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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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    #152
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A real shame because I think that Viva Pinata is one of Rares and the 360's best games so there was still a lot of talent there.
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    #153
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Unrelated, but RAGE have a copy of Secret of Evermore. I, for one, will be crazy-interested in how much they'll be looking for with it.


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    #154
    safetyboy
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    wonder how much they go for?


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    #155
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    safetyboy wrote: »
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    wonder how much they go for?

    This is why the RAGE is a bit crap. Post the bloody prices online FFS guys.


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    #156
    Retr0gamer
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    I can tell you how much they are already. Too much.
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    #157
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Steve SI wrote: »
    This is why the RAGE is a bit crap. Post the bloody prices online FFS guys.

    This isn't 5th Avenue, do they not see how woeful it looks that they refuse part with a price?


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    #158
    Myrddin
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    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    This isn't 5th Avenue, do they not see how woeful it looks that they refuse part with a price?

    It screams rogue to me, & more like "we'll decide on the price based on who asks" kind of crap.


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    #159
    Retr0gamer
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    It would be all different if I was still allowed on their facebook :P
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    #160
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    They just replied to a lad on facebook about prices.
    We have have explained in previous posts why we do not post prices . Retro games prices shift so much that our prices could increase and decrease at any given time and if we were to display something online at a set price it could cause confusion at a later date.. As of today(20/07/2012) this item costs €149.95.

    This is for the Donkey Kong Crate SNES.


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    #161
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    They just replied to a lad on facebook about prices.

    What utter tripe. Funny how every other game shop around can do it.


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    #162
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    EnterNow wrote: »
    It screams rogue to me, & more like "we'll decide on the price based on who asks" kind of crap.

    They just posted this response to some chappy moaning about the fact he couldn't get a price on the DKC-SNES bundle:
    We have have explained in previous posts why we do not post prices . Retro games prices shift so much that our prices could increase and decrease at any given time and if we were to display something online at a set price it could cause confusion at a later date.. As of today(20/07/2012) this item costs €149.95.

    Feeds into your point nicely.

    Edit: Opps, beaten to it.


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    #163
    Retr0gamer
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    Steve SI wrote: »
    This is for the Donkey Kong Crate SNES.

    Even boxed I'd say that price is madness. Might have to set up an alt account to terrorise them with the truth :P
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    #164
    Steve X2
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Even boxed I'd say that price is madness. Might have to set up an alt account to terrorise them with the truth :P

    It's not even the prices that annoy me any more. It's the fact they wont tell you how much something costs until you're standing in front of them.

    And retro prices do not fluctuate that quickly that if you bought something last week and sold it this week you'd have a massive price difference.
    And don't get me started on mindset behind that way of thinking. It's really anti-consumer if you ask me.


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    #165
    Retr0gamer
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    It really is a very obsolete store. Anything you can get there can be gotten an awful lot cheaper on ebay since they are basing all their prices on average prices on ebay, which would be blown out of proportion by chancers selling with high BIN prices. Last time I was in there I asked if they had Megaman on the NES and told me it was very rare and they sold it for 90 euros. It's not that common but hardly 90 euro common. I can get the NTSC version for less than $30 dollars BIN and even then it's overpriced.

    The days you could get good bargains in that place went away with Johny Ultimates copy of MUSHA.

    They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.
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    #166
    The Last Bandit
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.

    What !! They are not even selling overpriced originals ...


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    #167
    Retr0gamer
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    They're all copies of the master rom :P
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    #168
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Patser wrote: »
    I'm just cleaning up the house ahead of moving and found my old Dreamcast hiding behind my TV, checked it and still working. 2 Controllers and a house of the Dead gun and about 10 games including Shenmue, MSR, Ready to Rumble and Dynamite Cop (ultimate play with a friend while pissed game).

    All pretty much free to a good home if anyone wants them, I'm in Clondalkin. Just Pm me

    edit: Retrogamer claimed it!


    You jambag!


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    #169
    Retr0gamer
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    Thought I wasn't quick enough. Anyway the DC and dupes will be going to a big Sega fan who never had one so in a way I'm doing it for charity :)
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    #170
    OwaynOTT
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Thought I wasn't quick enough. Anyway the DC and dupes will be going to a big Sega fan who never had one so in a way I'm doing it for charity :)

    oH MY GOSH! Thanks Retro, ill pm my address there now.


    Ah! Im so tired. Stuck in work and I haven't slept in ages. How much work will be done today in my shop is zero, actually more minus than zero, as my ineptitude will have to be made up for my the work of my colleagues.
    Yes I'm one of those retail worker, the useless ones.


    Btw way guys what kind of condition is that crate in? The one thats in the rage. The country kong one. The snes console.


