General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

CosmicSmash

That moment when the cat beats your high score while looking at that bird. Nice stick by the way.

o1s1n

It's a lovely little stick alright, that's the Sega/DB9 version, but I managed to hunt down the matching XHE-3 which lets you use it with a PCE.

The only annoying this is that it maps the start button to the 'run' button on the adapter. So whenever you want to press start in a game you've to reach for that instead.

But there really is no better way of playing PCE shmups than these sticks, they're really made for it.

OwaynOTT

Nice cat by the way. What's his/her name? Hopefully it's suitable retro.

o1s1n

Her name is Set. Not very gamey, but Egyptian gods are pretty wrathful and you haven't seen what this little ****er does to soft toys :pac:

Hobbies include;

Posing for photos



Lazing in the sun with Pikmin (you will notice she has seen fit to remove his pupils)




Filling out census forms



Peering into the jacks from atop a ladder



Stalking me from above



Yes, before anyone says it, I know I am now a crazy cat lady. :pac:

Los Lobos

Just saw this while browsing the interweb, a cancelled Madness platform game for the megadrive :

https://www.unseen64.net/2010/03/09/madness-genesis-megadrive-cancelled/

"I’m not sure if the band were actually going to be featured in the game as Gremlin devised some strange character (who’s name escapes me at the moment) who the player would control. In the background, it was planned that some awful 6 channel Yamaha sound-chip induced ditties would be playing away.
Unfortunately the bottom dropped out of the console market and Gremlin decided to can the Madness computer game and so it was never released. Ex MML subscriber Jacco Van’t Reit (did I spell that correctly) did offer his services with regards to helping to produce the game after he had worked on previous projects for the Gremlin team but this unfortunately didn’t happen."




I would have loved this! The first tape I ever bought was Divine Madness in 1992, a bootleg copy over in Punchestown!

OwaynOTT

One must have at least 3 cats and a glaring of strays/feral feckers in your yard and garden before one can call themsleves arddfgdghsahgdjipashdjsa!!!!!!!!!

CosmicSmash

o1s1n wrote: »

It's a lovely little stick alright, that's the Sega/DB9 version, but I managed to hunt down the matching XHE-3 which lets you use it with a PCE.

The only annoying this is that it maps the start button to the 'run' button on the adapter. So whenever you want to press start in a game you've to reach for that instead.

But there really is no better way of playing PCE shmups than these sticks, they're really made for it.

I was lucky enough to pick up a few nice bits from Steve a few weeks ago. Among them was a turbo everdrive, what a console the pce is. There are some really nice looking games, a lot seem to sell for big money now. I'll make do with what I have as I don't fancy paying them prices, that pce rgb cable you recommended works well with the mini.

o1s1n

Yeah, it's a pretty impossible console to collect for given the prices things are at now. I only have 3 or 4 games myself, the Everdrive never leaves it really.

That port of Liquid Kids blows my mind! Its amazing that such a small console can run something like that.

CosmicSmash

I was playing Chuka Taisen. It's far from the pinnacle of pce shmups but I'm kind of drawn to it. For a console with such a small footprint it has no problem with detailed sprites. I've only scraped the surface in what's on there and there's so much more to look forward to. Devil's Crash had me hooked for a couple of weeks, addictive isn't the word.

Jack burton

Well Lads and lady!

Just started my own brand, been in the works for a while now so be great if ye could all check it out

http://lazersteak.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LazerSteak/

Myrddin

Jack burton wrote: »

Well Lads and lady!

Just started my own brand, been in the works for a while now so be great if ye could all check it out

http://lazersteak.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LazerSteak/

Sitebanned for spamming*




*I will of course lift the siteban in exchange for wanted list goodies from the US

Myrddin

Cool site, great name

Jack burton

A NTSC copy of Duck Hunt is the first on my list for you!

CiDeRmAn

Jack burton wrote: »

Well Lads and lady!

Just started my own brand, been in the works for a while now so be great if ye could all check it out

http://lazersteak.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LazerSteak/

Myrddin

Jack burton wrote: »

A NTSC copy of Duck Hunt is the first on my list for you!

Hey, at least it'd be 60Hz

Myrddin

That said, if you see Mario 1 (non duckhunt), Mario 2, Mario 3, Contra or the Castlevania games going cheap JB...keep me in mind

Jack burton

I'll be heading to game deals in Vancouver and they are good with prices I heard. I'll let you know what prices I see. If I see any of them sub €10 I grab a hold of them?

Myrddin

Jack burton wrote: »

If I see any of them sub €10 I grab a hold of them?

Definitely JB, t'would be much appreciated

Jack burton

Cool. Anyone else after anything?

Want to get a good few NES games myself so hopefully I'll get some gems

Corholio

I'm looking for a cheap-ish copy of Death Brade for SF, if they stock japanese games.

Jack burton

I'll keep and eye out

Hank Scorpio

Dat soundchip though.

BGOllie

stumbled upon this game recently: EON .
A nice homage to SotB. It's only a demo right now but there's a few areas to explore and it looks stunning. Some poor english translations though
It's all made by one guy too, graphics, music and dev ...

there's a link to the demo at the end of this page
http://www.wonderboy-bobi.com/eoneng.php

Nerdkiller1991

BGOllie wrote: »

stumbled upon this game recently: EON .
A nice homage to SotB. It's only a demo right now but there's a few areas to explore and it looks stunning. Some poor english translations though
It's all made by one guy too, graphics, music and dev ...

there's a link to the demo at the end of this page
http://www.wonderboy-bobi.com/eoneng.php

So it's not a game based on the movies or Albert R. Broccoli?

BGOllie

I'm going to feel silly for asking but what movies and whos Albert R. Broccoli ?

Andrew76

BGOllie wrote: »

I'm going to feel silly for asking but what movies and whos Albert R. Broccoli ?

That name rings a bell in relation to the James Bond films, producer or something? Other than that not a clue either.

BGOllie

that would explain. must have watched 1 jamesbond film ever. I don't even have a TV or Netflix so most soccer, film, series references are completely lost on me

the groutch

BGOllie wrote: »

I don't even have a TV

then what's your sofa pointed at?

CiDeRmAn

Eon productions are Broccoli's production company and mostly make Bond films, but they also made Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and some Harry Palmer flicks in the 60's

Mr.Saturn

Nothing quite shakes one's notions like the moment you discover that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond were both written by Ian Fleming.