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[Off-Topic / Re: Has summer started for you?]

That's a lovely looking house.

Thanks! It's soon to be painted, so those hail marks on the paint should be gone soon.

Hope it goes quickly for ya!  This is my second roof in as many years as well so I'm a bit peeved about having to pay the deductible again.  Here's my skylight :O

Yikes! Which storm was that? Did you lose any windows? I was 100% sure I was going to have busted windows and skylights from the storm that hit at the beginning of June up here, but by some miracle nothing shattered. I'd hate to have to crawl up on the roof after that and tarp that hole!

[Off-Topic / Re: Has summer started for you?]

Snow on the summit of Pikes Peak here...  Winter is coming!

I'm not ready for this.   My roof is still in shambles from the hailstorm and I need a new skylight 

My roof in is similar condition, though after 3 months the contractors finally started working on it today.



I'm definitely ready for fall though!

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

I'm in! Sent my $ and an initial weigh in to Dean.

It's too bad we didn't start last month! Here's my fatness this year-to-date:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Did I buy a fake!? Help!]

It was hard to get a good pic, but here's what my Cosmic Fantasy 2 looks like:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine Pixelization]

Isn't there a transparency effect in the background ?

that kind of makes me wonder how they did the shadow effects on magical chase stage 4.

I'm guessing it's all the same set of dynamic tiles, just a different palette for the shadowed areas.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you drive…]

I finally decided to trade in my GTO for a Chevy SS last October. Yeah, it looks like a Malibu, but I'm actually ok with that. It's pretty amazing how much tech has changed in cars in years! A lot of it is cool, but I swear the thing is constantly chiming some alarm or another.



It has a HUD which I'm convinced is the coolest thing I've ever seen. DISCLAIMER: I've never seen a boob, but there's no way it's cooler than this.



I also had a 2004 Grand Cherokee which was awesome in the snow, but not so awesome in a collision with an F150 in a blizzard.



I'm probably going to have to find another 4WD/AWD for the winter, the SS is a lot of fun to drive, but absolutely terrible in any amount of snow.

[Fighting Street / Re: PCEFX Re-education]

[Off-Topic / Re: PCENGINEFX RAP BATTLES!!]

Relevant

Official Turbo Time Music Video

Video is private.

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU drinking?]

Love pumpkin beer! Dry Dock Imperial Pumpkin is my favorite this year.



Not pumpkin, but I miss the kriek! Though I hear rumors it can still be found in some obscure Denver locations.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: request: PCE development 101?]

Of course, for copper bars and gradients

Ah. I could see that. Might be a pain changing the bg color every scan line, but I could see how it might work...

The sky, pipes, ground, there are lots of choices and that can be behind the tile layer and scroll at a different speed than the tile layer.

But this I don't understand. How would the background color 'scroll' ?
Maybe Bonknauts can weigh in on this, and outline how it might be done...

By changing which scan-line the gradient begins. This only gives you vertical scrolling, but it still looks pretty nice.  Watch the gradient behind the castle, but below the clouds @1:20:

But yeah, we need Bonknuts to weigh in!

EDIT: Tried to clarify.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Crafts!]

Found the original CubeeCraft TG16 characters! I put 'em on tinypic, but I have the original images if someone wants to rehost better. Please PM me!



Bomberman white
Bomberman black
Bonk
Zonk

[Off-Topic / Re: LOL: is THIS what craigslist is coming to now??]

Ad was taken down.

I take it the person wanted to trade a game for weed

or give weed for a game?

Basically people that will deliver weed to you and take games as payment. At least that's what I got out of it. Here's the ad:



EDIT: meh I don't need to hot link those guys.

[Fighting Street / Re: Topics that are started then locked]

Esteban, a couple things in your post that I take issue with.

...SNIP...

[Off-Topic / Re: Ys: The Art Book]

I think I got a tracking # at some point, but I've pretty much got a constant stream of stupid Amazon Prime items arriving. No scans, how about a potato pic though?

