When I built my virtual pin I did a lot of research into game lag, because a millisecond makes a huge difference in pinball. The problem is the TV processing the signal. The fastest computer in the world will still have lag if the monitor delays the signal. You want a tv with a game mode. Nothing fancy, 60hz, no effects, no quatron colour or any other gimmicks that the manufacturer includes.

There's only a couple builders of LCD panels but the computing components in the TV can make a huge difference. For years sony and Samsung shared a LCD panel factory and both had the same panel but the sony had faster hardware and software running it.

It would depend on your county's laws. I'm pretty sure that Canadian law is more forgiving than American law. But you definitely would only be safe with the same console version that you own. E.g. If you own mortal kombat for the sega, you wouldn't be safe to own the snes version rom. Or, if you own the midway arcade game for PlayStation you wouldn't have the right to own the MAME arcade roms, even though it's the same game files.

The law may also vary depending of game format. A cd can scratch and degrade more easily then a cartridge based game.

I remember the media debate here back when recording on VHS was a big thing. In Canada you can make a copy of a VHS you own without any issues. When you go and sell your copy it becomes a problem.

I watched a YouTube video a while ago where this guy has a rom hack for dreamcast, you remove the whole laser mech and install a board with a USB plug or sd card slot. The new board tricks the dreamcast into thinking the roms are on a disc. It wasn't perfect yet (think multi disc games were a problem) but soon it will be possible to play a dreamcast with all the games loaded inside.

I loved my dreamcast, it broke decades ago, I sold my stuff to get a PS3 (stupid me). Has anyone played armada for dreamcast? I pumped so much time into that game and I literally think that there's no end to it, just a perpetual grind to get bigger

I waited overnight for a wii on launch day. The store had 20 consoles in stock. The manager came by the store at midnight while only a half dozen of us were there waiting, just to check it out. By 3am there were more then 20 people in line. 2 hrs before the store opened the employees came out and handed a ticket to the first 20 people in line and had our order ready when the doors opened. Any games or controllers you wanted were set aside. They told us to not worry. Once we had a ticket we could go home and come back later to get our order. When the store opened the line was hundreds of people long. The new comers at 6am didn't believe us when we told them they were sold out already. By 7am we had our machines within minutes and started home. The sad part was watching all those dads walking up to the store with their kids at opening and watching them turn around and leave empty handed.

Here's a vid on the nes classic hack

I have 2 older ps3's, one for playing blu-rays, the other in my driving arcade for gran turismo. Both are very loud.

Some food for thought

DONT DO IT! In 10 years it will be virtually impossible to find a good CRT. Put it in the bsmt or in storage but don’t toss it out like everyone else has. In 20 years you’ll swear that the SNES looked better on your old CRT the it does on your new 12K ultra super duper TV. I’m holding on to a nice 32” CRT just in case.

I think that’s just an emulator box. It reads the disc/cartridge and dumps the files, then plays them on an emulator. I don’t think that they play the game in real-time from the media. It’s not an actual hardware console, just a software emulator.

I don’t know for sure, but I’d be hesitant without more reading

I just watched a YouTube vid saying that sega and retrobit are going to work together to make genesis, dreamcast and Saturn mini consoles in 2018. Hopefully their good quality like the nintendo ones.

It doesn’t make sense to just make controllers for old consoles. Dreamcasts are crapping out because of the cd drives failing and genesis already has more ways to play then I can count. Retro bit makes clone consoles and plug and play consoles already so I’d assume that new consoles will be in the works. The first round of products will be shown at CES and it could just be controllers, but why make such an announcement for just controllers?

That’s the number 1 problem with multi game rigs. I’ve built several MAME cabinets, and it seems when you have 10000 games in one box there’s too many choices and you end up spending more time searching for a game, then you do playing it.

I prefer to keep my games separated. Nes classic, snes classic, n64 with an Everdrive, vertical MAME, horizontal MAME, trackball MAME, driving seat for gran tourismo. Ect.

