/v/ - Video Games

>>15749778

Can't remember if some of this I had already gotten to mention last time someone made a thread, but picked up Resident Evil 3 GC, Super Mario Galaxy 1, Nioh Complete, Suikoden Tierkreis, and Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, all of which complete and in great shape. I'll admit though that only some of that was cheap (Nioh for instance wasn't, no thanks to TK for not doing a physical release of that version here). Thankfully RE3 was only $12 compared to what it usually goes for these days, Nintendo Tax on Gamecube games makes pick ups for that system quite slow, even where I am. Also, as just as a kind of neat fact, I really do like how the disc label for Sidetracked makes it look like a vinyl record, fitting the series. Might check around places more on Black Friday, but other than that, I probably won't be finding much else I consider a good find until a bit before and after Christmas. It might not seem like a good time to look for stuff at first glance, but my experiences around here have repeatedly proven the opposite.

Been seeing some increasingly bad prices on stuff lately, and makes me glad that I have modded systems and loaders for what I can't justify, or doesn't even have a physical release here anyhow. At least I've noticed the PS1 Crash Bandicoot entries going back down to more normal prices than the $30 each they were for a while.

>Anything in particular you have your eye on or want to mod?

I'd love to find a better flash cart for my DS for fan-translated and out of region games, but either the type I'd really like to get (DSTwo Plus) is out of print and/or online vendors have been hit by Nintendo not to stock for the system anymore.

>You're playing the shit you get, aren't you anon?

Slowly, but that's how I like it, having plenty of good older stuff to play between both physical and pirated backlog. Games should be given the time they deserve, not rushed through just to get to the next.

>CONSIDERING?

A store out here has Azure Dreams for $25. Unfortunately it's just the case and disc, though that's also the reason for the price. I do my best to only get games (the ones with actual cases anyhow) that are complete and in good shape, so I'm leery of doing so. Does look like manuals for it get sold online for not too awful of prices, but not too often at that, and it's not a case where there's one immediately available. Not like the time I found PoR for $10, and doing a quick look online, found a manual ready for purchase for $5. Unfortunately, trying to find mispriced PS1 games out here has slowed to a crawl of late.

Beyond that though, I got an email a while back that a refund for $20 somehow went through for a game that couldn't be shipped. Which was fucking weird because that game shipped and arrived in April, and I even left the seller feedback at the time that it was fine. Not sure why the order was processed twice, and so late, but asking customer support, they said it was the vendor's decision to give the refund and I could do what I wanted with it. Really not sure what to spend it on. Been thinking about importing Bloodborne: GotY because fuck giving Sony DLC money, but from the look of things they've stopped doing a standard English print in favor of one that pushes arabic shitscript right on the front cover to show off how mudslime accessible it is, and honestly it would feel dirty having that on my shelf compared to the English only one. Tried asking a few sellers which prints they have; one only has copies of the goatfucker print, and the second never saw fit to write back.

>owning a PS4

>REPAIRING/MODDING?

Been meaning to finally get around to doing so for my Vita. While thing certainly seem better documented than when I last checked, I've still got a few questions to figure out before I actually go through with doing so.

>You going for a fullset or getting whatever interests you?

No one should ever go for fullsets outside of mass pirating roms for old systems, wherein the total required filespace is honestly pretty small. The amount of shelf/box storage needed is apt to range from a lot to absolutely fuckhueg depending on the system, and there's no simply no reason to buy all the shovelware, the licensed shit, the yearly SPOATS shit, and just poor quality games every system sees to some degree, more-so if the system was popular. Likewise, there's no reason to buy something just because it's rare either, or worse, for the "hipster credit" some places assign to it (I've actually seen people using that rational at stores around where I live; fucking disgusting). Always stick to buying what is of personal interest to you to play, if you feel the need to buy something.

>Don't really need them, just wanted them for the aesthetic.

Not really a valid reason to drop money, but that's just me I suppose.

>>15750022

>Been meaning to finally get around to doing so for my Vita. While thing certainly seem better documented than when I last checked, I've still got a few questions to figure out before I actually go through with doing so.

Do you mean hacking? Unless you want to use an SD card for storage (in which case you won't be able to play physical carts), just do it faggot. There is nothing but advantages to be gained from doing so.

I bought a Sega Saturn and I'm in the process of modding it. Just waiting for a few things to come in the mail.

I also got an extra SNES recently, mostly because it was dirt cheap.

>>15750160

Saturn is bliss once you start loading back ups. It's hard to keep track of all the games but there are so many fun ones on it.

>>15750160

I just remembered that I still have to replace the dead battery in mine. I bought it months ago and still haven't gotten around to it. What are you doing in regards to modding it?

>>15750073

Main question I've had being if the mention I've seen of PSN spoofing in a guide linked in the last Vita thread still works and is actually feasible. There's a few things I got a long time ago that I could never transfer to the Vita due to not updating the OFW in hopes for future CFW updates, so I'd like to know if it's still safe, or perhaps as safe these days to use, and what is the current likelihood of a ban (Sony is indeed shit but I do have some stuff attached to my PS3 and Vita I wouldn't want to find suddenly dead).

>>15750093

>Giving Sentai money.

Well, at least it's not too much each aside from Made in Abyss. I've got a small shelf and a third of anime I've found fairly cheap myself, but nearly all of it was second hand and out of print to begin with. I try to only spend $1 per episode (maybe $2 for OVAs) if not less, which makes it feel all the more absurd when I've seen stuff like the blu-ray for something like Akito the Exiled being five OVA episodes at a full $60.

