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Odd one this but in Ikea today I found out they do a sort of bargain basement own brand version of the Hama beads.
On the plus side , they're fairly cheap , 6quid for a decent enough size drum , and 1.50 for some boards
on the minus side : 10 colours means its really really 8 bit art time, and the palette is a little odd (there is a cyan yellow and magenta so speccy enthusiasts would have a ball, sadly it doesn't have the 28 shades of muddy brown needed for c64 sprites
).This all means you may need to swap colours around a bit to fit.
Also the melting point for the beads seems to be fairly tricky , they go from barely holding to melted goo very easily, as 'burns unit mario ' below can confirm.
Still with a bit of practice I might be able to knock out something a little better (and then spend waay too much on proper beads)
if I dont get a thanks for this from sparks43 by the way I will be disappointed...;)0 -
I already made him one at Christmas, with the right colours :P lol jk. Mario is all the right shades, it's perfect
if I dont get a thanks for this from sparks43 by the way I will be disappointed...;)
They melted or are they just facing the wrong way? that's how mine seem to turn out now lately, just can't get the heat right, it's too low or too hot.
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I do like the idea of a make thread..seeing as how i seem to be faffing about with mods or this lately!I already made him one at Christmas, with the right colours :P lol jk. Mario is all the right shades, it's perfect
They melted or are they just facing the wrong way? that's how mine seem to turn out now lately, just can't get the heat right, it's too low or too hot.
Maybe we should have Post Here When You Make Something New
yeah marios a bit melted, but oddly enough the colors are spot on.
going to try another one today
Rockford should be grey/white/brown/black , but the really limited pallette doesnt gave grey (blue,yellow.pink,white,red,brown,orange black seems to be it)so I had to do the best with what I had ..sob!
Trying to find something that lets me use a small grid with them ,
http://mypixelpal.com/ seems to be pretty good, but is really geared around larger ones , 29x29 , the stuff I've been doing is really only around 16x16 or so .
What I really want to be able to do is grab c64/sms sprites and grid them , (because most sites around making these seem to be US based its all NES/Mario/SFII/Pokemon and not much odd stuff)..0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34765
Nice work Dr Bob!
Just to let you know though, those IKEA beads are absolutely terrible. It's been a while since I tried to use them, but I think the problem with them is they're not cut correctly, so some sit lower on the board than others. When you try to iron them, some end up getting missed and not melting properly.
Don't let it be a reflection on the difficulty level. If you use the Hama/Pearler branded ones ironing is a doddle.0 -
yeah I'm definitely seeing their shortcomings , starting to get the itch to get some of the hama/perler ones .Anywhere sell them online with cheap shipping?Nice work Dr Bob!
Just to let you know though, those IKEA beads are absolutely terrible. It's been a while since I tried to use them, but I think the problem with them is they're not cut correctly, so some sit lower on the board than others. When you try to iron them, some end up getting missed and not melting properly.
Don't let it be a reflection on the difficulty level. If you use the Hama/Pearler branded ones ironing is a doddle.0 -
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My Mega Key arrive today with the free game. I've not been able to get it working no matter how many combinations of the switches i use.
Tried it on the Nomad with PAL games that normally dont work and nothing, also tried it on a couple of PAL megadrives/mega cd etc with some US games and nothing.
Not sure if its faulty or I'm just doing something wrong
I wasn't sure it would work in PAL machines but it should definitely work in NTSC ones.
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Simple answer- you're doing something wrong
I thought mine was broken. Was even going to take it apart. Then realized that I was doing something wrong!
I dunno man, I have a feeling this might be borked
To run a PAL game on a US system(a Nomad), what dip switches would you use?
Hopefully I'm just having a low IQ moment and it does work. It's certainly possible with the record breaking lack of sleep I've had lately.
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Well the above reasoning is correct, I set it to Brazil with a Genesis cart in a PAL console and it worked. Here's a pic of the config -
If it's still not working I take if you've tried switching off switch three to reset it? Other than that, how about a good clean?0 -
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Yeah if it's black I'd take that as a good sign. I am convinced with the right amount of cleaning ANY cart will eventually boot :pac:
Just after picking up something cool (non game related, but we seem to be all over the place topic wise here lately!)
A Philips WASC700 Streamium Centre along with the little sattelite. Really tops off the hifi unit :pac: You can put that sattelite anywhere around the place and send music over to it wirelessly.
Only problem - the main unit gets stuck on boot! My dad has the exact same one and it cost him an absolute fortune a few years back. So at €80 (I think that was about a tenth of the original cost) I couldn't pass it up, even if it has a problem.
I'm pretty sure the harddrive in it has failed. (can hear it clicking when it's trying to boot) So a new reimaged one should do the trick (and bigger at that, the current one is only 40GB)0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34765
Hahaha
I know, I know. If I had my way, I'd have a wall of vinyl and cds! - but alas, I've too many collections as is!
