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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #8402
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Well, balbriggan market was a bust.
    I passed on a DS phat for 25, think I might regret that!
    But there was feck all else there, just a lot of ps2, ps3 and xbox and 360 games but nothing interesting.
    Bum!


  • #8403
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Well, balbriggan market was a bust.
    I passed on a DS phat for 25, think I might regret that!
    But there was feck all else there, just a lot of ps2, ps3 and xbox and 360 games but nothing interesting.
    Bum!

    Seems to be the standard these days. :(

    Was in Fairyhouse a few times recently, nothing but common PS2/Xbox stuff. One dealer has some retro stuff but priced a bit high given the really rough condition of the stuff.


  • #8404
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    Seems to be the standard these days. :(

    Was in Fairyhouse a few times recently, nothing but common PS2/Xbox stuff. One dealer has some retro stuff but priced a bit high given the really rough condition of the stuff.

    I gave up on that market a couple of years ago.
    The was only one seller of retro stuff and it was all at RAGE prices.
    In future I'll just save my pennies and cent and journey into Retropolis!


  • #8405
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    In the end, I did not buy anything retro. I just got this 936350_10200300644093546_776906047_n.jpg


  • #8406
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I gave up on that market a couple of years ago.
    The was only one seller of retro stuff and it was all at RAGE prices.
    In future I'll just save my pennies and cent and journey into Retropolis!

    With all due respect to Retropolis, when the RAGE first came onto the scene they too had keen & attractive enough pricing. That changed though when they established themselves a customer base.


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  • #8407
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,615 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    On the topic of the RAGE - and I personally think they get an over-rough time of it here - I think they've settled on approach that aims to attract more casual, nostalgic audiences than hardcore collectors. That's basically the bricks & mortar business model - the prices in Tower Records, for example, are very high compared to online prices, but they're still running a successful, popular store because people do like the luxury of browsing and impulse purchasing without the waiting time for delivery.

    We don't have to agree with it, and certainly the bricks & mortar model is collapsing with only the strong few surviving. But the RAGE have been going for a good few years now, and have clearly realised they can sell at a price five-ten euro higher than the Ebay average and still run a pretty successful store (although I'd say a lot of their income is from record sales too). You just have to look at their facebook page (if you haven't been banned :P) to see their audience isn't the type that scours ebay and specialist sites for PCBs, and I know a load of my friends who would never post here love going in and having a look around. The last few times I've purchased stuff in there I've had five-ten euro knocked off the price at the register anyway - they'll always be happy to help out regular customers or those who know what they're talking about.

    They're far from perfect - undoubtedly some of their prices, especially for ahem 'rarer' items, do drift towards the silly - but for the most part the regular vitriol they attract here leaves is only partially deserved. What they do they do successfully, and no-one is forcing anyone to shop there. IMO they're good for sourcing the occasional common-enough title at a perfectly fair price, and the odd MUSHA Aleste bargain too.


  • #8408
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    On the topic of the RAGE - and I personally think they get an over-rough time of it here - I think they've settled on approach that aims to attract more casual, nostalgic audiences than hardcore collectors.

    €15 for loose GB carts? If people are willing to pay that much to wallow in nostalgia then more power to RAGE for exploiting it...but at those prices they're as open to be laughed at as much as someone on Adverts with wild pricing gets laughed at here. But those prices are just pure greedy, not a business model.

    On the other hand, keeping your prices realistic & competitive would be a far more beneficial approach, as would exposing your coverage nationwide with a €200 website & store/inventory (don't even start me on the phone/facebook & paypal 'ordering' process they have). I'd be far more inclined to shop there if it was easier to do, & thats pricing aside.

    They've had the monopoly though until now, so with a competitor on the horizon, lets see how well the business model holds up


  • #8409
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Boo! Don't install the latest Dark Souls patch if you have the DLC installed on the PS3.

    My graphics are all messed up, can't see any magic or lighting effects.