>>15750182

How easy is it to mod a Saturn? And do you actually mean loading from HDD like, say, a PS2, or just off of burned discs?

>>15750131

>Nothing. I'm always broke this time of year, can never take advantage of the sales.

Kind of an issue I have starting in October, simply because of the amount of birthdays and then Christmas I'm expected to find stuff for. I do try to set some money aside just in case I find the occasional thing that I'm interested in and will kick myself for not buying (IE: Yakuza 2 for $12, back when it averaged $45-80), but I usually have to even wind up with birthday money I get having to go immediately back out.

>Semi-vidya, but I wanna buy all the volumes for the Pokemon Adventures manga. It's gonna set me back a few hundred so Im gonna have to buy one box set at a time over a few years.

I remember reading that up through the Sevii Islands arc many years ago. I'm guessing the sites hosting scans have been DMCAed due to native publishing? Or is it a case where you just want actual copies of something you enjoy? Still, I'd be wary if it's an English release. I'm pretty sure at least some Pokemon manga we got here had a fair bit of censorship, but maybe that was more Electric Tale of Pikachu than Adventures.

>>15750198

Assuming that's a CRT, is it a bulky one? Just asking, since I know there's some skinnier ones I've seen online at times. I haven't used a CRT in years, and regardless, my current space doesn't have room for a second TV, especially one as fat and heavy as some CRTs are. At least my old Vizio allows for component, composite, and HDMI input, and I think it's even got old cable nodes in the back as well, though I haven't fiddled with getting systems that use them (prices on the games I'd like for them being too high to warrant over emulation), as opposed to how I hear a lot of recent TVs are HDMI only.

>>15750225

As far as I'm aware, nobody has had their shit banned from the PSN for anything related to hacking their Vitas and pirating shit through the PSN. There might be a few unconfirmed reports floating around that a few random people did, though those are largely rumors.

As far as I can tell the chance of a ban is still between 0 and a very small number

>>15750225

>How easy is it to mod a Saturn?

If you get a Rhea/Phoebe it's really easy and they can run games off of an SD card. Thing is hard to get an order in for though, but if you just watch the guy who makes them's blog he'll announce when they're gonna go up (always in the morning his time which is mid-EU, if you're American like me get ready to stay up late for them).

>Is it a bulky one?

Oh yeah, the Sony PVMs are bulky and at 20-inches it's one of the bigger ones, I almost hurt my back getting it set up. Still it doesn't take up as much space as you'd think. Also if space is a problem keep in mind they made some pretty small CRTs, like you could grab a little 12 - 14 inch screen set and it wouldn't take up much space or be that heavy, and they did make PVMs in that size for hookups possibly including Component. Honestly I'd say you're not missing out on much aside from the display lag which can really change how you play old games not designed around it even if you're not really noticing it.

i brought red black-rimmed seimetsu buttons and a red seimetsu balltop.

i hope the seimetsu buttons are good, just have to wait for shipping.

>>15750239

So if, let's say, I'd picked up a physical game some time ago that had some free additional content, but which couldn't be directly downloaded without updating and couldn't be transferred without a skittle for the game (which would require updating to install), could I safely access it from the PSN with a hacked Vita so long as the spoofing was done right? There's no Vita thread at the moment, so I figure I might as well ask here.

>>15750250

That is small. My last one, must have been a decade ago, was about as big as the flatscreen I have now, but it was a lot thicker than this one, and much heavier to boot. I suppose I'm not playing my older games the "authentic" way that a CRT would, but it's been so long since I used one that in a way I'm just glad I can still play all of the consoles I have off the same TV.

What's the price range on CRTs these days anyhow, assuming quality output and screen size to price? I know they're not in real high demand for the bulk of people, but I've also seen at least one make that was really expensive in years past.

>>15750253

Always a mixture of funny and annoying when a seller leaves the original sticker on it. If you paid more than the prior buyer, it kind of makes you kick yourself, but if they were asking lower and the game had since shot up much higher, makes you wonder what they were thinking in not at least charging what the last place did. Of the latter case, I found a game some years back, where the old gamestop sticker read as $30 or so, the game itself being $100+ at the time, and the price being asked $10 for it. Not that I was going to complain.

>>15750265

>What's the price range on CRTs these days anyhow, assuming quality output and screen size to price?

Depends on the CRT, most are going for nothing if you just go down to a local goodwill or whatever your regional equivalent is, but some sets are rarer, namely Sony's line of PVMs and other professional video monitors which have become popular among retro gamers. Still PVMs range wildly in price, I mean on ebay it's all hiked prices and crazy shit but if you can find something local through personal ads or craigslist you can get a solid deal. One thing to note about PVMs that does actually make them worth more is they are workhorses meant to run 24/7 and be repaired when something goes wrong (mind you this can also mean that they may have tons of hours of view time already on them).

It's a sticky mess are PVMs, and my strongest suggestion unless you want to either plop down some cash or hunt locally is just to get a regular CRT from a local thriftstore for as cheap as you can get with the best connections you can find (honestly on a CRT S-video is more than enough, but even composite is acceptable).

>>15750271

>I heard awhile ago someone was working on a way to stick an SSD into where the mpeg card would go. Would you happen to know anything about it?

I did hear about this, but I haven't heard anything on it's development, though I am sure he's still going forward with it as he has a pateron up and other projects going on as well. I can understand your reluctance as it is a shame to let a collection go to waste which is the downside to ODEs.

