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  • #1712
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Congrats on your new arrival, I wonder if Hallmark have a "Wishing you all the best with your new Vectrex" card, they really should, if they don't!


  • #1713
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    So now we have confirmation that a Vectrex can be posted internationally and still work on the other end.

    Thank Christ!

    Lol I was just thinking that, although mine was wrapped in about a square mile of Amazon goodness so that helps. Al in all though, they must be hardy little dudes, I'd like to see a 360 or PS3 working in 25 years time :rolleyes: (25 minutes more like).


  • #1714
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Well maybe if I'm a really good boy and behave myself till Santy comes he may possibly bring one for me especially since I've been leaving hints all round the house for the missus.:D


  • #1715
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Well maybe if I'm a really good boy and behave myself till Santy comes he may possibly bring one for me especially since I've been leaving hints all round the house for the missus.:D

    Your missus must be thinking wtf is a Vectrex :D

    I love the little em interference hum thats picked up through the speaker, they should put that on a cd :pac: Vectrex Classics track 1 - EM Interference :cool:


  • #1716
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    o1s1n wrote: »
    So now we have confirmation that a Vectrex can be posted internationally and still work on the other end.

    Thank Christ!

    Thank Christ is right. Mine is en route from the UK. Not going to think about the journey it has to go through. :pac:


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  • #1717
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Thank Christ is right. Mine is en route from the UK. Not going to think about the journey it has to go through. :pac:

    It can't be as eventful as the crazy anglo-dutch journey mine took. If Vec fest ever happens, mine & yours can exchange stories of their trips to us :pac:


  • #1718
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Wait a minute, Dutch? You sent a big black box with an obsolite piece of technology through Dutch airports/customs and wonder why it took so long to be delivered? :pac:


  • #1719
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Wait a minute, Dutch? You sent a big black box with an obsolite piece of technology through Dutch airports/customs and wonder why it took so long to be delivered? :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pzOx-Zzh2k


  • #1720
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Wait a minute, Dutch? You sent a big black box with an obsolite piece of technology through Dutch airports/customs and wonder why it took so long to be delivered? :pac:

    It landed in Portlaoise only yesterday according to the tracking number, so it was def a hold up on the part of the Dutch. Package hadn't been opened by the looks of it, it was too well packed. I'd love to know why it was sitting in customs somewhere for over a week but not inspected.

    TNT tracking info reckons it's not even dispatched yet :rolleyes:


  • #1721
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Customs are very sly about resealing things. Sometimes it can be really hard to notice.

    A lot of my older gear gets opened up. They must look at it and think 'nobody could possibly want this, it's got to be dodgy!'. I wouldn't be suprised if your Veccy was being checked over for that. To them it would look like a very old TV being shipped to Ireland. Why would someone in Ireland possibly want an old tv shipped from Holland?

    I think I told you but my Amiga had a load of cushioned bags underneath it. They were filled with shredded paper and cardboard. The texture of them was a bit weird.

    The box had been opened up by customs (I noticed a slice along the bottom) and a load of the bags had poke holes in them. They must have looked like bags of something dodgy on the scanner.

    The most blatant was my 32X. It was delivered in a transparent customs bag. The original packaging was in there too, but it was shredded. I had a feeling the saw it, went 'OMFG! IT'S A BOMB!' and tore into the pack.


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  • #1722
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    o1s1n wrote: »

    The most blatant was my 32X. It was delivered in a transparent customs bag. The original packaging was in there too, but it was shredded. I had a feeling the saw it, went 'OMFG! IT'S A BOMB!' and tore into the pack.

    yeah and it turns out is was just "DA BOMB"

    My first big item was torn open by cutoms, 2 segs and a crap tone of games, the menacer was in there too so i think that why they might have torn it open.

    I wonder if customs knows theres an uber cool retro community in Ireland? :p


  • #1723
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I can see it now, a bunch of stoned dutch customs workers, standing around one of their number while he plays Minestorm, all going "Dude" and "Sweeeet" at random intervals!


  • #1724
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I can see it now, a bunch of stoned dutch customs workers, standing around one of their number while he plays Minestorm, all going "Dude" and "Sweeeet" at random intervals!

    :D The Dutch are a crazy race alright completly void of emotion it's just robo stoners all the way. "Desche ist min partner und lover".
    "Dats a gooda pota" (Italian)

    Keep your hands off Robo Stoners I'm gonna patent it as a new space shooter like Radient Silvergun meets Sly Stalone in a winner takes all battle through space and time;)


  • #1725
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Someone should order a SNES scope from Libya or something for the absoloute crack :D:D:D Who has the nads to do it? Money helps too!


