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[Fighting Street / Re: To this "Stellarola" person trying to reach me on multiple forums.....]

FINAL VERDICT: Everything has been resolved, all parties have been satisfied, and life continues along its merry way.

Nah lol!

Guy messaged me back on Sega 16. He refused to do so via ebay I guess. I ripped apart his reply piece by piece. 50,000 word screed powers activated. 

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-Monolith is you. You shared directly from your photobucket account as you. Don't insult my intelligence. Other people have said you use multiple accounts.

Lets shut that idea down right now:



That is the email my friend Will sent me to post on PCEFX so they would know he and I are not the same guy, since Jibba posted something you said in regards to Will's account being mine, and I informed him about it. I give people I know direct links to copy paste on forums all the time when sharing shit. I also give direct access to my photobucket and other non-important shit to people I know personally like Quoth09/Eric Neal, and Will, the guy you fucked over on the Neo forums with your cry baby bullshit. I have nothing to hide from them, and it is not some precious resource or family heirloom. Its a fucking file share page in the form of hosting pics, of which the entire point of is to share its content, not keep it locked away privately forever.

And just to feed that paranoia a bit more about my vast and far reaching buyer influence reaching all ends of the universe, I list and buy stuff for other people on ebay and on forums too as a proxy. I did it here on Sega 16 so they could get the tech manual. I did it years prior on the Neo forums when I was a member. I have had friends on there and elsewhere buy shit for me years back when they spotted something they thought Id want, and I have done the same for them. Its called, doing things for friends. Its an amazing thing. 

So if I really wanted to bury you in a quagmire of shit, I'd just have friends keep an eye out for your sale threads on any given forum, and place high dollar orders, then trash your paypal account with buyer disputes 5 months later when you least expect it. But I'm not that kinda guy....or am I? Baaa haa haa haaa haaa!

Since you seem to favor milking a victim complex, this is the best time to do it as any, because if I really wanted you to be a victim, I'd make you one if I was that kinda guy.

Be thankful I am not. I cant vouch for Will though. You made a life long enemy there, so I guess you better be on a look out for all those villainy wily Will guys. One of them may be my friend.

Rot banning Will from the Neo forums over your bullshit has been resolved. Its kinda funny, because we actually thought the ban was from something else until I looked into this more today. Will will make another account if he needs to purchase something from a member. Will isn't going to stress over it because he has no ties to that forum, just interest in the shooters on the system. Will would have privately and gladly gave Rot his full name, mailing address, email, etc, prior, though, as a courtesy, had Rot went about it the right way originally, in a effort to shut your dumb ass down for tossing out false accusations. But this was only if Rot had actually taken the time to ask before buying into your bullshit. But Rot is probably like one of the worst moderators ever I am told, so him actually doing fact checking would be a fucking shock. What I have seen of him now, I'm not impressed.[/B]

-Don't bid on something and then start trying to adjust how it's sold. Just don't fucking bid on the item! It's not her responsibility to adjust pricing and shipping method AFTER you bid on the item. Go read ebay policy again, pls. You were passive aggressive in your tactics. She was fucked from the get go when you won the bids. You are a problem buyer.

I never specified or dictated a shipping amount. You did on your own back to me, using your wifes ebay account to drop me pms. Lets drop the bs here and now. You used her account to sell shit and send messages, and you thought you were going to bypass ebay seller fees by pocketing money from shipping charges. The only reason you had a conniption is because your wife saw you destroyed her account.  The only reason she was fucked was because she was stupid enough to hand the keys over to you in the first place.

Before I even left my feedback, your DSR was dropping. The only DSR I gave you anything other then 5 stars on was the item description, which I gave you 2 stars on. Everything else DSR wise has nothing to do with me. You did that shit to yourself.

Concerning shipping cost, I'm not a noob, and I shut that shit down fast. If you honestly had any concern about packing, you could have charged more then $4 and informed me as to why, if you felt like doing so. $4-$5.50 is in the perfectly reasonable range of shipping cost for the games I got from you via First Class Mail. The choice to charge the lowest amount in that margin was your choice. The $12 you tried to charge on the initial invoice that you, not ebay, had sent, was not reasonable, so tough shit guy.


At any given moment between then and now you could have messaged me via ebay. You dragged this onto a forum I am not even a member of, thus affecting my friends membership, and you stalked me over to here on Sega 16, where I have not even posted since helping people here get that one service tech manual. Basically you went out of your way to NOT contact me, because if you really wanted to reach me, you could have done so on ebay instantly, or joined PCEFX where I actually post at daily and dropped me a pm. Instead you chose to go to places that I am not a member of, or to go to places I hardly post at, mainly to drum up drama and try to get a one sided lynch mob going and make it appear as if you made some legit effort to contact me. Not the brightest one in the bunch, are you?

-Items were listed as acceptable condition and due to age were being sold with no returns. Games were shown working and full shots of the front and back of carts.

And yet when they arrived Street Smart was physically damaged, as in a crack in the back if the shell. All the carts were more scratched up in person then what was depicted in the pics. The labels were peeling on all of them, though that was one of the things I did not actually hold against you, cause I see this happen a lot on MD carts. But honestly, I had to go back and look, because what arrived did not look like what was listed. Regardless of acceptable, you are still responsible of making sure the items arrive in the condition they were listed in, physically, and functionally. Neither of which happened.

I had to repair the Street Smart cart with JB Weld, and sand all the cart pins and polish them to get the carts working. I dont know how much spit you happened to blow into them to get a connection at the time you took pics showing them working, but the connector pins were oxidized bad. Had these been more expensive carts, I would have did a dispute. Since they were not, and since it was obvious you were just a shitty seller, I just left you negatives and a neutral and moved on with my life.

-I've seen your photobucket account and you're fucking obsessed with shipping prices...OBSESSED.

And I've seen your rants. E-stalk much? You're fucking obsessed with me and the hurt feelings and lost sleep I caused you...OBSESSED. View my photobucket till your hearts content. Its kinda gay of you, but meh, whatever.

-Other ebay sellers were contacted prior to contacting you on forums and they all said you were unwilling to reply or change feedback. They all had a lot of terrible things to say about you. Some of them sent multiple messages about your bullshit. You wreck accounts thinking you're doing justice. You're not. You try to shake people down to bend to your will.

Sure guy. You know, out of over 200 transactions over the past year on purchases, I have only had 7 problem sellers. 3 were just plain non-shippers, which is a auto negative. The other 4 were sellers for items not as described. You are one of those 4. This is barely over 1 percent of my total transactions, so you feel free to contact as many sellers as you like. The 923 positive feedback I received from sellers, along with the 450 something positives I received from buyers overshadows any bullshit you can or make up,, let alone conjure up, from contacting other shitty sellers.

-Your expectations are unrealistic. $18 in games and you shot up her account with 3 non positives. That's just fucked, Michael. Your view is skewed and I don't expect you to change. I hope this has been a lesson for you as a ebay shipping justice warrior.

No, yours were the moment you thought you'd log in and pretend to be your wife and sell your shit under the assumption you'd do jacked up shipping cost on bidders after they won. You trashed your wife's account. I lost nothing on this outside of time from having to fix the games I got off you. You could have easily prevented them from getting damaged had you simply put them back to back and taped them together so they would not bang into each other or something. If a few bits of tape and a piece of paper to wrap around the games cost so damn much for you, then I would have gladly forked over the extra 10 cents so I wouldn't have to stress over you having to go to the soup kitchen or hear about your bitching today on the Neo forums.

