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  1. Heya folks. Just made another new video about something I got back on NintendoAge. Back in the day somebody on there sent me this Star Fox 64 promotional VHS tape for free. I forget who it was but it was such a crazy messed up tape it inspired me to make this video. Hope ya'll like it.
  2. Wii is definitely retro. The other two I'm not so sure. Feels like gaming has kind of stagnated since 360/PS3. Nothing has really evolved since then. We haven't even had a new GTA game since PS3. Does the word retro still apply when progress stops like that? Like if I had a hammer made from a rock tied to a tree branch I'd call that a retro cave man hammer but a store bought metal claw hammer from the 1980s isn't really any different from one you'd buy today.
  3. Yeah, for this sort of work I'm definitely only going to be dealing with people face to face from now on.
  4. Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I just had the worst experience with this guy ifixretro on instagram. So Castlemania Games just came out with their Virtual Tap video-out mod for the Virtual Boy and they made a post on their instagram recommending this guy to install it. I message him asking about it and he tells me all I need to do is just order the mod, mail it to him with the Virtual Boy and he'll install it. So I dig my Virtual Boy out of storage and test it out and uh oh, it's not working. I can here a click from the speaker when it turns on and off, I can hear the servo motors vibrating inside but there's no image on the screens and no game audio. I message him about it and he says it's no problem for some extra money he can repair that to. Now there's 2 versions of the virtual tap mod listed on the Castlemania store, VGA and NTSC. On the site it explains that VGA displays 800x600 at 60 fps with upscale x2: 768x448 while the NTSC version displays at 240p at 60fps with no upscale and slightly squished horizontally. So naturally I go for the VGA version which sounds better and is the default option to buy anyway. You have to go down a checklist on the store and switch to NTSC if you want that version. He never asks me which version of the mod I bought. So I ship everything off to him, a couple of days go by and I look at my phone and see my instagram inbox blowing up with messages from this guy bitching me out that I got the VGA mod and not the RGB version. He had installed it as an RGB mod and now he had to use the shell from another Virtual Boy for my mod and somehow this is all my fault. I, as a first time customer who's never gotten a console modded before was supposed to be aware that NTSC = RGB and RGB is the standard that everyone uses and these mods aren't labeled and there's no way for him to tell if it was RGB or VGA without me telling him and I was supposed to know this even though he never mentioned anything about it. So he's very rude to me, blaming me for his mistake but we move on, he mails it back to me and I'm like thank God I don't have to deal with this guy any more. I get the Virtual Boy back and test it out and uh oh, it's not working. No image, no game audio, just a click when I turn it on and off and the sound of the servo motors inside. It works exactly like it did when I sent it off to him. He had sent me video of it working before he mailed it off so I just assume it got bumped around in shipping and his fix got undone but I don't want to have to deal with this guy anymore so I message him asking if I can get a refund for the repair. I have no problem paying for the mod work but when I paid a lot extra to get it working and it's not working I don't think it's out of line to ask for a refund. He tells me he thinks the problem is with the power supply through the controller. Now at this point I would expect a professional to offer to fix this new presumed problem or recommend ways for me to fix it myself. Instead he goes on to send me a string of insulting messages telling me that I probably tested it without a cartridge and I need to put a game in for it to work. I explain that I had tested it with multiple cartridges all with the same results and he tells me to ship it back to him, just the console, not the controller or power supply which he had suggested might be the problem. The last thing I want to do is send it back and have to keep dealing with this guy but when I first sent it off to him he asked me to pay friends and family on paypal and I obliged him because he seemed legit with the Castlemania endorsement and I'm an idiot so I know I have no recourse other than to ship it back to him again an hope he fixes it. So I ship it back and a couple of days go by and he sends me back another string of rude messages telling me it works fine, the problem is my controller, the problem is that I didn't put a cartridge in when I tested it (he actually said this to me, not once but two more times after I already explained I had tried multiple cartridges). He's telling me I have to pay for the return shipping now that he's been featured in kotaku and how dare I suggest that he tried to screw me over (I never said he tried to screw me over, I said that it worked exactly like it did when I sent it to him and that I thought it might have been damaged in the return shipping). So at this point I'm really pissed at this guy and I know I have no recourse and I need to get my stuff back from him but I feel like I have to say something to stick up for myself so I just say "I really don't appreciate your rude attitude" and he starts bitching me out again about how it was my fault that he had to sacrifice one of his Virtual Boy shells because I didn't tell him what version of the mod I got and blah blah blah. So I say forget it, I'll pay the shipping just send me my stuff back and that's my story. My Virtual Boy still doesn't work. I'm out the money for the shipping and the repair work and I'm really not happy and this guy was such a jerk to me. I hate rude people.
  5. Wish I could have gotten some more attempts in. I'd have like to have at least completed one loop. Coronavirus finally hit my workplace, 3 of my coworkers are out sick and I'm working overtime all week.
  6. 97100 At least I can say I tried. 116200 157400
  7. Yeah 39 using those rules. And MGS for Genesis is just Crackdown with the title screen text changed. I still think it should count for something. We need a bootleg badge.
  8. For the homebrew collection, do repros/bootlegs count? These pics are mostly homebrews but I keep all my non-vintage carts together in my collection. I'd like to think my Russian copy of Metal Gear Solid for Sega Genesis counts and some of them seem like kind of a grey area like Donkey Kong Pie Foundry or English translations of Japanese exclusives.
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