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    • cyperghostC
      cyperghost @lilbud
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      @lilbud Nice work....
      Are you selling medicine products ;)

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      • MrJordaaanyM
        MrJordaaany @obsidianspider
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        @obsidianspider What site are you using to locate all this goodness from Japan?

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        • obsidianspiderO
          obsidianspider @MrJordaaany
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          @mrjordaaany eBay mostly. Though I did score a red Pocket for $15 this week from a guy on Facebook marketplace.

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          • obsidianspiderO
            obsidianspider
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            A few pickups in the past few weeks:

            I always liked these blue Pockets
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            $20 each for three 101s? Yes please.
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            The red Pocket was from a local seller, the rest was direct from Japan
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            These were all β€œas is” and in various states of broken
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            These are mint and were received in trade. The green Color will be getting a CGB-101 mod
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            And yeah, I’m up to three DMG-colored Pockets now. I may have a problem.
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            • edmaul69E
              edmaul69 @obsidianspider
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              @obsidianspider yeah you do have a problem. The problem is one of them isnt headed to me. πŸ˜‚ Awesome pickups!!

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              • cellyC
                celly @obsidianspider
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                @obsidianspider whoa! Is that a Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket hotwheels car?!

                Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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                • obsidianspiderO
                  obsidianspider @edmaul69
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                  @edmaul69 haha, yeah, the nice ones are out there, but it takes some patience to find one for a good price.

                  Today I managed to score a FREE Sony KV-27FS120 WEGA television. This is going to be great for all of my old consoles, and all of the ones I’ve yet to find.

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                  • cellyC
                    celly
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                    It has been a productive week leading up to this weekend. First, I finished my Gameboy Macro and it turned out nicer than I thought.
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                    Then my order from Japan came with my minty pink Gameboy Pocket.
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                    And then today, I received a package with some items that were part of a trade deal. My socks, were blown off by the CIB Golf game. Totally made my day.
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                    Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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                    • obsidianspiderO
                      obsidianspider
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                      Today my very first Sega Genesis showed up. A non-TMSS Model 1. Barbie was part of the lot. I promise. ;)

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                      I also had the good fortune of two WonderSwans landing on my porch. The green one is apparently a limited edition Gundam unit. The polarizer is a little burnt, and no one seems to sell a pre-cut polarizer for a WonderSwan, so for now, I'll let it as it's mainly for display and is playable. All games and systems work. The Clear Black WonderSwan I'm seeing as a bonus as what I paid for it and the boxed Gunpey and Turntablist made it essentially free.

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                      • obsidianspiderO
                        obsidianspider
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                        A while back I got the idea to make a portable Genesis that plays real cartridges. Seeing how expensive Nomads are I thought about modding a Genesis 2 (The Model 3 apparently isn't super awesome with compatibility with EverDrives), and learned that the VA4 boards are the most compact and are also apparently well regarded for picture and sound quality.

                        I found one on eBay and bought it for a good price, and while it was en route (the seller had a delay in getting to the post office) I learned that I had inadvertently purchased the highly sought after Majesco variant.

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                        Now I can't bring myself to cut it up. I guess I'll either have to seek out another VA4 board, or look for a Nomad…

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                        • space cadetS
                          space cadet @obsidianspider
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                          @obsidianspider have you played landstalker on the genesis? Such an underrated game!

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                          • obsidianspiderO
                            obsidianspider @space cadet
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                            @space-cadet I've heard good things about it. I will have to check it out soon.

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                            • space cadetS
                              space cadet
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                              Zelda like

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                              • obsidianspiderO
                                obsidianspider
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                                @FlyingTomahawk in your many Hard Off runs, what have you seen Famicom AVs selling for? They seem to be around $100+ on eBay, and that just seems high.
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                                • FlyingTomahawkF
                                  FlyingTomahawk @obsidianspider
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                                  @obsidianspider

                                  Those Famicoms are very expensive. Only the main hardware without controllers and without any cables cost around 9000 Yen! ($80)
                                  You can find them often and I doubt they sell good at those prices. Also controllers seem to be rare for that thing. But they seem to be the only decent solution on today's big screen TVs since you can use any SNES TV cable to connect it.

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                                  • obsidianspiderO
                                    obsidianspider @FlyingTomahawk
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                                    @flyingtomahawk OK, so it's not just eBay then. Interestingly, I learned that while the original Famicom only had RF out, the Famicom 2 only had AV out. The original NES had AV and RF out, but the "NES Toploader" only had RF out.

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                                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                                      FlyingTomahawk @obsidianspider
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                                      @obsidianspider

                                      Yeah, that is so. The old Famicom with RF has issues with the image quality on latest TVs and there are some mods to fix that but who wants to solder around on a working Famicom.
                                      The newer Famicom solves that issue by using component(yellow, white, red) or S-VHS cables or only here in Japan D-Terminal.

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                                        A Former User
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                                        I know this has nothing to do with retro stuff, but I recently released a new EP (short album) and I made the cover arts for each of them look like 8-Bit Art. Even one of them looks like Tetris!

                                        Also adventure uses soundfonts from the SNES, and I'm working on more stuff that will use soundfonts.

                                        As of any projects, nothing is really going on right now. I might go to my school and de-solder something that was stopping progression from my SNES project.

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                                        • FlyingTomahawkF
                                          FlyingTomahawk
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                                          @obsidianspider

                                          Time to feed your greed and lust for more retro stuff. :-D
                                          @ruckage this might interest you too.

                                          Famicoms, Famicoms and more Famicoms.... total 21 of them!

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                                          Remember the square buttons Famicom? Still there...

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                                          Twin Famcioms, Twin Famicoms and more Twin Famcioms...
                                          I didn't know they had 3 different versions/colors. What is the difference between them?

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                                          Various retro stuff like boxed MegaDrives, MegaCD, MarkIII, Sega-1000

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                                          Gold Punch Out! 18900 YEN!

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                                          And this here is a real treasure. If I only had the money I would have bought it.
                                          Old school TV with Super Famicom build in it. Sharp 14G-SF1
                                          There is also a more rare treasure out there named 14C-C1F which is a TV with a build in Famicom. Price is somewhere between $1000-1500

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                                          They also still had the FamicomBox for 189000 Yen. If that shops goal is to collect and "keep" all the retro stuff then they are doing a fantastic job. Unforunately that doesn't pay salaries and bills.
                                          They definitely have to go down with those prices if they ever want to sell any of that stuff. After the release of Famicom-Mini and SNES-Mini some of the retro stuff has lost or should loose value.
                                          I hope you guys enjoyed the pics.

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                                          • obsidianspiderO
                                            obsidianspider @FlyingTomahawk
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                                            @flyingtomahawk

                                            Those. Are. Beautiful!

                                            I am still on the hunt for a clean Famicom AV (to play, not to put a Pi in) but on eBay they have been very expensive. I like the idea of getting an original Famicom, but they only output RF and the controller cables are so short!

                                            I'm glad to see you're still out there looking at these cool old games. I went to the local retro game store to sell some unwanted Sega stuff and they didn't really have a great selection of games or systems to choose from. Lots of shovelware GameBoy and DS games.

                                            Please keep sharing photos if you find more cool old game stuff.

                                            I did manage to get an AGS-101 yesterday for $30 from a person on Facebook, so deals are out there if you keep your eyes open.

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