Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

o1s1n

I'd say you'll be hard pressed finding a printer for something as big as A0 fur under 45 euro.

Reads on Nassau street were always the best I found for printing stuff when I was back in college. Snapfish are good online. But I'd say they'd both charge about that for printing.

In fact, if anyone could find a cheap A1-A0 printer I'd be interested myself!

johnny_ultimate

o1s1n wrote: »

Just following this over on the Neo-geo forums. Apparently that 30k cart looks to have been a bootleg :eek:

Was just reading that thread and man there's some over-serious individuals on that forum. I guess when people are spending thousands and thousands on games there's going to be some drama, but all the bitching and fighting makes for some sad reading.

Makes you appreciate forums like this without all that nonsense.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

I'd say you'll be hard pressed finding a printer for something as big as A0 fur under 45 euro.

Reads on Nassau street were always the best I found for printing stuff when I was back in college. Snapfish are good online. But I'd say they'd both charge about that for printing.

In fact, if anyone could find a cheap A1-A0 printer I'd be interested myself!

I might settle for A1 as its almost the same size as those Maxi posters. Can get that done for €19 on 130gsm paper or €23 for 180gsm photographic paper.

o1s1n

Neo-geo.com is the worst gaming forum for drama. There really is nothing like it. It's even in one of their taglines. They do pay big money for games, so when something goes wrong, jeez, it's like the world is ending.

It was interesting to read the analysis from the guy who bought it though. He had some serious AES cart knowledge. Even down to saying how the gloss shine when the light hits it is wrong, some parts are too high quality (the MEG count and the lack of distance between ink dots) - it's amazing to the point of museum type analysis, but my god is it crazy. Why anyone would bother I really don't know.

You're talking about games which are so expensive, people are traveling around the world to collect them in person. They take it to a point so serious I'm actually embarrassed for them.

o1s1n

Steve SI wrote: »

I might settle for A1 as its almost the same size as those Maxi posters. Can get that done for €19 on 130gsm paper or €23 for 180gsm photographic paper.

That's not bad at all! Is that a personal deal you have with someone or something we can all avail of? I wouldn't mind getting some A1 posters for the house.

A1 is a really good poster size. You'd really want to love an image to have it blown up to A0 though. And my god would you need to have one hell of a high quality source file!

Have you ever looked into French cinema art posters at all? They're colossal. They can cost a fortune though. There's one I've been trying to get for ages, but it's just too expensive to justify.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-DEVILS-1971-Vintage-Quad-Cinema-Poster-KEN-RUSSELL-OLIVER-REED-/110770785058?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_Film_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item19ca740b22#ht_1546wt_1265

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

That's not bad at all! Is that a personal deal you have with someone or something we can all avail of? I wouldn't mind getting some A1 posters for the house.

A1 is a really good poster size. You'd really want to love an image to have it blown up to A0 though. And my god would you need to have one hell of a high quality source file!

Have you ever looked into French cinema art posters at all? They're colossal. They can cost a fortune though. There's one I've been trying to get for ages, but it's just too expensive to justify.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-DEVILS-1971-Vintage-Quad-Cinema-Poster-KEN-RUSSELL-OLIVER-REED-/110770785058?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_Film_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item19ca740b22#ht_1546wt_1265

No special deal.
I've never used them so not sure if they're good or bad.
http://www.printing.ie/full-colour-printing/posters/big-posters

I'm not even looking to get anything special printed just yet. Just some cool non gaming related artwork I came across online that I've converted to vectors. Sort of a test order before I get some other stuff done.

DinoRex

A collection of photos of some of the absolutely bat**** crazy console knockoffs:

http://i.imgur.com/87pll.jpg

Good few I hadn't seen before.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

A collection of photos of some of the absolutely bat**** crazy console knockoffs:

http://i.imgur.com/87pll.jpg

Good few I hadn't seen before.

I knew the last one from the couch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I

CiDeRmAn

Never met a chinese knock off I liked!

I really must do a bit of work on the storage upstairs.
Not sure where to relocate the PS2 stuff though....

Going to subdivide the space they are currently in into separate spaces, get a string of led lights and hook'em up.... bit of repainting... some magic.... BANG! A better looking, better functioning gamesroom that I don't get to use, instead of a tired busted gamesroom I never use!

It's tragic to look at all this good stuff and realise how seldom it is played.

Don't know

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Never met a chinese knock off I liked!

I really must do a bit of work on the storage upstairs.
Not sure where to relocate the PS2 stuff though....

Going to subdivide the space they are currently in into separate spaces, get a string of led lights and hook'em up.... bit of repainting... some magic.... BANG! A better looking, better functioning gamesroom that I don't get to use, instead of a tired busted gamesroom I never use!

It's tragic to look at all this good stuff and realise how seldom it is played.

