Awesome stuff you've just bought (+pics please)
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I fear so
Now I dont know what to do with them, nor do I know what to do with my life.
Now I dont know what to do with them, nor do I know what to do with my life.
Bravo jolie Ln, tu as trouvé : l'armée de l'air c'est là où on peut te tenir par la main.
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You need this to finish off the set of "Why do I own this usless crap on the Saturn" https://segaretro.org/Ayrton_Senna_Pers ... the_future
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GaijinPunch
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Okay so I'm getting old and forgetting -- is that a rarity? The flyer was pretty easily attainable.Udderdude wrote:You need this to finish off the set of "Why do I own this usless crap on the Saturn" https://segaretro.org/Ayrton_Senna_Pers ... the_future
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
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Ayrton Senna interview is not rare I guess, I already have it
Some "rares" still elude me though, standard versions of Shutsudou Mini Skirt, Sankyo Fever, Ruriiro no Yuki, and all the jewel case versions of Gundam Side Story I, II, III. Ping me if you know where to get them.
Oh, and Denpa Shounenteki game 2, after I win the lottery...
Some "rares" still elude me though, standard versions of Shutsudou Mini Skirt, Sankyo Fever, Ruriiro no Yuki, and all the jewel case versions of Gundam Side Story I, II, III. Ping me if you know where to get them.
Oh, and Denpa Shounenteki game 2, after I win the lottery...
Bravo jolie Ln, tu as trouvé : l'armée de l'air c'est là où on peut te tenir par la main.
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER
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I don't collect, but I do watch Toy Galaxy on Youtube now and again. There was also a Canadian show about a collector about a year ago.
Dare I ask what a boxed Grayskull cost?
Dare I ask what a boxed Grayskull cost?
You're sure to be in a fine haze about now, but don't think too hard about all of this. Just go out and kill a few beasts. It's for your own good. You know, it's just what hunters do! You'll get used to it.
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER
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Stevens wrote:I don't collect, but I do watch Toy Galaxy on Youtube now and again. There was also a Canadian show about a collector about a year ago.
Dare I ask what a boxed Grayskull cost?
Caught it on sale a Target for $66. It’s from the new origins line. Pretty sure all the vintage stuff boxed is kinda ridiculous.
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Picked up Fester's Quest on NES and hey, I actually kind of like it. I like how the game takes place on this large map, and under it with the sewers, even if the route through is quite linear. This is the US version which I understand is inferior to the PAL one, but all my other NES games are US ones and I didn't want to have a single PAL game in there. The PAL version is also considerably more expensive than the US one.
But more interestingly, Brook recently released Wingman SNES, the NES accessory I've been wanting for ~15 years in my quest to find the ultimate controller to playing NES games. It always struck me as strange that there was never a PS2-to-NES -controller adapter, when there was an adapter for PS2-to-pretty much everything else ever. But finally, here's a "Pretty much everything-to-NES" -adapter, and it can map buttons as rapid fire and even more importantly, it allows remapping buttons. Oh, how I've wished for that. I can finally create the a very comfortable button configuration where I have normal B and normal A next to each other, and then I have turbo B and normal A as well, for when you need to switch between the two choices quickly by just moving your thumb over the other set of buttons. Or I could just have turbo B on a shoulder button. No more fiddling with the rapid fire setting mid-game when you need to occasionally charge a shot or something.
And I can fix the few games that for some unfathomable reason flipped B and A around, just remap the buttons on the controller the proper way. It's a dream come true.
Well, almost. You can only remap the A and B buttons, but not Start and Select. Why's that of concern? Because in some games, like Recca, Batman, and Gun-Dec, those buttons are used to switching speed or weapons, and letting go of either the d-pad or the face buttons mid-game is annoying. This would allow for much smoother gameplay. I'm hopeful they'll add it in, since the device originally didn't work on the Analogue NT Mini, but less than two weeks after I had sent them a mail asking if it would be possible to add support to it, they released a firmware update that fixed it. So hopefully they'll accommodate this wish as well.