    Playing in offline mode works though. Currently going up against Gravelord Nito.


  • #8410
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I gave up on that market a couple of years ago.
    The was only one seller of retro stuff and it was all at RAGE prices.
    In future I'll just save my pennies and cent and journey into Retropolis!

    Retropolis... that elusive bastard! I went looking for it a few weeks ago an got nothing but lost and blistered feet.


  • #8411
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    What annoys me about buying online is the majority of stuff on ebay.ie is really overpriced and the selection is minute unless you want to pay excessive shipping charges. Stuff on ebay.co.uk is usually grand but most of the ads only have options for postage to the UK. Would parcel motel fix that?

    Say there's a listing for a gameboy game and its 5 pounds with 1 pound postage, can you use parcel motel to get it sent to their base in the north? I was looking at their site earlier and it only seemed to mention listings that had free postage. The 3.50 charge seems slighty high per item aswell imo.

    Makes ya sick when you watch game chasers and the like to see decent titles going for 5 dollars everywhere in the states.

    I haven't been in the rage since I don't live in Dublin but the general stuff I see written about them is kind of putting me off.

    Edit: Basically what I'm trying to say is Ireland is sh1te for retro game collecting :)


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  • #8412
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    nuxxx wrote: »
    Would parcel motel fix that?

    Yup.
    Is there a UK address I can use to avail of free UK delivery?

    Yes. Simply give the Parcel Motel UK Address (below) as your delivery address and your parcel will arrive at your local Parcel Motel in Ireland. All you will need to pay is the Parcel Motel transaction charge.

    Your Name
    Your PM ID
    Parcel Motel
    1A McKinney Rd
    Newtownabbey
    BT36 4PE


  • #8413
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    Chiptune - SILVER SURFER vs KIRBY


  • #8414
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    watching Super Gussun Oyoyo episode of GCCX, Arino does a cheat on Crazy Taxi to get a bike, never heard of it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SYef770z0k


  • #8415
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Sera wrote: »
    watching Super Gussun Oyoyo episode of GCCX, Arino does a cheat on Crazy Taxi to get a bike, never heard of it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SYef770z0k

    Ohh god I remember trying this out back in the day, I think they published that cheat originally in Official Dreamcast Magazine at the time.


  • #8416
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Is there also a cheat to change the soundtrack to something else?
    Something with a lower suckage quotient?


  • #8417
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Is there also a cheat to change the soundtrack to something else?
    Something with a lower suckage quotient?
    nah nah nah nah na~h :pac:
    unless there's a copy of CT that's like Maken X with no soundtrack


  • #8418
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Sera wrote: »
    nah nah nah nah na~h :pac:
    unless there's a copy of CT that's like Maken X with no soundtrack

    You know, when you guys go to hell, and you will, the only songs on the Jukebox of Hell will be Offspring tunes.
    I, on the other hand, am also going to hell. Unfortunately I'm getting an eternity of Streets of Rage playthroughs, man I sure regret murdering all those grannies now!


  • #8419
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Anyone read this article on Eurogamer? Nintendo possibly looking to get iOS games ported to the Wii-U! Desperate times call for desperate measures or could it turn out to be a good move?

    No details on titles or pricing if it's even true, but assuming it is, I can't see the console owning folk forking out more money for a port of a mobile game. Maybe once or twice out of curiosity but nothing to suddenly make the Wii-U a must have.

    Is there any decent console games on the horizon for it? What say you Wii-U owners? All five of you. :p


  • #8420
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Well, given the well spring of innovation the mobile world has been, with low cost of entry and a wide indie scene, I think Ninty are dead right courting these people for development.
    I have a feeling that Nintendo are not seeing Angry Birds or Canabalt be ported over, but rather that the individual devs come up with games that will take advantage of the common features of the Wii U controller and also the new possibilities the Wii U might offer them.