If your looking for complete rom sets for a reasonable price then try out rom collector. I bought a hard drive that was loaded and set up. It was virtually plug and play, and Now I have a full collection of roms. I don’t need to try and download anything else, because I’ve got it backed up.

https://www.romcollector.com/

I understand that this is not legal, but I feel like I was paying for a service as much as paying for the files. I could find everything for free on a torrent sight. But this is problem and virus free.

You don’t. But sony will happily sell you DualShock ones later on.

If the controller plug is the same, then I might have to go digging in some boxes to see if I still have a wired controller.

Those are definitely collectible. Big box pc games are worth a bit in box. I’d pay for shipping before I’d let you throw them out.

I just backed this new NES game called Micro Mages on Kickstarter. There’s only a couple days left but it looks like fun. Now I’ll have to get a 4 player multi tap for my nes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morphcat-games/micro-mages-a-new-game-for-the-nes

Tommy Tallarico is behind the new intellavision console. He has enough of a history in game design and new company start ups that I give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s a master in video game music, he brought us G4 tech tv, and the stage show Video Games Live. I’ll give it a chance before I “nay say”.

Nice find. Those sony monitors are great, or so I hear. I’d love one some day.

The I have mr driller on my MAME cabinet, it’s a fun game.

I don’t know how well the mini PlayStation classic sell. The polygon graphics don’t stand the test of time like pixelated games do. I think their (Sony) biggest mistake was not including dual shock controllers. A lot of the games that I want to see on a PlayStation mini really need that analog stick to control.

Even if this machine is easy to hack and add games onto, it still is lacking good controls

These are so shitty, they will become incredibly rare in the future, no one will buy this

I think that they will release another one in 2019 with better games and DualShock controllers. The games on this one mostly work well with a D-pad, but games like gran turismo and crash bandicoot really need an analog stick to play. The DualShock didn’t come out until later in the PSX life.

An early PSX (model 1000, 1001, and 1002) has a really good sound processor chip, so people have been using them as audiophile quality CD player. These ones are hard to find, and can be $100. But it’s is a win-win situation if you get a good one.

I like the sound of the ps1 on my Yamaha 7.1 surround system. I think it sounds better then my sony 5 disk changer, but it’s not nearly as good of quality as my turntable. I don’t consider myself an audiophile, but it seems better to me.

I’ve read a bit online about this, and there seems to be some dispute on the audiophile forums. But the early model ps1 systems had a really good quality DAC that was changed in later models. It’s not as good as top of the line equipment with something like a 24bit DAC, but that is more expensive. The frequency range on the ps1 just seems to be a really pleasant sounding chip.

It would be cool for someone with talent to actually test this urban legend and see if it really is as good as some people say.

Edit. Also if you have one of these. Connect it with the RCA jacks on the back, NOT THE PS1 CABLE. the difference is noticeable

Does anyone have experience with the sega Dreamcast, and a GDEmu board installed? I have a bundle coming. 4 controllers, 1 vmu, the modded console, and a couple SD cards with the entire Dreamcast collection.

Back in the day I only had a handful of Dreamcast games, but pricing them out individually gets pretty costly at current rates. I figure this way I have everything ready to go on day one, and I don’t have to worry about scratches on the games or a blown out laser down the road.

Well, it’s only been a couple days and they’re starting to hack the PlayStation classic. It won’t be long until it will be customizable.

I watched a YouTube video the other day. The video mentioned a guy got bleem running off a usb thumb drive and installed 50 games onto the psx classic. I didn’t see a link to the info though.

I have a newer GameCube without the data port on the back, so I’m thinking about trading it in to get an older model. I’d like to get the hdmi converter. Think it’s called a mk2 or something like that.

Has anyone bought an hdmi converter for GameCube? Thoughts?

