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Ouch.. that's a nightmare. Hopefully its doesn't get lost in the system now..

Aw stop, I’d a nightmare with that last September, they wouldn’t accept the taric code that was displayed, even though as far as I could tell it was correct, they sent the item back to the UK twice, the seller was not impressed, I eventually got them to send it to my friend up the north instead, and he accidentally put ROI on the end of the NI address/postcode, this time Anpost got it, accepted the same taric code, had my phone number and invoiced me for the duty, I called them to explain duty shouldn’t be paid but was like talking to a wall, computer says no, so I paid the duty and then they re-routed my parcel up the north so I shouldn’t have had to pay it anyway as it was UK to NI🤣 took about 2 months to get my parcel.

i argued and spent countless hours trying to get my vat/duty back but even though they admitted they were wrong I never got the refund, they just kept saying it would show up in my account because there was a backlog of 3 months due to Christmas.

Same, I use Address Pal for UK bits once I make sure I can't get it from the EU for cheaper considering the import'ness costs from the UK.

For expensive items, I've used Oohpod.com to deliver to NI and then popped up to get it. Again, for expensive/larger items - has anyone used PostalPickup.co.uk? An NI address and they can seemily foward parcels up to 30kg to any address in Ireland for £10

That’s the thing with Irish customs, even if you’ve everything correct they might not agree with it and you’ve to start again🫣

Oh I completely understand and have no problem with customs enforcing what they're meant to be enforcing.

What's annoying me is two things:

If Irish customs have decided this is the way they have to go, why doesn't an online system exist to assign a TARIC code before the item is needlessly sent back? They have no issue reaching out to inform you that you owe import duties before sending an item back, I don't see why it would be impossible to have an online form you could select the appropriate missing TARIC code to aid in processing.

Even more alarmingly, why is there ambiguity between countries on the subject of TARIC codes and when they are needed and not needed? some think that TARIC codes are needed for non commercial items, some think they are not. This is a huge failure in communication.

A situation where an item is sent back to it's original sender simply because it's missing a code (yet has everything else on the package to achieve delivery, including customs declarations) is not a situation which should exist in this day and age and is the postal system failing at the one thing it is there to do.

And that's not even mentioning the environmental impact of all these packages arriving, being refused entry, being sent back to sender and then being sent here again. Double the amount of freight journeys to get an item where it needs to go. Maybe I should get oul Greta on the case 😁

Thanks for that link, that's pretty handy! - might start putting a note on packages I order from outside the EU with the code included just to be safe. Will certainly be mentioning it to anyone from outside the EU that I buy something from on a forum.

It's more the automatic and wasteful sending back of packages that bothers me above all else. Not a single chance to correct an error by the sender OR the receiver.

Got shipping notice for my Spectrum Next ... its been so long I've no interest in it whatsoever.

A Facebook friend received his recently after backing them in 2020. Seems to be enjoying reliving his youth.

Think they were about 300-325 sterling depending on the model back in 2020. Originally planned for a year after that, so it's been a while

my first Jet Get Radio post is a 2fer. I got FCMB & MX4SIO for my ps2 superslim. Unfortunately I got stung with customs (4.50 for a 6e purchase) for the FMCB but c'est la guerre. Currently trying to get OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (USA) working

curse a jaysuz, i have spent some time hacking on this. first off, couldn't get it to boot into OPL at all (black screen when I choose OPL from the fmcb menu). Digging around the internet, I see there was updated versions of OPL released, so I got the latest https://github.com/ps2homebrew/Open-PS2-Loader/releases/tag/latest so now at least it boots into a menu and i've enabled BDM start mode & block devices. However I still cannot see any of my games I put on the sd card despite trying 3 different sd cards and also trying both exfat & fat32 (OPL latest should support exfat)

you are correct! Once I took that out it found the games on BDM! Now at least it boots the games and I get message about memory card storage. "insufficient space on memory card". so do I take out the fmcb card for a regular memory card once it has booted to OPL?

you are correct. I had to go into the settings of each game to specify a VMC. finally racing with a save file! thank you for the help

Gave that a quick go last night myself, it works!

One thing I cant seem to get working with it is the internal HDD. It'll be a bit redundant once the new higher capacity SD cards arrive, but I was trying to tinker with it last night and it just wouldn't detect it. Tried my old FMCB memory card and it worked with that, so not sure what's going on. I think potentially the version of OPL on those memory cards only works with the SD loading. (It says 'OPL for MX4 in the title') so you might need to add another version of OPL on too to get HDD loading working.

