General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Anyone else feeling the bite of Brexit with online shopping yet by the way?

I went to order something on ebay a moment ago without really giving it a second thought - UK only postage.

'Grand, I'll use Parcel Motel....oh right. Off to ebay.de for me'

Also waiting on two fairly hefty items price wise from the UK which should have arrived by now, absolutely bricking it that they won't get here before the 1st and I'll be murdered with taxes :eek:

Have you seen the 30th Anniversary box set? first time it's been printed in English in the Japanese reading format. Looks absolutely beautiful, comes with the Akira club book too.

They had the full set of the standard volumes the last time I was in Forbidden Planet, although I'd be very wary of buying any print media in shops which people have been mauling and breathing on :eek:

Here's something else worth checking out by the way that's a little unknown and can be had cheap.

In 1992, Mandarin published volume 1, but the complete Steve Oliff coloured version. There's no other colour printing of it, apart from the original US comic release.

I still prefer the non coloured, but it's pretty interesting to see all in one volume.

You can identify it as it has that 'The Beginning' banner across the front.

o1s1n wrote: »

Have you seen the 30th Anniversary box set? first time it's been printed in English in the Japanese reading format. Looks absolutely beautiful, comes with the Akira club book too.

They had the full set of the standard volumes the last time I was in Forbidden Planet, although I'd be very wary of buying any print media in shops which people have been mauling and breathing on :eek:

Here's something else worth checking out by the way that's a little unknown and can be had cheap.

In 1992, Mandarin published volume 1, but the complete Steve Oliff coloured version. There's no other colour printing of it, apart from the original US comic release.

I still prefer the non coloured, but it's pretty interesting to see all in one volume.

You can identify it as it has that 'The Beginning' banner across the front.

Got lucky with a pre-order for the 30 Anniversary set off Amazon, only paid £90 for it. The rrp is €200.

Still a great price for all 6 volumes of Akira and the Akira Club book in hardback with the display case, unfortunately the dog got at one of the corners of my box .

Also the new right to left version has been retranslated.

Andrew76 wrote: »

That screen still impresses too.

It's a good few years since we all got these modern LCD's installed in the Nomads(think it was a dealextreme lcd at the time that was the "go to"). I wonder is there a better screen we could swap in now? What would an OLED look like in there?

Steve X2 wrote: »

It's a good few years since we all got these modern LCD's installed in the Nomads(think it was a dealextreme lcd at the time that was the "go to"). I wonder is there a better screen we could swap in now? What would an OLED look like in there?

Yeah that brings me back! they were dealextreme car reverse cameras.

Wonder is there an OLED that would fit? That would really be something else.

sniper_samurai wrote: »

There was a new print run earlier in the year of the box set, probably oop again now though.

Thanks for the heads up, at least more copies might mean the price may have come down a bit, will take another look!

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah that brings me back! they were dealextreme car reverse cameras.

Wonder is there an OLED that would fit? That would really be something else.



Thanks for the heads up, at least more copies might mean the price may have come down a bit, will take another look!

Book Depository say they'll have stock at New Years for €130.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Akira-35th-Anniversary-Box-Set-Katsuhiro-Otomo/9781632364616

Take with a grain of salt though as it's been out for a while.

Failing that TRSI still have stock at $150. Fair warning their shipping is expensive, now more so due to covid at $90.

https://www.rightstufanime.com/Akira-35th-Anniversary-Manga-Box-Set-Hardcover

The TRSI set is in stock though so it will arrive.

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else feeling the bite of Brexit with online shopping yet by the way?

I went to order something on ebay a moment ago without really giving it a second thought - UK only postage.

'Grand, I'll use Parcel Motel....oh right. Off to ebay.de for me'

Also waiting on two fairly hefty items price wise from the UK which should have arrived by now, absolutely bricking it that they won't get here before the 1st and I'll be murdered with taxes :eek:

Yup already feeling it, wanted a Chao plush and a hoodie off the Sega site, it's e10 postage on eu
"I wonder if it's be cheaper - oh wait I can't"
Was much cheaper to get it through the UK site usually, hated paying a tenner for like a pin or a mask.
Sad.

Quick but interesting side-by-side of Arcade v Saturn ports. Apart from the expected resolution & framerate hits...it's interesting to see where Sega pared things back to port to the Saturn.

Die Hard Arcade appears to fare very well, until I remembered that's ST-V hardware, which is in essence, a Saturn in an arcade cab.

VF2 looked great too, until I noticed the background trickery

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Other than the original release of daytona it's actually amazing how well Sega converted it's model 2 games to the saturn.

Both versions have issues. The first looks poor but plays right, CCE looks good but plays like crap.

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Now in stock at €127 on Book Depository. You'll have a very hard time finding it at a better price.

Thanks man! Ordered and paid for before I even knew what I was doing!