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KeRbDoG · 06-10-2018 9:30pm

Heavy is putting it lightly (haha).
For mine, I cut the legs to make it a sit down cab - also painted the monitor surrounds and the control panel tops matt black. I kept the legs etc. white, kinda works with the contrast - if it was all black it would be kinda a very large monolith in the corner

Wiring for JAMMA, makes sense if you don't want to toy around with JVS you'd just need to convert the video to VGA

The Last Bandit · 06-10-2018 9:57pm

Thinking of stain black all over with the Naomi Universal orange vinyls and white controls, definitely getting chopped.

Its a Sanwa 31Khz monitor so handy for a Mame cab, have one of those 15Khz-31Khz video converters so will try that out and see what the quality is like.
It'll be a total mongrel inside and out but hopefully won't turn up on the mame-of-shame thread

CiDeRmAn · 07-10-2018 8:52am

Just collected my hard modded PS2 phat.
Looking forward to doing lots of "research" with it in the coming years!
Apparently it's the DMS3 chip, which is a good thing.
It'll play pretty much everything you can throw at it.

For the full throw back experience I should either store "research" in a giant dvd cake or buy a printer that will do faux labels on the "research"!

The Last Bandit · 07-10-2018 9:30am

DMS3 chip is one of the better ones, handy feature where you can run apps from the memory card (like Hddloader etc).

Firefox11 · 07-10-2018 4:50pm

I was a big fan on BBS's back in the day so recently got one of these. A wifi64 - giving wifi connectivity for a C64.

Really great bit of kit. The internet before the internet.

CiDeRmAn · 07-10-2018 5:58pm

Just did some testing there and it works like a charm.
Funny thing though, the previous owner gave me a couple of his own "research" disks and they were games like Pro Evo 06 and 07!
I mean, the blank media probably costs more a piece than the games in CEX!

Inviere · 07-10-2018 6:09pm

That C64 looks minty fresh

Firefox11 · 07-10-2018 6:44pm

Inviere wrote: »

That C64 looks minty fresh

It was an ebay find. Came boxed and looked like the previous owner did not use it much. Just a bit of elbow grease was all that was needed.

accensi0n · 09-10-2018 9:03pm

Few new nes games. I'm looking forward to playing 2 of them...

Jack burton · 10-10-2018 12:26pm

Got 6lbs 9oz of "Here comes a new challenger" delivered last night &#55357;&#56832;

deadl0ck · 10-10-2018 1:03pm

Just got my EZ-Flash Omega for my GBA SP - did a firmware update and had a quick play of Final Fight One - works great !!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 10-10-2018 1:17pm

I'm mad into pins rn.
I got these, it's World Mental Health day today too so that was good timing for this Animal Crossing one
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And a Pokemon one
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Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 10-10-2018 1:23pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Got 6lbs 9oz of "Here comes a new challenger" delivered last night ��

I said it already but
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10-10-2018 2:56pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Got 6lbs 9oz of "Here comes a new challenger" delivered last night ��

On he's on here looking fora mega man booklet

Inviere · 10-10-2018 3:07pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Got 6lbs 9oz of "Here comes a new challenger" delivered last night ��

Congratulations JB, you, are now Player 2

o1s1n · 10-10-2018 3:11pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Got 6lbs 9oz of "Here comes a new challenger" delivered last night ��

Jack burton · 10-10-2018 3:20pm

Thanks lads, fairly wrecked now. Wasn't even sure what day it was today haha

BrownFinger wrote: »

On he's on here looking fora mega man booklet

Couldn't have my child brought into a home that doesn't have a complete copy of the wily wars

CathalDublin · 10-10-2018 3:23pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Thanks lads, fairly wrecked now. Wasn't even sure what day it was today haha

Yea, all that hand holding is difficult, hope your alright:D

Inviere · 10-10-2018 3:24pm

CathalDublin wrote: »

Yea, all that hand holding is difficult, hope your alright:D

I tried the gas, given there was a lot of waiting around. Suffice it to say, I won't be doing that again

CathalDublin · 10-10-2018 3:29pm

Inviere wrote: »

I tried the gas, given there was a lot of waiting around. Suffice it to say, I won't be doing that again

Was it any good?
I wanted to try it this time but the midwife was there the whole time and I didn't want her to think I just wanted to get high while my child was being born:o

Inviere · 10-10-2018 3:33pm

CathalDublin wrote: »

Was it any good?
I wanted to try it this time but the midwife was there the whole time and I didn't want her to think I just wanted to get high while my child was being born:o

It's N2O as far as I can make out, because, unless you're in severe pain, you're going to laugh...a lot. Don't do it, they'll know instantly because you'll be cracking up for a few minutes for no reason at all, and its uncontrollable. Once it wears off, the embarrassment kicks in

o1s1n · 10-10-2018 3:43pm

They had me on nitrous oxide when they were binding my broken leg. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world

KeRbDoG · 10-10-2018 4:25pm

Pandora's Box 6 CGA/JAMMA arrived yesterday - it isn't half bad, seems to allow PS1 games also...of course all through emulation.
Ciderman can vouch about slow down'ness - from a quick go it was better than the previous Pandora's type all-in-one arcade emu boxes I've tried before.

deadl0ck · 10-10-2018 5:26pm

So playing my GBA SP (now that I got my EZ Flash Omega) and I don't remember the screen being this dark (even with the backlight).
Is the GBA Micro any better ?