The only lesson I learned here today was that when I thought I had seen all there is to see as far as some clown having the ability be a whiny little bitch on a gaming forum, you managed to surpass all expectations and show me there is always something new in store on the net to laugh over.

[Fighting Street / Re: To this "Stellarola" person trying to reach me on multiple forums.....]

Lol IKR? On a side note, I got a pretty funny pm from Tool this morning, which I am guessing is related to this and the Rot thing:

[Fighting Street / Re: To this "Stellarola" person trying to reach me on multiple forums.....]

NOTE: I am editing this post because I needed to add more info after getting a email back from my friend concerning this.

Since he's not in here to tell his side of the story, here's what Stellarolla said about this transaction over on the Neo forums:

My wife wanted to make some extra cash and to get started selling on eBay. I gave her my lot of loose Mega Drive games to sell. These games all came from Japan when I bought my Mega Drive about two months ago. I'd guess around 20-30 titles.

She lists them and most sell on average about $5-$7 a piece. I made sure she took photos of the front, back, and the game working in the Mega Drive. I also made sure that she put the condition as "acceptable" and to put that due to the age, these are being sold as-is, no returns.

This one buyer ('Monolith' on the forum) immediately after winning the bid begins to tell her how he has already weighed out his own Mega Drive games in a bubble mailer and how much the shipping should cost. He also starts "mansplaining" to her how ebay "works" and if you don't do it his way you could get negative feedback from other ebayers.

Anyway, I tell her we shouldn't ship it in a bubble mailer since there are more than two games. Per his insistent request we ship his games in a bubble mailer. He receives them and writes two negatives saying the games were not in good condition and took a lot of cleaning. Another feedback was that he said she was "irked" when he asked to combine shipping.

The only thing we said in response was for him to ask prior to bidding next time for combine shipping. His "bubble mailer" price didn't include a box, or insurance, etc. Also, he said he received a game that was cracked on the back.

His feedback says we didn't pack it well. DUDE?! You asked for it to be mailed the absolute cheapest way, you fucking bastard. Also, you gonna give her practically 3 negs for less than $20 in games??

He goes by professorprofessorson on eBay. Checking his left feedback for other users, he does this a lot.

These games were obviously used and in acceptable condition. He has a Mcdonalds budget, but expects filet mignon. I think he abused his buyer rights. Fuck this guy.

peace.

I don't have a dog in this fight because I really don't care, but I don't exactly find his version of events hard to believe.

Monolith is my friend William Grant. He collects mainly old Jamma stuff, so he lurks boards for info on shooters from time to time. Per what Will has to say on this mess:



(Sorry, I chose to black out some of the email info. Dont care to have our email addresses spammed all over the Neo forums. In Will's case his is used for his job, so that would be a major issue)

Jibba, you can relay to him that bit if you like. Your call.

Outside of that, for one, Will is a black guy, gives no fucks about PCE, classic pc gaming, consoles, etc. The guy put in enough research to try to find me on multiple forums, but didn't do enough research to actually figure out who he is blind dropping pms to on the Neo forums? He just goes around making assumptions based on what, minimal research he did on someone posting a link that mentions me I guess?

I don't post or hang out on the Neo forums. I have not owned a NeoGeo in quite some time, gave my last MVS away a long while back to a friend of Hercs, as I have ZERO interest in it these days, and no longer personally mess with Jamma stuff, so I wont be joining there again just to argue back and forth with Aquaman69 and her husband or wtf ever.

As for the whole thing of me telling them what they weighed, yes I did, after they sent me the original  jacked up invoice. I never named a price, or made demand of one. I just requested First Class Mail, because I knew it could be done, and prefer it to assholes shipping games via Media Mail or trying to rape on shipping charges, then shipping via Media Mail after said rape.




Her response was

Dear professorprofessorson,

The shipping in the listing was based on eBay suggested defaults. I'll weight it all out tomorrow and send you over an invoice.

Thanks

- aquamango17

And this is the reply I sent "his wife" after she messaged me back saying it was a default invoice that was auto generated and that she would get me a quote:





Kinda been on there long enough to know the difference between ebays automated invoices, and ones sent by a seller, and the one they sent was not automated and came hours after I had won and received the original default ones issued by ebays automated system. So they got a friendly message of sorts since they are supposedly "new" to ebay (at this point its clear to me its an alt account, and that the guy probably trashed his own already prior and is having to use his wifes).

Their reply back to that was:




I replied back to that with this:



After that I called it a day. The only goal was to maybe salvage the seller at that point, and I got the feeling they did not care. It kinda sucks because I was hoping they were going to be a regular import seller I could do regular business with, but it became clear this was a cash out sorta thing on some games and the seller had no intention of being a decent ebay seller. You dont demand buyers contact you about shipping like that prior to bids unless you are concerned it will affect your profits you planned to reap from the shipping cost.

That pretty much told me all that I needed to know, that they were trying to skirt the ebay seller fees. They never did change the almost $8 shipping cost on Ys III on Mega Drive they had listed, even on the relist, nor post any disclaimers about their shipping policies on other listings. Basically they were trying to base their shipping cost around what they wanted to actually make on each game to skirt the fees.

Ebay does not require any bidder to notify any seller in advance of placing bids about wanting combined shipping on multiple purchases. This is for multiple reasons, including the fact that sellers may refuse to reply hoping to ensnare the bidder into winning, then dumping high shipping cost on them after the fact.

The fact of the matter is that if the seller is so against combined shipping rates, they should have put it in their auction details from jump street. Odds are good they wouldn't last long on ebay after doing this, but still, that would have been the proper way to display that kind of disclaimer, and I let them know that.

For me, I bid on the games I won while I was on my damn Samsung Galaxy while on the way to the hospital to visit my mother. I placed the bids near the end of the auction. On mobile, the only info you get when viewing ebay is of a brief description of the item, the option to bid, and the pics.

Like I said, put the games in a zip lock bag, tape them securely back to back, and drop them in a mailer and they would have arrived fine. My take on it is the seller seemed to be kinda dickish about it by taking me literally and just tossing them in a mailer and saying fuck it. I have a feeling they stepped on the package first just to make a point.

CONCERNING THEIR FEEDBACK. When I went to leave them the feedback, I did not downrate their DSR for shipping time, communication, or shipping cost. I only downrated their DSR for the "Item as described" rating. They earned their lower DSR ratings from other bidders.

Either way, if the seller wants to get it handled and make good on the damaged carts, you don't do it by sending your husband to contact people I know, hunt me down on forums or anything like that. If the husband was so insecure about the way they were doing it, he could have messaged me his concern at that point in time. They are the one that did the invoice for 4 bucks, not me. Be a fucking man already. Its your games guy, not your wifes.

They could have said $4-5.50 and that would have been a perfectly reasonable amount for First Class Mail. You have to be a total fucking noob at shipping to not know how to manage mailing something like a few loose carts, and they botched it completely, either on purpose, or out of stupidity. I dont care at this point whichever it was.


