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DaveyDave wrote: »

Picked this up today, €60 in the Rage. Not a bad price, no hope of getting one for less than €75 on eBay so can't complain

Snap!

Though the same myself when I saw it in there for €60. Not a bad price considering how much it sells for these days.

Also: other stuff in the picture.

I'm planning to make the DC Arcade Stick a standalone plug and play arcade machine like a Pandora's box but with a Raspberry Pi.

I'm going to keep as much of the internals as intact as possible... possibly with the ability to switch between "Dreamcast" mode and "Arcade" mode.

They seemed pretty flood to me tbh.

My health hadn't been great this past weekend so just about to sort out the CRT and hook the DC back up to it for some SFIII action.

I'll see how she fares after that. :P

Picked up an Acorn A3010 complete with monitor and mouse off adverts for a great price. Cost a little bit more that the price of a mouse for one of these usually goes for. The monitor is an Acorn branded Phillips CM8833 variant, similar to the Commodore 1084 so nice to have another CRT !!

It looks pretty rough at the moment but hoping to restore it over the next few months now that I've a lab/lair almost setup again

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Is that a bit like the Archimedes?
I only know that because the hospital I trained in bought one to replace their BBC-B computer, and also Zarch/Virus is on it!

Yep is an Archimedes alright, already have one but never really used it much because I was missing the mouse.

Just as an aside saw a shop on Etsy recently and the scope is pretty mad. Lots of obscure and/or arcade art on there. https://www.etsy.com/ie/shop/NerdFuel/

I know it's getting ridiculous but... another donation

BGOllie wrote: »

I know it's getting ridiculous but... another donation

That joystick next to the zip stick looks like it has a powerplay cruiser base with some kind of hybrid handle. That's a great haul, I'm just waiting for a few donations like that for myself (it'll never happen!)

My latest addition is a pretty average version of a good game, but another to my square box Infogrames collection.

bought (I know... i know... ) this on advert for 75 on an off chance low offer.
Thanks edhorse who offered to pick this up in dublin and meet me in Athlone . thanks a lot sir, that's good retro karma.

Anyway. the guy wasn't sure if it worked as it was stuck on an odd screen ; the book-keeping mode as it turned out just needs a switch to revert back to normal mode. Screen works fine with no burn and this'll be a next project after the Taito table restoration .
These are surprisingly small and tidy. About the size of a pac-man cabaret cab . I'll probably end up converting this to either bomb-jack or tetris . They both were upgrade kits so it doesn't really matter what cab they ended up in

i remember having no internet access for like... 20 years or so




now I get anxious if I'm out of 4G range for like 10 minutes

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The only one I really got to play was that amazing Little Nemo game via MAME.
Incredible movie and impressive game, not sure how the NES and SNES ports were though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUuXA-MxSg

Ahh look at that... you found Nemo!

Heh... eh... aherm...

....sorry.

sure no problem, it's yours . it's very brittle now but I'm sure I can save a foot or two

Might well be keeping tabs on this forum a bit more.

Two Saturdays ago up at 7am with my eldest, sitting in my chair just looking at an empty corner in the back of the living room.
Day later it's now got a 32" LG Tv I had in a box, with a PS2, N64 and Ps4 sitting in a unit under it

All somewhat inspired by my Dad texting me saying he was clearing out the attic and found my N64, and what I wanted to do with it

In terms of consoles think a Sega Megadrive the only other thing interesting me. Misses is after getting big into this too all of a sudden.

Any recommendations for RGB switches? TV has scart so having to use that thanks to a handy Xbox 360 RGB to scart connection I found, but it's going to be a pain constantly swopping consoles at the back of the telly.

Will throw a pic of my setup later. Work is blocking places I have the picture : /

You'd want to be using RGB scart cables or else HDMI cables for your more modern stuff.

So get one of these;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Premium-Bandridge-5-Way-Manual-Scart-Selector-Switch-RGB-Retro-Gaming-Switchbox/152346286334?epid=2255824229&hash=item23788bd8fe:g:pu4AAOSwZQRYbSXx

Connect it to your one scart input on your telly and then run five scart capable consoles into it (so anything from Snes/Megadrive/PCE up to PS2 etc). It'll be the best picture you get from them.

The only time to really use component to any major benefit is the likes of the Gamecube/Wii/Original xbox.

Tbh I even use regular RGB scart with them and it looks gorgeous.

o1s1n wrote: »

You'd want to be using RGB scart cables or else HDMI cables for your more modern stuff.

So get one of these;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Premium-Bandridge-5-Way-Manual-Scart-Selector-Switch-RGB-Retro-Gaming-Switchbox/152346286334?epid=2255824229&hash=item23788bd8fe:g:pu4AAOSwZQRYbSXx

Connect it to your one scart input on your telly and then run five scart capable consoles into it (so anything from Snes/Megadrive/PCE up to PS2 etc). It'll be the best picture you get from them.

The only time to really use component to any major benefit is the likes of the Gamecube/Wii/Original xbox.

Tbh I even use regular RGB scart with them and it looks gorgeous.

I've component into a SCART adaptor for my N64 and PS2, and PS4 runs of HDMI

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah, by 'component' do you mean the yellow, red and white cables? That's composite, not component. It's really awful video quality (unfortunately all the N64 supports without being modded for RGB)

If you got that bandridge I linked you to, you could plug your N64 into it via composite and PS2 into it via Scart RGB (for much better video quality) and run everything off the one scart socket on the tv.

Yeah sorry thats what I mean, its the yellow, red and white cables.
My PS2 also has yellow, red and white cables.

So you can get like different cables to provide better quality?

Sega Megadrive on my immediate purchase list so see theres seemingly scart cables for them now, so what you linked looks like the ticket

DaveyDave wrote: »

That's a lot cheaper than one of those HD Retrovision component cables, and a Bandridge switch isn't too expensive either. I'll have to double check my TV has a port for a Scart adaptor, but if these are the prices then I'll definitely be upgrading my cables.

I thought getting better picture on my TV was a lost cause. It might actually cost me a lot less than €100+

Those retrovision RGB cables are snake oil tbh. Sure, they're really well made, but they're extremely over engineered. I've been using RGB cables from that dude who runs consolegoodsuk for years now and they've been perfect. Usually come in at about 10-15 a piece.

TheDoc wrote: »

As mentioned here is what I setup in a space at the back of my living room

Nice! Just enough space for a little CRT where the PS4 is too

DaveyDave wrote: »

All these time everyone was telling me to get RGB cables I thought it meant component I'll get an RGB adaptor and Mega Drive II cable for now as that's the worst quality.

Those Retrovision cables are RGB. They're just really expensive RGB cables

RGB is just the different video colours and sync broken up into their components. (Hence maybe the confusion over the word component?) That's what RGB scart is.it's the best video quality you'll get out of a Megadrive,/SNES etc. All you need is one of those cables I linked.

Actual component is a different video source entirely which older consoles don't support. You dont see component being used till the Xbox, GameCube , Wii etc

Only took three days to get from Finland to the arse end of Wicklow.