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Got this last night in a family christmas exchange. I let a friend borrow it a long long time ago and have been wanting a copy for years. I am really glad to have this game again, it's so good!

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I knew someone was going to reply with quote on that one lol

Here's what I got for Christmas!


 
Also got this Lagrange Points for me and Ope off YJA

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Such a nice christmas here! This was a fun Secret Santa as always. Thanks again to Necromancer for organizing everything and thanks to "Peke Santa" for the totally AWESOME gifts. I love the X68000 controller especially so I can finally play all the Neo Geo ports properly.
Merry Christmas everyone!

I also got a second package from England!!! This was a total surprise. I opened the package a couple days ago and have already listened to the cd like 15 times. There are some totally awesome tracks. I especially like the Star Soldier electro track and the Ys songs. The Bazzy case will hold my Flash cards and stickers and stuff. I love it!
Thanks Superplay!! You rock dude!

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Micomsoft Cyberstick get for my X68000 
I'd love to get or make the adapter to play pc engine games with it too eventually
Here's a vid from SuperDeadite demonstrating it's use with PCE

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#46 Ane San
Not a very deep game and very easy but still fun and very interesting. I like the bosozoku gang theme throughout. You can get money to buy stuff to decorate your room between levels. I want to play again to save up for the awesome chopper bike.

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Been a while since I bought stuff. Here's some coool stuff I picked up this last week though
Thanks Galam for the Riot Zone!!

Some Anime Laserdiscs. If anyone has more US anime Laserdiscs LMK I am always looking

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Broken Pachinko....


This is something I've been wanting to get for a long time

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I want to be penetrated into this raffle
ENTER ME

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Atomiswave PCB with Expansion I/O and 4 games

Fist of the North Star
Demolish Fist
Dolphin Blue
KOF XI
The games are all repro bootleg carts that you can still buy new from Ali express. If there is a problem posting this here please let me know.
250 SHIPPED USA

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Stool for my candy cabs

Cool Konami shooter PCB

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Ok here's the rest



Pac installed

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I got a package from Japan full of awesome stuff!

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Three boobed lady in my city

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Total Recall anyone?

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So happy I found this locally! This thing is absolutely MINT. This must have been stored in a clean climate controlled environment. There are no scratches or even any dust or dirt  particles on it. I have been hoping to find one for a while locally and got lucky to find this today! Now I just need some pacs

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This was my desk about a month ago

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This needs to be on the top of the forum where News is

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I found a PCFX pad locally so I'm raffling off the one that came with my system. It's a little yellow but gets the job done. Please don't enter if you don't have a use for this. I would like it to go to someone who would like to get some 2 player Zenki action going 
Since the PCFX sections don't get much attention I'll run this till it looks like everyone interested has a chance to see it and enter.


Sadler
Mishran
Fidde_se
xcrement5x
Duo_R
crans
clackattack
jlued686

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FINALLY!!!!!!

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14. Dungeon Explorer


Game was a lot of fun, and I'm sure its even more fun playing co-op. Really wish i could try DE II but at its current price point, i don't see that happening for a long time

Sweet! I shamefully haven't even really played my copy enough to figure out the game. As for DEII, just get a JP copy and slide a cdr of the US one behind the real disk, nobody will know but you ;)

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Have you attempted this yourself?  I might have to see about moding my CRT tv that I am keeping seeing how it is bigger........

YUP, I can now say yes and it IS beautiful!!!! I got interested the other night, and said what the hell, let's give it a shot after I remembered I had an old 13" CRT lying around, unused (they're ALL "monitors" technically now, not TVs, since the analog-to-digital signal switch; their tuners are defunct, so they're only good for whatever video inputs they have). I didn't wanna first experiment with my 32" entertainment center TV, so this was perfect, if I broke it I wouldn't give a shit.

So you need a CRT TV with at least a yellow Composite input jack. Following the lead of the guy that did it on his, I targeted that PCB that's connected to the tube that drives the electron guns.



My PCB was very simple in design and I could actually follow it a bit. There are 3 transistors, 3 big high-watt resistors at 15 kOhms in between the power to the transistors and the emitters were jumped over to go right to the guns. There were 'R' 'G' and 'B' labels and following them back to a set of 5 wires, I could make a good guess as to which of the 3 were for RGB. Like him, they weren't colored specifically, mine were all gray, but I used markers and nail polish to color them accordingly:



That PCB can come off as he did there above, but if there is enough labeling on the backside, better to leave it alone. But yeah, for research, you may have to in order to get a better look on the topside of the PCB. I had to since that's where the labeling was and I didn't wanna make any mistakes.

