25da5c No.14192596
New year, new shit to find and play. What have you gotten since the last thread anons? Get yourself anything good for Chrismas?
What're you:
> BUYING?
> CONSIDERING?
> REPAIRING?
> MODIFYING?
You're keeping your machines all nice and clean right? Them capacitors haven't blown up on you just yet?
On a side note for it, any anons familiar with old PCs that can point in the direction of a fun computer to fuck around with BASIC on? Bonus points if it has a nice aesthetic. Already have a PET, but needing to repair the fucker first.
aecf91 No.14192623
Waste of money, pirate everything.
be9b05 No.14192689
I've invested some money into a small indie game, it's called Fallout 4. You should do the same.
404d81 No.14193604
>>14192623
You can't pirate hardware.
e9d296 No.14193651
Bough a switch for my 6 year old niece yesterday.
Today I went back around to play it and the dock has stopped working.
Thing is a cheap as fuck piece of plastic that just acts as a HDMI pass through and charger cradle. Nintendo thinks this is worth in the region of £80.
No way to charge the controllers without also charging the screen at the same time because Nintendo cheaped out and didn't include the controller grip thing with a charger port. They want £20. For a piece of plastic with a USB-C port.
Why the fuck do people think this is a good company again?
077f37 No.14193677
>>14193651
Why in the world did you buy it? The fact that it's a shoddy machine is already well known.
To answer OP, I have plans to get a Sega Saturn and a PC Engine Duo. The PC Engine Duo will take a bit of work because of those bad capacitors.
6e5fb7 No.14193701
>>14193604
>He can't pirate hardware
ee8ff3 No.14193733
I've mostly been busy with work, but I've been fixing things like PS4s, just waiting on some ribbon cable to come in. Modding N64s for RGB. I've also got quite a few recent limited run games too. double dragon 4 and river city melee just came in, and I recently ordered both Taiko no Tatsujin Session de Dodon ga Don! and "The Bit Trip" collection. The latter I recall hearing good things about but never played the games before, and Taiko especially because I'm eager to get my rhythm game fix.
I still have CRT monitors I'm willing to part for cheap. A fantastic Ikegami TM14-17RZ 600TVL RGB/S-video/composite monitor with a remarkable shadowmask picture and a Panasonic BT-M1310Y which is a bit fuzzy in its image but has all the desired pro monitor features. Also my girlfriend got me a copy of the made in abyss map of the abyss which is gigantic. I think it's about 4 feet tall and at least 3 feet wide. I wonder if they make frames that big. The OST on Vinyl will be making its way to me eventually as well. Also the panzer dragoon saga OST is also debuting on Vinyl, I plan to get that as well but there won't be news about that until the 29th.
Soon, once my Taiko set arrives I'll be taking a picture of my PS4 collection which I'm very happy with. I feel like it's become gigantic.
as for hardware to program basic on, I have a tandy-1000EX that I don't have much use for OP.
500868 No.14193751
What's a reasonable price for an Amiga 1000? I've looked before and most seemed to be in the 250 to 300 dollar range.
000000 No.14193782
I'm buying up old computers so I can kill the planet by bitmining. Have fun paying 200,000 for a gt 210
000000 No.14193794
>>14193782
>I'm buying up old computers so I can kill the planet by bitmining. Have fun paying 200,000 for a gt 210
Is what idiots think of collectors.
No fuck you moron I'm not buying so I can resell, I'm doing so I can use it.
84e341 No.14195313
>>14192596
Haven't found much in the way of worthwhile vidya at good prices lately where I am (at least as far as things I don't already have). Think the only pick ups since the last thread have been Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow for $10 (cart only sadly, but even as a cart only copy it's usually a good $30+ at places that aren't Gamestop), and Exist Archive from an Amazon clearance, which I figured I can at least get my $10 of enjoyment from. Had somewhat better luck with anime finds lately, namely Gunsmith Cats for $6 and The Skull Man for $14 (I think). Been considering Arc Rise Fantasia as a store got it in and I don't see it much around here, but as of now they're waiting for another location to send a better condition disk as the one they got with it was pretty shit. Said copy would be otherwise complete, but the cover art will need some repairs/reprinting (though it seems hard to find a properly formatted cover scan of it to begin with), as those shitty eco-cases Nintendo started using in seventh gen make it easier for big holes to get poked through shit. Otherwise though I've just been saving money.
