Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

CathalDublin

the groutch wrote: »

what's the pricing like in the retro game shops over there?

Everything is overpriced in Brazil, except caipirinhas

Nerdkiller1991

GOOD GOD!

Star Lord

World cup of sports ball?

Los Lobos

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

And does everyone just play the Megadrive?

Nope, atari was very big there too

DinoRex

CathalDublin wrote: »

Everything is overpriced in Brazil, except caipirinhas

Yeah. Isn't the PS4 retailing at about $2000 over there at the moment?

the groutch

$2,000? Have the owners of The RAGE set up a shop at the World Cup.

DinoRex

the groutch wrote: »

$2,000? Have the owners of The RAGE set up a shop at the World Cup.

Worse. It's where Mr. Calculator now lives.

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

All I can think, bugger, a month of bloody football

Any body see the king of arcades yet?

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Any body see the king of arcades yet?

No. Didn't realise it was out.

Ron DMC

A Guy Turned His Bedroom Into A 1980s Arcade And Lost His Fiancée In The Process

Worth it?

DinoRex

o1s1n

Ron DMC wrote: »

A Guy Turned His Bedroom Into A 1980s Arcade And Lost His Fiancée In The Process

Worth it?

My missus linked me to that article on facebook.

A friend followed up with 'dude! For a moment I thought that was your kitchen!'

Could have slapped him :pac:

Andrew76

He got the ring back and has a kick ass bedroom. Result!

Myrddin

Ron DMC wrote: »

Worth it?

If it was a spare bedroom, then yeah, probably. If it was their bedroom, then she was right & what the hell was she thinking encouraging him by designing the floor

MrVestek

the groutch wrote: »

$2,000? Have the owners of The RAGE set up a shop at the World Cup.

They don't have an official distributor over there so that's the prices some import places are setting them at.

So yeah... pretty much the german R.A.G.E.

It is super rare and hard to find after all! :P

o1s1n

I was in there the other day and spotted 2 Megadrive games which are worth a nice little sum of money.

They were in with the general Megadrive games so thought I was about to happen on some bargains - nope, both of them set at ebay prices.

If I remember, one of them is Bodycount and the price in the shop was €70.

Is there really a market in Dublin for an obscure €70 Megadrive game? I'm probably one of a handful of people who walked in and thought 'hmmm, must buy that' - only to wince at the price.

They'd have far better luck on ebay with things like that.

richymcdermott

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/13/mario-maker-will-include-more-art-styles-than-just-mario-games/

Not sure I can handle this level of awesome

CiDeRmAn

richymcdermott wrote: »

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/13/mario-maker-will-include-more-art-styles-than-just-mario-games/

Not sure I can handle this level of awesome

And the same lazy people will describe it as an irrelevant rehash.
Morons.

Andrew76

richymcdermott wrote: »

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/13/mario-maker-will-include-more-art-styles-than-just-mario-games/

Not sure I can handle this level of awesome

Has the potential to be brilliant as long as folks can upload and share their level designs. So this bit at the end, better mean they are going to incorporate such a feature:

"As for Internet sharing and Miiverse integration, Tezuka admits those details are still being worked out as well, but that he’s mindful of players’ desire to show off their level designs to friends."

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And the same lazy people will describe it as an irrelevant rehash.
Morons.

Lol man, you'll put yourself into an early grave giving a crap about the naysayers. Who gives a flying fcukaroo what a bunch of whinging forum dwellers think. As long as Nintendo stick around making great games, it's all good.

CiDeRmAn

I know, but it seems that unless you are calling Nintendo a bunch of anachronistic wasters who'd be better off making games for IOS and Android you're called a Ninty fanboi and it really does my head in.

richymcdermott

I seen people praising littlebigplanet 3 but then said yoshi wolly world is a joke

More Hypocrites more than anything

CiDeRmAn

Yoshi looks lovely but if the gameplay is akin to the N64 game Yoshis Story it's going to upset some people, I loved it but there are those, here even, that really don't like it.
Oddly enough, Kirby 64 is very very like it indeed, at least in terms of design, not 3D at all, not really.

Dr Bob

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I know, but it seems that unless you are calling Nintendo a bunch of anachronistic wasters who'd be better off making games for IOS and Android you're called a Ninty fanboi and it really does my head in.

