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List got a lot smaller, sold various things locally. May be adding more stuff soon, need to dig.

I got fed up with gameeye as it seemed to lack some specifics, went right back to using my HTML on a free subdomain instead.

@Dr. Morbis Hah yeah, I noticed that as well as that's the one version I owned until I got that Piko package that I guess had the genesis style one on the piko #1 collection on everdrive -- NES one is superior it's that well done. It's challenging, I got mostly through the game but it hits a hard shift into sadism towards the end. Shiru is an incredible talent to say the least, his work on various Piko prototypes that needed finishing or outright largely development(like Jim) points to talent above the vast majority of the homebrew crew out there. The only guess I have though on the manual, probably Piko did the work on it, english is a second language but is far improved compared to a decade ago.

Well here's that part 2 I promised of the last post. More Genesis goodies, and 2 more fantastic game music CDs. The NP one is a real gem with some awesome SNES scores on it from games like Super Metroid, Star Fox, Yoshi's Island and more, the other is an excellent Zelda music history from the FDS original title up through Four Swords on Gamecube which basically largely rounds out the SNES Link to the Past soundtrack. The other, I broke my largely local only rule when my friend tipped me off to (a local to him) set of games online at better than going rate values. I browsed through, missed one, but nabbed these all in really great shape for $130, which isn't bad since the complete one goes for $100 of that alone. I've only emulated Valis III briefly maybe 20 years ago, the other two are new(ish, as I've played SNES Ys 3 before) to me. Landstalker looks interesting. By the way those plastic thin cases, my mind has slipped, what are those called again exactly? Kind of tempted to look into the prices/sizes on those.

@avatar!you're going to just get worn down, best not to engage with someone who either sees it as blue state or 'trumper state' because you know anyone who isn't a liberal is part of the orange menace brigade.

I never did, until I realized that very fact yesterday as I wasn't going to trust that place with a credit card directly. Doing a test on a cheap fun looking famicom multicart to see what happens. Grabbed this for $15 shipped because I liked the game list, seems to be about as quality of a build as these cheap new board/chip games can be. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32761735065.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802Lgm0U7

That would only be more appropriate if Xi(nnie the Pooh) was in that image...both being presintators of their own governments.

PMd you about COTM#1.

Top one is legit, but not. Someone I guess put a translation, or just dumped the US Nintendo translation to a chip then rand all those soldered wires over the top to the front so you could play your Japanese game in english with a bypass. Second one, that is a legit chip there, it's Super Puyo Puyo if that's what it could boot as, but as you may have noticed you're missing another smaller chip. The PCB is bs though. This is how it should look:

I went on a binge a bit online of getting some game soundtrack CDs which all arrived late last week and yesterday. I strongly suggest checking them out, especially of you're part of the SNES era generation of games, NES(Famicom) too. Final Fantasy IV Original Soundtrack Remaster(it's the original they just doubled the track times) Ys I & II Nintendo Power Play is Loud Vol 1 Nintendo Sound History: Mario the Music Nintendo Sound History: Zelda the Music I'm looking for a few more, I'm enjoying these things. I see a couple I want, but they're well...tricky, unless you're a fool wanting to drop a $100 on a CD(or few.) The NSH duo, they're a sweet spread of original clean recorded audio. The Mario one has MB arcade, SMB1-3, Yoshi's Cookie and Dr Mario soundtracks. The Zelda one that's beefier, everything from FDS version of Zelda 1+2 up through Four Swords Gamecube which really just fleshes out largely the run of the SNES games tracks which is fantastic. The Play it Loud one is a SNES gem... a selection of Yoshi's Island, Ken Griffey (meh just 3), F-Zero, Zelda, Super Metroid, and Star Fox.

Well to be fair, I find the 3D Allstars version harder to manage than the original. Not sure what the hell they did. And that's not to say I've not tried using other controllers. I still have that reengineered from scratch Super Mario 64 dump to PC, android, etc for the PC, Vanilla release. I've played it using a gamecube usb controller, and an xbox 360 usb game pad mostly and I can fly through it better than the N64 release since that stick gets slippery. The Switch one I thought I'd find most comfortable, it was not. Mind you the real turd of that release is Sunshine, it's annoying playing it on there at all.

