The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

Myrddin · 07-01-2014 12:44PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Gotta love the resources people have in this place

Bartop looks class. Have you picked a button/stick colour combo?

I've two bat sticks {I know I know, but it's what I grew up playing on real cabs so I don't mind them at all} already here for it. Will prob just use all red for the player buttons, white for the two start buttons, & I'll get one of those Insert Coin buttons/fake coin chute thingy for the middle, to act as a coin button.

Any other thoughts on colour combos?

Optimus Prime · 07-01-2014 12:49PM

what size screen will go in that ? 15" is it? you looking for an lcd?

Myrddin · 07-01-2014 12:50PM

keithgeo wrote: »

what size screen will go in that ? 15" is it? you looking for an lcd?

19" 4:3 Keith, yep looking for one at the mo

Optimus Prime · 07-01-2014 12:53PM

Think i only have 15" ones doh.. ill measure them when im home tomorrow.

Myrddin · 07-01-2014 12:56PM

keithgeo wrote: »

Think i only have 15" ones doh.. ill measure them when im home tomorrow.

Cheers man

07-01-2014 12:59PM

Myrddin wrote: »

Sweet, will take you up on that dude. Won't be for a week or two though is that ok?

Yea no probs,
If you want to get me measurements I could cut a card bezel for you too for between the plexi and the wood.
measurements need to be exact tho!

CiDeRmAn · 07-01-2014 03:18PM

Well, looks like I've sourced a nearly new 3ds XL for 160 on Adverts.
Now to convince the missus that its a value for money gift for her Hubby's birfday.

TechnoFreek · 07-01-2014 10:33PM

Not buying much due to severe lack of free timebut got my name on the last round of those AO ashtrays by cools

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2014 11:07AM

Woo hoo!
I am now the proud owner of a lovely red and black 3DS:XL!
I chose it over a PS4....
I think I made the right call

Myrddin · 08-01-2014 11:08AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think I made the right call

You did

Enjoy!

o1s1n · 08-01-2014 11:14AM

How many different design variations are there now of the 3DS and 3DSXL? Seems to have more than any other console, ever.

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2014 11:45AM

Feck, just missed out on the free Super Mario 3D Land promo, but then I already own the physical game so no big loss, it's a pity though as I have many on the list of eligible games already but they are registered.
Ho hum.

Myrddin · 08-01-2014 11:52AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Feck, just missed out on the free Super Mario 3D Land promo, but then I already own the physical game so no big loss, it's a pity though as I have many on the list of eligible games already but they are registered.
Ho hum.

You didn't go for the used XL in the end no?

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2014 12:28PM

Myrddin wrote: »

You didn't go for the used XL in the end no?

Oh, I did, cost 160, but it was barely used, codes unused, not updated either, so all good in the hood.
Just doing a system transfer now, going well.

Myrddin · 08-01-2014 12:29PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Oh, I did, cost 160, but it was barely used, codes unused, not updated either, so all good in the hood.
Just doing a system transfer now, going well.

Ah cool. The system transfer is handy enough, takes a while but once it's in progress it's just a matter of waiting. Whats your initial impressions of the XL?

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2014 12:38PM

I'm sorry, I don't do impressions.

MrVestek · 08-01-2014 12:41PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm sorry, I don't do impressions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU

Andrew76 · 08-01-2014 12:44PM

What about an impersonation then? :P

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2014 01:04PM

Its a lovely thing, the screen looks huge!
Feels like its built for grown up hands as well.
Just had a run around in Ridge Racer and it looks like a new game.
Pity I had to wipe everything from my previous 3DS though.
Is there a way to transfer the virtual console purchases back I wonder?

Atavan-Halen · 08-01-2014 01:22PM

If they're saved on the SD card can you not just put the card in whichever DS you want to use them in? If you know what I mean.

Retr0gamer · 08-01-2014 03:19PM

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

If they're saved on the SD card can you not just put the card in whichever DS you want to use them in? If you know what I mean.

No but you can ring Nintendo and they can transfer your licenses to your new 3DS. If you copy your SD card to the new SD card your saves will transfer over.

ghostchant · 08-01-2014 03:39PM

By putting your original SD card into the new 3DS (after a system transfer) you have all your saves/downloads on the new console, without the need to download again. The system transfer completely reformats the source 3ds, and your network ID/account is no longer present on the machine. You can't put any of the downloaded stuff back onto it. If you could you wouldn't really have had to do the transfer in the first place, you could've just signed in with your account on the new 3DS and downloaded everything off the bat.

Picked up the new Vita in Japan and all I had to do was sign in with my PSN ID and put my memory card into it and everything was there, can switch between the 1000 and 2000 models at a whim as a result. Definitely handier!

Atavan-Halen · 08-01-2014 07:06PM

Got a few things today. These were 3 for €10 in the rage.

And this has been a game in my want list for a long time. Not too common to find a PAL UK copy and at a decent price so snatched it off the shelf as soon as I spotted it. No manual but still very very happy to have it.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 08-01-2014 08:57PM

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

(Juon)

I'm so jelly!

Atavan-Halen · 08-01-2014 09:07PM

Sera wrote: »

I'm so jelly!

I'll bring it to the next beers

KeRbDoG · 08-01-2014 10:27PM

Just got a ZX81 from Ciderman

Doge · 09-01-2014 03:08AM

This came via Parcel Motel today.

It's the official Camera Connection Kit for my iPad Air which basically adds a USB OTG port.
One of the several hidden features of it is that you can connect a USB MIDI keyboard.

So I can learn to play songs in the Synthesia app and play them on my music keyboard.

"Hey Waveform, WTF does this have to do with Retro!!!" i hear you ask?

Thanks to Synthesia i can import MIDI files from the web.

So instead of learning built in songs like "Mary had a little lamb", I can get songs from vgmusic.com

Heres a little demo video i made...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AzjPSqfTc8

Recorded this in bed so i had to put my headphones upto the ipads mic, hence the weird audio!

STG.Otaku · 09-01-2014 09:54AM

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Just got a ZX81 from Ciderman

Good God. I remember using a ZX81 at school. This was one of the first games on a computer I ever played, the imaginatively titled Pool.

I feel so old.

CiDeRmAn · 09-01-2014 10:41AM

I was lucky enough to have sampled the delights of the Atari 400, Vic 20 and, years before, a European pong clone in the 70's.

o1s1n · 09-01-2014 11:02AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I was lucky enough to have sampled the delights of the Atari 400, Vic 20 and, years before, a European pong clone in the 70's.

Wasn't your first computer the Antikythera mechanism?

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