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

Some sort of guide to dispel some of the rarity myths might be a worthwhile endeavor even if it doesn't include prices.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Vertical screen rolling on some games]

I'm having an issue where I have vertical screen rolling on some games. It happens on the Konami logo on Rondo of Blood, the second stage of Space Harrier and when I re-enter the first castle on Mysterious Song. It is a DuoR from doujindance. I'm using a Euro scart cable into a scart to component box. My genesis and SNES don't have this problem. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Off-Topic / Re: Windows 93]

For some reason this reminds me of this video:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Your new TG16/CD collection purchases for the month?]

Looking forward to playing this.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: galams annual THIS AIN'T EBAY sale (TG and PCE stuff)]

Great sale, its good to see some fair prices on some great items.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The Magical Component Video Box]

The price is a bit high, but it would make life very convenient for me. I have a Core Grafx sitting here very lonely, it'd be good to hook it up to one of the flat screens with this or use it for recordings. Count me in plz.

For the SNES/Genesis/MS that output RGB w/o a mod then this would be expensive. For the TG16 or PC Engine that would normally require a mod to get RGB i think the price is pretty fair and would not require you having to ship off your system to get it done. There was/is a kickstarter for component cables for the SNES/Genesis. I've been meaning to suggest to Turbokon to use his to RGB to component board and make some component cables. I for example would be interested in some for the Saturn.

[Off-Topic / Re: That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!]

First of all I don't think we should presume what decision Nightwolve should or should not make. That's 100% up to him and nobody else's bidness.

Secondly, it's easy to spew hatred for this kind of thing in the safety of an online forum. But do any of you and I mean ANY OF YOU go up to the countless dealers selling repros at game conventions and give them any sort of shit at all about selling stuff that doesn't belong to them? Do you ask them if they procured permission to use the particular English patch they're using? Why not? When I was at Retropalooza I was blown away by the sheer amount of repros for sale. It almost made wandering around the dealer floor less exciting so I generally just stayed put at my booth.

I was also surprised by how prevalent the repros were at Retropalooza. Oddly enough there were no flash carts anywhere. It was really eye opening as to how this hobby has become more about showing off than playing games. If you were interested in playing games you'd get an everdrive, if you want to show off on Facebook and to your friends you buy a repro.

[NEC Console Resource / Re: Greetings from NJ!]

Welcome to the forum.

[General Gaming / Re: What games deserve a remake?]

Any pre-7 Final Fantasy(6 would be my choice) with characters/art that actually looks like Amano's designs.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Remember that Tengai Makyo Ziria translation project?]

If you guys got together and made a special system card, I'd buy it. In fact I think you deserve to make a little money off your hard work(I know that's not why you're doing it but still) doing these translations. The beauty of this card would be that there would be no copyright or IP infringement so you could sell it w/o concern.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Anearth Fantasy Stories - Translation Project Thread]

I'm curious as to why Google translate calls this game Christmas eve story.

[Off-Topic / Re: That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!]

(C) Tobias "Fudoh" Reich, 2006~2013

Does anyone find that that little copyright C to be extremely hilarious?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Last Alert - Hardcore Gaming 101]

It makes a lot more sense that Guy looks just like Kenshiro, now that I know it was voiced by the same guy.

Linky for the lazy and stoopid

Kenshiro? Like Barbie-San and Kenshiro?

I could probably find a better comparison but I'm in a hurry at the time of posting. Kenshiro is the "Fist of the Northstar"

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Last Alert - Hardcore Gaming 101]

It makes a lot more sense that Guy looks just like Kenshiro, now that I know it was voiced by the same guy.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Blood Gear?]

See, that's an all too common misconception, IMO. You only *think* the plot is amazing because you can't read it. If you could read it you'd probably find that the storyline and voice acting are as lame as every other video game out there. You can probably make some shit up as you go along that's better than the real thing.

It's kind of like reading a book, then they go and make a movie and the casting is complete shit, with characters nothing like you imagined them to be. It's better when you make it up yourself.

[Off-Topic / Re: Retrogaming on NPR]

I don't get the peeps that say they want the old games because new stuff is too violent and graphic.  New stuff is more detailed and higher resolution, but can anyone really argue that stuff like Doom, Splatterhouse, or Mortal Kombat were G rated fun for everyone?  Such games have always been a part of gaming; similarly, 'clean' games like Mario or Kirby are still available today.

Well people tend to remember things through "rose colored glasses."  An example would be the Goonies movie. I think every kid of that era watched that movie. So awhile back my wife and I were watching it with our kids and we're like whoa where did all this bad language and sexual innuendo come from lol.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Retrogate having a sale on the TurboEverdrive +others]

I already have an arcade card and Krikkz says he won't be implementing save states then I won't have much use for the new one. Still sucks though.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle : my shit could be your treasure.. Really?]

I would like to be a part of this raffle, but I"m curious, is it legal to send shit in the mail?

Edit: When I posted, there was no pic, nice raffle.

[Off-Topic / Re: Devastator!]