Nope I'm all the way north on the 65. I'm rarely down that way.

BG? Both stores are on bardstown rd about a mile apart. BME is garbage though I honestly was surprised, at least this of the two locations. They are all about ripping people off pretty hard so to see a fair price on BB and Marvel Land was a surprise. Generous to them for the last 4-5 years has been moderate-upper paid ebay with the custom being something to either laugh at or get pissed off over. Great Escape though always has good prices on stuff, games, vintage toys, books, comics etc so I'm glad they're easier to get to and check as it's worth it, the other isn't. The other BME way out of the way off preston tends to have more stuff, better stuff, and less awful prices which means values are subjective by the pricer.

That camera is fantastic what are you on about? It's still one of the best camera in that genre of 3D game. The level of controls is great, and when it handles itself more often than not it does just fine. Commonly games in this style have utterly garbage cameras that get blocked, stuck, or can position right manually or automatic.

Wow how is that not even close? Overrated of Time isn't bad, it's actually quite good, but it's the N64's FF7 where fanboy illogic wins out time and again when that title gets polled despite the various shortcomings then and warts developed over time since.

I know this has largely converted to primarily being about the pocket, this is not. Have they ever stated a reason why or how long they will be keeping sales cut off for their other hardware that isn't the pocket? It seems ridiculous that they have it seemingly stuck in limbo until maybe 2023 for group C of pocket! I want the Mega SG, now more than before as I have a great game that doesn't work right on Nomad(part of a very short list) and I don't want some old rca driven system, modern all the way. I've written them earlier ago, hoping for a response eventually but I will not pay double to some shark on ebay.

I can't speak for others or what you should do, but I can tell you how it went here. Unofficially I had my baby in my lap and I was playing river city ransom ex on a gameboy micro, she reached out, grabbed the right side, and button stomped some bad guy which hilariously ended with the classic BARF! comment. Realistically though until I knew she'd be hopefully responsible, I didn't let stuff get played with, and when she was, I sought out online locally what I felt was a logical great first step, a Game Boy Color. They're super sturdy and with just the classic 8bit button array it has, is a great step into going at it. I found one from a girl online who had a nice stash of games, a couple were not appropriate for her (resident evil gaiden) or needed reading I kept, but most of them with nice little platformers, puzzles, etc were perfect. We went through a couple lenses and a shell which is a shame, but learned to be more careful with things. From there my mom was gifted years back a pink dslite she almost never used and like half dozen or so games, mario, simpsons, brain age, crossword, picross, stuff like that. The first one sadly didn't last, she's stubborn and it took one too many drops. Eventually from there though I let her on occasion use one of my many SPs which has endured thankfully, and she had a deal with us if she could save 1/2 I'd cover the rest and reward one game... so now she has a turquoise switch lite and it is her primary go to. As she got better about stuff I started to let her pick through my games to play things, though she does have a few excellent original GB games and a few GBA too along with a big stash of DS stuff.

I was pretty sure they did both. Wow classy, I hadn't checked the page in a month or so, just getting emails on the perpetual delays. They now have bold font wrote you can get a refund, but only for store credit. That's a joke.

Wow that Putin speech, he does paint a unique picture of what his mind feels versus reality. And to think that's what he's peddling on his state run media with the alternative being censorship and 15 year prison sentences. I don't see that ending well, especially when he considers the former Russian stolen soviet states as mere territories and puppets of the west out to get them. He's playing the Hitler card, delusionally claiming that Crimea wanted to be taken, etc... Vladof Putler needs a reality check. Clearly he does not like NATO, total threat given is alliances stand in opposition of what he likes.

