General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Sorry, just seeing this now. Have you played it at all? It's got that awkward engine they used for 3-4 that's a bit too stiff to ever really get on with. What's more, the narrative is dumb as rocks (the whole rubber-bullet craic is actually beyond parody). Which is fine, if it gets the game where it needs to go but, in usual Yakuza fashion, it forces you to stop and smell the dumb roses in the world's longest, totally unskippable cutscenes. I usually find the arcs in a Yakuza game to be charming, if not a bit exhausting but 4's outstayed their welcome in record fashion.

Think one or two of ye mentioned the Perturbator gig? Rescheduled to next November and moved to The Academy. Raging, I was really looking forward to it. It's been a shite year!

Fortunately Health are still with them but Author & Punisher are gone.

Watched that earlier, seems like a nice setup. I especially like the drop in controller adapters. Might pick one up at some stage to pair with a crt.

Slightly disappointing to hear Neil take the "it's not software emulation!" sales pitch, straight out of the Analogue book of product promotion. I know he has to sell the product, but don't make it sound like a Pi2 is as good as software emulation gets, which this quite obviously craps all over. He's an intelligent man, and I know he knows better, so it came across as a bit of a pitch to me.

Retrotink currently in stock if anyone is looking for one, probably sell out in the next few minutes

Edit - they're still there, must have gotten a good few more in this time!

Prob the best scaler to use retro gear on a modern display. Pricey but if it suits your needs it's the way to go I'd say

Not too difficult if via An Post, nigh on impossible via courier.

I need to vent!

Been selling a lot of stuff for the last while to great effect, I had one person recently make an offer on my sealed Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii. I let it go for a good bit less than market rate, just wanted to get rid of it recently.

Person gets on to me today, game 'wasn't sealed', I sold them a dud basically and they weren't happy.

I know for a fact the game was sealed as I bought it in Argos sealed and it's been sitting in my collection, sealed, ever since.

Pushed a little more and here's what actually happened.

They got the game, weren't happy with how the outer labels were sitting on the box. So decided to 're-centre them' (whatever the feck that means)

While they were doing that, they came loose, so they decided to 'have a look inside the box to make sure everything was sealed'.

Then threw a wobbly when the game inside the (sealed) outer box wasn't shrink wrapped and get on to me wondering 'what I was going to do about this' as I hadn't actually sold them a sealed game.

The mind boggles.

I sold you a sealed game. The outer box was sealed. You opened the outer box, making it no longer a 'sealed game'. What's inside the box isn't always necessarily sealed in addition.

haha! To be honest I'm bloody annoyed that I kept a game sealed for many many years and he eejit just goes and opens it in one foul swoop.

If I'd known that and what I'd get for it I'd have opened it myself years ago!

How's the Switch remaster actually? It get the HD treatment?

I've played it a couple of times, last time was on the 3DS. Was amazing to see it on a handheld at the time but it sure has not aged well!

Yeah I was headed to that too. Pretty ****....I really wanted to see author and punisher too, **** it what can you do.