A better question at this point though is, as my friend pointed out, why is this guy having his wife sell his shit and handle his business on ebay. What kinda fucking pussy is he? The odds are its more like the guy is using his wife's account to sell shit, hiding behind her name, and after he fucked things up for her and she saw it, she got pissed.

[Off-Topic / Oh pdevoir2020.... :\]

I love how ebay sellers abuse funny angles and use blurry out of focus pics to make disc look like they are in great condition.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/131639193813?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT



In actuality:



And yes, somewhere between their taking the pic and packing it up to ship off to me, they placed a giant greasy finger print on the disc. Also, disc has a few top scratches, and is failing surface scan checks. GG pdevoir2020, gg.

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

Just two tidbits to add to this thread, for the sake of keeping it alive and updated with content.

One is this ironic quote from Tobias:

I'm not really a gamer anymore, I've been at that for 30 years now and my backlog is growing and growing. I haven't even finished (most of) the NES and PC Engine games yet which I bought back then.

Source: wayback.tested.com/tech/gaming/456719-best-crt-retro-games/

And also this, as I am not sure if it has been posted elsewhere (the letter from Hudson that Tobias faked):



Not bumping to stir up more drama or anything, but mainly just an effort to keep things chronicled concerning all things Tobias.

[General Gaming / Re: What are the best Master System titles?]

After looking at some gameplay of Bomber Raid, I am grabbing that one too. It looks solid.

That's why I mentioned TransBot...I had a feeling you might want to play all the shootemups, even if they are not groundbreaking...I picked up Bomber Raid from majors recently*



* "recently" in my world translates --> two years ago.

I will probably skip Transbot. It's not a long game at all, more of a early tech demo, not really worth the asking price. If they would have given the game a couple more levels it would have been cool. Bomber Raid just looks solid, so I am sure I will enjoy it.

[General Gaming / Re: Nes to Famicom adapters?]

I think I found a fix so that the connection issue can be prevented completely, as long as the cart pins are clean. Basically what it is is the pcb inside the adapters case has slack. The post from the shell in the center that hold the adapter pcb in place are a tad thinner then the actual pcb through holes. Due to that as you insert a cart on it, the adapter pcb inside the shell can be slightly forced downward, making the connectors on one side of the Nes cart slightly lose connection.

Basically on a Nes game, any given one, one side of the connectors has less length then the other side. The shorter connection side loses connection slightly due to that slack and the adapter pcb shifting position.

My fix for this was taking some strips of clear then plastic and folding them to the correct thickness to make them into wedges, then sticking them at specific spots inside the shell so that they will prevent the adapter pcb from shifting postion down low anymore. I used dabs of hot glue to keep the wedges in place. All in all it works rather well.








EDIT: Yeah this fix did exactly what I expected it to do. No more slack, so the adapter pcb no longer shifts postion. So now I don't have to dick around with sliding the thing left or right on the Nes carts to try to make it connect better on some of my carts. Now everything works fine right from the get go, on the first try.

[Off-Topic / Re: Do you hate GreatBlueSwirlof99? If so, why?]

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[Fighting Street / Re: lol Facebook Turbo fans are pretty dumb]

Just start directing all of tards you run across to DoxPhile.  That's where the rest of the tards hang out anyways.

Ouch, but that's OK, all-publicity-is-good-publicity from nully's perspective. You played right into his hands and dropped a free plug on his behalf, objectively. Quite honestly, no one man has ever quite accomplished the level of free spamming to forum harvest than what he has... ;)

You know, I thought the whole DoxPhile thing was a running gag until the other day when I took a look and saw it was a extremely unfinished site with hardly any content and no forum activity. Reminds me of the RisingStuff forum harvesting, hoping that if they just grab enough people something will happen. The layout looks cool, but there is nothing there to keep me interested if I wanted to sign up.

I am guess people use it for a chat box though which is cool. But in general just not seeing anything going on there on their forum. Most all the topics have not had activity in awhile, and at this point from a personal perspective, DoxPhile has got to offer me more then a forum anyway to keep me coming back. I am already on enough forums so there is no appeal there.

[Fighting Street / Re: New PCEFX group: the 4K Post Club]

Who is this Emerald Rocker guy? Less then 600 post? Guy cant even get into the 1k Club, which I have done twice now myself. 



Get one of those, then come back to us with proposals for a 2k, 3k, and 4k club.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Splatterhouse PCE copy raffle]

Switz and Germany are both on my shit list since Tobias has used both as his stomping grounds for his business, but mainly Germany.  I mean, unless I know you personally, which I would then make an exception, or if the president gets kidnapped by ninjas or something, and you happen to rescue him along with defeating Karnov, and go out for burgers afterwords and have your picture taken with him and like 200 Secret Service agents out on the White House lawn, I might make an exception for you. But in general, no, you are sol.

And in case you are wondering which Karnov I am referring to, its this one (formally known as Zoltar):

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

Giving Tobias all the attention he deserves:

wayback://facebook/bloodstainedrotn/444057452385943
Forget Bloodstained, why buy that when you can buy this bootleg of Castlevania Dracula X? Hell, this Dracula X comes with energy drinks. Does Bloodstained include energy drinks? I think not....

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

Ive been meaning to post an update to this thread for a long time now, but basically as it were I had to remain quiet concerning what was going on because I wanted to see how much of a embarrassing blow could be dealt to Tobias. Because Tobias, I hold a grudge, and I will get pay back if I can, even if it takes years. You owed me, my friend Eric, the entire PCE community.

You owe big, and it is time to pay up. You didn't want to apologize about the Sapphire mess and own up to it, and you pulled this shit on Nightwolve, and you still insist on overpriced repro copies, so this is how you pay up instead.

After coming across the Tobias PCE memories in a local trade prior and getting his address and email info, I concocted a plan to see if Tobias could be tricked into sending me a package to promo, so I could double check the shipper address and actually get registered tracking so I would have legit proof of where his stuff was coming from when I handed the info over to Konami in Europe, because honestly I knew where Tobias was going with all of this, and if you are not smart enough to figure it out, I will lay it out for you, high priced Dracula X bootlegs.

I know Tobias has a snitch here, I aint gonna say names, but I can tell you I suspect its a German member who has offered Tobias stuff here prior. Due to that there was concern if I just contacted Tobias using my IRL name "Mike" that he would know or suspect who I am and the ruse would probably be up. I set up a alias email under the name of Mark Castor, contacted him concerning an imaginary fake PCE/TG booth at a current Classic Game Fest convention that was to happen this month in Texas, and he could send a couple of things for promo if he liked.

I said we would be showing a beta copy of Pit-Fighter for TG-CD of all things at this show, given to us by a prior unnamed Tengen employee, just to see if maybe he would bite, and if nothing else maybe ask me for a copy of it and give me a mailing address I could compare to the one I got from the prior trade if he didn't want to mail anything. I even created some fake Pit-Fighter footage made to look the game was playing off a cd-r on my Duo in case he asked for proof.

Amazingly I guess Germans think Pit-Fighter is so bad that he did not ask or even inquire about it AT ALL lol. But he did take the bait at a chance to show off his wares. And when I say he took the bait, I mean he really took the bait. He sent multiple copies of both the PCE and Turbo Duo Memory box sets and the RPG titles, Xak and the other one. Also copies of a caravan shooter called Force Gear and Cycho Rider. Doubles of these were given out to my friends Eric and also Herc here.