TechnoFreek · 10-10-2018 6:03pm

deadl0ck wrote: »

So playing my GBA SP (now that I got my EZ Flash Omega) and I don't remember the screen being this dark (even with the backlight).
Is the GBA Micro any better ?

I couldn't get over how dark my sp was too when I turned it on last week. I wonder is it just because we're so used to the brightness of smart phones and tablets

deadl0ck · 10-10-2018 6:08pm

TechnoFreek wrote: »

I couldn't get over how dark my sp was too when I turned it on last week. I wonder is it just because we're so used to the brightness of smart phones and tablets

I think so - we're just used to super bright displays now. But I think I read somewhere the micro screen was a fair bit better

CiDeRmAn · 10-10-2018 8:02pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Thanks lads, fairly wrecked now. Wasn't even sure what day it was today haha

Couldn't have my child brought into a home that doesn't have a complete copy of the wily wars

Congratulations!
It's all in the reflexes!

CathalDublin · 10-10-2018 8:03pm

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Pandora's Box 6 CGA/JAMMA arrived yesterday - it isn't half bad, seems to allow PS1 games also...of course all through emulation.
Ciderman can vouch about slow down'ness - from a quick go it was better than the previous Pandora's type all-in-one arcade emu boxes I've tried before.

Interesting, ps1 games, what do they play like?
What are side scrollers like
Eg. Wonderboy, GNG, RType?

CathalDublin · 10-10-2018 8:04pm

deadl0ck wrote: »

So playing my GBA SP (now that I got my EZ Flash Omega) and I don't remember the screen being this dark (even with the backlight).
Is the GBA Micro any better ?

Is it the front lit model? You can get a replacement back lit screen for them

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 16-10-2018 10:05am

Few bits arriving over the course of the last 2 weeks.

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I no longer even own a PS3, I'm using my brother's - he doesn't use it anymore.

CiDeRmAn · 16-10-2018 1:16pm

CathalDublin wrote: »

Interesting, ps1 games, what do they play like?
What are side scrollers like
Eg. Wonderboy, GNG, RType?

PS stuff doesn't appear to be the target software, couldn't run the examples Kerb had installed.
It might be the case though that they are unlikely to run well, though they are considered "available" because they do open, or should at least.

But the other arcade titles work very well.
I was playing some Progear and In The Hunt, both of which worked well.

Thargor · 16-10-2018 6:58pm

Loved Conflict Desert Storm at the time.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 16-10-2018 9:51pm

Thargor wrote: »

Loved Conflict Desert Storm at the time.

I played it with my cousin so many times 15 years ago. Very janky nowadays but I can still fly through it alone as if I played it last week. Class game

Thargor · 16-10-2018 10:06pm

It was janky the day it was released tbh, had a feel of those generic €10 pc games that used to be on racks in newsagents but the gameplay was absolutely brilliant, some proper firefights in it.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 17-10-2018 9:57am

Thargor wrote: »

It was janky the day it was released tbh, had a feel of those generic €10 pc games that used to be on racks in newsagents but the gameplay was absolutely brilliant, some proper firefights in it.

I had a very blissful ignorance to the quality of games back then. It could run at 15fps and I would not have cared. Nowadays if it's not a very stable fps, I'll struggle to avoid a headache

Conflict is worth the headache imho :pac:

TechnoFreek · 17-10-2018 8:46pm

Not quite retro but it facilitates retro!

Doge · 17-10-2018 9:58pm

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Not quite retro but it facilitates retro!

Is this for the PSP?

Doge · 17-10-2018 11:26pm

sugarman wrote: »

Yeah, happened to get one today myself in the post aswell as one of the new Vita adapters.

Vita now has 128GB of storage :cool:

Same here! :cool:

I actually have a spare sd2vita adapter if anyone ones to buy it from me. It's the latest and better black and red adapter, not those nasty bare circuit board versions.

TechnoFreek · 18-10-2018 8:36am

Doge wrote: »

Is this for the PSP?

Yeah, exactly that.
I went with a 32gb card as there was a time the psp was limited to that size. Possible that cfw removed that cap but didn't want to take the chance.

32gb should be more than enough to hold a Top 25 games say.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 18-10-2018 9:35am

Shut up, this is a man's game.

:pac:

In all fairness I loved this growing up. I bought it purely for nostalgia.

