General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Definitely, and I'm guessing we wont have any firmware kill switches on these new ones. I just cannot trust mnemo's ODE's after all that expiring firmware nonsense.

Mnemo put a "time bomb" in his firmware for the Dreamcast ODE and also some say the 3DO ODE firmware. Dreamcast is 100% confirmed by him and others, but the 3DO is doubtful. There was a big uproar about it 2 or 3 years ago.

He's since released new firmware without the "feature".

WOW there's a lot of money in that video! I wonder what they paid for the whole lot.

Read an article and was quoting TMNT worth over $1400 now

Don't think I'll ever plug in my ps2 ever again but I might get this on its novelty value alone.

It's the same with the arcade version. I spent a while converting a twin driving cab to run PCs. It has everything, link up, full hyperspin menu with 100+ arcade driving games to choose from..... and all I ever play on it is outrun 2 sp sdx. It is so good.

Just cleaning up my games room tonight and I've amassed a huge amount of stuff really.

Not just games but VHS, laserdisc, toys etc.

Running out of reasonable space. Going to have to cull a few things back. I have seven My Pet Monsters for example, they take up a ton of room. Anyone interested in that kind of stuff keep an eye on my adverts, Ill be clearing out a few things

A pretty cool way of storing your loose Gameboy carts.

Must be the first tik tok video I've ever linked to on boards.

https://www.tiktok.com/@boostlee/video/7062047386851429637?sender_device=mobile&sender_web_id=7066802702072989190&is_from_webapp=v1&is_copy_url=0

Looks like you can buy cassette boxes without pins or lugs also so you don't need to use a tool to cut them out.

Anyone else think that guy in the video sounds like a carbon copy of Angry Video Game Nerd in the voice over segments?

Did anyone ever play on a "forgotten worlds" cab in the arcade back in the day?

I've the long awaited darksoft cps1 multi is on pre order. Forgotten Worlds, the very first cps1 game was unique with a spinner an push button as the controller:

https://youtu.be/0V9eNfil_dw

Someone has gone and made a reproduction:

The multi board has the pinout connectors too so this is great timing for any cps1 fans.

Capcom Fighting Collection is making its way to all platform this June. Aside from a couple first-time outside Japan Darkstalkers releases, it also sees Red Earth finally make its home debut after 26 years. It's an intriguing line-up of games all said. Also Street Fighter VI was announced, if you're into that.

https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/21/capcom-fighting-collection-bundles-10-classic-titles-including-a-ton-of-darkstalkers Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors

Full list of games being:

• Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge
• Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
• Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers’ Revenge
• Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire
• Red Earth
• Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
• Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
• Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness

I happy that the PS3 era stinginess of individual, digital-only releases of retro content seems to have come to an end, for the most part.

I see Lotharek has a scaler/scan doubler coming out shortly. I think he's overselling what it can do, but more options on the market can only be a good thing.

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Medusa is coming; after many experiments with framemeister, OSSC and others, we decided to make quantum leap ahead all competition and make sth MUCH BETTER

.. and to be honest - WE DID IT !

Medusa project was started 6-7 years ago, when 2 people - old retro stuff geeks have met - Acidmaker (creator of Sio2sd and proffesional file system used at Harvard, Columbia university and many others) and me. Since very beginning Acidmaker was into gettting perfect picture from ATARI ST / ATARI 8bit / Amiga. Meanwhile, me (lotharek), as opposite side, was into simple usage, ergonomy, HYDRA family compatibility and user friendly interface. After 5 long years of develomennt, many protototypes, hours of discussions/testing, thousands of euros spent (obviously...) we are very happy to announce, that final project is coming and it is about to be released in preorder for retro community soon.

What we are about to offer:

device, that converts picture from retro systems to modern displays, that utilise dvi input (with small/cheap adatper also HDMI)

device, made at my automatic lines, that represents highest standarts of smd/THT assembly

device in metal case with nice oled lcd

OSD !!! both on small lcd and displayd picture

addidtional completly NEW approach to picture seetings (usb connection PC-MEDUSA) via terminal banging.

easiest worlwide firmware flashing (just connect medusa to PC/MAC via usb)

Medusa accepts almost all SIGNALS that retro computers can produce:

composite ( yellow chinch, via scart)

Svideo (via scart)

RGB ( via scart)

RGBHS ( via vga connector, separat syncs)

2 functional jack 3.5 mm stereo - working as insput and output

DVI-I output port working in many modes: along with adapters: DVI_I it supplies vga and digital picture, thus old crt monitors as well as modern TVs may be used

hundreds of slots for customers display sets

at the momnet of relase, MEDUSA will detect and properly will display following systems in all available formats:

AMIGA

ATARI ST

ATARI 8bit

ZX SPECTRUM 128 (rgb, composite)

......

FUTURE PLANS:

we are coutning on You! please support us - we want You to test all devices /consoles You have. Let us now what vide modes shall be added to firmware. We are sorry, we cannot add all available systems to device at the moemnt of sale. But HEY - we will add it to next firmware release, thus preorder price is much lower that final.

Power supply:

micro usb mobile phone charger (5V, 500 mA minimum)

Inputs:

compoiste video ( via scart)

S-VIDEO (via scart)

RGB (via scart)

RGB via VGA input ( separate syncs)

Otput:

DVI-I (digital and analog output via adapters )

Audio out

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That upscaler is only DVI out ? Ya you can use an adapter to get HDMI and having to add the audio separately is an unnecessary pain.

Also, vertical SCART is wrong for this design. All external connections should be on the same place. Assuming he'd plenty of vertical sockets left over from the SCART switcher he does.

Yep its good to have more competition in the market but this (on paper) is well behind the other offerings, only advantage seems to be easy of use in configuring via a PC.

Final judgement reserved until the video quality, lag and pricing are determined :)

I had a few things come in from the UK last year but I'm just using couriers for most stuff, more money less hassle.

Even comparing parcels that come in on here and Twitter I can't make heads nor tails of it

Currently trying to avoid Elden Ring hype. Serious FOMO happening, but I've got a glut of games to play and not enough time ALREADY.

Where's that picture of the sad Dad looking at video games with kids hanging out of him?

Avoiding Elden Ring hype myself too. Waiting till I get a PS5 to play it.

My PS5 is hooked up to a monitor in my office, where I'm working from at the moment, so there's zero desire to be in this room more than I need.

Of course the PS5 is so massive that it won't fit in the cabinet under the TV my wife insisted on buying (it barely fits a PS4 Pro).

Yeah it's massive. Seen earlier that GameStop are so strapped for PS4 Pro consoles they're giving €13 more trade credit for one than a disc PS5, absolute madness. You'd be stupid not to trade in a Pro at €313 base credit (can go up to €328.66/€344.30/€359.95 depending on loyalty level) if you already have a next gen console or don't want your Pro anymore.

Poor guy. He has posted an update on twitter about living in hell right now

https://www.twitter.com/krikzz/status/1496965485111488518

I don’t think we should get into any analysis of people’s actions from 1000s of miles away.