>Christmas
Mostly just got money, but my dad did get me a six volume boxed set of Gurren Lagann as a gift, which is pretty nice.
Also, as a heads up to any other .hackanons that might be somewhat close to where I live, I saw a copy of .hack Vol.3: Outbreak earlier at the Gilbert/Mesa Zia Records for $12 plus tax. Not sure if it's complete (as far as the manual and Liminality disc go), and the back cover seems a bit faded, but it's a better price than one is liable to find for it elsewhere. Also a lesson to be had for people searching actual stores for good finds: Always check the cart, or wherever already tagged stuff goes before making it to the shelves.
>>14193651
Last Nintendo systems I bought were a preowned Wii and a new (albeit on clearance) DS Lite a number of years back, namely due to their subsequent systems both not having enough games of personal interest and NoA generally doing their best to ruin the ones I would have been interested in. Honestly haven't really considered the actual build quality of their more recent systems, though I suppose it should be expected given how the old "toss-it-out-a-three-story-window-and-it'll-still-work-Nintendium" seems to have stopped being a thing since the Lite anyhow (have to treat those hinges with a bit of a gentle touch).
25da5c No.14197245
>>14193651
Should have gotten something better anon. Return the fucker and get them a Mega Drive or shit.
>>14193677
> Sega Saturn
Hope you have fun when you get one. Best use Psuedo Saturn.
>>14193733
Never seen a Tandy in my life. Were the sold in Bongland at all?
>>14193751
Why'd you want a 1000 over a 600/1200?
4c40fb No.14197252
>>14197245
>Never seen a Tandy in my life. Were the sold in Bongland at all?
Nah, they were from radioshack which I don't think was a chain over in yurope.
Also I forgot to mention I ordered a bunch of soldering equipment and just got my hor air rework station (Zeny 858D) and a beautiful bottle of liquid flux from MG Chemicals. Gonna be doing a lot of exciting work with this stuff.
8369ea No.14197308
>>14193733
>Ikegami
True patrician taste.
I just put a new needle in my CED player, but nothing vidya related.
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63b815 No.14197533
>>14197519
upvoted my good sir
310fa1 No.14197537
>>14197519
>*May cause some side effects. Consult with your doctor if problems persist for more than 72 hours
What are the side effects exactly?
63b815 No.14197540
1d1702 No.14197557
>>14197537
getting fucked in the ass because a desk covered in rainbow light attracts every faggot in a 5 mile radius
500868 No.14198292
>>14197245
I just like the look of the 1000 the best. Classy clean and professional. They can be upgraded almost as well as more popular models like the 500 and 1200 too.just not as easily
87e734 No.14198647
I demand you recommend me some artbooks/novels/booklets/etc that you enjoyed.
4a507d No.14198675
>>14197519
Why are redditors so fucking obnoxious?
1bb927 No.14198680
936be7 No.14198682
>>14193604
They why does Win10 lock your PC if you use "unauthorized hardware"?
4a507d No.14198698
>>14198682
Wait, what? Tell me more.
bebe43 No.14198704
4a507d No.14198712
>>14198704
Yes, but why exactly do they have such grating mannerisms?
d26e5b No.14198853
>>14198712
Much like the overwhelming majority of the population they're just insufferable faggots. There's nothing more to it. Probably around 99.99% of people on earth deserve to die tbh.
45eb25 No.14199038
>>14193604
you can if you're chinese. there's plenty of pirate hardware on the market, from the lowly gameboy all the way up to bootleg cisco-branded routers
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c92738 No.14199227
Check out this beauty, got it for a $100 a few days ago, needs a recap, but for that price whatever.
ee8ff3 No.14199430
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>>14199227
get your cap kit from console5 and for the love of god work carefully.
bf51e1 No.14200031
> BUYING?
Nothing yet, waiting for more funds, but I got my Super Everdrive and immediately put it into the US-style cart case I got from CHYNAH, and slapped on a label I cooked up and printed out.
> CONSIDERING?
Nintendo 64 Everdrive, if I can drive myself to desire to play N64 games. I didn't have one as a kid, and I played a few things on it when it was new, but it never latched onto me like the PSX and Saturn.
