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Andrew76 · 02-09-2011 09:49AM

That's gorgeous man, excellent stuff. All I got this morning was a Fed-Ex invoice. Bastids.

SnakePlissken · 02-09-2011 11:20AM

Just some more of my collection for the much maligned 3DO along with some new additions. Other than some Dreamcast and N64 games boxed away in the attic, I've nothing else of note except for an immaculately conditioned copy of Symphony of the Night with its accompanying art book and music cd.

Andrew76 · 02-09-2011 11:22AM

SnakePlissken wrote: »

... an immaculately conditioned copy of Symphony of the Night with its accompanying art book and music cd.[/COLOR]

Keep that fellow safe, it's worth a few bob according to ebay.

SnakePlissken · 02-09-2011 11:31AM

Some of the prices on eBay are erring on the looney side though , I can actually remember vividly the day I bought it brand new in HMV for £45.00.

Andrew76 · 02-09-2011 11:36AM

SnakePlissken wrote: »

Some of the prices on eBay are erring on the looney side though , I can actually remember vividly the day I bought it brand new in HMV for £45.00.

Aye, but if people are willing to pay lunacy prices then happy days for the seller.

I still have the Game Stores Grafton St receipt from '98, £24.99.

o1s1n · 02-09-2011 12:03PM

£24.99?? did that include the artbook and disc? bargain!

SnakePlissken · 02-09-2011 01:03PM

o1s1n wrote: »

£24.99?? did that include the artbook and disc? bargain!

Aye, was just going to say, if so then I was had. Can't be too bitter thirteen years after the fact though

CiDeRmAn · 02-09-2011 04:43PM

I sold my copy of SOTN complete along with a PS I was bored with back in about 98, then got the same one back through a friend who happened to have it under his telly and never played it!
Nice!

Oh, my Gameboy Player works great, got the bootdisk this morning, played a bit of Zelda:LttP on it, as well as my GBC Mr. Driller, fantastic.

greg31 · 02-09-2011 04:54PM

Just preserve it mate keep it until you have your son and gave it to him as for 1st game console and tell him this is your game console when you are young..

Retr0gamer · 02-09-2011 05:44PM

SnakePlissken wrote: »

Some of the prices on eBay are erring on the looney side though , I can actually remember vividly the day I bought it brand new in HMV for £45.00.

I remember the day I found it in Virgin Megastore for the same price and went back in a month later to find it gone

I also remember the Official Playstation Magazine Review. 7/10. Not 3D enough. :rolleyes:

K.O.Kiki · 02-09-2011 06:24PM

Currently restoring this for Doctor Doom.

The original PCB was DOA (was listed as "Junk").
Already have Sanwa 24mm buttons in there.

Next up is to dual-mod it for SNES (using an eBay-clone PCB) and PS3/360 (using a Datel PCB). It'll also have DB-15 out for those systems.

Wish me luck!

CiDeRmAn · 02-09-2011 07:24PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I remember the day I found it in Virgin Megastore for the same price and went back in a month later to find it gone

I also remember the Official Playstation Magazine Review. 7/10. Not 3D enough. :rolleyes:

Yeah, Sony had a big thing about promoting and pushing 3D, as it was pretty much the one distinguishing feature they had over the Saturn.
So we were blessed with classics like WipeOut 2097 and F1'97 but most of the vaunted 3D games all look just as dated as the N64 back catalogue now.
The 2D games on the other hand, Castlevania SOTN, Pocket Fighter, Puzzle Fighter 2, these still look as good, if at a lower resolution, as the comparable games on XBLA and PSN.
I remember the reps basically instructing the managers where and how to display stock and while games like F1'98 and Ape Escape got pride of place, the 2D games got shunted aside.
3rd party 3D games fared no better, I don't remember G-Darius getting much of a push, nor R-Type Delta.

Dale Parish · 02-09-2011 09:57PM

Got my Atari 65XE to work finally

Mr Vengeance · 02-09-2011 09:58PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So we were blessed with classics like WipeOut 2097 and F1'97 but most of the vaunted 3D games all look just as dated as the N64 back catalogue now.

I have to say I don't fully agree with that last bit about the N64's games looking dated today. Whilst the once mighty GoldenEye 007, Turok and F1 World Grand Prix for example, do look old hat these days, Mario 64 still looks absolutely fantastic to this day in my view. I suppose its because its was bright and clear with few textures, but thats lead to it having a very timeless look in my opinion. Can't see Mario 64 ever looking sh1t to be honest!

Whilst there are muddy textures in Banjo Kazooie, I think that still looks excellent as well. Banjo-Tooie amazed me recently whilst playing around in the Dinosaur level too.

Diddy Kong Racing looks great too, though I really do notice the dodgy framerate, and Perfect Dark was ahead of its time, and only suffers today because of its less than perfect refresh rate. Still, these games remain very playable for the most part today, but then, I was always a bit of an N64 fanboy

Whilst each of the 64's games have some graphical issues mostly relating to frame rate and textures, for me they are still every bit as fun to play as they ever were. Give me the likes of 1080* Snowboarding, Conker's Bad Fur Day or Mario Tennis 64 over half the stuff that comes out these days!

Retr0gamer · 02-09-2011 10:10PM

I find with the N64 it's the games that go for a realistic look have dated really badly. However the N64 really suits stylised and chunky looking games. I actually think apart from the 'can't see my hand in front of my face' fog it doesn't look too bad. The animation is still great.

Dr Bob · 02-09-2011 10:12PM

Dale Parish wrote: »

Got my Atari 65XE to work finally

thats nice
Its worth getting an sio2pc for it if you dont have one already
http://www.atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/index.html

Dale Parish · 02-09-2011 10:15PM

luas_dublin wrote: »

thats nice
Its worth getting an sio2pc for it if you dont have one already
http://www.atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/index.html

Forgive my ignorance, but what is that :pac: ? Some sort of development board?
This machine has been around years before I...

