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

o1s1n

Myrddin wrote: »

From memory, were some of them spring loaded on one side of the on-off-on end of things? So it was {on}-off-on or something?

Ahhhh, that sounds like what it might have been.

I guess you could set it up so the spring side is at 50hz. It would basically be a fail safe so you never run the game in that ****ty refresh rate. :pac:

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Ahhhh, that sounds like what it might have been.

I guess you could set it up so the spring side is at 50hz. It would basically be a fail safe so you never run the game in that ****ty refresh rate. :pac:

Lol, exactly

The Last Bandit

Must check them out to see exactly what they are. Personally I don't like them for console mods, prefer the look of slide switches but the downside is they are a lot more work to do neatly.

o1s1n

They're certainly more discreet, but I kind of like the retro-ish look of levered ones. The overclocked MD looks insane with them all on the side

As long as they're not on the front. I think I showed you that modded Saturn I picked up on ebay, don't know what they were thinking

Myrddin

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Must check them out to see exactly what they are. Personally I don't like them for console mods, prefer the look of slide switches but the downside is they are a lot more work to do neatly.

Same here, I much prefer them but there's a bit more involved in fitting them nicely. Mmmonkey has a nice trick of gutting one of the same type switches he's going to use for a mod, & uses it as a cutting template.

Doge

I did the single switch mod myself:

http://mdpal60.net/wiki/megadrive/regionmod/start

Still working away fine.

I find the black switch more discrete than the metal toggle switches.

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

I did the single switch mod myself:

http://mdpal60.net/wiki/megadrive/regionmod/start

Still working away fine.

I find the black switch more discrete than the metal toggle switches.

I'd like to do something like that but not sure how to do it with a Model 2 board.

Doge

Achilles wrote: »

I'd like to do something like that but not sure how to do it with a Model 2 board.

Ah i didnt realize it was the model 2 you were modding. Probably best sticking to mmmonkeys guide for the model 2 then.

Doge

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Must check them out to see exactly what they are. Personally I don't like them for console mods, prefer the look of slide switches but the downside is they are a lot more work to do neatly.

You can get miniature slide switches too. When i bought the standard ones i didnt read the diemensions, and got a bit of a shock at the size of them! :pac:

If i had my time back i would have went with the miniature ones for sure.

The one downside with with slide switches is that you need to make 2 holes for the screws.

You could hot glue them instead, but they wouldnt hold very well.

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

You can get miniature slide switches too. When i bought the standard ones i didnt read the diemensions, and got a bit of a shock at the size of them! :pac:

If i had my time back i would have went with the miniature ones for sure.

The one downside with with slide switches is that you need to make 2 holes for the screws.

You could hot glue them instead, but they wouldnt hold very well.

What about epoxy resin? You can get that pretty cheap in Dealz. Great for sniffing... gluing stuff.

Doge

I absolutely love the parkside rotary tool i bought in Lidl btw! It was a steal at less than €25.

Havent used it hugely besides modding the megadrive, but its such a cool little thing to have.

The cordless ones are probably crap compared to dremels but this is corded so theres plenty of power. I think you'd only need a dremel if you were cutting metal on a regular basis.

Doge

Achilles wrote: »

What about epoxy resin? You can get that pretty cheap in Dealz. Great for sniffing... gluing stuff.

Sweet, didnt know they had it, would definitely hold it better.

I've never messed with epoxy before, the closest thing i used would be JB Weld but it was on metal.

Retr0gamer

Looks like treasure wants to make games for Steam:

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/01/29/ikaruga-developer-treasure-will-make-original-game-pc/

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

I'd like to do something like that but not sure how to do it with a Model 2 board.

The MD2 is a bit more involved than the MD1 man, if I were you I'd pick up a cheap MD1 & do it on that first. Plus, the MD1 is better anyway

MrVestek

Myrddin wrote: »

The MD2 is a bit more involved than the MD1 man, if I were you I'd pick up a cheap MD1 & do it on that first. Plus, the MD1 is better anyway

I barely have enough shelf space with the MD2 / Mega CD combo as it is.

I found a method for the MD2 that doesn't involve lifting pins so I'll give that a go first.

Worst comes to the worst and I botch it I'll pick up a Model 1.

Atavan-Halen

I have a cheap model 2 megadrive for sale in the market place....

(Plugplugplugplug)

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

I barely have enough shelf space with the MD2 / Mega CD combo as it is.

I found a method for the MD2 that doesn't involve lifting pins so I'll give that a go first.

Worst comes to the worst and I botch it I'll pick up a Model 1.

Yeah the lifting pins part is the tricky bit there. Is the alt method about scraping traces or something?

MrVestek

Myrddin wrote: »

Yeah the lifting pins part is the tricky bit there. Is the alt method about scraping traces or something?