Don't know

I offer 50 Euro to take it off your hands

OwaynOTT

Super Megason! Super mega lol

Steve X2

Haha, Oh Japan

A slight bit NSFW.
Cleavage-Inspired Ice Cream Offered at Akihabara Cafe to Celebrate Upcoming Release of Senran Kagura Sequel
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/08/07/cleavage-inspired-ice-cream-offered-at-akihabara-cafe-to-celebrate-upcoming-release-of-senran-kagura-sequel/

Pyongyang

I actually saw maids handing those flyers out in Akiba. Wife wouldn't let me buy one.

johnny_ultimate

Going to a screening of a film called My Brothers during the week. I had a quick glance at the synopsis, and the last line caught my eye:

Set over Halloween weekend in 1987, My Brothers is the story of the three boys’ journey to replace their dying father’s watch. NOEL (Timmy Creed) is seventeen, serious, weighed down by responsibility. Twelve-year- old PAUDIE (Paul Courtney) is cocky, not so bright and dreams of playing in goals for Liverpool and the youngest is seven year old SCWALLY (T.J Griffin) – daydreamer, naïve and obsessed with Star Wars (despite never actually having seen the films). Using a battered bread van, the brothers embark on a journey across the wild Irish landscape, grappling with grinding gears, dodgy electrics and sibling tensions to get to an arcade machine in a small Irish seaside town

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

was watching Cartoon Network with my nephews and Regular Show was on, there was an ad on for the "maximum glove". Gonna start watching it now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQOa75Zg2c

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

I actually saw maids handing those flyers out in Akiba. Wife wouldn't let me buy one.

Thats the benefit of going sans GF/Wifey

I'm heading over in a couple of weeks again myself so might check this out if it doesn't feel too creepy/duurty, which it probably will :eek:

Professey Chin

I love Felicia Day :pac:
(She plays Gunstar Heroes in her newest youtube show episode thing)

CiDeRmAn

Ordinary Show is very good, my soon and I watch it, The Amazing World of Gumball is great too. Funny stuff.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ordinary Show is very good, my soon and I watch it, The Amazing World of Gumball is great too. Funny stuff.

It's very good, only seen that in the past 3 weeks, same thing, from babysitting since I don't have CN at home.
Is the font from a game? or just looks like one? it's really bugging me.

I love google's olympic doodle for today. It's a 100m hurdles button basher flash game. Reminds me of playing track and field on the NES years ago.

DinoRex

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Going to a screening of a film called My Brothers during the week. I had a quick glance at the synopsis, and the last line caught my eye:

Oh I saw that last year. It's really good. The fat kid is really funny.

The arcade machine in question is just a claw machine if I recall though.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Thats the benefit of going sans GF/Wifey

I'm heading over in a couple of weeks again myself so might check this out if it doesn't feel too creepy/duurty, which it probably will :eek: schoolgirl panty vending machine lark out

.

Myrddin

What the hell happened your Mig 1200 Steve? Fried mainboard chips & case?? :eek:

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

What the hell happened your Mig 1200 Steve? Fried mainboard chips & case?? :eek:

Going by the type of mig he's running, he probably stuck Crysis on too high a setting.

Steve X2

I hadn't powered up the Amiga 1200 in a while and as I'm planning some Amiga mods to either the A600 or/and A1200 I decided it was time to give it a bit of usage.
Ran it for an hour on the normal PSU and then I was in the kitchen and could smell that electrical burning smell that we all hate when we know expensive things aren powered on (Amiga 1200 not so pricey but the upgrades in it cost a small fortune).
Went upstairs to the office and the back of the Amiga was smoking like crazy.

BAD TIMES

o1s1n

Hahaha Oh god. A signed for package arrived out in my folks house for me while they were away.

They drove out to collect it for me (aren't they great?!)

Oisin's mother: 'Its a blue thing, looks like a lens, maybe a tray?'

Oisin: 'Ah, that's an arcade ashtray! they're great to put jellybeans in!'

Oisin's mother: 'we drove all the way out to the post office to pick up something you put jellybeans in???!'

I told her she could have the first jellybean - she's still not impressed.

Retr0gamer

Steve SI wrote: »

I hadn't powered up the Amiga 1200 in a while and as I'm planning some Amiga mods to either the A600 or/and A1200 I decided it was time to give it a bit of usage.
Ran it for an hour on the normal PSU and then I was in the kitchen and could smell that electrical burning smell that we all hate when we know expensive things aren powered on (Amiga 1200 not so pricey but the upgrades in it cost a small fortune).
Went upstairs to the office and the back of the Amiga was smoking like crazy.

BAD TIMES

You should go to bed and not turn on any other expensive electrical goods until tomorrow, it's just not your day.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Ran it for an hour on the normal PSU and then I was in the kitchen and could smell that electrical burning smell that we all hate when we know expensive things aren powered on (Amiga 1200 not so pricey but the upgrades in it cost a small fortune).
Went upstairs to the office and the back of the Amiga was smoking like crazy.

BAD TIMES

So it basically just fried for no reason?? :eek:

*Never powers on another retro console again

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You should go to bed and not turn on any other expensive electrical goods until tomorrow, it's just not your day.

Which bed, he has two

Pyongyang

EnterNow wrote: »

Which bed, he has two

In which house? He has two.