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I've some beard oil also here - this one.
Usable on plastics do you think ?
This is the one I found good, seems similar.
What I do is put some oil onto a cloth and rub go at the plastic. Then leave for a few mins and grab a clean cloth and rub the oil off/in as much as possible. When your done it shouldn't be oily to the touch or wet. It should look slightly restored though, if not go again. If the plastic is clear or translucent it can really make it look like new(or at least better).
It's worth testing this on a hidden part of the plastic before going at it proper. A small section on the base is usually a good test.0 -
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I was going to post the game room in my new house as a new get of sorts but progress has been slow as everything in IKEA is out of stock so here's the dvd I rack I replaced. I might add one or two for the left side for overflow and miscellaneous things.
The room is fairly narrow so I'd like to get a smaller desk and possibly mount the TV to the wall to make everything neater. I could move into the double room but the smaller room has a nice man cave charm to it.
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Colonel Panic wrote: »Sega fan?
Love how you have the Saturn and DC displayed!!
How could you tell?
I just started the PlayStation collection this year as I only had a handful of Silent Hill games before this year. Wanted to have the Master System and Mega Drive up there too but didn't have a spare shelf. Also have a PS1 and PS2 I could add if I get more shelving down the line but it will do for now
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A couple of bits in today.
Another Quarter Arcades mini cab arrived today. This time Galaga, and again its actually quite a nice looking thing and playable. I was going to go for Galaxian instead, but I prefer to play Galaga.
Its a novelty, but there's definitely some fun to be had with it. 0.5KG heavier than the Pacman one, so I'll be opening it up to see what that is later.
Can of Monster for scale.
Also picked up the rather excellent 8bitdo M30 controller and retro receiver for the Mega Drive.
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Finally have myself a Dreamcast after only playing it once at a friend's house, when I was about 13.
Controller Port 1 doesn't work, though. Kinda irked me a bit since this wasn't mentioned in the item description. Nevertheless the console works fine so far and I doubt it matters what port you use........ does it? I hope not... Never mind, it works fine.... just didn't work in the console menu for some reason.
I had bought myself a VGA cable for it as well and the picture is so crisp, even on an HD TV!
I also didn't know it needed a VMU to save games - I thought they were optional. So I've had to order one of them as well.
I also have a couple extra games ordered - games I've always wanted to play the Dreamcast versions of (WWF Attitude, for instance)0 -
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bmorrissey wrote: »Man, i keep forgetting how lumpy that controller was haha, I recall having great fun with friends on Sydney 2000, was a fun game which we randomly picked up.
PS: nice King Charles
I was literally about to come back and update my post and say how really weird the gamepad feels lol. I thought the GameCube controller was bizarre at first, but until you actually hold a GC controller, you'll never know how right it feels.
This thing, though, yeesh, this'll take a good while lol.
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Might be worth being a little careful regarding the controller port thing if it acts up again Gamer Bhoy, as the Dreamcast (I think all revs) are somewhat susceptible to controller port damage if swapping around the ports while the power is on. Something that can happen if you are seeing controller issues again.
There was a subsequent fuse mod that was developed to prevent such a situation if it happens to occur.
Never happened to myself personally, but thinking back to years ago, a friend of mine lost his controller ports but it wasn't widely known back then - not sure what happened to it in the end.
Duly noted. I intend on just keeping it plugged into the port anyway so I'm hoping it stays working fine.
Small update - two DC games I ordered came after lunch time
UNFORTUNATELY WWF Attitude is one of the games that doesn't work when using the VGA cable. So I've ordered a SCART cable for whenever I decide to spend some time on it. I tried the dreaded RF cable that came with it and it's just............ no way am I using that.
Speaking of VGA, this is the first time I've used this cable on any game console and I am shocked at how sharp the picture is.
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soo this arrived
sold for cheap on coinopwarehouse back in February . then covid hit and it was stuck for a while ... they they forgot about it and me and had to chase em up between coinopwarehouse who had it, coinop amusements who ships em and coinop king in the UK who freights the containers (how do they come up with their names?? )
... long story short, it's now here.
Sold as not working, monitor powers, got neck glow (so high voltage) on but nothing on screen . nothing on the 5v rail so I first need to fix the AR board and take it from there.
...and yes these are fiona's knickers hanging on the rack 0 -
Nice cab Doesn't look to be in too bad a state, going to put that Vectrex board in it ?
Ya been reading some of the horror stories on UKVAC about getting cabs over alright, people have to pay twice and all that sort of sh1te0 -
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going to keep it asteroid , the board's in there too , just not getting proper power yet.
I've plans for that vectrex board
The cab is filthy though. There's a layer of crusty grease on it that took a couple of bottles of windex to get rid of today and inside were 3 cat poops (or at least I hope that's what they are)
RPG (james) was the guy shipping for a while and I got a cab through him before. It went all well but his posts and YT videos were always a bit... odd. Sort of always on the defensive even though nobody attacked him
Coinop king came along (another James) with a similar service then and RPG had a few public tantrums and blaming everything on everyone.
I didn't like the attitude and him blaming customers so I decided to go through coinop king with this one. Looks like the guys in the US didn't keep good track of which james they should send what to and things got mixed up. One asteroid arrived in coinop king's previous container and wasn't for him. Mine took a while to get tracked, I just stayed quiet and polite and patient.
The last few posts from RPG were ... ... lacking punctuation ; and it looks like he's not answering emails anymore.0 -
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Picked up few more Bitmap books to fill in the gaps I had, think I'm done with them now unless an Amstrad one comes out
They are nice, they look great together. I picked up something myself that I was going to ask you to look at sometime. I think it's possibly a problem with the power connector.0 -
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I got 3 UV Overlays from Laurence Bennion on https://www.blacklighter.co.uk/ and finished making a UV Frame for the Vectrex to light them. Quite happy with how it turned out.
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This arrived earlier, an UNO-2600 cartridge for the Atari 2600(works on the 7800 as well). The 3D printed shell is a bit crappy, but i can fix that fairly handy with a clean resin 3D print or just use a normal genuine shell.
SD card sticks out the top as this version uses standard SD(not micro). Looks crappy, quick fix with a low profile Micro SD adapter.
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Man, that's mad, the flash cart is order of magnitude more powerful than the console
Not unprecedented. Pitfall 2 had a Z80 on board that I think was more powerful than the actual 2600.
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Man, that's mad, the flash cart is order of magnitude more powerful than the console
Haha, yeah.
Atari 2600: 1.19Mhz 6507 proc
Uno Cart: 168Mhz Arm proc
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This arrived earlier, an UNO-2600 cartridge for the Atari 2600(works on the 7800 as well).
I recently bought a Harmony cart for my 2600, it seems slightly more expensive than the UNO cart.
I wonder how they compare.
The Harmony menu is a little more slick
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I tried to find info on the Z80 in that game cart but couldn't find anything - this popped up though; http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/articles/longevity/longevity.html#superchips
That references that Activision 'had the Display Processor Chip or DPC' - guess it was like a mapper used in Famicom/NES carts for the cart to do advanced work the system was never designed to do.
Wonder, does that mean games like Pitfall 2 won't work with a flash cart?
Jermey Parish at retronauts said it was a Z80 a few times but he could be wrong.
If it's just a mapper I'd say the flash cart has it emulated just like NES flashcarts.
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