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I’m partial to the Williams system 11 era ish stuff and a bit before and after. The 3DS got a physical release with like 8 games on it and it’s much so a bit of a favorites list with black knight, space shuttle, and others like pin-bot. But some dmd I adore like Indiana Jones Addams family and T2 I played a good bit in college along with theater of magic I’ve learned to love in recent years. thst said I’m no operator but I do own a home use only pin-bot. I hate and love it as it’s one cruel table that can easily take a ball in seconds by design. As long as it flows fair though it’s a gear game with many things to do but as an owner it’s real picky on balance with that vortex shot. I enjoy hitting the Louisville arcade expo yearly as it’s all free play on like 50-100 tables all day.

I’m on my phone so it’s a bit of a pain quoting. nightowl thanks and I agree. It does seem wise to keep a spare. I could use the money but let’s be honest the ICs for the mirror and motor assembly are the most likely to fail after the glue issue and can not be replaced so it’s good thinking. The VB never made me uncomfortable being in it for a hour or more at a table which I still do with my work at home desk. My favorites historically were and still are both Mario’s and wario along with red alarm which to me is like Star Fox and galactic pinball. I’ve got a soft spot for 3D Tetris as it was my last game in the day but if the new to me stuff Jack Bros is a cruel challenge and fun and Nesters Funky Bowling is some solid fun. Off library though Hyper Fighting is truly epic as is the fun afforded by the finished and unreleased bound high. alder and galdius thanks you two. Lucky getting the set when it was super cheap. I think I got out beyond light given the year. The system is very elusive. In the last five years I’ve seen two loose games and two naked headpieces alone for an insane $75 I ignored. Luck was on my side with the unit I got for that same rate with all the goodies. It really is an elusive system having lasted about a year. A true shame given it never got a fair chance due to bungling and assuming a 95 N64 release that never was. If bound high, face ball and the finished and missing dragon hopper are any clue it should have lasted a bit longer with like able games.

Price is entirely my main motivation for the everdrive and owning a pce engine. When some smart person makes something like the sssd3 without all the defects and doing HDMI I’m there. I’d love to own my old CD US/JP library but the prices are just insultingly bad and unreasonable. Like it was said. B system A price.

I actually picked up around 10 of the GBA video carts and still would like to get the two shrek movies. All I’ve seen even from old rom groups was that they’re a separate entity than the standard release window and I’d agree. They’re movies and tv show selections and not games and I felt the same about UMD too.

I’d be up for three things and two I could and did vote on. I’d love to do NeoGeo but not there so second to that would be the pcengine (tg16) and lastly the PS1 but I’ve got so few of those. If NeoGeo could be added I’ve got access to nearly the full library so I’d be most likely to play though with PCE I do have the pc everdrive so well it’s all good.

I’ll give a soft vote to do it. Gameboy still is my thing and I have all models of it plus a decent supply of games along with an everdrive Gb and the ez flash omega too so I’m covered. Time would be my enemy.

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I wouldn’t be so firm on the what you type is yours. What did the NA sign up terms say? Did they say that, nothing, or something else. Given it was bought out and jerked away the new owner had the rights to anything Dain gave him which obviously and primarily is that board. The board is nothing without the content. He’d argue in court anything added by signees who joined is company property unless the sign up rules clearly protected that. It would be in his interests to control it all in the contracted purchase.

I totally get the time problem, it's another reason why I was eyeballing it as it's bite sized fun without the stigma of whale bait and touch mechanics on a phone. I'll keep an eye on your listing, maybe I'll bite eventually though if I don't I hope someone does as it seems very nice.

I hope I don't inflate this a lot. I started collecting back in 1995, but that as it stood for a pattern died in 2005. That decade the answers were easy. Why? The games I had access to locally and then early ebay shortly after were plentiful, cheap, and there wasn't the greed aspect of charging for every scrap of plastic, paper, and plastic. I could play the mystery game, get things I saw in Nintendo Power magazine or others and never could afford and now experience them. $20 could net me at least 4 games/week and it did. That's the why, the how, and the what in that one. Ease, cheap, and the mystery of it and love of playing so much I missed or never knew of. Since that period though after having my will broke and most stuff gone, it changed. I hit this moment a few years after when I could start again, slowly I did as I had mass cheap access to a large flea market and got many nice things. I even for the first time considered getting a set of this or that, but that old breakdown mentality kicked in. After I was like 330-350NES games into it realizing 90% of it I put more time into cleaning and test playing it felt wrong. So I swapped that for SNES beating it's wave of price increase and so on. It took some years, missed the boat eternally on a Duo reasonably speaking, and i kind of just gave up. I realized less was more, and now with less time (family/lacking free time and energy) further less was more. I got rid of a few systems, and minimized others more. I don't collect anymore, broke that rule once this year with the Virtual Boy set, and my determining factor now is will I play it, will I enjoy it, and if not, I don't need it. If that means a game on the shelf or something I buy so I can afford something I do want, either works. I keep the stuff I got gifted or bought in the 80s/90s and a bit into the 00s (GBA/GC) but that's really it, most of what I have now was not 21st century discoveries as the flash kits cover it nicely in almost all cases. I even dumped some heavy hitters you know I once had so I could get off budget (free I guess) my pinball/arcade machines instead.

