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[Buy/Sell/Trade / SOLD: Sony HB-F1XV MSX2+ computer]

Anyone looking for a solid MSX2+ computer? It's modified with a PC floppy drive, so you won't need to worry about replacing the drive belt. It's unboxed without any paper documents, but it's 100% working and in great condition.

This a picture of the actual unit. Only the MSX2+ computer is for sale, nothing else.



I'm looking for serious offers on this. If I can't find the price I want it will go straight to egay.

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

Received a mini-slot expander for my MSX. 

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Simply overkill to have that many cartridge inserted at once, but at the moment I having too much fun.
Slot 1: Padial 4MB Ram (in Goonies case)
Slot 2: Snatcher Sound Cartridge, MegaFlashRom SCC, and FM-Pac. Still one more empty slot.
 

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

Well the latest as of so far i was holding off untile the ps2 game i order got here.

Love that box cover of MetalStorm.   What's the Konami game next to it ?

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

XE-1 Pro FC joystick

Great find these are fantastic arcade sticks. I built an adaptor so I could use mine with my NES toaster.
I highly recommend swapping the 30mm ball top with a 35mm one from Sanwa or Seimitsu. Also it'll benefit with some re-greasing, it's an old stick even if it's mint and unused the grease might be all dried up by now.

Yeah it is a nice joystick i got it from 16bit on ebay there.Though i found out it won't work on my famicom av sad to say.I need either a original famicom or the sharp twin famicom to use it.Though this isn't a rare case either where some third party controllers will not work on a famicom av.I talk to sensei about it and,he mention even the joyball will not work on it.Oh well i been thinking about getting a twin famicom for backup use any ways.

That's strange, I wonder why it doesn't work?
Oh well...plug it into the 7pin controller ports instead. Those I know are identical to the NES pinout and from there that joystick should work. You'll need to build an adaptor though which is piece of cake. Trust me you're only dealing with 5 wires here. Here's the one I built, I hacked off the cord from a nes pad and wired the end to a DB15 male connector.

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

XE-1 Pro FC joystick

Great find these are fantastic arcade sticks. I built an adaptor so I could use mine with my NES toaster.
I highly recommend swapping the 30mm ball top with a 35mm one from Sanwa or Seimitsu. Also it'll benefit with some re-greasing, it's an old stick even if it's mint and unused the grease might be all dried up by now.

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

Arrived yesterday:



Philips NMS8280 MSX2-computer

Nice, that's like the best MSX2 by Philips. Plenty of modifications is possible on this model including MSX2+ conversion, 3rd slot, and ram upgrade.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Ok which Duo / PC Engine controller hack would you like to see next...VOTE]

Here's a photo of Hudson Soft's Joycard Sansui SSS with headphone jack that I would like to get hacked for the Duo.

I remember using one these at my cousin's house many years ago. They're great gamepad about the same as the Nes controller, except slightly looser. Here's photo of the japanese box.

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[General Gaming / Re: The Greatest Video Game Box Art of All Time]

Very lame lineup. Who actually thinks Zelda cover is great ? I'm really disappointed they forgot Guardian Legend.


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

Just recently modified my favorite msx joystick the XE-1PRO using the Atari retrokit. Opted to modify it b/c it's DB9 cable got mangled, and rather than repair it I decided to install a usb cable instead. Installing the retrokit was absolutely painless. About 13 solder points is all it takes, and results are worth it. The joystick is responsive and buttons are sensitive, just how I remembered it. Got into playing some shmups through BlueMSX and Mame. Works especially well with all the maniac shooters from Cave.

I'm thinking of ordering the saturn retrokit. I got few spare saturn pads lying around, and I need the best gamepad for playing SNK and Capcom fighting games on mame.

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo-list reviews]

I suppose this looks like Zanac, then?  ;)

I haven't been around in while, I'm way too tired to read. I just skim thru the this thread, Mike taking decade old reviews personal and they were biased and off the mark. Blah blah blah... Who cares. Bloody Wolf can only be outdone by Ikari Warriors.

Fragmare, where can I find this game btw? is this on the pce?

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[Off-Topic / Re: Let's talk about Hamburger Helper!]

I know my friends love this stuff, and they got me to try it once before. Sure it tastes good but I can't take no more than two spoonfuls w/o being disgusted.  Really, to me it looks like a pile dog shit.

Yuck 

[PC/Console/Mobile Ports / Re: China Warrior SFC?]

Anything's garbage when you start chucking a bunch of it at someone. 
What else would you call this-


Other than a "Garbage Storm" game?

Huh? Was this game made by Allumer because that character was featured in Blandia.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Working Replacement CD Laser Assembly by Hitachi?]

If you look at this picture above, the third image down, these are the type of screws that is in my Duo-R. You need tamper-proof/tamper-resistant torx bit, T-10. It might be another name, on mine torx bit it says T-10. They look like torx bits, but they're hollow in the center.




Are these the type of screw bits you need?

[General Gaming / OMG...Poor Bomberman :(]

Judging by the way that looks, it should've been a sequel to this game instead of Bomberman.



Robo Warrior (Bomber King in Japan), which basically is an action game that uses elements of the Bomberman gameplay engine.
It should be obvious because Robo Warrior/Bomber King is really a Hudson game as well.

OMG Bomber King!

I remember playing this game on my MSX computer 16 years ago. This game was hard (or maybe b/c I was 7 years old and every game seems tough). It sucks that I lost the cartridge when I moved to CA, I never got a chance to finish it.

I guess I'll pick-up the NES version someday since most MSX games are tough to find these days.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Why is the TG-16 way fatter than the PC-Engine?]

In fact, here is a working prototype that I own:

This jumbo-sized HuCard (short for "Humungous Card"), would have been packaged in the same jewel cases, thankfully.

That picture is for real?!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / play japanese games on Turbo Express]

You need one of those Kisado Converters.

wayback.interlog.com/~daves/kisado.html

I'm not interested in Kisado converter. I just want to be able play Japanese hucards only.