I don’t think we’ll see a n64 classic for a while. The controller will be expensive to manufacture, and the emulation takes hardware that’s a lot more powerful then the snes classic chip. So the price will currently be to high to hit that “impulse buy” price range. Furthermore it won’t have Rare games, those licenses are owned by Microsoft, it would be a nightmare to get the games people want.

No goldeneye, perfect dark, killer instinct, banjo-kazooie, Diddy Kong racing, Donkey Kong 64. No thanks.

If anything, we’ll see a Bluetooth N64 controller with games on the switch.

I dont know for sure. I don’t think that GameCube came with SCART plug on the back. Just the av and digital out.

Wow. I thought they were pretty rare. Looks cool, I've seen a couple YouTube reviews but never one in real life

Nintendo didn’t own the source code for Donkey Kong. I had no idea.

I almost pulled the trigger on one of these bittboys last week. Post your feedback, cuz I'm interested.

I put in a Pre order for the sega mini console. The list of games looks good, and the company making it is much better then AT Games at porting games. I’m a little worried that it won’t be hackable, and that I won’t be able to add more games. I do think that sega will try to knock it outta the park with this machine, especially since it was originally decimated by the Internet when they announced that AT Games we’re going to build it. After seeing Nintendo and sony’s Mini system releases I think that this one will be good.

Did you learn where these came from? We’re they found in the dump excavation from a couple years ago? I never heard if they actually found anything.

My recent retro gaming find was a crt on the side of the road in a rich neighborhood. I picked up a Sony Trinitron KV-27FV310. Some people think these are the best retro SDTV consumer grade tv there is. It has a flat screen so I’ll probably hold on to my older curved screen Sony too, it’s still a very nice model, so I might as well throw it into storage

I’ve still got my eye out for a proper PVM, but I’m not willing to pay eBay prices

Luckily I got it for free. The problem with all crt’s is that 95% of the population thinks that they’re worthless. So most crt TVs get tossed to the curb. The 5% of the population whom realizes that these are valuable pieces of history, unfortunately have no way to source them. I found this by fluke.

I look at this as kinda a secondary system, also it’s like they’re trying to rekindle some of the wii’s Magic of having people play together in one room.

I used to own a PS3 for watching movies and playing Triple A games, but I also owned a Wii so that we could bowl when mom came over, to we could box out some energy after a shitty day at work. My wife created a mii character of her boss just for that reason.

This Intellivision won’t be a flagship console. Just a secondary system to play unique games on, and since the games are all exclusive, they might move a couple of consoles.

Busy weekend for me. I got an everdrive for my NES totally loaded with rom hacks and homebrew games. The problem is that I turned on my NES for the first time in like 5 years and got the white screen of death. So, I guess it’s time to finally replace the caps on the power supply board. Last night I got it ripped apart, today I hope my local electronics store has what I need.

I also got the sega mini from amazon in the mail. Haven’t had a chance to hook it up yet, but the reviews seem positive. Did anyone else get one? I stopped in Walmart on my way to work yesterday, they only had 3 systems in stock, I wonder if they will be as rare as the mini nes was.

I wouldn’t be surprised if sega is watching those you tubers very closely. If they get enough interest I bet they come to North America. Maybe even for Christmas if the unit sales numbers are good enough. So far they seem to be getting way better reviews than the ps mini.

I’m sure there’s got to be a website that you could get them from. Maybe eBay japan, or google shop japan.

I can vouch for this game. It was the first nes game that I’ve unboxed in 30 years. That was fun, but the game is awesome. You can download it on steam for like $5 I think.

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Not yet. I’ve been waiting to get a 4 score for my nes to play 4 player on original hardware instead of on the pc.

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We ran a fastest time contest on dk’s canyon track. The prize was the n64 and game. People were lined up to give it a try.

Here’s my current retro gaming set up. 2 crt tv’s. The left one has n64, GameCube, wii, ps1, and dreamcast. The right has a nes and is also a 2nd screen for karaoke.

