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Pyongyang · 11-01-2011 1:03pm

No retro purchases for me so far this month (the Saturn is one I'm planning though I really fancy getting a Mega Drive now because of Pier Solar).

This just landed in my office though, which is nice (was hoping it was my Scott Pilgrim Blu Ray limited edition but alas An Post have yet to pony up with that one yet).

Jack burton · 11-01-2011 1:12pm

Pyongyang wrote: »

No retro purchases for me so far this month (the Saturn is one I'm planning though I really fancy getting a Mega Drive now because of Pier Solar).

Why look as this, someone here is selling a Megadrive, what a funny coincidence

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-mega-drive-with-20-games/344428

Pyongyang · 11-01-2011 1:24pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Why look as this, someone here is selling a Megadrive, what a funny coincidence

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-mega-drive-with-20-games/344428

Nice! Bit rich for my diet though. I'm just toying with getting one purely for Pier Solar. The MD I'm looking for needs to be super cheap, basically something that's been pulled out of a skip and looks like it has been too.

Might be worth waiting to see if it hits XBOX Live though...

Myrddin · 11-01-2011 1:58pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Why look as this, someone here is selling a Megadrive, what a funny coincidence

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-mega-drive-with-20-games/344428

Offer 5, delivered to my door with all carts cleaned, cart socket cleaned, you install the console & tune it in etc.

Atavan-Halen · 11-01-2011 2:27pm

Bought Castle of illusion and Mercs for the Megadrive. So that's my 3v voucher all used up and my online shopping spree for the next 3 months :P

CiDeRmAn · 11-01-2011 2:36pm

I just got my credit card bill and it could be 2014 before I get this mother paid off, so no more buying for me....

pajor · 12-01-2011 7:08pm

The first TOCA. At the time they said it was goin to be the best racing game ever.. then Gran Turismo was released :pac:

Still good though

DickyC · 12-01-2011 11:12pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I just got my credit card bill and it could be 2014 before I get this mother paid off, so no more buying for me....

The one serious downside of internet shopping, the cc bill:(

Jack burton · 12-01-2011 11:25pm

Im telling ya what ye should do is the bank transfer into paypal, for one its free and you have a spending cap that you wont break because you have to top it up with cash again.

Takes about 3 days to go through is the only thing so i always liek to have a bit of a reserve in it just incase i spot a good deal

If I had a CC the ****ing damage I would be after doing at this stage, I dont want to think about

Augmerson · 13-01-2011 1:32am

Having to wait 3 working days for money to go into Paypal is annoying. I just go for stuff that allows Bank Transfers.

Jack burton · 13-01-2011 1:41am

Ah bank tranfers arnt as safe as paypal, but sellers with positive feedback there usually nothing to worry about

I'm after making some serious off for a sh1t load of games on ebay over the past hour, even if only half of them accept i'll be getting a lot of rare MD games

Augmerson · 13-01-2011 2:18am

This is true but I never bid on anything from anyone with neg feedback, even just one.

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 10:14am

Augmerson wrote: »

This is true but I never bid on anything from anyone with neg feedback, even just one.

What?! Ye mad yolk. There's more to it than that. You need to look at the percentage ratios. One negative feedback is nothing. Especially if they have a high amount of positive. Their percentage of positive feedback would probably still be 99.9%. You also need to look and see over what timeframe they got the negatives. Did they get loads in one month? Or are they a long time seller and the negatives are over a decade? If someone has been selling on ebay for years and years, chances are they have at least one or two negatives. But you have to look at the flip side, if they've been selling on ebay for years, chances are also high that they're more experienced and may even offer a better service.

Sellers can no longer leave buyers negative feedback. So the whole 'if you leave me a negative I'll leave you one too' practice has gone. It's good for buyers, but it's bad for sellers as it means people are leaving negatives for really small issues now.

What I do is look at the percentage. If they have a low feedback score and their percentage is below 99% I'll check their feedback. If they have a high feedback score and their percentage is 98% or below I'll check their feedback.

I'm not as diligent doing that anymore though...as when it comes to all the stuff I've bought on ebay over the last 10 years or so, the items which haven't turned up (which have been very low) could not have been predicted via feedback.