I kept in touch with him under the Mark alias and kept in friendly contact, stoked his ego on his encoder knowledge some on the iScan stuff, etc, in hopes I could get him to admit to what future titles he had planned, because I really wanted hard evidence on the whole Ys 4 thing too for Nightwolve (which ultimately Tobias never mentioned or admits to have pressed or had plans to do so. He in fact stated he planned to stop doing RPG releases and get back into the other genres.).

Ends up Tobias sends me more packages. They include the Beyond Shadowgate and Might and Magic III games along with Twin Bee One has a secret game he doesn't want mentioned until he reveals it on his website. Its so secret he wont even tell me the name of it. Any guess what it is? Yes, Dracula X. The fucker made a boxset for Dracula X.

After his last packages arrived and I got my proof collected, I cut off any contact with him and went dark. So here we are now, its time for the convention, and good ole Tobias promoting a fake booth for his own wares at a real convention. The irony of it all.




Oh yes, and I am sure you want to see these also:










So yeah info has all been collected and will be forwarded to Konami Europe in good time.

Tobias. You pulled the Sapphire shit. You lied and cheated your way into high profits with Sapphire fakes. You came back again with more overpriced wares, not willing to even come down to reasonable repro prices. Just typical Tobias behavior, trying to milk the PCE/TG community for what its worth. You caused many including myself and people I know a large amount of stress, especially with this shit you have done to Nightwolve. You thought you were irreproachable and untouchable in all of this. Just some wanna be Victor Ireland all nice and safe hiding in Europe funding your upscaler purchases off the PCE community.

So here we are now. And the fact of the matter is if you'd come here and apologized for all the Sapphire shit you pulled on us, gave Nightwolve a fair shake instead of going behind his back and taking advantage of a situation, and you actually priced your shit according to reasonable repro value, much of this could have been avoided. You make great quality repros, but you're an self serving asshole, 100 percent through and through.

So yeah, you did it your way, so now I did it mine. You paid some of us back in what will now be both embarrassment and freebee merchandise, and a few of your own bucks spent to send said stuff, which I guess makes up for ripping me and Eric off on Sapphire. Konami can do what they will with said info. It will be up to them to decide what to do with you since it is Konami Europe that would be tasked with doing anything about Dracula X, etc.

GG Tobias, GG.

[Off-Topic / Re: Random and light]

Can't beat SuperCommieCentipede.

Damn.

Professor!?

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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Defective Splatterhouse is defective :/]

Bought from Toshi/Jump to Japan. Oddly enough it only seems to happen on stage 6, the womb stage. Black and white pixel squares. Pins have been cleaned and the game has been tested on both my systems. The issue is there on both systems. Just wtf about this. 2nd Hu-card I have come across with corrupt graphics in a few months now. Might be a good time for people to start spot checking their more valuable hu-cards, and doing more then just testing the first stage. Especially if they are considering selling them at some point.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Interest check 1999 Sony driven Pal/SECAM to NTSC composite video converter]

Ok, here is the deal. I don't need this thing. Between the cap card in my main pc, my iScan units, and if I get extremely desperate, my Toshiba LCD, I am fine on Pal support. My Toshiba will display Pal in color, it just crops some of the image and stretches it some, not great quality. My iScan on my HP monitor, and cap card on my main pc handles Pal much better then my Toshiba does. But honestly I only have one thing that uses Pal, and I don't really play it, so I just don't need this at all.

This unit was sold under the Emerson badge also at about $300 retail when released, but with slightly different power features. The Emerson one lacked a fuse holder and a switch to swap between North American and European current, and used an external 15 volt power brick. This one has the power supply built in, the NA/EU 110/220 power switch, and a easy access fuse holder, so this one is considered superior to the Emerson rebadge, and retailed for a tad more when you could find it.

This box can convert Pal/SECAM to NTSC or convert NTSC to PAL. There are switches on the back to adjust it the way you want. Internally this thing is driven mainly by chips made by Sony. Its not like those tiny laggy digital boxes with no name chips.

The thing is with this unit it does not do any comb filtering. It is made simply to convert the composite video signal, not clean it up. If your TV has a shit comb filter this will not help your picture noise situation. Any picture clean up with still depend on your tv's DNR features/settings.

I cant locate the info anymore, but years back when I got this I had come across a post of someone modding this to accept and output s-video also. I don't recall how extensive the mod was though, or what all parts were required. This was quite a few years back.

Visually if you like older entertainment center type equipment, the large metal box stuff with wood panels on the side and gold colored feet, this is something you would probably dig. It's large, metal with side panels and gold feet, heavy, and looks nice on a shelf.

Anyway, basic specs are:

Built-in switchable power supply for both 110V and 220V AC systems
Converts any NTSC, PAL B/D/G/I or SECAM video inputs to NTSC or PAL B/D/G/I video outputs
Professional, full digital processing
Line conversion 525 to 625 lines
Built-in time base correction function for signal synchronization

I took pics so you could see the unit and also see it running. As you can see it displays Pal stuff at the correct 4:3 aspect ratio on my LCD. No cropping issue in the image like what would happen if I just let my Toshiba handle the conversion.

























So anyway, if anyone would be interested in it, I would be willing to do a trade or maybe sell the thing. Trade wise just typical stuff, Nes, Snes/SFC, TG/PCE. Money wise I am not sure on a price. If someone was really interested they could make a cash offer and let me think it over.

[Off-Topic / Re: BigusSchmuck lives up to his name!]

I mean, you cant play video games well,

OMG, LOL. What. A. Zinger. Damn. You got me.

What I wanna know is, do you share this tidbit about this little badge of honor you earned on any other forums you frequent? Or are you like Nintega, going around pretending to be different people on other forums, trying to get people to like you under false pretense? Speaking of which, you coming and going after long periods of absence, only to start shit every time you reappear, it really reaks of Dave. You going out of your way to copy him or something?

Who the fuck is Dave?



(Thanks Jibbs!)

Its a gaming forum. It would kind of be expected that the participants are half way competent at the subject matter, and not require tools to cheat their way through everything. As for Dave, Dave is Nintega. Don't play stupid, or someone is going to have to slap the stupid out of you, and between you and me, I'm sure you're pretty tired of being slapped around all the time as is.

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

LOL at Malcolm in the Middle loving PC Gaming more than girls.

On another note:

Fucking Cremaster Cycle lol.

[General Gaming / Re: NUON]

what i learned from that article is that this guy was the father of both Jaguar and NUON, and I could totally pull off that hair do.

Without reading too much on here, I just kinda thought it was a woman going bald in the pic.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle, something that isn't broken Turbo Zone Direct Flyers!]

Winner announced in two weeks!

[General Gaming / Re: Scan Request: PS1 Castlevania SOTN Rear Inlay]

[Fighting Street / Re: Oh Professor how i love thee...]

This thread only has 12 replies. It's underpowered. A Shubibinman 3 game cleared screenshot should help power it up some.



More game clear screen shots could probably drive this threads power level over 9000.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Pics needed of original potentometer settings on PCE Duo]

System fixed. Found decent res pics of the pots on someones Duo in stock position, and set mine to those, opting to ignore the black marks made prior. After that Valis started to load, so I marked those settings off with dabs of red paint. After sacrificing a Super Nintendo to the OBEY God, may he rule forever....