It supports both wired and wireless controllers and since it accepts USB controllers, I imagine it's fairly future-proof. Though it doesn't automatically work with everything USB, I first tried with the Switch Horipad, and it actually lacked the A button completely. I'm using it now with the Xbox 360 Horipad EX Turbo, for the even more added convenience of having turbo capabilities built into the controller as well. Works great, and it's not even officially listed in the website as a supported controller.
The adapter also works as a "Pretty much everything-to-SNES" -adapter but not having one of those, this will be exclusive to NES/Famicom use for me. I'm sure some here might find it of interest, though.
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Obiwanshinobi
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The "earhook" feture here is good precisely for nothing, but I have slid things down the wire and now I'm enjoying stuff like it's 1999.
I could go on and on about why this recording of this particular "classic" is anything to write home about. Let's just say it's the first "SACD" that makes me wish I had a surround sound setup at home.
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Another load of supermarket chain store bargain bin CDs. I feel quite embarrassed about A Perfect Circle one, but it's the time of my life not to pretend I have never been young.
Ľudovít Rajter, yay! That's Naxos for ya. Kulatý zvuk as they say.
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...and you know that you like it best, and you just would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhvfofAWcI
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cj iwakura
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I wouldn't feel bad about APC, they're great.
Mer de Noms is their best album though, before they lost their violinist.
Mer de Noms is their best album though, before they lost their violinist.
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
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My client paid so I plunged and got myself the long-coveted hori arcade joystick for my Switch & PC. Now I no longer have to carry the X-arcade tank stick from my bedroom to the living room when I want to have a 10 minute game break. Plus I can now start obliterating my competition on the online leaderboards
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Obiwanshinobi
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Not something to forget about easily, at least.cj iwakura wrote:I wouldn't feel bad about APC, they're great.
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(This Blues Breakers one combines both the original mono mix with later stereo one, which ist most revealing; long story short - mono one sounds better to me, on my home rig anyways.)
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER
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MOTU was sorta before my time but I'm partial to those chunky backdrop paintings in dark shades. Beautifully done, really. Does the model itself have a kind of spray-painted appearance? I'd love to have a set that matched the looks of the original painting...someday, I'm sure it'll be possible...MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:Epic haul today!
[castle grayskull]
Edit: Huh, I learned something just now. The set itself looks like a close match to the original, but the painting looks like a new copy of the original design? https://www.ebay.com/itm/284294254039
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER
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The castle toy is more bright green and cartoony looking than the vintage one. Yeah, all the artwork for this new line is trying to throwback to the old vintage packaging artwork which is really high quality. The art is really cool I think.
https://youtu.be/EQJjNkSm8uI&t=23m40s
https://youtu.be/EQJjNkSm8uI&t=23m40s
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Blackfielding
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Brahms is awesome. I also recommend to have a listen to William Boyce.Obiwanshinobi wrote:Not something to forget about easily, at least. Now I can do some exercise on my massage modular matscj iwakura wrote:I wouldn't feel bad about APC, they're great.
from Orthopuzzle https://orthopuzzle.ca/
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(This Blues Breakers one combines both the original mono mix with later stereo one, which ist most revealing; long story short - mono one sounds better to me, on my home rig anyways.)
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Obiwanshinobi
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A photo doesn't quite reflect brutality of this phone's look & feel "in flesh".
I don't like the new (higher) price tag on those "cheap" CDs, but that's inflation for ya.
Oof.
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Not gonna pretend this felt reasonably priced, but it was retail price at least. Upgraded my mobo, CPU, and RAM back in January, so this was kinda the only thing remaining and my tax refund dropped in this month, and I was planning on using that on a new GPU. So I did!
