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o1s1n · 06-05-2011 11:02am

Pyongyang wrote: »

If any of you find a Dreamcast Arcade Stick knocking around in one of these gafs, let me know!

You have more chance of finding the Ark of Covenant in a charity shop than one of them! I tried for years, they just don't show up.

Only way of getting one is to keep an eye out on adverts or ebay.co.uk. There was a Dreamcast with an ASCII stick listed on ebay.ie a few months ago, but it's the first one I've seen in a very long time. And it sold for a lot.

So if you want one sometime soon (and not by freak chance!) then go to ebay.co.uk. Sometimes you'll get a UK seller who offers decent postage on the things over to here. A good price would be to find a stick that's being sold for around €25 with maybe €15-€20 on postage to Ireland.

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 11:08am

o1s1n wrote: »

You have more chance of finding the Ark of Covenant in a charity shop than one of them! I tried for years, they just don't show up.

Only way of getting one is to keep an eye out on adverts or ebay.co.uk. There was a Dreamcast with an ASCII stick listed on ebay.ie a few months ago, but it's the first one I've seen in a very long time. And it sold for a lot.

So if you want one sometime soon (and not by freak chance!) then go to ebay.co.uk. Sometimes you'll get a UK seller who offers decent postage on the things over to here. A good price would be to find a stick that's being sold for around €25 with maybe €15-€20 on postage to Ireland.

Yep I checked eBay a few times recently. Prices are grand just the postage is ridiculous.

Was hoping there might be some sort of USB > Dreamcast converter so I could use my Hori on it, but I guess I'd be better off with one with the VMU slot anyway. I want to get the Green Goblin though, not the rotten orange looking thing doing the cheapo rounds.

Cheers for the info.

o1s1n · 06-05-2011 11:11am

Pyongyang wrote: »

Was hoping there might be some sort of USB > Dreamcast converter so I could use my Hori on it

There is an adapter to do the opposite. I have one and use my Dreamcast stick with MAME. I'm pretty sure it lets you use it with the ps3 too. Cool little yolks. It's called the 'Trio Linker Plus II' I think. Also has a port for playstation and gamecube pads.

If you do find a stick for a decent price, sometimes it can be a good idea just to send the seller an email asking what their postage price is to Ireland. As we automatically fit in 'worldwide' or 'EU' as far as ebay goes, so the seller may in fact offer cheaper postage to Ireland.

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 11:25am

o1s1n wrote: »

There is an adapter to do the opposite. I have one and use my Dreamcast stick with MAME. I'm pretty sure it lets you use it with the ps3 too. Cool little yolks. It's called the 'Trio Linker Plus II' I think. Also has a port for playstation and gamecube pads.

If you do find a stick for a decent price, sometimes it can be a good idea just to send the seller an email asking what their postage price is to Ireland. As we automatically fit in 'worldwide' or 'EU' as far as ebay goes, so the seller may in fact offer cheaper postage to Ireland.

Sage advice, thanks. What are these cheeky lads like? Any use for the money?

http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/product/x-arcade-solo-joystick/

bugs · 06-05-2011 11:27am

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

o1s1n · 06-05-2011 11:29am

Pyongyang wrote: »

Sage advice, thanks. What are these cheeky lads like? Any use for the money?

http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/product/x-arcade-solo-joystick/

Here's the thing about X Arcade sticks - they're built like a tank, the buttons are decent, but the stick is a bit unresponsive if you're used to Japanese ones. The whole thing has a very american feel to it.

They're not bad, but for the money you can do better.

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

Would love to hear what the Saturn games are. If he has Panzer Dragoon Saga tell him I have first dibs

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 11:31am

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

I CALL FIRST DIBS ON THE DREAMCAST ARCADE STICK!!!!!!*

*Assuming it's sensibly priced.

bugs · 06-05-2011 11:35am

From memory the saturn games are fighting vipers, virtua fighter 2, virtua cop 2 (with gun in box), sega rally, fighters megamix, nights, christmas nights and maybe some more, not sure.

The stick will be suitably priced

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 11:41am

bugs wrote: »

The stick will be suitably priced

Suitably or sensibly?

bugs · 06-05-2011 11:43am

Pyongyang wrote: »

Suitably or sensibly?

A suitably sensible price....

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 11:47am

bugs wrote: »

A suitably sensible price....

That's Asda Price!

Jimmy Bottlehead · 06-05-2011 1:44pm

bugs wrote: »

Keep an eye on adverts over the next few days for a dreamcast stick. A mate of mine is selling up all his retro stuff and asked me to take a look.
He has a sega original dreamcast stick in pretty good condition.
Has a bunch of other stuff going up there too so it might be of interest (saturn, ps1, ps2, n64 games).

