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CiDeRmAn · 12-04-2015 10:39pm

What market was that?
The ones I visit have been terrible.

BGOllie · 12-04-2015 11:01pm

country monthly car boot sale nearish me.:P
I avoid the weekly ones as it's usually the same stuff week after week, but the monthly ones have a good turnover. Takes a bit of traveling though and getting up early

I don't go east past Athlone either as they just get picked early and the stuff lands on adverts.ie the next day

CosmicSmash · 12-04-2015 11:24pm

LongZ wrote: »

country monthly car boot sale nearish me.:P
I avoid the weekly ones as it's usually the same stuff week after week, but the monthly ones have a good turnover. Takes a bit of traveling though and getting up early
I don't go east past Athlone either as they just get picked early and the stuff lands on adverts.ie the next day

Well worth getting up early for that lot. Great price on the ps3, honest seller, could have tried to pass it off as working.

Corholio · 13-04-2015 12:12am

CosmicSmash wrote: »

The worst thing that has happened to buying from the US through Ebay is that global shipping program. It's always a gamble sourcing games and consoles from outside the EU, but to prepay a charge that you may or may not get caught for is madness. Shipping seems very expensive in contrast to items sent from Japan, the last few items I got from the US were rgb cables and shipping took thirty days for first class international. The seller that I've used a few times before makes great quality cables and they're worth the effort of getting them.

There's some great games that never made it out of Japan. There are a lot of reasonably priced games that are well worth playing, I get some stuff from a lad in Japan from his fb page. Shipping is very reasonable and it can be combined, the price he gives includes shipping. Some games can be more expensive sometimes but generally I find it cheaper than Ebay. He's also able to track items down if you ask, most of the stuff that doesn't sell through his page is listed on Ebay or on his webstore.

I think it would be good to have a thread of reliable shops that can be used to avoid paying the crazy prices as you said in your post, things seem to be getting more expensive every couple of months. I never really ordered many games from the US myself, but I'm sure a few of the regulars would have a fair bit of experience doing this.

Definitely agree about the Global Shipping Program. It's soul destroying to be watching an item and it be within price range, only for the price to slightly rise and therefore bringing the 'customs' price up as well. For myself, I bought a lot from the US last year and tried to buy from sellers who used their own International Postage rates rather than the Global Shipping, but the few times I used it, it was only fantastically priced items I ever bought. Thankfully managed to get a lot of the stuff when the dollar was a lot weaker against the euro, it's not worth it now in a lot of cases.

Myrddin · 13-04-2015 11:51am

Some more cheap Xbox originals

6034073

Picked this up too

6034073

13-04-2015 12:14pm

Got this at the end of last week.
Its going into my roadshow.
Tried it in whitewater and its a seriously impressive piece of kit!

Ignore my socks!
Heres a video of a regular Tommy pin vs an upgraded one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGjgkb24q4&feature=player_embedded

the groutch · 13-04-2015 12:20pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Some more cheap Xbox originals

GBTG is surprisingly good.

13-04-2015 12:23pm

BrownFinger wrote: »

Got this at the end of last week.
Its going into my roadshow.
Tried it in whitewater and its a seriously impressive piece of kit!

Ignore my socks!
Heres a video of a regular Tommy pin vs an upgraded one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGjgkb24q4&feature=player_embedded

Your putting the cat into a Roadshow? :pac:

Atavan-Halen · 13-04-2015 1:59pm

That cat looks so fluffy!

Picked this up in GameStop this morning. Not a bad price compared to Amazon etc. with current exchange rates

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 2:15pm

That's a greatest hits of the two Nes Remix games on the eshop isn't it?
I am hesitant about picking it up as I already have the first one.
Does it add anything else to the package?

Atavan-Halen · 13-04-2015 2:27pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That's a greatest hits of the two Nes Remix games on the eshop isn't it?
I am hesitant about picking it up as I already have the first one.
Does it add anything else to the package?

Yeah it is. You get the championship mode from remix 2 and exclusive to the 3ds bundle you also can unlock famicom remix which is just famicom versions of the games.

13-04-2015 2:50pm

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

That cat looks so fluffy!

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 3:19pm

BrownFinger wrote: »

I see the picture URL lists it as Mewbacca, inspired, get that kid a movie scripting deal pronto!

CosmicSmash · 13-04-2015 7:00pm

Last few PS1 games I got, Gradius Gaiden, Gekioh Shienryu and Internal Section. I'm really liking Internal Section, a fine effort from Squaresoft. I don't think I've played anything like it before, feels like Tempest meets Rez with a helping of Stun Runner on the side.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 7:52pm

Internal Section?
I think I saw one of those when I was working as a student nurse in Sligo General.... very impressive!

Oh, and Gradius Gaiden is fantastic stuff, I have it myself.

