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Doge · 21-06-2018 08:03PM

Calling all Cork Arcade and Retro members that may be interested, or anyone else.

There's a Facebook group I joined recently called Cork Retro and Emulation (Electronics, Games, Hardware) and it could do with more members and content:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/314885485573843?view=permalink&id=554846781577711

One of the admins maintains the arcade machines at Barcadia ao there's some nice posts of the machines being worked on.

Of course don't be a stranger to this lovely forum also!

DaveyDave · 21-06-2018 09:54PM

Bit of a grey area here, I'm looking for a 'utopia' of sorts for the Dreamcast. I've found it but the directions are unclear and I end up having problems with 'burning' from the sun...

From what I gather I need to 'slow it down' to 1x or so and use a different method of finishing my journey...

Seriously though it's a pain in the ass. I had a disc before that worked now I'm not doing it right :P

MrVestek · 22-06-2018 08:29AM

DaveyDave wrote: »

Bit of a grey area here, I'm looking for a 'utopia' of sorts for the Dreamcast. I've found it but the directions are unclear and I end up having problems with 'burning' from the sun...

From what I gather I need to 'slow it down' to 1x or so and use a different method of finishing my journey...

Seriously though it's a pain in the ass. I had a disc before that worked now I'm not doing it right :P

Use CDBurnerXP to write it to a CD at the slowest speed your drive can do.

Molloy10 · 23-06-2018 12:55AM

Anyone here have a Sony PVM/BVM to sell, preferably a 20" model? Would be very interested! Might be silly asking that here of all places, but haven't had any luck elsewhere over the past year.

Shapey Fiend · 23-06-2018 07:29PM

Bought Earth Defence Force 4.1 on Steam yesterday. Not quite retro but it might as well be it's so arcadey. Really enjoying it so far. Mindless destruction I was hoping to get from Doom 2016 but I find that a little stop start with all the gore kills and arenas being locked off spawning enemies.

Any good retro/retro inspired things in the Steam sale at the mo? Thinking of picking up Hyper Sentinal. Perhaps Thumper as well.

Tempest 4000 is taking its time coming out..

Doge · 23-06-2018 07:34PM

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Bought Earth Defence Force 4.1 on Steam yesterday. Not quite retro but it might as well be it's so arcadey. Really enjoying it so far. Mindless destruction I was hoping to get from Doom 2016 but I find that a little stop start with all the gore kills and arenas being locked off spawning enemies.

Any good retro/retro inspired things in the Steam sale at the mo? Thinking of picking up Hyper Sentinal. Perhaps Thumper as well.

Tempest 4000 is taking its time coming out..

Quake II is €1.25 at the moment and has a VR patch on the interwebs.

Shapey Fiend · 23-06-2018 07:40PM

Quake II was the first game I got with my first PC. I realise now that Quake 1 probably has a slicker campaign but I really love that one as well. You can really blast through it at a nice clip.

If you like retro singleplayer FPS can't recommend Dusk highly enough the level design is incredible.

CiDeRmAn · 23-06-2018 07:41PM

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Any good retro/retro inspired things in the Steam sale at the mo? Thinking of picking up Hyper Sentinal.

Not quite the Uridium sequel I was waiting for.
You have to select the right difficulty to have the deck structures cause even some damage, and you can't flip the ship on its side, which is limiting.

Thumper as well.

Pure scary, musical, terrifying bliss!

Tempest 4000 is taking its time coming out..

Yes, yes it is.
And now with the questions over the release of the Atari box looking like a box of vapour, who knows when the now finished Tempest 4k will be available, certainly a lucky few got the finished game a couple of months ago when it appeared on the PS Store briefly before being taken down.
It's supposed to be excellent, building on the already glorious TxK on the Vita, ports of which were ready for the PS4 and Steam but got yanked when Atari decided to be a bunch of dicks.

Shapey Fiend · 23-06-2018 07:44PM

I just had a look on the Llamasoft forum. Apparently Microsoft are being dicks about finalising the release on XBone. Icons being 7 pixels too far to the left etc. They pushed an update a few days ago. Release date may be July 17th. The PC and PS4 versions were finished months ago.

CiDeRmAn · 23-06-2018 10:57PM

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

I just had a look on the Llamasoft forum. Apparently Microsoft are being dicks about finalising the release on XBone. Icons being 7 pixels too far to the left etc. They pushed an update a few days ago. Release date may be July 17th. The PC and PS4 versions were finished months ago.

Dang, I wish they'd hurry up, I know it'll be life altering!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 24-06-2018 11:03AM

SGDQ is on if anyone's interested
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

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DinoRex · 24-06-2018 03:12PM

Oh they're doing Iconoclasts.

I really liked that game, but it just keeps getting progressively worse as it goes on until it got to the point where I couldn't even play it any more. Lovely sprite work though.

eddhorse · 24-06-2018 05:21PM

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

SGDQ is on if anyone's interested
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

Always interested thanks

Skerries · 25-06-2018 12:15PM

so many cabs that you have to walk over them

The Last Bandit · 25-06-2018 04:09PM

Great day for the retobrite

MrVestek · 25-06-2018 04:16PM

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Great day for the retobrite

That's my next YouTube video.

Cheers for that!

I need to RetroBrite my Amiga A600 and Dreamcast.