Optimus Prime · 13-01-2011 12:12pm

Hey question about feedback on ebay since its mentioned, i bought a nes off it a while back, add said fully tested and working no problem, came with bubble bobble. Didnt work when i got it at all! flashing screen etc. so replaced the 72pin and cleaned the game and its perfect.

Even at that i didnt leave the guy negative feedback i left neutral and just said i fixed it. he replied saying that i wasnt a nintendo engineer and that it was working fine before he sold it. haha..

anyways, he hasnt left me feedback at all and that was a few months ago. does a seller have the option not to leave feedback?

Myrddin · 13-01-2011 12:16pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Hey question about feedback on ebay since its mentioned, i bought a nes off it a while back, add said fully tested and working no problem, came with bubble bobble. Didnt work when i got it at all! flashing screen etc. so replaced the 72pin and cleaned the game and its perfect.

Even at that i didnt leave the guy negative feedback i left neutral and just said i fixed it. he replied saying that i was a nintendo engineer and that it was working fine before he sold it. haha..

anyways, he hasnt left me feedback at all and that was a few months ago. does a seller have the option not to leave feedback?

The thing about the NES is that they are damned tempramental. The seller very well could have been telling you the truth, I suppose you were just lucky you had the skills required to fix it. Otherwise it was PayPal claims etc. Chalk it off & move on, as far as I know feedback isn't mandatory.

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 12:24pm

Nope, they don't have to leave it. I guess since sellers cant leave negative feedback now they'll just leave none if they've had any form of negative experience.

Something else I've noticed is that a lot of sellers with massive feedback (say in the thousands to hundreds of thousands) don't leave feedback at all. As their feedback score is so high that they don't need any more.

Optimus Prime · 13-01-2011 12:31pm

yeh ill just suck it up and move on!

Theres an auction on ebay.com at the minute for 4 Tomytronics, one of which is boxed. I already have two of them on the way.. bid is at $60 and i contacted the seller and he said $30-40 delivery to ireland he doesnt know yet. seriously contemplating bidding if it doesnt get too high and selling the other two or something.

Myrddin · 13-01-2011 1:14pm

keithgeo wrote: »

yeh ill just suck it up and move on! Theres an auction on ebay.com at the minute for 4 Tomytronics, one of which is boxed. I already have two of them on the way.. bid is at $60 and i contacted the seller and he said $30-40 delivery to ireland he doesnt know yet. seriously contemplating bidding if it doesnt get too high and selling the other two or something.

I'd be interested in whatever doubles you get

Optimus Prime · 13-01-2011 1:19pm

haha had a feeling someone might! Ill have to see how im fixed, if i can go for them, ive spent a fair bit recently and had to drop the car in this morning with an engine light problem. ill keep an eye on it and let you know, to be honest i wouldnt be bidding big money on it, if it was buy it now for $60 no problem, but id say that will go up a good bit when it comes near the end of the auction. They are all in great condition too.

Augmerson · 13-01-2011 3:05pm

Shinobi III in the post from Germany =] oh joy!

Jack burton · 13-01-2011 3:07pm

funny enough i was looking at ebay germany last night, was it the copy with the tiny bit of sun damge on the inlay?

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 3:52pm

Augmerson wrote: »

Shinobi III in the post from Germany =] oh joy!

You lucky git! Is it complete? I STILL can't find a complete boxed version for a good price. It's driving me nuts.

Andrew76 · 13-01-2011 4:34pm

o1s1n wrote: »

You lucky git! Is it complete? I STILL can't find a complete boxed version for a good price. It's driving me nuts.

Depends on your definition of a "good" price.

Here's one for just over €30 posted, link.

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 4:57pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Depends on your definition of a "good" price.
Here's one for just over €30 posted, link.

Awh, that's a Genesis copy. I don't buy Genesis games. PAL or nothing!

Andrew76 · 13-01-2011 5:05pm

I'll have that Genesis copy of M.U.S.H.A so. :P
There's a nice CIB PAL version (of Shinobi 3) there but it's around €50.

Jack burton · 13-01-2011 5:06pm

WHERE?!

edit, sorry i got excited and realised you were talking about Shinobi III, thought you were talking about musha, till i remembered there is no Pal musha

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 5:09pm

Jack burton wrote: »

WHERE?!

I'm pretty sure he means a nice PAL copy of Shinobi 3 for €50 as MUSHA didn't have a PAL release.

Andrew76 - not on your life!