>>15750271

>I know of at least one place that still hosts the manga, but it's very incomplete and the scans get more lazy and tinier the farther into you go.

I'd have thought they'd get better as technology improved. I know that even black and white images have a weight to them, and Pokemon Adventures is a fucking long manga, but I'd think they could at least keep the scans the same size throughout for cohesion.

>Plus I enjoy reading actual books (Paperbacks only, I hate holding hard shit in my hand while flipping through pages. Hardbacks are gay as fuck if you actually read the books.) over reading it on a screen.

It's actually been a long time since I read an actual book in general. Probably not since 2014 or so.

>I think that was just the Electric Tale manga.

What about the infamous "she was keeping more Pokeballs in her top?" scene? Was that only kept in scanlation or official release as well?

>One thing to note about PVMs that does actually make them worth more is they are workhorses meant to run 24/7 and be repaired when something goes wrong (mind you this can also mean that they may have tons of hours of view time already on them).

Interesting, were they meant for security TVs or something if they were built to run constantly? I'll keep that in mind if I get the room/mind to get one.

>>15750291

>were they meant for security TVs or something if they were built to run constantly?

Yep, that's exactly what they were for: either Security sets, or used in TV studios for broadcast feeds.

>>15750302

That's a great find. Sony PVM and a Trinitron, just the best in terms of brightness and clarity. What kind of connections does it have?

>>15750310

RGB. I took that picture by hooking up my PS3 to it & playing a DVD off it. The only issue is it smells like cigarette smoke, but I think that's just because it's so well ventilated. I wiped it down with some alcohol & there's no smoke residue, so this model probably smells from being used so much. Hopefully there isn't a leaking cap somewhere inside I need to replace.

>>15750131

That's cool, I just bought the first three volumes of Adventures a few weeks ago. Slowly gonna start looking around and see if I can grab a bunch on the cheap. I'd like to do the same for the Electric Tale of Pikachu as well.

>>15750253

>>15750265

My younger brother ended up jumping on a copy of Melee a year ago, we found the receipt from the previous purchase. It was bought in a much smaller town for about $40 less for what we ended up paying. The game also was scratched. We took it to get cleaned, it worked in the store, took it home, didn't work on our Gamecube.

>>15750310

Another CRT question, since you brought both names up. Is Trinitron a make of Sony PVM, or is it just a particular component that not every PVM utilized, thus making it a better find to have both?

>>15750338

>It was bought in a much smaller town for about $40 less for what we ended up paying.

Yeesh. Melee's pretty bad in price these days, having such high demand that it offsets it being one of the most common Gamecube titles. Also a game I've been alright with writing off actually owning, since it's not like anyone comes over that I'd play it with anyhow, and I'm not sure it's a $60-worthy single player experience. Of course though, timeframe on such a receipt it also relevant. maybe that was just the average a the time, especially if it was when Gamestop was actively stocking Gamecube games and other places (hopefully) having to price accordingly to compete properly. And sometimes it's also just fun to find a receipt for a place or service you hadn't known of. I remember when I got my copy of Steambot Chronicles, there was some old slip of paper inside pertaining to some online game trading circle, with however many points the game was worth in that condition and time listed on it for when a previous owner might deign to exchange it for another.

And then there's the similar factor of, if the receipt was recent, trying to figure out who was dumber: the store for pricing it at such, or the guy who previously sold it accepting only a fraction of that small amount for it. I know some people don't really know what they have and are just eager to get what they can for what they don't want, but PoR up there they must have offered the previous seller $2-3 for it since they'd priced it at $10 themselves.

>The game also was scratched. We took it to get cleaned, it worked in the store, took it home, didn't work on our Gamecube.

If you still have it, I'd recommend taking it to somewhere with a professional buffer. There's a store around where I live with one that cost them a couple thousand dollars, but if a game's not gouged, it's usually worth the try to get it working. And they'll even let you try it on one of the store machines to make sure it works before you pay $2-3 for the service. Some systems though require particular additional components than just standard DVD to work in there, and I think Gamecube minidiscs are one such, so not everywhere might have one.

>>15750385

So Trinitrons are a special type of screen that Sony made, basically just better technology than most screens (specifically focusing the beams in a different way to lose less energy resulting in a brighter clearer picture). The good news is Trinitrons weren't just PVMs, most Sony PVMs will be Trinitrons (if not all of them, I don't think I've seen a Sony PVM that isn't a Trinitron), but there were also consumer Trinitron sets and even computer VGA Trinitrons. This video should explain more about what a Trinitron is and why it looks so good.

>>15750365

>What CRT should I buy? and how much should I pay?

Depends on how much cash you have and how patient you are, but the real answer to this is "whatever CRT you can find that you like that fits your budget". If you just want brand and model advice like I said above look for Trinitrons from Sony.

>N64 and Genesis flashcarts

I have an Everdrive for both systems and highly recommend them. Not only can they play every game from the system no problem (and romhacks so fan translations and weird shit), but the N64 one has neat features that it can do with memory cards that make it so you only need one to store endless data (because you store it on the Everdrive's memory card), and the Genesis one can also run 32x and Master System games (master system games with the FM sound chip emulated), and work as back up ram for a Sega CD.

>>15750364

>They also have different versions of it for some reason, I assume maybe different publishers. So Im not sure what to get for the best consistency.

I was not aware of that. The ones I have were published by Viz Media, I'll have to see if they're good or not.

>>15750385

I can't remember exactly, but I think the date on the receipt was from about 6 months prior, I'll have to check. We did manage to find a gaming store that offers the buffering service, but just haven't made the trip out yet.