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

[Off-Topic / Re: Putting Galam Stencil to use....]

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Magical Chase FS FAQ]

At this point maybe we can hope for Re-pros.  I really don't care about games as far as value but just being able to play them on a real console on a Giant CRT TV which I do almost daily.  I just ordered a GIMIC! repro and about to get Wiley Wars for the Genesis, I say why not?

I'd be interested in a repro as well, but until then, the gameofyou flash card does the job perfectly.

Agreed! Special thanks to chop5 for helping my retarded ass.




Need a sparky insert 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hudson's CD Game Music Collection '93]

Wow, looks great. Way better than mine! Here's what I came up with (based on the scan you posted in some other thread a while ago):

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

[General Gaming / Re: Universal Game Cases]

After watching a video about the cover project, I got very excited about this idea. I bought a couple hundred of these cases a month or two ago. Got a dremel and a printer, lots of ink. After too many hours and far too many dollars ($150 for 200 cases shipped), I'm not sure if it was worth it. I think most of my displeasure is leveled at the poor quality of my cover prints though. The cases are great, but if you've got a lot of NES games you are in for many hours of work. I was somewhat surprised at the lack of covers available at TCP, though I'm sure that will change.

Anyway, here's a crappy pic:

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle:United Amusements TG-16 Installation Guide and Service Manual]

I've got the cab. Half of me doesn't want to stop a raffle, but the other half is screaming tell me your price. Please add me to your raffle!

[Fighting Street / Re: PCE Cocoron - I have it]

[Off-Topic / Re: Explosions at Boston Marathon.]

Well, I swore to myself I wouldn't respond to this, and here I am.

I don't know the motivations of these two. I don't know if this was their attempt to lash out as pissed off kids, or their personal support for jihad. Hell it could be both. The reality is it doesn't matter. Whatever someone's motivations are for targeting innocents - they are evil.



To be completely honest, one of the things that pisses me off most about this is the desire to pin this on some group. Seriously, it doesn't fucking matter. Christian? Muslim? Hindu? Atheist? White? Black? Brown? It doesn't fucking matter. Trying to use this to prop up your own belief structure isn't ok. Look at what happened for what it is: a couple of fucks decided to kill innocent people.

You can scream all day that the CST guys missed it. You are right, and I'm sure those guys couldn't feel worse about it. That doesn't mean they were in on it. You can cry that these two are part of the Chechen cell in the US. I don't think that stands to reason either.

Please guys, stop trying to make this something it wasn't.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Color Changing Led On My Duo-R !!]

Oh don't take what zeta says serious.... Have a look at his Xmas tree. Tee heee... Led lights

Is that a ball sack at the top?

Sorry, yeah, you are right. I shouldn't drag this anymore off track. Nec, that really is a cool mod! Merry Christmas all!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Ys 4 Manual In English]

EDIT!!!! UPDATED VERSION LATER IN THREAD, LOOK DOWN A FEW POSTS!!!!!

Translated rear insert:



Thanks faustie and mrs faustie!

[Feedback / Re: We have a case of defamation here.]

Here we go again 
Just as you said this shit is 4 years old and we'e all sick of hearing about it cause YOU are the one bringing it up over and over. Even when you made appearences in the chat last time with a room full of ppl who werent even around when this stuff happened all you did was complain about nat and kike and pcefx. I dont think you are capable of "just talking turbo"

Im perfectly capable thats what no one here understands.

The fuck you are. Your very first post on your new account is the same bullshit. It's the same bullshit you pulled earlier this year.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!]

OK, last post on lightscribes I swear I wasn't happy with what I had last night, so I tweaked it a bit:

tinypic.com/f0476.gif
tinypic.com/35buxe0.png

Here's what it looks like burned:



...and here's a comparison between last night's disc, the PCE and tonight's disc:

tinypic.com/2hxq2kg.png

[Off-Topic / Re: Caption Contest]

Awesome

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!]

