General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

o1s1n wrote: »

I went to burn off a few Dreamcast games there today and realised I don't actually have any devices left with a CD writer! When the feck did that happen??

I just got a PC that I can play games on and forgot about that too, I'm gonna keep my old laptop just for that

o1s1n wrote: »

Problem with me buying actual Dreamcast games is the cases explode into a billion pieces the moment I look at them

Same here, I put all my game boxes away and just have them in sleeves, same with PS1

Colonel Panic wrote: »

The pile of shame is the fire in which we burn.

Meant to post this

Last one, just saw a few bits today

https://twitter.com/gamespite/status/1292126916032565248?s=20

Just me or is that bezel thicker than it needs to be?

Retr0gamer wrote: »

PAL cases are garbage. I usually only get US and Japanese games. Also for European games it's a crap shoot if they support 60Hz, many don't.

Worst thing about the PAL cases is the inconsistency of them. Just looking at one row of them on my shelf right now..



All different shades of blue, some with fancy title logos, some just plain white text, some with a different font altogether (Power Stone 2 WTF?). Even direct sequels ballsed it up (Crazy Taxi 1 & 2). Sonic Adventure has a nice logo but Sonic Adventure 2 (which I don't have) is just plain white text. Only Virtua Tennis 1 & 2 got it right! :rolleyes:

I’ve just set up Swiss on my GameCube for the first time. After I finish Chrono Trigger, I’m planning on playing Skies of Arcadia, but it’s 480i only so here I am late to the party!

I used my soft modded Wii to copy the files over so all pretty painless.

Was please to see other boot options in there that will improve things. Inverting C stick, disabling dithering etc will be useful.

Dithering in particular looks awful via an OSSC as I had to change the sample rate to make games look right in 4:3 mode so it just looked strange!

I checked mine recently and even some of my oldest carts are still reading around the 3V mark.

As soldering jobs go, it’s pretty easy. It’s even possible to keep your saves if you find the right points to temporarily attach another battery to.

briany wrote: »

How fastidious are ye about replacing dead save batteries in carts? I've had a couple of carts come with dead batteries, which is understandable if the thing is 25 years old. I could learn to solder and replace the batteries real clean, like, and indeed soldering would be a handy skill to learn anyway. Or.... I could what I actually do and get a flathead screwdriver and some electrical tape and just bodge a new one in.

I've gone with a few different options on mine. Originally I popped them off with a very sharp knife and taped a new one back on. This actually works absolutely fine and I had some carts last years like this.

Decided to go with a neater option, so sourced some battery holders. You've to be really careful when buying them as most wont fit due to a very limited space size. In the end I used these half sized ones:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-x-CR2032-Vertical-Coin-Cell-Battery-Holder/283117054906?epid=8004962404&hash=item41eb176bba:g:OooAAOSw1MBdWGr~

Still have them in loads of my RPG Megadrive and Snes carts. I didn't install them mind you, just bought everything and annoyed one of the lads on here into doing it for me

I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't do another run of those SNES minis. The price of new units has increased 3-fold which indicates there's still a certain amount of demand there and short supply to satisfy it.