That's a pretty cool story about the receipt in Steambot Chronicles. It seems like another one of those relics of a bygone era of gaming, something we won't able to get back, since the business/tech leapt too far forward.

>>15750432

Interesting, thanks.

>>15750434

>We did manage to find a gaming store that offers the buffering service, but just haven't made the trip out yet.

Again, there's different qualities for buffing machines, and depending on the make, one might get out what others might not. I obviously can't say what grade the one you're thinking of making a trip to might have, but good luck.

>That's a pretty cool story about the receipt in Steambot Chronicles.

I'd had to order it online, since it was one of those games that even when I got it never showed up in stores around here much (I don't look online for preowned games much since I stand a better chance at prices and ability to properly inspect what I'm wanting to buy locally, but not seeing any copies for months makes for an exception), and that ring was nothing I'd heard about before, at least locally. I imagine they likely shut down years before the previous owner sold it, and whether he was part of the group, I don't know.

>It seems like another one of those relics of a bygone era of gaming, something we won't able to get back, since the business/tech leapt too far forward.

While I suspect that might be part of the reason, I'd pin it more on the fact that the aftermarket's gotten all sorts of fucked, thus it probably became more apt for people to stop trading their copies around, and just sell them for actually tangible money as value's gone up.

>>15750022

The printer itself was only £5, I was mainly after the 1541 for CP/M disks and the odd game here or there rather than throw everything on a SD card. Do like getting shit to max what the system was capable of when it originally came out. Something that'd been expensive as fuck then but easy to get now.

>>15750068

Good good goy

>>15750225

>Giving Sentai money

Oh cool i didn't know i was making a statement.

>How easy is it to mod a Saturn? And do you actually mean loading from HDD like, say, a PS2, or just off of burned discs?

Very easy, just needs one successful disk swap once you have everything you need. I'm just talking disc back ups, most American saturns were barely used so apart from dirt or dust would perform as if they were unused.

Some questions regarding recent pickups:

- Found a PS1/2 AV to scart cable, how do I test what output it gives?

- What happens when you insert a Mario Paint cartridge in a SNES without the mouse inserted? What video does it give?

- I have a presumably busted rumble pak, is some here in the possession of schematics or knowledge about this thing?

>>15751802

You're going to get everything that SCART supports, I'd imagine, the best being RGB. No component, as that's the bastard cousin of RGB, but everything else should be there. Just check the pinout for the PlayStation multi-out connector.

Mario Paint just sits on the title screen animation loop, with the music.

Regarding the rumble pak, open it up and look for anything that is obviously not right. Broken wires, corroded copper, broken components. Electronics isn't really arcane sorcery until you start creating stuff from the ground up, having to calculate tau values for capacitor discharges at the microfarad level.

>>15749778

>BUYING?

I recently bought Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection for around, $27, Star Wars Dark Forces(PSX) for about $15, and a sealed Trails of Cold Steel Lion Heart edition vita bid. I got lucky as shit, and managed to snatch it up for around $30 bucks.

>Considering?

Eh, once I narrow down my backlog a bit, I'll look for something that interests me. I don't consider myself a collector, I only buy the games I intend on playing, and only when my backlog is getting low.

>Modding/Repairing?

My PS2 was suffering from overheating issues, so I had to clean it out. While I was putting it back together, I accidentally broke its power switch, so I had to replace that too. I got her in '04 brand new, and after thousands of hours of use over 14 years, I'm surprised it only now needed cleaned out.

>>15755222

>I recently bought Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection

That the PS3 set that includes every major game in the series at the time? If so, keep in mind that for MGS1 it only had a voucher for the PSN version, and unless you're lucky, it's probably been used already, if it's even still in there to begin with.

>sealed Trails of Cold Steel Lion Heart edition vita bid. I got lucky as shit, and managed to snatch it up for around $30 bucks.

If it's still in good shape, I guess that's not real bad, given those were a limited amount made. Still only going to have the first game in it though, and personally, until it can be ascertained that parts III and IV aren't fucked, assuming they even come over here, it's not a (sub)series I'd get into myself.

>BUYING?

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 artbook for $20, $30 for Blazblue Chrono Phantasma Limited Edition box with everything. Bought Breakdown for the OG Xbox last month for $15

>CONSIDERING?

Physical PS3 version of Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator for $20. Either that or I wait a few years to fully replace my core 2 duo desktop and just pirate it. I don't enjoy the fact that 4 additional characters are a combined total of $36, but I enjoy the feel of a physical case and disc and I heard there's no crossplay between the console and PC version. Then again, I'm unsure how the activity's on the PS3's servers for that game. Not keen on getting a PS4 in the near future, either.

>REPAIRING/MODDING?

Nothing really. Unless changing the batteries for my Dreamcast counts. In addendum to the above, I could pick up a 750ti next month or just save the money for a brand new computer. There's also the question of whether the power supply could handle it so I might just get extra storage space for the meantime instead.

>>15755444

>Then again, I'm unsure how the activity's on the PS3's servers for that game.

Should probably even check if they're still up to begin with.

>>15755447

Good point.

On a good note, I'm a little relieved that they're apparently extending Twisted Metal's online service until the 31st of January.

I'm waiting for the mailman to give me a boxed copy of Custer's Revenge for atari 2600

>>15755564

and to add to that

>> BUYING?

As of now, not much.. honestly the list is bare bones

>> CONSIDERING?

Maybe arcade? A Daytona USA 2 just showed up on a listing for $500 on the other side of the state.. super tempting.

