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CiDeRmAn · 19-02-2017 07:02PM

Mario 64 has very little idle wandering tbh.
Each area changes for each goal and it's a barrel of laughs finding the secrets in each.
It's the scope of each area though, you have an objective, you can see it in the distance, and you chart your course, the level becoming as familiar as your walk to the shops after a time.
It's wonderful.

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2017 07:36PM

Mario 64 is far from just wandering around the place. It's all about exploring the wonderful 3D environments. All the different challenges in each area means there's no part of any stage that goes unused. It was one of the first games that made moving through a 3D world fun and really showed the benefits of a 3D environment.

Crash Bandicoot on the other hand isn't far divorced from 16 bit platformers of the time and once put up against the very best 16 bit platformers it's not even that good.

At the time Mario 64 representing something new and exciting while Crash just seemed like something that belonged in the previous generation of consoles and was more along the lines of B tier platformers like Aero the Acrobat rather than the likes of Mario or Sonic.

I don't even think there should be any argument that Mario 64 is the far superior game.

CiDeRmAn · 19-02-2017 07:58PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

At the time Mario 64 representing something new and exciting while Crash just seemed like something that belonged in the previous generation of consoles and was more along the lines of B tier platformers like Aero the Acrobat rather than the likes of Mario or Sonic.

...Gex!
... Bubsy!
...Gunstar Heroes!

TechnoFreek · 20-02-2017 05:37PM

I have a couple of indirectly retro related questions.

First up
Where does one get reasonable priced but guaranteed genuine memory cards. After some micro sd cards for my phone and ds etc but I'm sick of supposed SanDisk cards from eBay that stop being recognised after a week.

Thanks

MrVestek · 20-02-2017 05:43PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I have a couple of indirectly retro related questions.

First up
Where does one get reasonable priced but guaranteed genuine memory cards. After some micro sd cards for my phone and ds etc but I'm sick of supposed SanDisk cards from eBay that stop being recognised after a week.

Thanks

Legitimate stores that aren't eBay.

Digital Solitude · 20-02-2017 05:46PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I have a couple of indirectly retro related questions.

First up
Where does one get reasonable priced but guaranteed genuine memory cards. After some micro sd cards for my phone and ds etc but I'm sick of supposed SanDisk cards from eBay that stop being recognised after a week.

Thanks

Memoryc, Amazon, skinflint

20-02-2017 05:48PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I have a couple of indirectly retro related questions.

First up
Where does one get reasonable priced but guaranteed genuine memory cards. After some micro sd cards for my phone and ds etc but I'm sick of supposed SanDisk cards from eBay that stop being recognised after a week.

Thanks

mymemory.co.uk
I use them all the time and never had a problem

TechnoFreek · 20-02-2017 05:59PM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

mymemory.co.uk
I use them all the time and never had a problem

Perfect, will check them out.

Second question so and it relates to eBay.

I'm looking at items that are based in the US. Some have the import charges listed in the ad, others don't.

Where there is no import charges listed what does that mean.
The value is below a threshold I.e. no import charges apply?
Or the seller hasn't ticked that option in the ad so I might get a bill upon delivery? In this case are charges guaranteed or is it a game of roulette?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Digital Solitude · 20-02-2017 06:05PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Perfect, will check them out.

Second question so and it relates to eBay.

I'm looking at items that are based in the US. Some have the import charges listed in the ad, others don't.

Where there is no import charges listed what does that mean.
The value is below a threshold I.e. no import charges apply?
Or the seller hasn't ticked that option in the ad so I might get a bill upon delivery? In this case are charges guaranteed or is it a game of roulette?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

If the item+shipping is over €22 it's liable for customs of 23% + a handling fee of €6-15 depending on the company.

It's pretty much guaranteed with a courier as they charge extortionate handling fees to get some extra cash in, with an post you can get lucky

TechnoFreek · 20-02-2017 06:06PM

Thanks. Any way to know if the delivery will end up with an post.
If it's shipped through standard US post at origin?

Digital Solitude · 20-02-2017 06:07PM

That would be an post I'm pretty sure

TechnoFreek · 20-02-2017 06:27PM

Digital Solitude wrote: »

That would be an post I'm pretty sure

What something marked as gift be excluded from custom charges?