There already is one man. Here it is.  Lightscribe Image:



Here is what is looks like once burned to the CD. I know it's a bit blurry. My camera never takes good close up pics.

cimg6833.jpg

I've been playing around trying to make my own lightscribe image the past couple days. Here's what I ended up with:

tinypic.com/2u41s43.png
tinypic.com/p4tuf.png

Here's what it looks like after burning 5 or 6 times over:

tinypic.com/2qv9zzp.png

Pretty good! 

Here's a comparison pic with the PCE version:

tinypic.com/28gwln6.png

As awesome as the English manual is (and it is fucking awesome), I wish the whole thing was more TG style. I'd like to see the back cover being the orange and black recommendations you typically see in US games. The inside front cover and back cover I wish were English too. I'm going to try to whip something up for that. Finally, the rear insert could use some TG-ification! I'm attempting to have that done now.

Anyway, thanks again to everyone that worked on this. Tremendous effort, awesome product!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Project.]

Just saw your letter art and request for help on the retronauts blog. Congrats!



Michael G. wants you to help him dub Ys IV! Go and give him a hand!

[Fighting Street / Re: Xray, youre a cunt. err scratch that, Raffle Rules for the Pawnbroker]

I understand the fascination with WWII shit. This was my grandfather's:




I also understand why you'd reproduce SA insignia.  

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Funny things you've been told while buying a TG game or system!]

Excerpt from a buddy's web comic documenting my argument with a game store employee over Bonk's Big Adventure:



(click for full comic)

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

It's been far too long since I've seen this screen:

[Off-Topic / Re: Any Cool Retro Gaming Shops in Your Area???]

There's a 2 store chain around here called Doc's Video Games that I enjoy. I really like the people that work there, but I'll confess their prices are generally a bit high. The good news is that they'll work deals with you and have a selection of pretty hard to find stuff, like PC Engine, TG16, Neo Geo and of course SNES, Genesis, NES, etc. Here's a pic of a Vectrex they had:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Bonk RPG]

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Sadler's Summer of Raffles: Sapphire! OVER! WINNER DRAWN!]

I will be raffling off a series of items in the next few weeks. All raffles end Friday the 13th! (7/13/12) To be eligible, you most have 50 posts and/or been here at least 1 year. Additionally, if all of your posts are in sales/trades, I won't add you. Sorry guys, I'd really like this to go to people that will enjoy it! OK, now that the bad is out of the way, here's what's up for raffle:

Sapphire bootleg! This is only the disc, no manual, case or inlay. Yes, I'm aware there's another raffle giving away 3 Sapphires. Looks like this is a good time to snag a free copy if you are looking for one! Thanks!

BONUS! Sparky's awesome, so winner PM Sparky for free custom inserts!

Participants:

Nando
Samurai Ghost
fraggore
Deletion
Colossus1574

RAFFLE'S OVER! Congrats Nando!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Sadler's Summer of Raffles: Street Fighter 2! OVER! WINNER DRAWN!]

I will be raffling off a series of items in the next few weeks. All raffles end Friday the 13th! (7/13/12) To be eligible, you most have 50 posts and/or been here at least 1 year. Additionally, if all of your posts are in sales/trades, I won't add you. Sorry guys, I'd really like this to go to people that will enjoy it! OK, now that the bad is out of the way, here's what's up for raffle:

Street Fighter 2! Comes with game, hu sleeve, inlay and manual. No case. Thanks!

Participants:

neoxeno
Nando
TheClash603
BigusSchmuck
Gao
CPTRAVE
FiftyQuid

RAFFLE'S OVER! Congrats neoxeno!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Sadler's Summer of Raffles: Super System 3.0 Card case! OVER! WINNER DRAWN!]