I then followed up with very minor tweaks to the pcb pots and the laser's pot until noise and chirping was eliminated, then followed up with more extremely minor adjustments to 101 until I could do multiple successful playbacks of every music track and story scene (with the audio being in sync with the scenes), and load every stage, all with no delays or misreads.

Did a full game run also from start to finish with no issue and no noisy whine from the laser. Also ran through Shubibinman 3 and did a fast forward through disc one of my SW: ROTJ soundtrack and got no jitter or skipping, so all seems well now. Posting pics of the pots for the fuck of it, in case they may help anyone down the line.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

In response to the JW related post on the prior page. My prolonged experience with JW's..... (and apologies in advance if any of it seems jumbled, it is a lot to recall)

My ex-in laws, WA and Virginia Burse, currently located in in South Carolina, are JW. WA was an elder or whatever at his prior kingdom hall. I don't know if he is at the current one. For about 5 years they constantly sided with and helped cover up the abuse my ex and her then husband committed on my kids. They lied in court during our divorce, and to DHS and the police after the divorce. I lived 3 hrs away, and on my weekend visits and summer visits the ex in laws would help clean the kids up and all so everything would look normal when I or my mom picked the kids up.

Only after my ex-wife managed to burn her own house down did my ex-mother in law finally have a change of heart and did what was right, and informed me as to what all was going on mid 2k5 (drug use, physical abuse, burglary).

I took back custody of the kids and started contacting the schools they attended prior to get records and found out from them that school staff reported my ex to DHS often for abuse and neglect (No one ever notified me of this, DHS or otherwise). After a bit of time more details emerged from my kids, they told my family in detail as to what all had happened to them. Way more then what my ex mother in law was evidently aware of.

While I wont get into the gritty details of all of the abuse, needless to say my ex fled the state because the police were contacted, she and her husband failed a polygraph, and warrants were then issued. My ex-inlaws moved out of state to avoid any embarrassment with people they knew, basically leaving my side of the family to be the ones to pick up the pieces. My ex-wifes husband was in jail for something unrelated when he took the poly test and failed, so he was kept in jail and prosecuted successfully fairly quickly.

During the next 6 years or so my ex mother in law and I stayed on what I felt were good/peaceful terms (we didn't argue), and I let the kids visit her during the summer in the spirit of just trying to patch things up and let everyone heal and move on. During this time she did send JW's she knew that were in our area to kinda sorta spy on us. If we didn't return a phone call from her in like 24 hrs, we'd have some JW knocking on our door the next day, or leaving a note on our car asking if things were ok. I just kind of humored it all because it was mostly harmless.

Over the years I spent time trying to track my ex down. Found out she was in New Jersey. Reported her location but she fled the area quickly. Later on I found out she was staying with family on her fathers side here in the south in 2011. My ex-inlaws did not divulge info to that side of their family about her warrants, etc. until my ex-wife had started some mess there with an aunt or something.

They also did not inform me she was there until after the supposed mess had occurred and my ex was captured (a family member ratted her out after they found out about the warrants). My ex mother in-law told me they did not know she was there until right before she was caught and extradited back to Arkansas in late 2011. I found out much later during trial preparation in winter 2012 that my ex in-laws knew she was there with family for quite a few months. They had been knowing quite a bit more about her whereabouts then they ever let on to law enforcement.

At any given time my ex was there, her mother or father could have called the cops and informed them of her location, or inform me, but didn't. Due to my ex mother in laws reluctance to do the right thing, my ex got to stay on the run for much longer then she should have.

Also, the summer in 2012, before the preparation for the upcoming trial, my kids went to visit my ex-in laws. My son came back depressed and angry from this visit. It took him a few months basically before he opened up as to why. Ended up my ex-mother in law tried to pressure him constantly to stay in Georgia, and also to not testify against his mom, and that my ex mother in-law and my sons aunt had taken great liberties to talk shit about me, all sorts of lies and crap.

I played it cool and tried to just take the high road. I informed the in-laws that the kids would be staying with me next summer, partly due to my daughter having summer school, which was true, but also stated my son wanted to stay this time and look for a summer job (he didn't). Basically just making excuses for why they needed to stay with us the following summer.

My ex mother in-law freaked out and started attacking me verbally via email and to my kids on the phone, lying about me and other shit, so in the end I told her I knew everything she did during the kids last visit and we had quite a bit of words. Her justification for her actions were because "people are not perfect".

Needless to say my son was not allowed to go back and visit them alone until he turned 18 last summer, so that he would not be stuck out there totally in their care during any visit, at their mercy, like a minor would be. He would be legally responsible for himself as an adult. My daughter is under the same restriction, not until she is 18 unless my ex in-laws come here and visit her supervised, which my ex mother in law is not interested in doing.

During the falling out I had offered them to visit the kids as long as it is supervised. Instead of coming here to visit the kids, they went and visited their daughter in prison. Due to that my kids only kept in touch with them fia cell phone until my son turned 18. My ex in-laws and I no longer speak now at all after that mess. All respect has been lost. Regardless, I don't talk about them and their stupidity in front of my kids.

I just kind of moved on from the situation. This is the first time I have really mentioned it to anyone in quite some time since these days I consider it a WA and Virgina Burse family issue. I no longer have to deal with them on any level, nor am I obligated to do so.

Also I should state this, just for the sake of disclosure. My ex opted out of having a trial and plead guilty. She is in prison for a long duration. During preparing for the trial that never happened, my ex was submitted to a mental health screening, because she was going to attempt to plea not guilty by reason of mental defect/insanity. During the interviews held with her, which I have access to the records of, she had stated that she was physically and sexually abused by her father. She stated her mother knew of the abuse:




I should also note my ex wife is a pathological liar who will burn you out of spite, and lie about you for just about any reason, so it is difficult to put much stock into what she said. This is the same ex who lied on the stand saying I beat her all the time when we were divorcing to try to get a sympathetic ear with the judge, so I have a hard time believing anything she says. If what she says is true though, then it kind of goes hand in hand with what you always end up reading about, jehovah witnesses linked with sexual abuse coverups and other issues.

In addition, because I feel like tacking these links on to give some insight into my ex-inlaws way of thinking:

http://www.watchthetower.net/reasons.html

http://www.revealnews.org/article/jehovahs-witnesses-use-1st-amendment-to-hide-child-sex-abuse-claims/

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/12/jehovahs_witnesses_under_fire.html

And for lulz:
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/quotes/oral-anal-sex.php

http://masonemerson.freeyellow.com/christianwitnessescom/id90.html

[Off-Topic / Re: Concerning ebay seller boldvideogames...]

Yeah it just caught me off guard. They were pretty civil in their reply when they offered a refund for the battery cost, though I never gave any impression that I wanted the such in either PM I sent to them. I think all they really wanted was positive FB, and just planned to block me as soon as I left it. They clearly don't like suggestions on how to improve their sales. The passive aggressive shit of blocking my id from purchases is pretty childish, just a plain out dick move.

This is the messages that were sent back and forth:

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

Arrived, by pceworks.

