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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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  • #542
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Anywhere in Dublin that sell 100 percent sealed games? I know Gamestop and HMV take'em out of their cases, to use the boxes for display, and so do Game, as far as I recall.


  • #543
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    Anywhere in Dublin that sell 100 percent sealed games? I know Gamestop and HMV take'em out of their cases, to use the boxes for display, and so do Game, as far as I recall.

    Most shops only take a couple og games from cases for display purposes. I usually ask for sealed games just to make sure none of the muppets working there have been playing my games


  • #544
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,566 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Anyone seen this before? You can overclock Super FX 1 games by putting a Super FX chip 2 in there. Some guy did it with Starfox. Framerate went from 21fps to 28fps.

    http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=525905#post525905


  • #545
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,800 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Why have I never noticed this?!?!!?

    Well, given the sh1t that went down at Black Mesa, I don't like to talk about it.

    And City 17, never happened, those guys at Valve just completely changed a perfectly normal humdrum Alien invasion/foothold event that occured in Supermacs, always Supermacs, those headcrabs must be from an alternate Galway or something....


    And as for Lamda, I'm planning for one as a tatt this year.
    Not sure to go for a simple orange Lamda in a circleLAMDA.jpg
    or go for some sort of HL/HL2 montage, maybe for a bigger piece later methinks.
    Half Life may be awesome sauce and HL2 amazeballs now, but in 30 years?
    On a 70 year old wrinklier me?
    Not so sure...


  • #546
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,566 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I never got that 'but it'll look a state when you're old and wrinkly!' arguement.

    You'll be old and wrinkly ffs! A blurry tattoo will be the least of your worries :pac:

    Go for it.

    However, do be warned that a circle has to be one of the hardest things to draw, let alone tattoo. So make sure you go to a good place.

    Here's an example of what I'm on about. Check out the wonky circle -

    DSC05848.jpg


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  • #547
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,422 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Anyone seen this before? You can overclock Super FX 1 games by putting a Super FX chip 2 in there. Some guy did it with Starfox. Framerate went from 21fps to 28fps.

    http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=525905#post525905

    Interesting. I always thought that the Super FX2 chip was different to the Super FX1 chip and was for accelerating 2D games only since no 3D games came out with Super FX2 (Doom is a 2D game before anyone says it). Seems it's just a beefed up SFX1.


  • #548
    CiDeRmAn
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    Looking at getting Starfox 3D at the weekend, looks great.
    Much hints of resignation and sadness as I will be parting with more money for a 15 year old game, an easy 15 year old game at that.


  • #549
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,566 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Interesting. I always thought that the Super FX2 chip was different to the Super FX1 chip and was for accelerating 2D games only since no 3D games came out with Super FX2 (Doom is a 2D game before anyone says it). Seems it's just a beefed up SFX1.

    Yeah, must just be a coincidence that there were no 3d games for it. Shame really!
    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Looking at getting Starfox 3D at the weekend, looks great.
    Much hints of resignation and sadness as I will be parting with more money for a 15 year old game, an easy 15 year old game at that.

    :eek: I didn't realize it was due out so soon. Excellent :)

    I know it's yet another rehash, but it's a rehash I love, so I'm going to let Nintendo away yet again and buy it the moment it comes out.


  • #550
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,800 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I'd like to see some of the bigger N64 games on the 3DS, I know that the love is gone but the likes of Banjo or Jet Force Gemini would be lovely with updated textures, never mind the 3D.
    But a special please goes to Blast Corps, I need that game on my 3DS! Imagine it with modern visuals!?! Superb is what it'd be!
    Once they don't do a, and I hate bringing it up, a Boulder Dash XL on it...


  • #551
    Retr0gamer
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    Rare own the rights to those games so fat chance of seeing them.