I will be raffling off a series of items in the next few weeks. All raffles end Friday the 13th! (7/13/12) To be eligible, you most have 50 posts and/or been here at least 1 year. Additionally, if all of your posts are in sales/trades, I won't add you. Sorry guys, I'd really like this to go to people that will enjoy it! OK, now that the bad is out of the way, here's what's up for raffle:

A Super System Card case! This is only the case and inlay, not the card. Thanks!

Participants:

FiftyQuid
Sparky
c0ldb33r
Duo_R
esteban
meka
neoxeno
Flare65
BigT
DragonmasterDan
pceslayer

RAFFLE OVER! CONGRATS c0ldb33r!!!



c0ldb33r, shoot me a PM and I'll get it sent out to you. Congrats again!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Sadler's Summer of Raffles: AIR ZONK! OVER! WINNER DRAWN!]

I will be raffling off a series of games in the next few weeks. All raffles end Friday the 13th! (7/13/12) To be eligible, you most have 50 posts and/or been here at least 1 year. Additionally, if all of your posts are in sales/trades, I won't add you. Sorry guys, I'd really like this to go to people that will enjoy it! OK, now that the bad is out of the way, here's what's up for raffle:

AIR ZONK! Comes with game and manual. No case or box. Thanks!

Participants:

FiftyQuid
BigusSchmuck
Arjak
Firebomber7
Deletion
fraggore
Samurai Ghost
bartre
Jibbajaba
Gogan
JoshTurboTrollX-16
Bernie
motdelbourt
420GOAT
cabbage
CPTRAVE
Gao
meka
ooPo
storino03
c0ldb33r
munchiaz
mrhaboobi

RAFFLE'S OVER!! CONGRATS JoshTurboTrollX-16!!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo cab!]

Pretty sweet, Sadler!  Are you sure it's a converted Galaga '88 cabinet?  The layout is wrong from the ones I've seen (button layout, monitor orientation, and speaker location), so maybe it's an original cabinet that was originally set up as a Galaga '88 huey.

Well, I've spent some time trying to figure out exactly what I've got on my hands. It doesn't help that I know nothing of arcade games, but I've found some interesting stuff. First, here's a link dump:

neo-geo forum thread with great pics
Manual for hardware
PCEFX thread from some guy that apparently got some portion of the hardware
Most recent PCEFX thread

To address the cab itself, you are right, I don't think this is a Galaga '88 cab. Google image search doesn't show anything like what I've got. What is clear though, is that at least some of this is the United Amusement stuff (more speculation on this later). Compare the controller in these pics:



to my controller: /2u6phz6.jpg

The button layout is the same, apparently left/right handed? My controller has a green stick, but that seems pretty minor. My marquee doesn't seem to match the marquee in those pics though.

Anyway, moving on to United Amusement. Anyone know more about these guys? The Galaga sticker on my cab reads "United Artists Theatre Amusements". Is the similarity in name just a coincidence?

/2uemdc1.jpg

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo cab!]

Cool, can't wait to see it put together and working. Is that the one you found for USD 100?

That's the one, although by the time truck rental was through I was out quite a bit more than $100.

So...it doesn't actually have a TG-16 in it? It also looks semi-proprietary, which is odd for something from that far into the JAMMA years.

Well, it doesn't appear to have much rot/squirrel shit in it, so that's good.

No TG nor harness in it, it's just the cab. Fortunately rodent excrement is minimal.

Very cool. Can you post a pic with the marquee and controller in place?

Sure can!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Turbo cab!]

I was lucky enough to pick up a TurboGrafx cab today from a craigslist deal. Huge thanks to xele for the help moving this thing! Anyway, the whole experience was pretty awesome. I thought the seller was quite a character, but I'm probably basing that entirely on his mustache. I asked about other TG marquees or TG/PCE hardware he might have lying around. Turns out the guy has a laseractive! He didn't seem to want to let it go though, and I don't blame him. Anyway, as far as history on this cab goes, apparently it was a Galaga '88 cab converted for United Artist movie theaters. I think the guy said at one time he had two jamma tg's (actually I think he said PCE), but I'm not sure. Anyway, some pics:

Open cabinet:


Controller:


Marquee:



Galaga sticker:


Coin mechanism:


Random wires I don't understand. Presumably video and audio are somewhere in here:


Way up in the cab. Power supply and some other stuff?


