Son Of General Retro Discussion

Dr Bob · 08-09-2011 09:42AM

Pyongyang wrote: »

o1s1n wrote: »

You should probably wait until after it comes out on XBL anyway. Just in case your theory is correct

€18 to ship a CD though is ridiculous. Yer man should be wearing a balaclava.

I was just prodding the waters with my toe anyway, just to see what the story was. Stupid postage rates though mean a lot of the USA is shut off really no?

a bit smaller but I had a Gb cart sent from ny for about 5 dollars . Can't get the exact details ( stupid mobile eBay) but it was cheap enough

o1s1n · 08-09-2011 10:04AM

Don't forget that there are different types of shipping. Something that only costs a few dollars to ship more than likely isn't registered. If it's lost it's completely unaccountable for.

$25 on the other hand means it needs to be signed for and is even quite possibly insured.

If I were posting Radiant Silvergun to someone across the Atlantic ocean I certainly wouldn't be sending it via $5 shipping. That would be stupid beyond belief.

Pyongyang - you've been spoiled by cheap ass Japanese shipping. Grand for sub €40 or so items. But just wait until something expensive goes missing :P

James Howlett · 08-09-2011 10:46AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Getting the urge to play more games, been spending way too much time watching Burn Notice.
Portal2 has been neglected and just started playing ZeldaOoT3d again, forgot how annoying the inside of that bloody big fish was\is, big pink levels are never fun, lesson not learned in this nor in Halo 3 oddly enough...

I just finished Portal 2 on Tuesday evening. It's a fantastic game; characters, story, pacing and gameplay are all near perfect. Dare I say it... your time would be better spent on Portal 2 instead of inside Jabu-Jabu's belly

btw i agree with your Halo 3 comment.

Steve X2 · 08-09-2011 11:15AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Don't forget that there are different types of shipping. Something that only costs a few dollars to ship more than likely isn't registered. If it's lost it's completely unaccountable for.

$25 on the other hand means it needs to be signed for and is even quite possibly insured.

If I were posting Radiant Silvergun to someone across the Atlantic ocean I certainly wouldn't be sending it via $5 shipping. That would be stupid beyond belief.

Pyongyang - you've been spoiled by cheap ass Japanese shipping. Grand for sub €40 or so items. But just wait until something expensive goes missing :P

I agree, I think that postage is actually fine for registered/insured/tracked.

I mean it's Radiant Silverbum, it aint cheap and I would expect it to be packaged quite well if I was buying it. So the box will/should be a fair bit bigger than the case/spine etc.

Pyongyang, you really have been spoiled by Jap postage rates, as have I

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CiDeRmAn · 08-09-2011 11:36AM

Yeah, think you're right.
Only thing is when I am at the TV so is the lady boss woman of the house, so it's true stories of stomach surgery gone horrible wrong or, like last night, 3 year olds dressed up like a Pedo's dream in some pagent, very disturbing but no room for games.

I have a feeling the games room is going to have to get an LCD up there in the next year, nothing epic as it wouldn't fit, perhaps one of these proposed 32" Sony 3D televisions, we'll have to see, at least then I could move my 360 upstairs and get some gaming done!

Pyongyang · 08-09-2011 11:38AM

Steve SI wrote: »

I mean it's Radiant Silverbum, it aint cheap

It will be (I hope) come September 14th!

True though, the .jp postage rates are actually rather delicious compared to other places.

Steve X2 · 08-09-2011 11:44AM

Pyongyang wrote: »

It will be (I hope) come September 14th!

True though, the .jp postage rates are actually rather delicious compared to other places.

I know, I don't know how they do it to be honest.

I mean you can order something on a Monday and pay 4 or 5 euro postage and it arrives on Friday in a perfectly packed and secure box.

Whenever I'm in Japland I always post my stuff back and its really cheap and quick. Some of the larger items get sent by container ship and even that's cheap and faster than you might think.

o1s1n · 08-09-2011 11:46AM

Pyongyang wrote: »

True though, the .jp postage rates are actually rather delicious compared to other places.

Unless of course you're having a one of those refurbished PC Engine duos shipped :pac:

I've had airsoft guns shipped from Japan. Not cheap. Think my FN FAL cost something like €70 to send. And then there was the god damn import duty

Pyongyang · 08-09-2011 11:50AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Unless of course you're having a one of those refurbished PC Engine duos shipped :pac:

I'd pay eleventytrillion dollars for a Doujindance console to ship to me. The man is a beautiful human being. A sultan of gaming goodness. A proddy-nippley-wonderful man that deserves money being handed to him for no reason whatsoever.

The man. Quite frankly. Is God.

o1s1n · 08-09-2011 11:57AM

Pyongyang wrote: »

I'd pay eleventytrillion dollars for a Doujindance console to ship to me. The man is a beautiful human being. A sultan of gaming goodness. A proddy-nippley-wonderful man that deserves money being handed to him for no reason whatsoever.

The man. Quite frankly. Is God.

Whatever you do Enternow, never mod a console from this guy. He'll start pilgrimaging to your house.

Pyongyang · 08-09-2011 12:02PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Whatever you do Enternow, never mod a console from this guy. He'll start pilgrimaging to your house.

I already have a tent pitched up outside The Doc's gaf. Enternow, you're next.

Steve X2 · 08-09-2011 12:04PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

I already have a tent pitched up outside The Doc's gaf. Enternow, you're next.

