Retro game stuff talk

[edmaul69]

@ruckage I actually removed the ags-101 screen from the gba itself. However retromodding and ebay sell the screens. Then you need an adapter cable. There is a 32 pin and 40 pin depending on what board version your gba is. There are 2 ags-101 screens. One with a brown ribbon cable end and one with a white ribbon cable end. The aftermarket screens are the white ones. If you have to use a 40 pin connector it is designed for brown end screen. However the white one works by removing two resistors and 2 capacitors on the gba’s motherboard. I can help you with all that info. Thats what i did on mine. My buddies was the 32 pin cable so that modification wasn’t necessary.

[celly]

@ruckage same guys who make the Neo Pocket Flash Masta make a Wonderswan verison which appears to be much better. A dozen game slots and an actual gui menu.
Currently out of stock but, keep your on it if you’re interested.

[MrJordaaany]

Well I've seen and commented on so much here I think it's time I posted myself.

Forgive me in advance for the flash photography. It's night time currently so there is no natural light source.

This is my Retro glass cabinet. I have been working on it for about a year now. Only waiting on some nice LED strips to arrive to illuminate it all. It's got 5 shelves in total. Starting with Sony Handhelds at the top (im big on handhelds).

Left to right: PSP 1000, 2000 (Crisis Core limited edition), 3000, PSP Go, PS Vita behind that.

Sencond shelf is Nintendo handhelds. Left to right is basically release order of their handheld consoles. 3 DMGs, all backlit and biverted too. Plus a Neo Geo Pocket.

Close up of the Pokemon stands:

Third shelf is a bit of everything:

Hard to see due to the lighting and colour, but yes that's a PS4 500 mil edition.

Bottom shelf sections are just all my games for PlayStation and other systems. Mainly PlayStation though as I can't fit it all.

Just finished backlighting the Red Gameboy Pocket as well:

Man they are difficult to backlight, because they are so dam delicate. Already killed one trying to backlight it, and basically killed this one. It's being held together with thoughts and prayers right now. I consider myself decent at modding Gameboys. Had relatively no trouble with the DMGs. But Pockets you need to be really delicate with.

All stands are from here btw: http://rosecoloredgaming.com/ I would highly recommend their products.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@ruckage

Sorry for going a bit off-topic here.
I just wanted to say it is amazing how much money you can safe if you skip all the fancy looking light RGB/LED stuff. I use pcpartpicker to simulate my PC build and just by removing all the RGB stuff I went from nearly $1000 down to $500. No RGB RAM, no RGB fans, no RGB pc case, no RGB motherboard, no RGB CPU cooler, no RGB PSU.
Since then I made huge progress in acquiring the parts. Still out a few more but hopefully locked and loaded in time for Battlefield 5.

I figured no need for fancy lights since I am the only one that sees the PC. I ain't streaming and I ain't a youtuber so no need for all that.

[obsidianspider]

While not a minty-fresh Vectrex, I had a few more cool things in the last few weeks that I wanted to share.

Finally "finished" my CGB-101

I also picked up Riviera: The Promised Land

and the third in the Dept. Heaven series, Knights in the Nightmare. (I'm still looking for Yggdra Union for a decent price.)

and just today, what is quite possibly the nicest-condition used game I've ever bought: Super Mario Land.

[edmaul69]

@obsidianspider so were you able to close up the case and use the power switch on your cgb-101? Ive been wanting to do that on mine but i didnt want it looking ghetto.

[obsidianspider]

@edmaul69 it’s not perfect, but it works. I have some more photos of it at the Instagram link in my post. I was already a bit heavy into the case mods and I didn’t want to wreck it, but apparently others have gotten their stuff to shut perfectly with the custom brackets that BennVenn provides plans for.

[edmaul69]

@obsidianspider yeah retromodding sells the 3d parts. Just not sure how they go in. And i want to keep the external power switch. Others said you had to remove it.

[obsidianspider]

@edmaul69 You have to slice the switch in half because the AGS-101 screen take up some of the room of where the switch goes, but the switch still works, it just doesn't have a positive "on" and "off", it just slides. I have a bunch of extra sets of the brackets that a friend printed for me. I can probably mail them to you pretty easily.