I used to have the full set of green Devestator that I inherited from an older cousin. They were wore out when I got them and then I wore them out even more. Then I later bought the G2 yellow set that I think I still have somewhere. I was a sucker for big robots, I also had Voltron as a kid and later I got the Power Rangers Megazord even though I was probably too old to watch the show I did anyways.

[Off-Topic / Re: Retron 5 Shown running retroarch and playing roms]

Retron 5 running Ys for PCE. I hope that there is a hack released soon.

[Off-Topic / Re: What does everyone do for a living?]

I work at a chemical plant

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How often do you find TG-16 and TG-CD in the wild?]

All the Play N Trades in my area have closed.  It is depressing but shows that Retro Game collecting cannot support brick and mortar businesses any more.  What is really amazing that these is a TON on inventory in the Possession of Game Stop (Formerly EB, Babages, Funcoland, Etc).  That stuff needs to come out and flood the market.  My only fear would be like $10 Mario Duckhunt games.

I read where GameStop was thinking of getting back in the retro business but I don't think they have a bunch of old stock. I worked for GameStop when they stopped accepting trades on nes/SNES/Genesis and we didn't ship anything back to them we just stopped taking trades and sold down our inventory until it was gone.

[Off-Topic / Re: Raspberry Pi & MAME: Slow, disappointing]

I have been looking at putting a pi 2 inside a snes as a project for me and my daughter. There is a gpio board you can buy that allows you to connect nes or snes controller ports to the pi. The pi 2 is currently hard to get.

[Off-Topic / Re: Retrogaming on NPR]

is there another link? this one isnt loading from my phone

Here is a link to a text version of the story, it also has the link to the audio.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/02/04/381973030/businesses-offer-a-link-to-the-past-for-lovers-of-old-video-games

[Off-Topic / Re: Anti-Vaccine/Vaccination Movement]

Well I'm a little late to this thread but....

Everything in life is associated with risks, getting on the road to go to work increases your chance of getting hit by a car. It's a calculated decision, the odds of you getting killed on the road are slim enough that you(most of you anyways) continue to do it.  There really is no other option besides getting  vaccinated. Without vaccinations the risk of deadly/crippling disease would be so much higher than the potential for side effects of the shot itself.

My son started to show signs of tourrets syndrome at the age of 10. This was not caused by a vaccine. It sucks but sometimes things just happen, that is part of life.

Polio Pics for emphasis:

[Off-Topic / Re: Retrogaming on NPR]

It kind of says something about the state of your hobby when the media starts doing stuff like this. I think the parts about some people buying old games because they are less violent and some people wanting to check out the roots of modern franchises is pretty accurate. Probably the only thing they left out is the one that applies to me and probably many others is the pick up and play nature of old games. I just can't stand to spend 20+ minutes doing a tutorial before I can actually play the game.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Burning Ys IV English Dubbed to play on my PC Engine DUO]

I can't seem to burn this game properly.  I am trying to play it on my PC Engine DUO.  It burns with the English text but no voice at all.  The characters mouths move but nothing comes out.  I have downloaded an ISO image from The ISO Zone and I even English dubbed patched the original Jap Ys IV as well.  Still no luck.  I think most people are emulating this on their PCs.  Has anyone successfully burnt and played this English dubbed version on their DUO?  I am using Image burn to burn my discs.  Maybe I need to switch to Nero or Alcohol.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

1) " I have downloaded an ISO image from The ISO Zone " Does this mean you downloaded a pre-patched/dub ISO and it still doesn't work?
2) " I even English dubbed patched the original Jap Ys IV" did you use an original or an ISO, if using an ISO did you burn it to disc first?

[Off-Topic / Retrogaming on NPR]

NPR did a piece on the surge in retro-gaming.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=381973030&m=383860588

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

Non turbo... But I think y'all will appreciate this one

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=171668804517&alt=web

Not gouging either but from the same seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crimson-Skies-High-Road-to-Revenge-Xbox-2003-Custom-artwork-/171665432709?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27f80ea085

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: A realistic approach - Community driven pressed CDs]

My personal opinion(and yes I know my opinion is meaningless) is that no one should press these CD's if they don't own the original IP. If someone wants to make repro boxes/manuals/cases, I don't see a problem with that as long as they put the files up on the net so that anyone could print/make them. Those who want too print their own, can and those who would rather pay someone to do it, could.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboGrafx-16 @Software Etc. (Stills from training video)]

With all the phantasms that seem to have appeared over night in their stores to haunt the lowly but highly witty night shift guy, I'm surprised you managed to last that long. Surely every store they had was also haunted too.