>> REPAIRING/MODDING?

MVS Console needs Unibios update to 4.0, Battery installed, finish my 1979 Space Invaders Cocktail Cabinet with new glass and a couple pieces.

>>15755464

That's the issue with games with online: eventually that shit goes down, and depending on the game, and even your own personal surroundings, what's left afterward might not be worth it. Even just single player focused games can wind up feeling like an incomplete experience if there was an online component that gave something of interest (such as Gravity Rush 2; they killed that online pretty fucking fast). And if you're wanting to CFW your system, it obviously can make even utilizing what's still got online a risk.

>>15755548

360 games I can maybe understand, but PSP games at this point? UMD a shit. I like physical copies when feasible but I've got no interest in dropping the money on those ones.

>A ps3, a wii

Consider researching CFW for each, and what models if not all at this point can utilize it properly.

> turns out you can launch PS1 games from the HDD with OPL now

I still haven't seen a source on that, or that there's a newer version of OPL than 0.9.3. I do know the PS2 has some variant of POPS as homebrew, but that's emulation, not loading.

>whose battle trophies and saves occupy a whole 5mb of the 8mb available

What the fuck? How does saves plus what I assume is a simple yes/no toggle of trophy data take that much space? I remember ragging on a friend years back for buying a memory card for every Gamecube game he had, yet apparently fans of SO3 have a valid reason to have an exclusive card?

Also, what program have you been using to install games and such to the HDD: Winhiip, or HDLdump?

>>15755564

>Tengen Tetris

I had a friend some years back that had a number of Tengen carts in a tackle box. Not sure they ever got the Tetris one though, but I recall it being something of a priority they were searching around for. $50 though for a logo and different cart color seems a bit excessive to drop on it though.

>>15753190

Thanks! Seems I bought a busted cart, that sucks. Already opened up the thing and removed a lot of corrosion, but when I tested it with F-Zero X it does jack shit. Already measured a few components, but I have no idea what is broken and what isn't.

>>15755548

pretty sure you can load isos on your ps2 from your pc but don't quote me on that

>>15755736

You can set the destination of where you want the loader to locate files to read through, be it HDD, Ethernet, or USB. The one you want to avoid using at all costs is USB. USB1.0 (what the PS2 uses) is too fucking slow for loading games within the PS2's size range.

I know a guy who's willing to sell me pokemon emerald for $30. I wanna see if I can talk him selling it to me for $20-$25 instead though. Is that a good price?

>>15755760

I think where I am, a cart only copy in good condition at this point is $20 at lowest, depending on the store (game focused ones tend to be higher). Take that as you will.

>>15753190

>>15755728

Aaand it's an RGB cable. Nice, for only 50 cents!

>>15755728

Corrosion could have broken connections. A toothbrush and some baking soda and water should scrub that off for closer inspection, and a continuity test with a multimeter could check connectivity between any two points. If the IC is messed up, that could be a game over for this device, as cheap batteries play electrical hell with small electronics when they rot like that.

>>15756151

Welp, time to make my own diagram in that case.

>>15756292

That has been the statement that has killed 97% of my plans. Most of my repair jobs were only salvaged due to me finding random helpful comments somewhere up the asshole of the Internet by complete accident. I have a directory dedicated to RANDOM USEFUL TECH INFO that I might never find on purpose in the future.

>>15755619

Yep, it's disgusting how all 3 ended up going with the paid online route, in addition to racing to see who can get away with being the most spineless and poz'd. Gravity Daze/Rush deserved so much better to be stuck on a console from such a piece of shit company that killed their own handheld.

>>15750302

I just love the proportions and aesthetics of those little displays.

>15755619

360 games I can maybe understand, but PSP games at this point? UMD a shit. I like physical copies when feasible but I've got no interest in dropping the money on those ones.

I think the tiny cases and umd's are cute, i've had the consoles for a mere two days yet i have about 10 PSP games, a umd movie and like 35 X360 games, but yeah i am only getting a couple psp titles, i already ordered a sd card to memory stick adapter and two 64gb sd cards for my psp, they're supposed to arrive in three weeks so i am buying games in the meanwhile.

>Consider researching CFW for each, and what models if not all at this point can utilize it properly.

I already read up on that, for permanent CFW i want either a fat ps3 or a 25XX or earlier slim PS3, and one of the older Wii that has gamecube ports, however i am strongly considering just buying legit games for those consoles, like i told you earlier the games are insanely cheap by now and i like to have them for display in a shelf, plus i am only getting a couple of titles for wii, pretty much just madworld, muramasa, monster hunter tri, the first mario galaxy and the no more heroes games PS3 i am grabbing only the worthwhile exclusives because the 360 has me covered with the multiplatforms

>I still haven't seen a source on that, or that there's a newer version of OPL than 0.9.3. I do know the PS2 has some variant of POPS as homebrew, but that's emulation, not loading

What i meant is that you can have them on OPL alongside PS2 games and launch them from there instead of using ulaunch elf and searching for the elf file or emulating with ps2psxp, you still need popsloader, it's convenient but irrelevant now that i have a PSP.

>What the fuck? How does saves plus what I assume is a simple yes/no toggle of trophy data take that much space? I remember ragging on a friend years back for buying a memory card for every Gamecube game he had, yet apparently fans of SO3 have a valid reason to have an exclusive card?

