General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Oh yeah I remember you doing that attic up aeons ago, was quite the job.

A PC corner would be amazing. Computers were one thing I was never precious about and always binned/gave away my old ones when upgrading - something I quite regret now. Not that I'd still have space for them mind you, but I'd love to have kept my IBM Aptiva with it's CRT monitor loaded with games.

Would you consider building a 90s gaming PC or something along those lines? I'd say drivers could potentially be a pain in the rear end.

When I totalled up all of the games in my collection recently, it surprised me that the PS2 was the largest collection I have. I am not going for full sets.. just iconic games (mostly classics that sold millions, hidden treasures that didn't.. and the occasional so bad it is notorious game). You could argue that the PS2s library was one of the biggest of all time so this should be no surprise, but still I almost went out of my way not to collect for it and yet so much great stuff was released on it that I still ended up with a mountain of it. I recently stumbled across rogue galaxy and odin sphere which I had passed over many times before and you are looking at stuff like this and thinking ... how did they do this on a ps2 ?

And most of it is still reasonably priced. Well at least compared to my Saturn collection for example. The whole thing holds up amazingly well today. And its nice to put in a mcboot and a 2tb hdd and not even have to pull the discs down from the shelves !

I've never actually gotten into DOSbox at all. Played mountains of DOS games growing up but that's where they've stayed really. Unless they've been given a port (or mountains of ports like Doom!) then I probably haven't gone near them since.

It's pretty much the same yourself, I'd need an actual old Windows PC to fully appreciate games like that. Part of the experience would be using the real OS on hardware (and trying to actually get the damn things to work 😁). It's a similar reason why I never really went near WinUAE.

The OLED is marginally larger, has a 90hz refresh rate and 600nits peak brightness up from 400, 1,000nits for HDR. 25% larger battery, APU is now 6nm process and uses larger heatpipe, denser heatsink and a thicker fan to drop thermals around 10°C, RAM is slightly faster resulting in 5-10% increase in performance (2-4fps). Less input lag compared to the LCD model, the speakers, touch pads and display touch response have improved also.

The charging cable is also 2.5m up from 1.5m.

The downside is there's no base model OLED, you have to drop €570 for the 512GB model. I'm getting enough from selling my 64GB plus a few other bits to justify it, otherwise the LCD model still does the job nicely.

As others have said, it's a slightly larger screen, better wifi and maybe slightly better batter life. In terms of CPU and GPU power, it's the same.

I'm the same. I bought a 256GB model maybe 18 months ago and it gets some use, but nowhere near as much as my main consoles. Maybe because I haven't bothered with emulation on it.

Not very often you see a 10 in a grading, even slabbing new stock directly out of manufacturing would usually be a 9.8 max. Still a silly price for it though, even in 10 years time I can't see it being worth that much.

It's gonna get ravaged on import as there's no way customs will believe anyone's paying that for a game a la

Is there any other response necessary in fairness? Story went cold after, would love to know how it turned out but haven’t been able to dig up anything definitive.

Is there an import charge nowadays from Ali express would anyone know?

I've about 5-10 Ali deliveries a month and the VAT is always paid on purchase, so nothing to pay on this side. Then of course everything comes via the Netherlands, so no issues at all in the last couple years.

Found like a little pinball place near my hotel in New York. Had the whole place to myself 😁