I have a couple of versions of Shienryu, the PS version on the PS3 via PSN and the PS2 version Steel Dragon Ex, which sadly jettisons some of the interesting extras, if not all of them.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 7:55pm

CosmicSmash wrote: »

Last few PS1 games I got, Gradius Gaiden, Gekioh Shienryu and Internal Section. I'm really liking Internal Section, a fine effort from Squaresoft. I don't think I've played anything like it before, feels like Tempest meets Rez with a helping of Stun Runner on the side.

The soundtrack is a little steep for IS,
IS Soundtrack €108!

CosmicSmash · 13-04-2015 8:12pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The soundtrack is a little steep for IS,
IS Soundtrack €108!

108 euro for a soundtrack :eek: The game was only 15, came in under 60 for the three with delivery.

Kenjataimu · 13-04-2015 8:49pm

CosmicSmash wrote: »

108 euro for a soundtrack :eek: The game was only 15, came in under 60 for the three with delivery.

Would the actual soundtrack be on the game disc anyways? :pac:

I know it worked on a few ps1 games if you put it into a cd player.

Retr0gamer · 13-04-2015 9:11pm

Nope it's psf... which you can rip with a psf ripper

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 13-04-2015 10:27pm

Picked Dragon Crystal and Virtua Cop in PS2 on sale in Game Over in Amsterdam

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 11:15pm

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Picked Dragon Crystal and Virtua Cop in PS2 on sale in Game Over in Amsterdam

Probably would have been cheaper to buy them on eBay and have them posted here, though you'd not have gotten as high!

13-04-2015 11:37pm

Picked up that Garegga Boot over on AO a few weeks back and got the sound fixed on it, game is incredible!

Also mpatou kindly burned me up some of English Wonderboy in Monsterland Roms he decrypted from the wii vc release. Great to have a legit set of English roms on my board.

eddhorse · 14-04-2015 2:07pm

Deadly post Mozie, Im always fascinated by people burning roms to a board.

Is it difficult, any tutorials around or is it board specific?

14-04-2015 2:52pm

eddhorse wrote: »

Deadly post Mozie, Im always fascinated by people burning roms to a board.

Is it difficult, any tutorials around or is it board specific?

Full credit to mpatou who done incredible work on extracting and decrypting the wii vc release and getting them woking on legit hardware. The roms themselves can be found here

Edit: no ROM links

In fairness the guy is really sound, I sent him a few pics of my board and he burned me a set of suitable roms for the cost of a few chips. Played it all the way through and its perfect, he even managed to fix a bug which the tornado which was found in the vc release. Full details are on the thread over here:

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27247

Myrddin · 14-04-2015 3:09pm

Curious, why source these roms from the Wii VC releases rather than ones dumped from actual hardware? Are these files not correct in Mame, and as such, normally ripped ones won't work on real boards?

14-04-2015 3:13pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Curious, why source these roms from the Wii VC releases rather than ones dumped from actual hardware? Are these files not correct in Mame, and as such, normally ripped ones won't work on real boards?

The Wii VC release was the first official english translation of the game. The game was never released originally outside of Japan and all boots which did make it west had awful engrish translations which made completely no sense and crappy title screens. The English version released on the Virtual Console was confirmed to be 100% genuine by Ryuichi Nishizawa, the main programmer of thr game. Hackers extracted these roms and I believe they are in MAME now.

Corholio · 14-04-2015 5:44pm

sugarman wrote: »

Said gets

Actually found the games in a charity shop that usually has nothing! €1 a pop!:D:pac:

€1 for the controllers too? Brilliant find.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 14-04-2015 5:46pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Probably would have been cheaper to buy them on eBay and have them posted here, though you'd not have gotten as high!

I was there to see my friend Liz anyway and they were €3 so why not. I picked up some Mario socks too, I'll post a picture later

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 14-04-2015 6:00pm

sugarman wrote: »

Was over there a month a so ago, nice stuff but prices were a bit mad. Found a market not far from it tho that had a few bits and pieces that were more reasonable.

Also, some very nice gets to post later.

Near where? I was at the monthly market at the weekend on the Docks in a warehouse, had some game stuff but just got Sniper 2. The stuff that was on reduced in Game Over was all I got.
I'm not an encyclopedia of game prices so I wouldn't know much, there wasn't anything I needed to get or was dying for.
I wasn't there strictly to game shop either or could suit myself and keep looking for places since it was my friends birthday. Arcade was much more fun than finding games.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 14-04-2015 11:39pm

sugarman wrote: »

Near game over (Took me ages to find btw!) ..I was just walking around, not really knowing where I was going and came across a market. Think it was called Noordermarkt? ...Was a flea market with a bit of everything. Mostly newer ps2/3 xbox/360 stuff etc..

Where was the arcade??!?!

Like yourself, was just over for a friends conference.. had few hours to kill on my own during the day so went on a wander to G.O.