Congrats on your purchase from a known lying scam artist who perpetrated fraud against the public by claiming his Sapphire bootlegs were authentic when he first starting doing this, even going as far as fabricating a document by Hudson Soft to back his claims up, and who slapped my Xak III fan translation on to these CDs without permission, not because he feared I would say no, but because of greed and the desire to pocket 100% of whatever net profit he would make minus cost of production per CD, etc. Also add Tru/John and his SO II translation who also was not contacted (I have yet to report this to Tru, but I will time permitting), etc. So yes, congrats! Supporting scam artists is brag worthy!

Oh come on.... What did you really hope to achieve with this post?

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[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

this just in! so happy to own this awesome title!

Big Van Vader is so awesome lol. You should check out the All Japan Pro Giant Gram games also.

Lost: "GG 2000: All Japan Pro Wrestling 3 Vader and Hansen tag team play through"

They were ported to Saturn and DC. Tons of fun.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game capture and the variable frame rate abyss. Any video experts here?]

Just some tidbits I am adding concerning Vegas and VirtualDub, and some things I had to set to get rid of the smoothing blurred crap Vegas was doing on my videos during its deinterlacing process.

Results before adjustments:


Results after adjustments:



VirtualDub:
1. Make sure to install the Lagarith codec prior to running.

2. Set compression to Lagarith, with multithreading enabled in configure on Lagarith.

3. On "capture pin" set output size to 640x480 and color space to UYVY.

4. On audio don't check "Enable Audio Playback", because it eats up more cpu resources during capping, but do enable "Audio Capture" and "Volume Meter". Volume meter will confirm you have audio fed in correctly.

5. On "Video", go to "Filter Chain" and "Filter List", then add "Deinterlace". Once added klik on it and set to "Blend fields" and on the field order set "Keep Top Field" After that go back to "Filter Chain and check "Enable".

6. Then go to file and choose "set capture file". This is where you will name your video clip you will be capping. After that you can go to "Capture" and klik "Capture Video" when you are ready to start, and when you are done klik "Stop Capture".

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Sony Vegas:
To help prevent the interpolation blur mess from happening in your gameplay video you can go to "File", select "Properties", set "Full-resolution rendering quality" to best, then set "Deinterlace method" to none (make sure you had something else do the deinterlacing to the video clips prior at capping). Choose what ever you want to render as, but what I choose is Windows Media Video V11 @ 6Mbps HD 720-30p.

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Last video I am submitting. I could probably tinker around with some better deinterlacing methods a tad more but not worth the time given what I got is already perfectly fine for general viewing (and that some methods can add extremely long times to the rendering process, not worth it for gameplay videos). This is the end result of the above settings:

preview pics from the video:










Extra thanks to Eric/Quoth09, who suggested VirtualDub, etc, and for being an all-round knowledge pool concerning this stuff.

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

Modded my Snes Mini for sync and RGB output. I did individual jacks for each signal, because I planned to make a custom cable when the GBS arrives. Anyway, not finding much info out on the net about this, so I have been posting around trying to find out if this will work fine as is with the GBS, or if I need to do anything extra. This is the mod I did for the RGB and Sync output:



I have read that the GBS has issues sometimes with sync signals from different game systems, so was wondering if anyone knew if this would work fine, or if I will have to do anything extra to the sync output of the Snes Mini in order to get it working. Anyone know?

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

World of Tanks, been running the E25 a lot lately.





It will be rare soon, they are pulling it from the in game store. At any rate, according to in game player tracking, I play this particular tank destroyer better then 80 percent of the North American player base. Most recent match was another ACE tanker win. Went in with the smallest TD with the smallest gun and came out the highest scorer on the team due to super aggressive play.










Oh yeah, for those WWII buffs out there, yes, I do have a Maus lol!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

The score of the year for me. Brand new with everything included (even the screw on joystick).

15 years ago or so, I got one of these (which I still have) on sale at my local Officedepot. It was awesome for pretty much everything. The first game I tried with it was OMF 2097.

I have one of these still new/sealed in retail box. I don't need it though, in case someone would be interested in getting it off of me in a sale or trade.

EDIT: Looks like mine is a tad later then yours. The box for mine varies somewhat.

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Anyway, I got a lot of DB15 based pc game pads, and I have one that connects to the keyboard also, so this one just ended up staying sealed in its box unused.

[Fighting Street / Re: Suicide]

Dark Kabold setting himself ablaze, Fat Lee salutes this.

[Off-Topic / Lulzy capacitor seller is lulzy]

Posting a lulzy back and forth between myself and a ebay seller, allsysgo42, concerning Ltec caps that occurred today. The seller is known for showing Japanese caps in the auction pics but actually sending lower quality generics and crap to the customer. I figured I would check them out and see if there was any truth to it, and there was lol. Seller starts to become annoyed and accuses me of being a democrat, etc in a mini wild tangent. Anyway, read the stuff below from bottom to top. Thats the correct order to read them in.

[Fighting Street / Re: MD considered the better shmups console than PCE?]

There, problem solved.

[Fighting Street / Into the mind of the narcissistic murderous douche Elliot Rodgers]

This guy gives Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker and Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman a serious run for their money. Imagine the two characters combined into one v neck sweater, sunglasses wearing, BMW driving, spoiled narcissistic douche bag. His music taste tops it all off too. Not to take away from the crimes he did before he went an-hero, but seriously, watch'em all for lulz before they get pulled. Some of these are pretty damn funny.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRodger/videos

Of particular note:

and

and

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

This week's import haul: (and a whole lotta other mess!)

Good news: Got my Neo Geo CD way faster than I expected!   
Bad news: It doesn't work. 
The disk won't read or spin... at least not very much. (See this video: http://instagram.com/p/oGohb-HAGv/)
If anyone has any suggestions, throw 'em at me.
Here's everything else I got:
Neo Geo CDs
King of Fighters '94
King of Fighters '95
The Way of the Blade (That's the Japansese "Last Blade" right?)
Garou Densetsu 3
Shin Samurai Spirits
Famicom
Pinball
Macross
Itadaki Street

Pop it open and take a look at the lid door switch. It is a pretty fragile part and may be broken. If so you can either replace it or just solder a connection of its solder joints to make it register as permanently closed.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Turbo Outrun for Mega Drive beaten. High score in pic. Couldn't grab webcam in time to snap the end, but basically after you reach the last stop cheerleaders come out and fireworks go off, etc, then you enter in your high score after it shows a pic.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: NeoGeo Cd for parts (interest check)]

The laser is there, but I have no idea if it works.  There are some screws missing on this thing. The main boards look good, no blown caps. The shell looks good but I suspect the post that held the cd drive in place were repaired at one time, as a couple of them have epoxy around them. There is no damage on the outside area of the shell, so I can not gauge what the epoxy was laid out for on those post, if it was minor cracks, etc, or if the prior owner was worried they were not sturdy enough to hold the laser or what. They feel stiff to me.

I couldn't begin to place any real value on this thing, and I think it should only be looked at as for parts, to either help repair another system, or to gut and use to make a CMVS. I'm not going to piece it out. Whoever wants it needs to take the entire thing. I'm not positive, but I am thinking this came to me as a junk item from Hit-Japan. It has been probably 5 years since I screwed around with the thing.

