General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

BGOllie

shooter for the MSX2 :

nearly got it last week but ended up grabbing other cool MSX stuff instead

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Just to update incase anyone name changes, it's 14 per word not altogether, so if you space or _ in between it works, pity it was suggested to me when I mentioned the username I wanted being too long.
So - hooray

CathalDublin

Well parcel motel finally sent me a cheque for the parcel they damaged on me over 2 months ago.
One thing they mentioned in the letter attached which may be of interest to anyone selling/buying retro items and using their service was that proof of cost by invoice is required for a claim.
Now the item they damaged on me was an item I sold to another PM user via Adverts.ie, I provided proof of sale(paypal receipt), I didn't have an Invoice from the original purchase as it was obviously an old item, I also provided photos of the parcel before it was dropped off and photos of the box after it was received(battered to bits).
Never once did they question this in any other correspondence, but I guess what they are getting at here is that their liability does not cover items which are not new. In which case this service is useless if you are using it to send second hand items you are selling and they get damaged or lost in transit.
I will not be using this service to send any retro items anymore, in fact I wont be using it at all after the 2 months it took contacting them daily for claim to be processed.
Take a look at their twitter feed, I think I'm lucky to have gotten my claim.

Retr0gamer

Andrew76 wrote: »

What's the quality of the book itself like, decent enough?

Not the most amazing quality but the binding and paper quality is pretty good. Would prefer hardback but it would probably cost too much for Kurt.

BrownFinger wrote: »

space manbow?

Absolutely legendary MSX shooter and one of Konami's best.

DinoRex

Edge Magazine from 1996:

Tomo.Murphy

Looks like today will be a day for hugging a heater and playing some retro games. I just went out for a jog. I lasted a half an hour and came home with brain freeze...

eddhorse

CathalDublin wrote: »

Well parcel motel finally sent me a cheque for the parcel they damaged on me over 2 months ago.
One thing they mentioned in the letter attached which may be of interest to anyone selling/buying retro items and using their service was that proof of cost by invoice is required for a claim.
Now the item they damaged on me was an item I sold to another PM user via Adverts.ie, I provided proof of sale(paypal receipt), I didn't have an Invoice from the original purchase as it was obviously an old item, I also provided photos of the parcel before it was dropped off and photos of the box after it was received(battered to bits).
Never once did they question this in any other correspondence, but I guess what they are getting at here is that their liability does not cover items which are not new. In which case this service is useless if you are using it to send second hand items you are selling and they get damaged or lost in transit.
I will not be using this service to send any retro items anymore, in fact I wont be using it at all after the 2 months it took contacting them daily for claim to be processed.
Take a look at their twitter feed, I think I'm lucky to have gotten my claim.

Good work Cathal, thanks for the update and warning.

DinoRex

Tomo.Murphy wrote: »

Looks like today will be a day for hugging a heater and playing some retro games. I just went out for a jog. I lasted a half an hour and came home with brain freeze...

I can barely hear my TV over the wind. It's really bad out by me.. real stuggle to even open the door to my building.

The wind even took out the Hilton sign:

johnny_ultimate

I was walking down Dawson Street and a gust hit a sign outside a restaurant and threw it maybe 10-15 feet in the air. Serious clatter when it came down, seconds behind someone who had walked out of the restaurant.

DinoRex

Watching the airplanes out the window of my office here is crazy.. you can see them all try to land and then give up... Looking at the flight paths on flightradar24 shows them flying round and round the bay.

Retr0gamer

You think it's bad in Dublin, try living in the post apocalytic wasteland that is Sligo

The Last Bandit

Retr0gamer wrote: »

post apocalytic wasteland that is Sligo

Sure it was like that before any storm

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You think it's bad in Dublin, try living in the post apocalytic wasteland that is Sligo

I trained there for three years from 90 to 93, it's a fancy place of fanciness compared to the wreckage of humanity that it was in my day....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6rG4NmsyM

Retr0gamer

DinoRex wrote: »

Watching the airplanes out the window of my office here is crazy.. you can see them all try to land and then give up... Looking at the flight paths on flightradar24 shows them flying round and round the bay.

I was on a plane like that a few years ago. Went to London to see a Football macth with my brother. Whole thing was a disaster. Got to London and it was -15 celsius, everywhere was covered with ice. Match was called off due to weather and then on the way back the pilot had 2 hairy landing attempts he pulled out of at the last minute then had to fly to Belfast to refuel (quite a scary landing there as well) and then finally landed in Dublin on his next attempt.

Wasn't one of the regulars here in an actual plane crash I recall so it wasn't all that bad!

