Son Of General Retro Discussion

o1s1n

I can't buy Xenoblade from Play.com as the price is in sterling and I can only buy items priced in Euro?

**** that ****!

johnny_ultimate

o1s1n wrote: »

I can't buy Xenoblade from Play.com as the price is in sterling and I can only buy items priced in Euro?

**** that ****!

There should be a euro flag on the sidebar you can press. But as retro says, their exchange rate is a load of balls.

Retr0gamer

Your first mistake is using play.com. You have to buy from them in euro using their rape time exchange rate which doubles the sterling price. Use a decent place like amazon or one of the hut groups sellers like sendit or zavvi.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

I can't buy Xenoblade from Play.com as the price is in sterling and I can only buy items priced in Euro?

**** that ****!

<britmode>God save the pound!</britmode>

:D:D:D

o1s1n

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

There should be a euro flag on the sidebar you can press. But as retro says, their exchange rate is a load of balls.

HAaha! So there is. Thanks for that

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Your first mistake is using play.com. You have to buy from them in euro using their rape time exchange rate which doubles the sterling price. Use a decent place like amazon or one of the hut groups sellers like sendit or zavvi.

Hmm. They're quoting me €37.49 for the game including free postage. The XE conversion rate says it should be €34.40.

Tried Zavii as a comparison. Including postage it came to €38.16. Seeing as Play.com has free postage it seems to be the cheaper option.

edit - got that ordered just now anyway. How I will find the time to play it, I don't know!

DinoRex

o1s1n wrote: »

HAaha! So there is. Thanks for that



Hmm. They're quoting me €37.49 for the game including free postage. The XE conversion rate says it should be €34.40.

Tried Zavii as a comparison. Including postage it came to €38.16. Seeing as Play.com has free postage it seems to be the cheaper option!

yeah... their free postage isn't really free... looks like they roll it into the exchange rate.

Dr Bob

arrgh bollocks!!
Managed to buy an AV cable from a frickin UK seller who doesnt ship here.
Had two windows open and just spotted I clicked on the wrong one..gaah!
Just sent him an apologizing message bascially asking if he can withdraw the offer or post it for something reasonable...f£$k!!!
probably going to be waiting feckin days for him to respond

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Wehey! I'll see if I can pick up Xenoblade online now. Cheers Sera

Kula World is in the same boat as Tombi. Everyone played and loved the demo but never bought the damn game so it's now kinda rare and silly expensive.

Thankfully the US and Jap copies of the game are cheaper, as in posted for under €20. Might have to pick one up! Itching to play it again!

CiDeRmAn

There are a bunch of PS1 games I must pick up, Motorhead is one I must pick up, one of the first PS games to appear on PSN afaik.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah picked up kula world on psn during one of the sales. Good fun but haven't played it enough. An interesting early take on 3d puzzling: Mario Galaxy owes a lot to it.

CiDeRmAn

I'd have to differ, aside from the point of view not sure there is a lot in common between the two.

Kula World represents a genre that seems to have migrated over to the smart phones, although the dowloadable market places on the home consoles have seen them return to their origin point to a certain extent.

Kurushi is another example of this, simple stylised visuals, fiendish gameplay.
The VR missions in the extra disk for MGS is in the club too.

Retr0gamer

I'd be surprised if the main players behind mario galaxy had heard of kula world let alone palyed it.

johnny_ultimate

Well more so the spatial shifts - might not be influenced, but surprising to see the idea being used so convincingly a decade before Mario Galaxy would popularise it

Obviously Nintendo took such spatial ****ery to new, brilliant extremes. But Kula World is one of those games that idea wise took a while to be replicated and built upon by others, consciously or not.

DinoRex

I bet none of you have one of these:

Retr0gamer

SMG was a long time comping cnsidering it started as the mario 128 demo to show of the gamecube.

CathalDublin

Can anyone recommend someone who repairs Game PCB's?
Spent the whole afternoon on this board but am not having much luck, Definitely needs a professional to have a look, I don't mind posting anywhere in europe.
Oh its a Ghosts N Goblins Bootleg if anyones wondering
Cheers

SdoowSirhc

http://cgi.ebay.ie/7-android-2-3-Wifi-Pc-Tablet-3G-Hdmi-Pad-keyboard-/180720389083?pt=UK_iPad_Tablets_eReaders&hash=item2a13c64bdb


does anybody know if this could handle the SNES emulator at full speed? Maybe even the psx one?:o

Retr0gamer

It will handle normal emulators but not a chance of it running BSNES. As for PSX it should work but my advice is to not bother with PS1 emulation unless you really can't get a chipped original machine.