Yeah it involves cutting two traces on the board alright.

MrVestek

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I have a cheap model 2 megadrive for sale in the market place....

(Plugplugplugplug)

Nah yer ok. I've no cash at the minute really but if and when I do get some again I'll just saunter in to The Rage and pay a good €200 for a dirty dusty Model 1.

Thanks anyway though!

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

Yeah it involves cutting two traces on the board alright.

I think I remember doing that before yeah, certainly trial by fire though for someone learning to solder Grab some old or broken pcb's first though for lots of practice & you should be grand

o1s1n

As a matter of interest, how do you lift those tiny pins on processor chips?

Do you heat the pin/remove solder and then try to bend it up with a scalpel?

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

As a matter of interest, how do you lift those tiny pins on processor chips?

Do you heat the pin/remove solder and then try to bend it up with a scalpel?

There's a few different methods yeah. What I do is use a very fine tip/low wattage iron on the base of the pin where its soldered....& gently prise it up at the same time using a fine needle.

Retr0gamer

Be careful, first time I did it doing a region mod on a NES I ripped the pin right out of the chip. I'm not sure if I broke it (I was testing it out on a ****ty PAL NES) but I made sure to be more careful on my NTSC one.

o1s1n

Totally unrelated, but I need your help!

Trying to sort out home insurance on this house purchase, I thought they'd just be insuring the building - no, they're asking about contents too.

Imagine the dilemma that puts me in.

'I erm... have some collections'

'Okay sir, what collections are these?'

How the hell do I put a figure on my videogame collection? Off the top of my head I said 10k (and they now have it at that on the estimate form), but on reflection I'm starting to think that's far to under valued.

Retr0gamer

If something does happen the max you can get is what you value it at. However some insurance dweeb will probably assess it and undervalue what you lost as well. It's weird. You pay more the more valuable stuff is but if you undervalue then they won't pay out more than the maximum and you can be sure the insurance companies will try to screw you over (sure it was only a sega saturn game called radiant silvergun, it says here I can get fifa 97 on the saturn on ebay for a euro).

o1s1n

It's a really difficult one alright. You want to cover everything, but then the chances are nothing will happen and it just bumps your premium.

And realistically, if my house did burn down, am I going to rebuy all of that? Not a chance.

But then it would be nice to get a lump sum to the value of it as if I'd just sold it all on.

Hmmm. Tricky tricky.

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

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And realistically, if my house did burn down, am I going to rebuy all of that? Not a chance.

That's what I was thinking - you'd never get everything back - sure do you even know all the stuff you have?

I reckon cover the more expensive items like the cabs and PCBs.

ghostchant

Retr0gamer wrote: »

sure it was only a sega saturn game called radiant silvergun, it says here I can get fifa 97 on the saturn on ebay for a euro

I had a very similar sentence in my head when walking through the customs in Dublin Airport my first time coming back from Tokyo

OwaynOTT

I had a major panic before when I thought the house I was staying in was on fire, I had a lot more stuff back then.
We were moving out because of a few issues but mainly because the landlord was genuinely mad and some other stuff like a fibreglass chimney. So I had rented out a van, a big yoke and I had never driven one before.
Anyway, I had stayed up all night finishing off an essay I had kept putting on the back burner and illness interfered with it as well. So I really shouldn't have been behind the wheel of a tricycle let alone two tonnes of Nissan van.
When I pulled into the road leading up to the house, I got an awful shock when I saw smoke everywhere and couldn't see anything else. My mind immediately jumped to the conclusion that the landlord had decided to burn down the house and try to pin it on us, for some reason.
So I panicked about my stuff and ended up ramming the side of the van into the stone pillar on the way into the house and did over a €1000 worth of damage to it.
Turns out someone was burning nappies, in the estate behind the house!

The moral of the story I suppose is insure it for the full lot and then have that piece of mind as you never know what will happen. Or alternatively give me the stuff.

Atavan-Halen

Just received an interesting PM on assembler games.

I recently posted pics of my GameCube NR disc collection and of course got a lot of PM's asking to buy. However, I just got a PM from a guy offering me $100 to ship the discs to him, he'll dump them and then send them back. Of course red flags started going off straight away and I probably won't send them but has anyone ever been offered something like this? O1s1n, didn't you have some Russians after you for a proto or something? :P

Myrddin

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Just received an interesting PM on assembler games.

I recently posted pics of my GameCube NR disc collection and of course got a lot of PM's asking to buy. However, I just got a PM from a guy offering me $100 to ship the discs to him, he'll dump them and then send them back. Of course red flags started going off straight away and I probably won't send them but has anyone ever been offered something like this? O1s1n, didn't you have some Russians after you for a proto or something? :P

I think you can dump them via a softmodded Wii & an SD card anyway. I won't link to anything here, but a quick google seems to suggest it can be done

Retr0gamer

If you do want to dump them the person I'd send the dumps to would be frank cifaldi at lost levels.