When I worked there Playstation was the big system, Dreamcast was out but didn't command the shelf space of Ps1. Anyways, we always gutted a copy to put on the floor, just as they do now.  One day this little girl comes in and wants to buy the last copy Mary Kate and Ashley: Winners Circle.  Oddly enough the girl seems too young to be walking around the mall by herself but I think, "Oh well she's got money that's all that matters."  The next morning I open the store and I'm going about my routine alphabetizing games, and holy shit what do I find, Mary Kate and Ashley: Winners Circle. I know I sold the last one, so I think, "Well her parents must have made her return it," and I go about my business. So later that day the same little girl walks in, and proceeds to re-buy the game. I didn't ring her up but I saw that it was the same girl.  The next day I was off, then the following day I work the evening shift. So I was talking with my co-worker who opened the store that morning and jokingly told him about that girl buying the game and then coming back the next day and buying it again. He looks at me like WTF? "She came in yesterday while you were off and again this morning."  I begin furiously digging through the return log and looking up past transactions and it was never returned. Just bought over and over. The next day the same there it is, on the shelf waiting for the creepy girl to come back and buy it again, but this time I get it and I break the disc in half and mark it as defective in inventory. So later on, like clockwork she comes in and she picks up the case which I forgot take off the shelf. I then say,"You can't buy that the disc is broken." She then looks me dead in the eye and says, its ok I'll still pay Tree Fiddy.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboGrafx-16 @Software Etc. (Stills from training video)]

I used to work at Software Etc, started in Nov. of 1999. I later became the manager but that wasn't until around 2002 and it was Gamestop by then.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

There was a store in my small town that sold appliances and Tv's and such. I remember going in there with my mom while she paid her bill and they sold CD-I's. It looked so awesome to me as a game loving kid. I always wanted  one just to have, glad I'm over that phase.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Free U.S. Magical Chase (sealed)]

This is all I have to say on the matter

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB PC-FX CIB plus games]

Do you like jauce.com? I've used a similar service which worked fine but they only did ems shipping and that drives the price up quite a bit.

[Off-Topic / Re: Show us your face!]

Here is me and no I'm not using one of those crappy filter apps on my phone I'm just that brooding and dark. >

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

There are punishments, for people with ebay items like that;

I was thinking they deserve something more like this:

[General Gaming / Re: New Super Mario World Record finishing]

I saw this earlier on NeoGaf. Pretty cool.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: The Official Xak III: The Eternal Recurrence Translation Project]

This thread is full of awesome, I like seeing this back and forth about the script. Seeing Sam's translations I'm looking forward to seeing more your work in actual games.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: The Official Xak III: The Eternal Recurrence Translation Project]

I like the Lufia font also, although it might be just out of nostalgia as I enjoyed that game as a kid.

[General Gaming / Re: XPC-4 / XRGB]

I know there is a cable out there to convert euro scart to jp21. I think I saw it on Solarisjapan.com

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

I just beat Dragon's Curse. What a great game. It has nice progression. Some great music in there too. My only complaint is that it was a little short and that was with me not knowing where to go.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: The Official Emerald Dragon Translation Project]

This game looks really cool. I hope everything continues to go smoothly.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Behold.....a live PC-FX Stream]

Is this a big thing? People sit around watching people play video games on the internet?

I've never tried it before, so maybe I just don't get it... guess I should stop using free time to play the games and break out the popcorn?

One of the most subscribed guys on YouTube is a guy who does "let's play" videos.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Turbografx Controller help!]

Got my cable in and made the swap everything worked great.

[General Gaming / Re: GBS 8200 with RGB modded Snes mini, need advice.]

Haha I read the post and later looked up what a gbs 8200 was. I should have re-read doh!

[General Gaming / Re: GBS 8200 with RGB modded Snes mini, need advice.]

Do you like the GBS-8200? I have a Shinobi PCB that I'd like to build a cabinet for and use a PC monitor.

[General Gaming / Re: People with Amiiboners...]

Shortly after their release it was stated by someone at Nintendo(can't remember who) that some of the less popular characters wouldn't get a second production run. This lead reseller types to run out and buy them and collectard type to lose their shit and pay crazy amounts of money for a piece of plastic that could easily be made by Nintendo if real actual demand existed. Too bad Bonk isn't in Super Smash Bro's, he would make a great addition, Zonk as an alternate costume.

[General Gaming / Re: How many have you beaten this year]

The levels with secret exits are red on the map. If it's not red then there is only one exit. Just go to a level that's red, if it doesn't branch on the map then you've only reached one exit so far.

Yeah, I know - That's an in-game protip you get when hit one of those info boxes or something. ;)

Lol I haven't read those boxes in years. My kids lime to watch me play because I can breeze through the game and I know where basically every secret is. Its one of the few games I'd say I've mastered.

[General Gaming / Re: How many have you beaten this year]

Was trying to do it without any guides, it's just that after you've beaten it and you go back to each and every level to scour it for the secret paths, alternate exits via the key, or whatever, it gets sooo damn boring... I never used to do this as a kid, I wanted to just get to the next game and enjoy something new; beating the game was considered "completed" as far as I was concerned back then. The fast paced nature with renting something every week to beat it though got me eventually regretting, thinking that I was missing out on the "full experience," not really savoring each game, so I slowed my gaming pace down, starting buying more games to own them and fully play them in time, but then I never recovered, then college came, first job, etc. In hindsight, considering all that I'm missing out on these days, I had the right idea as a kid seems like. Heh.

This is a very minor spoiler if you're not using a guide but.............






The levels with secret exits are red on the map. If it's not red then there is only one exit. Just go to a level that's red, if it doesn't branch on the map then you've only reached one exit so far.