The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

Pyongyang

Casey Kasem hits 'em between the eyes, pulls their trousers down and roger's them in to next Tuesday with another PGM hit!

Atavan-Halen

Got this today. Now I can finally Get Fit With Mel B!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I got my TeeFury Snorlax tshirt in navy

o1s1n

Casey120 wrote: »

Got me another two converted PGM carts :

I feel really dirty for wanting those conversions

Think I'm going to pick one up when I get the fundage - dust off the PGM mobo!

TechnoFreek

What kind of price do those pgm conversion carts go for?

o1s1n

I emailed him (guy from www.arcademodbios.com) the other day and here's the prices he gave me:

KETSUI PGM1 cartrdige 180EUR
ESPGALUDA PGM1 cartridge 160EUR
DDP-DOJ Black Label PGM1 ROM: 160EUR

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

I emailed him (guy from www.arcademodbios.com) the other day and here's the prices he gave me:

KETSUI PGM1 cartrdige 180EUR
ESPGALUDA PGM1 cartridge 160EUR
DDP-DOJ Black Label PGM1 ROM: 160EUR

Jesus they're some prices! What's the attraction with them anyway? Are they just the game ROMs burned onto PGM carts? I'd sooner stick with console ports where you can get them, or add up those prices and buy the PCBs.

Casey120

Pricey :pac:

I traded some (guitar) stuff for them

PS,
Ketsui and Galuda need a lot more solder work than DDP BL , the last one used to be € 60,- cheaper but demand probably sets the price .

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Jesus they're some prices! What's the attraction with them anyway? Are they just the game ROMs burned onto PGM carts? I'd sooner stick with console ports where you can get them, or add up those prices and buy the PCBs.

They work out cheaper and hardware wise it's pretty much the same thing. It's along the same lines of say a CPS2 conversion where you replace eeproms on a cheapo game with an expensive game.

What does Ketsui PCB only sell for these days? €600-€700? I'd like to have the game but could never dream of paying those rates. €180 doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

Edit - think what bumps up the price a bit is the fact that you have to find a sacrificial PGM cart to use too. They aren't the cheapest things to come across unfortunately.

Casey120

Ketsui went up to about € 600,- and has stayed there forever since people realised how awesome the game was .
It did pretty bad in the Japanese Arcades in 2003 when it was released and could be found cheap until 5 years ago .

As I understand for Galuda and Ketsui he needs certain games to be able to convert, I'm sure one of them is Knights of Valour 2, not just the cheapest € 10,- Mahjong cart .

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

They work out cheaper and hardware wise it's pretty much the same thing. It's along the same lines of say a CPS2 conversion where you replace eeproms on a cheapo game with an expensive game.

What does Ketsui PCB only sell for these days? €600-€700? I'd like to have the game but could never dream of paying those rates. €180 doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

Edit - think what bumps up the price a bit is the fact that you have to find a sacrificial PGM cart to use too. They aren't the cheapest things to come across unfortunately.

So he's basically destroying legit carts to make a tasty profit. I was just reading some threads on AO and shmups about the practice, some strong opinions about it. :pac:

Personally I couldn't spend 200 quid on a fake but each to their own.

Note I'm not knocking your stuff Casey, just curious about this PGM stuff.

Atavan-Halen

I need to stop ordering crap games.

http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/xx76/atavanhalen_2009/Untitleddf_zpse04325ca.png

Casey120

Andrew76 wrote: »

So he's basically destroying legit carts to make a tasty profit. I was just reading some threads on AO and shmups about the practice, some strong opinions about it. :pac:

Personally I couldn't spend 200 quid on a fake but each to their own.

Note I'm not knocking your stuff Casey, just curious about this PGM stuff.

I have read that but some guys with those strong opinions own ProGear conversions, CPS2 multiboards made of multiple stacked originals or things like Converted CPS1 G&G boards themselves which are the exact same thing

CiDeRmAn

atavan-halen wrote: »

I need to stop ordering crap games.

I think we can safely stop considering me to have the worst taste in videogames 'round these parts now, yes?

MrVestek

Now that's worse than purchasing Shadow the Hedgehog for sure!

Andrew76

Casey120 wrote: »

I have read that but some guys with those strong opinions own ProGear conversions, CPS2 multiboards made of multiple stacked originals or things like Converted CPS1 G&G boards themselves which are the exact same thing

Lol, a bunch of hypocrites they are so!

Pyongyang

Andrew76 wrote: »

hypocrites

(note: model posing for this photo may/may not be Ciderman)

safetyboy

o1s1n wrote: »

They work out cheaper and hardware wise it's pretty much the same thing. It's along the same lines of say a CPS2 conversion where you replace eeproms on a cheapo game with an expensive game.

What does Ketsui PCB only sell for these days? €600-€700? I'd like to have the game but could never dream of paying those rates. €180 doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

Edit - think what bumps up the price a bit is the fact that you have to find a sacrificial PGM cart to use too. They aren't the cheapest things to come across unfortunately.

Think I paid around 500€ for my ketsui with updated rom.

I'ts one tough game I tells ya!

Casey120

I just put the PGM mobo in and had a test drive, both carts work perfectly .
It's nice to be able to do a quick swap trough all four games though, easy as changing carts in your Snes !

Atavan-Halen

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think we can safely stop considering me to have the worst taste in videogames 'round these parts now, yes?

At least I admit it and amn't wearing halo-tinted glasses :P

CiDeRmAn

atavan-halen wrote: »

At least I admit it and amn't wearing halo-tinted glasses :P

No, you just drink out of Halo tinted glasses!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

CosmicSmash

Achilles wrote: »

Now that's worse than purchasing Shadow the Hedgehog for sure!

o1s1n

Received my PCB holder today. One of the worst pieces of packaging I've ever seen.

Then auction ended at one pound - but the packing from the UK was £6.90. I checked the UK delivery sticker and he paid £2.60

I didn't think too much of it as I'd assumed the holder was mainly steel.
Nope, it's plastic. And yep, part of it is broken due to the packaging (or lack of it)

MrVestek

Paypal dispute here you come!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

Received my PCB holder today. One of the worst pieces of packaging I've ever seen.

Is it worse than the pizza box?

Retr0gamer

Got Skyblazer today for the snes. Great under appreciated gem.

o1s1n

Sera wrote: »

Is it worse than the pizza box?

HAHAHA! I'd forgotten about that. The one with the cheese and everything? That was hilarious!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

HAHAHA! I'd forgotten about that. The one with the cheese and everything? That was hilarious!

How could you forget? it's actually what I think EVERY time I see a pizza box now

Casey120

o1s1n wrote: »

Received my PCB holder today. One of the worst pieces of packaging I've ever seen.

Then auction ended at one pound - but the packing from the UK was £6.90. I checked the UK delivery sticker and he paid £2.60

I didn't think too much of it as I'd assumed the holder was mainly steel.
Nope, it's plastic. And yep, part of it is broken due to the packaging (or lack of it)

Weird , I have two of those and the usually come in a white Box from themselves .
Never seen them send out like that :mad:

o1s1n

Casey120 wrote: »

Weird , I have two of those and the usually come in a white Box from themselves .
Never seen them send out like that :mad:

I think they're second hand (came out of cabs) so it didn't have the original packaging. Still, he could have put it in a box

On the plus side, it still functions okay. The split on the top of the rail is kind of negated by the screws holding it in place on the board thankfully