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Arcade and Retro forum beers! (AKA the night of the scandalously drunk retro geeks)

o1s1n

Before this idea completely vanishes, might as well get a thread going.

Any preferences as to where/when?

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o1s1n

PM sent! (Don't want to get in trouble for talking about back up copies

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Retr0gamer

Here's how to fix your DC monkeyfudge. It's usually the Pins that need bending or sort out their contacts by bending them so the contact with the six pins is better.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/dc-reset.htm

monkeyfudge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Here's how to fix your DC monkeyfudge. It's usually the Pins that need bending or sort out their contacts by bending them so the contact with the six pins is better.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/dc-reset.htm

Nice URL.

CiDeRmAn

Would modding one of my MD's really make much of a difference to my PAL only selection of titles?
Is there any point?

Might have the next beers in my place, just need you guys to travel a bit, I'm on the 41b bus route to get here, but getting home at 4am is tricky!
A driver is needed for definite, but it's just great to see my stuff getting some mileage, mostly it's been providing much needed housing for various spiders, fly corpses (see spiders), webs (again see spiders) and wasp cadavers (similar to corpses) who simply flew in, lost and lonely, and never returned to their loved ones, Mwa HA HA!

monkeyfudge

Swords isn't too much of a stretch for me anyway.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Would modding one of my MD's really make much of a difference to my PAL only selection of titles?
Is there any point?

A little thing called 60hz

Your PAL games are all 17% slower and have horrible borders. It's an essential mod really. No games should ever be played in PAL.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Might have the next beers in my place, just need you guys to travel a bit, I'm on the 41b bus route to get here, but getting home at 4am is tricky!
A driver is needed for definite, but it's just great to see my stuff getting some mileage, mostly it's been providing much needed housing for various spiders, fly corpses (see spiders), webs (again see spiders) and wasp cadavers (similar to corpses) who simply flew in, lost and lonely, and never returned to their loved ones, Mwa HA HA!

I'm up for that!

Retr0gamer

Swords is closer for me as well. I'd still have to drive.

As for modding your PAL megadrive, it would mean you can play those PAL games the way they were meant to be played, 60Hz and fullscreen. And yes it does make a big difference.

Atavan-Halen

Hopefully I'll pass my test on Friday so I could also drive out which wouldn't be a problem.

Retr0gamer

I might have a free gaff in august as well, but I live out in Balbriggan.

CiDeRmAn

Ah well, someone has to live in Balbriggan, might as well be you.
No wonder you're always so up for a fight!
You have to know how to defend yourself to survive there,
think "The Warriors" but with Irish accents!
Speaking of which, got that for the PS2 a while ago, and popped it on for the first time, I'm never likely to play it seriously, but it's fun, not dissimilar to Manhunt in a lot of ways.

Retr0gamer

The Warriors is a brilliant game, don't even compare it to that pos Manhunt!

o1s1n

You only hate Manhunt because your parents won't let you play it.

monkeyfudge

I hate Manhunt because it made me kill that boy.

CiDeRmAn

No, the voices of the spiders that live behind your eye socket, they made you do it.
Now, where did I put that axe?

Manhunt is very good, violent, immoral, nasty, but good.

o1s1n

I liked it too myself. It's a videogame version of 70s/80s exploitation video nasties. You need to look at it from that point of view and not the 'OMFG VIOLENT ROCKSTAR IS RUINING OUR VIDJOGAMES!!!' angle.

Jack burton

I really enjoyed manhunt, great game

and anyone who is "influenced" by videogames is already a complete nutjob and is already well cabable of killing someone and they just need somthing to blame

before video games it was Judas Priest that were apperantly causing it!

Retr0gamer

I didn't like manhunt because it was probably the most boring, repetitive and badly written game I'd ever played.

CiDeRmAn

Boring, repetitive, badly written, sounds like FFVII to me!

But thats ok Retro, we're all friends here, and you are quite free to have your own opinions, even wrong ones!

And for those sufficiently dazzled by Steel Battalion, why not buy your own?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Steel-Battalion-Xbox-/280533611010?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item41511b3202#ht_500wt_947

I reckon buy this, organise a retrogaming road trip to pick it up, just take the ferry over with the car.
It could be cool for those with the retrogaming balls to do it!
Of course, some of you lack the commitment, don't be embarrassed, that's ok, there's room in the world for 2nd place you know....

And another thing,
Here's an affordable Vectrex with cheap international shipping,
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Boxed-MB-Vectrex-Console-2-Games-and-Controls-/170512133995?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item27b350af6b#ht_500wt_947

Retr0gamer

One thing I can remember about manhunt was that the exclusive review was pulled from a magazine because they gave it 3/10 and it went to a magazine with looser morals. To me it felt like the worst part of the old GTA games, the on foot sections, which were always terrible with an awful camera and they just made a whole game around it. Thankfully the Rockstar team in Vancouver know how to make good games and gave us the brillaint The Warriors and Bully.

Oh and stop tempting me ciderman! I actually have enough in 3V cards to buy the vectrex...

As for steel battalion I think 16 of use should buy the game and the next retro meet up can be a local 16 player link up steel battalion game.

CiDeRmAn

Trying to work the logistics out in my head for the next beers.
When are we talking about?
I'll have to arrange to be off the following day, and ship the wife and child out for the evening, so we can use all available screens!
Although, if Monkeyfudge can see his way to bringing the projector, I can turn the sunroom into a mech cockpit!
Then there's the attic 29" CRT for most of the retro stuff and the main 37" HD LCD for the Wii/360/PS3/NeoGeo and Nuon.
That should cover everything I think.

Retr0gamer

Don't tell me the Nuon is HD! Tempest 3000 in HD..... I want one.

o1s1n

Steel Batallion - Post to:Local pick up only

Retr0gamer

Aer lingus or ryanair are doing cheap flights to the Uk are they not?

CiDeRmAn

You can dismantle the controller into 3 pieces, pop it into a suitcase, then convince the security staff that it's not some sort of bomb!
It's worth it, you know it, you want it, oh yes.....

And no, the Nuon is no HD, the player can do some scaling thing but this is before HDMI was popular, remember the host hardware is a 9 year old DVD player!
But it does look super sweet on the big screen, nicer still on my brothers Plasma

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I might have a free gaff in august as well, but I live out in Balbriggan.

I'm in Dublin the last Friday of August for the whole weekend, if that's any good to anyone?

Doctor DooM

Just lamped this together lads, I often do similar for the fighting game meet ups.

My phone wasn't up to decent footage though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvq_iV_Cqk

monkeyfudge

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Just lamped this together lads, I often do similar for the fighting game meet ups.

My phone wasn't up to decent footage though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvq_iV_Cqk

Good stuff.

I've posted it to the official Sunnyside 18 Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/sunnyside18

Retr0gamer

It's a pity you weren't around for Dino Rex, as a fighting game fan you would have loved it.

Doctor DooM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a pity you weren't around for Dino Rex, as a fighting game fan you would have loved it.

Yeah that was a pity all right, I hear it has to be played to be believed!

monkeyfudge

You don't really play Dino Rex... you just lose to me at Dino Rex.