The nes, and n64 have everdrives loaded with complete libraries and my dreamcast has been modded to take sd cards. I have the full library of those games too.

I also have a nes mini, snes mini, and sega mini connected to a hdtv in another room. I have the turbo graphic 16 mini on pre-order too. Pretty excited for that mini, ive never owned that console before.

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Yesterday I came across a YouTube video with links to a hack for the mini genesis. I have over 100 genesis games on mine with box art.

I started collecting Nintendo Power. I have about 100 of the 285 magazines. Anyone else into them?

I find that most later issues can be had for $3-$4, but the early ones jump in price considerably issue #1 In ok condition can go for over $100

You could mod your old consoles to output hdmi or RGB, and keep them running on a new tv.

I have a crt for nes, n64, ps1, GameCube, and dreamcast. Most of them run everdrives or have been sd card modded.
I have an hdtv for wii, PS3 and the mini nes, mini snes, mini genesis. Mini TG16 will be released soon too.

Rumor is that the PS5 will have full backwards compatibility, that will make some old CD games popular again. Get them now before the price goes up

The TG-16 mini classic ships in march, has like 50 games I think. I pre-ordered one months ago. It’s not original, but could help your pocketbook for some of the more pricey games.

https://www.amazon.com/TurboGrafx-16-mini-Electronic-Games/dp/B07QD9GQ9J/ref=sr_1_1

Our pinball buddy benheck just worked on another rare video game console. This time he got a nintendo M82 working again. It’s a pretty cool piece of tech.

Another great video Ben, thanks for making it.

Mines coming soon. So the TG16 mini is an amazon exclusive, and I wasn’t able to preorder it from their .ca site. So I ordered it from amazon.com on oct 2, shipping was going to be in April. Covid came in March and my shipping was delayed until Jan 2021! A couple days ago my shipping changed to june 2-5. Can’t wait, I’m excited.

I have the NES, SNES, and SEGA mini already. My plan was to mod each to have the top ~100 from that system. I’ve only done the sega so far. You tubers have opened the TG16 up and i think it runs the same board as the sega does, so it should be hackable with project lunar in time.

I’ve been close to getting the PS1 mini on multiple occasions because it can be a good system if you hack it too. I like the idea of the C64 mini, but doubt that I would actually use it, maybe the one that comes with a joystick would be cool.

The AT-Games Atari flashback machine gets good reviews, and even though I put hundreds of hours into some of these games as a kid I have no interest in going back to play them on a 2600 mini system.

If you can find a deluxe version they have paddle controllers.

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If the game gear micro was twice the size and included ~40games I would have ordered one, but these $50 keychains look ridiculous.

Tell us more. So did you have all your consoles modded with scart RGB? Is the hydra just a good splitter? I’ve never heard of one before.

Golden tee is so popular at parties that it can dominate your MAME cabinet all night. I got an arcade1up cab an have no complaints

Yes they do

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I picked up my crt at the side of the road in a nice neighborhood, just saw it, knew it was better then my current rca, and grabbed it. After getting home I did some research and some people think this is the best consumer grade tv for retro gaming. If you can find one, it will be much cheaper then a Pvm. The easy way to spot this tv out of the crowd is the blue bezel around the screen.

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Nice. That’s worth $300-$400 I bet. I wouldn’t touch it. Leave it in the box. If you want to play nes buy a cheap used one. That looks mint and should stay that way after all these years.

Here’s one for a couple hundred

ebay.com link: Nintendo Nes Power Set Complete CIB Console System Mario Very Nice Power Pad

Story of my life this weekend. I started with a old hyperspin harddrive with Windows 7. Couldn’t get direct play working. Got frustrated, formatted the hard drive and installed win10.

This is my first time using CoinOPS next software. What I’m having issue with is how to install my own roms, or do I have to download their add on packs? I’ll spen some time with it later today and hopefully get it running.