[obsidianspider]

Oh man, a Kirby Cafe is opening in Tokyo!

[Clyde]

I couldn't resist buying these Pixel Pals two weeks ago. Since I couldn't find their USB power adapters in stock anywhere in Germany, I ordered them abroad. Batteries are said to be used up quite quickly by the little fellas.

Today, the adapters arrived!

I took the second picture because my camera couldn't handle the backlight properly. In it, the reflections in the glass demonstrate best how the Pixel Pals look to the naked eye when lit.

The two still boxed figurines are gifts for two fans of Skyrim and Streetfighter respectively. They don't know it yet. 😉

[ruckage]

@edmaul69
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the info regarding the AGS 101 , I'm definitely going to look into making that mod on my original GBA

@celly
Regarding the Neogeo pocket flash cart, I saw an SD based version that's available in the UK http://www.retrocollect.com/Reviews/hardware-review-retrohqs-neo-geo-pocket-sd-flash-cartridge.html

@flyingtomahawk said in Retro game stuff talk:

I figured no need for fancy lights since I am the only one that sees the PC. I ain't streaming and I ain't a youtuber so no need for all that

Absolutely agree, I can see the appeal and if money is no object it's cool to have all the fancy lights but I'd rather put the money to better use. Good luck with your build, it's going to be great with that graphics card. What CPU are you planning to go with?

[FlyingTomahawk]

@ruckage said in [Retro game stuff talk]

Absolutely agree, I can see the appeal and if money is no object it's cool to have all the fancy lights but I'd rather put the money to better use. Good luck with your build, it's going to be great with that graphics card. What CPU are you planning to go with?

My setup is gonna be

Ryzen 5 2600 (overclocked)
AsRock B450M Pro4 mATX
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000 16GB (2x8GB)
Asus Strix 1080 Ti 11GB OC
240GB SSD
2TB HDD
FSP AURUM 600W 80+ Gold
Zalman Z9 Neo case

I didn't go too crazy on the CPU since i spend a bit too much on the GPU. But i might upgrade to a Ryzen 7 2700 at a later time.
At least i won't be bottlenecked on the GPU side.

[edmaul69]

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[edmaul69]

@ruckage some more stuff i got and did for my gba:

usb rechargeable battery pack

cut hole for usb

added l.e.d. pipe

got an ez flash omega micro sd game card

[celly]

@ruckage those flash carts are slick, shoulda held out for one of those. Next time.

@edmaul69 nice work with the AGB! Doing an AGB-101 is still on my list to do. I really like the rechargable battery.

[obsidianspider]

@edmaul69 Really really nice.

How's the Omega working out? Are the load times decent?

[ruckage]

@edmaul69
Looks great. Is a battery pack pretty much a necessity with the AGS-101 screen -I imagine it uses a lot more power than the stock screen.
I hadn't heard of the EZ-flash omega. I already have the EZ flash IV (actually 2 versions of it - the micro SD version and the old mini SD version) but I'm tempted to get an Omega now if only for the included half height shell as it would fit flush in my DS Lite.

[edmaul69]

@obsidianspider load times are way better than my m3 perfect.

@ruckage it does have better battery life than regular batteries. It is also better at controlling the gba’s led light. With aa batteries the red and green led’s would flicker red green a lot. Or it would be red while the my m3 perfect card was loading. As far as the ez flash omega it is a little wonky with trying to get folders to show up with a lot of the roms. All the gbc games workedin a gameboy color folder but all the gb and gba games had issues that the folder wont show up with a lot of the roms so i put my gb and gba roms directly on the card. I would like to have all of the roms when i get a bigger card because each folder has a 512 file limit and trying to get all the roms to play nice with the folder structure will be a lot of work.

[celly]

I have quite a bit of loose Gameboy carts. A while ago I seen a video on making custom cases for them (and TG16) using old tape cassette cases. Long story short, last time I was at my local game trading spots, I swooped up on a few free cassettes laying around and thought I’d give it a try. I’m quite impressed on how it turned out. Took 5 minutes resizing image template in Photoshop, a pair of scissors and some flush cutters.