Those battle trophies are pretty much prototype achievements/trophies, there's 250 and you unlock them for doing random shit like dealing exact amounts of damage or beating bosses with certain characters using only normal attacks, that's why they take up so much space, and SO3 is an extremely long game with multiple difficulties so i have saves in just about every save point because getting stuck in certain parts of the game in 4D difficulty means you might as well reload an earlier save and synthesize a new weapon/synth orichalcum to your weapons for an ATK boost, as you legitimately can't grind due to common enemies being too strong.

>Also, what program have you been using to install games and such to the HDD: Winhiip, or HDLdump?

Wiinhip, turns out all you need to do now is just drag and drop.

>>15755736

>pretty sure you can load isos on your ps2 from your pc but don't quote me on that

You can, but i'd rather just put them on the PS2's internal HDD instead of wasting space on my computer.

>>15750068

What about your wife's son? Buy him a phone too

I'm looking for an EPROM reader for Vic20…I hate eBay but is that my only hope to grab one?

>>15756572

What is the PS1 initial D game like? Arcade?

>>15756572

360 games are gonna be real cheap right now. I think the most expensive ones are only 20 bucks or so. Reminds me too, the deathsmiles face plate came by me recently.

>>15756572

If you are going to buy ace combat 6 do it right now, AC7 for xbone is going to be bundled with AC6 and it's pretty much just a code for a digital version of the 360 game, not an HD remaster. so it's going to be added to xbone's backwards compatibility, which means price for a physical copy is going to be absolutely insane considering it's both an exclusive AND it's getting some sort of graphic enhancement patch to look on par with AC7.

FFXIII trilogy went BC last week and they went from $2 a piece to $10 on goystop, AC6 is anywhere from $5 to $20 so imagine just how much more expensive it's gonna be.

>EDF 2017

Pretty much impossible to find in the wild, i've heard it's a great franchise though.

>Lollipop Chainsaw

A console exclusive, i got a copy yesterday for 5 bucks because it had tits on the cover and i think it's a pretty mediocre hack and slash, so don't spend too much on it, juliet is a fine piece of work though and she gets a ton of unlockable anime costumes so it may be worth i to you.

>I am also considering if it's worth it to get this secondhand Gamecube with a shitty disc reader working again so I don't have to resort to my Wii, but then again I am hesitant because of the Wii being able to play all the Gamecube games. I guess it is more of a dilemma of aesthetic than it is of functionality. I am not even going to worry about my Gamecube game collection since the only games I have are 2 copies of Melee, one from US and the other from Canada because the top of that game case is written in French.

Stick with the wii, the gamecube's component cables are stupid expensive whereas the wii's aren't.

>>15756928

I've looked them up and the most expensive ones are mostly imports and localized shmups, stuff like muchi muchi pork&pink sweets, akai katana, deathsmiles, otomedius excellent and raiden IV, of all those i only have akai katana and i bought it for way less than it's worth ($3.50) because the store thought it was anime shovelware, to be fair so did i, i'm glad i picked it up though, it's great.

>>15755548

> launch PS1 games from the HDD with OPL

What? When did that come into effect? Is it still using that shitty version of POPS?

>>15757388

Hmm… Even a cheapass digital multimeter you can get in an auto parts store will have a continuity tester mode, so you can see if a switch is working using that. What you may have to do is take it apart and do the basics, like check for damaged or disconnected bits. From there, repairs should be straightforward. If nothing is visibly damaged, it could be crud blocking the connection, and contact cleaner spray should be able to sort that out quickly. IIRC, I used to use a regular controller for the foot petal, and use my toe (in socks, natch) to press the button.

>>15756848

It's the most convenient place to pick one up, otherwise look around the Commodore scene sites for websites to buy shit from. Mostly C64 or Amiga parts these days than Vic.

>>15757423

yea, i have a multimeter. didnt get around to it yet. honestly it was like $10 so i guess i'll just search for a different one. hopefully a different one works.

i wish i could get my hands on one of those recoiling guns without having to buy the arcade cabinet.

>>15757453

>i wish i could get my hands on one of those recoiling guns without having to buy the arcade cabinet.

Ah, the desires of youth. My current GunCon has been sitting in a pile of computer and game system parts since I got it this summer. When you have a real gun (or many real guns) it puts quite a damper on your desire to have all of the fanciest light guns. That said, I'd like to have a gun for each of my systems, but the Menacer and Saturn light guns, never mind the many variants of Justifiers (and the rare-as-rocking-horse-shit 2nd player pistols) cost a mint.

Yeah, let me spend hundreds on toy guns I will spend minutes using before putting them away for years.

>>15757538

>When you have a real gun

my most recent purchase was a haul of blemished recievers from psa. come at me, kiddo.

i dunno, i return to my light gun games quite frequently for a quick play and are the most popular when i have people over. having one with a working pedal and a blowback on the top would be awesome.

I was pretty close to getting a Game Gear and about 10 games for $60 at a thrift store, but someone already got it because he came a bit earlier than me. I was fine with it, because it seemed like he was kind of poor and buying something for his kid to play and I wouldn't have used it anyway and let it all collect dust. A modded one would be a better option, how easy is it to modify a Game Gear to have a proper back light?

>>15757701

>proper back light

i havnt thought of this mod, but i bet it would be easier to insert a small LED back lit LCD in place of the little TV in it. i bet the video cable connecting to it can be converted into some sort of standard.

>>15757701

handheldlegend sells it for $10 and have an instructional video on how to put it together.

