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DinoRex · 16-07-2017 12:13PM

geotrig wrote: »

Tbh beer or not it a bit **** having control issue s already . Bitd the only arcade around here like that was not maintained at all. It great that it's there and all but to me they need to up there game

I've been there about 5 times since they first launched. One set of buttons were fecked on Ghosts and Goblins first time I was there, but not too big a deal, just use the stick with my non-dominant hand, slight handicap. But every time since then the buttons have worked but the stick doesn't work great and Arthur keeps getting stuck in the crouch position and it becomes an absolute nightmare to get off the top of ladders.

eddhorse · 16-07-2017 07:05PM

That game is unforgiving enough without control issues as well.

Jack burton · 16-07-2017 07:31PM

That 8 bit conference said they will be displaying some of the top collections from around Ireland, anyone here been asked?

Inviere · 16-07-2017 07:33PM

Jack burton wrote: »

That 8 bit conference said they will be displaying some of the top collections from around Ireland, anyone here been asked?

Crap, I shoulda kept everything

CiDeRmAn · 16-07-2017 08:25PM

Not yet!

Jack burton · 16-07-2017 08:29PM

Think I might enquire for a vendors table for selling some t shirts at it. I'd like to get to a con with it this year

DinoRex · 17-07-2017 11:32AM

Jack burton wrote: »

Think I might enquire for a vendors table for selling some t shirts at it. I'd like to get to a con with it this year

I'm running a con on the 5th of August if you're interested.

http://boardgamesireland.com/bgicon-our-first-gaming-convention/

17-07-2017 11:44AM

Jack burton wrote: »

Think I might enquire for a vendors table for selling some t shirts at it. I'd like to get to a con with it this year

you could bring along a pin to dress up the stand!

Jack burton · 17-07-2017 11:45AM

Ah I'd have love to gone to that. I've a hen party booked in for that day down in the afternoon.

Next time youre running one though let me know

Jack burton · 17-07-2017 11:47AM

BrownFinger wrote: »

you could bring along a pin to dress up the stand!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-and-play/makerball-the-diy-pinball-machine-kit

One of these maybe

o1s1n · 17-07-2017 12:02PM

Jack burton wrote: »

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-and-play/makerball-the-diy-pinball-machine-kit

One of these maybe

'You too can look as cool as these guys!'

17-07-2017 12:04PM

That thing is missing the whole point of pinball........the scoring !

Jack burton · 17-07-2017 12:13PM

BrownFinger wrote: »

That thing is missing the whole point of pinball........the scoring !

Youre only saying that because your on the top of the league table.

Pinball is about fun.....nothing to do with my current 4th place position

Doge · 17-07-2017 12:38PM

BrownFinger wrote: »

That thing is missing the whole point of pinball........the scoring !

If you look at the video they have an arduino and some sensors sending the score to a smart phone.

Inviere · 17-07-2017 02:07PM

Doge wrote: »

If you look at the video they have an arduino and some sensors sending the score to a smart phone.

The future is now apparently...

Dr Bob · 17-07-2017 03:25PM

Inviere wrote: »

The future is now apparently...

nah VR pinball tables are where its at now
http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/569647-how-build-pinsim-virtual-reality-pinball-machine/
(was planning on building something like this a while back , have a spare usb 0 delay interface and some buttons.)
http://www.ravarcade.pl/?en_oculus-rift-htc-vive-support-(work-in-progress),75

Doge · 17-07-2017 05:02PM

Dr Bob wrote: »

nah VR pinball tables are where its at now
http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/569647-how-build-pinsim-virtual-reality-pinball-machine/
(was planning on building something like this a while back , have a spare usb 0 delay interface and some buttons.)
http://www.ravarcade.pl/?en_oculus-rift-htc-vive-support-(work-in-progress),75

Speaking of VR i'm mad to give New Retro Arcade Neon a go soon.

Dr. bob what usb interface did you use in your modded iCade?

May as well mod mine as I cant get Mame and RetroArch working on iOS 9 and i have a Seimitsu LS-32 and Sanwa buttons in it going to waste.

Inviere · 17-07-2017 05:07PM

Doge wrote: »

Speaking of VR i'm mad to give New Retro Arcade Neon a go soon.

Would love to recreate Palmerstown Bowl, where I used to play a lot of arcade games back in the day. The program itself seems like it's a bit involved to set up, but totally worth it - will be picking it up!

Doge · 17-07-2017 05:11PM

Inviere wrote: »

Would love to recreate Palmerstown Bowl, where I used to play a lot of arcade games back in the day. The program itself seems like it's a bit involved to set up, but totally worth it - will be picking it up!

