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

STG.Otaku

Oh and Blazing Lasers is excellent. Really odd coincidence you are playing that on your TE as I have Gunhed in my GT right now!

CiDeRmAn

I just need to be able to hear it!
It looks lovely though.
I'll pop out into my TG 16 when I get up in the morning.

Atavan-Halen

This is still €6.99 in argos so picked a copy up.

CiDeRmAn

But you already own it!
It was your place that we played it!
Is U MAdddd????

Or did you cider it up a notch, play it, sell it, buy it again?

Atavan-Halen

You did play it at my house but it was DinoRex's copy.

CiDeRmAn

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

You did play it at my house but it was DinoRex's copy.

And just like that, the issue was cleared up.

It's very good, isn't it?

A perfect little jewel of a game and, it seems, unknown by the bulk of people thinking it just another juvenile game for kids with Nintendos.

The Fools!!!

Atavan-Halen

Haven't played it since that night. Been to busy trying to finish puppeteer on the PS3.

I did really enjoy rhythm paradise on the DS although it was rather short.

CiDeRmAn

My son loved Puppeteer, he played it to completion, he is finishing more games than i these days!

Atavan-Halen

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My son loved Puppeteer, he played it to completion, he is finishing more games than i these days!

Yeah it's a nice little platformer actually. Cut scenes can be a bit long but it does fit in with the whole theatre theme. I think I'm about halfway through.

CiDeRmAn

The voice work in it is amazing, and the mechanics of the stage, I'd love to play it on a 3D display, it's supposed to be remarkable.
I would say it's unfortunate it was largely ignored, given the amount of work that went into it.
It's an example of how good some teams are at producing something truly special, though the gameplay is a little vanilla overall.
But that kind of visual invention used to be reserved for Nintendo, but we have seen Sony produce such good stuff over the last decade, it's be sad to see their current troubles cut back on innovation and concentrate on the big stuff.

Star Lord

Giants: Citizen Kabuto on GOG for $4.99 (around €3.75 according to Paypal) for the next 16 hours. Just grabbed myself a copy, as my one from all the way back when has gone missing!



I remember my system struggled to run it back then!

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Got myself a little retail Gameboy game display stand.

Saw one for sale on AO for €35 (before postage) and before going for it, I decided to check ebay. Thank feck I did, some lad has them listed at £14.99! (and free postage to the UK)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111230601529?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Should be good for storing loose Nintendo handheld carts.

Just got one of these in the post, lovely little thing.

It happens to be a great way of storing snes carts, I was going to pick up another one and saw that the seller has put the price up to £16.99.

Feck that! :mad:

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

An official Nintendo box not meant for consumers with a nice logo on the front of it

Doge

Here's two little gets i bought for a fiver each at Kaizoku Con this weekend:





I'm really stoked with Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot!

I thought it was 3D printed but it was actually sculpted with polymer clay i think by a really nice bloke called John.

He has lots more of them for sale as well as other items, here's his facebook page if you're interested:

https://www.facebook.com/TheNRDstudio?ref=ts&fref=ts

Doge

His Giant sized Legos are pretty cool but this life sized Stargate streals the show....

CiDeRmAn

The green interior means you can chromakey distant worlds, yes?
And if it's like the show it'll be distant worlds that consistently look like either forests or gravel pits!

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The green interior means you can chromakey distant worlds, yes?
And if it's like the show it'll be distant worlds that consistently look like either forests or gravel pits!

Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aV4QP_zuzo

Andrew76

A few recent game related items. Not really playing that much retro at the minute, any free time I get I seem to hop on the PC instead to play Diablo 3 (except for a little bit of schmupery ofc).





The lore books are really nice, especially the raised artwork on the covers (pretty cheap on thebookdepository too).





Envelope at the back of each book with a nice little map inside:

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aV4QP_zuzo

I like the poster in the background with earth's address on it.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

The only game related get I got was this cute Pac Man pin

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

His Giant sized Legos are pretty cool but this life sized Stargate streals the show....

Wait... where was this? I didn't see this. WHY DIDN'T I SEE THIS?!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright came!

Doge

MrVestek wrote: »

Wait... where was this? I didn't see this. WHY DIDN'T I SEE THIS?!

You didn't see this because this was on his facebook page! Not at the Con.

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

You didn't see this because this was on his facebook page! Not at the Con.

That would explain it! :P

o1s1n

Sick of sitting huddled over a Famicom already due to the short leads, so I bought myself this lovely little thing. Gotta love the little Hudson bee on it

CiDeRmAn

I've been talking about it but, at the same time as getting Kerb to review my AV mod in the Fami, I'm going to see about installing longer controller cables, they are definitely way to short for our gaming setups here, not like in the home islands where the kids can hunch over the telly, like in the Gamecentre game!
Oddly, there isn't much out there on the topic so I'll have to dig something out, might use donor cables from some NES pads that are banjaxed instead....
Some modders have installed controller ports on the front of the system, but I'd like to keep it as stock as possible.
It's such a delightful console, the Famicom, like the Gamecube just looking at it makes me smile!

o1s1n

I've been reading up on this issue the last few days and there are a few solutions.

The key is the DB15 extension port on the front of the console.

I've used the 1 player solution - that Hudson controller plugs into the DB15 port, fairly straight forward.

There are two 2 player + solutions.

You can get your hands on a Hori famicom multitap that goes into the above mentioned extension port. Down side? - they're hard to come by.

The second requires modding, but if you're going to mod the existing cables then have a think about this one.

Get a NES Forescore multitap

Get a Neo Geo controller extension cable. (the extension port on the Famicom is recessed too far for a standard DB15 port, luckily the Neo Geo one is similar)

Mod the end of the four score multitap to use the DB15 cable instead (there are controller pinout guides online for this mod)

You can now use NES pads with your Famicom.

The Last Bandit

You could fit (well Kerbdog could ) mini DIN sockets to the console where the existing cables exit - probably not much bigger than the cable hole anyway rather then fitting the usual DB9 connectors to it.

Or add inline mini DINs to the current cable to you can extend the controller cable without altering the console - similar setup to the old Xbox controller cable.

o1s1n

Here's the Fourscore modding guide.

http://nesdev.com/ffpa.txt

Another benefit of this one is being able to use other peripherals like light guns etc.

OwaynOTT

Best solution I can think of is to get the AV Famicom and then you can use the dogbone controllers.