Fair enough you got plenty going on trying to get this boat floating as new as it is. Just something to consider on the B or C tier list of things later as it would be a uniquely cool feature aped from mobile devices.

I had your concerns some years ago leading into the PS4 arrival and I actually made the point of dumping around 15+ games I had but keeping the system in the main room because it excelled in blu-ray/dvd and streaming play and still does today. Weeks ago goodwill locally made a boo-boo and I found a super slim all the hookups and controller with a spare sixaxis for $20 and it blew my mind having that again. I've already used it for some streaming but really just movies, yet I did scoop up a few games since then I used to own (mostly) and it reminded me how quite a few of them just work, and more than acceptably well without patching, so golden there is right. The PS4 I did have nearly as it came out, got a ridiculous deal on it, but man was it ever the anti-PS3 for me. Huge patches compared on anything and everything, and the game quality for Sony controller was toilet circling in quality so I move used it a bit, then dumped it with no regrets. As it is now, the PS3 may have issues with some games being shoddy if the developer was lazy or had issues without the patching, but in general stuff worked acceptably to perfectly well without so it's safe. In time I'm sure hackers and others will see the open door the PS3 had and find ways to ram fixes in there whenever Sony flips out the light, or as developers who have tools on there dump their support as well, that may get crack/patched as well though with such cheap fire sticks around not as likely. The first concern I know of is no PS3 support for Disney Plus in like 10 days which sucks. Switch games, anything I've had, and while I half like half the titles I've actually used on the system total if that, I never bought game on there that needed a patch for it work. Switch because I think again of the small internal storage developers are less jerky about it, not all, some are rotten no doubt, so they try and make it right first. Mostly what Switch has received have been quality of life updates and/or fixes, paid or free DLC, but nothing that like is game breaking rotten, or 1/2 game 1/2 download non-sense like Capcom, 2K, and Rockstar(LA Noire) did. And in those cases, it's just best not to buy their games at all so hopefully they get the message.

Fascinating. But couldn't it not be forced, a third option, and one based upon the local time DST the user sets in their account anyway so the latest post times match their zone?

I know it's skirting the edge considering it's same genre different perspective, but every other stage of Moero Twinbee (Twinbee2) aka Stinger in the US went from a horizontal(unique to franchise) to vertical and back. It really changed the dynamic and made it a lot harder when trying to power up as you'd lose the bells off screen a lot faster while charging into fire to catch them before dropping off as you can't get below the things to juggle so well and scoop them up.

Shame you can't (or can you) make it so that at certain hours it goes from light to dark and back. They seemed to have added that with a time window on the latest iOS and I started to use it and it's really quite nice.

I can see why I did a closer look. The same unit as yours with the stuffed animal with zipper pouch on the back did $55 shipped. Maybe that dude hit the average, started it low, sat on it or got unlucky as the history just isn't there. I find the device rather fascinating in the age of mobile phones doing so much, but it has this like gameboy level of quality with some programs it has, yet a sub-gb style density (resolution) panel. It looks like it would be fun to stuff in a wallet if that isn't bs and it really can take that beating.

It's kind of sad really the MVS only really truly started to soar in the last 2 years. I just barely missed the cut from getting baked and hit the ground running working out what I did get one way or another. By the time I was fairly ready to call it quits cheapo (sub $30) stuff started to get really dumb going up 2-3x in value. That's when I put the breaks on it, though I still would like to snap up Sengoku.

I do too it's super handy for storage because it keeps the dust out the thing. Soldered ribbons or not, the things are a bit on the fragile side, at least as far as Nintendo products go.

