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I guess that would be one good way to put it. I've got a general lack of time to waste on things than I did back in that period, but also with a partially disabled wife and money being a long term issue I'm trying to resolve going into 2020, some forms of reality put walls there. I don't have the time to fuss over dumb crap like that before, and I don't have the money to fritter either so I'm very choosy, honestly cheap too, and unless I can trade, get rid of something or find it cheap to keep or flip to get things I need first, then want, it's not anything I want to get worked up over anymore. It's why I cut back, dropped entire systems (or lines, I have no Sega anymore) and scaled other things while going HDMI and with kits. I'd rather just dabble in the past between chit chat and memories and play when I can. Right now despite finding it again early summer I'm contemplating ditching a PSP 3K setup I have and a PC Engine Core Grafx2 with a couple dozen titles from 2 years back. I'm into less is more. It is a new forum, a new day given it's weeks old. It should be interesting to see how things turn out. I for one don't care to dig into years ago on another site, as that's then and there, not here and now.

Can not agree any more than how that was put. I'm glad it came with my cabinet the day I got it. Before I decided to throw the net wider when I was actively at it, my first job of sorts was to track down any game NOT on that thing I used to enjoy in pizza parlors and stuff around 1990 and the few years after it annoyingly lacks. I never did get Sengoku though but I do have hte mini marquee for it. I then did start to get my favorites off the multicart that mattered most to me.

Well if you're fine with more here are 6 I just took the last half hour and took these real quick on the top of my table. This about 95%+ of what I've got. FFA is minty complete in there left it, anything with a box is complete, others just have manuals. All that is my current library of games and accessories short a few power cables to recharge stuff, oem earphones, little things, and a GB Player. I didn't want to pull it out, but that's all my guides and GB stuff is in there, didn't capture WC Prophecy which is a direct PC port which I have that guide (same with Doom 1 and 2 from the era.) I lit up the GB Light to compare to the GBC I modded with the backlight and the 101 panel inside the cobalt SP. The rest is stock. The boxed DMG is spotless and complete as is the GBP too. I also know from the first and only previous owner that Gameboy was a neglected gift that was lost since around 1990. A Christmas gift a girl touched an hour or two, back to the box, and lost. A bad listing mentioning it but not the box and contents well you know how that can go. That, GBP, and the NES SP I keep in hobby plastic clear boxes the duplicates get use instead. I've got an annoying hole or two the worst being Konami GB Collection Vol4 (UK-GBC) which drives me nuts. I keep missing honest listings. I've not added much for a long time to it other than recently I got that GBA Astroboy, Pinball of the Dead, Killer Instinct, and the two Duck Tales games (#1 arrived today.) I'm happy where I am mostly on it and have an ez flash omega for GBA and an everdrive gb for gb/gbc. I used to have probably triple the games. The last shot is how I store them all, antique library card catalog. Is this kind of what you were hoping for?

Thanks, you too, missed talking with you. It had been nice seeing the FC story play out and the boots and things around and since.

Just a couple images as it gets big. In my time away I switched gears and I got to dabble with arcade and pinball a bit. I am an owner of that cab you see, it now does have a NOS bezel installed into it (samurai shodown.) I've had more than I do now, but settled at a 30 game library, of which 2 are complete(neo turf and 8man), and I have a few others minus the cardboard box and bubbles that are too. I've also got the NGPC along with around 15+ games for it (and the retrohq ngpc sd kit too.) I always enjoyed the cabinet back in the early 90s and at other points in that decade too so when I got a local chance a few years back I was all over it and after I had that, I wanted my NGPC back so I did that too. Currently considering adding the handheld legend backlit drop in LCD for the handheld as well. That 8man has a weird story around it too, that was not what I was expecting in the mail or how it was mailed.

