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    #8732
    hellsing101
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is how I played street fighter on megadrive bitd with 3 button pad.. didn’t want to waste money on a 6 button when I couldn’t get another game instead it’s amazing how you can adapt when you have to haha


    Same, as a nipper I just mashed buttons anyway so cant imagine a six button would have made much difference.


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    #8733
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Anyone that wants to play SF2 seriously there's way better options.
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    #8734
    Inviere
    Registered Users Posts: 7,509 ✭✭✭Inviere


    hellsing101 wrote: »
    Same, as a nipper I just mashed buttons anyway so cant imagine a six button would have made much difference.

    It makes a big difference to be fair. Having to press Start to switch between punch & kicks is only going to get you so far...having the six button control layout on a controller really ramps up your ability to play the game properly.
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Anyone that wants to play SF2 seriously there's way better options.

    Outside of on real hardware, I'd never play any other version of SF2 other than on MAME. Why drive the Fiat when you can take the Ferrari?

    Retro Computers/Consoles Repair/Restoration List



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    #8735
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DaveyDave wrote: »

    Hoping to replace it with a Mk7.5 GTI or Leon Cupra at some point next year :)

    Do it.
    I've a 3 door mk5 gti the last 4 years.
    Have fit a pinball,a Naomi driver and a ssf2 Woody in it .....


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    #8736
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    It would be a tad wasteful IMHO to have the 6 button pad included with just two games out of 42 utilizing it. The Megadrive was all about the 3 button pad. I think it was a brave and correct decision on Sega's part.


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    #8737
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    Bit of a spending spree now that I'm finished saving for a mortgage. NHL and Chinatown Wars are new to me, Jet Set and ESWAT never saw than a demo/rental. The rest are just some favourites.

    I don't have plans to collect on PS2, just threw in NFSU and The Suffering for the hell of it. I'll probably stick to Silent Hill and Rockstar stuff for now.

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    #8738
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    I love MD Eswat. Think I read a while back a lot of the Revenge of Shinobi staff were on it. Level design makes it feel like more of a sequel than MD Shadow Dancer or Shinobi III to me.


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    #8739
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    No pictures, but I picked up a bunch of boards recently including a bunch of Sega model 2 games. Not sure what they are yet, waiting on bits and pieces to setup a rig for them.

    Hoping for virtual on amongst them, always loved that game. Mega popular in Japan. No idea how I'd play it without twin sticks, but one step at a time :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyg1JobnY-A


    Actually do have a picture after all


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    #8740
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


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    #8741
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,544 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    How do you do this?! :D


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    #8742
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    o1s1n wrote: »
    How do you do this?! :D

    This video should explain a lot...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0Zg5KeYwk


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    #8743
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,544 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Any interesting PCBs in this lot or have you had a chance to test them yet?


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    #8744
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Nothing tested yet, need a few bits and bob's. Sonic championship and virtual on going by eprom labels, but that's no guarantee


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    #8745
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


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    Grabbed this in a Cash Convenience in Kilkenny.

    Kind of annoyed over the gloss finish being practically wiped off, but I can't complain too much when I paid €50 for it, and the gamepad and cables. And, of course, the most important part - it works.

    Been using my brother's PS3 for a few years now, 'bout time I repurchased one for myself.


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    #8746
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »
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    Grabbed this in a Cash Convenience in Kilkenny.

    Kind of annoyed over the gloss finish being practically wiped off, but I can't complain too much when I paid €50 for it, and the gamepad and cables. And, of course, the most important part - it works.

    Been using my brother's PS3 for a few years now, 'bout time I repurchased one for myself.


    And online play is freeeeeeeeeee! Remember that?! :p


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    #8747
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    beejee wrote: »
    And online play is freeeeeeeeeee! Remember that?! :p

    I do, but I would still get PS Plus anyway, so I didn't feel the jarring effect of it costing money to play online.