What a great find, I didn't know 8BITDO were doing those now. I've been using a Brook Super Converter for mine. It works but it's a big dangly box thing on a cable and I'm not too fond of it.. Was over twice the price of your one too.

Feck it, just ordered a pair of them! I do really like a good clean wireless controller receiver for an older consoles.

They're actually on amazon Germany for under 20 euro each if anyone is interested

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/6922621504467/dp/B0CCYML6M8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=172CBK8DJJTBH&keywords=ps2+8bitdo&qid=1702546890&sprefix=ps2+8bitdo%2Caps%2C44&sr=8-1

Interesting, I'll try sticking another version of OPL on there too and see what happens.

Apparently GT4 works if you format the SD card into 16k clusters. Glad to hear that before I started loading games onto a card!

Edit - finally got my hands on a decent sized SD card so loaded it up with about 30 or so games this evening.

So far so good, played Outrun 2, GTA San Andreas and Hitman 2. No issues whatsoever. The load times also seemed quite fast. I read it's actually faster to load games if you keep the card ExFAT rather than Fat32.

It's a really great game and I've never played it properly before.

A lot of folks say the Raiden Fighters games are Raiden in name only but there are huge Raiden vibes to it. Definitely feels like a game in the series.

You're going to hate me but it worked first go! I had that issue I read on one of the forums where you need to reconnect the controller but the game is running perfectly on my PS2.

Ive never actually played this before either. Seriously visually impressive.

Regarding my settings, I just have the SD card formatted as ExFAT and that's it, no other funky options or formatting done.

Edit just for posterity in case anyone has this issue in future, the difference between our setups seems to be that I'm using an old fat PS2 whereas Romperstomer is using a slim model. Might be causing the GT4 booting issues.

Woof woof!

Quick look at it this morning. Initial impressions a little off but wanted to try it first without updating the firmware as I'd heard of some Everdrive issues not being present on the shipping firmware (0.9).

Going through a HDMI 5 way switcher, it wouldn't display an image unless you switched away and back to the input - one of those little HDMI handshake issues that disappeared once the update was done, so no harm. Not the first device to have handshake issues and won't be the last. Everdrive does seem to be a teething problem though (never mind the fact it has to be a bare card without a cover), as a 2.5 ED isn't working properly both pre and post-update. There's a card swap trick whereby you add a HuCard to the Library first then swap and launch the ED, but no success with that. Some V1 owners say it works though. ED Pro doesn't have this issue apparently, but don't have it to hand. That had its own issues with the CD core not functioning, much like it doesn't on a real Duo, but the last update allowed the user to disable the CD side of the console and just let the ED Pro do the work.

This is hopefully all just firmware stuff that can be addressed much like with other devices in the past plus was probably going to look into a Pro if it works out on the Pocket Adapters in time.

HuCards like SF2, R-Type, Vigilante etc all working fine as they should, plus tried out Rondo (PCE Works) and R-Type Complete which worked great (at least the little I played). Tried out a couple burned CDRs as well which also showed no issues. 8bitdo PC Engine pads sync up instantly via 2.4GHz without a dongle once on the right firmware, as should any Dock compatible pad. Original pads working grand as well.

Decent start all in all, though that ED issue hangs over it especially since Analogue still reference them working fine once they fit.

@o1s1n What Micro SD card are you using with MX4ISO?

i.e. Size, Manufacturer and Model

Mine came today and i've read that it can be very picky on SD Cards.

Think I might break my rule of not ordering SD Cards from aliexpress and order the MX4ISO branded one here as they're known to work with it:

Thanks dude. This one is meant to be compatible according to he spreadsheet, only about 20 quid too:

Spreadsheet here:

Wow they're some great deals!

I actually picked myself up a fancy Sony NW-WM1A DAP (got it for about a third of retail price by buying used from eBay Japan!) and need a nice big SD card for it so will be grabbing one of those 256Gb ones.

You just gave me the gift of 128Gb more music, thanks!

Must admit, I've been back and forth with that yoke. I know it'll end up on a shelf with the minis, but kept adding it to a basket and taking it back out 😂 Said to myself to wait for the inevitable price drop.

10% off it today. Must resist......