I had like 5 Neo Cd decks at one point and I recall two of them being bought as junk items for parts, at around 40 bucks each. I just don't know if this is the one that came from Hit-Japan or not, but I suspect not because I don't think they would have sent it missing screws and shit. Anyway, I wouldn't say for me it would be worth more then a couple games or whatever, and even at that point just as motivation to make me pack it up and pay to ship it out, since I would be responsible for shipping cost also.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Sengoku for Mega Cd beaten.




Also, look at the lovey message I spotted during the credits:

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Space Harrier 32X beaten. Wanted to catch the "The End" screen or whatever, but didn't make it to the webcam in time. sigh.

[Off-Topic / Re: PCEFX Hall of Shame]

This is exactly what I am talking about..  The newcomers get shit on by people like this.

I think you have misunderstood this situation entirely. You created your own mess by being a lying peice of shit.

Mathius, professorprof  has admitted to resale and sell things for other people.

Yes, exactly, I admit to things I do freely, because I have nothing to hide. I also don't try to gouge out peoples eyes with glass to get profits either. And yes, I sell items for others. I dont charge them for this service either. As long as they cover the auction fee's etc I'm good, so dont even try to assume that is some kind of money generating operation I have going on.

Per my own items, if I have something old I don't want anymore, then yeah, I will sell it at times, or just give it away or trade it. But I don't go out looking for game systems and video games strictly to resell, and I don't do jacked up prices. I also share free mod info and other tech info on this and other forums. I also, from time to time, give away free hardware, etc. I have held multiple raffles here, given away stuff on Digital Press, to friends, etc.

So, what have you done exactly, besides try to screw people over (yeah, someone showed me your twitter post where you were joking about ripping some woman off by charging her about 80 bucks to reset her bios on her pc), or use other peoples mod info to make money? You are a leech, simple as that.

When someone says yeah i got this and took what I needed and going to sell the rest..  They are considered scum bag resellers?  If that is the case then everyone here is guilty of that. 

No. Just you man, just you. Many around here pass on their savings from lot buys and the such to other members here. The first thought that pops into mind is not "What can I get for this on ebay".

Bernie sold me the tg-16 and dock because he bought it for the extra CD player and the American system card.  he sold the system card, kept the cd-rom and sold me the rest.  is he considered a scum reseller?

Bernie, much to the communities regret, went out of his way to honor a sale to you. He lost money to make sure the item was shipped out to you, and to thank him you lied about him and tried to shake him down to get more out of him. Big difference there between you and him.

My kids room is a giant fucking deathtrap of clutter. Think about it.

Instead of trying to rape people on ebay, maybe you should take some time out to get that fucking room clean, and buy the kid a damn bed. No child should have to sleep on the floor on a mat surrounded by all that fucking clutter. For shame. For muther fucking shame.....Go be a dad or something already.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Double Dragon II for Mega Drive.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

After Burner 32X.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / For trade: KSS-220a and KSS-162a laser assemblies/tg cd spare parts]

Ok, here is the deal. I have a pair of laser assemblies (laser and motors and whatever gears are present, etc). KSS-220a & KSS-162a. These were obtained around mid to late 2008 or so I believe. The KSS-220a is in a Discman I gutted years back after testing to make sure the laser worked. The insides were just dead weight to me and so out they went. I just kept the laser assembly in the Discmans shell still to protect it.

The  KSS-162a is from a Nec CD-Rom drive similar to the Turbo CD one, but it was light grey/white'ish. This is the drive it originates from:






I had 3 or 4 of these drives back in the day, all in great shape, and used one of their parts, the shell mainly, and combined it with the inner parts of the TG-CD discman (black laser assembly, circuit board, buttons) to make a black/white/grey drive to go in a briefcase unit seen here:







Anyway, long story short, drives not used for parts were sold off so others could keep their Turbo/PCE Cd's going, and I sold the briefcase system long ago too. I stored the KSS-162a from the white cd drive inside the black Turbo-cd drives shell so it would not get damaged. The laser worked fine when I tested it prior to this project, I just did not need to use it as the Turbo CD's laser that was used in the project was also in great shape.

Anyway, this KSS-162a I am offering here has all 3 of its gears. The middle gear is removed and wrapped in plastic and taped inside the shell. I forget why I did this, but I think it was to make it easier to re-grease if the time ever came to use the thing to re-assemble a drive for someone.

Since that project was done years back these things have been stored in a box taking up space for  along time. They have been in the same small box for what I think is going on 6 years now, and after two moves and having to reorganize my pc /console parts area I think it's time to finally let these go, as I have zero intention of buying a PCE CD or TG-CD again and honestly I am tired of having to take them every time I move knowing I have no use for them. That and I keep forgetting I have them until I do a parts assessment every year or two.

Now the disclaimer. As stated, these things have been stored carefully in a box (sideways to boot, as it prevents gravity from stressing the laser during storage), and have seen no use since they were tested prior years back. In their current state I have no way to test them at all to make sure they have not suffered during their long storage (both these lasers are over 24 years old now, as the KSS-162a came from a drive manufactured in 89, and the Discman containing the KSS-220a was manufactured in 1990).

Due to that I would prefer that whomever wants to make an offer be aware that while highly unlikely, these may have developed issues I would be unaware of. I don't usually offer up anything I can not test, which is why I did not post these prior, but at this point I'd rather see them off to someone who is willing to take a chance, as opposed to just tucking them away for years more. If nothing else the black TG-CD shell, along with the gears and motors can still be used for a restoration project if the lasers can not. The TG-CD shell is still in fairly good condition, so that would be good for swapping out on one with a lot of scratches and wear.

Pics of the items offered up for trade:












Anyway, so, what am I asking for here? Not much, and please, no cash offers, I don't need money for these.

I would be willing to trade these things for 1-3 Genesis/Sega CD/32X games. Number just depends on games being offered. Can be loose carts with worn labels. Don't care as long as the games work fine. Right now I am looking for Metal Head, Shadow Squadron, Wrestlemainia Arcade Game, Afterburner, NBA Jam TE, and Space Harrier for 32X.

For Genesis & Mega Drive, Shinobi 3, Splatterhouse 2-3, Castlevainia Bloodlines, Air Buster, Hellfire, Phantasy Star 2-4, Exile, Raiden, Valis 1, Lightning Force, Street Fighter 2 Champ Edition, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Castle of Illusion, Ultimate MK3, and some others I cant think of right now off the top of my head. A list of what I already own on Genesis/Mega Drive can be found here:
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=16653.msg341895#msg341895

For JP Mega Cd/USA Sega CD, Road Avenger, Earnest Evans, Silpheed, Robo Aleste, Ninja Warriors, Final Fight (JP version, I have the US one) Sonic CD (Mega CD version). Disc can be loose in generic case for all I care, as long as they are not heavily scratched.

If you think you have something I want, but it is not on the list, I am open to offers. If I have never dealt with you prior here though I prefer you have a decent feedback count, have completed a couple deals here at least, come with a recommendation, or ship first (you ship your items at your expense). If I know you and have dealt with you before then all I require is shipping out in same time frame, you cover your ship cost, and I cover mine.

Now, I don't really see anyone needing this stuff, but hey, might as well post just in case.

[General Gaming / Re: Best Sega genesis games]

I collected the entire Genesis set!

Set of what?