>>15757669

I'd like to say I highly recommend the Everdrive for NES. Great support, hardware save states (which for the password heavy systems like NES is a god send), and playing the prototypes and rom hacks is amazing. Plus if like me you have a front loader that only accepts the cartridge if it's in just the right way you can just pop your everdrive in there and never worry about it. You'll only need about 600mb of storage to fit the whole NES library.

>>15758172

Viz got bought out by Shueisha which owns the company that publishes Pokemon Adventures, that's probably why they started bothering to fix their shitty releases, I remember them fucking with One Piece.

>>15755355

>That the PS3 set?

Nah, it's the for PS2, and the first Metal Gear game is on the PSXs CDs. It has 1, 2 and 3.

>If it's still in good shape, I guess that's not real bad, given those were a limited amount made.

It's in mint condition, but I ended up removing the shrink wrap so I could get to the game. Looking on eBay, those normally cost 40-60, so I at least thought it was a decent deal.

> it's not a (sub)series I'd get into myself.

Yeah, I don't blame you. Hopefully XSeed doesn't cuck out. Also, I doubt 3-4 will come out on Vita, so that sucks.

>>15755548

> certain games like star ocean 3, whose battle trophies and saves occupy a whole 5mb of the 8mb available, i dedicated a memory card to that game.

Damn, the only game I know of that takes up a lot of space is Red Faction, which my save file is only like 2.5ish mb. I'm glad I ended up getting a 32mb memory card a few years back, granted some games have trouble accessing more than the first 8mb.

Not really on topic but is anyone looking to buy shit during black friday? I plan to get an SSD, haven't really thought about what else I could use and get deals on.

>>15758388

>Call center

My apologies. I've never had the misfortune of working for one but I'm always hearing insane horror stories.

>>15758320

I've been told that krikzz tends to have black friday sales so if that is true I will buy one this week if not then I'll probably still get it after the holidays. I have the fat, old grey front loading brick NES. I've been looking for any kind of console mods I can do with it.

>>15758984

This has been the most lackluster black friday deals week I've ever experienced. Most of the better sales were at the beginning of the month. There has been jack shit in gaming. I do love the fact that Fallout 76 is going for $40 at gamestop when it just released last week. Insult to injury for the shit for brains that had to buy it day 1. Maybe Cyber Monday will have a better showing.

>>15759075

>>15758320

I just checked. Everdrives are 20% off on Friday. So I'll grab it then. Sage for double post.

>>15758388 (checked)

>Fan translations, yo.

There's no way to get physical copies of those besides printing them out yourself, no?

>>15759332

Get them from comic and manga torrent sites, I guess. Most translators drop books when they get licensed so they don't get blacklisted from professional work in the future. Nyaa has manga torrents, but I haven't checked to see precisely what old stuff they have.

>>15760161

To be honest, that was your own doing, and selling through brick and mortar will always give a mere percentage of what it's worth a the time, even less if you want cash and not credit (as it sounds like you did). Still, if at the time they weren't going for very much, I don't think you could be faulted for believing they'd stay at those prices. Hindsight is 20/20, and a bitch.

>You have extremely common games like a link to the past selling at game shops for 30$ which is fucking ridiculous.

Yeah, and Nintendo's probably been the worst effected. SNES and Gamecube especially, though my experience is more with the latter (I can't even justify getting an SNES, everything I'd like is absurdly priced or didn't come out here). Got a major, popular Nintendo franchise logo on it? Automatic $30+ despite being common as shit. Is it Melee? Immediate $60+ despite having a 70% attach rate or so. Cult classic? Even just being on the Gamecube? Often double what it is on other systems. And if it's actually rare, decent, and has something of an audience? Can be stupid amounts of money. And then there's the Atlus tax on top of it all for the likes of Cubivore and Go Go Hypergrind (the latter of which also has what might as well be the furfag tax). There's a handful of worthwhile games that have some immunity, like Metroid Prime 1 and 2, Geist, Crystal Chronicles for instance, but unless you're looking in the right places, usually it's at least $25-30 for anything worth playing. And the library itself started shooting up pretty fast after Gamestop stopped stocking for it, which I attribute to artificial scarcity caused by Gamestop doing their best to drive all their competition under, thus when they stopped stocking for it, there's that fewer brick and mortars that did. At the same time though, while PS2 (for the sake of comparison) has a growing number of badly priced games, overall it's nothing like what's happened with the Gamecube.

>>15760161

No sweat, flash carts are the way to go. I've lost everything I had multiple times, and consoles aren't murderously expensive, for the most part. Genesis, Sega CD, Mega Everdrive. NES, Everdrive N8. SNES, either Super Everdrive or SD2SNES. Fuck collecting actual games unless the price is unbeatable, and/or the game itself has some sentimental value to you.

>>15760161

>>15760246

Also what >>15760264 says. The actual consoles themselves aren't nearly as much as the libraries are, and flash carts allow for playing the games on the actual system. That said, depending on what chips are present (considering how systems like the SNES had a variety), cost for a cart can vary into highish amounts, but when some individual games are $200+ all on their own, a flash cart that should let you play most of the system at a similar price starts looking like less a problem.

>>15755548

>buying PSP games

what for, the cover art?

the physical disks are reportedly rotting away already

Are there any resources for fixing old PCs? picked up a win98 pentium 3, it powers on but doesn't show the bios screen and just does nothing.

>BUYING

i got a gtx 1080 ti cheap as fuck and I'm enjoying it

>CONSIDERING

I want to order some cards to finish my Muldrotha EDH deck, I LOVE fucking around with my graveyard

>>15760477

If you're not getting ANYTHING for POST (no visuals, no beeps), the board is probably fried. Try a different power supply and a simple PCI video card, and swap out the RAM. Test everything one part at a time if you are able.