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  • #552
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    That was a low blow Cidey:o

    On another matter i took out my copy of the BBC classic Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy last night and for some reason it didnt work:mad:

    Didnt Panic though and i popped over to Google The Shop and picked up a replacement


  • #553
    Mr Vengeance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Mr Vengeance


    pdbhp wrote: »
    I like Rage the prices can get a little out of whack but a stern lecture on the value of games etc usually rectifies this.
    The lads in Rage are sound enough and you can haggle their prices, I personally have never paid the asking price for any game in Rage which I think is testiment to the fact that the lads are a cool bunch of dudes!!

    Awesome sauce.

    My only concern is this though - if this RAGE place is any good, and has some nice stuff in there that I want, then I'm not going to be able to afford Zero Gunner 2 this week.

    pdbhp wrote: »
    Most shops only take a couple og games from cases for display purposes. I usually ask for sealed games just to make sure none of the muppets working there have been playing my games

    Ha ha! Glad I'm not the only one who wants sealed games. I find the best place to get them is Argos. HMV never sells them unless they are budget games that are sealed on the shelf. GAME is hit and miss, and if your game isn't sealed in GAEM, its the place most likely to give you a scratched game disc in my experience....

    I always wonder why the shops open the games up, thus rendering them arguably second hand. There's a hole for a red tag in each and every game, apart from PSP ones, which could have a tage stuck on them elsewhere on the packaging. It takes the staff so long to "gut" games too, which is time that could be better spent elsewhere. I know all about it as I used to do it back in the day! :)


  • #554
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    99.9% of my video game (and indeed all) shopping is done online. I rarely head in to high street stores any more, too expensive in Ireland. Even factoring in final cost after shipping.

    I'd rather wait the few days or a couple of weeks and have it cheaper. Saves me a bundle by year end. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for putting money in to the economy (heck the government already does that with each pay packet anyway) but when, for example, I can buy Akira steelcase edition for £17.99 on Amazon and HMV in The Pav want €29.99 I think I know where my money is going!

    I haven't been to RAGE in months, firstly it's too far a walk from where I am and secondly, well, you know what I think about their pricing.


  • #555
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    99.9% of my video game (and indeed all) shopping is done online. I rarely head in to high street stores any more, too expensive in Ireland. Even factoring in final cost after shipping.

    I'd rather wait the few days or a couple of weeks and have it cheaper. Saves me a bundle by year end. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for putting money in to the economy (heck the government already does that with each pay packet anyway) but when, for example, I can buy Akira steelcase edition for £17.99 on Amazon and HMV in The Pav want €29.99 I think I know where my money is going!

    I haven't been to RAGE in months, firstly it's too far a walk from where I am and secondly, well, you know what I think about their pricing.

    Living in Ireland, buying online means you normally do get it quicker also.

    "Ehhh...I dunno like it says there's one there in stock but I can't find it"...

    VS

    "Your order has been accepted & dispatched. You should recieve the product within 48 hours"

    :)


  • #556
    CiDeRmAn
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    Sparks43 wrote: »
    That was a low blow Cidey:o

    On another matter i took out my copy of the BBC classic Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy last night and for some reason it didnt work:mad:

    Didnt Panic though and i popped over to Google The Shop and picked up a replacement

    I will get the DVD prepped with the complete radio series, from Primary through to Quintessential Phase.
    It's all kinds of awesome, just re-listening to it now, and in no particular order of series, the only way!
    I am now swearing with the word "Belgium" because of it!


  • #557
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Living in Ireland, buying online means you normally do get it quicker also.

    "Ehhh...I dunno like it says there's one there in stock but I can't find it"...

    VS

    "Your order has been accepted & dispatched. You should recieve the product within 48 hours"

    :)


    HAH! Absolutely agree! Plus add in the convenience factor too. I browse, click, pay, wait, package(s) arrive. Job done.

    I use supermarket online delivery too. €4 for your stuff to be delivered, arrives any evening after work. It'd cost me the same in petrol just to get to Bally Briggeen and back. Feck that. Keeps the driver in a job too so there's a plus point for 'the economy'.

    Means less time spent running round stores, more time doing fun stuff like walking my dog on the beach, playing SHMUPS and hiding receipts from my wife!