I downloaded the next arcade pack. MAME wasn’t working on my win7 machine. Think it was a 32bit OS trying to run 64bit software, so that’s when I just decided to install win10. That’s where I left it last night, don’t know if I’ll get to it today. I have a drive with all the roms, bezels, artwork, ect. (It was running on win xp) I though it would be just copy my files over and boom it works,...it’s never that easy. I think CoinOPS uses retroFE to launch programs, so I might look into how that is set up and see if there’s anything that makes sense to me.

My problem is that I was really good with computers in the 90’s when I was in high school. The last 30 years has changed a lot and now I’m just stumbling along.

That may be the key; I also originally downloaded it onto a thumb drive. But now that I have win10 on that old pc I'm going to download it again directly onto that machine.

The old pc was in the arcade cabinet with no internet access, but I've now pulled it out and have it set up in the office beside my main pc where it's easier to work on.

These two could tie for largest steaming pile of crap. If the amico ever gets releases it will immediately be e-waste

Here’s some interesting gaming lore/history for the other geeks in this thread.

In super Mario 64, in the garden there is a star shaped statue with some low res text on it. The best guess for what this said was “L is real 2401”. this has been one of the longest unanswered questions In video game history.

Last week there was a data breach from Nintendo. actually there’s been several Serious leaks over the last while on 4chan containing Large dumps of source code and beta info of games an consoles.

Last weeks data leak contained the source code for SM64. Once hackers looked over the data for unused graphics for the game, they found textures for Luigi. Sure enough the graphics fit over the mario Model, and for the first time we actually saw Luigi in super Mario 64.

Here’s the kicker. Last weeks data dump with Luigi came out 24 years and 1 month after the Japan release date of the N64 (June 23 1996). So in fact it is true. “L is real 2401”

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I just found out that there’s more to this story. Unfortunately it’s a reality check and not further conformation.

The most recent data dump (July 2020) contained source code for 14 games that were playable on a little known Chinese version of the N64 called the iQue. The iQue had the games preinstalled in the controller, and you could go back to a kiosk with your controller and swap-out/download A new game.

These source code dumps are not from the original release of the games, but a later Chinese port. There is audio code for Luigi’s voice along with the graphics. Unfortunately there’s nothing linking the Luigi assets to the SM64 game directly. Furthermore, any pic you see with Luigi in SM64 has been created on he PC version of SM64. No emulator can run this code yet. The security for the iQue has never been hacked, so these game rom files are still unplayable.

But still a cool story. Hopefully it will develop more as time goes on.

Everyone has the player because they’re clipped onto the GameCube, but the disc didn’t even come with a proper case and got lost or scratched. Simple supply and demand. The GameCube is really popular right now. Those small discs are impossible to find to burn replacements too (I think).

I remember my dentist had one for me to play with While my sister was getting a cleaning. This would have been in the early 80’s

I just finished a cabinet for my retro consoles; they’re on hinged shelves that hide the controllers underneath. Each of them are connected to the Sony CRT in the corner, or I can play with the projector on the back wall. The two drawers in the middle hide extra Controllers, accessories and wires. I like how it turned out, but I might get some led’s to light it up a bit over each console. The last spot on the bottom right is for a PS3, but it is currently sitting connected to my racing seat.

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My guess is “retro bright” basically Soak in a bath of peroxide and water in direct sunlight for a couple hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright

Did anyone else get the new Game & Watch? Mine should be here today, although I might just leave it in the box for now. I have enough ways to play Mario bros. My hope is that next year they release a 35th anniversary Zelda game & watch too

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It looks like a novelty, but I think it’s more of a collector’s item. just like you, I assume most people will open it up immediately, play with it for 5 min then put it on a shelf. Mine might just go straight to the shelf unopened.

