Son Of General Retro Discussion

pdbhp · 10-09-2011 10:37pm

HeartOfTheCity wrote: »

Well console wise, it looked something like this : NES, Atari 2600, Mega Drive, Saturn, original Game Boy, GBA, N64, Playstation, PSOne and PS2 (original 'fat' version).

Think that covers it. Yeah, I'm ashamed of myself too. So I'm trying to build my collection up again. The main battle is winning over my girlfriend, she humours me for the most part and lets me away with it, but I've noticed eyebrows being raised with the amount of retro stuff I'm starting to bring home

EDIT : Oh, and an issue 2 Speccy.

I feel your pain brother, just get a big jacket so you can sneak stuff into the house

HeartOfTheCity · 10-09-2011 10:44pm

pdbhp wrote: »

I feel your pain brother, just get a big jacket so you can sneak stuff into the house

However, if I bring home Zelda related goodies, all is well in my household.

CiDeRmAn · 10-09-2011 10:56pm

A Gba and a Gamecube will have most of the Zelda you need, OoT, MM, LA, LttP and the gba remasters of the Nes games.
The Zelda promotional disk on the Gamecube is hard to find but gold dust to the Zelda fan and the Gba hosts a grand version of the Snes' Link to the Past.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 10-09-2011 11:12pm

HeartOfTheCity wrote: »

The main battle is winning over my girlfriend, she humours me for the most part and lets me away with it, but I've noticed eyebrows being raised with the amount of retro stuff I'm starting to bring home

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HeartOfTheCity · 10-09-2011 11:33pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A Gba and a Gamecube will have most of the Zelda you need, OoT, MM, LA, LttP and the gba remasters of the Nes games.
The Zelda promotional disk on the Gamecube is hard to find but gold dust to the Zelda fan and the Gba hosts a grand version of the Snes' Link to the Past.

I have a cunning plan, seeing as I bought her a Wii in the past.

November 18 : Skyward Sword is released. Buy said game. Take said game home for girlfriend. Said girlfriend will ignore fact I also bought a Dreamcast, N64 and Mega Drive. Hopefully.

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 3:52am

HeartOfTheCity wrote: »

Consider this my 'hello' post, as I've been ghosting here for a while but never posted.

And now a question, if I may: I've never played, let alone owned a Dreamcast. Is it worth me picking one up?

Don't even attempt to post here ever again until you own one.

Professey Chin · 11-09-2011 3:59am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Don't even attempt to post here ever again until you own one.

Yeah.Its like being a regular for ages without having a NES

>_>

Sparks43 · 11-09-2011 4:04am

Mega Chin wrote: »

Yeah.Its like being a regular for ages without having a NES

>_>

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVtuLcB7JKY

Atavan-Halen · 11-09-2011 4:07am

Nes' are too common. It's now cool to not have one

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 4:15am

Neo Geo pocket is where it's at.

Atavan-Halen · 11-09-2011 4:18am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Neo Geo pocket is where it's at.

It's a bit last season. I hear the game.com is so in right now.

Professey Chin · 11-09-2011 4:22am

Soon we'll be back to the Jag

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 5:18am

Mega Chin wrote: »

Soon we'll be back to the Jag

yeah with those amazing games like Tempest 2000 and ........................................
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CiDeRmAn · 11-09-2011 8:33am

Yeah, the Nes, Neo Geo Pocket Color and Einhander, certainly the things to have.
I would also reccommend Harmful Park, I can play it but don't own it, if you know what I mean!

Myrddin · 11-09-2011 10:03am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A Gba and a Gamecube will have most of the Zelda you need, OoT, MM, LA, LttP and the gba remasters of the Nes games.
The Zelda promotional disk on the Gamecube is hard to find but gold dust to the Zelda fan and the Gba hosts a grand version of the Snes' Link to the Past.

Any idea what its worth lads? Last time I checked I think it was €30/€40ish, is it still around that yeah?

Also, has anyone here ever had a hands on go of Onlive? I was looking at recent videos of it yesterday & it seems a bit too good to be true. Whats the catch with it?

Optimus Prime · 11-09-2011 1:15pm

whats the promotional disk? I have a zelda disc for my gamecube lying around somewhere didnt know it was worth that kinda money.

johnny_ultimate · 11-09-2011 1:40pm

keithgeo wrote: »

whats the promotional disk? I have a zelda disc for my gamecube lying around somewhere didnt know it was worth that kinda money.

There's two:

One is the Ocarina of Time / Master Quest disc that came with bundled copies of Gamecube / Wind Waker.

Second, and more sought after, is one that contains OoT / Master Quest / Majoras Mask / Zelda NES / Zelda 2 NES plus a few extras (Wind Waker demo amongst them). Linky.

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 1:50pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Any idea what its worth lads? Last time I checked I think it was €30/€40ish, is it still around that yeah?

Also, has anyone here ever had a hands on go of Onlive? I was looking at recent videos of it yesterday & it seems a bit too good to be true. Whats the catch with it?

Seems to be that it works really well if you have a decent connection. However what gets my goat is that the games aren't running at their highest settings, just standard settings that anything can run.

Atavan-Halen · 11-09-2011 1:52pm

Also, i'd be thinking that if the company or whatever goes belly up, you'd just be left with a shiny box.

johnny_ultimate · 11-09-2011 1:54pm

You can try Gaikai, a competitor to OnLive, in your browser to get an idea of how it all works: http://www.gaikai.com/#

Tried some of the demos on it a few weeks ago and it worked pretty well.

Pyongyang · 11-09-2011 3:21pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqrWw3gZRA

Myrddin · 11-09-2011 4:51pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

There's two:

One is the Ocarina of Time / Master Quest disc that came with bundled copies of Gamecube / Wind Waker.

Second, and more sought after, is one that contains OoT / Master Quest / Majoras Mask / Zelda NES / Zelda 2 NES plus a few extras (Wind Waker demo amongst them). Linky.

That's the one I have, should I start planning my retirement? :rolleyes: Joking aside what's it worth realistically?

Sparks43 · 11-09-2011 5:02pm

Anyone know the best way to pick up a Snes compliant psu?

Would maplins or argos have one?

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 5:07pm

Some wonderful videogame voice acting from the early days of CD based media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XG1f19OE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs3HuuQO4U8

Retr0gamer · 11-09-2011 5:19pm

Also found this series of videos! Well worth watching them all:

Dr Bob · 11-09-2011 6:17pm

Sparks43 wrote: »

Anyone know the best way to pick up a Snes compliant psu?

Would maplins or argos have one?

if you can get hold of an NES psu they're basically the same
Its an AC rather than DC power supply though so a generic one is a bit harder to get than normal

Atavan-Halen · 11-09-2011 8:55pm

Currently sniping a NGPC on ebay. 10 mins to go and I swear if anyone else here tries to out bid me...

Professey Chin · 11-09-2011 9:03pm

atavan-halen wrote: »

Currently sniping a NGPC on ebay. 10 mins to go and I swear if anyone else here tries to out bid me...

>_>

Nah ill let this one go...............maybe

<_<

jimi_t2 · 11-09-2011 9:03pm

Did a bit of a clear out at the weekend and found a (presumably) working PSONE (the mini one). Is it possible to chip one of these and add a harddrive? There's only about 10 playstation games I own, and I'd love to prevent them getting even more scratched and eliminate load times if at all possible.

Atavan-Halen · 11-09-2011 9:12pm

Feck, was outbid anyway

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