> REPAIRING?
I have a Mac Plus and other stuff in need of re-capping, but I can't be assed to get started on any of them.
> MODIFYING?
I'm still sitting on my 7800 in the midst of an s-video mod.
8b202f No.14200034
>>14198698
That's only half true. Since MS can force updates on you they they are perfectly capable of preventing you from using any hardware or software they see fit. They could, but currently they dont. Not that it should matter to you because you use Linux and only have legacy versions of Windows running in a VM, right?
bf51e1 No.14200043
>>14200034
This is but one part of why Win7 is the last Windows version I will use. Those faggots following the toejam-eating autist code-god of theirs had better hurry the fuck up and make 2018 the Year of the Linux Desktop.
ee8ff3 No.14200050
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>>14200031
>it never latched onto me like the PSX and Saturn.
there's a good 30 or so games worth giving a shot on the n64. Goemon's great adventure is one of the best 2D platformers ever and is worth playing for so many reasons. The music is some of my favorite and there's not quite much like that funky blend of disco beats and japanese instruments.
bf51e1 No.14200087
>>14200050
I've got the start of an acceptable collection, but N64 nostalgia is thin with me.
a1897e No.14200110
I've saved so much money from games not being interesting and hardware being overpriced. Although I did want to build a new computer to animate porn in blender. I lucked out though because of the recent intel exploits and the fact that intel and amd still have hardware drm.
c92738 No.14200120
>>14200087
I'm one of these faggots who's actually considering a fullset of loose N64 carts, mostly because i spent my childhood weekends picking out N64 carts at a fleamarket and i already own about a third of the library, but some of the prices on random games are just such a fucking turn off, like why in the fuck is a BOWLING game worth about as much as Earthbound
29964e No.14200124
>>14200110
As a patron of the lewd arts i wholly support this idea.
84e341 No.14200128
>>14199430
Is that a vinyl? Makes me wonder how easy it is to rip/upload something from that format.
>Series I like had its 20th anniversary in late 2016/through 2017.
>Only actually good thing announced was an officially arranged album by the series' original composer.
>2018 now and it's still not finished; only get the occasional moonrune post dumped in the promotional site's twitter feed as progress.
>>14198647
The art/lore books for games I like tend not to be brought overseas sadly (while the games can make it, extra materials, even including soundtracks, don't seem to be considered worth the effort for native release), and while a number of those do have scans if you know where to look, it's rarer to find any that have been given the flatscan+translation+insertion treatment. One artbook I'd like to be able to see in full (especially in English some day, as the game itself did't have the best translation, and the book seems to have plenty of descriptions with it) hasn't even been given the scanning treatment to begin with from what I've seen.
>>14200031
>Everdrive
I assume those readily bypass region checks as well as authenticity checks?
8b202f No.14200154
>>14200128
All SNES flash carts have compatibility issues since the original carts often had additional hardware gimmicks, such as the SuperFX chip. AFAIK you cant get a cart with 100% compatibility.
N64 flash carts all have issues with saving because the original carts had ~5 different methods.
ee8ff3 No.14200164
>>14200087
it was the console that gave us bing bing wahoo but I think it's such an easy console to play the games worth caring about that it's just not worth the time to talk about for much. I'll always have memories of being a kid in school, talking about the latest saturn and playstation games with my friends, what we were playing out and what we were missing out on, but the n64 guys always had just like one or two games they'd talk about all year.
What gets me is there's no surprises on the N64. There's a few Japanese only games like Wonder Project J2, but nothing as eye catching as bulk slash.
>>14200110
porn is degenerate.
>>14200128
there will also be a CD release. I'll be getting the vinyl to go along with my panzer dragoon limited edition vinyl.
>>14198647
this one
c92738 No.14200201
>>14200164
>there will also be a CD release. I'll be getting the vinyl to go along with my panzer dragoon limited edition vinyl.