CiDeRmAn · 18-10-2018 9:50am

Doge wrote: »

Same here! :cool:

I actually have a spare sd2vita adapter if anyone ones to buy it from me. It's the latest and better black and red adapter, not those nasty bare circuit board versions.

Do I need CFW installed to use one of these?
If not I'll take it!

Tom Mann Centuria · 18-10-2018 10:17am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Do I need CFW installed to use one of these?
If not I'll take it!

The one for the Vita you do.

o1s1n · 18-10-2018 11:39am

Went to ebay to get a cheapo HDMI multi switcher. Decided to see if there was a high quality broadcast/production option instead as I'm a freak for that stuff.

Of course there is! Extron make them. And by the looks of things you're talking £100+.

I did however find a seller selling EXTRON MPS 409 units for £35 each (has three left, yes I bought one)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EXTRON-MPS-409-Presentation-Switcher/132468086355?hash=item1ed7b69653:g:begAAOSwPOhaWQNl:rk:1:pf:0

Has the following features;

- 3x1 HDMI switcher
- 2x1 DVI switcher
- 2x1 VGA/HDTV component video switcher
- 2x1 composite video switcher
- 9x1 analog stereo audio switcher

Seems like a really cool unit and a bit of a bargain.

CiDeRmAn · 18-10-2018 1:16pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Went to ebay to get a cheapo HDMI multi switcher. Decided to see if there was a high quality broadcast/production option instead as I'm a freak for that stuff.

Of course there is! Extron make them. And by the looks of things you're talking £100+.

I did however find a seller selling EXTRON MPS 409 units for £35 each (has three left, yes I bought one)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EXTRON-MPS-409-Presentation-Switcher/132468086355?hash=item1ed7b69653:g:begAAOSwPOhaWQNl:rk:1:pf:0

Has the following features;

- 3x1 HDMI switcher
- 2x1 DVI switcher
- 2x1 VGA/HDTV component video switcher
- 2x1 composite video switcher
- 9x1 analog stereo audio switcher

Seems like a really cool unit and a bit of a bargain.

Might check if my plasma also takes a VGA input, in which case I might pick one up.
That display is about to get busier as I'll have the 360, PS3 and the PS2 all hooked up via HDMI and, potentially, the DC via the VGA port... assuming it has one.

o1s1n · 18-10-2018 1:42pm

I've been reading up a bit on these, they can actually do a lot more than I'd initially thought.

As well as SDI video out, it also has HDMI out and 3.5mm audio out.

So you could actually have this hooked up to a standard TV with a HDMI port, as well as a production monitor that does SDI. No adapters needed.

You can also switch between multiple audio sources and have them all going to one hifi.

You can basically pair up any audio with any picture across all connections and display it to several different video outputs simultaneously.

In your above scenario, you could run your Dreamcasts VGA into the Extron and display it out over a HDMI cable to your tv.

Edit - damn, I don't think that VGA to HDMI idea would work as it doesn't have an inbuilt scaler (manual says the output video format will be the same as the input).

Inviere · 18-10-2018 2:17pm

Doge wrote: »

Same here! :cool:

I actually have a spare sd2vita adapter if anyone ones to buy it from me. It's the latest and better black and red adapter, not those nasty bare circuit board versions.

I'll take this if Cidey doesn't want it. I've a Vita on 3.60 sitting in its box in the attic, it could do with a pal

Jack burton · 18-10-2018 2:24pm

So I managed to get another of those tiny Sony pvms for cheap.....and I currently have 2 more enroute to me (with flight cases

)

I want to make a mini video wall. I asked on collective and I got some good suggestions, just wondering if anyone here had any ideas. I want to have a quarter of the image on each screen. Someone suggested Daisy chaining composite cables but I'm not sure. I think regardlessly I'll have to get 4 scart to pvm cables and run them through this

http://www.ani-av.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=206

Link to the Facebook post as well for anyone to see what the other lads suggested. With a screen that size I'm not too fussy over using RGB scart.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840?view=permalink&id=1200672746737579

o1s1n · 18-10-2018 2:59pm

Really cool idea and something I've wanted to try for a while too.

The stuff you've posted links to would just give you the same image on all screens. As would chaining composite cables.

You need some sort of processor/software to split the image up into 4 parts and then to output each part as separate video signal. The monitors themselves are dumb in this whole process, they'll just be receiving the signal and looking pretty.

There's a raspberry Pi solution, but this looks to be more for digital video unfortunately.

Jack burton · 18-10-2018 3:01pm

Yeah I'm afraid you could be right. Might be a pipedream. The image duplicated on 4 screen would be pretty cool all the same.

I've looked at some of those professional boxes for splitting the signal....they are silly money for what I want

DaveyDave · 18-10-2018 3:04pm

I would have never thought of doing that. I'll keep that in mind if I pickup a PSP.

Had a 2GB card back then, could barely hold 1-2 games and the UMD drive broke on both of my model 1000s!

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