I have a handful of exceptions. That be one of them!

Andrew76 · 13-01-2011 5:09pm

Hehe just edited to clarify it was Shinobi. I would've snapped up a CIB musha at anything like that price. :pac:

Jack burton · 13-01-2011 5:11pm

Yeah, just did a quick ebay search, that copy for $460 must be there for about a year now

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 5:12pm

Unfortunately my one is cart only and the label has a rip.

Better than nothing I guess.

It's really shot up in price in the last few years.

Andrew76 · 13-01-2011 5:15pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Yeah, just did a quick ebay search, that copy for $460 must be there for about a year now

Yeah been there donkies that one. Nice copy here, Currently around €80 incl. postage but 4 days left. Feck that.

/Edit: @Jack - I'm sure you've already spotted that game you long for on the bay? North of €110 with 7days to go.

Jack burton · 13-01-2011 5:16pm

Yeha but it will go down eventually.

I was doing a good bit of browsing last ngiht and tis really interesting, games that are fairly hard to coem by arnt going for a whole lot because its not fashionable to have them

Like SeaQuest, apperently rarer than the Wily Wars and can be gotten at a buy it now of €30, try finding the Wily Wars for that price

I know us here arnt obsessed with rarity and stuff but its still interesting

Augmerson · 13-01-2011 5:52pm

o1s1n wrote: »

You lucky git! Is it complete? I STILL can't find a complete boxed version for a good price. It's driving me nuts.

Yeah, complete with manual. The box doesn't have the hanger thing though, but I have plenty of other Sega boxes that do, so it's no problem to switch around, but it doesn't bother me so much. It was about 35 euro shipped from Germany. I'm sure you could get it cheaper if you kept an eye out, but I didn't mind paying, it'd be about that much anyway. How much were you looking to spend on it?

o1s1n · 13-01-2011 6:57pm

Jack burton wrote: »

I was doing a good bit of browsing last ngiht and tis really interesting, games that are fairly hard to coem by arnt going for a whole lot because its not fashionable to have them

I find the whole rare versus fashionable thing very interesting. I think the main categories go something like this -

Truely rare - always valuable, even if it's a crap game (Darxide/TMEK (PAL) /Kizuna Encounter (PAL)/Air Raid/Stadium events/World Championship Soccer 2 (PAL MD)/etc)

Extremely uncommon - Always valuable (Wily Wars/The Punisher (PAL MD) /Death and Return of Superman (PAL MD) /Daze Before Christmas/Kolibri (PAL)/Ecco Jr (PAL MD) )

Uncommon - valuable dependant on title. Most 'rare' games on ebay probably fit into this one. (Castlevania SOTN/MUSHA/Streets of Rage 3 (PAL MD) /Shinobi 3 (PAL MD) /Alien Soldier/ Earthbound / Radiant Silvergun/ Panzer Dragoon Saga/Kurushi/Future Cop LAPD/Knuckles Chaotix )

Common - valuable dependant on title. These would be the 'pretend rare' games. (Popular Squaresoft RPGs...everything else that's expensive and has a crap load of copies on ebay at all times)

You could fit lots more games into each of those categories. And some of them would be on the cusp of each one. But you know what i mean.

Jack burton wrote: »

Like SeaQuest, apperently rarer than the Wily Wars and can be gotten at a buy it now of €30, try finding the Wily Wars for that price

SeaQuest wouldn't be as rare as Wily Wars. It would fit into the 'Uncommon' category above. So would mean it's valuable dependant on title. Nobody wants that game really therefore it's not really valuable.

Augmerson wrote: »

Yeah, complete with manual. The box doesn't have the hanger thing though, but I have plenty of other Sega boxes that do, so it's no problem to switch around, but it doesn't bother me so much. It was about 35 euro shipped from Germany. I'm sure you could get it cheaper if you kept an eye out, but I didn't mind paying, it'd be about that much anyway. How much were you looking to spend on it?

Nice one, swap that baby out for a clamshell with a hanging tag. That's a good price though. My goal was to get it for €20-25 posted. I think I'm going to have to give up on that though.

Augmerson · 13-01-2011 7:11pm

It's going for around 25ish Sterling from the UK but then there is P&P on top of that, and I did the math (!) and it came out to around the same - from Germany it was 5.50 P&P and because it was in the Eurozone I didn't lose any value on currency exchange.

batari · 13-01-2011 11:15pm

Got a CD32 off a guy I know about six months ago for nothing, no psu tho. Finally bit the bullet and bought one on eBay for about 20 quid. Bring it on!