Jesus, that can't be cheap, neither is the genuine copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga i assume you already own.
ee8ff3 No.14200218
>>14200201
the OST on vinyl is a pretty new thing, I don't really know how much it's worth. I just checked and the same version I have, the limited edition, goes for about 60-70. I don't own a copy of panzer dragoon saga, the only saturn game I own is virtua cop, but I have many game copies and have beaten panzer dragoon saga and consider it one of the best RPGs ever made.
bf51e1 No.14200224
>>14200154
>>14200128
The Super Everdrive plays everything but stuff that needs various chips, like Mega Man X 2 and 3, Kirby's Dreamland 3, SuperFX games, and more. Still, if you don't give a rat's ass about that, it plays the overwhelming majority of the games released, for half the price of the SD2SNES. Not that the latter is a bad buy, as it has the potential for future improvements, but I wasn't $200 in love with the SNES library, even with games modded with CD quality soundtracks.
>>14200164
Before Zelda came out, the only N64 games people in my high school played were Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
ee8ff3 No.14200231
>>14200224
>Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
this and goldeneye were the subjects of discussion around the system pretty much. Normalfags didn't talk about much, and the people who got into it know there wasn't much to actually talk about
84e341 No.14200262
>>14200154
>>14200224
I guess it's the sort of thing you'd have to research and compare what chips the games you'd want to play would or wouldn't need. Was mainly wondering if you could generally just put a rom on it regardless or region. Forgot about game-by-game chip variables.
>>14200218
Shame Sega apparently lost the code for PDS. Seems the sort of game that could benefit from a rerelease. I suppose at the very least, I'll just have to wait until I get a computer able to handle Saturn emulation (assuming the game itself emulates well); seen Yabause ports for stuff like the Wii and PS3 as well, but given the "v0.1" release names and update dates (2010 in the case of the PS3 one), I get the feeling they're either not being worked on anymore, or at least shouldn't be trusted to have worked well anyhow. But that's just my assumption, which I suppose could be wrong.
ee8ff3 No.14200285
>>14200262
Mednafen runs PDS but it's a game which takes full advantage of the saturn hardware and the game wants to run every bit of that hardware exactly as it expects. The most common thing I've seen with PDS issues in emulation is the music getting fucked up which is a shame because it's got one of the most beautiful soundtracks in a game, period. Technically accomplished with each track featuring various polyrhythms bouncing off one another and aesthetically unified under a sort of tribal beat– having shoddy emulation ruin that by dropping instruments out from the music playback is plain jarring. Hearing the rolling drums of the Atolm Dragon track lose the kicks or the echoing organ for just a note or two really butchers it. And premonition of war without Eri Ito's distant singing is just a shame.
Also keep in mind the game is 100% voiced, which is something to really behold once you play it.
29964e No.14200289
>>14200231
What is that contraption anon?
It's got buttons that humm and give light
what can this thing be that i found
kudos to whoever gets what that's a reference to
ee8ff3 No.14200300
>>14200289
If you're curious, it's an Ikegami HTM-2050RA1, a multiformat master monitor capable of 480i to 1080i
29964e No.14200308
>>14200300
That's pretty spectacular,but i don't see a button to change resolutions.
29964e No.14200314
>>14200308
I just realized how dumb that post was,input determines resolution,not the output device,my bad
5dafeb No.14200315
>>14200285
How does it run on SSF?
a1897e No.14200321
>>14200124
I can't buy a new computer until prices come down after 30 years of crypto mining. So I can't animate in general because blender takes a long time to render still images.
>>14200164
Are animated baneposts degenerate?
29964e No.14200329
>>14200321
Ah,well i still support the idea if you ever get the ability to do so without it taking an unreasonable amount of time for yourself.
c92738 No.14200347
> BUYING?
Turbo grafx and saturn games i find for, relatively cheap. At a decent discount
> CONSIDERING?
A switch, was mostly waiting to see if more games that aren't Super Bomberman R Mario Odyssey or Xenoblade 2 and a bunch of shitty indie ports, but they had to go with fucking Nintendo Labo.
> REPAIRING?
The Turbo Express i mentioned earlier, also had a bunch of discs sent off to get resurfaced from a guy i know
ee8ff3 No.14200352
>>14200314
>>14200308
it doesn't automatically switch between SD and HD, you have to select that from the menu, but provided you enabled 480p on the remote board it'll just display whatever you're sending it.
>>14200315
I haven't tried it myself, no interest in SSF since mednafen is just much easier - but I don't really emulate these days.
