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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: PC Engine GT recapped question about capacitors]

In general you want to meet or exceed the original voltage rating. The original 50v may have been over specced and you might be fine. You could use a multi meter and check the voltage on that cap. If it's over 35v you would want to change it.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Beyond shadowgate/Rhondo repro Manual and back insert]

Who's Rhonda?

He needs a back insert for his bootleg beach boys cd?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

You feed on negatively and stupidity, kinda sad really.

Welcome to planet Earth.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

Always good to see a Memento reference.  I need to watch that movie again; haven't seen it since it came out.  I always felt it was the type of movie I couldn't watch a second time but lately I've been thinking differently.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

I hope that if Mark Thomann really wants a console like this to market he decides to talk with kevtris about it.

He did. Then he burnt his bridge by acting like a cunt to him and the. Threw him under the bus publicly.

Kev's response was pretty much "whatever" and left it at that.

Mark Thomann wasn't even in the picture then.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

Wow.  I'm kind of shocked to see this finally come to an end.  Maybe shocked is the wrong word.  I feel kind of unfulfilled in the ending of the once great RetroVGS with hard drive cartridges and the ability to play everything.

Some will claim this as an elaborate joke or worse a scam to cheat people.  I feel like Mike truly believed in this thing.  Which has left me dumbfounded.  After all this time and "lessons learned" the only think they accomplished was Jaguar shells.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

I was hoping to see more SH-IT videos.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Just... Bad, Turbo Ebay Auctions (Not Gouging)]

Also, who else does this? Ya know, swapping out staples? Is it just me? Am I crazy?

Honestly the thought has never even occurred to me.  This may not be the place for this but what would be the benefits?  I'm guessing rusty staples can deteriorate paper over time?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Behold! The PC Engine Turbo UNO!]

...since the DUO casing always looked to me as if two halves of a system were thrown together.

Yeah I see that.  I've always thought the duo design was heavily inspired by the briefcase set up.

Great work. Really nice case work.  Now make it glossy like Ninja16608's.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: A warning to Doujindance Duo owners.]

Honestly I had always heard that Doujindance did poor mod work.  IIRC his stuff has shown up in that messy mod work thread that was inspired by drakon. 

I'm glad you got it working again!  I have a soft spot in my heart for rehab units.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Massive amount of duo and all other retro gaming for trade or sale]

hope everyone on here is not as ignorent or disrespectful as you.

Ahh.  There's your mistake right there.  Everyone on this forum is at least twice as ignorant and three times as disrespectful as Nully.  Nully's just a harmless drunk.  The rest of us are truly mean spirited.

Now learn to use spell check.  Some grammar, syntax, and spacing would help too.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

So apparently attaching yourself to the name Coleco, another failed console-maker, while still using the shell of another failed console-maker, is the "winning formula" they were missing before ???

Maybe two wrongs really do make a right.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Pc fx controller backwards compatible?]

Connector isn't the same.  Not sure if it can be rewired but I kind of doubt it.

[General Gaming / Re: Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana PS4 & Vita]

Anyone who has sung Latin befor may recognize lacrimosa as "weeping". Not sure if that's what falcom is going for though. The weeping of Dana.

[Off-Topic / Re: What happened to Esteban?]

I think he was so hurt by the retro vgs failure that he moved to some mountain and swore off all technology.

[Fighting Street / Re: Check out the Special Olympics over at MSX.org]

Haha.  Interesting read.  Without knowing much of the back story here it certainly seems that Kai guy is in the wrong.  Either way I think it's pretty deplorable to claim a game as yours and sell it while having stolen graphics in it. 

Yeah their loss Arkhan.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Opening a PCE AV Booster (without breaking it)?]

I'd just use a 3 LB hammer.

Or a hair dryer.

[Fighting Street / Re: Is "Tool" legitimately dumb, or just a bad troll?]

Well played nulls!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How did the seller test this controller?]

Yeah I've got one of these controllers with this feature.  I've been meaning to glue it but i may lop off the end and put a Japanese style connector on it instead.  The controller works perfectly otherwise.

[Fighting Street / Re: Is "Tool" legitimately dumb, or just a bad troll?]

One only needs to look at his intro thread to see what an ass wipe he is.