I used to laugh at the idea of watching someone else play video games; and then South Park Stick of Truth came out. I knew that I wasn’t going to buy the game, but still wanted to see the story and jokes within the game. So, I found a play through video that cut out all of the grinding gameplay and just highlighted the story. It was almost like watching a South Park movie, changed my whole perspective on game play videos.

Now I’ll regularly watch Games Done Quick. Not only is it for charity, it’s pretty amazing watching these pros rip through a game in record time. I don’t speed run anything but watching how these players break the game mechanics to achieve amazing runs is pretty enjoyable. Even the videos breaking down world record progressions, and how the players have improved their games over time with finding new strategies to use are entertaining.

I decided to thin the heard. Sold off my NES games since I have an everdrive N8 for it. Going to do the same for my snes. There’s some Black Friday sales so I’ll get one for my snes too. I never play my saga master system, so its going up on the chopping block. I also have a CIB PAL N64 that has just been taking up room on a shelf.

I have the nes, snes, sega, and TG16 mini too. They’re connected in the garage to an HDMI tv. But I prefer my original consoles on a crt tv in the basement. The kids like the light gun games and they don’t work in the mini consoles.

Each console can be played on the crt in the corner, or on the projector in the Center of the room.

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I added some games onto my SNES mini today using hackchi. It was a bit difficult for me to get right. First I had an old version of hackchi and it would dump my kernel, load the custom kernel, then crash when adding games. Found the newer version of hackchi and it’s a lot more user friendly. Unfortunately my kernel was outdated and it wouldn’t update with the new version. So, back to the old version of hackchi, returned to my kernel to the default one and then back to the new version.

I was still experiencing issues with installing the new updated kernel, but found that the “repair” kernel option worked. I was still having Write Errors when trying to add games though. After some online investigation I switched to the USB wire that came with the snes and found one USB 2.0 port on the front of my PC that would work for the process. (Some motherboards with AMD have issues)

So after a couple hours of messing around I was finally able to add some games. I kept the original games and added a bunch to bring the total up to my 90 favourite snes games. The snes mini shows 300MB storage space and my 90 games took up around 75MB. So if you’re looking to mod one of these, you could add a couple hundred games probably.

My sd2snes everdrive came in today. I bought it on a Black Friday deal and saved a couple bucks. I decided to use rom carts instead of having piles of games everywhere in sight, since I don’t have space for everything. They also had packs of Nintendo trading cards for to much money. So I got 4 of them. I was hoping to get a Donkey Kong pack, but got 2 princess ones. I don’t know if/when I’ll, open these. I remember opening lots of these as a kid.

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I bought a modded Dreamcast that runs off of SD cards too. It’s called a GDemu I think. It’s pretty sweet and has quick load times. . I think there’s a PS1 one also

I use 5, 64GB SD cards for the entire Dreamcast library. The only problem with a larger card is a longer loading time for the menus. The games will load super quickly, it’s just games list when you turn it on, or reset the console.

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Playing some pilot wings on the garage tv. Making up our own challenges for fun.

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Two of the most fun challenges we tried were jetpack as high as you can go (1400 feet) then free fall then with one press on the gas get as low as you can to the ground before ascending again. I got to 3 feet from the ground.

Another one was to skydive without using a parachute and try to kamikaze onto the moving island by only using the D pad to control your fall.

I just came across this video of a handheld N64 console. This is not emulation. He cut down the N64 PCB to shrink the size.

Ya beat me to it, I was going to post the same link

I’ll take it before it goes into the trash. But if any other collectors want first it that’s alright too.

Pm me if there’s no interest and I’ll send you money to ship it out.

Ultimarc have great products and I would have recommend that joystick for one that will switch between 4-way and 8-way, but your original need was a really short, quick action. I still suggest a leaf switch joystick for better fine tuning and quicker smoother action. That ultimarc one will just have clicky micro switches like a fight stick. Personally I prefer a clicky micro switch joystick, but if you want to be authentic to a old arcade then leaf switch is the way to go.