Gameboy (family) has been my thing for years. Post-NA I did finally hit the dream of getting a GBC, good deal too, and it doesn't have paint or screen damage either so I attached an image of that for fun at least. Currently I have for systems: GBA--Glacier, SP NES style, SP Graphite 101, SP Cobalt with 101 (both SPs are CIB), GB Micro Famicom, and GB Micro Black/Silver. ON the GBC I've got just my Grape one but with the handheld legend backlit screen installed. GB original/Pocket though I have quite a few: GB Light, GB P Silver CIB(launch), GBP Blue, a CIB DMG, loose DMG. All those systems I've got some accessories for, but for the 8bit stuff even if it took the import I got the rechargeable battery packs for them with the ac adapter modules too. I don't want to spam a lot of images.

They don't? Aside from Mr Driller which I know can wreck a card, I've never had an issue with others. I have a soft mod of sorts I guess, that FreeLoader boot disc and I've played a small number of Japanese titles and one PAL (Doshin) on my system. I can say that PAL and NTSC/J don't work on the same so that had to have its own card which thankfully I got with it too. But I've played the Hudson Select titles, Gundam, Castle of Shikigami, Nintendo Puzzle Collection, and a few others with no problem on memory card issues. There is a list online if you google it that will warn you which games can be rats like Driller.

I don't take any stock in any of those things as they're just not right. Sure the bots try and sort things by completion of the package, sealed, loose, but there are misfires, and the bots don't have eyes and can't look at condition. You could have a new item that looks like it was run over by a bike but still sealed up, and another that looks like before it got put in the shipping box to the stores in the day and one pulls at the other. The only good use, ebay history is weak, so you can go further back and see things to figure it out, because that's the only way, looking and comparing to get it right.

I hate to use skies the limit, but in the case of that Turkish gameboy, it's very hard to come by and hard to nail a price down so it will come up to the pockets, will, and imagination of anyone fighting over it on ebay, here, elsewhere in an open format. I saw the note about the Tommy one, it's not a bad idea maybe to start, but of the special run corporate tagged systems that's probably the most common.

I imagine it was Nintendo and Amazon collaborating on that, and perhaps others (Sony,etc) and third parties may take notice after seeing how it changes things over a short time. Yes it's a control issue, but I think the large scale amount of bootlegs and also hacks/repops too were the problem. Imagine the lost money (as time is money) call reps and email reps from both companies had to deal with getting comments about a used item to a game that seemingly didn't work right or at all because it was a bootleg or something else that wasn't 100% factory made. I'm sure they all tired of it and this move would limit the sales of those products to what is approved taking that big headache off both of them. I'd be more surprised if this somehow trickled into ebay than anything else because there, mercari, even aliexpress the people there surely have the idea better than the amazon pool is what they're buying and from what source.

Well given the Nintendo roots and the mascot, wouldn't just a single coin jingle be familiar, very short, and inoffensive from SMB1?

Nice debate, fun to read the various ideas about it. I think I mentioned before AtariAge and their locks. Funny coincidence, they do use the same Invision forum software. They do in fact allow for tags. You can filter by tags, you can soft ban via tags or individual posts but not sections or forum wide. The software is quite versatile in all that it allows for custom actions and not blanket wand waving motions. Depending how the debate on the inside swings that would be possible.

Well again thanks for all the welcome back comments. Have to admit I'm a bit surprised.

Gloves, thanks, that's all I ask. I only made the post due to years of experience getting caught up in places that do and don't allow it, and the don't still are happy centers and live on. Those that allow it, well it's a pissy tinderbox of like minded one side of the isle intolerant echo chambers at best, and dead meat at worst making enemies of many. I get what Zeldafreak is saying too, but even having just one 'war room' like thread for all things that still would potentially breed fights, distrust and unwillingness (as bill and ted put it) be excellent to each other over bad blood. Truth is most people lack the self control to handle politics, especially online, since you have that faceless way to really lay into someone you can't so easily get away with on social media with a real name or in real life where someone can clock you.