20-02-2017 06:33PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

What something marked as gift be excluded from custom charges?

Nah, they wised up to that years ago

Inviere · 20-02-2017 06:37PM

If customs charges aren't listed on the ad, it means the seller hasn't signed up to the infamous "global shipping program". All it means is it's pot luck whether you're caught for customs when it arrives here. If the charges are listed on the ad, it means the seller is part of the program, and the customs charges are taken at point of sale, speeding the processing of the item through customs in the destination country.

All in all I prefer sellers not involved in the global program, not even for the chance of not getting caught for customs, but more so the treatment of the package itself

TechnoFreek · 20-02-2017 08:36PM

I want to buy some stuff thats comes to 55 Euro plus another 15 for shipping.

Seller has,offered to declare value as 20 dollars.

He ships with USPS. Worth a punt?

20-02-2017 10:13PM

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I want to buy some stuff thats comes to 55 Euro plus another 15 for shipping.

Seller has,offered to declare value as 20 dollars.

He ships with USPS. Worth a punt?

Give it a go, worst customs will do is contact you for proof of the value, then apply charges accordingly

Atavan-Halen · 22-02-2017 06:44AM

http://segabits.com/blog/2017/02/21/fred-durst-signed-dreamcast-hits-ebay/

Just in case anyone fancied an authentic '00s relic.

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 08:33AM

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

http://segabits.com/blog/2017/02/21/fred-durst-signed-dreamcast-hits-ebay/

Just in case anyone fancied an authentic '00s relic.

Lol... As the kids say...

Nerdkiller1991 · 22-02-2017 06:12PM

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

http://segabits.com/blog/2017/02/21/fred-durst-signed-dreamcast-hits-ebay/

Just in case anyone fancied an authentic '00s relic.

They still have the car Ben Stiller lent them, do they?

Tom Mann Centuria · 23-02-2017 01:19AM

After posting the zx81 music video Chris Sievey did for Camouflage, thought I'd share this one from Pete Shelley (The Buzzcocks), from 1983 (saw it on a facebook group today). Visuals from the ZX Spectrum play in time with his album XL1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtJjeX5UMk

I also found a bit of background from the great man himself here:
http://www.bellyfeel.co.uk/2012/07/1983-buzzcocks-pete-shelley-and-the-xl1-zx-spectrum-program/

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 24-02-2017 01:05AM

"Finally, some good news. The $10k SNES game package lost in the post has been found."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-23-missing-usd10k-snes-game-package-found

Inviere · 24-02-2017 09:30AM

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

"Finally, some good news. The $10k SNES game package lost in the post has been found."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-23-missing-usd10k-snes-game-package-found

Apparently I was right then, they just took about 12% longer to get there than expected.

Good news though, hopefully the project can continue

The Last Bandit · 24-02-2017 09:38AM

Lucky break, but he's a still a thundering gobsh1te for not using a proper courier for something of that value.

CiDeRmAn · 24-02-2017 10:10AM

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Lucky break, but he's a still a thundering gobsh1te for not using a proper courier for something of that value.

So, lessons learned by everyone then?
Me, I prefer to learn life lessons from American sitcoms or dramas on Hallmark.

K.O.Kiki · 24-02-2017 06:43PM

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Lucky break, but he's a still a thundering gobsh1te for not using a proper courier for something of that value.

The problem wasn't the choice of courier, it was the choice of packaging / bad USPS facility.

24-02-2017 07:27PM

Not gaming related but plenty retro.
Found this on reddit, a website that simulates 70s,80s and 90s tv. Thought it was very neat
http://mydecadetv.com/

CosmicSmash · 24-02-2017 09:23PM

Don't all rush at once.:D

Jack burton · 24-02-2017 10:31PM

"Flying high"

Corholio · 25-02-2017 03:43PM

Not sure about the rest of the country but CEX in Cork announced this morning they are going to be buying/selling N64 and SNES games.

25-02-2017 04:36PM

Corholio wrote: »

Not sure about the rest of the country but CEX in Cork announced this morning they are going to be buying/selling N64 and SNES games.

I'm preparing myself to be outraged by what they charge. Smart move though, there's money to be made I'd say. Is it grand parade that's doing it?

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