Exhibit C

Ebay is way overpriced for me, so looking to spend time in For Sale sections in pretty much every Retro Gaming forum online. .....

I'm looking to complete the entire US HuCard library. I also collect TOOL records, CD's, cassettes and memorabilia. Big Tool fan. ...

Anyways to make long story short, glad to be here and hopefully I can buy some stuff I need without having to pay stupid ebay prices.

hmm. fix your rage and issues. I most likely will not sell anything here since I can sell on ebay for more. Yes I can be on a forum to buy trade and sell. I'm reporting you to site owner for abuse.

[Off-Topic / Re: Ian doesn't know the definition of "censorship"]

Giggly boob physics

This made me giggle.  Could you imagine if all the boobs in fighting games over the years were laughing at you instead of bouncing around.

[Off-Topic / Re: Ian doesn't know the definition of "censorship"]

This is my point.  Which I feel Ian and Pat did a poor job of discussing.

I'm not so sure you read me correctly then.  Going back to your original post/point; I wasn't agreeing that Ian is wrong.  Nor trying to prove him right for that matter. 

Frankly I view it as self censorship as Capcom made the choice to remove objectable content then on that bases alone it is a form of self censorship.

I'm not so sure.  I've personally not read any facts about why this was removed.  I've read lots of theories but I've not seen any proof that this was removed because it was objectionable.  If capcom changed it because they wanted: to alter the art direction, to change the characters persona, alter how players perceived her, make the character more serious etc.  I would argue that it wasn't censorship.  It's just changes during development.  Only if they removed it to please someone else , ie not capcom, then it would be censorship.  Be that users, ratings board, overly PC media etc. 

Take another fighter that posed similar censorship. When mortal combat and DC had their cross over. The joker was to have a finishing move that DC requested was removed as their character where on a no fatalities list.

But we all saw beta footage of the fatality prior.

And the fatality remained but the "death" part had the camera pan away to Joker thus leaving the death ambiguous.

Then we saw that same fatality recycled and restored in the break away hit MK9.

To me that was a form of self censorship that occurred during beta that to my knowledge was something. Both gamers, developers, and gaming journalist agreed and stated was censorship.

This is different though.  DC wanted the content removed and so Midway obliged and censored it.  There is no evidence that this is what happened here.  At least not that I'm aware of.  It's quite possible it was done to appease the ESRB or the overly PC but there is no evidence of it.

[Off-Topic / Re: Ian doesn't know the definition of "censorship"]

...if it gets taken out of the US version...

That's not what's happening though.  At least as far as I understand it.  There isn't going to be a Japanese "ass slap" version and a US "no slap" version.  During development there was a decision to remove the ass slap.  I don't personally know why the decision was made; I'm not following the SF5 development. 

Ian's argument seems to be that this is just part of the development process and not censorship.  If you are a game dev and for your own reasons decide to cover some skin up or remove some blood during beta is that censorship?  If your game has an open beta and people can see the change does that make it censorship? 

[Off-Topic / Re: Wanting to learn Japanese?]

I don't want to discourage you, but if you're looking to actually understand the stories in some of these Japanese games, you need to come to grips with certain realities, and set realistic goals for yourself.....

So much truth in this post.  I can't tell you how long it will take you because the amount of time we can devote to something like this varies greatly.  With a full time job and a full time family I don't get to study enough per day to reach fluency any time soon.  With about 600 kanji and a couple thousand vocab under my belt.  And what I would figure to be an intermediate grammar knowledge there are still large portions of JRPG story line that I just can't come to grips with. 

It's funny, I think SamIAm pulled that 30% out of thin air, but I would say that's pretty close to accurate.  I can understand about 30% of the story line.  Sometimes less.  Even when I know most or all the kanji in a bit of dialogue it can be a struggle to get actual meaning from it.  I've been pretty proud of myself in solving some puzzles in games.  I remember one in a dungeon crawler that required my knowledge of Solfege, Do Re Mi Fa So, and Music all while reading Japanese.  I was pretty proud of myself and my Japanese progress at the time.  But I still wouldn't say I can sit down with a Japanese rpg and just enjoy it. 