Any idea what PS1, PS2 and N64 stuff might be going up?

bugs · 06-05-2011 3:03pm

N64 - Mario 64, F-zero X, Zelda OOT, Banjo, etc.
PS1 - MGS, wipeout 2097, wip3out, tempest x-3?, Resident evil, FF7, etc.
PS2 - Bunch of US NTSC games, tekken tag, blood omen, re-code veronica, etc.

I imagine it'll all be put up in the next day or so, keep an eye out. batman_oh is his username i think.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 06-05-2011 3:27pm

bugs wrote: »

A suitably sensible price....

CAW CAW

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Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 3:31pm

bugs wrote: »

I imagine it'll all be put up in the next day or so, keep an eye out. batman_oh is his username i think.

*hovers around Adverts.ie like a skanger outside a Centra*

CiDeRmAn · 06-05-2011 4:48pm

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.
Stripped out the interior and wired it to the supergun, itself plugged into the mvs board.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

MontgomeryClift · 06-05-2011 5:08pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.
Stripped out the interior and wired it to the supergun, itself plugged into the mvs board.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

Just hang on to the Dreamcast stick PCB. They can be handy spares for somebody if a PCB from a DC stick fails.

Pyongyang · 06-05-2011 5:37pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a dreamcast stick, I mutilated it though.

That hasn't upset anyone, has it?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!

K.O.Kiki · 06-05-2011 6:42pm

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

Just hang on to the Dreamcast stick PCB. They can be handy spares for somebody if a PCB from a DC stick fails.

The MC Cthulhu works on Dreamcast now, and AkihabaraShop have (had?) a new DC PCB, too.

Plus you could always use Saturn or PS1 converters.

Warren3 · 07-05-2011 12:35pm

just got Xenosaga episode 2 in the post

megaten · 07-05-2011 1:10pm

Warren3 wrote: »

just got Xenosaga episode 2 in the post

How awful.

Warren3 · 07-05-2011 1:13pm

megaten wrote: »

How awful.

Is it that bad??

megaten · 07-05-2011 1:19pm

Warren3 wrote: »

Is it that bad??

It been years since I played it but from what I can remember the whole series is was meant to be 5 or 6 games and was pushed into 3. I found it to be pretty disjointed. There was some decent characters but that all I can remember really.

Retr0gamer · 07-05-2011 2:16pm

The first Xenosaga started off great but ended up terrible. The battle system was a total joke and the story was utter ****e. I stopped playing xenosaga 2 halfway through because it was god awful, even worse! I heard the third one is actually great but unfortunately after people thought it would be rubbish after the first 2 games nobody bought it and it's now quite rare.

Xenosaga was meant to be an unofficial follow up to Xenogears. Xenogears was a squaresoft project that was meant to span 6 episodes. Xenogears was the fifth. Unfortunately the production trouble of FF7 poured over into Xenogears and it became a bit of a mess and square dropped the project after the Xenogears. Most of the team left Squaresoft and formed their own company to continue it on. Namco took them up. Then the original creator and creative mind behind Xenogears up and left early in the creative process which put a spanner in the works. Xenosaga still went ahead as the second chapter of the xenogears saga, skipping over chapter 1. Anyway Xenosaga was successful, Xenosaga 2 even less so. The team decided to finish the saga up with Xenosaga 3 since they were about to become a Nintendo second party and wouldn;t have a chance to work with on it and the Xenosaga story had strayed away from what was originally intended anyway. It's strange how bad the Xenosaga games are considering I love the rest of the games monolithsoft have done.

K.O.Kiki · 07-05-2011 7:04pm

Big thanks to whackball for the Namco, here's what I did to it:

Stock buttons & stick (except for 1 new switch)
Triple-modded with PS360 board.

The USB is (probably) temporary until I can get a Neutrik.
Extra button is Home/Guide.

Pyongyang · 07-05-2011 8:07pm

I'm a complete oaf at soldering. That's some mercurial work there chief.

K.O.Kiki · 08-05-2011 2:05am

Pyongyang wrote: »

I'm a complete oaf at soldering. That's some mercurial work there chief.

The trick is a clean tip, and to use thin solid-core wire.

Never going back to stranded!

CiDeRmAn · 08-05-2011 8:58am

My Dreamcast stick knob fell off!
But not to worry, a quick screw and it was back on again!

Also, just picked up my lovely Batman Returns for the Snes, the scrolling beat'em up I like, good times!

Pyongyang · 08-05-2011 10:13am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My Dreamcast stick knob fell off!

Seriously, there has to be an SPCDA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dreamcast Arcade Sticks) so I can get yours rehoused to a loving, caring home. I.E. Mine!

Pyongyang · 08-05-2011 10:15am

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

The trick is a clean tip, and to use thin solid-core wire.

Never going back to stranded!

My top tip is to pay someone else to do the work for me. Talking of which my chipped Dreamcast should be ready to collect today.

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