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Fresh in from the Netherlands, Shinobi X on the saturn.
I sold my original copy which was great condition and regretted it. But this one might be even better, near flawless! It's always difficult to tell with the cardboard Saturn games, so I'm pleased to see it.
Its not better than shinobi 3, but it's still very good. Another weird few twists from Sega on a franchise. It got a superior soundtrack in Europe versus the other versions (called Shinobi Legions).
The icing on the cake is the fmv stuff dotted throughout the game, just amazingly cheesy. They definitely took a leaf out of those million "ninja" films from the 80's which are hilarious with a few friends around. So bad they're good, have you in tears
For comparison (check the star wars rip off music at the start too)...
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Aye....was slated at the time in a lot of quarters, but I remember picking it up on release and wondering why people hated it so much. I suppose it has found an appreciation over the years, with the cheese only adding to its value.
Dynamite soundtrack (on the PAL release anyway).
It's an absolutely shockingly ugly game especially when digitised sprites were well past their sell by date and everyone was looking to 3D. Still think it plays really well but then again this is an era where amazing 2D games like Rapid Reload/Gunners Heaven were savaged while singing the praises of uninspired stuff like Crash Bandicoot or.... Pandemonium!.
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Found another use for that Ikea filing cabinet I posted on the other get thread, they're actually great for storing loose catridges. The drawer is pretty much the depth of a snes cart.
Can fit about 30 Snes carts in a drawer, so about 180 in a total unit.
It's an Ikea Helmer for anyone that's interested, only 30 quid!
https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/p/helmer-drawer-unit-on-castors-white-10251045/
I have about 100 more loose snes carts so think I might clear out a few more drawers and lash the rest of them in.
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Out with the old and in with the new.
My old Amiga 600 1MB trapdoor expansion on the left and the new 1MB expansion with clock on the right. The old one worked fine, but there's a slight bend in it and I just don't fully trust it anymore.
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Should you want to sell the old expansion (Chip Memory?), let me knowOut with the old and in with the new.
My old Amiga 600 1MB trapdoor expansion on the left and the new 1MB expansion with clock on the right. The old one worked fine, but there's a slight bend in it and I just don't fully trust it anymore.
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Not strictly a new get but an unearthing.
Dug out a load of original* ps2 discs from the attic which probably haven't seen the light of day since 2006 when I switched allegiance to Microsoft and the xbox 360
* The cold air in the attic seems to have caused the disc artwork to fade over the years. Luckily I had the foresight to write the name of each game in permanent marker which ironically didn't fade
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After recently getting into the whole ODE thing, I threw an absolute rake of CDRs in the bin. Was going to hang onto them even just for nostalgia sake (sure they're 'retro' themselves now at this point!) but saw sense in the end. 0 -
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I remember my first playthrough of Metal Gear Solid was a dodgy Japanese copy.
Because it came on a CDr with no back cover... no clue to be found for that puzzle, so I was stuck for ages!
I had a legit copy and couldn't figure it out.
I totally over thought it and was looking at all the serial and barcode numbers on the box and putting them in. It was only when I went through and called every combination of numbers on the codec and found it that I realised I was an idiot and it was in the screenshot.
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Just arrived courtesy of Kerbdog...
My new Colecovision controller!
Just tested it, works like a charm and games are so much better with a proper controller.
Also, plugged in to the console itself, is the cheap and cheerful Coleco multicart, now with dip-switch power!
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Just to throw a spanner in the works, that is a USA step down to 120v. Most of the step down you see in Europe and Ireland are for getting down to 120v.
Japanese devices use 110v. I don't know enough about electricity to know if it truly can damage things, (I know devices have operating parameters rather than going to just 110v and exploding!) But it's worth keeping in mind. They work alright, but do they damage consoles? I'm not sure.
Airlink have a true Japanese 110v step down, that's the one I use with my cabs.
Its sort of a non issue the whole 100-120v thing. Most Japanese console power supplies will say 100-120v when you look at the inside anyway(as does a lot of other Japanese tech). Most step downs will state 110-120v output on them as well. And then you have our American cousins who have been buying Japanese tech for decades and plugging it into their 120v sockets.
This is the stepdown in my Egret 3 candy cab, outputting 120v for the last 10 years without issue.
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Got a couple cps1 boards, Willow and Ghouls 'n ghosts. One problem with Willow is that every few minutes it blasts out WILLOW IS A FANTASTIC SORCERER! So I'll have a better look at that later.
Very good game though, rock solid platformer based on the film. Definitely a challenge and very nice graphics. I always liked the film, and Sorcha is fairly hot stuff
Ghouls 'n Ghosts seems working 100%. Another very challenging game. Has a lot of nice extra touches graphic wise compared to console versions. Runs at 60 frames a second?
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Finally figured out the problem with willow after an hour of messing!
When one of the wolves would howl it would start a speech effect. That took long enough to notice.
So went into dipswitch sound mode and true enough, playing the "howl" effect was all screwed up.
Looked up sound problems associated with cps1 and found that digital sound effects like speech are usually stored on ROMs 18 and 19.
So I took them out and bingo! One of the legs had bent under the actual chip and not entered. But from the outside it looked fine. Straightened it up being careful not to snap it, and yep, right as rain
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That's good going on ghouls 'n ghosts to get to the second run, I'll need a bit more practice from back in the megadrive days!
I got these two boards from a fella in France, they're not spud-reared
As for the fix, it was just flukey. What's amazing is that the problem manifested itself so specifically, you'd think all the sound would be buggered. Weird. Though I suppose there would have been other problems later in the game too.
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woah new thread !
love willow , my main and only bargain of the 2010's I got that i remember anyway, all the way for Argentina had to do a load of work on the C custom to get it going ,can't believe you didn't use the lighting sequence for a pic
I still dispute the flakiness of the A boards ,Yes some have died like many other boards ,but it just sticks out due to mainly the 1 custom chip :mad:
I've always thought cps boards have lived a harder life than most other boards due to some of the games popularity ,I remember seeing some thrown about and stacked badly on each other bitd in one of the local arcades and from all pics and speak of other locations it didn't really differ in most other places either.0 -
Picked this up as I was looking for something to quickly test out old systems that only offer RF out(and hook it through my XCapture-1/OBS Studio for viewing). It works surprisingly well for what it is, but man rf sucks!
It tuned in my Philips Videopac G7000 without issue.
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For those curious(like me).
Powered by the same F54285 chip that's in most of those AV/SCART/Whatever To HDMI devices you see on Amazon/AliExpress.
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