You know it never once bothered me, even if I sat in it for hours. I'd love to see Zero Racers and Dragon Hopper too, but it is fairly know that DH game was done and now into the vapor until...? Faceball / Nikuchan Battle is done, and the Faceball Remastered take that and the other modes get new maps as Niku wasn't done so it just reruns the same courses on the different menu choices. Space Pinball I hope someone fixes the code so you can play more than one ball without a drop to the menu as I'd love to do that one.

Have to agree with that. I'm a big Diablo fan and Torchlight 1+2 too. 3 was unique, but if 4 here takes the good parts of 3 with the style and atmosphere that made the first couple special I'm very well ready to enter those lands again.

Oddly enough, nothing really. I guess if it were one it was Water World because I kept bumping into trolls wanting $150+ for it loose, and I wasn't going to budge. Jack Bros cost me the most at $200 +Dragon WarriorIV(w/guide.) Like I said I charted it out, like that rental box originally had a complete setup inside that was needing help, so keeping this or that and repairing the VB and reselling it I got the case with a few dust clips, 3 game upgrades, an OEM stand, the manual, and a nicer battery box for $50. Hyper Fighting was the third biggest hit at $130, and a CIB Waterworld for $140 after selling the manual was second. If there's interest I'd paste the sloppy notes.

Back in 2017 I put over six months of research, thought, personal value questing into that question, but over getting back the one system I never did and that was the Duo (US.) The more I dug into it red flags one after another appeared, and not just the typical garbage caps. The gears and bits in there are fairly cheap and it can fail so it's more and more maintenance. Then I figured if that I could forgive where next, so I looked at the games, but not just favorites, but the totality of it and the overseas market too. I kept hitting more more bad mark after another. Ultimately around Christmas before this gift card I had expired I imported a Core Grafx 2 instead with a small selection of games that were loose. I basically at face value wrote off optical, put it in the back seat because you can get the briefcase module or just the CD module and system card anyway and some of those are more durable than the Duo. What got me was the price and library. Games in both regions where words don't matter like NInja Spirit, Genjin(Bonk), Gunhed, other shooters, arcade things, and so on they were far cheaper COMPLETE no less than a loose US TurboChip. Then I saw what we didn't get, a library of like a N64 sized stack of HuCards vs about 100 for the US of which many are average to bleh anyway. I can't even call it that the US had holes in the library, it has meteor strikes. I couldn't find one good reason period to validate buying a US unit... Price, more frail, junkier library, smaller library. My advice, if you must, get a Core Grafx system, buy what you like best, get a PCEverdrive/Turbo Everdrive, and go that route. If optical is your jam, look into the briefcase or CD unit that straps on the back and use that ED as a system card as it has the memory on it (just not enough for arcade card.) A 1GB micro SD card will fit the entire US and JP library including translated stuff without a problem. Also the CG system, it's RCA out of the box with a super clean image even on a modern TV plus the body is like the size of 3-4CD jewel cases stacked, that's it, so it's an easy fit.

A little journey that started at the end of January and finished around the end of this August. During this year I learned to improve my soldering skills and work on a few things, and I was able to buy, sell, trade, and turn over this or that and did this on a relatively shoestring budget given what VB can get you for. I've got all 14 of the US games, 11 of them are complete, 13 have the manual. I've also got as you can see a great intact rental case, Japanese stuff, prototype, and even the Hyper Fighting (SF2T) homebrew too. I charted out the journey into a file so I know what went into it, got returned in repairs and turnovers, and what was an expense and it was fun. I'm not done, just have to see how it goes. Bottom line though, I'm just over $700 into all of this and it started with a $75 purchase (then paying $60 for priority mail insured both ways + repair shipping due to busted eyes on it.) I'd like to think I'll in time get the missing boxes and manual, and I very well may but Jack Bros will get ugly, and I do care to grab Space Squash and in 2020 a true kit comes out so I can explore the Japanese stuff patched into english. Not pictured I've got a 2nd system I repaired myself (my first) it's 100% except for a stand.

Nintendo Puzzle Collection and Gundam vs Z-Gundam they're both complete, average shape, the outer sleves have seen better days and the discs have the usual minor scuffs and stuff that comes with being used and making it long distance. I didn't think you were up to anything about the freeloader, it's a fair warning. Bronco: I'd just look into what a region switch one sells for, then either buy the cord or drop the price plus a couple bucks so someone will feel ok buying their own if they don't have it already. It's a good item you have there.

Huh there's one up on ebay currently as I started digging just after I had asked. You're right, the back of that box says anything goes basically. I see the same image so that's your account, also saw what they had been selling for too and there's not much history.