SdoowSirhc

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It will handle normal emulators but not a chance of it running BSNES. As for PSX it should work but my advice is to not bother with PS1 emulation unless you really can't get a chipped original machine.

I really just waant something with multi touch and flash that can run games at normal speed and SNESoid and gameboid

Recommend any other tabs under 150?

johnny_ultimate

Any good 'US only' games knocking around at the moment? 'rents are over there and might send them ask them to pop into the local game store if there's anything worthwhile. I was going to go with Persona 2, but we're getting a prettier edition so may as well stall for that.

Disgaea 4 is a possibility actually...

Retr0gamer

Nothing really unless you want them to hunt down obscure PSP and DS games.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah, slim-pickings. I'm not cruel enough to send them looking for Radiant Historia in the local Gamestop. The internet has done away with the need for such barbaric acts.

Some sites have Otomdeius Excellent slated for release today though. Others November. And no word on its region free status, or lack thereof. Boo.

Dr Bob

DinoRex wrote: »

I bet none of you have one of these:

indeed no
I have one that has all the same gumf with it , but looks like a cross between a famicom and a weird snes.no battman stuff though

Dr Bob

arrgh I 'm going out tommorrow and buying the following
solder , a new WORKING feckin soldering iron. a set of helping hands
There will then be a cermonial beating of the crappy 'oxidise within 10 seconds' maplin one I' was using tonight followed by a binning .
Worked out a way to make a combo C64/SMS/meg AV cable , and have it half finsihed at the mo , once I get an Iron that WORKS I should have it finished

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

because I found it, said may as well post it,
ages ago we were talking about phone covers (Andrew might remember lol) on the GRD (not SoGRD)

DinoRex

luas_dublin wrote: »

indeed no
I have one that has all the same gumf with it , but looks like a cross between a famicom and a weird snes.no battman stuff though

Not sure if that's two t's in the middle or pi

ondafly

CathalDublin wrote: »

Can anyone recommend someone who repairs Game PCB's?
Spent the whole afternoon on this board but am not having much luck, Definitely needs a professional to have a look, I don't mind posting anywhere in europe.
Oh its a Ghosts N Goblins Bootleg if anyones wondering
Cheers

I'm currently trying to trouble shoot my Bubble Bobble PCB, and when I finally give up - I'll be sending it to Jochen from www.arcadeforge.de, heres his youtube channel which shows some repair work. Also on his blog, hes done fairly long posts about repairing games etc

Dr Bob

Had some small success with that cable . sms meg and C64 use a similar enough 8 pin DIN socket for AV out . For component (i.e. phone/rca connectors) it actually only uses 5 , both use the middle pin for ground , and the far right carries audio .component video is the first pin on the left for the SMS and the second on the left for the c64.What I did was get a DIN 5 phono plug ,and 3 phono connectors (yellow white and red) from an old vcr system.
Cut off and bared the wires , the inner cable on red went to audio , white to c64 comp vid and yellow to SMS comp vid.The outer cables were spliced together badly and attached to ground.Like I said the iron I was using just kept oxidising within a few seconds , and I'd an awful time with the solder.
It was in the bottom of a box for a few years so I'm going to bite the bullet and replace it.
Plus I'd tried to get all 3 outer cables attached to the grnd pin and it was very messy.
When I was using the 64 I plugged in the white and red cables , the sms/meg plugged in the yellow and red.
The C64 gave me a very bad inverted screen that could just barely be made out.The SMS gave an almost perfect screen with the odd bit of static if I moved the cable. I reckon the yellow outer cable had come loose or wasnt spliced properly.So I took the cable apart and I'm going to retry it tonight
I reckon if I solder on a lead wire to the ground , it'll be easier to attach the 3 cables .Plus a decent set of helping hands and working soldering iron (as opposed to judacious use of blutack and a dodgy one) should mean it'll be neater. Any one have any handy tips for this sort of thing , its damn fiddly!

Retr0gamer

Mass Effect 2 DLC really isn't worth the money. Not bad, but I could have lived without it. Even the Shadow Broker DLC which was hyped up was a big disappointment. Another case of Giant Bomb getting it wrong.

johnny_ultimate

DLC is worthless in general. I can't think off the top of my head of many that are truly worth paying for (even Mushimesama Black Label was expensive at 1200 points or whatever it was). Apparently the Bioshock 2 single player one is good, though.

I mourn for the inevitable day when Gears of War 3's fantastic multiplayer is soured by the introduction of premium maps. Le sigh.