Got rid my cd collection last year. So I needed a new source to put everything on. Have gotten a bit sick of running a cable to my lappy every time I want to hear some tunes!
Oh and it does have a CD player by the way - there's a slot in the top which you can feed them into - to then rip to the drive of course 0 -
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Have been trying to track down some Be@rbrick Season 23 boxes since Christmas: as recently as yesterday morning, actually! Alas I couldn't find any that weren't dodgy Hong Kong versions. In town today I popped into Forbidden Planet, just to wearily check their usually horribly overpriced, outdated and limited collection of Kubricks (collectible and very geeky Japanese mini-figurines from various areas of pop culture). Was genuinely surprised to discover a load of series 23 blind boxes for sale. A euro or so more expensive than I'd usually pay, but couldn't resist picking up two after a long and fruitless search. Luckily (only a relatively low 5% distribution rate!), one of them contained this guy:
Huzzah! Actually looks much better than I thought it would (even has little yellow shoe buckles on the side). Now just to buy more boxes and suffer through the inevitable duplicates until I track down the Fringe and Rilakkuma ones :pac:0 -
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New stuff for me special thanks to Sera:
So it's a Gameboy Colour. Screen is in immaculate condition. Finally have a gameboy since my original was stolen in the gaeltacht.
As for the Black thing with the mario mushroom decal, it's a NTSC NES. The owner spray painted it and the front hatch is gone but it's NTSC so superior to your PAL console you PAL peasants. I had to cannibalise my PAL NES for the 72 pin connector. Have to say that pulling the pins out was easier than expected.
What wasn't easy was cutting the leg off the NES lock out chip. I didn't have the right tools so had to use a scapel and lots of elbow grease. Did a practice run on the PAL NES and pulled the leg out of the chip so not really sure the PAL NES will work anymore
Managed to do it right on the NTSC NES though.
Anyway only had one game to test, Mario Bros PAL. I can safely confirm that the PAL verison is PAL optimised. The music and gameplay is way too fast but at least it works
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I nabbed a weird hybrid electronic/board game thing at a local car boot sale .(Lost treasure , very odd board game where you seemingly go off and do a mine sweeper electronic game on your turn..odd but nice for 1982)
Ended up getting them to throw in the other 3 games they had.
I figured I could sell them on if I'd no room for them.
All are pretty much 100% complete.In fact the heroquest one seems to have a second set of minatures/rulebooks and an expansion.
I've just seen how much space crusade and heroquest go for on ebay.
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Which of the following is most amusing:
- I don't have a HMDI compatible monitor for this (yet)
- I'm not sure my USB chargers could power this
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Here's the playstation goodness that arrived on Friday:
An Infrared DVD Remote with a huge blister pack and manual!
The manual is probably thicker than the manual that comes with a PS3's during these recessionary times.
Obviously the packaging was manufactured back in the Celtic Tiger days.
Unfortunately for me, I assumed my SCPH-30000 PS2 had an infra-red sensor, which it doesn't,
and only now I found out there's a different remote for my model which uses a wireless USB dongle instead.
And at the bottom of that pic, is an 2m RGB Scart cable for the PS1 & PS2,
with a DVD <-> Game switch on the connector, as the DVD mode appears Green through RGB on a PS2.
The picture quality is fantastic, and setting the PS2 to RGB seems to put it into a higher resolution, so fonts and logos are actually smaller and clearer.
It also has an additional Stereo Phono output for hooking upto amps,
and the yellow phono socket on the connector is a Namco Gun Con input,
which gives you a clue on what's about to come next....
On the left is a Namco Gun Con 2, with a phono extender and Time Crisis 2,
and on the right is a Logic3 Light Blaster P99G2 and Time Crisis 3.
Unfortunately the light sensor on the Light blaster is ****ed,
as it's only working properly when it's 1 foot away from the screen.
The Gun Con works practically from any distance.
Shame really as the recoil on the Light blaster is fantastic.
I will have a video of the problem uploaded soon, and will be asking the seller for a refund.
Might try and buy another Light Blaster, and hold onto this for parts.
Here's the flip side of the gun, so you can see what kind of functions are on offer:
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Here's a video of the faulty light sensor:
What you see is the calibration screen for Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James.
You might need to fullscreen it and watch it in 720p so you can see the yellow crosshair.
In the first half of the video I'm using the Gun Con 2, stepping back a foot each time.
Notice the how the yellow crosshair goes to the sides of the screen perfectly.
But when I use Light Blaster, the crosshair will only go to the sides from 1 foot away.
At 3 feet I can't even get it outside the small circle,
and at 4 feet, it won't even register on the screen.0 -
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because of my name 
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