So I clip the 3 wires I was pretty sure are the RGB lines, I brought my SNES out, had to tap the standard RGB outputs as I didn't have the SCART cable that the Multi-AV out supported, hooked up the Composite jack, connected the 3 wires up once I had everything in position and gave it a shot!! Well, the only hiccup was that the signal was too strong/bright, so I turned down the pot for brightness at this thing:



That's the only adjustment I had to make. Never touch the pot for focus, but this you can as it's essentially the "master brightness" set at the factory. I wouldn't recommend this, but I did it cause I didn't care about going back and turning down the brightness digitally via the TV's digital menu system, nor could I at that point!

See, once you clip those RGB lines from the motherboard, you are no longer going to get the benefit of the OCD Operating System of the TV, the menus to control sound, video, channel adding/delete, that's all disconnected and your console is in full direct control of whatever is shown, so to do the mod right, you need a switch that reconnects those 3 wires so you can reset everything to its defaults and change something as need be.

The results: So just after turning down the brightness, I tried many SNES games I had handy, and I gotta tell ya, it was beautiful, like arcade or close to emulator mode. Many details were readable, like in "Super Street Fighter II," Dee Jay's "Maximum" labeled on his pants (never noticed that before)! There were ZERO issues about green levels or tint or black levels, it was all perfect after brightness adjustment! Pure RGB goodness.

Now, I am confused, I had that SNES still unfinished for a Component mod, but this seems so much better. And what to do about my Turbo Duo, to date, nobody has shown me what is the best RGB amplifier circuit for it and I think I would like to have one now, but I already picked out the real estate for the Component jacks to use steve's circuit, so I'd have to use the DIN for RGB if I wanted it or something... :/



My shit was way better than that!! Way better, games like "Super Mario World" came alive, solid, clean colors, no wavy interference, clear, crisp, shimmering completely gone, etc. I would reconnect the lines and then compare with Composite, so of course I got highly contrasting results as even S-Video/Component improve things quite a bit from Composite. Differences wouldn't be so stark going from S-Video/YPbPr to RGB as they are from Composite being the point.

Anyhow, I *think* I might try to make a thread for this and possibly record a video.

Conclusion: RGB is DEFINITELY worth it! And if an old, crappy CRT TV can be turned into an Arcade-like monitor by cutting/rerouting 3 wires, F--KIN' A! You still need steve's brain to get the exact way to properly set up the inputs, I'll have to stop by the chatroom some time and pick his brain for ideas, but yeah, it works beautifully in the case of this particular TV. No guarantee it'll be as easy or that I'll get the same results for my 32" TV, but I'm gonna try it some time now that it worked for this 13" model!

Oh yes, as far as specs, the 13" TV is made by some no-name brand "Orion" and was manufactured in 2003 (No, not in China, Thailand actually). It's mono, has 2 jacks in front for audio and Composite, and one RF jack in the back, that's it. Pretty cheap.

Nice work but just be careful working on that CRT chassis especially if you don't even know what the thing is you adjusted the brightness on is called (the flyback) which holds a very high charge. The average person shouldn't do this kind of work as it is very dangerous especially if the tube is not discharged properly and it is not safe to do any soldering anywhere even the yoke pcb if it's not discharged. Might want to include those kind of warnings if you do make a guide

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Here's what I picked up last weekend at Metrocon, the Tampa anime convention.
Yume Penguin Monogotari has been a game I've been looking forward to owning for a long time now. It's a really fun and weird Konami game and it has the penguin from Antarctic Adventure 

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DAAAAAAMN
*bows*

Dude I've been playing this game for years and I can't even beat level 4. This is one of the hardest games I've ever played, you are truly the PCE game clearing master

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Mecha King Ghidora disapproves of PekeyCyborgs lack of OBEY. 