My 1CCs so I can find the list easier myself
<Despatche> you've been a thorn in the shmups community since the beginning, you're largely responsible for the horrible face of modern speedrunning
<Despatche> you've been a thorn in the shmups community since the beginning, you're largely responsible for the horrible face of modern speedrunning
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cj iwakura
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If there was one vinyl I had to go online hunting for, this was it:
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
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Fester's Quest is a good game, but the difficulty is ridiculous. I had that one when it came out because my parents bought it for me. It was one of those things where they were like "this looks fun" and they just went with it even though I didn't ask for it. I tried so freaking hard but I could never beat it and then it just went into the bottom of the pile. I'm sort of curious to try again, but it's in line behind a lot of others at the moment.Ghegs wrote:
Picked up Fester's Quest on NES and hey, I actually kind of like it. I like how the game takes place on this large map, and under it with the sewers, even if the route through is quite linear. This is the US version which I understand is inferior to the PAL one, but all my other NES games are US ones and I didn't want to have a single PAL game in there. The PAL version is also considerably more expensive than the US one.
There was a good AVGN episode that outlined the unfair issues with the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0iwC58 ... nemassacre
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Recent haul from Hausu Mountain Records in Chicago.
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Neat. I didn't know Angela Lansbury did the original Sweeney Todd, but I have heard her sing before (watched a video of her singing a song from Mame and, of course Beauty and the Beast) and she has a nice voice.cj iwakura wrote:If there was one vinyl I had to go online hunting for, this was it:
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"What are the diffs?", I would ask upon reading that.Ghegs wrote:Picked up Fester's Quest on NES and hey, I actually kind of like it. I like how the game takes place on this large map, and under it with the sewers, even if the route through is quite linear. This is the US version which I understand is inferior to the PAL one
The Cutting Room Floor delivers:
Now I'm satisfied.TCRF wrote:Regional Differences
The European version of Fester's Quest contains some differences that make the game noticeably easier.
All enemies and bosses take less hits for them to be killed.
The projectiles fired from the gun can go through walls and obstacles.
Whateven mean, though?!
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Congrats. This is one of my favorite games when I was a kid. I'm not sure why, because I never beat it and was super frustrating! Love the overworld theme thoughPicked up Fester's Quest on NES and hey, I actually kind of like it. I like how the game takes place on this large map, and under it with the sewers, even if the route through is quite linear. This is the US version which I understand is inferior to the PAL one, but all my other NES games are US ones and I didn't want to have a single PAL game in there. The PAL version is also considerably more expensive than the US one.
Currently I am finally trying to beat Blaster Master. Maybe Fester will be next!
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MintyTheCat
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I really enjoyed reading the original Swamp Thing run and Moore's writing. Has that 'US Gothic' feel to it.MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:This guy is awesome for $40. I always thought Swamp Thing was pretty cool.
More Bromances = safer people
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I concur on the first part. Best thing I ever read with his name on it. And I disagree with the second: that Swampuh is not gentle looking enough as for the American Gothic cycle. Not enough gorilla posture. Looks only mean, not massive.MintyTheCat wrote:I really enjoyed reading the original Swamp Thing run and Moore's writing. Has that 'US Gothic' feel to it.
Whateven mean, though?!
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cj iwakura
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A dash of giallo and a dash of classical:
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
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CStarFlare
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I’m a big fan of Elemental Gearbolt - I’ve been grabbing any sort of merch I can find for a while now (with one obvious exception, I’m not crazy). So when I saw some animation cells pop up for a low price, I grabbed them.
I have no idea what to do with them. But they’re neat.
I have no idea what to do with them. But they’re neat.
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cj iwakura
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Frame them. Awesome get.CStarFlare wrote:I’m a big fan of Elemental Gearbolt - I’ve been grabbing any sort of merch I can find for a while now (with one obvious exception, I’m not crazy). So when I saw some animation cells pop up for a low price, I grabbed them.
I have no idea what to do with them. But they’re neat.
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?