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

alpahaeagle

My Latest Purchase......

Nintendo Famicon

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Thanks Enternow







And a Neo Geo MVS console



Came with Fatal Fury and 120 in 1 cartridge



That is all- end transmission.

o1s1n

Ooooh, where'd you get the consolized MVS system?? Haven't seen one of them around these parts before.

Hope you get some use out of that Famicom before it passes hands again, I powered it on once too and that was it

alpahaeagle

o1s1n wrote: »

Ooooh, where'd you get the consolized MVS system?? Haven't seen one of them around these parts before.

Hope you get some use out of that Famicom before it passes hands again, I powered it on once too and that was it

The Mvs was on adverts, been there for a while as well...

http://www.adverts.ie/2715502


Have to get some games for the famicon before I can turn it on..:mad:

o1s1n

Excellent price! Any consolized arcade units I've seen tend to go for mad money.

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

Excellent price! Any consolized arcade units I've seen tend to go for mad money.

Really ? I think that is mad money for it.

Retr0gamer

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Really ? I think that is mad money for it.

Bare boards go for about 150. Consolised I've seen go for about 600 average.

o1s1n

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Really ? I think that is mad money for it.

For whatever reason, most folk who make consolized units sell them for a lot of money (more than they're worth IMO). Check out the ebay prices, it will make you want to get into the business

MVS ones seem to go for about €300 on average, dependant on the finish. I've seen other systems like consolized CPS2 boards sell for more.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Bare boards go for about 150. Consolised I've seen go for about 600 average.

Ah you should be able to get a decent MVS system for well under 100. Last one I bought was only €70. If you're paying €150 you're spending too much.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah you should be able to get a decent MVS system for well under 100. Last one I bought was only €70. If you're paying €150 you're spending too much.

I didn't, cidey cut me a good deal

The Last Bandit

Single slot MVS boards are available from 50 - 100. Someone of J+ was selling a few recently for £50 I think.

But if that's what there selling for then so be it.

Eh no, I've not any plans to build any MVS ones. Still not finished my own after 18 months of owing it Only cost €10 to do but does resemble a badger arse though.

I've seen some of the CPS2 ones and they are a decent job alright complete with USB interfaces, no idea what they cost though.

o1s1n

The conservationist in me ain't a big fan of them, but I can see the logic in ones for cart based boards like the Neo Geo. Sure they're pretty much like a little console in a cab.

Consolized CPS2 sounds daft though!

Andrew76

So it does away with the need for a Supergun/cab?

Has it's own power supply and scart cable for picture and sound?

Strange looking yoke alright.

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

So it does away with the need for a Supergun/cab?

Has it's own power supply and scart cable for picture and sound?

Strange looking yoke alright.

That's it. They stick output ports on the MVS board itself, so you can plug it straight into a tv as if it were a console.

Atavan-Halen

So these were my holiday pickups.





Arcana heart has all the stuff in it including art book, cards, soundtrack and game.

Also had this waiting for me in the post when I got home.

MrVestek

Another one to add to your crappy games collection?

Actually to be fair I think I played that years ago when I was a kid... but in my defence...

No sorry I can't even defend that.

Atavan-Halen

Achilles wrote: »

Another one to add to your crappy games collection?

Actually to be fair I think I played that years ago when I was a kid... but in my defence...

No sorry I can't even defend that.

Yep! I've actually wanted it since a kid so in a way glad to have it in my collection.

Retr0gamer

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Yep! I've actually wanted it since a kid so in a way glad to have it in my collection.

for reals?

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

for reals?

5 reals. That's more than 4 reals.

Retr0gamer

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

5 reals. That's more than 4 reals.

And I thought that Gal Gun was the height of depravity.

CiDeRmAn

This is a man who owns a Westlife quiz game for said PS1.

The Arcana game looks like a nice get, well done

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

And I thought that Gal Gun was the height of depravity.

Well at least it doesn't involve firing love pheromones at scary, sporty, posh, ginger or baby spice.

Not in game anyway.

Jack burton

Got another game myself today



The cartridge has a torn label that was not in the ebay auction! Luckily I already have a boxed copy and only got this for the manual...for £4 its hard to complain aswell

the groutch

Retr0gamer wrote: »

for reals?

could have been worse could have gotten this

Atavan-Halen

the groutch wrote: »

could have been worse could have gotten this

Definitely getting that.

Retr0gamer

I've gone to the dark side and bought an Apple Mac Mini MB138B/A.

In my defence I need it to do some apple specific coding, testing and need a mac to publish on iOS so bought the cheapest mac mini I could afford.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I've gone to the dark side and bought an Apple Mac Mini MB138B/A.

In my defence I need it to do some apple specific coding, testing and need a mac to publish on iOS so bought the cheapest mac mini I could afford.

Nothing wrong with Macs. I'm dying to get a Macbook myself.

Popped into the newly opened HMV on my lunchbreak today. Store looks nice but the games selection, in my local anyway, wasn't great. Had a look through the "pre-owned" (they were all new games, probably until people start trading games in) games. Anyway, spotted this and picked it up.



Already have it on the 360 but figured it's worth a fiver for all the DLC included. Got home and opened up the box to find this inside:



So got GRID 2 for a fiver which was nice. Only with it was on the 360. One other thing was all the staff had Xtra-vision staff cards and name badges which was odd but I suppose they're merging the two stores.

CiDeRmAn

Looks nice, I'll have to venture in and have a look, although it kinda feels like the old days, having to head into town on the horse and cart to visit the nearest HMV!

o1s1n

I went into the one on Henry street on Friday, all excited to pick up Dredd on blueray - no sign of it though

They seem to be very limited in stock, ended up coming out empty handed.

CiDeRmAn

Maybe they haven't finalised deals with various suppliers?
I'd certainly be hesitant about dropping a preorder deposit on anything beyond a week or two, just in case.
Can't see people buying a lot of vouchers there either, given the experience with them over the bulk of 2013, I reckon a huge amount were just binned, folk considering them worthless.

Atavan-Halen

I'd say that's the case. Plus they're only open a short while so they could still be waiting on deliveries.

CiDeRmAn

I trawled through ex-Xtravision stock in Balbriggan market and was surprised to find bugger all I wanted, masses of 2 year old + games and none of them jumped at me.
All I could think of was there's no rush to buy here, what ever games are being sold off for a fiver, sure they'll be the fodder of Sunday markets for the next 6 years, plenty of time.
And so, I really need to see some pre-owned stock somewhere new, GS always seems to have the same old stuff in and the same old high prices, at least HMV gave us some choices, not to mention CEX.