I'd have a lot more respect for them if every second game they released wasn't feckin mario/zelda/metroid related..;)
Mind you..if its any consolation at this stage I hate Sony and Microsoft equally as well..
..and Valve ..and EA..and actiblizzard..in fact everyone except Atlus and ..er..actually thats it..

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yoshi looks lovely but if the gameplay is akin to the N64 game Yoshis Story it's going to upset some people, I loved it but there are those, here even, that really don't like it.
Oddly enough, Kirby 64 is very very like it indeed, at least in terms of design, not 3D at all, not really.

Never played Yoshi's Story. Hopefully it will be more like Yoshi's Island on the Snes - that was a brilliant game.

I thought Woolly World and Zelda were the most visually impressive games shown during E3. The more realistic type games, COD/The Division etc, don't have the same wow factor for me. Actually one thing that bugs me with those type of games (I think The Witcher 3 was an example) - it's 2014 and they still can't do decent lip synching in cut scenes - rubbish.

DinoRex

Here's another Wii U title that seemed to sort of sneak in this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-jrhczkyE

Looks brilliantly over the top.

richymcdermott

Im very neutral when it comes to backing a company , I go where the games are as they matter the most but I feel I have to call bull**** when I see it.
Unpopular opinion was fine as it was exactly as it said and you knew what to expect, and I am perfectly fine if someone just says Nintendo games do not appeal to me , grand ! Thats perfect but thats not what you get , what you get its Nintendo rehases , they are kiddy casual muck , at least other companies change there games enough more so than nintendo do.


You provided evidence and facts to dispute there hypocrisy then you are labelled a fanboy.

You see a wii u is dead in the water thread still up , I make a is sony is trouble thread , gets moved to the ps forum and I am labelled stupid , talking out of my arse , trolling even though I give not one or two but mulitple thread and arctiles to back up my claims.


I am young , 24 years old just turned but I remember a time when I had a sega megadrive and my uncle gave me his nes I was happy to play on another platform , fanboy **** never meant anything to me at a time where I cherish the memories playing the megadrive I had equal love and memories playing shadowgate on the nes , mario all star on the snes , mario bros 3 on the nes

Then moved on to the gameboys and playstation 1 and 2 and when at a time I skipped the n64 and gamecube I still loved playing goldeneye , banjoo kazooie , super monkey ball , luigi mansion.

It has always being about the games , seems we moved past that our maybe its the way the world has moved on.

Its all about dark gritty blood sex and rock n roll to make you feel masocline. Bro fist pumping with guns 50ft tall with bullets that have much impact that your girlfriend can drool over in the corner.

Use to be a time Where it was sega out weighing nintendo to outdo each other , now it seems looking at the directs all about youtube , entertainment media systems , never thought I see a day when I watch a gaming expo to listen to men in suites go on about tv and movies.

Looking at the order 1886 which i had high regard towards the studio making it because of god of war on psp all I see is a interactive movie.

Do not get me wrong I love a good story more than anybody else but when a game seems to cater more than the gaming aspect then I lose interest.

pdbhp

Call me a Nintendo Fanboy!!

Nintendo definitely won E3 even though most of the games we expected like Zelda etc.
Nice to see that they are making some new games like codename STEAM, Captain Toad and Splattoon which all look good but I'll hold out on Splattoon until I play it.

Nintendo IMO are the best of this gen so far even though they're getting slagged off on the interwebs by dopes. The sheer quality of their games speak for themselves. I haven't played a bad Wii U game so far.

As for the 3DS the amount of quality games available for it on both E-shop and retail is great and is sending the console into the stratosphere of awesomeness just like the DS.

As for the Gameboy.......

Star Lord

DinoRex wrote: »

Here's another Wii U title that seemed to sort of sneak in this week:

It really looks mental.

I'm counting the days until someone comes into the Tattoos and Piercings asking how much would it cost to get those tattoos, and then give out about it being too much, that their mate knows someone that'll come to their house and do it for €50, a slab of Stella and 40 B&H...

Retr0gamer

Finally got some internet access. Got fibre installed two weeks ago in Sligo and it's taken Vodafone 2 weeks to confirm that they installed it in the wrong location and still haven't done anything about. they're bloody useless. Really annoying I missed all of E3 because of it My car breaking down halfway to Galway didn't help either.