CiDeRmAn

Flying back from Paris just before Christmas was a bit hairy too, lotsa turbulence and and bit of a wallop on landing.
Thankfully Cidonalad slept through it but She Who Must Be Obeyed says she is never getting on a plane again!

Tomo.Murphy

Never had anything like that myself on a plane before luckily enough. The worst of it was probably the pilot doing a hop, skip and a jump to land the plane on the third touch down with a thud in Beauvais, but that's normal with RyanAir.

I also ended up on a bus journey like flight. We were coming home from Liverpool a few years ago at around half 10. The plane was 20 minutes late taking of, then the pilot announces that we have to pick up another group along the way. We ended up in Manchester and a flight that should have taken 20 minutes took the best part of 2 hours, ha.

DinoRex

My worst was a flight from Chicago to Grand Rapids over the great lake in super windy and icy conditions. Had to abort in the end and return to Chicago where they just stuck me on a bus the next morning. Plane before us had crashed on the runway due to the ice.

CathalDublin

We'd an aborted landing in Dublin last year on the way back from skiing, they didn't make any announcement and at about 100feet just went straight back up and headed out over Dublin bay, nobody said anything, about 5minutes past and the pilot came on to say the winds were beyond the planes flying capabilities and we were going to circle around until they died off and if they didn't we would have to head to the UK.
Never heard a plane so silent in all my life, we did land after about 30minutes and were the last plane to land that evening.
I was on another shakey flight a good few years ago landing in London and the girl beside me grabbed hold of my arm and squeezed until we landed, funny ****, she said she worked in London and flew that flight every week and never experienced anything like it before.

Sparks43

On hold to nintendo trying to find out where my ambassador 3ds is

Bloody nightmare as it seems they have cocked up the irish orders as we normally cant buy from the store

Mr.Saturn

Came across the oddest little arcade machines when away there last week. It was Soul Calibur, Metal Slug X and Tekken 3. All nifty games, but they were housed in the most stretched-out CRT going and the control panel consisted of twiddly sticks more fitting a crane-game and the buttons were, I think, nabbed off a fruit machine. They did, however, have a Century City Bubble Bobble, so good times.

DinoRex

Just got my pre-order in for the Majora's Mask *NEW* 3DS XL.

They sold out super quick in the US.

Also in Europe they come with a free power adapter because 'f*ck you America!' apparently.

Star Lord

DinoRex wrote: »

Just got my pre-order in for the Majora's Mask *NEW* 3DS XL.

They sold out super quick in the US.

Also in Europe they come with a free power adapter because 'f*ck you America!' apparently.

I did too, it's a thing of beauty!
Said the power adaptors were sold out though!

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

Just got my pre-order in for the Majora's Mask *NEW* 3DS XL.

They sold out super quick in the US.

Also in Europe they come with a free power adapter because 'f*ck you America!' apparently.

Did you go for the PAL one, or the US one?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Weather's pretty bad, heard a few scared horses this morning, gave me a fright they were so loud I thought it was in my room, someone was trying to catch them, I hope they were okay.
Fingers crossed tomorrow will be a lot better for Akumakon.

DinoRex

Haha... are we still calling these things PAL? I went with the EU one anyway.

Although I may regret that... looking at the US version of yesterdays Nintendo Direct and it's filled Atlus games that will never get released over here because 'F*ck you Europe' apparently.

DinoRex

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Weather's pretty bad, heard a few scared horses this morning, gave me a fright they were so loud I thought it was in my room, someone was trying to catch them, I hope they were okay.
Fingers crossed tomorrow will be a lot better for Akumakon.

It's awful when strange noises wake you up in the night and you have to ask yourself is that your banshee or the neighbors?

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

Haha... are we still calling these things PAL?

I went with the EU one anyway.

Cool, I presume it's UK only postage from Nintendo & no parcel motel?

Star Lord

Myrddin wrote: »

Cool, I presume it's UK only postage from Nintendo & no parcel motel?

I put in my Parcel Motel details, so time to play the waiting game! Will they? Won't they? Who knows!

Nerdkiller1991

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Weather's pretty bad, heard a few scared horses this morning, gave me a fright they were so loud I thought it was in my room, someone was trying to catch them, I hope they were okay.
Fingers crossed tomorrow will be a lot better for Akumakon.

Did you hear the thunder too? My poor dog, she was so scared after hearing it.

Also, I liked the previous name change better. Less cluttered by having the "get dizzy" part below the username.

DinoRex

Myrddin wrote: »

Cool, I presume it's UK only postage from Nintendo & no parcel motel?

I don't think the 3DS is outputting in PAL no matter what region. Just think it's funny that we're still saying PAL.

I got the Bayonetta collectors edition and some Amiibos via the Nintendo store via parcel motel no problem in the past... may bump up my parcel motel insurance for the week it's due to be delivered though.