Atavan-Halen · 13-01-2011 11:17pm

€20, nice one!

batari · 13-01-2011 11:26pm

€20 for the psu only

best I've seen in a while

Atavan-Halen · 14-01-2011 2:58am

Oh I thought you bought the console for €20 :P

Atavan-Halen · 14-01-2011 12:38pm

Got an unexpected surprise in the post this morning. My copy of No one can stop mr domino all the way from Japan. Wasn't expecting it so quick

Pics when I find the cable for the camera.

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 14-01-2011 12:53pm

batari you need to check your cd32 for leaking/bulging caps,best to replace them regardless last thing you want is something spewing over the board while your playing.

CiDeRmAn · 14-01-2011 1:52pm

My psone mod chip arrived today, looking forward to "acquiring" lots if great jap and us games.
Einhander here we come!

batari · 14-01-2011 2:04pm

Magnolia Nutty Minority wrote: »

batari you need to check your cd32 for leaking/bulging caps,best to replace them regardless last thing you want is something spewing over the board while your playing.

Thanx man, according to my friend this has sat in his parent's house under the tv since he got it. Would it still have problems? I've had it sitting in a box in work since I got it. Can't turn it on till the PSU arrives

o1s1n · 14-01-2011 2:58pm

batari wrote: »

Thanx man, according to my friend this has sat in his parent's house under the tv since he got it. Would it still have problems? I've had it sitting in a box in work since I got it. Can't turn it on till the PSU arrives

From what I understand, the CD32 has more or less the same internals as the Amiga A1200.

The Amiga A1200 is known for the caps going bad. It doesn't matter if it's being used or not. The electrolytic fuid can leak out of them..or in a worst case scenario, they'll bulge and explode.

Mine were beginning to go as the colour and sound was off. So look out for some common symptoms. Would be good to change them anyway just to be safe.

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 14-01-2011 3:02pm

Caps dry up if the equipment is left in storage for long enough so its best to power on your systems/equipment once a year..

You should still open on the 32 to check for any residue/bulge on barrel caps.

And yes the A1200/CD32 are nearly the same,so a cd drive on A1200 will allow you to play cd32 games on it.

batari · 14-01-2011 3:16pm

Ah thanx dudes, sounds like I better get a hold of a modding genius, now where - enter - would - now - I find one of them??

CiDeRmAn · 14-01-2011 3:37pm

I found one of the interesting things about the cd32 was some of the bonkers collections for it.
Basically they are cd based compilations of Amiga 1200 games, but with up to 300 games on.
Most of them never released on the cd32 and many not working because there's no keyboard, but armed with a joypad and an Amiga mouse its a fun way to pass the time, going through them all.

My machine has a floppy drive bolted on as well, the SX1 afaik. Not sure what else it does though.

Can you put a flash drive into a cd32 I wonder?

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 14-01-2011 3:41pm

i dont think you can add an flash drive,sx1 if you have one,thats worth a fortune *people dont start drooling or getting excited when i say that*

Reason alot of the games on the unofficial compilation wont work is,the CD32 standard of 2mb ram which is flip all for some games.

pic of the sx1

Retr0gamer · 14-01-2011 3:51pm

Wasn't there an add-on as well that turned the CD32 into a functional Amiga 1200?

Grumpypants · 14-01-2011 3:54pm

Did a good round trip of all the charity shops got some gems

Tiger woods 2004, Super monkey ball, ISS2, Mario party 5, on Gamecube for 14euro and when i got home and opened up Super monkey ball the legend of Zelda collectors edition disk fell out !!

Terminator 2 fully boxed and instructions, super smash TV fully boxed and instructions, Greendog just box and game, for the Megadrive for 6 euro They had just the box and instructions for Rock and roll racing but no game so they gave it to me for free.

Deux ex invisible war, time splitters 2 for xbox for 10euro

MOH frontlines, european assault, the getaway, liberty city, colin McRae 3, stuntman, soldiers of fortune for PS2 for 15.

Star wars knights of the old republic The sith lords for PC for 2euro

Also picked up on Blu ray Iron man and Indiana jones for 4 euro !

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