General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

o1s1n

Very playable. I was just playing my Famicom this evening on a 9 inch pvm and you really don't notice it being small once you're playing. As long as you're sitting close its grand.

iamtony

The games look great but they do mess up your eyesight, similar to shining one of the pointy lasers directly at your retina, but its worth it! Especially if you've being playing on a CRT all along :-)

airmax87

Starting to regret selling my collection, but now I'm making more money, so I'll just rebuild a better one.

CiDeRmAn

I've never sold something that I didn't eventually regret.
That interval between selling and regretting has, steadily, become shorter and shorter.
At this rate I'll be regretting selling on an item on the day before I purchase it!
Of course, the interval between said regret and inevitable re-purchase is also getting shorter, as is the increase in price and my debt levels.
Also, the time period between re-buying and being abused on here for the act is also shrinking.

Retr0gamer

Only ever sold two games, Kane and Lynch and the Darkness. No regrets.

o1s1n

Great thing about videogame collecting, everything is replaceable! I found once I started looking at it that way, I no longer get that dread of potential regret when selling stuff.

The only items I could never sell would be things I bought new, so my original Megadrive, ps1 etc.

CiDeRmAn

Everything is replaceable?
Including things dropped down steps/lift shafts??

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Everything is replaceable?
Including things dropped down steps/lift shafts??

I exclusively drop incredibly expensive rare things down steps and lift shafts. So that might actually be a no

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

I exclusively drop incredibly expensive rare things down steps and lift shafts. So that might actually be a no

Jack burton

Anyone here have any experience ordering from Ali Express?

Going to order my arcade lights, I've never gotten anything over €100 from China, id say the lights will all total up to €250-€300. Should I just expect to get stung my customs or is there a convient avoision technique?

Digital Solitude

You can ask em to lower the value but that's at their behest and they probably won't.

You could chance it though.

You're looking at €75 on vat

Andrew76

This might interest Jack and a few other folks on here, Firewatch's soundtrack is being released on vinyl (also comes with download codes for MP3/FLAC versions).

https://store.camposanto.com/products/firewatch-vinyl-sountrack

Atavan-Halen

Jack burton wrote: »

Anyone here have any experience ordering from Ali Express?

Going to order my arcade lights, I've never gotten anything over €100 from China, id say the lights will all total up to €250-€300. Should I just expect to get stung my customs or is there a convient avoision technique?

Aliexpress is in general ok. 99% of the time it'll be grand and you won't need to pay customs. But this time of year is a bit iffy due to everyone ordering Christmas gifts so I'd budget for that just incase. Thankfully I've only ever gotten stung once in Ireland. It was a 3DS worth €300+ but seller marked it as €50 and only had to pay €7.50 for duties.

From past experience Chinese sellers generally mark the items low value.

Jack burton

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Aliexpress is in general ok. 99% of the time it'll be grand and you won't need to pay customs. But this time of year is a bit iffy due to everyone ordering Christmas gifts so I'd budget for that just incase. Thankfully I've only ever gotten stung once in Ireland. It was a 3DS worth €300+ but seller marked it as €50 and only had to pay €7.50 for duties.

From past experience Chinese sellers generally mark the items low value.

Cool, sure I'll let ye know if I get stung or not.

Atavan-Halen

Jack burton wrote: »

Cool, sure I'll let ye know if I get stung or not.

Sure you'll be grand! The Chinese are a great bunch of lads.

Nerdkiller1991

eddhorse

I have no idea what i was watching

Nerdkiller1991

eddhorse wrote: »

I have no idea what i was watching

Just Trumpy.

"They named him after Donald Trump."

Doge

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Sure you'll be grand! The Chinese are a great bunch of lads.

I hear you're a racist now Father!

Steve X2

A quick vid I did of the NES Classic Mini running in its 3 video modes(just look at that sh1tty CRT emulation!). It's all in one take, so you can see how fast it loads and resets the interface.
Captured on the framemeister @60fps, so watch in 60fps for the full effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-4KBzc84pA

Corholio

This is bit random but just saw this online. National Symphony Orchestra doing a Video Games themed performance

http://entertainment.ie/show-Dublin/National-Concert-Hall/RTE-NSO-Video-Games-Classic/Music-2784892.htm

johnny_ultimate

Why are so many of these shows so obsessed with the bloody Advent Rising soundtrack? Like with Video Games Live I get it since the composer is involved, but this one?!

Retr0gamer

I know people that swear by it... I feel it's standard Hollywood fare. Tommy must give the rights out cheaply

Dr Bob

Steve X2 wrote: »

A quick vid I did of the NES Classic Mini running in its 3 video modes(just look at that sh1tty CRT emulation!). It's all in one take, so you can see how fast it loads and resets the interface.
Captured on the framemeister @60fps, so watch in 60fps for the full effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-4KBzc84pA

I'll stick to my RetroPie so

Dr Bob

2600th post!

Nerdkiller1991

Well, Castro's dead.

Jimmy Bottlehead

The absolute cuntiness of adverts users who hop onto a thread JUST to tell the seller they should be asking a higher price.

Next time, please do us all a favour and go play with traffic.

Digital Solitude

The ones who go onto ads to tell people they should be charging less are as bad going by that.

I just see it as people trying to do a good turn and not have someone ripped off

Corholio

Digital Solitude wrote: »

The ones who go onto ads to tell people they should be charging less are as bad going by that.

I just see it as people trying to do a good turn and not have someone ripped off

People have all the time in the world to value something before they put it on. If no one got something cheaper on Adverts then the site wouldn't even exist. A lot do it just to spite a sale because they were late to see it or can't collect it etc. A hugely annoying thing.

johnny_ultimate

The Last Guardian is out next week.

*double, triple, quadruple checks to ensure this isn't something I imagined in a fever dream*

Nope. The Last Guardian is out next week.