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

I don't think the 3DS is outputting in PAL no matter what region. Just think it's funny that we're still saying PAL.

Ah, I get you. I'm just used to calling EU consoles PAL I guess.

I got the Bayonetta collectors edition and some Amiibos via the Nintendo store via parcel motel no problem in the past... may bump up my parcel motel insurance for the week it's due to be delivered though.

Yeah prob a good idea. I think I read in the Nintendo forum, that some users using PM addresses were getting their orders cancelled for the Majoras Mask Ltd Ed. of the game only. Seems to be hit & miss with Ninty though

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Did you hear the thunder too? My poor dog, she was so scared after hearing it.

Also, I liked the previous name change better. Less cluttered by having the "get dizzy" part below the username.

No thankfully, it would have scared me more than my dog, he wasn't bothered, my old dog would have been though.
You can't see it on mobile though and that's usually what I'm on so it annoyed me.

Doge

"The CPU from the original PlayStation is guiding a probe to Pluto"

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7551365/playstation-cpu-powers-new-horizons-pluto-probe

CiDeRmAn

Doge wrote: »

"The CPU from the original PlayStation is guiding a probe to Pluto"

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7551365/playstation-cpu-powers-new-horizons-pluto-probe

So, while aliens picking up Voyager 1 or 2 will get this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnn9V01EiI

The unfortunate ET's who find the New Horizons probe will get this,

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

I wonder if the Guncon will work in a vacuum?

Myrddin

That Majoras Mask XL is already sold out on the Ninty store...

johnny_ultimate

Bit of CRT-themed humour in Persona Q:

DinoRex

Bah! Nintendo cancelled my pre-order over the parcel motel address. Didn't even give me the option to use another address.

Luckily GameStop are actually taking pre-orders for it as well...

Just did my Bloodborne pre-order for the Nightmare edition that comes with a quill.

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

Luckily GameStop are actually taking pre-orders for it as well...

Any links for that Dino? I can't see it on the site...

DinoRex

I just asked in the shop and the manager said that it was on their system. Both staff members were super excited about it. Only thing is they're not sure if it comes with the statue or not.

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

I just asked in the shop and the manager said that it was on their system. Both staff members were super excited about it. Only thing is they're not sure if it comes with the statue or not.

Ah cool. Be interesting to see what they retail it at, they're asking €80 for the ltd edition of the game itself, quite a price bump!

James Howlett

Regular game is only €45 in Smyths.

o1s1n

Was in Gamestop this evening trying to kill some time and decided to look at the WiiU games.

Super Smash Bros - €65
Bayonetta 2 - €70

Are people really mental enough to pay those prices?

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Was in Gamestop this evening trying to kill some time and decided to look at the WiiU games.

Super Smash Bros - €65
Bayonetta 2 - €70

Are people really mental enough to pay those prices?

Some must be, some very rich and foolish mental people.

safetyboy

Thinking of getting a 3ds xl, whats the best one to go for? all these ltd edition things are the worth it, I just want to play zelda at the moment.

Myrddin

safetyboy wrote: »

Thinking of getting a 3ds xl, whats the best one to go for? all these ltd edition things are the worth it, I just want to play zelda at the moment.

The ltd editions are no different to the regular versions, barring the fancy paint scheme. If you're not bothered, go for the regular version. If you're a total Zelda nut though, head down to the credit union on Monday morning...

DinoRex

€20 deposit required in Gamestop by the way.

The Bloodborne Nightmare edition is crazy expensive but checking the price on Game.co.uk it works out cheaper in Gamestop. Amazon don't seem to have it.

Andrew76

DinoRex wrote: »

€20 deposit required in Gamestop by the way.

The Bloodborne Nightmare edition is crazy expensive but checking the price on Game.co.uk it works out cheaper in Gamestop. Amazon don't seem to have it.

A quick Google says it's €120! :eek:

johnny_ultimate

Bloodborne: Expensive Tat Edition

o1s1n

That's the kind of money you might expect to see a rare game go for a few years down the line when it's garnered some sort of collectible and sought after status.

Not for a modern new game though. I don't care how 'special' a special edition it is. They're just printing money doing that.

johnny_ultimate

I can see publishers and marketing departments cackling wildly when they come up with ever more ludicrous, pointless and expensive 'collectors' editions', because they know they'll sell them. Most of them are just full of absolute junk.

Most of the legitimately worthwhile special editions I've gotten - usually ones that come with soundtrack CDs or the like - have usually been a conparable price to or in some cases cheaper than an ordinary release. Some of the smaller American publishers are really good in that sense (like XSeed and their Ys releases, although even they often come with some silly plastic tat).