One limitation is that you cannot change the layout of the Arcade yet unfortunately.

Another dealbreaker for O1s1n is that the liberto core cannot run Sega Megadrive emulation on Windows 10, just Windows 8!

I suppose you could always make a Windows 8 partition exclusively for ityou were desperate enough though!

Inviere · 17-07-2017 05:17PM

Doge wrote: »

One limitation is that you cannot change the layout of the Arcade yet unfortunately.

Ah, damn. I thought you could literally design the groundspace etc yourself. Is that planned do you know?

Another dealbreaker for O1s1n is that the liberto core cannot run Sega Megadrive emulation on Windows 10, just Windows 8!

Ugh

I'm reading about significant input lag within the program itself too. Maybe I'll hold off on it until it improves

Doge · 17-07-2017 05:32PM

Inviere wrote: »

Ah, damn. I thought you could literally design the groundspace etc yourself. Is that planned do you know?

Ugh I'm reading about significant input lag within the program itself too. Maybe I'll hold off on it until it improves

They're certainly aware the comminity wants an editor for the layout but something tells me it would have arrived by now if they were working hard enough on it.

Its a small enough dev team it seems. I wonder will something better come out in the future.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 17-07-2017 11:01PM

A friend is looking for a pal N64 power supply, where's the best place to go?

Retr0gamer · 18-07-2017 02:17AM

Just back from a week in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area. A friend of mine brought me to three of his favourite retro game shops and seeing them makes me sick with what we have to put up with here.

Everything is around half the price of games on eBay. I continued picking up common games to bulk up my collection and rarely spent over 10 dollars on a games. Ended up picking up so much I've had to ship them back to Ireland.

Rarities still go for crazy amounts, the likes of magic knight rayearth, snatcher and popular mail were probably way more than eBay listings although I get a feeling the prices of those games might have sky rocketed.

However even semi rare games are amazing value. For example a mint Megaman Legends was 40 dollars, I spent in excess of 100 euros for my copy last year.

My only regret is I didn't pick up more stuff but needed to money for the rest of the holiday.

Also picked up a Nintendo Power Final Fantasy guide which is in great nick. The guides are actually really well made and illustrated, just wish I'd picked up a few other issues.

CiDeRmAn · 18-07-2017 08:45AM

How did they let Retr0 back in the country without a cavity search....
I mean, he looks like the guy with 2kgs of narcotics up his bum, they should get stuck in there until they found it.

But, more seriously, you didn't buy any of those things really, you just bought copies of Legend of Dragoon to get freaky with back home.

Retr0gamer · 18-07-2017 10:29AM

Speaking of legend of dragoon I did see this

https://m.imgur.com/a/ZZaxN

Tom Mann Centuria · 18-07-2017 07:03PM

A pretty good Zx spectrum fan film came out few days ago, it's quite niche since it's all spectrum related but I really enjoyed it, bit more than bedrooms to billions even(though it's not as polished). Crowd funding fell short so he had to put a few grand of his money in to it. Lot of interviews with familiar faces in the Spectrum scene, and some are still going, working on new games for original Speccy and the Next.

There's a download version, dvd and also bluray.

https://spectrumaddict.wordpress.com

Nerdkiller1991 · 18-07-2017 11:29PM

I'm off to Dublin for the weekend to meet up with some Irish NeoGAF members. Gonna try out Token when I get there.

Dr Bob · 19-07-2017 12:38PM

Doge wrote: »

Speaking of VR i'm mad to give New Retro Arcade Neon a go soon.

Dr. bob what usb interface did you use in your modded iCade?

May as well mod mine as I cant get Mame and RetroArch working on iOS 9 and i have a Seimitsu LS-32 and Sanwa buttons in it going to waste.

I pulled the BT interface out completely and used a zero delay usb controller something like this :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/No-Delay-USB-Controller-To-PC-Joystick-For-Arcade-MAME-2Pin-LED-Push-Button-2-/191573937950
The rest of it was a Pi 3, some laptop speakers and the guts of a small monitor I picked up second hand.

Doge · 19-07-2017 01:04PM

Dr Bob wrote: »

I pulled the BT interface out completely and used a zero delay usb controller something like this :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/No-Delay-USB-Controller-To-PC-Joystick-For-Arcade-MAME-2Pin-LED-Push-Button-2-/191573937950
The rest of it was a Pi 3, some laptop speakers and the guts of a small monitor I picked up second hand.

Thanks bob. that little board should do the trick nicely!

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 20-07-2017 03:03PM

I got my MegaDrive 2 back from my sisters attic recently, but the power adapter is missing. Anybody know the best place to get one?

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