Retro game stuff talk
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Went to Nipponbashi (Den Den Town) today to visit Super Potato and A-Too stores.
I was so shocked to see how damn expensive Wonderswan stuff is. This is for you @obsidianspider
My Famicom collection is getting bigger too. Grabbing any good deal I can find here.
Mostly shoot em ups and a few other classics. Thus far 30 games and counting...
I do have a hard time finding Famicom Disc System games which are in good shape and decent priced.
Currently also working on a custom PCB for the Famicom that replaces the whole rear piece which will have a microUSB-B 5V power plug and 4 din 3.5mm jack for video and audio.
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@FlyingTomahawk Oh my goodness. I need to visit that store. Or give you a shopping list. Or both. Thanks for the photo. Now I'm drooling over here.
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If you want you can send me a list via e-mail and I can see what the prices are over here.
There are also other, cheaper possibilities to acquire games.
I knew you would like that. I thought "man if only Todd would be here now."btw. that was at Super Potato
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@FlyingTomahawk Yeah, I've heard that Super Potato is very much for tourists and is usually overly expensive. I'd still like to go to one some day.
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@FlyingTomahawk said in Retro game stuff talk:
There are also other, cheaper possibilities to acquire games.
The only other options I know of are Yahoo Auctions (via an intermediary service), Hard Off/Book Off, or independent game stores.
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@obsidianspider said in Retro game stuff talk:
@FlyingTomahawk Yeah, I've heard that Super Potato is very much for tourists and is usually overly expensive. I'd still like to go to one some day.
overly expensive is an understatement. they are insane. that is also a reason why they have so many games and hardware in stock. nobody buys that stuff for those prices. Still it's nice to look at. So much stuff cramped into such narrow space.
I got your list. Give me some time to go through it and search a bit around.
Of course Yahoo Auction is one place but there you'll have a hard time to find games for the price you want since you get mostly outbid. Mercari Japan is the place where I look for stuff online at the moment. Sometimes you find really good stuff in great condition for very good prices. And all is buy now and no auction shit.You can get lucky at Hard-Off/Book-Off stores but it is time consuming since you have to visit the stores.
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@FlyingTomahawk Thanks for taking a look for me.
One of these days I need to visit Japan. So much cool stuff there.
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Just had a quick look at the upper part of the list. Some of your prices are low some are a bit high. For example Monster World 4 for Mega Drive is around 10'000-12'000 Yen not 5000 Yen. For 5000 I would get one myself ;-)
If you want I could translate the titles for you to Japanese so you can copy and paste them into whatever you use to search.
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@FlyingTomahawk Yeah, a lot of those prices are just a guess.
I have been sticking with eBay because I don't know how those intermediary services work.
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@FlyingTomahawk @obsidianspider have the prices skyrocketed the last couple of years? I was there probably between 7-9 years ago and I thought the prices were ok. they were almost giving away console bundles, had them in big crates, same with mystery random game loot. (I live in Norway though, and the Norwegian krone was strong as hell back then..) the shops amazing btw, like a museum!
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@Dipkid I've only been collecting for WonderSwan for about two years, and I've never been to Japan, so I don't have a lot to go on.
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Got 2 more Famicoms that need some love and mods. You can never have enough consoles I guess. XD I removed one of the front caps for my other "white" Famicom.
I usually keep spare consoles around for parts.
This time I wanted to go a bit further than the last time and created the rear PCB from scratch. And I want it to get power via 5V1A microUSB-B and have a more clean solution for the RCA connection, in this case 3.5mm 4 DIN jack plug. No drilling or grinding on the original case needed. It is my first prototype so be kind, and my soldering skills are not what they used to be. But all works as it should. On this particular Famicom I could remove the jailbars completely. I guess the newer models are better made than the previous ones?
In comparison to the original PCB you don't need so many parts. And as you can see there is pleeeeeenty of space on that PCB. I also added an LED light just to be able to see if it is powered on correctly.
I messed up the Audio solder point left of the yellow cable on the main PCB so I had to grab that from a different point other then that everything went smooth. Took me a while to figure out which mod is best since there are so many out there.
Using a so called breadbord for the first time I could trial and error without soldering too much around. Great tool, highly recommended.
Next step is painting the main body and find better looking controllers.
I would like to order custom PCBs but at the moment with all that stuff that is going on in China it ain't possible and I have a hard time to figure out how to handle PCB creator software. I tried KiCAD and a few others but struggle with it. -
@FlyingTomahawk looking good!
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Breadboards are indeed a nice tool, but can get a bit confusing if you have many components and you need to cram them together due to limited space. You can cut the breadboards with a band saw and attach them to the tops of Lego bricks. Then they can be spread out over one or more Lego baseplates as wide as you need so it still resembles the layout of the original schematic or wiring diagram. Here I have even mounted some prefab modules and breakout boards on their own Lego breadboards so I can just plunk one down on a baseplate and wire it into an Arduino or whatever I'm playing with at the moment.
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Hahaha... awesome idea with the Lego parts!
Who would have thought that after so many years Lego could become useful again. -
@FlyingTomahawk Legos are also handy for quick snap together cases. I'm considering a Lego cased Pi at some point. Need to finish my Pi 4 build first and I just bricked the Pi so I have to wait for new one to get here to finish that.
System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.
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@VictimRLSH Here's an idea for a Lego based case - https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/f0xh16/.
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@VictimRLSH How the heck did you brick a Pi?
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@obsidianspider said in Retro game stuff talk:
@VictimRLSH How the heck did you brick a Pi?
I posted about it in the Help forum, I was mounting it on standoffs in my "switch" case and I think I either broke a trace, busted a surface mount off its pads, or ESD'd it from a tool. I've tried new SD cards, flashing the bootloader, different PSUs, etc. I get a single fast blink from the ACT LED and then nada. Glad they don't cost much... :(
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@VictimRLSH Yikes! I knew the Pi 4s were more fiddly, but sheesh. Good luck with the replacement!
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