I'm going to have to back up that last post. I've scratched at best the surface of four of them, the fifth (lode runner) I've attempted to enjoy over the years and I just can't. They're all puzzles in one respect or another, but they're not very fun ones, and some can be confusing or just not well done to inspire frustration. Lode Runner is more of an action puzzle, but it's more stiff than I care to put up with, it's not bad, but it's a period piece you need to admire for its time.

Johnny: No problem, still have that scanned setup too. Solid game, but I no longer have it as the time just isn't there. OptOut: Same here the N64 (1st 3D gen) suffer the worst on non-CRTs losing lighting effects, busted shadows, mudding, overly dark, etc. That thing makes it sweet like using a PC emulator or something and saved my console as I see it. Though in the end probably the SuperNT or GC2HDMI external device get the most use given the games and possibilities with console and all things Gameboy. They're amazing and so worth the money. philosoraptor: Bridges, I think they basically self immolated the entire town there. Looking now I see bitching over multiple locations/sites, anyone who cared is fuming. I've got more knowledge about those things I updated into and learned to fix with the soldering iron sure but I'd say my setup is more spartan. A couple years back I picked up this cherry vintage sony wooden stereo rack with a tempered glass tinted front and I keep almost everything inside there that's vintage. The games the big black shelf I could load up back in the day half of it has toys now as I got back into vintage toy/antique stuff being in KY again (hell I've got a 70 toy w/all accessories set of G1 Transformers on there.) The HDMI move was the fact I wanted to bulletproof for the future as HDMI isn't going anywhere, even the updates to it still use the same jack so it'll stand for decades. I prefer the sharp visuals I got used to playing on PCs so it just felt right. That VB I got, same store as the Pokemon game, and I've had other crazy things sourced out of that store too but it goes through hot and cold times, right now, cold (lack of goods not bad prices.) I basically thrift shop daily, keeps me able to enjoy anything anymore.

I used to be able to put up for far longer with mindless hi score racking, but not so much now. Platforming side scrollers I get tried of in most cases fairly quick especially if they don't have some advancement method (dead cells, sotn, code of princess, etc.) I basically can not deal with racing games anymore as I get bored super fast and just stop, same with sports games (unlicensed, still dislike licensed.) RPGs I find more and more difficult to keep going for more than so many hours now, a time that has shrunk with the decades.

Another vote for Actraiser, obvious if you know me. But you know what else fits it? Castlevania II and future iterations playing off the SuperMetroid handbook. At first glance you have this seamless solid action platforming game, but then you realize it's not. You have items, a form of if not outright experience, growing health and magics, and more. It's this like perfect blend of RPG skill/stat/upgrade tree mixed with a platforming adventure which helps it keep from being stale far sooner if at all when the game is done right. The GBA/DS Sorrow duo really pegged it, even the other GBA/DS games basically did too and didn't get boring. Bloodstained did it again but it does kind of lack some of the charm but same roots.

Sorry no. Around the last few times you saw me talk about that it wasn't long after things went south on their end. The head office where that friend of mine there worked out of decided to basically make him ghost his facebook presence and he just vanished. He had mentioned something about changes, and that was about the time they stopped rolling out updates entirely and then he vanished. I think they gave up on trying to make that messy thing any better and moved him elsewhere or let the guy go. I got rid of it and went HDMI instead with flash kits as it just was unreliable junk. The only hyperkin thing that never ceases to amaze me for actually being good I've kept is the Supaboy S/SFC because the d-pad isn't trash, the battery lasts lots longer, it doesn't get pissy over any special chip games, likes flash kits (I have a SD2SNES), and even handles the one off tweaky games that often fail on any other hardware and some emulators.