Oh come on.... now Lodoss War is on Switch in the US and Gamestop is pushing it in another month?? I picked up the english copy from video games plus which is a dual CA/US operation (they ship from both Niagra Falls cities) and it keeps being pushed back like a week to a month everytime the date almost arrives and I'm getting pissed. Same price at Gamestop too, yet I could have paid maybe $5-10 more and got it like I think a month ago from playasia in english too. Kind of getting fed up with these fly by night douchy limited style print run game operations that make physical copies of digital games as they clearly can't get their act together. LRG is slipping, SLG is a goddamn joke who don't ship really, and it seems vgp is like slg too. Hard to keep trusting any of these north american outlets.

I don't know, but it creates questions. Why can they fulfill BB orders in mass across the country to retail stores and have a supply readily on hand for web shipping from their online warehouse too -- yet they can't get their shit together for 6-18months+ for people who actually fed their ability to even exist or have that BB deal in the first place. It's bullshit. I think it's safe to say BB isn't the one making, manufacturing, and prepping those games to sell them, so there's a mechanism in place and BB gets priority over the fans I guess.

@Webhead123 I kind of get that, at least, video side of things with audio that gets screwed with. I specifically made a local DVD buy just over a week ago specifically due to what you just wrote there. I don't know if you grew up caring about or ever watching ROBOTECH but very recently Funimation/Big West/Harmony Gold collaboratively after decades got their head out of their asses(HG mainly) and opened things up to finally reissue that and bring Macross finally to the US after over 30 years (HG are known assholes.) Anyway the first part was reissuing the old series by the 3 sagas on blu ray. What they did is an abomination. The tried to clean the video up and broke is making it super fuzzy and dark in trade for removing old video grain, but by far worse(to your point) they removed all the old sound effects from combat and put brand new ones in, and it has collectively pissed off the majority of robotech and macross fans of the 80s and they returned it, or never bought it because of it. The last *clean* copy is this odd big plastic box that holds all 6 DVDs of the Macross part of the series. I found it for $6 at a local shop, been playing it a bit each day since during the last week. I'd rather always take a blu ray, but you ruin the audio, you diminish the video...that's a bridge too far.

And well...I decided to make the once every couple months westward trip to the great escape, and checked out the usually (basically always) ripoffish book and music which I kind of wish would just fail at this rate. (I know not nice.) But well, I popped more than I usually in a day but it was worth it. The ripoff shop actually had Marvel Land there with the manual and also Bubble Bobble too, neither were largely a deal, more or less a break even minus your online shipping charges so a little off (50+20.) The win, the big win was great escape, and wow if I still bought transformers (g1) I could have gone broke as they had half a dozen power masters complete, kind of happy I don't as they were sub-online and plentiful. What they did have blew me away in the glass case, these other two genny gems... Streets of Rage 2 for $13, and TROUBLE SHOOTER for $61 (sells for $120 online) so that was a jackpot! Wonder Boy was sent to me by a friend, included it since it arrived yesterday. The nomad in the image I've had, but I also got those 2 CDs in the mail, found them for off the usual, brand new too, Famicom Sound History Mario the Music, and then YS Book 1+2 Chronicles soundtrack. The FC one obviously an import, has all 4 SMBs from FC+FDS, Mario Bros, and the soundtrack to Dr Mario and Yoshis Cookie on there which is amazing. Ys is just ear candy, if you know, you know. I've got a few more coming in the mail soon plus a few other nice things, rare, since I stopped largely buying online, so I'll have another post to follow sooner or later.

@Matchbook Not bad, quite a bit of nice paper indeed, even some EGM to wipe with. Also very impressed there with @JVOSS with that Game Gear case, don't see that one often, usually the puffy zip nylon ones and some decent games. Working or not, time to buckle down and decide... LED for CFL replacement? Whole new screen which would sip the least juice with the best visuals...and obviously full cap replacement too as Sega used utterly shit parts in their game gears sadly. Those are some nice GB titles too, don't often see that. I think you're part of a facebook GB group looks familiar.

Wow nice reddit, went skimming it a bit. Saw a before and follow up after post that was worth enjoying. Russian chopper the regulars painted onto the beam towards the rear rotor 'onward to berlin' and a few hours later the remains of the same chopper in pieces on the ground. Seems to me there's either bravado, stupidity, both...maybe the larger intent of the desire of their forces to start coming at NATO.