Pitching a tent ehh. You REALLY like your console mods don't you

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Pyongyang · 08-09-2011 12:09PM

Steve SI wrote: »

Pitching a tent ehh. You REALLY like your console mods don't you

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Was waiting for that one. Fnarr fnarr!

johnny_ultimate · 08-09-2011 12:09PM

DinoRex wrote: »

This may be the greatest arcade game EVER:

Aha old table flippy game. Used to be the first game you encounter at the door to Hey! Akihabara. May still be!

A few other hardware oddities that tend to be more fun in theory than actually playing:

This, which is rather exhausting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o_SHbZZkps

And Jubeat, which requires either inhuman responses or rote learning i.e. pretty par for the course in Japanese arcades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzmQQzufs0g

Myrddin · 08-09-2011 12:30PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Whatever you do Enternow, never mod a console from this guy. He'll start pilgrimaging to your house.

Why d'ya think I retired?

Steve X2 · 08-09-2011 12:54PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Why d'ya think I temporarily retired?

Fixed

CiDeRmAn · 08-09-2011 01:40PM

Wow, you'll never guess what retro game of renown I found on the IkeaCab this morning, by chance as I was rooting through the un filtered Rom list.
Boulder Dash, some cassette based version from the arcades, could have kept Sparks occupied for hours at the last beers!
Will have to remember for next time!

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 02:05PM

The Cassette version didnt work for me when i tried it in mame afaik it only works in 0.133

There is another version that does work in later mame builds

And btw its chit

Steve X2 · 08-09-2011 02:09PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

The Cassette version didnt work for me when i tried it in mame afaik it only works in 0.133

There is another version that does work in later mame builds

And btw its chit

At long last you accepted the truth about BolderDash Sparkles

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Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 02:11PM

Steve SI wrote: »

At long last you accepted the truth about BolderDash Sparkles

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On the C64 its still the best game ever

Professey Chin · 08-09-2011 02:13PM

Thats 2 NGPCs getting distracted has cost me this week

Damn my short attention span!

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 03:34PM

Oh Smeg talk about a mod gone wrong

Pc froze when i had removed the old dash so i said id power off and come back to it today

Bad mistake:mad:

Edit:Might be premeture i just got back to an error 12 from an error 21 by unplugging the Disk drive cable

Myrddin · 08-09-2011 03:54PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Oh Smeg talk about a mod gone wrong

Pc froze when i had removed the old dash so i said id power off and come back to it today

Bad mistake:mad:

It's very difficult to feck this mod up beyond repair, the eeprom reader tool is always there. It can be head meltingly annoying at times though...trust me I know. I'd an Xbox between myself & Docentore just couldn't sort out...even with a bios flasher. But thats rare, patience is your friend!

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 03:59PM

EnterNow wrote: »

It's very difficult to feck this mod up beyond repair, the eeprom reader tool is always there. It can be head meltingly annoying at times though...trust me I know. I'd an Xbox between myself & Docentore just couldn't sort out...even with a bios flasher. But thats rare, patience is your friend!

Even taking the old dash off and not getting the clean one installed can be recovered?

Start with error 16 move on to error 12 and now i cant even get anything out of it

Think im going to start with a clean slate an unmodded xbox

A fresh start and a new exciting way to cock it up

Myrddin · 08-09-2011 04:02PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Even taking the old dash off and not getting the clean one installed can be recovered?

Start with error 16 move on to error 12 and now i cant even get anything out of it

Think im going to start with a clean slate an unmodded xbox

A fresh start and a new exciting way to cock it up

Once you have an eeprom backup, you can fully restore the console

Its a good while since I did it now, but I'm quite sure your console is recoverable.

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 04:09PM

Cheers for all the help m8

Had a bit of a giggle last night though

When Explorer360 froze i had to use task manager to shut it down and i got the usual "Please tell Microsoft about this Problem" error message

Wonder what would have happened if i sent off the error report:D

CiDeRmAn · 08-09-2011 04:21PM

I'm not sure you deserve another Xbox, these things don't grow on trees!
I had to order the controller so's they'd match and everything.
At least you have a spare Video cable, can't find mine!

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 04:22PM

Back to error 12 might be able to get back into the drive

Fingers crossed

Sparks43 · 08-09-2011 04:46PM

Bang :mad:

Just scared the chit out of myself

Shorted the HDD on the Metal casing and now i have an Error 7

Btw My Sparks alias has nothing to do with my ability with Electrics

Myrddin · 08-09-2011 04:49PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Bang :mad:

Just scared the chit out of myself

Shorted the HDD on the Metal casing and now i have an Error 7

Btw My Sparks alias has nothing to do with my ability with Electrics

Well NOW you may be in trouble, if components are fried then no amount of eeprom backing up can help you. If the IDE cable is properly connected, you may have just killed the hdd.

7 - kernel - HDD timeout

Most of the times, the IDE cable is not properly connected when you see this error. Please reattach the ide cable. Not only to the harddisk drive but also to the dvd drive. ALso try to reconnect the ide cable to the motherboard.

Press pretty hard so it goes all the way in. Make sure it is seated straight and proper in the drives and the motherboard. If you still have an error 7. Try another ide cable. If that won't work try another harddisk. If there is still no go, try to set the jumpers on the rearside of the harddisk drive. Set it to master or cable select. If still no succes, good luck and sell your xbox to me

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/210562

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