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    #171
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Off topic, sorry. But this is just mental, really mental.
    I just witnessed the start of the end of the world. You can buy guns, ammo and explosives online and have them shipped (piece by piece) to any country, including Ireland :eek::eek::eek:

    After reading an article on Gizmodo yesterday while looking through my usual retro and nerd websites I decided to test out this service they were talking about and see just how easy it is to get illegal weapons. Now just to be clear I didn't actually order anything as I'm not fecking mental enough to send guns to Ireland. I just wanted to see how it works and just how easy it would be. Spoiler alert, its mental easy:eek:

    Well I setup the encrypted session via TOR and all the other secure stuff you have to do (its how i imagine you hire a hitman :eek:). Once everything was setup I browsed the marketplace until I found what I wanted. What I wanted for my pretend order was a Glock 19 and a AK47, all with ammo.
    I contacted the seller via heavily encrypted messaging and he was more than happy to take my order and ship the things to Ireland. I wont say for how much but its not a huge amount like you might think. This guy even has good reviews, yes they have reviews.

    Just gods damn mental that this exist and seems to be a place that is getting used by loads of people.

    This is how it ends folks :(


    http://gizmodo.com/5927379/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything


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    #172
    Myrddin
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    Steve SI wrote: »
    Off topic, sorry. But this is just mental, really mental.
    I just witnessed the start of the end of the world. You can buy guns, ammo and explosives online and have them shipped (piece by piece) to any country, including Ireland :eek::eek::eek:

    After reading an article on Gizmodo yesterday while looking through my usual retro and nerd websites I decided to test out this service they were talking about and see just how easy it is to get illegal weapons. Now just to be clear I didn't actually order anything as I'm not fecking mental enough to send guns to Ireland. I just wanted to see how it works and just how easy it would be. Spoiler alert, its mental easy:eek:

    Well I setup the encrypted session via TOR and all the other secure stuff you have to do (its how i imagine you hire a hitman :eek:). Once everything was setup I browsed the marketplace until I found what I wanted. What I wanted for my pretend order was a Glock 19 and a AK47, all with ammo.
    I contacted the seller via heavily encrypted messaging and he was more than happy to take my order and ship the things to Ireland. I wont say for how much but its not a huge amount like you might think. This guy even has good reviews, yes they have reviews.

    Just gods damn mental that this exist and seems to be a place that is getting used by loads of people.

    This is how it ends folks :(


    http://gizmodo.com/5927379/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything

    Isn't that termed the 'deep net' or something, it's a realm like the internet as we know it but much much much bigger & not searchable or browsable via normal methods. Some seriously sick stuff goes on there apparently, & it's a dangerous place to even browse. I suspect AK-47's are amongst the more good willed end of the subject matter there too

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web


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    #173
    Steve X2
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    Isn't that termed the 'deep net' or something, it's a realm like the internet as we know it but much much much bigger & not searchable or browsable via normal methods. Some seriously sick stuff goes on there apparently, & it's a dangerous place to even browse. I suspect AK-47's are amongst the more good willed end of the subject matter there too

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

    Hmm, kind of but this exist in a full encrypted and untraceable network. The "deep net" is still just the internet but harder to find.


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    #174
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,094 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Not actually sure if it's a good or bad thing for gizmodo to be bringing this to people's attention? Could lead to tighter regulation, like the best investigative journalism. Or it could be used as an FAQ for slightly dumber sociopaths.


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    #175
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Not actually sure if it's a good or bad thing for gizmodo to be bringing this to people's attention? Could lead to tighter regulation, like the best investigative journalism. Or it could be used as an FAQ for slightly dumber sociopaths.

    The article reads like journalism to some but it really is a FAQ to others. And that is a problem. Same with the drugs version of the marketplace in an older article they wrote last year.

    I mean I've no interesting in buying guns but with the info in the article and a bit of searching online I had all the info I needed to go ahead with a deal. It took a few mins to create an account. It uses bitcoin as currency which is easily made to be untraceable funds.


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    #176
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Away from the buying AKs, big tale of guy buying Powerfest 94
    http://blog.pricecharting.com/2012/07/how-i-got-nintendo-powerfest-94.html


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    #177
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    Hmmm. I'd heard about sites like the Silk Road long before Gizmodo was getting all worked up about it and I guess I've always wondered why small time fixers didn't become indie arms dealers using the same infrastructure.

    Guess they just have the same hassle with customs a lot of the guys on this thread do. Small world eh? :p

    I figure the need to use Bitcoins will be in the end what stops it becoming a real problem. There's a lot of blind trust in that currency" just working".


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    #178
    CiDeRmAn
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I'd much rather old Rare back.... And Blast Corps 2.

    I'd settle for a remastered Blast Corp on the 3ds or WiiU!

    And yes, Donkey Kong 64 is a p1ss poor excuse for a game, after Banjo and Jet forceit was a real let down.


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    #179
    Sparks43
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    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151119706774359

    Smegging brilliant:D


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    #180
    johnny_ultimate
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    After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

    I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.


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    #181
    Sparks43
    Registered Users Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

    I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.

    Stop slagging BTE ffs:mad:

    Looks very Season 1-3 with the jokes so this can be only smegging top class


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