/v/ - Video Games

I've been trying to get into hardware modification recently, but my soldering skills still need improvement. Thankfully the only consoles I have fucked up I've had multiple copies off so I still have a few "burner" units to sacrifice to my unskilled hand.

>>14847009

Someone made one a week or two back if memory serves. Haven't found any games of interest since then (found Evergrace, Forever Kingdom, Ni-oh, ZTD, and Arc Rise Fantasia prior to that one, pretty cheaply for the most part too, thankfully), at least at good prices. Did see a copy of Silent Hill 4: The Room for $12 a few nights back, but I'm not real big on horror, so I suppose that's hopefully a good deal for someone else local that does like it.

>Most importantly, you ARE playing the shit you're getting

Slowly, but I've been in no huge rush. Would rather take my time and enjoy games on their own than just rush through to clear them from the backlog.

>>14847099

>but I'm not real big on horror

No game is a horror game if you're brave enough + heavily desensitized. I'd suggest you find some gore pics or nasty liveleaks videos to help depussify yourself. I mean this honestly: Once you get use to the hot habaneros, the less spicy jalepenos won't seem so bad.

My PS2 LAN adapter came in last week, and I am waiting until I can borrow a IDE/USB adapter to clean and fill the hard drives for my PS2 and XBOX HUEG. Currently not really playing a lot since I have a lot to do for university. Also looking for fucked up consoles in my area, but the nice things get scooped before I have a chance to bid on them or people know the price and ask €50,- for a broken 3DS.

>>14847167

Assuming you're going with a set of preinstalled applications, do yourself a favor after it's all set up, and use the preinstalled uLaunchElf application to run the current FreeMcBoot installer from a thumbdrive in the USB slot. USB1.0 isn't recommended to run games through at all, but you can use it to update files on the system, letting you install more up to date loaders. You can also set it up to copy homebrew to a FMcBed memory card, and from their create quick links to your loaders and shit, letting you access them from the bootup menu without having to manually dig into the hard drive (and wait for every icon to load each time, which can get pretty time consuming when the programs are buried all the way on the bottom of the list due to install time).

>>14847185

I am not entirely sure if I am following you, but I the LAN adapter has a IDE slot so I can build in a hard drive in the system, so I won't be loading any games through USB at all. I have some experience with softmodding but all things considered I am a total newfag on that territory.

>>14847121

Only true when you can fight back, which is why I don't consider games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill to be horror games, even though they technically are. You can fear a gameover instead of fearing the imagery or sounds (which might not bother you one bit). If you can't fight back though, most here would consider every game like that to be a walking simulator, which I find retarded.

>>14847253

Would you recommend FHDB or sticking with FMCB and loading from HDD? I don't know a lot about PS2 mods, since I had Swap Magic in the past. I've slowly been reading through forum threads, but it's been a while. I've been putting it off.

I need to repair or replace the LCD on a vintage ThinkPad 755Cs (486DX4 w/16Mb RAM). The VGA port still works fine, but I have some vertical lines on the built-in screen.

Any thoughts?

>>14847988

Try the game boy screen repair method. basically rubbing the soldering iron over the of the screen ribbon cable that is close to where your lines appear on the screen.

I bought too many games and now I can't play anything.

>>14847253

I've been having a lot of trouble FTPing to my PS2. As far as I can tell the software on the PS2 and PC side is bad and it's just a hassle to transfer games to an internal HDD on the system.

As for buying, I'll be getting a copy of dark souls remastered today. It'll only be about 8 bucks for me.

>>14848319

I don't know why everybody has such a boner for the FTP method.

Just get a USB adapter and plug the hard drive directly in.

>>14848342

My problem is USB 1.1 speeds which are cripplingly slow. I'll try the method with a game which has notable load times to compare them but for now I'm not too optimistic.

>>14847009

How do I dualboot windows 95 and 3.11? I already have a 95 computer but I'm retarded when it comes to dualbooting

>>14847938

My experience is with loading from the IDE. I originally used just that and what files the package I used for set up came preinstalled in, but upon encountering a number of bugs, realized the packaged loaders were out of date. After some research, installing FreeMcBoot to the card through uLE, and then placing the updated loader applications on the card as well, was the answer, so now I run both. It works pretty well.

>>14848319

What are you using as the application to install games to the drive from the PC end? Also, I assume you're aware that you need to take the drive out of the PS2 and connect it to your computer via either an IDE-to-USB adapter or ribbon cables (depending on what your PC's capable of using). In my experience, installing files is fairly fast, assuming you make sure you connect the drive the right way (plugging it into the wall and let it fully power up first, before connecting it to the PC seems to null any chance of connection being lost, compared to the other way around).

>>14848342

PS2 doesn't have USB 2 or 3. Trying to load games through USB1 is slow as shit.

>>14850283

tested the connection with ulaunchelf (works but only in passive mode, isn't reliable and disconnects randomly), tried using HDL server through OPL, and HDL dumb and HDLD Helper GUI. The PS2's already soft modded with a few games from a winhiip install. Every time I add more games with winhiip however the softmod goes awry and needs to be completely redone.

>>14850302

I'd recommend using an IDE-to-USB adaptor to connect it to the computer (I use a Sabrent), rather than trying to FTP to the drive while it's in the PS2, if that's what you mean you've been trying. And again, when doing it that way, make sure the drive has spun up before connecting it to your PC. I used to do it the other way around (connect to PC, then power up) and had a lot of grief with the connection dropping without even doing anything that would cause the connection to be lost.

Bump.

Managed to snag a C64C today. Has a broken key on it, but that's about it. Makes for a good spare should mine ever fuck up, or to mod for shits and giggles.

>>14847009

>BUYING?

Not much right now, last thing i bought was some Vita imports and a few SNES lots with some of the more hard to find/expensive games at a decent discount.

> CONSIDERING?

Few things, a dreamcast, some switch physicals, some more vita shit, or maybe saturn games if i can find a decent price on them. Also thinking about a portable SNES, but both options look a bit dodgy in the QC department.

> MODDING?

Softmodded my 3ds XL

>>14858101

A Dreamcast is always worth it.

Found a complete copy of Super Mario Galaxy 2 a few nights back for $12. Not the best find, but it usually goes for like $25-30, which was more than I was wanting to drop on it prior.

>>14848017

>>14848631

Thanks for the advice! I even have the tools already. If that doesn't fix the line I'm assuming there's a bad diode or something. I just don't want to get too invested in repairing it since it's days of being actually used as a laptop are long gone.

>>14858760

Always learn from the mistakes of others, especially when replacing parts would be cost ineffective.