Nerdkiller1991

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Finally got some internet access. Got fibre installed two weeks ago in Sligo and it's taken Vodafone 2 weeks to confirm that they installed it in the wrong location and still haven't done anything about. they're bloody useless. Really annoying I missed all of E3 because of it My car breaking down halfway to Galway didn't help either.

I had a different situation, but it's all the same in my mind. My connection just kept dropping and dropping during all the streams I watched. Thank god I got to see who won the Smash tourney.

Vodafone too, by the way.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Finally got some internet access. Got fibre installed two weeks ago in Sligo and it's taken Vodafone 2 weeks to confirm that they installed it in the wrong location and still haven't done anything about. they're bloody useless. Really annoying I missed all of E3 because of it My car breaking down halfway to Galway didn't help either.

No wonder the Games forum went off the rails, poor Johnny U couldn't cope with the solo run

CiDeRmAn

pdbhp wrote: »

Call me a Nintendo Fanboy!!

You're a Nintendo Fanboy!

The Last Bandit

Unfortunately didn't find any decent retro stores in Vancouver, couple I seen are ridiculously overpriced.
Alaska just got hold of the Atari 2600 recently so no joy there either...

Atavan-Halen

If you're a lame, that's a shame you can't hang with us.



I've had too much tesco value vodka and with that I bit you adieu!

Nerdkiller1991

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

If you're a lame, that's a shame you can't hang with us.



I've had too much tesco value vodka and with that I bit you adieu!

Before we know it, you'll be living up to your tag.

DinoRex

Bunch of CRTs dumped in Trinity... you can be fairly sure they work just fine too:

Atavan-Halen

Shouldn't they be recycled or something?

DinoRex

I have no idea what happens to them. If you walk through Trinity there's always loads of old tech in really nice condition just dumped. I found a cool looking 800k Digital Camera a few months back.

o1s1n

I saw a fairly shocking documentary recently about how Africa has become a dumping ground for electronic waste.

In many cases companies think their stuff is sent off to be recycled - but it just ends up in a big, burning dump in some poor African country. (where they literally melt electronic waste down to try and salvage copper)

richymcdermott

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2014/06/16/street-fighter-iv-producer-yoshinori-ono-leaves-capcom-vancouver?abthid=539eff30bf985e957c000005


Seems Yoshinori Ono has left Capcom Vancover , but its sure if he left Capcom All together

MrVestek

Let me just leave this here...

DinoRex

heh heh heh...

Kylo Ren

So my SNES I bought on Ebay came today.

I'm getting 'no signal' on all of my TV's.

So now I don't know if it's my TV's, the scart I bought separate or the console itself that does not work!

Sigh.

CosmicSmash

Keno wrote: »

So my SNES I bought on Ebay came today.

I'm getting 'no signal' on all of my TV's.

So now I don't know if it's my TV's, the scart I bought separate or the console itself that does not work!

Sigh.

The cart slot may need a clean, I have seen that before sorting a snes out with similar problems.

Kylo Ren

Monkeykube wrote: »

The cart slot may need a clean, I have seen that before sorting a snes out with similar problems.

What cleaning supplies should I use? I don't wanna use anything that will break it!

MrVestek

Keno wrote: »

What cleaning supplies should I use? I don't wanna use anything that will break it!

Cotton buds + cleaning solution.

*edit* or the cleaning solution + cloth / tissue + credit card technique.

o1s1n

Does 'no signal' mean nothing at all on both AV channels (so a blue screen) or a blank 'black' picture on AV channels?

The first means there's something wrong with the cable.
The second means your cart slot/carts are probably dirty and need a clean.

Kylo Ren

Just gave it a clean there but to no avail.

o1s1n wrote: »

Does 'no signal' mean nothing at all on both AV channels (so a blue screen) or a blank 'black' picture on AV channels?

The first means there's something wrong with the cable.
The second means your cart slot/carts are probably dirty and need a clean.

On one TV it's a screen like the one below. On the TV in the sitting room it's a blue screen.

o1s1n

Ah yeah you're literally getting no signal out of the console.

If it was a dirty cart you'd be getting a signal, the screen would just be black.

I'd say it's the scart cable. Only thing you can really do is to try another (or do you maybe have a composite or RF cable lying about that you could try instead?)