General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

That looks really bizarre, I love it! A Switch release would be lovely.

Buying and Selling question for those who’ve used Revolut on Adverts. Is there anything scammy I should be aware of?

Can someone do backsies on a “friend” transfer.

Could have written this myself tbh. Love 80s and 90s action films but all the superhero stuff is totally lost on me.

Have heard great things about Maverick, will have to see it in the cinema while it's still there!

Maverick is just pure, unadulterated fun. It felt like I was in a blockbuster film from 20 years ago. I walked out of the cinema very happy and felt like I'd fallen in love again with going to the big screen.

Seems Sega are doing a second Mega Drive Mini, this time based on the MD2.

Would've liked to see them put some 32x games on it seeing as they're adding Mega CD ones. Would take Virtua Racing Deluxe every day over the MD version.

Looks like it's just a reseller now, around 180 euro including delivery excluding tax makes it a. O for me, surprised they sold so quickly, unless they're not on full presale yet

It's an area of software emulation that's disappointingly neglected (the 32X). It's functional, but nowhere near the cycle accurate standard of the likes of Megadrive emulation. Hopefully this will spur on some interest in bringing it up to modern standards.

Interestingly, a 32X Mister core dropped recently, from the same author of the upcoming Saturn core (I wonder if he took on the 32X as a testbed for Saturn hardware emulation?).

Yeah it's really not fun to play at all. More of a tech demo for the Snes than anything else. The transition from side scrolling to horizontal shmup at the end of level 2/start of level 3 with the rotating ship take off is really impressive.

Stage 7 is also worth a look at, does a mass rocket firing section at the start (someone must have played Eliminate Down!) and then crazy fast scrolling through cityscapes with really nice (albeit, a little nauseating) parallax scrolling of background layers to give the sense of you flying really close to skyscrapers.

But yeah it's a real shame it doesn't play well. I've only ever really 'experienced' it via youtube videos as I wasn't really willing to put the effort in to play very far into it.

It includes the NES game and the Gameboy one for $40.

Spent last night alphabetising my PS1 games. Thought it would be therapeutic but it ended up being really stressful! hah.

I've two long rows of games, one on top of the other. 80 games in each row. Thought it would be handy to just reshuffle them all so that A through to J is on the top row, K to Z on the bottom row.

All went fine on the top row, then moved on to the bottom 'oh ****...'

The moment you take a game out on the bottom row, the top row's game falls down. (which you'd think would have been a logical thing to conclude from the beginning!)

Resulted in me trying to take random games out of the bottom row to put them in order while simultaneously trying to prevent the top row falling down / off the shelves completely and smashing their cases.

Got there in the end but jesus, won't be doing that again!

Ideally I need to come up with a solution to add an extra row of shelving so games aren't stacked on top of each other.

Funny little collections starting to appear though, I didn't actually realise there were so many Formula 1 games for the ps1, let alone that I had so many of them.

Formula 1

Formula 97

Formula 1 98 (Two copies)

Formula 1 99

Formula 1 2000

Not that I'm mad into the series (Don't think I've really played anything other than 97) but am now compelled to hunt down 'Arcade' and '2001' to complete the set!

I have F1 World Grand Prix but have never seen that sequel, that looks really impressive!

Random thought but are any of you guys still blown away by current internet speeds compared to dial up? I used dial up regularly for about 6-7 years covering everything from downloading MP3s to playing games online, so it's capability still forms a large part of 'the internet' to me as a baseline.

Last night I set an Everdrive torrent to download - 330GB. Basically every console you can imagine and an SD card image set up for it's corresponding Everdrive. Also looks like there's loads of MiSTer stuff in there too.

Woke up this morning and there it was waiting for me, completely downloaded.

I used to average 1MB of a download every 5 minutes on my 56k dial up, which is 83 hours for 1GB, 27,500 hours for that 330GB download.

1,145 days or 3.13 years.

3.13 years of dial up speed in one evening. If you went back in time and showed that to me circa late 90s/early 2000s I think my brain would have instantly vaporised trying to comprehend it!

I was lucky on that one. Installed it first on my laptop in college, much quicker than the ISDN line I had at home.

Also remember when Eircom were advertising ISDN as broadband, while the 64k connection was much better than dial up due to less noise if you wanted to use the 128k connection you got charged double the rate for using both lines.

And then when ADSL did eventually become available they bumped anyone with ISDN to the back of the queue as it required an engineer callout to install.

It was great for downloading larger things from the internet in a more reasonable timeframe, but not something to use for long periods of time. Even the 64k was good as you got a consistent 64k connection while I usually got about 45k on dial up due to line noise.

Getting fixed rate internet in 2005 was a godsend though, reduced the phone charges to about 40% of our dial up monthly rate.

I had ISDN on a residential line without being tied to a business, it may have been that way initially though(iirc the same happened with broadband) as it was installed here in 2002.

At the same time the internet situation was absolutely crap. It was so bad at the time that Microsoft built their own network for the Lepardstown campus.

What ? Ye aren't using Oceanfree.net anymore