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Had a notion just there of "it would be interesting to get one of those which might have the same issue with the idea to fix it"...and then I saw the price they are going for, MADNESS!
Yeah there's not a chance I'd ever have paid ebay prices for a curio like that, I see they're actually selling at around 500 pounds for one that won't read disks!
I paid an almighty 20 pounds for mine 0 -
Should you ever want to depart company with it to someone who might have a go fixingYeah there's not a chance I'd ever have paid ebay prices for a curio like that, I see they're actually selling at around 500 pounds for one that won't read disks!
I paid an almighty 20 pounds for mine
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More Vectrex goodness
A pair of overlays, one for the mighty Vectorblade and the other for YASI (Yet Another Space Invader)
With the addition of the overlay YASI is essentially an arcade perfect Space Invaders.
Plus it comes with a great version of Defender called "Protector" as well.
I have it on the multicart but must get the physical cart.
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So after rewiring 10 consoles to all be good and ready to go with the flip of a switch, my 14 inch PVM was ready for it's new podium - perfect fit!
The wheels are super handy, can roll it out from where it is over to the sofa.
Have the GDEMU Dreamcast and Fenrir Saturn running to it, so mountains of shmups to get through.
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Jack burton wrote: »
This arrived today
Cool stuff I always liked judge dredd. The judge Anderson from that latest film was quite tasty, I'd patrol megacity with her any day 
Streets of rage 4 was a genuinely good time beating it on 3 player, difficulty spikes for the last level but enjoyable. Hope they do another.
Barring the paint job, I got the last little bit for the Nintendo unisystem this evening, the instruction cards. You can see how someone would place a drink on too then it would dribble down across the marquee leeching the colour. Nice sparkly red that matches the paint colour of the machine, though I doubt it comes out in pictures. Looking at the paint job ahead ahead, I was surprised to see that the official shade used is "Nintendo Red". Easy to remember anyway.
And a close up of Simon Belmont because I'm bored out of my tats
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Sometimes I forget I'm subscribed to that magazine - it takes so long for copies to get to my house. I still have a couple of back issues I need to get. The problem is that once they're gone from the official website, it's up to the community from then on.
I also received a near-pristine copy of Blur for Xbox 360 (the disc holder's teeth was snapped, probably happened during transit as it was loose in the box when I opened it). Nearly annoyed that my text notification said "your Asendia UK parcel is arriving today" when I thought it was another certain Asendia parcel that I've been anxiously waiting for since before Christmas (and it was pre ordered in May)
Anyway. Woo-hoo. Stuff!
Ok I need to jump in here and stop the Blur bashing. I adored this game, its a crime that it died on its official release but that was down to the timing of its release more then anything. It and split second cannibalised each others sales and both were left in the wake of Red Dead Redemption. IMO It got the closest to Mario Kart that any arcade racer has gotten in terms of satisfying arcade/weaponised gameplay.
The games online was incredible and addictive with huge variety of modes, loads of unlockables, you could create custom challenges and send them to friends and then constantly 1up each others results. It had a solid arcade single player and 4 player local split screen. It was even ahead of its time in terms of social media integration. The variety and combinations of objectives really did a great job of compelling you to have just 1 more race.
Its a real shame that because of the situation with Bizarre Creations going under we'll never see it on the Xbox Series X backwards compatibility program but I implore anyone who dismissed it first time around to go back and give it a try with fresh eyes. There is a lot of good fun to had with this game.0 -
Ok I need to jump in here and stop the Blur bashing. I adored this game, its a crime that it died on its official release but that was down to the timing of its release more then anything. It and split second cannibalised each others sales and both were left in the wake of Red Dead Redemption. IMO It got the closest to Mario Kart that any arcade racer has gotten in terms of satisfying arcade/weaponised gameplay.
The games online was incredible and addictive with huge variety of modes, loads of unlockables, you could create custom challenges and send them to friends and then constantly 1up each others results. It had a solid arcade single player and 4 player local split screen. It was even ahead of its time in terms of social media integration. The variety and combinations of objectives really did a great job of compelling you to have just 1 more race.
Its a real shame that because of the situation with Bizarre Creations going under we'll never see it on the Xbox Series X backwards compatibility program but I implore anyone who dismissed it first time around to go back and give it a try with fresh eyes. There is a lot of good fun to had with this game.
I was playing it all day a couple of days ago and I couldn't put the controller down. It was a lot more fun than I remember. Trying to get all 50 points per "chapter" gets really addictive really quickWow! I'm not normally into special editions, but that's something else!
The street chicken/turkey really makes it
It's made of soft foam, I hate the feel of it
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Ok I need to jump in here and stop the Blur bashing. I adored this game, its a crime that it died on its official release but that was down to the timing of its release more then anything. It and split second cannibalised each others sales and both were left in the wake of Red Dead Redemption. IMO It got the closest to Mario Kart that any arcade racer has gotten in terms of satisfying arcade/weaponised gameplay.