At my current rate I would guess it'll take me another 5 years before I can just sit down and enjoy a Japanese rpg.  And even then I'm only assuming about 80% to 90% total comprehension.  There is still the odd uniquely Japanese stuff you'll run into that throws you for a loop.  Some game I was playing had this bit of dialog that all of a sudden started to talk about belly buttons.  Since it was so odd I couldn't make heads or tells of it.  Eventually I heard from a native speaker it's what we would call an old wives tail.  According to that native speaker the saying was something along the lines of "if you sleep with your belly button exposed you'll get sick." 

But yeah set realistic goals.  Your progress will be fairly quick at first and it will feel great.  You'll go from understanding nothing to menus then to items and status stuff and eventually basic dialog then story elements. It'll all happen pretty fast and feel great.  And you may start to tell yourself "another couple months and I should be able to understand most of this" or "another year and I'll be ready play anything."  But your going to get to a point, some call it a plateau, where learning another 100 kanji is only going to increase your understanding from say 20% to maybe 22% and learning another set of grammar points is only going to take you from 22% to 25%.  When you reach this point don't get discouraged.

[Off-Topic / Re: Live Streams - Anyone watch? - A selifish plug at the end]

egon said crossing the streams was bad

Imagine all life as we know it suddenly stopping and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.*

*May not be a direct quote it's off the top of my head.

EDIT:  I was inspired to look up the full quote.  I was actually pretty close.

"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
~ Dr. Egon Spengler on Total Protonic Reversal

[Off-Topic / Re: Live Streams - Anyone watch? - A selifish plug at the end]

Not unless it's something very obscure or interesting.  For instance I once watched most of a livestream where the guy streamed all of the old compile disc station releases for pc-98.

[Off-Topic / Re: Whistlers...]

I think Nulltard just needs someone to compose a nice DoxPhile theme song with a whistle solo.

[Fighting Street / Re: Who is Mr_x?]

Wow I just read this guys posts and he's a real freak , hope he leaves soon...

Yeah his posts are of slightly lower quality then yours.  BTW this thread is about you!

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

OK, well that would account for the slight interference that I get...

Has anyone got the pinout info for a PC-98 controller port so I can see if there are any differences..?

So this thing actually works on a pc engine?  I'm shocked.  Did the PcE ever have a keyboard?  Most gamepads plugged into the mouse port or the sound card for pc-98.  But the pj-01 plugged into the keyboard port.

1. RST
2. GND
3. RDY
4. RxD
5. RTY
8. +5v

Here are some pics of my friends.  I don't think he would mind me linking them.


http://retro-type.com/PC98/pc-98-pj-01-contoller.jpg
http://retro-type.com/PC98/pc-98-pj-01-contoller-box-back.jpg
http://retro-type.com/PC98/pc-98-pj-01-manual.jpg

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

Has anyone seen this controller before...



Just picked it up... it has a built in multitap, a 4/8 switch and it is programmable. Although I don't have instructions atm so still trying to figure that bit out...

This is for pc-98.  You plug it into your computer's keyboard port and then plug your keyboard into the other side of the controller plug.  Then you can program the keys on the gamepad to any keyboard keys.  I really do want to pick one of those up for my PC-9821CE.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

HAHA! someone backed this for $1 three hours ago.  From what I understand of IGG you can't cancel a campaign once it's made any money.  It would be hilarious if they got everyone to ask for a refund but that $1 pledge stayed until the very end.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

Fun game.  Good show all around.  Congrats to the winner.  See you all again for round 2!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

Looks like it just took another decent hit.  Down to $63,925.  I don't think you can cancel an indiegogo campaign after someone pledges.

[General Gaming / Re: Hi-Def NES - a 1080p HDMI mod kit!]

That's understandable.  I'm still looking forward to buying one.  I know it's kind of a novelty but I really want an HDMI Frontloader hooked up the the main tv.

[General Gaming / Re: Hi-Def NES - a 1080p HDMI mod kit!]

Excellent news!  Any idea on when kits will be available?

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

I lost any shred of respect I had for any of the RVGS guys when I watched that video. 

"Power goes into our system, and out from our system we get high resolution digital and analog video"

I mean who the fuck does this guy think he's talking to.  This must be their three point system development play:

            .  No patches and scratches
            .  Power goes in; High resolution video goes out.
            .

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

Wow this thing is moving backwards.  I've never seen such.  I wonder if they are feeling that cold hard reality now or if they are still delusional.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

I don't get it how can this be retro unless they build a time machine?

