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One final mental grail get for me until I get a mortgage, pretty much have all my grail cabs now. Yep it's another project as again I couldn't afford a fully working one, I am a sucker for pain with these big motion cabs! I'm sure I'll get it fixed up and restored but focusing on finishing the AfterBurner first. I may just use the new Smartypi on it and the new motion drive board repro, but will hold judgement until I test it. Finally pretty much have the dream lineup of games for me personally after collecting for 4 or 5 years. Look forward to potentially hosting beers nights/ meetups down the line too if people are up for those with some cool cabs when I buy a place! The storage unit is now absolutely full to the brim at the minute (thankfully so I can't buy anything else lol).

ace ,i've been collection 20+ years and never managed my grail line up 1 :P :(

I was fairly lucky to start collecting when I did back then towards the end of college and got a couple of grail games when they were a bit cheaper 5 years ago at a time in my life where I could instead of buying a car or what most people seem to do, eventhough some people were saying they had gone too expensive back then, got the odd bargain or two along the way too but mostly bought projects and always fancied a challenge. But this for sure was no bargain lol, it was about the same price as a nice working stand up Outrun in the UK but that still is mental money lol, sorta one last piece to probably finish the collection but I suppose there'll always be one more 'dream cab'

Got an 8bitdo NES retro receiver in the post today, connects up nicely with my fancy new RGB Famicom Top loader!

Paired it with a NES30 that I bought years and years ago when they first came out and haven't used at all really. So it's a wireless NES gaming experience that's literally years in the making!

Was playing MegaMan 2 wirelessly with it, no noticable lag at all.

Steam Deck arrived this morning, its a bit of a beast. Can't wait to get Atari 2600 emulation installed on it

No spins for Olly then when I get it up and running eventually! (probably in about 3 years time with my track record lol)

Cheers though, one would def fit well in your Outrun collection if I ever have to move it on down the line!

Been wanting to get a CRT for a while now to plug the MiSTer into and was finding the whole thing intimidating tbh. Don't even have the SCART cable for it yet but bought that and a triple daemonbite adapter (90euro just for those 2 things all in :( ) on the weekend. Along with some very yellowed original controllers (SNES/MD/PSX - another 50euro). MiSTer with original controllers + CRT is going to be my sweet spot I think/hope.

Thought I'd have no chance with the TV tbh. Nothing going outside of eBay UK sellers and was fairly sure I'd overpay for something I didn't even really want. Was on alert for 'Free TV' on Adverts and everything, grim times.

Then saw what for me looked absolutely perfect. Was texting about it since Sunday and thought he was giving me the runaround, pretty much given up on it until he clicked - turns out the only responses he'd gotten were scams so he was a bit cold at first. Went in tonight and he was sound out - old guy who knew vaguely they can be used for old computer games and didn't want to throw it out. Price was 65, I gave him 70 but he handed 20 back.

Carted it down from his 3rd floor appt on the stairs, buckled it up in the back seat, and drove back across the city at a steady 25k/h. Was buzzing all the way tbh haha, pure excitement.

Only thing I have atm I can plug into it is an old modded PAL Wii using composite to scart but I'm absolutely thrilled with it. And the sound - only tech I was ever really early to was flat screens and I'd genuinely forgotten what proper audio from tv speakers sounds like, nearly blew my ears off.

Pictures are muck with the indoor lighting making the colour look off but it looks stunning in person imo. Really is big though, put a Wii mote next to it for comparison. How can a 21" tv seem big lol.

Just need to redesign the house so I've somewhere to put it now.

(No idea why boards flips some photos...oh probably landscape/portrait 🙄)

Very nice TV, nice get. After my recent experience testing the old family Ferguson TV that was stored in the outside but dry shed, I'm going to buy a CO2 fire extinguisher for when the games room is ready for use. Just in case....

(God I was excited last night..😬)

Yeah, it seems way better than I could have hoped for, thought I'd be buying multiple hold overs before finding a nice one. It has 2 SCARTs but only 1 has RGB so I'm guessing you never really use it?

Up to yesterday I thought PAL Tvs would be a minefield because you hear so much about 50hz etc but saw a post that (paraphrasing) said

"European Tvs aren't 50hz, euro Tvs are PAL and PAL is 50hz. If the Euro Tv has SCART that means it will play NTSC and it will play it however it's meant."

Is that really all there is to it? I thought they'd be clocked at 50hz internally tbh.

Daemonbite adapter arrived this morning as well. No controllers yet and cable went on backorder (apparently you need a special VGA to SCART for the MiSTer to step down voltage on one of the pins?). It's a neat little thing but can be DIY'd obviously if you have the skills.

Just was sent this first proto of TerribleFire's latest thing : The TFMSX.

A repro MSX2+ using original CPU, VDP and sound chip. Takes real carts, output to RGB and has joystick ports or USB for both joystick and keyboard. very very exciting little project

no z80 cpu are still available , as are YM 3-8910 sound chips and VDP ICs . so no real hardware is harmed in the process of making these :)

Gimme a shout if you find anything you don't want and maybe we can trade a few.

I'm always after more 80s and 90s action and cheesefest movies