Los Lobos

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I had a major panic before when I thought the house I was staying in was on fire, I had a lot more stuff back then.
We were moving out because of a few issues but mainly because the landlord was genuinely mad and some other stuff like a fibreglass chimney. So I had rented out a van, a big yoke and I had never driven one before.
Anyway, I had stayed up all night finishing off an essay I had kept putting on the back burner and illness interfered with it as well. So I really shouldn't have been behind the wheel of a tricycle let alone two tonnes of Nissan van.
When I pulled into the road leading up to the house, I got an awful shock when I saw smoke everywhere and couldn't see anything else. My mind immediately jumped to the conclusion that the landlord had decided to burn down the house and try to pin it on us, for some reason.
So I panicked about my stuff and ended up ramming the side of the van into the stone pillar on the way into the house and did over a €1000 worth of damage to it.
Turns out someone was burning nappies, in the estate behind the house!

The moral of the story I suppose is insure it for the full lot and then have that piece of mind as you never know what will happen. Or alternatively give me the stuff.

Well that finally explains your sig so

MrVestek

Ahh sure your cabs and all your collection are only worth what, about €100?

Sure I'll take it off your hands for the typical Retro forum rate yeah.

€80 for the lot, take it or leave it!

OwaynOTT

Los Lobos wrote: »

Well that finally explains your sig so

I suppose its inaccurate now though, maybe I should update?

KeRbDoG

Myrddin wrote: »

I think you can dump them via a softmodded Wii & an SD card anyway. I won't link to anything here, but a quick google seems to suggest it can be done

I've got a modded GC and SD card adapter yoke if that might be of any use to dump'em

Myrddin

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I've got a modded GC and SD card adapter yoke if that might be of any use to dump'em

At a glance if you want to dump discs via the console itself, you need a broadband adapter to do it....that could be different nowadays though with those modded sd adapter thingys. Either way, I wouldn't be risking them to some random bloke for a $100 deposit

KeRbDoG

Myrddin wrote: »

At a glance if you want to dump discs via the console itself, you need a broadband adapter to do it....that could be different nowadays though with those modded sd adapter thingys. Either way, I wouldn't be risking them to some random bloke for a $100 deposit

Indeed, I'd give you at least $101

But it does seem like it could be done a modded GC and a SDGecko should yea not have a modded Wii;
http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Swiss#SDGecko

o1s1n

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

O1s1n, didn't you have some Russians after you for a proto or something? :P

There's nothing that makes you question your hobby more than when you come home in the evening, hear something fall in the kitchen and expect to see a team of Spetsnaz bursting through the door at you with AK47s screaming 'Дай мне ПРОТОТЫПЕ!!'

KeRbDoG

o1s1n wrote: »

There's nothing that makes you question your hobby more than when you come home in the evening, hear something fall in the kitchen and expect to see a team of Spetsnaz bursting through the door at you with AK47s screaming 'Дай мне ПРОТОТЫПЕ!!'

Google Translate is hours of fun;
"дайте мне прототип или мы вернуть вас к матушке России!"

Retr0gamer

Speaking of translations, ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you Legend of Dragoon:

James Howlett

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Speaking of translations, ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you Legend of Dragoon:

Reminds me of the scene in Bruno where he gets self-defense lessons for scenarios in which a homosexual attacks him with dildos in hand.

I wanted a to find a picture for reference but don’t fancy putting the words “homosexual” and “defense” into a search engine in work.

MrVestek

James Howlett wrote: »

Reminds me of the scene in Bruno where he gets self-defense lessons for scenarios in which a homosexual attacks him with dildos in hand.

I wanted a to find a picture for reference but don’t fancy putting the words “homosexual” and “defense” into a search engine in work.

Is it this scene?

CiDeRmAn

We could do a calendar of 12 cross dressing poses by Retr0, no nude shots though, has to be classy.

James Howlett

Achilles wrote: »

Is it this scene?

I believe that is the "Dark Souls" version of that scene.

No offence Retrogamer!

Myrddin

That pic is just timeless

MrVestek

I actually couldn't figure out how to find it at first.

If you do a Google image search for 'retr0gamer boards.ie' it's the first result.

the groutch

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

We could do a calendar of 12 cross dressing poses by Retr0, no nude shots though, has to be classy.

Myrddin

Whats going in with MameUI? It's in 'maintenance mode' with no active development going on or something?

safetyboy

Anyone know if a pal snes PSU will work on a jp famicom? Picked one up in japan and only getting a chance to test it now.