>>14200347
did you hear that limited run is producing the long box jewel cases?
29964e No.14200365
>>14200347
Lords of thunder huh?
wonder if they're related to the lord of lightning?
c92738 No.14200407
>>14200352
>did you hear that limited run is producing the long box jewel cases?
No that's new, Only time i ever heard anything about new long boxes, was a failed kikestarter years ago. Hope to god they don't treat this shit like they do all of their games, l'm not going to camp their fucking website just to buy a bunch a few empty boxes
ee8ff3 No.14200421
>>14200407
they're going to be ordering the cases until people stop buying them, so thankfully they'll be in stock for a long time. I'm going to urge my boss to order a ton for the future.
d891fb No.14200427
I don't know what is it with tiny little computers like the Raspberry Pi or those windows sticks like that kangaroo thing but whenever I see anything about those useless to me tiny shits I get an urge to buy them.
bf51e1 No.14200464
>>14200427
>Interest in SJW Pi
Better purge that urge but quick.
84e341 No.14200503
>>14200347
>Tales of Eternia
Always nice to see the occasional anon that's got/has enjoyed that game. Shame Bamco doesn't seem to see reason to make it officially more available, but they seem to have done that in regards to all the pre-PS3 Tales as far as rereleases go (barring Symphonia having a native PS3 "HD" version, and Abyss getting a 3DS port for whatever reason). Why no Wild Arms 1 if you have the second game? Also the two copies of Vagrant Story.
>Pandora's Tower
Assuming you live in NA, is every copy of that game bugged out here? I seem to recall hearing Ganbarian sent XSEED faulty game code to ship, or something, but I do know of other games that have seen NA release where some prints are broken and some are fine.
29964e No.14200525
Has anybody here ever bought homebrew stuff?
c92738 No.14200590
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>>14200503
Yeah Eternia's pretty fucking rad. Shame Sony america has such a autistic grudge against retail ports and they handed the PSP port to Ubisoft.
>Why no Wild Arms 1 if you have the second game? Also the two copies of Vagrant Story.
Sony gave that out for free on PSN a few years back as part of some vita celebration. The extra vagrant story came with a lot i bought recently, with Legend of Legaia, FF9 and a few other games.
>Is pandora's tower bugged
Yeah it's messed up, kind of a crap shoot on whether or not it's going to shit itself but from what i remembers there's ways to mitigate it.
>>14200525
Occasionally, for example, vid related.
c92738 No.14200606
It's very hard to get your hands on most normal homebrew though as a rule of thumb, faggot resellers like to kike up the prices of those kind of games to stupid levels because the people making the homebrew either can't or won't make more
84e341 No.14200684
>>14200590
>Shame Sony america has such a autistic grudge against retail ports and they handed the PSP port to Ubisoft.
True (and it's not just the PSP they barred various releases from; see them forcing Agetec to shitcan Shadow Tower Abyss' localization when it was nearly done because "muh graphics" and "no audience"), but it could have also just been Bamco not even thinking a western release of the port would sell well here anyhow, given how badly the PS1 entries sold here, hence Ubisoft picking it up for PAL on the PSP (and from what I know, bugging the fuck out of at least one print of it). In particular, I'd think that might be the reason Destiny and Eternia have never seen digital rereleases here in the west (either that, or some issue with voiced audio), but too my knowing Japan hasn't seen any digital rereleases of the early games either (though to be fair, Phantasia and Destiny have better versions on other systems out there anyhow, whereas Eternia hasn't exactly needed a remake).
Actually kind of surprised Capcom finally managed to get BoF III rereleased out here, if only as a digital PSP version that NA never saw (which of course limits usability out here to the Vita, whereas the original PS1 version could have been PS3/PSP/Vita as an eboot).
25da5c No.14207963
What's a good monitor to get for a Commodore 64 anons? I'm looking for a 1084S, but they're fuckers to track down. Any good alternatives?
bf51e1 No.14215540
>>14207963
I used to have a Commodore monitor, but no longer. Now I just use a capture card and an s-video cable. I'd be more interested if I had the time and drive to learn coding better than simple BASIC word and number games.
b227ca No.14215840
>>14198675
this was an official corsair advertisement
bf51e1 No.14215900
>>14215840
Cool, another company for the blacklist.