('tis a day late and a dollar short, but better late than never)

the animation is hilarious
Actually they are side by side right now enjoying each others company. The X68k even borrowed a controller from the pce

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I joined the X68K XVI club recently thanks to a really awesome member here
It's a maxed out system with compact flash and midi. I also got a PS/2 keyboard adapter, pc engine pad hacked and CM-300 midi module with it. It's such an awesome system and I'm loving it so far. I had the oppertunity on this computer that I couldn't pass up so finally took the plunge. I already had a NEC XM29 monitor so using this system in the US has been very easy for me as the XM can switch from VGA to low res automatically.
Still figuring this out and exploring the library of games. There's so many nice shooters and it's a real treat to play them all on original hardware!

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Just received Metamor Jupiter.

Absolutely love Old School style anime art, so beautiful.

Awesome game! Doesn't get enough attention. I think a lot of shooter fans look over it because of the lack of score but it's really awesome and worth figuring out and finishing. The ending is a really nice full vocal track. I uploaded it on YT but try and beat it to hear it for yourself first

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Couple recent clears
Just beat Snatcher tonight


Was on a Game Boy kick last month
Metroid II is so kickass


Kirby! So easy

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1435900

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#45 Gate of Thunder
YES this game is AWESOME

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Game room before friends came over the other night

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Miley
Obeygrafx Galaga/Nulltard Avatar Mashup"
Guyjins Tennokoe clear

I will end you.

dude you can't expect me to actually read all that and following instructions
geez

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New cab. Needs some cosmetic work but it should clean up nice. Most importantly though, the PCB and monitor are in great working order!

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yoyo can testify that is a freakin vietnamese word that HE showed me.



Google it , its a real place. yoyo said "im sick of driving by that restaurant every day and it callin me a bich nga"

that was HILARIOUS

I just saw this, yeah it is a real place, I just drove by it the other day. I thought Xak was in Hollywood FL though which is on the east coast, and this is in St Pete on the gulf side

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Speaking of Bonk, after being a TG16/PCE gamer for a year, I finally got it!

I also got Gaiares for the Mega Drive, as seen on top of the TV. Cool thing is it's one of those carts that will play in English if you put it in a US console. (Thank you Game Genie.)

Two awesome games SmaMan! I wish I had the JP Gaiares instead of the US version with the stupid artwork

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My wife got me this. It's the Japanese version, not sure if there's any differences. I haven't played this since I was a kid on my super game boy late at night with the lights off. This game freaked me out when the Metroids pop out of nowhere with their creepy music. Great game, can't wait to play it again!

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1,510,800


Hopefully the creator of this thread, our absentee admin, will someday update this or let someone who cares about this forum and our pce scene like me ability to update high scores.

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First time 1cc'ing this game! feels good, I beat it once before using a continue and I was kind of not happy about it. Nice score too! 1,510,800

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Pink game boy is a present for my wife and the other stuff is buttons to mod this and other game boys with back lights. Can't wait to work on this stuff!

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Anyone playing this one? Hopefully I can get some good gaming in before I have to go back to work friday

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Game of You flash cart from the raffle from member esadajr, thanks again dude!!

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Got this flash cart in today. Thank you so much for holding this raffle, this thing is very awesome. I can't wait to mess around with this tonight. I played a couple rounds of Soldier Blade that was already loaded onto it today. There's some cool home brew stuff though that I can't wait to finally play



I need to make a custom case for this baby today too. Hopefully I can find one of those hudson cases where the hu card slides in for it, that would be perfect

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I beat the high score



uploading a vid shortly

Post it in the Air Zonk high score thread
Hopefully we can get some competition from StarSoldier1.

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I've started Obeying today. Bought the region and video modded system which came with Keith Courage and 3x3 Eyes from CrackTiger, who rules! I'm having so much fun already

Congrats! That Duo R looks really nice. Enjoy it, I remember how awesome it was when I got my first Duo!

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Cal.50 and loop=24 joysticks

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I hope Esteban sees this 

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The little things in baggies are brand new RGB amps from Broken over at Neo Geo. Can't wait to install them!
The PCE games were from a trade with Mathius and the cards are a bonus surprise! Thanks a bunch dude!

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Got this in a trade from Xelement
Thanks bud!!! I can't wait to play both of these. If anyone has the spine cards, hook a brother up!

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Holy montey haul beamer!!!!

Theses are a couple games I picked up last night locally at a game store. I haven't bought a game locally in a very long time. Everything has been picked over here locally and it's all overpriced junk or stuff with no prices where the clerk takes the game to ebay and tells you the "market price"

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Stfu, punk. Geez...