

Although it was very well shot:eek:

Steve X2

I know you wont but guys no spoilers please until I see this thing on Sunday night

Also this:

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.

I think people seem to feel every single episode of Red Dwarf leading up to season 8 was brilliant. There were some terrible ones, BTE is easily better than 4 or 5 episodes of earlier seasons.

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

I think people seem to feel every single episode of Red Dwarf leading up to season 8 was brilliant. There were some terrible ones, BTE is easily better than 4 or 5 episodes of earlier seasons.

Yeah there are some dreadful episodes (especially in season 7) but given the years they had to put a script together I thought BtE failed horrifically. I guess I just didn't like the whole meta 'transported to the real world' angle, which had been done several times before in stuff like The League of Gentlemen. Wasn't very funny either, IMO. Red Dwarf has always struggled to keep up the quality after the break-up of Grant Naylor. Hoping lowered expectations will be the best way to approach X

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Red Dwarf has always struggled to keep up the quality after the break-up of Grant Naylor. Hoping lowered expectations will be the best way to approach X

Very true, but people go on about BtE as if it stands out as being worse than any other bad Dwarf episode. It doesn't, it wasn't great for sure, but it was no worse than the likes of Camille or Meltdown...both truly awfully difficult to watch & much more so than BtE.

And in any way, BtE was still better than anything on tv showing at that particular time, hardly high praise for modern mainstream tv.

ghostchant

Damn Camille was just an awful episode. Meltdown was pants but I'd consider it a guilty pleasure for the obvious but still funny hitler/chimney scene.

I do think that modern tv is pretty good on the whole, comedy wise there's been Arrested Development (favourite show ever) Curb Your Enthusiasm and It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia for a start, and a large amount of good 'serious' stuff. Looking forward to finally getting to watch Breaking Bad soon.

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

And in any way, BtE was still better than anything on tv showing at that particular time, hardly high praise for modern mainstream tv.

Can't agree with that! Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Thick of It, Curb, Battlestar Galactica (which would have just been ending at the time of Back to Earth - now that's proper sci-fi!) would have all been showing around the same time, and all far superior to Back to Earth.

I'll give it a watch again one of these days, but I just remember watching each episode in the vague hope it would get better. It never did

Steve X2

Some difference from the DVD and the new remastered bluray edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVK0Y9XBgmA

Still too many sucky episodes in season 1 though and we'll have to wait ages for the later seasons.

CiDeRmAn

I'll wait for it to pop up in .mp4 form and "aquire" it then!
Bwa hahahaha!