>>15762365

>>15760477

>no beeps

Probably doesn't have a mobo speaker. You should be able to get one for your board on ebay for $2. This will help you figure out what's wrong.

>>15762384

What kind of retarded company omits the fucking mobo speaker.

>>15762392

All of them? I've built dozens of pc's. Only twice have I ever had the speaker come with it.

>>15762405

Lots of laptops have this neither, apparently.

Since this is the thread for people who pay money for vidya related things; are Framemeisters on HDTVs even close to traditional CRTs? I'm sure PVMs would be better than both of those, but I don't know the first thing about acquiring those.

If it helps; the CRT I had my eye on was a 36" Sony Trinitron. KD-36FS130, specifically. As for my HDTV, it's a run of the mill Sharp.

>>15760264

>>15760246

I'm going to look into buying a flashcart you guys made me feel better about losing my collection.

>>15762405

…Huh. Seems like a weird way to cut costs, given how useful a diagnostic tool it is.

>>15764283

I think with the SNES it's SD2SNES that has the most included chips (and highest cost) at least least I heard, but I might be thinking of another make. I don't think there's one yet that plays 100% of the library though, but whichever that is should get fairly close.

>>15764293

Mercifully, game systems aren't so expensive as to make you cry blood, like classic computers are.

>>15764283

I haven't bought a motherboard in the past ten years, but my Gigabyte 965P-DS3 came with a speaker. I have a spare that had come with another board, that I keep just in case I get a new board that doesn't have one, but has the pins for one.

>>15764296

Buy once, cry once, in the words of /k/. Well, if you're super in love with the SNES, then the SD2SNES is your only option. If you don't really care about Yoshi's Island, Mario RPG, DooM, or other games with special chips, then the Super Everdrive is fine. And if you change your mind later, you can sell the Everdrive for funds toward the SD2SNES.

>>15767817

Well flash carts pretty much negate the need for buying games (at least for what chips a given one covers), so that would probably just leave the system, cost of the flash cart, and memory, if you need your own storage in it. Beyond that though, probably something like the Gameboy if you count handhelds, but otherwise the PS1's not horribly expensive on average where I live (though these days I don't see that many pricing fuckups compared to the past), but it does depend on how deep you plan to dig into it, or what games/series you like.

This is under the assumption you live in North America anyhow. Not sure what the PAL market's like

>>15767817

>best

Something portable since they don't have region locks.

>Bonus points if it's stupidly cheap

You're 15 years too late. They're all overpriced by now, because of higher demand.

>>15767893

Does a Model 1 have any particular perks over the other makes, out of curiosity?

>>15767907

Model 1 has a better soundchip, with specifically the "High Definition Graphics" units having the best. Trick is they only output mono through their back port so you'll need to get a patch cable to wire the stereo that comes out of the front audio jack. Honestly so long as you get a Model 1 it will probably sound fine, it was only Model 2's that ended up getting shitty sound chips.

>>15767817

>buy and collect for?

Sega consoles are usually cheap and have great games that are also cheap. Nintendo stuff has the nintendo tax to it and the more odd stuff like the Turbo Grafx has the unfortunate reality of being insanely expensive. I'd go with the Genesis as the only unfortunately over-priced Sega system is one of the best systems ever, the Sega Saturn.

>>15767907

yeah, the best sound quality. The thing is however there's several model 1 revisions. The identifier for the models you would want are those which have "high definition graphics" written above the cartridge port. There's additional revisions which come down to identifying the FCC ID and the earliest revisions which meets all the previously stated requirements is the one with the long FCC ID - these are launch models which have no "licensed by Sega" splash screen.

Only concession you have to make is to get a 3.5mm to RCA stereo cable to get proper stereo sound.

> BUYING?

Nothing at the moment.

> CONSIDERING?

A new CPU cooler and a harddrive

> REPAIRING/MODDING?

Nothing.

>>15767930

>>15767945

I see, thanks.

Black Friday was pretty much a bust here, and the one game I was considering (especially since the store with it was doing a 20% off any game under $50 deal) turned out to have an utterly ruined back cover, which is a real shame. I suppose it evens out though, considering that PSO find a few days prior. Still hoping I can find something like Gotcha Force at that low a price some time, which I'd like to think possible considering how often (though still infrequent) I find stuff a lot lower than it averages.

>>15774482

>metal slug anthology, i've heard this one is rare because few copies were made and this is the most expensive one

Usually PSP versions of PS2/Wii multiplats tend to not be as easy to find (I think there's similar case with Phantom Brave), and I think I've heard that the PSP version of Metal Slug Anthology has some bonuses; unlockable art, or something. That said, being a portable can hamper multiplayer if it's something you care about. Checking a cover scan, it would seem that unlike some ports, MSA PSP does not cut the co-op, but at the same times there's a difference between just needing an extra controller and needing a second PSP and copy of them game (unless it's a case of streaming data from system to the other, the way some DS games were).

>plus the cover art has this holographic film over it and is reversible

Looking at it on TCP, that is an inlay, not an intended reversible cover. Think tray card art. Still nice to see when a copy opted to go the extra mile, considering how readily most abandoned doing so after sixth gen's DVD style cases meant they no longer had to.

>they also had a CiB copy of pokemon black my favorite pokeman game solely because of touko's ass but they were asking $80 for it

How in the fuck? That's like $20 complete on an average day where I live. What sort of place was asking that retarded a price for a preowned common DS game.