Throwing a time machine into the mix I don't see how anything can be retro.  If you brought something to the future it would just be old.  If you brought something to the past it would be futuristic. 

That's actually the one thing they got right.  A modern console that uses cartridges, like the old days, and looks like an Atari Jaguar, from the old days, fit's the very definition of retro.  An actual Atari Jaguar for instance is not retro. 

All that said this whole thing is a steaming pile of crap.  Except you know it doesn't exist so more so the steam then the actual crap itself.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

No prob.  Actually just looked up the crowdcharts data.  There were 34 backers on the 20th.  Compared to 131 on the 19th and 5 so far on the 21st.  UTC time.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

I've been checking this indiegogo rvgs thing out more than I care to admit.  But I just looked into it and it seems there have only been 27 backers in the last 24 hours.  This thing is basically dead in the water.

That's actually 170 backers, with 27 comments.

I know there are that many backers total.  But if you go to the backers tab you can see how long ago they backed.  As of my post only 27 in the last 24 hours.  Yeah there were something like 120 in the first 4 hours.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

I've been checking this indiegogo rvgs thing out more than I care to admit.  But I just looked into it and it seems there have only been 27 backers in the last 24 hours.  This thing is basically dead in the water.  But some pointless speculation anyway. 

IMO a best case scenario would have them maintain this lethargic pace until one final big push at the end.  If this occurs it just may hit around my initial prediction.  With a real nice push at the end the victory may actually go to me.  Or more likely in true "Price is Right" fashion ToyMachine78 will be the closest without going over.

A more likely scenario will have them maintain this current pace or slightly less till the end with no real boost at the end.  And this race is going to be between JohnnyKonami and ToyMachine78.

Of course it could further stagnate...

Anyone want to make side bets on whether or not it reaches $100k?

Hmm.  I'll wager a random, non sports, genesis game that this thing breaks 100k.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

Yeah it pretty much slowed to a crawl after the first 4 hours.  Also the average is about 350 a person so far.  I'm starting to think I way overshot this.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

Yeah it already looks like it has slowed down considerably.  Still I will be surprised if it ends outside of the JohnnyKonami to esteban range. 

I am kind of surprised no one came in with their guess being that it will succeed.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: The RetroVGS "Price is Right" Raffle (for a stack of PCE Hueys)!!]

I'm not sure if I'm still too noob to enter.  I won't loose any sleep over it either way.  But the premise behind this thread is just to amazing to not be involved. 

I think there are enough collectards and people drinking the kool-aid to get a decent amount of money.  But it won't be the 7000 install base they are hoping for.  My vote is $523,251.  Which by my estimations is a little over 1200 people backing at an average of a little over $400.

[Fighting Street / Re: Pro tips for 10 post noobs who just joined here]

This forum is going to make me kill myself. Obey I must..............

Poster child for this thread right here.  13 total posts.  4 raffle entries, 8 spam, 1 possibly legitimate post that's arguably in the wrong section. 

I foresee my ignore list growing in the near future.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

I am still waiting for it to be cancelled, but I fear ego and hubris will prevent this silly thing from dying gracefully.

It's death will come in the form of a failed KickStarter campaign.

Edit: In case you weren't aware, they want MILLIONS of dollars in KickStarter funds.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FT Dragon Slayer Brand New MINT for 1941 Counter Strike for SuperGrafx]

HAHA.  That was unintentional but it works.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FT Dragon Slayer Brand New MINT for 1941 Counter Strike for SuperGrafx]

^I was hoping people would notice that.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FT Dragon Slayer Brand New MINT for 1941 Counter Strike for SuperGrafx]

Please explain the formula which determines the value of a sealed game compared to a CIB game.

I think you are simply forgetting about the "collectard Variable."  So the formula is something like this:

(((g + c) * 2cv) + fe) * gr = Cost of sealed game.

Variables:
g =  Cost of reasonable condition game to reasonable person.
c = Added cost for above reasonable condition with everything that originally came with the game.
cv = Collectard Variable, or the supposed value of a game by someone who has to have em all and they all have to be collectible.
fe = Flippers expenses
gr = current rate of gauge

[Off-Topic / Re: Awesome]

Life's too short to give any more fucks about GreatBlueSwirlof99.