I know I just re-entered the fold here but coming from being a member for some years at AtariAge and some FB forums, one thing they had all in common was a zero tolerance rule on political posting. Originally I wasn't too keen on the censorship factor, but as things got more and more deranged in this decade I saw a real fracture of some places and not others and it all circled that singular toilet bowl. Places that banned it people stayed friends, stuff stayed on the general topics, all went well, and if someone tried it they'd get warned or just removed. Those that didn't I can't think of any group that lasted more than months to a year because it just got nasty people making enemies over policy and politics. It's just a suggestion, a strong one maybe, but don't allow it. It's an election year coming up very shortly and it's going to get vile and ugly and I'd hate to see this place immolate itself as not everyone is a righty or a lefty and plenty around online have little to no self control when the door is open.

You did? Well if it were said 3x then it probably would have been like that old bloody mary mirror ritual or beetlejuice maybe? I'll stick around, I still prefer to use forums over social media as it has too many cranks and it's too decentralized into fascinating tidbits than ongoing stuff. I kept up on NA in more recent years by various means so I mean I saw the writing on the wall after that buy out, but I'll admit that did sting seeing what happened as it was well shocking. It gave me flashbacks to an old job where one company bought another on a promise, and before the ink was dry we were all shutdown, and that seemed like a similar promise violation here too. Either way despite what I said there, I've branched into other things. When I got into VB I decided to get a bit of a better kit this year and learned how to repair those testy systems, and I've gotten into handheld refurbishment too. Also I HDMI'd my Nintendo systems, all of them. Toploader hidefnes kit, supernt, ultrahdmi, and gc2hdmi too (which covers all things GB.) The only non-HD left are the psone+lcd and a core grafx2. Also on a shoestring budget over a period of nearly 2 years I got flash kits for all my cart based systems except N64 which I think I'll do this black friday as last years was the pce. Rather have fun in those limited times than stress how to cover it. Oh also I did add one sealed game so I'm up to 2, got a Pokemon Red Version out of a goodwill in the last year for a $100 and thankfully paypal covered that. I'll fill in any blanks if anyone cares I'm fine by that open or message.

Well at first I started out with a Gold Ball pinball machine that was SS but setup like an EM. Luck would have it about a year later I ended up owning from a local a home use only owner Pin-Bot which I'm the third to have it now. I got a bit tired of Gold Ball and more luck struck on facebook a year later and the moment I joined this local garage sale group I ended up spotting a cabinet. Took some very fast work, sold/broke even on Gold Ball and got a cherry 2 slot Neo Geo MVS cabinet with 9 legit and the 161in1 cart with it and a few kit pieces too. I've since pushed it up to a 30 cart library. Also about two years ago scored a non-working free modern cocktail with a damaged icade60in1 in it. For about $50 I got a replacement panel, replacement speaker, new key lock, and an interior black matte bezel to cover up the new panel area and got that working too. The tabletop on that one is a repop of the Ms Pac-Man cocktail as is the stick area on both sides. If this place has it as I haven't looked around yet I could share that elsewhere than crowd this up with images.

I figured what the hell it was worth a shot. I will stick around. I can't make any promises, but I can say this much at least. If you liked me in the past because I was more or less nice, shared info, tried to help out, maybe bought sold or traded something with you it should be fine. If you're afraid that I'm going to go nuts about hardcore collector stuff and all that entails, forget it, I moved to another phase of that kind of moved on. I've gotten rid of much of what I had down to more of what I had in the first place if that makes sense, but I'm also now an arcade machine and pinball machine owner. Also this year and in probably both for this time record time and lack of spending completed the US Virtual Boy set with many little extras. I never thought I'd have a set of anything, let alone even try but it happened. Mostly with an eight year old now and various needs, I play when I can but phone aside that can be days or maybe weeks apart so it's easier to talk. I have to admit I am surprised a bit at the response still so thanks.

It's been awhile, hi. I know I set a few people off years ago when philosophies were more competing. Things change, don't let what used to rile me up bother me really anymore as it got to being fairly pointless. It's more about just having fun now, being able to chit chat more than play these days due to life as it is. I figured I'd reach out and see how it goes as this is yet is not the same space. If not, I get it, and if so it would be nice to see how it goes.