Its in the Red Light District called The Ton Ton Club, it's super cute, mentioned it on the discussion, it has a ball pit for adults, the letterbox is a coin slot.
Lucky! I'll know for next time and my friends can check it out too, thanks!

Star Lord · 15-04-2015 8:59am

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Its in the Red Light District called The Ton Ton Club, it's super cute, mentioned it on the discussion, it has a ball pit for adults, the letterbox is a coin slot.
Lucky! I'll know for next time and my friends can check it out too, thanks!

Adult ball pit in the red light district could be read the wrong way... :eek:

MrVestek · 15-04-2015 9:44am

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Its in the Red Light District called The Ton Ton Club, it's super cute, mentioned it on the discussion, it has a ball pit for adults, the letterbox is a coin slot.
Lucky! I'll know for next time and my friends can check it out too, thanks!

I think I saw that the last time I was there but I got in ridiculously early in the morning so it wasn't opened yet.

Was in Liz's shop last week too, her dog is so cute!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 15-04-2015 10:11am

Star Lord wrote: »

Adult ball pit in the red light district could be read the wrong way... :eek:

I realize but that's where it is if anyone is looking.
They're gonna have a giant claw game in the ball pit soon lol.
I have photos in general discussion if anyone is interested

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 15-04-2015 9:35pm

Liz got me this adorable Ness hama bead in a frame when she was at a con (she got a Yoshi's Island one)

o1s1n · 17-04-2015 2:29pm

Well I caved and bought one of these beauties.

First XL Nintendo console I've owned. The difference :eek: it's like I've been playing all my 3DS games the wrong way.

Roll on Xenoblade Chronicles...

Oh and guess who just discovered that she can walk across arcade machines. :eek:

17-04-2015 2:34pm

Nice!! Xenoblade plays alright but it looks a bit rough in fairness, Wii defo preferable but if ya cant go that the 3ds is an achievement in itself!

Andrew76 · 17-04-2015 3:05pm

Lol that cat would be tomorrow nights stew if that was my cab! :pac:
You not worried about the glass/plastic getting scratched?

Steve X2 · 17-04-2015 3:10pm

Or static from the cats feet?

o1s1n · 17-04-2015 3:17pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Lol that cat would be tomorrow nights stew if that was my cab! :pac:
You not worried about the glass/plastic getting scratched?

Ah she's fine, they have their claws retracted when walking around on surfaces like that. Even if they were out they wouldn't really do anything as they're light little creatures. Worst she's done is a few paw prints in the dust :pac:

Steve X2 wrote: »

Or static from the cats feet?

Full metal encased cabs FTW. Ain't any static getting in there!

The only issue with her and the cabs is making sure the service doors stay closed at all times. Now THAT would be a disaster :eek:

17-04-2015 3:32pm

That reminds me,
last week me a few friends were fairly smashed in mine.
we were playing white water and there was a bit of a problem with the game so we had the glass off to fix it at least twice.
played a game and the problem came up again so we opened the door to take the glass off and the cat jumped out!
shes 100% deaf so didnt give a fook about the noise.
if we had of fixed it the first time she would of been in there all night because the juke box was blasting !

Jack burton · 17-04-2015 3:35pm

My cat
did stick his head in the blast city door before, thank god i wasnt pealing him off the inside.

He does hop up on the pinball table the odd time, just to be a prick, id say hes max 1.5kg so i wouldnt worry about it too much.

Being a cat and underneath a pinball thats on the go must be some light show haha

17-04-2015 3:44pm

Couple of CPS2 games arrived this week, been on the lookout for these for a bit.

Myrddin · 17-04-2015 5:38pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Lol that cat would be tomorrow nights stew if that was my cab! :pac:
You not worried about the glass/plastic getting scratched?

Retractable claws man, like dogs only better

o1s1n · 17-04-2015 6:03pm

1944 The Loop Master, you jammy git!

enjoy

Andrew76 · 17-04-2015 8:28pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Retractable claws man, like dogs only better

Sounds like they'd make useful toothpicks for after my cat stew! :P

Couple of nice gets there though, the XL and 1944. Tasty!

Tomo.Murphy · 17-04-2015 9:38pm

Picked up the first Pokemon movie in CEX on the way home from work today. Haven't seen it since I bought it on VHS when it released, ha. My DVD player says it can play badly scratched DVDs, time to put it to the test...

the groutch · 17-04-2015 10:46pm

Does the cat have a name yet Oisin?

eddhorse · 18-04-2015 12:09am

More stuff for the pile.

WG 7100 25" and Seibu soccer

18-04-2015 12:11am

eddhorse wrote: »

More stuff for the pile.

WG 7100 25" and Seibu soccer

Das a hudge biatch!

eddhorse · 18-04-2015 12:17am

BrownFinger wrote: »

Das a hudge biatch!

Seems lighter than the Kortek 26". Bracket helps i guess.

I do have a 240v->120v so just need the video connector.
Anyone know the type?

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