  • #558
    Retr0gamer
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    Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy is ok I suppose. It's kind of like a lowest common denominator humour compared to the sophisticated humour of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.


  • #559
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,675 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Did someone here just compliment the awful, awful TV version of Hitchhikers?

    *shakes head sadly*

    I remember reading the book in a state of euphoria and rabid laughter. I then bought the DVD. It has long been hidden behind layers of other, better DVDs.

    The animated sections were cool though. Shame about the frickin' cast. Oh, how I hate TV Trillian. I'd hate the movie one too if it wasn't Zooey Deschanel, and I'm programmed not to hate her, even if she's completely wrong for the role.


  • #560
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy is ok I suppose. It's kind of like a lowest common denominator humour compared to the sophisticated humour of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

    *Hovers over report post button*


    You been drinking m8?


  • #561
    Mr Vengeance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Mr Vengeance


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    99.9% of my video game (and indeed all) shopping is done online. I rarely head in to high street stores any more, too expensive in Ireland. Even factoring in final cost after shipping.

    I only buy retro online. I do all my modern game shopping in Dundrum to be honest with you. I think the reason for this is that I want my games now, if possible, and also I just like going into games shops. I spent five years working in games retail, and as a young 'un I loved nothing more than going games shopping. There was something truly magical about games shops when I was a kid, which is sadly gone now... but thats a story for another day! Still, I like a poke around and a more tangible bargain hunt. I'll head up to this RAGE palce during the week, but I know for a fact that they won't have anything that I couldn't get cheaper online - still, to see old games on a shop shelf for the first time in ages in Dublin will be great (the "bookshop" doesn't count as its manky!).

    But as noted, modern retailer's lack range, discs are often scuffed and prices are often high. Online is the future. Ney its the presnt for most gamers.
    Pyongyang wrote: »
    Means less time spent running round stores, more time doing fun stuff like walking my dog on the beach, playing SHMUPS and hiding receipts from my wife!

    Hilarious stuff!


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  • #562
    Retr0gamer
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    Sparks43 wrote: »
    *Hovers over report post button*


    You been drinking m8?

    128855424907812609.jpg


  • #563
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Did someone here just compliment the awful, awful TV version of Hitchhikers?

    *shakes head sadly*

    Thank fcuk you dont exist or i would be opening a can of whoopass on you

    “It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”


  • #564
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,675 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I think it may just be of its time. Coming across it a few decades after initial airing, I found it had no sense of comic timing (bizarre when you're dealing with some of the funniest lines ever written). It's mostly harmless, but there are IMO better mediums the Guide has been translated into - towels, games, books, radio. Still disappointed by the film though - particularly bitter that they got the 'Restaurant at the end of the universe' gag completely wrong.


  • #565
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Anytime i go back to reading the book the Original Radio show goes through my head as i am reading

    Peter Jones and the cast of the radio/Tv shows are the best without doubt

    Although im going to stock up on a few beers and watch everthing back to back tonight

    So 42 cans of Beer and a few Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters should do it


  • #566
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    Peter Jones and the cast of the radio/Tv shows are the best without doubt

    The fella from Dragons Den?


  • #567
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    The fella from Dragons Den?

    Nope this guy


  • #568
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    99.9% of my video game (and indeed all) shopping is done online. I rarely head in to high street stores any more, too expensive in Ireland. Even factoring in final cost after shipping.

    I rarely shop online anymore I went through a phase of only buying online but now days I prefere to purchase from a shop that way if I'm unhappy in any way I can verbally abuse the person in the shop and if one thing leads to another I retain the right to get physical.

    That said I'm getting thriftier lately and am extremly price conscious so I will have to get more games online to make a saving even if I find it a bit impersonal.


  • #569
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    One of my bugbears with buying in person is when I see them getting the disc and putting it into the case. May as well be second hand ffs.


  • #570
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Its not right that AVGN seems to be losing his hair!


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  • #571
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Its not right that AVGN seems to be losing his hair!

    Feckin love James Rolfe he's one funny dude. Great reviews of some awful games


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