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system11 wrote:Just don't keep them flat with stupid board feet attached.
^This.

Also USPS boxes tend to bow over time if stored flat with other boxes on top of them (from my experience).
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thanks for the tips guys.
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Got some impulse buys yesterday and today. Convinced my friends to go to the anime store with me on the grounds that one of them could help me build a model robot if I found one. Didn't find a robot, but I did find the R-GRAY1. Put it together and the thing is pretty great aside from a few small pain in the ass pieces and the cockpit door coming broken. Kotobukiya will probably be getting my money again soon.

Also picked up the new Twisted Metal. Watched my best friend play my roommate's copy from start to finish and decided I wanted to go nuts on it myself.

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Got three separate packages in today - a copy of Salamander for the Famicom, a set of 8 Seimitsu buttons for my 360 stick and the Toaplan Shooting Chronicle DVD. The DVD has playthroughs of the first loop in Tatsujin, the 4th loop of Kyūkyoku Tiger and a playthrough of the development version of Same! Same! Same!. It's definitely an early build as the only music they have is the first stage music from Tatsujin, which plays in every stage. Pretty cool stuff.
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The RC addiction continues... I want to get into 1/10 scale drifting, so starting out with a pretty basic chassis with a few upgrade parts. It seems like people say the TT-01 chassis gets outgrown quickly, but I hope I can keep using it for a while. I would have liked to get a different body, but this TT-01E rally car kit was somehow cheaper than the TT-01 base model kit.

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I guess I forgot to add, I bought a Spektrum DX3C radio/TX set and installed it for my mini E-Revo, so I'm sticking with Spektrum RX for this car.
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UD HD double-sided poster, looks nice.

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gct wrote:The RC addiction continues... I want to get into 1/10 scale drifting, so starting out with a pretty basic chassis with a few upgrade parts. It seems like people say the TT-01 chassis gets outgrown quickly, but I hope I can keep using it for a while. I would have liked to get a different body, but this TT-01E rally car kit was somehow cheaper than the TT-01 base model kit.

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I guess I forgot to add, I bought a Spektrum DX3C radio/TX set and installed it for my mini E-Revo, so I'm sticking with Spektrum RX for this car.
Let me know how that works out for you, I've kinda been wanting to get a 1/10 drifter for ages.

Probably about to take the plunge on a trex500ESP 3GX though, I've been offered one at a pretty good price.
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Went browsing around the local flea markets today, managed to pick up this BBM for a mere $10:

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^Nice!!!

Oh, and...muahahahahahaha. :wink:
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Excellent pickup there. I can't pass up a good monitor like that.
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got Darius Gaiden for Saturn (US Longbox)
I never played it before. fucking loving it and the soundtrack! So far my favorite is the tune when you fight Folding Fan. That opera singing techno soundtrack is damn good.
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burgerkingdiamond wrote:got Darius Gaiden for Saturn (US Longbox)
I never played it before. fucking loving it and the soundtrack! So far my favorite is the tune when you fight Folding Fan. That opera singing techno soundtrack is damn good.
Dude...yes. My favorites shmup soundtrack by far. Zuntata rules.
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CulDad78 wrote:^Start a sales thread of stuff you could do? (I know i'll be in need of cps2 labels, etc in the near future).
I agree, I'd gladly pay for a good quality print out of a few flyers/art I can't find. Xexex for one.
I'm selling a mint Xexex flyer (and a not so mint one) on AO.
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The things you find at flea markets.

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Damn, I wish there were good fleamarkets where I live. Here "fleamarkets" are just a bunch of Albanian dudes selling stolen car radios...
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CIT wrote:Damn, I wish there were good fleamarkets where I live. Here "fleamarkets" are just a bunch of Albanian dudes selling stolen car radios...
That smells terrible.
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What the fuck is that Mega Man??
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Homebrew port that's available for free on the Internet. Same guys responsible for the Space Fantasy Zone repros and Sapphire bootlegs are now selling the Rockman repro – without the orginators' permission.
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CIT wrote:Homebrew port that's available for free on the Internet. Same guys responsible for the Space Fantasy Zone repros and Sapphire bootlegs are now selling the Rockman repro – without the orginators' permission.
Well that answers that. I was totally perplexed when I was in the Nakano Mandarake last week. I was just finishing up a purchase when I happened to notice a copy of Space Fantasy Zone on a shelf behind the counter - kind of puzzled me. I could not see a price either.
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You can get them here: http://sapphire.anime4ever.de/

The Space Fantasy Zone repro is actually really nicely done, but for what it is, it is too expensive.
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CIT wrote:You can get them here: http://sapphire.anime4ever.de/
From the bootleg Sapphire description:
The reprint had been sold out for some years, but to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the PC Engine in 2012, a few more copies are available.
Haha, oh wow, "a few more copies". Somehow I can't see professionally pressing "a few copies" being all that likely.

Surely there are way more bootlegs now available than actual genuine copies?
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nem wrote: Surely there are way more bootlegs now available than actual genuine copies?
I got one of the Sapphire BL's a while back for cheap, and the quality of work surprised me. Being into collecting gaming rarities, it actually completely put me off my pursuit for an original copy - for the difference of £250 there's just no point at all. Any discernable difference is so tiny it's near insignificant.

This isn't a comment on the moral issue of reprinting someone else's stuff for cash, just saying the guy does quite an impressive job.
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Trevor Spencer hooked me up from "across the pond". Cheers! I'm chuffed to bits, Guv, etc. :wink:

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Skykid wrote:I got one of the Sapphire BL's a while back for cheap, and the quality of work surprised me. Being into collecting gaming rarities, it actually completely put me off my pursuit for an original copy - for the difference of £250 there's just no point at all. Any discernable difference is so tiny it's near insignificant.
Actually the bootlegs can be spotted very easily, as the CD ring is completely different.
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CIT wrote:
Skykid wrote:I got one of the Sapphire BL's a while back for cheap, and the quality of work surprised me. Being into collecting gaming rarities, it actually completely put me off my pursuit for an original copy - for the difference of £250 there's just no point at all. Any discernable difference is so tiny it's near insignificant.
Actually the bootlegs can be spotted very easily, as the CD ring is completely different.
I know, but it's a case of whether or not I can live with different a miniscule factory serial printed on the transparent inner ring, or need to cough up £250 to get an original miniscule factory serial printed on the transparent inner ring.

Turns out I can live with it. I never thought I'd feel that way about bootleg anything, but the Sapphire really is that impressive.
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got some stuff from Trev too

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This arrived this morning^^

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^^ Nice Stick.

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Finally got my (unofficial) 2-disc remastered DVD of Tsui Hark's "The Blade" that I happened to find with some Google-Fu a couple of months back. The seller even included a copy of a 70's Anime called "Belladonna Of Sadness" that I'm sure will be worth watching. The Blade is one of the best Asian films I've seen, so getting it in high quality with English subs is awesome!

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Just got the confirmation that my 3rd gen 32gb wifi ipad has been dispatched and will be here on the 19th or 20th of march.

Finally. Looking forward playing DDP bd on a larger screen. :D
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