    I was more of an Xbox 360 lad during that generation, so I'd be used to spending money on a sub lol


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    #8748
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Thanks to Cosmic Smash I'm the proud owner of a well jailbroken Nintendo 3DS LL, and a decent collection of Japanese 3DS games to go along with it!
    Now I'm only missing a New 3DS XL, my Ninty collection will be complete, well, mostly...


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    #8749
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Thanks to Cosmic Smash I'm the proud owner of a well jailbroken Nintendo 3DS LL, and a decent collection of Japanese 3DS games to go along with it!
    Now I'm only missing a New 3DS XL, my Ninty collection will be complete, well, mostly...
    I keep meaning to keep a look out for the 3ds with the changeable covers or the SNES ones, I've a copy of Corpse Party that's ntsc so can't play it
    I also know if I got it tomorrow it would still be in the backlog for an age so...


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    #8750
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,544 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Completely forgotten I'd bought this! Hadn't tried it out yet at all.

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    #8751
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/sega-arcade-pop-up-history/description

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    I got this today, was waiting til it came to post this too (but thought it would come sooner), gift from a very kind fellow boardsie

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    #8752
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    Continuing with the theme of cheap pickups, a few more for the "I'm not collecting for the PS2/PSP" collection.

    GTA3 is presumably lost in the post somewhere and unfortunately LCS was a Platinum version, I try to go with original versions.

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    #8753
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Max Payne is one UGLY game!
    I remember seeing the original PC version, at the time of it's launch, and it looked amazing!
    But, a couple of years later and on the PS2... rough as a badgers @rse!


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    #8754
    hellsing101
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Max Payne is one UGLY game!
    I remember seeing the original PC version, at the time of it's launch, and it looked amazing!
    But, a couple of years later and on the PS2... rough as a badgers @rse!


    Still pretty fun to play though. Manhunt on the other hand looks woeful and game play wise is not fun to play. I downloaded it on PS4 having missed it on PS2 era and couldn't get past the first hour. Camera is very poor.


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    #8755
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    The PS2 version of Max Payne was always bad and looked ugly.

    As for Manhunt, it was never a good game and outside of Bully all those renderware games from Rockstar looked awful. It gets a lot of love now but I think it got a free pass at the time being a Rockstar game and being controversial because I played it at the time and thought it was garbage as did a lot of publications. The exclusive review was taken from a UK magazine because they were prepared to give it 3/10.
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    #8756
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I certainly enjoyed GTA3/VC and Read Dead Revolver but there certainly was a "look" to them.
    That was also the middlewear behind the early, and magnificent, Burnout games.


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    #8757
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I think Bully looked good. Renderware could look stunning but think as open worlds got bigger the uglier they had to be to run well.
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    #8758
    hellsing101
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    The Warriors looked pretty good too, the face mapping looked pretty close to the movie for the era.


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    #8759
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    True, loved that game and keep forgetting about it.
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    #8760
    hellsing101
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    True, loved that game and keep forgetting about it.


    I don't know why it doesn't get more love, it was a solid brawler, looked good for the time and was based off a cult classic movie. Whats not to love.


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    #8761
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Got this converter for the AV Famicom, to play NTSC NES games on it.

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    A little disappointed because unfortunately, the only game I have so far is Strider and the contacts on the PCB do not stay the full width most of the way towards the edge, unlike all the PAL games I've checked so far.
    Saw a post on reddit pointing out the narrow ends of the contacts:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/comments/bea8rr/nes_cart_not_loading_odd_looking_contacts/
    https://i.imgur.com/0ObvF8W.jpg


    The converter has these 'shelves' in the sides of the top, which block being able to fully seat a NES game. It's not a problem for games with the full width contacts (Tried a bunch of PAL games) but seems to block the Strider board from fully connecting.

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    If I use just the converter board, then the game plays.

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    If somebody has some NTSC NES games and wouldn't mind, could you check a few of them and see if they have the narrowing contacts? Particularly Mega Man 6 if you have it.


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