Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

valleyoftheunos

o1s1n wrote: »

His technical ability and how the whole thing is put together is really impressive - but what a complete and utter waste of time! And a waste of good consoles.:(

Why go through all that and use a ps1 D pad on the master controller?
Why go through all that and play the games in 16:9 on a horrible big LCD?
Pig ugly looking thing too.

He spent 3000 hours on it but the labels don't look like they are aligned right or even on straight. Technically impressive but bit of a waste of time.

o1s1n

It's amazing how quickly you can forget about stuff. I was looking through a wardrobe to see if there was anything else I could sell on, and found all of this!

I knew I had a NGP but had forgotten there were quite a few CIB games in there.

martineatworld

o1s1n wrote: »

It's amazing how quickly you can forget about stuff. I was looking through a wardrobe to see if there was anything else I could sell on, and found all of this!

I knew I had a NGP but had forgotten there were quite a few CIB games in there.

Those ngp boxes are really lovely...! They're also starting to rise in price a bit compared to per say this time last year.

Mr.Saturn

That awkward moment when you spot a Dreamcast controller on the cover of 'Front' magazine, long, long before you cop the fact it's being held by 3 young-ones in the nip.

I'm guessing it wasn't a gaming magazine.

CiDeRmAn

It says more of the psychology of the viewer when presented with three gurls in the altogether and you focus on the make of controller they are gripping.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOX_hbkAMc

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

His technical ability and how the whole thing is put together is really impressive - but what a complete and utter waste of time! And a waste of good consoles.:(

Why go through all that and use a ps1 D pad on the master controller?
Why go through all that and play the games in 16:9 on a horrible big LCD?
Pig ugly looking thing too.

Its impressive for someone with absolutely no engineering background or skills to put together - technical ability is not demonstrated.

But fundamentally fails in its initial premise to play games as originally indented and avoid emulators. A huge part of the original experience is the physical interaction between you and the machine, i.e the controller, the look of the console, even wiggling/blowing the poxy cartridges.

I won't slate him for the LCD screen as not everyone has the space for CRT's anymore.

Andrew76

Re: The Project Unity frankenstein thing.

I admire his dedication to complete the project at least, I didn't have the dedication to finish the video, bloody monotonous voice on him. Looks like it would be a pain in the ass when something goes wrong inside it. That or it will burn his gaff down.

A small CRT takes up feck all space in fairness, unless you're living in a one room bedsit or you have the equivalent of a Sauron telling you you're not allowed get one.

MrVestek

Picked up a spare Original Xbox earlier today.

Just wondering what people would be willing to pay or how they'd feel that an Original Xbox with CoinOps4 Full installed would be worth to sell on?

Thanks all.

It'd be exactly like the one that I recently had at o1s1n's beers.

CiDeRmAn

No idea what its worth tbh.
Because the Coinops stuff is free the things you'd be charging for would be the price of an Xbox and your time in setting it up.
Looks cool though.
Is the emu better than Mame for running stuff?
I found it got tripped up by the memory requirements of some games and just stalled or quit.

Steve X2

You should check out the new Visionary front-end for the original xbox. Very hyperspinny looking and dead easy to setup and very customisable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvHygL3Bd8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-KPQLWaUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFrKzHm-0n8

the groutch

anyone been into this Retropolis place yet?

Retr0gamer

I wandered in at the weekend. Couldnt afford anything though. He's not got a lot of stuff but what he has seems to be priced well and is good quality.

moonlighting

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

CathalDublin

Steve SI wrote: »

You should check out the new Visionary front-end for the original xbox. Very hyperspinny looking and dead easy to setup and very customisable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvHygL3Bd8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-KPQLWaUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFrKzHm-0n8

Any chance of an invite onto UG?

deathrider

moonlighting wrote: »

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

Is this the exact moment when Skynet becomes self aware?

Steve X2

CathalDublin wrote: »

Any chance of an invite onto UG?

PM sent

Retr0gamer

One for the coders:

http://adam-lynch.github.io/ked/

DinoRex

Perfect for taking naps to refill your energy tanks:

CiDeRmAn

Well.... that's interesting.
My ad for the MVS Board and the 111 in 1 MVS cart was removed as it was a breach of rules.
So, while they lack the will to crack down on misleading ads, like Retr0's 3DO and the Amiga reported recently, they can jump in on mine and flex their muscles....
Also, they seem to plead ignorance on the young one in Castleknock selling a mix of unboxed and pirated PS2 games, despite my reporting same to them on a number of occasions!
So a big +1 to Adverts for consistency!

valleyoftheunos

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well.... that's interesting.
My ad for the MVS Board and the 111 in 1 MVS cart was removed as it was a breach of rules.
So, while they lack the will to crack down on misleading ads, like Retr0's 3DO and the Amiga reported recently, they can jump in on mine and flex their muscles....
Also, they seem to plead ignorance on the young one in Castleknock selling a mix of unboxed and pirated PS2 games, despite my reporting same to them on a number of occasions!
So a big +1 to Adverts for consistency!

Its the Wild West and the sherriff is no good. We need some sort of Adverts Wyatt Earp.

Myrddin

Yeah the Adverts consistency thing...don't even try & figure it out. Don't forget though that you have the Social Group thing too for sales, which you control

Myrddin

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Its the Wild West and the sherriff is no good. We need some sort of Adverts Wyatt Earp.

I see it more of a Pat Garret thing, we definitely need a William Bonney around those parts

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well.... that's interesting.
My ad for the MVS Board and the 111 in 1 MVS cart was removed as it was a breach of rules.
So, while they lack the will to crack down on misleading ads, like Retr0's 3DO and the Amiga reported recently, they can jump in on mine and flex their muscles....
Also, they seem to plead ignorance on the young one in Castleknock selling a mix of unboxed and pirated PS2 games, despite my reporting same to them on a number of occasions!
So a big +1 to Adverts for consistency!

I've seen similar carts sell there at least twice in the past, in fact there's a 120 in 1 up with a mobo as we speak?!?!

DinoRex

An Alpaca dating sim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDIvDx2HCM

Retr0gamer

DinoRex wrote: »

An Alpaca dating sim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDIvDx2HCM

Sold!

Dermighty

Project Unity

DinoRex

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Sold!

I guessing the other creature is a Capybara, who are also awesome.

Retr0gamer

Speaking of alpacas Chix Pixel had a blog post about the current biggest mobile game is Japan were you breed alpacas but not how you think.

http://chicpixel.blogspot.ie/2013/03/the-horrifying-world-of-alpaca-niisan.html

You really need to check the horrifying pictures.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

An Alpaca dating sim!

I had a few photos of it on Facebook but didn't know what it was from

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Speaking of alpacas http://chicpixel.blogspot.ie/2013/03/the-horrifying-world-of-alpaca-niisan.html
You really need to check the horrifying pictures.

it reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw

Retr0gamer

Where pray tell can I get this Alpaca dating sim?

Not that I'm interested... Oh **** it yeah I want to play it. Still have to give Hatoful boyfriend a go.