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    #3182
    TechnoFreek
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭TechnoFreek


    Check out the slideshow on my cab restoration thread. you'll see pics of how I went about it.

    Tina of peas to hold the art in place!


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    #3183
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    TechnoFreek wrote: »
    Check out the slideshow on my cab restoration thread. you'll see pics of how I went about it.

    Tina of peas to hold the art in place!

    Tin of peas you say. Will check it out thanks.


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    #3184
    TechnoFreek
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭TechnoFreek


    eddhorse wrote: »
    Tin of peas you say. Will check it out thanks.

    Must be peas. Cannot be substituted with other canned goods.


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    #3185
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    TechnoFreek wrote: »
    Must be peas. Cannot be substituted with other canned goods.

    You are one of the experts, i respect your choice of canned vegetables.


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    #3186
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Got a pair of these on the way :) Not entirely sure why...

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    #3187
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Noooo!
    The JogCon!
    The worst analogue controller ever!
    The worst force feedback controller ever!
    I hope you've the VHI paid up because that thing is going to feck up your thumbs!
    It's dreadful, I know, I got one on release, for use with Ridge Racer Type 4 and it was dreadful, so so bad.
    The NegCon was a revelation, but that infernal thing, pants, the Rise of the Robots of controllers.
    You might say I don't like it very much....


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    #3188
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    So its not very good then ?

    Was going to add support for it to the supergun code, thought the wheel could be any interesting control for the likes of Trash Rally,Neo Drift Out, World Rally type of games ? Force feedback would be disabled.


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    #3189
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Tis absolute pish unfortunately. What you want is a NegCon as applebeveragedude said.
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    #3190
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Tis absolute pish unfortunately. What you want is a NegCon as applebeveragedude said.

    One of them on the way as well from JPN.


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    #3191
    airmax87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭airmax87


    Got this for 30 down in the player1 shop in Maynooth, a good tenner under getting it on ebay shipped.
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    #3192
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I absolutely adore Grandia. It has far and away the best JRPG combat system of any game I've played. The saturday morning style plot is excellent and full of charm. Pity the voice acting is kind of crappy outside of the 3 mainb characters who are servicable. The PAL conversion is unfortunately the usual crappy 50Hz slowed down hack job, I really need to buy my PS1 collection back as NTSC sometime soon.

    Also a major pity we never got the Saturn version of Grandia which looks a bit better than the PS1 version but the fact we can play it at all is a small miracle.
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    #3193
    airmax87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭airmax87


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I absolutely adore Grandia. It has far and away the best JRPG combat system of any game I've played. The saturday morning style plot is excellent and full of charm. Pity the voice acting is kind of crappy outside of the 3 mainb characters who are servicable. The PAL conversion is unfortunately the usual crappy 50Hz slowed down hack job, I really need to buy my PS1 collection back as NTSC sometime soon.

    Also a major pity we never got the Saturn version of Grandia which looks a bit better than the PS1 version but the fact we can play it at all is a small miracle.

    I'm loving it so far only about an hour and a half in, Normally I can't stick out arcadey style games but the art and music is really nice.

    I don't mind 50hz at all, with the exception of fighting games, and I can force it to 60hz with freemcboot anyways :pac:


    Looks great via RGB SCART too.

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    #3194
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    It annoys me loads with RPGs. A slow battle system can make a game much less enjoyable and 50Hz has ruined some games for me. Also when you see at the end of the game that you spent 40-60 hours playing it it's 10-15 hours of your life you'll never get back bacause it's in 50 Hz.
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    #3195
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    airmax87 wrote: »
    and I can force it to 60hz with freemcboot anyways

    How can it be done?


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    #3196
    airmax87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭airmax87


    Myrddin wrote: »
    How can it be done?

    Bascially if you softmod a ps2 and put free mcboot on the memory card, It can run some apps from USB.
    With the GSM .elf (all the apps are .elf files), you can force games to be ntsc, pal, pal60 , even 480p, 720p and 1080i.


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    #3197
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    airmax87 wrote: »
    Bascially if you softmod a ps2 and put free mcboot on the memory card, It can run some apps from USB.
    With the GSM .elf (all the apps are .elf files), you can force games to be ntsc, pal, pal60 , even 480p, 720p and 1080i.

    Very interesting, I'd not heard of GSM for FMcB before...


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    #3198
    Retr0gamer
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    I'm guessing forcing 60 hz screws up the music though since a lot of pal conversions at least corrected the music speed.
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    #3199
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    It annoys me loads with RPGs. A slow battle system can make a game much less enjoyable and 50Hz has ruined some games for me. Also when you see at the end of the game that you spent 40-60 hours playing it it's 10-15 hours of your life you'll never get back bacause it's in 50 Hz.

    Haha! I never thought of that.

    17% of a 50 hour game is 8.5 hours :eek:


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    #3200
    BGOllie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭BGOllie


    I see it as an added lifespan bonus that those ntsc fools never had :D


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    #3201
    readyletsgo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    Spent a little too much this week I think. Need to stop!

    Is the ps3 retro yet?


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    #3202
    KeRbDoG
    Registered Users Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    readyletsgo wrote: »
    Spent a little too much this week I think. Need to stop!

    Is the ps3 retro yet?

    Are they still making games for it?


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    #3203
    readyletsgo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    KeRbDoG wrote: »
    Are they still making games for it?


    Hmm, I think so, but just ports and Japanese RPG's at this stage, so, yeah I guess it's not lol.

    Still, some great games are stupid cheap at the moment.

    I'm obsessed with the psp at the moment, have built up some collection for it over the past month. Nothing else is getting a look in at the moment.


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    #3204
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    readyletsgo wrote: »
    Hmm, I think so, but just ports and Japanese RPG's at this stage, so, yeah I guess it's not lol.

    Still, some great games are stupid cheap at the moment.

    I'm obsessed with the psp at the moment, have built up some collection for it over the past month. Nothing else is getting a look in at the moment.

    The end of a consoles life is when the interesting stuff comes out and usually those end of life RPGs end up being the rarest and most expensive games on the format :) There's still some really good stuff coming out on it such as the recent Lost Dimension.
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    #3205
    airmax87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭airmax87


    I really need to go ahead and mod my ps1, the japanese counterparts are so much cheaper !


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    #3206
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    So my Jogcon and Ridge Racer 4 turned up.. Lets just say Ciderman was right..


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    #3207
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭Doge


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    So my Jogcon and Ridge Racer 4 turned up.. Lets just say Ciderman was right..


    So it's safe to say you got jog-conned?


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    #3208
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    So my Jogcon and Ridge Racer 4 turned up.. Lets just say Ciderman was right..

    Every now and again it happens, statistically speaking I have to be correct now and then, purely by accident!
    It's an awful controller, I understand when a third party company lashes out a cheap and nasty controller, but someone like Namco, with a record of solid, brilliant controllers, bringing out such an unusable piece of rubbish...
    It ruined my enjoyment of RRt4 as well, add I tried it with the JogCon first.
    It's much better with the NegCon though, plus it includes Ridge Racer Hi Spec which is very nice indeed.


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    #3209
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    How does the saying go? Something like a stopped clock is always right when it's pointing to streets of rage is awesome o'clock?
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    #3210
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    How does the saying go? Something like a stopped clock is always right when it's pointing to streets of rage is awesome o'clock?

    :(


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    #3211
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    If the force feedback was removed the wheel tightened up a bit then I reckon it wouldn't be a bad controller. The layout is ok and the wheel as a steering mechanic works pretty well.


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