Retro game stuff talk
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This weekend I assembled my Peanut kit
It took a long time, I messed up quite a few times, but I got practice soldering and in the end I have this to go with my "real" Arduboy in my collection.
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@obsidianspider I always wanted to do a micro build, but the Arduino always seemed a bit underpowered for the task. I actually have that .96" OLED. Makes a great oscilliscope display.
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@VictimRLSH The Arduboy games are pretty cool for what they are, but it's certainly not running PlayStation games.
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@obsidianspider My problem with the current Pi Zero W micro builds is they all use the same 3 button hat, and I want better controls, something along the lines of the Game Boy Micro with shoulder buttons and separate select/start. Once I finally get a 3D printer and quit making ghetto cases for my builds I think I can do something nice. I'm thinking of a play on the GB Micro and branding it the "MAME Boy Micro" with the MAME font.
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@VictimRLSH I've started to mess with some PCB design so I can make my own boards for some Pi portables. My first prototypes for a 2" screen breakout should be here soon.
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Today I added my very first Treasure game to my collection: Dynamite Headdy for Sega Genesis. It’s in very good shape and only mildly suffers from the common Genesis game problem of looking like someone soaked the label in vegetable oil. I don’t know why so many Genesis games do that.
Also: can anyone suggest a good gamebit screwdriver that works well with Genesis games? My orange handled one from Amazon “works” but it often slips from the screws on Genesis games and mars the finish. I’d like to minimize that in the future.
My custom PCBs also arrived today. They're my very first boards that I designed myself, so there's nothing fancy going on, but it looks like they'll fit the ribbon cable that I intended, so hopefully I'll be able to test with a Pi soon.
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Well, it looks like my board works…
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@obsidianspider great job man!
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Started to buy some stuff again. I didn't take pictures since it's nothing special. I belive you all have seen Famicom cartridges before.
I have the Famicom with Super Mario Bros 1 and 3
Added these to the collectionRockman 2
Rockman 3
Rockman 4
Rockman 5
Tennis
Mike Tyson's Punch Out!
Dr. Mario
SalamanderAnd a KV-25DA65 Sony TV for 800 Yen!
There are some PVM screens available here but I have no clue how you connect a famicom or any console to such screen. They have those weird BNC connectors only. Does anyone have experience or info regarding connecting consoles to PVM screens?
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@FlyingTomahawk said in Retro game stuff talk:
Does anyone have experience or info regarding connecting consoles to PVM screens?
Well, PVM should have composite, component or S-Video inputs. Check out the MLIG episode on NES,
.I think composite is one option if you have an AV Famicom.
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@FlyingTomahawk Nice additions to the Famicom collection! I always liked the Rockman art better than what we got for Mega Man here in the USA.
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LoL, yeah the US cover for Megaman 1 and 2 are atrocious. Really wonder why they went with those. Must have been stoned.
So here is my one week shopping result. The TV is the largest item but not the most expensive. 800 yen is a bargain for such 25 inch TV in very clean condition plus remote. The most expensive was Super Fantasy Zone for the Mega Drive. That goes usually for 6000-7000 yen. I found it for 3900 yen in super mint condition, like it came fresh from the production line yesterday.
To play on a CRT TV is just awesome and brings back a lot good memories. Thinking about, that stuff is gonna be 40! years old in 3 years. Crazy how fast time passes.
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I think it's Kotaku (or could be Retro Gamer?) who has a interview with the artist who made the Megaman western boxart, with info on why, who, how etc.
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@FlyingTomahawk Awesome find on the TV! I'm still keeping my eye out for the holy grail, the FV310. I hope to find one some day.
I always liked how Famicom games were in different colored shells and sometimes even different shapes. Japan absolutely got the "feeling" right with their cartridges. -
Curious, what makes that FV310 so special? Does it have certain connectors that other don't have?
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@FlyingTomahawk It's considered to have the very best picture quality on any standard definition consumer CRT ever made. The connectors themselves aren't anything special.
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This week I was in Manhattan for work and picked up two games.
Billy Hatcher has been on my list for a long time and the fact that I bought it in person from a member of a game collector group that I'm in on Facebook makes it even cooler to have in my collection. The gameplay is really fun and the egg rolling part reminds me a lot of Katamari Damacy.
River City Girls was more of an impulse pickup since I'd heard it was good and I didn't see anything else I wanted at VideoGamesNewYork. I popped it into my Switch today and HOLY CRAP. This games is AWESOME! Check out the intro and first few minutes of gameplay. A rockin soundtrack, solid game mechanics and the "puberty" video playing in one of the classrooms had me cracking up (Scrub to around 7:13 in the video below). This game is a must have for the Switch. This was also available at Best Buy, but apparently is now sold out. If you can find it, get it.
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With the addition of a very nice looking Pocket Hello Kitty I believe I now have all of the variants of the "Made by Nintendo and looks like a Game Boy but is actually a pedometer/Tamagotchi" set. I'm not sure when I first discovered these things, but I think they're neat and the Pocket Sakura and Pocket Hello Kitty are a lot harder to find in decent shape for not crazy money than the Pokemon ones. The Color Pocket Pikachus only seem to come in a blister pack and sell for more than I'd want to spend, so for now I'll be happy to have them loose.
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@obsidianspider I absolutely LOVED River City Ransom, I'd get drunk off my ass and dump about $20 into a bartop PC10 playing that game. This game looks like a fun spiritual successor, I'll pick it up if I can find it.
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One of the many things that caught on in Japan but not in the US is game soundtracks. I don't have a large collection of them, but I recently added four more. A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D World, and Okami. The discs will likely not get much use aside from the one time I rip them to MP3, but the artwork on them is fantastic. I'll be posting individual photos on my Instagram. Yes, they all have spine cards except Okami, which was a promotional disc in a cardboard sleeve.
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