General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Jack burton wrote: »

I have a friend who imports cars from Japan. I'll ask him can he get a roll and put them in the next batch coming over sure

Ohh that'd be great mate! Let me know when it's happening and how much I owe you. Cheers for that!

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I'd suggest you get yourself a 'Magic Eraser' and lightly scrub the painted elements of the control panel - will remove light staining but its basically an abrasive so if you lean too hard it will remove lacquer/paint/surface you want to keep

Thanks for the suggestion but I just haven't really given the control panel a proper scrub yet is all... not sure where those beer stains are coming from as I haven't really had a chance to break the machine in yet properly! :-P

DaveyDave wrote: »

Grid based strategy Metal Slug Tactics announced at Summer Game Fest, didn't expect to see anything from that franchise!

Metal Slug does Advance Wars? Looks like it could actually be really cool if done right.

Inviere wrote: »

Watching the Nintendo Direct there, reminded me of some Wii U games I have in storage. New super luigi u & maiden of the black water, both sealed....may as well move them on, but is ebay messy now for selling to the UK?

I've sent a couple of things to the UK recently and the process is pretty much the same for the seller from what I've seen.

Only difference is it takes a little bit longer in the post office as they've extra forms to fill out.

Inviere wrote: »

Cool, cheers. Someone somewhere on here way saying about buyers possibly being hit for double tax or something?

I think that's mainly if you're buying from a website?

So all British websites should be deducting British VAT at checkout for EU customers.

If they don't, you pay the British tax and are then hit with import taxes, you'd in effect be paying tax on the item twice.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Alas, the involvement of Saudi’s authoritarian Mohammad Bin Salman as a major, soon to be majority, SNK shareholder casts a very big shadow over any of the company’s future products.

Sure he's already in Metal Slug 2.

https://twitter.com/segamstim/status/1406941596197609477?s=20

o1s1n wrote: »

Okay well a bit of an update on this. I've sold an item to a guy on ebay in the UK for 150 euro.

On his side, it's asking him to pay 180 euro.

The postage fee is 49 euro, on his side it's showing as 56.

I did a bit of a search and it looks like ebay are adding tax on at checkout now.

Really confused now as how would him paying tax on ebay be linked up to a package landing with him potentially paying tax in the UK?

Ebay have been adding UK vat to parcels for a while, the tax is paid so it shouldn't incur any further charges.

Iirc ebay packages are being routed differently to the UK as well, though I don't sell on ebay so I can't confirm that.

It's proving to be especially annoying for selling bits. The UK would always be the biggest market for Irish ebay sellers - now it seems folks aren't really bidding on anything from here now as it's just not worth it.

I've currently got a guy in the UK interested in buying a cool piece of film memorabilia from me that's worth about 800 quid. The VAT though is going to push it on to a grand.

What I've suggested is that we bypass ebay, he just send sends me the paypal payment directly (minus the ebay fee amount, so he saves 80 quid) and then hopefully it doesn't get nabbed by customs for additional tax.

How utterly tragic - https://kotaku.com/the-brilliant-snes-emulator-creator-known-as-near-has-d-1847182851

It's so sad that it has happened. No one deserves the kind of crap he was put through.

Just got this email from an post

"VAT and customs charges already apply to AddressPal purchases from Great Britain and USA with a value greater than €22. From July 1st the VAT exemption of €22 will be removed. VAT and customs charges will now apply to all applicable items."

Just a FYI for anyone. An post are out to **** you

I send a lot of stuff with them and have my packaging down so much. I have sizes and weights just mm and grams less than the max. But that still doesn't stop them. I want to post a T-shirt to Galway. That's a large envelope <250g. It should cost €2.50. Bit an post don't allow you to buy that label on their website. The only option for that size is like €8. So you have to go to the post office and I've argued with so many people behind the counter in various ones that what they have is a large envelope and costs €2.50. 90% of the time though they put it through as larger and charge me €4-€6. Absolute total and utter bollox. Like I could have 40-50 parcels to send and that all adds up.

Rant over.

Jack burton wrote: »

Just got this email from an post

"VAT and customs charges already apply to AddressPal purchases from Great Britain and USA with a value greater than €22. From July 1st the VAT exemption of €22 will be removed. VAT and customs charges will now apply to all applicable items."

Just a FYI for anyone. An post are out to **** you

This isn't down to An Post, this is due to a change in EU law regarding the importation of goods that comes into effect tomorrow.

o1s1n wrote: »

Whenever I go to the post office to mail an item off I have zero idea what the end cost will be.

I always check the website before hand and have an approx cost based on their sizes/weights, only to get there and them want to charge something wildly different. It makes putting postage costs on eBay very tricky.

I'd an item there not too long ago where I put 30 as the postage fee to the UK. Ended up actually costing close to 50. :eek:

I'm currently trying to figure out what the best way to mail a framed T-Shirt to the UK would be. 6kg in weight and the same size as a 50 inch TV. The Anpost website was saying something like 60-70 euro tracked, but I'm sure I'll get there and it'll be twice that.

For the few times I send items by post, when I use the online calculator I get one cost and when I go into the post office itself its always cheaper - still no idea why.

If sending something large, always worth checking out other couriers with sites like parcel2go.com/ie/ - might end up being a pain in the hole though with them trying to pickup or you having to find one of their distant drop off locations.

rubadub wrote: »

Can you not just buy stamps and post it yourself. A large envelope should fit in a postbox.

Also if you are sending lots of stuff it would be cheaper to buy up loads of N stamps when they go on offer, or just before a price hike comes. N stamps do not go out of date and are valued at the current price to buy one.

I was already onto an post about it and it wouldn't really work for me. I sent a couple in post box before and they were returned to me saying they weren't large envelopes, even though they fit through the post box! I think it's because they don't contain just documents and that's the problem. Just got a load of X's on the parcels and no real explanation

If I could just book in what I wanted online there would be no problem, but ****ers just make things so awkward

Yeah Jurassic Park on the Megadrive was the kind of game you got for Christmas and had to force yourself to like it.

I rented it once when I was a kid and even then could tell it was absolute garbage. Nice looking but that's about it.

Was quite fond of the Snes game back in the day. Mainly due to the novelty of the FPS sections. Haven't played that in aeons actually, tempted to go back and give it a go.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Love getting a random Kim Justice video recommended to me.

This time it was the megadrive Jurassic Park game. What a stinker that was. I remember it looking pretty good at the time but being obnoxious to play. I was excited about playing as the raptor but even that couldn't hold my attention. Despite it being such a big Megadrive release I didn't end up playing a lot of it as one go of it confirmed it was a stinker. I really didn't like any of Blue Sky's games on the Megadrive, although I hear Shadowrun is great and the port of Starflight 2.

I really find these types of releases interesting, that are big hyped releases that do well commerically and financially but it retrospect and kind of a stinker. Kim does some great work covering them.

You should watch the recent Trespasser video she did, I'd never heard of the game & it has quite a history!

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd argue that the DS is the best console of all time. It's certainly far and away my favourite.

No other console has the sheer variety of excellent titles, most of which are exclusive to the platform. And there's so many games that range from great to greatest of all time contenders.

With EPROMs in theory, you could leave them outside in direct sunlight for many hours and do a blank check on them in a programmer to see if the suns UV rays do the job or not