Mr.Saturn · 02-09-2011 10:27PM

I gots my Tatsunoko vs Capcom Arcade Stick. Study little monster, really. I've been running it into the ground all day. Best £13 I've ever spent.

Mr Vengeance · 02-09-2011 10:31PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I find with the N64 it's the games that go for a realistic look have dated really badly. However the N64 really suits stylised and chunky looking games. I actually think apart from the 'can't see my hand in front of my face' fog it doesn't look too bad. The animation is still great.

Yeah I think you are right about games that try to look too realistic can end up dating very badly very quickly indeed.

I was playing Call of Duty 3 there recently on my 360 - I don't really like it but was bored and wanted to shoot something (!). I have to say the game looks awful nowadays, and thats on a curreent gen system! The same can be said for the once cutting edge Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. These games look rubbish compared to today's games I think, even though they are on the same hardware.

On the other hand, games that don't go for the realistic look can still look great, even if they in 3D, years later. I'm thinking about the likes of Outrun 2 on the original Xbox, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Okami and The Wind Waker. Old games but they still look ace after quite a long time.

@Zero19 - Nice Game Boy Pocket mate, with the all important battery indicator light on it. I searched around eBay last summer and found me my ideal Game Boy Pocket - a boxed and complete silver one with the light on it - not common and it was only about 20 squids.

I've bought a good few original GB titles since but if truth be told, a lot of them haven't aged well at all. I bought Kid Icarus (complete - and yes, it was expensive!) a few months back and it was very good but no masterpiece owing to a lot of outdated design decisions taken at the time. Some of the Mario games aren't as great as they could have been either. I do think the more simplistic games work best though, namely Dr Mario which you have wisely picked up, and the very first Mario Land title. Tetris, obviously, is a timeless classsic, but a lot of the NES ports are vastly inferior to their original versions to be careful not to spend too much on GB games today that you are unsure of.

Taken out of their original context original Game Boy games suffer, but there is still some good solid fun to be had for the curious.....

Game Boy Advance however is still my favourite Nintendo handheld.

Dr Bob · 02-09-2011 10:40PM

Dale Parish wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance, but what is that :pac: ? Some sort of development board?
This machine has been around years before I...

Its basically a flashcard for the atari
you plug it to the sio port (where you plug in the tape/disk drive), and connect it to your pc with a serial or usb cable .If you run a tape/disk emulator on the pc (APE is one that works really well), you can load up any disk image you have.
BAsically it lets you load up any atari 8bit games/apps you can download straight to your real atari computer.
I was just playing rockford and a bit of gauntlet with it there just now

Dale Parish · 02-09-2011 10:41PM

luas_dublin wrote: »

Its basically a flashcard for the atari
you plug it to the sio port (where you plug in the tape/disk drive), and connect it to your pc with a serial or usb cable .If you run a tape/disk emulator on the pc (APE is one that works really well), you can load up any disk image you have.
BAsically it lets you load up any atari 8bit games/apps you can download straight to your real atari computer.
I was just playing rockford and a bit of gauntlet with it there just now

That's awesome; Definitively going to buy one of those. I was actually looking for a way to hook it up to my PC and concluded that an old modem would be needed :pac:

Dr Bob · 02-09-2011 11:05PM

Dale Parish wrote: »

That's awesome; Definitively going to buy one of those. I was actually looking for a way to hook it up to my PC and concluded that an old modem would be needed :pac:

'tis cool , lets you load stuff like this (which is nice to see running full speed on a real unmodded 800xl)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZkiR7MV3s

Dale Parish · 02-09-2011 11:11PM

luas_dublin wrote: »

'tis cool , lets you load stuff like this (which is nice to see running full speed on a real unmodded 800xl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZkiR7MV3s

I didn't know these machines could do 3D stuff; that's pretty impressive. Must have a look at a BASIC reference soon..

Steve X2 · 02-09-2011 11:15PM

Few bits arrived today. "Super Meat Boy Ultra Rare Edition" and 2060 in 1 arcade board that's going back as its faulty.

Dr Bob · 02-09-2011 11:17PM

oh yeah , theres also yoomp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxICcU3bPo

kind of like a 3d version of bounder
Ok so its a recent enough game , but still pretty nifty for an 8 bit micro

Dale Parish · 02-09-2011 11:18PM

luas_dublin wrote: »

oh yeah , theres also yoomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxICcU3bPo

kind of like a 3d version of bounder
Ok so its a recent enough game , but still pretty nifty for an 8 bit micro

Makes me want to see an Elite port for the Atari :pac:

Dark Savior · 04-09-2011 04:12PM

Good day at the boot

, got these for €15 and only two broken cases out of 6.

Dale Parish · 04-09-2011 04:15PM

Dark Savior wrote: »

Good day at the boot , got these for €15 and only two broken cases out of 6.

Which car boot sale contains all these pieces of awesomeness you keep buying?

Dark Savior · 04-09-2011 04:24PM

These were got today at Tuamgraney in Co Clare.It's the nearest boot sale for me. I either go there or Clara in Co. Offaly. Still haven't gotton around to going to Irelands biggest boot sale in Kilkenny

, maybe next week.

James Howlett · 04-09-2011 04:27PM

Dark Savior wrote: »

Good day at the boot , got these for €15 and only two broken cases out of 6.

Marvel Vs Capcom is supposed to be worth a decent amount, you jammy bastard

RAGE had it for PSONE last time I was there with a price tag of 40euro.
And on top of all that it's fun to play.

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