I'd really like to get this thing up and running again. Presumably my first goal is to figure out the wiring inside the cab so I can make a jamma harness for it?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: JAPANESE LASERDISC REPROS]

The old Sapphire boots were pressed, then BMW bought him out.  The new ones he lists now are just CDRs.

So wait, he's now charging %60 more for a CD-R of something than the pressed version cost?

This is why I seriously think we are talking about two different guys here. Whoever made the orriginal Saphires for 30 euros years ago and the dick thats screwing people now. Maybe Fudoh just bought the guy's stuff, took over the website, and went completely stupid and evil afterwards.

I don't know who started this rumor, but it's 100% false. The new Sapphire's are pressed, just like the old ones. I bought a copy a month or two ago, definitely from the new batch (it has a manual). I explicitly asked him if it was pressed, he said it was. Beyond that, the disc has care4data on it. Here's some pics, including one comparing it to SFZ.




My shitty cell phone isn't good enough to capture the care4data, but I promise it is there.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

I typically don't post pictures of the more expensive stuff I buy, just because I never wanted to come off that way.  Even if my intentions are just to show something, I do feel guilty when I get something more higher priced.

That's why I usually only post pictures of my Street Fighter Penis Pills.

Honestly the past couple pages in this thread inspired me to post my more expensive stuff in the rare thread. Fuck the haters.



For the record, I enjoy seeing people's stuff. Like the other guy said, I like seeing how they have it stored. What they've done with loose hueys. What stuff they've got that I've never seen before, etc etc...

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: whats the rarest tg16 item you own... merchandise, game, accesories etc.]

[...snip...]
This thread lacks pics

That it does! I lack anything near as cool as an LT, but I'll post some shitty phone pics of what I've got.

Late hu's:


SCD's:


Working Designs:


PCE (ok, I don't know shit about what's rare on PCE):


Bootlegs and homebrew:

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

Fixed that Neo ad to better represent the truth.

...hilarious pic removed...

Well done!

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

...hilarious SF2 pic...

Not as good, but still funny:

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Gauging interest for a group buy for Neo Flash Cart]

i am using windows 7, should i just scrap that thing and use XP? Now it won't even recognize the card...

Let's start from the top. Upon receiving your flash cart, what steps did you take, and what software (OS mainly) and hardware did you use?

As best I can recall, this is what I did (using Win7 64 bit on an intel core 2 quad):

0. Do not insert the disc, nor the slim loader in you system yet!
1. Download manager from HERE
2. Installed the manager. This included drivers. I did not make any effort to install the manager in a specific location.
3. Inserted flash cart into USB interface
4. Inserted USB interface ("slim loader") into system
5. Navigated to the exe, right clicked and ran as administrator
6. Clicked "Add" and added the ROMs I wanted to play (ie Magical Chase or Soldier Blade)
7. Clicked Burn
8. Removed the slim loader from my system
9. Inserted into DUO-RX with region mod set to Japan
10. Enjoyed ROMs

A few things to note from the above:

* I did not format the drive
* I did not alter the settings on the right for US/Japan (left on Japan), despite the type of ROM I added. See below:

* I did not use the alternate menu system listed on the neo forums
* I'm using an RX, I think both of you are using Duo-R's. Not sure if this matters.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / RAFFLE: Victory Run!]

Raffle closed!



Winner is guyjin!

Entrants:

guyjin
roflmao
genetik
tiptopjames
burn_654
snickersbar
BigusSchmuck
Gao
T2KFreeker

[Fighting Street / Re: Time until teh ban]

It's also very interesting and very sad how those people affected your pathetic little lives so much.

...says the guy that posts 30+ times a day in FS. Pathetic indeed.