The games online was incredible and addictive with huge variety of modes, loads of unlockables, you could create custom challenges and send them to friends and then constantly 1up each others results. It had a solid arcade single player and 4 player local split screen. It was even ahead of its time in terms of social media integration. The variety and combinations of objectives really did a great job of compelling you to have just 1 more race.
Its a real shame that because of the situation with Bizarre Creations going under we'll never see it on the Xbox Series X backwards compatibility program but I implore anyone who dismissed it first time around to go back and give it a try with fresh eyes. There is a lot of good fun to had with this game.
I wasn't bashing it. I said I'm just not surprised it sold really poorly. It's a Mario Kart game dressed up as a po-faced racer. So it alienates the mario kart crowd as it looks boring and the racing crowd who want a more realistic game. I have discovered it's a great racer but the aesthetic just puts me off it as well.
Even at the time when I saw the great reviews coming in I was thinking to myself who is going to buy it and that it could be a big problem for bizarre creations if it flopped.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »It's a Mario Kart game dressed up as a po-faced racer.
It was a different time back then, I suppose it was during that brown period of games alright.Retr0gamer wrote: »It's a Mario Kart game dressed up as a po-faced racer. So it alienates the mario kart crowd as it looks boring and the racing crowd who want a more realistic game. I have discovered it's a great racer but the aesthetic just puts me off it as well.
Even at the time when I saw the great reviews coming in I was thinking to myself who is going to buy it and that it could be a big problem for bizarre creations if it flopped.
No I get that and its completely valid, but that's why I feel like many people still to this day dismiss it out of hand when most never even tried it. I think their advertising campaign was going for the teenage boy racer crowd but I think they were too late to the party for that oversaturated market.
I still did enjoy the ad they ran though, still gives me a chuckle.
I also think they gave away too much in the open beta, you basically could play the entire online multiplayer on 360 for several months pre-release, so when it came to release a lot of people who had put 100+ hours into the multiplayer didn't feel like paying for it.0 -
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My Amiga 600 Furia v3 accelerator arrived today from Poland. I'm upgrading an A600 to be used as my main Amiga games machine(whdload, external Gotek and physical disks). I play mostly non AGA games when not on the CD32, so this makes sense(my A1200 machines look nice on the shelf, but aren't hooked up all the time)
Its a nice boost from the stock 7MHz 68000 to a 37.70MHz 68020 processor(with a 68882 FPU).
Plenty of memory as well (for an Amiga) with 9.5MB Fast RAM that I've split into 8MB fast/1MB fast/512KB slow as well as enabling the somewhat weirdly secret/hidden extra 1.5MB on the card. There's also an old trapdoor RAM expansion board inside this A600, but I have a modern replacement on the way as this one is old and I don't trust it 100%.
I went with a new SD card interface as the performance/compatibility is a lot better with the Furia than CF cards.
I've got one of those fancy modern power supplies with the OLED display on the way as well. Much smaller and the internals are meant to be top notch(will see next week).
In case anyone ever needs it, here's the furiatune script I added to the Amiga start-up sequence to enable/set everything properly on boot(took a good few tries to get everything working just right)C:furiatune >RAM:furiatune.log status C:Search >NIL: RAM:furiatune.log "no furia" If WARN C:Search >NIL: RAM:furiatune.log "ShadowROM is active" If WARN C:furiatune >NIL: shadowrom reboot EndIf C:furiatune >NIL: addmem EndIf0 -
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I like his content, it's all very well put together, presented well, and enjoyable to nerd out with. His new space looks fantastic, great to see it coming together.
His MISter videos have made me want to get one, and have a dedicated crt option here. He also has me half wanting to build a retro pc a 486 core on a Mister too, there's something very nostalgic about pc games of yore, played on a crt at a desk.
But yeah, I enjoyed his 600 piece, loved the upgrades he put in, and the end result. Lovely little machine
The Furia board really makes it a powerful little machine I must say. Not bad for less than €100 and probably the best bang for buck out there for an Amiga. Its nice to see the cold boot time to Workbench go from 30-40 seconds to 3-5 seconds(warm reset is about 2 seconds) 0 -
Never really understood why folks didn't like the A600 - seemed like a 'I have a A500 so the A500 is better' type thing.
The built in IDE interface is the main benefit over say a A500+ (or that and the additional built in 512k RAM over the A500).
Other benefit back in the day was a built in RF modulator over the external one for the A500 models.
I do remember needing to use relokick to use kickstart 1.3 for some software on the A500+/600?
I always preferred the A600 myself over the A500, it was just a much neater machine to have around.
The A500 is just so massive(even without the rf modulator or hdd addon).
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