DaveyDave · 25-06-2018 04:31PM

MrVestek wrote: »

That's my next YouTube video.

Cheers for that!

I need to RetroBrite my Amiga A600 and Dreamcast.

It's my understanding that RetroBrite was a product by a company which seems to have a massive markup for what it is, as far as I know cream peroxide is cheap and you don't need UV light for it?

Open to correction though. I've been meaning to use some cream peroxide on the Dreamcast since my sister has a ton of the stuff.

Inviere · 25-06-2018 04:34PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

It's my understanding that RetroBrite was a product by a company which seems to have a massive markup for what it is, as far as I know cream peroxide is cheap and you don't need UV light for it?

Open to correction though. I've been meaning to use some cream peroxide on the Dreamcast since my sister has a ton of the stuff.

Cream peroxide is fine, but you do need UV light as far as I know.

MrVestek · 25-06-2018 04:48PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

It's my understanding that RetroBrite was a product by a company which seems to have a massive markup for what it is, as far as I know cream peroxide is cheap and you don't need UV light for it?

Open to correction though. I've been meaning to use some cream peroxide on the Dreamcast since my sister has a ton of the stuff.

Ohh I don't mean using actual RetroBrite.

I've had Oxyclean and cream peroxide at home for a year or so now with the intention to make a video about resurfacing old plastics.

With the weather we've been having lately I get direct sunlight in my flat so should be easy to have it exposed to the sun for 12 hours at a time.

25-06-2018 05:31PM

Anybody know a reputable place (preferably in Europe) to buy a Pandora's box or similar Jamma multicart? I'm looking to do a mame to jamma conversion because the PC in my mame cab is starting to die and keeps throwing up hardware errors. It's 10+ years old now & it's only a matter of time....

eddhorse · 25-06-2018 08:16PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Anybody know a reputable place (preferably in Europe) to buy a Pandora's box or similar Jamma multicart? I'm looking to do a mame to jamma conversion because the PC in my mame cab is starting to die and keeps throwing up hardware errors. It's 10+ years old now & it's only a matter of time....

Which Pandora are you after?
Some of them are hackable so you can add more games.
The files were on Jamma plus, but that's closed down now.
What cab is it?

26-06-2018 03:40PM

eddhorse wrote: »

Which Pandora are you after?
Some of them are hackable so you can add more games.
The files were on Jamma plus, but that's closed down now.
What cab is it?

i was looking at one of the versions of the 5s. I'm not too bothered about any extra games, as long as the basics i want are on it (even the earlier versions are fine) but a quality interface and good set of config options on it are important, and minimizing slowdown, tearing etc. Main reason i'm looking at the 5s is for the faster processor, but i'm open to suggestion. If it being hackable means more options as far as config-ing and setting it up (rather than adding new games) that's good...
The cab is a kit build bartop at the moment due to space constraints, but i want to put the guts back into a proper upright woody cab soon. It's running an old XP P4 and re-shelled to boot right into Hyperspin, but the PC hardware is about to kick the bucket. CP is Sanwa JLF sticks and a mix of happ competition and sanwa convex buttons. Monitor is a TFT. Interface is an Ipac.
I'll most likely have to rebuild the control panel, and change the ipac for a Jpac to work with the pandora's box.

DaveyDave · 27-06-2018 01:53AM

Quick one lads, NTSC game on the Dreamcast is black and white, quick search shows this is because it's a 60hz signal on a 50hz TV. Will RGB help this? I'm assuming this is due to the TV not doing 60hz over RF.

The Last Bandit · 27-06-2018 08:04AM

Yes a RGB cable will sort that out. The PAL/NTSC colour encoding doesn't exist with RGB.

super_furry · 28-06-2018 03:03PM

Maybe not quite retro yet, but if you have any old PSPs lying about check on the batteries. Found both my launch one and PSP 3000 yesterday with bulging batteries that look like they could pop at any minute.

Inviere · 28-06-2018 03:16PM

super_furry wrote: »

Maybe not quite retro yet, but if you have any old PSPs lying about check on the batteries. Found both my launch one and PSP 3000 yesterday with bulging batteries that look like they could pop at any minute.

Done that a few years back when putting everything into storage. DS's, DSi's, 3DS's., XL's, PSP's, Wii U Pad's....everything got batteryies removed, labelled, and stored separately

28-06-2018 03:31PM

Related to the battery problems, anyone who has on original Xbox and uses it, remove the clock capacitor from the motherboard!
They've started bursting and leaking acid onto the motherboard, rendering the console a chunky paperweight

Inviere · 28-06-2018 03:44PM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

rendering the console a chunky paperweight

Many would say they came off the production line in that condition

That said, yeah, remove the clock cap...except on v1.6 mobo's, there's none

Tom Mann Centuria · 28-06-2018 03:59PM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Related to the battery problems, anyone who has on original Xbox and uses it, remove the clock capacitor from the motherboard!
They've started bursting and leaking acid onto the motherboard, rendering the console a chunky paperweight

Hmm, how easy or difficult is this? I have a soft modded delight I still use.

28-06-2018 04:15PM

It's very straightforward. If you're feeling fancy you can use a soldering iron to get it off but a bit of gentle rocking with a pliers will free it just as easily.
The Xbox comes apart quite easily too. No need for the posh screwdrivers, the basics will do

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