[Fighting Street / Re: You may continue on now Arkan]

I don't actually know anyone that has been screwed over by him in a deal. As far as I am aware, any deal he has made he has stuck to. The reselling bit he tried though however..... Ahh well anyway this thread just comes off as a bit desperate, whiny and self serving. But at least it's an attempt to move the bickering out of someones raffle.


ZARDOZ. THE GUN IS GOOD! THE PENIS IS EVIL!




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This message has been brought to you by Bill Paxton, because crying helps.

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[General Gaming / Re: And a day of violence was to be had by all.....]

If you put the time in to learn how to side scrap (with tanks that can do so really well, not all can), angle armor, and aim for weak spots it can be pretty fun yeah. Some tips?

1. Armor angling. If you sit directly straight in front of a enemy tank and they fire the odds are better their shot will penetrate your armor. If you angle your tank you increase the armor thickness, which means the shot fired has a harder time penetrating depending on the gun/ammo used. There is a excellent guide about angling and side scraping for beginners found here:
http://taugrim.com/2013/04/27/guide-to-angling-in-world-of-tanks/

2. Belly shots are key in brawls.  Many higher tier heavy tanks have weak bellies on the hull. If their tank is angled, you will stand a better chance of damaging their lower belly then the upper hull of the front of the tank. If they are angled and they have a thick upper hull then it is more likely to bounce your shots. If you bounce one or two off the upper hull then go right for the belly and try your luck if at all possible.



3. Hull down tactics. Due to lower hulls being prone to more damage from belly shots it is ideal to learn how to hull down, that is use small hills/inclines and the such to hide your lower areas so only your strongest upper armor is exposed. When going turret down make sure to remember to go down far enough to hide your commander hatch on the turret also.

Hull down tactics are best for tanks and tank destroyers with great upper armor and great gun depression. In the upper tiers the American heavy tanks and also the Russians heavies tend to be great at hull down tactics. This was a key tactic for me when using the Russian ST-1 Tier 9 heavy tank.



4. Group tactics  in close quarters and using cover. In alleys it is key when pulling off ambushes that turn into brawls on city blocks to use a solid formation and be patient and take turns. Not doing so will lead to missed shots and lots of team damage.

When fighting in valleys/open fields with only rocks for solid cover or brush for hiding, use whatever you can while preparing to fire. Always be mindful of finding and using objects for cover. Many tank destroyers can sit far back and will be invisible due to high cammo values, and they will pick off exposed tanks.




5. Weak spots are key. Most tanks have the same obvious weak spots in general. Some though do not have typical ones, like certain tank destroyers like the T95. Due to this as you advance up the tiers in World of tanks it is best to check the stats of the other tanks you will be facing, and also google for the tanks weak spots, and also your own, or go here to find many for a lot of the major heavy hitters in the game:   http://wotguru.com/weak-spot-guides/

In general though you can go by this as a common rule set concerning damaging obvious weak spots other then the front lower hull:

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: TurboGrafX 16 Logo T-Shirts for sale]

Now it looks like you have a lawsuit on your hands, nice going.

and

I'm going to suggest to the moderators of this forum that they take every screen shot down and every reference to my full name down immediately or they are going to hear from my lawyer.  This is compromising my identity and my personal safety and I will not put up with it.  I highly suggest you remove this whole topic and every topic I posted so I can leave this site with my identity safe.

and via private PM

GO FUCK YOURSELF

So anyway Mr. Aaron Lambert. To sum all of this up:
You open up a Facebook group, which I am guessing took you all of 5 mins to do.

You act retarded and power mad as fuck all on your facebook group, and ban people who correct you on your and your other friends behavior and other issues.

You partake in copyright infringement by making t-shirts and selling them that use copyrighted materials belonging to other corporations and entities.

You come to this forum, either totally ignorant to the fact of it being home to everyone you seemed to have banned, or just not really caring because you are so hard up for cash that you think these same people will be suckers for cheap crap.

You now find out that your behavior on one website has followed and ruined your reputation and ability to sell on another website.

You claim comments made about you are slanderous, even though everything stated has been proven as fact by the evidence posted from facebook right down to the pics of the final product t-shirts you are hawking.

You threaten lawsuits in an attempt to destroy any reference to your erratic and abusive activity (I expect people to start saving/archiving every post that has been made, both on here and on facebook to cover yourselves, otherwise this guy might just start lying about the things he posted and what you yourselves have stated).

So, lets get real here. You come to a community to sell items, but don't want anyone to know who you are. Just some mysterious guy with no name selling t-shirts. Yet you use your real name for your profile ID and now claim your safety is compromised? Just how many people or customers have you pissed off that you're now worried people know who you are? You threaten to sue people, along with this website/forum, over your own foolish facebook activity that was re-posted here. No morally responsible lawyer would take your case when presented with all of the facts and seen you are in the wrong.

Also, what makes you think that none of us would not think twice to notify the proper copyright/trademark holders for the logos and catchphrases you are illegally using on your t-shirts? For that matter, what makes you think one of us has not already done so?

You want some advice Aaron L?
1.Close shop. The items you are selling you have no legal right to do until you obtain permission and a contract with the original copyright holders.

2. Never threaten lawsuits on the internet, especially over your own tom foolery that you yourself caused. You be responsible for all of our legal fee's in your supposed suit against us, if you actually filed one, as your own would obviously fail. Pulling a Rising Stuff scares no one on this forum, especially me. You claiming others are slandering you, compromising your safety, or blaming others for damaging your sales is in itself false claim, leans towards slander/defamation of our character, and could possibly be grounds for a lawsuit itself.

A lawsuit involving multiple parties on this forum who would all file together in a huge forum superpac whose goal would be to rightfully and publicaly expose you for every wrong/grievance you had committed against us and to legally and rightfully bankrupt your stupid ass into oblivion with legal fees for attacking and slandering this forum and its members over your own questionable behavior and illegal sales of others work/tradmarks/copyrights that you have as of yet to present any legal right to be able to sell.

Yes, try it, fuck with us and see how far it will go, how far this community will take it. If you were too stupid to figure it out during the post made in the other prior 6 or 7 pages, consider this the official glove slap of the REAL Turbografx and Pc-Engine community to you, you stupid worthless cunt.




Concerning any sales matters here: BUYER BEWARE. Seller has presented clearly questionable behavior, and is selling what appears to be illegal goods, as he has as of yet to present a legal agreement between himself and the original copyright owners.

[Off-Topic / Re: Arcade Pad on the Way]

I scored a PS2 HRAP (Tekken 5 anniversary) stick for free a while back in a semi broken state, threw in a $5 PS3 pad from 5Below that I hacked. Little TLC and some spray paint:

I think you're confused. Thats clearly an arcade pad you have there.

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

My babes mugshot

If so, then thanks for helping to confirm much of what we suspect about you and who you are as a person.

wayback.smnewsnet.com/archives/75877

Maybe someone more motivated may want to hit her up on facebook and drop her a pm asking her if she actually knows this clown:

/sad.jpg

And if so, or if not, let her know that said sad clown is on this forum using her mugshot and implying she's his gf or whatever. For the curious, here is her facebook account (checked her post and comments made on that news report to confirm its the one and the same, this is indeed her facebook account):
https://www.facebook.com/crystal.holesapple