    The iOS, and to a lesser extent the Android, are producing plenty of good games to interest gamers, in turn this creativity has informed the likes of PSN and XBLA to make low priced but great games too, why shouldn't Nintendo tap that?


  • #8421
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Well, given the well spring of innovation the mobile world has been, with low cost of entry and a wide indie scene, I think Ninty are dead right courting these people for development.
    I have a feeling that Nintendo are not seeing Angry Birds or Canabalt be ported over, but rather that the individual devs come up with games that will take advantage of the common features of the Wii U controller and also the new possibilities the Wii U might offer them.

    The iOS, and to a lesser extent the Android, are producing plenty of good games to interest gamers, in turn this creativity has informed the likes of PSN and XBLA to make low priced but great games too, why shouldn't Nintendo tap that?

    Yeah it's a good move on their part I think. Hopefully we will see a few decent games come out from the indie devs that take advantage of what the Wii U has to offer and not just ports.


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  • #8422
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I've a really low interest in mobile phone/tablet games, so no, this doesn't really appeal to me. The quality to scutter ratio on Android/iOs is tipped very much so in the scutter camp.


  • #8423
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Scutter....
    Are we talking this again?
    toiletKids_00.jpg


  • #8424
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    EnterNow wrote: »
    I've a really low interest in mobile phone/tablet games, so no, this doesn't really appeal to me. The quality to scutter ratio on Android/iOs is tipped very much so in the scutter camp.

    Very true, but there is money there.


  • #8425
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Very true, but there is money there.

    True that. Though it could be a double edged sword at this early stage, flooding the Wii U market with scutter when there's barely any other reason to own the damn thing right now. People might start thinking the Wii U is just a glorified tablet, {which at this point I suppose it basically still is}, rather than a proper current gen console.


  • #8426
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Well, given the well spring of innovation the mobile world has been, with low cost of entry and a wide indie scene, I think Ninty are dead right courting these people for development.
    I have a feeling that Nintendo are not seeing Angry Birds or Canabalt be ported over, but rather that the individual devs come up with games that will take advantage of the common features of the Wii U controller and also the new possibilities the Wii U might offer them.

    The iOS, and to a lesser extent the Android, are producing plenty of good games to interest gamers, in turn this creativity has informed the likes of PSN and XBLA to make low priced but great games too, why shouldn't Nintendo tap that?
    Steve SI wrote: »
    Yeah it's a good move on their part I think. Hopefully we will see a few decent games come out from the indie devs that take advantage of what the Wii U has to offer and not just ports.

    Hopefully you're both right but "professional-use conversion software" doesn't sound like anything that would entice mobile devs to create Wii-U specific games, more like a tool for making a conversion of an existing mobile game that bit easier.

    If I was a mobile dev then I'd most likely try and convert some of my popular titles and see how they sell. I would imagine writing a Wii-U game from scratch would be much more costly than developing a new mobile game and your target audience is much smaller.


  • #8427
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Scutter....
    Are we talking this again?

    There's some incredible examples of how to waste dc electricity that pass under the guise of 'games' on tablets & phones man. Actually, quite a lot of examples


  • #8428
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Scutter....
    Are we talking this again?
    toiletKids_00.jpg
    what is that? looks like Poo Genie


  • #8429
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    A few Dredd fans might enjoy this short.



  • #8430
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Well, I wouldn't mind an expanded Temple Run 2 appearing on a WiiU, the killer would be the price, if I find myself asked to pay 10 for a game that costs 2 euro on iTunes.
    But, didn't I read that devs have control of eshop pricing?


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  • #8431
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    What are peoples opinions on printing out replacement labels for damaged carts? I have a copy of Super Metroid that's horribly sun damaged to the point the entire label is blue! Was going to print out a label and stick it on a sports cart and slap in the pcb. That blue is just too ugly :(

    Replacement label: http://i40.tinypic.com/2zgubnd.png had to brush it up abit in photoshop, only decent one I could find online


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