  • #1726
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I think your main difficulty there would be finding a Super Scope in Libya that hasn't been converted to fire live ammunition :pac:


  • #1727
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I think your main difficulty there would be finding a Super Scope in Libya that hasn't been converted to fire live ammunition :pac:

    Lol, true. Funny thinking of whoever is manning the x-ray machine at the point the scope is revealed, coupled with it coming form a feisty country :P


  • #1728
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Lol, true. Funny thinking of whoever is manning the x-ray machine at the point the scope is revealed, coupled with it coming form a feisty country :P

    Don't think anyone has ever called Libya "Fiesty" :D


  • #1729
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Don't think anyone has ever called Libya "Fiesty" :D

    Libya not feisty? C'mon man they nuke the lot of us given the chance :pac:


  • #1730
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Libya not feisty? C'mon man they nuke the lot of us given the chance :pac:

    Absolutly but Fiesty is not how I'd describe those lunatics hell bent on Vectrex destruction....maybe got a bit carried away there but you get the picture.
    Hail Gadaffi:p


  • #1731
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Hail Gadaffi:p

    Dangerous stuff to be posting on a publin forum :p Tell Agent J I said hi :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRF3slguhI


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  • #1732
    Alter Egotist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Alter Egotist


    Received the following in the post today along with an LED enhanced NES controller (Nintendo sign on controller lights up when you plug it in).

    Major WIN.

    Trog and Galaxy 5000 are fairly hard to come by.

    Won two copies of t2 if anyone wants to swap a copy for something.


  • #1733
    Alter Egotist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Alter Egotist


    disappointed that lifeforce has marker written on it. Anyone suggest a good way to clean it off without damaging or scuffing the game too much. I already have a gamebit ordered to take all the games apart and clean them. Lifeforce is in especially bad shape. the connector looks positively yellow.


  • #1734
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Careful ordering Super Scopes and Menacers through the post, before you know it you'll have black choppers out side your bedroom window and an all expenses paid holiday in an off the grid prison of their choice, plus the opportunity to be urinated on by US hired mercenary groups, which is nice, like to see that one on Winning Streak!
    "So Mary from Skibbereen, you're heading to Cuba to be buggered senseless by interrogators!"


  • #1735
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    If there's one thing I know a lot about, it's importing firearm shaped objects through Irish customs. You're all grand...for the moment :P


  • #1736
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    Alter Egotist wrote: »
    disappointed that lifeforce has marker written on it. Anyone suggest a good way to clean it off without damaging or scuffing the game too much. I already have a gamebit ordered to take all the games apart and clean them. Lifeforce is in especially bad shape. the connector looks positively yellow.

    WD-40 works pretty good taking marker off the cart, but I wouldn't use it for anything else on the cart.

    May have a game or two to trade, will have a look later..


  • #1737
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Just got a delivery from UPS, a Saturn with no plug or rf lead. It did come with what looks like a Mega Drive plug, but it's centre positive and the plug with my mega drive is centre neg. Other than that though there's literally no difference. Is it form a mega drive 2 meybe?

    Anyway, pics:

    IMG_0589.jpg

    IMG_0596.jpg


  • #1738
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,261 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    If the power adapter fits in the back of the saturn then it should work.

    The next step is to get a scart cable. 2D games look glorious in RGB on the Saturn.

    Next step get an action replay 4 in 1. The US and PAL releases on the saturn are mostly absolutely terrible. You'll need to be able to play the Jap releases or there's no point owning a saturn.

    Next get the saturn chipped. All the best games are stupidly expensive unfortunately and some are just nigh on impossible to find.

    And lastly if that's a PAL unit then a 50/60hz switch is absolutely essential.


  • #1739
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Scart is on the way already, the plan is to do the rest at some stage, hopefully in the new year. I've still never played Panzer Dragoon Saga, to my eternal shame, so this is the first step to finally getting around to it :p

    This Saturn just takes a regular ps2/hi-fi style plug, I was able to check it powered on with one. There's nowhere for the plug I got to go. It's all a bit mysterious really, I'd email the seller and ask, but then they might want me to post it back and I don't want the hassle


  • #1740
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,261 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Sorry mine takes a 'PS2' plug as well, I was thinking about the A/V port. You'll definitely need a chipped saturn to play PDS, I'm very very lucky to own a copy of it. It's worth it though. Really was a great experience finding out all the hidden gems on the saturn when I got it but unfortunately the site saturntorrents that I got everything from and had a great community is gone. Such a good console but you need access to the japanese library.


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  • #1741
    Alter Egotist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Alter Egotist


    batari wrote: »
    WD-40 works pretty good taking marker off the cart, but I wouldn't use it for anything else on the cart.

    May have a game or two to trade, will have a look later..

    Cool,

    I'd be interested in trading as i'm literally starting a new with my collection so have very few carts. I'm basically just stalking ebay on the daily :)


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