I don’t know for certain but you probably could with some customization. The ultimarc sticks are the same as a (American) Suzo-Happ style joystick so I think the mounting plate is larger and thicker then a Sanwa joystick. I don’t know what’s in the X-Arcade but I’d assume it’s The American style Happ joystick from looking at pics quickly on the web.

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The bat top or ball top is inter changeable depending on your preference. Usually Japanese games had ball tops and American games had Bat top. You can also get long or short joysticks depending on your control panel thisckness. The choices are pretty limitless.

There’s one wire that is a shared ground for each switch, that’s the outside tab on the micro switch. You can just daisy chain them together. It’s probably the black wire, or the thickest trace on the board.

Then one wire for each direction will go onto the (I think) middle tab of the switch, you’re looking for the one labeled N/O normally open. Remember you’re looking at the back side and the directions are flipped.

If your not concerned with returning to the original joystick then I’d just snip off the connector and solder wire extensions onto the switches. Use heat shrink on the connections and you’ll be going in no time.

That cable is probably worth it’s weight in gold.

For some sick reason I’ve been drawn to the Virtual Boy lately. I think there’s only one or two games that I’d even play, and prices are crazy, but for some reason I want to play one again. I only played one for about 25 min, 25 years ago. Nothing about that memory makes me want to get it, yet I’ve been drawn to it.

A while ago I bought a Pow Kiddy V90 handheld game player from AliExpress. It’s the best knockoff emulation system that I’ve used yet. This is way better then the cheap Famiclone handhelds from 5 years ago. The one that I bought came with a 64GB memory card loaded with games, I thin it said 9700 games. Mine came installed with complete collections of nes, sega, Gb, Gbc, gba, snes, genesis, wonder swan, and neo geo pocket. But there’s also a bunch of mame, ps1, and pc games like quake, doom, wolfenstein, etc. I bought it to explore some of the old GB, GBC, and GBA games. Some of the GBA and PS1 games play pretty rough, but for older games, this thing is amazing.

Since I’ve got it I played thru Mario land 1+2 for GB, Zelda for nes, Tetris for GB. But most recently I discovered Cave Story. It’s an “8-bit” side scrolling platformer that’s super fun.

Here’s one I found on Amazon with a smaller memory card and less games, but for the price I have to recommend it to others.

https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Console-Rechargeable-Player-3-inch/dp/B08JC3244X/ref=sr_1_3

I got an SD card mod for my GameCube, so I’m going to sell all my games off. I’d prefer to sell them locally, but if someone wants them all, and will cover the shipping, then send me an offer.

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There’s some crap too. Lol

Just curious, how accurate is price charting.com; or is it better to look at completed eBay listings to guess a games worth? I just think that some of these games are ridiculous in price. It’s hard to believe that bmx xxx is worth more then mortal kombat, unless it’s because it’s a rare game; because bmx is a shit game comparatively

I’ve seen in the last 5 years the wave of nes games rise, then snes, etc. now the GameCube games have skyrocketed, so I’m going to strike while the iron is hot. Price charting values my games at over $750usd right now. If I can sell them for close to that I’ll be extremely happy.

Years ago I bought a N8 everdrive and an Sd2snes with console for less then what I sold my nes games for.

Some people like the physical games, buy I don’t have the space for them all, and for how often I play them it’s hard to justify.

Recently I’ve been thinking about getting some kind of portable device that can play old PC games. Something that can play dosbox, with programmable buttons; or maybe small laptop. I dunno. Looking for options and opinions. The steam deck would probably work, but impossible to get right now. A GPD device would work I think, but I wonder if there’s a cheap Chinese emulator device that could play DOS games.

That’s a great idea. Thanks.

I’d even love to have a mini PC like that Amiga one, but loaded with shareware and demos from the free disks in PC gamer magazines. That would be awesome…

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That’s too sexy for this old man. I bought one of these about a year or two ago, and love it.

https://www.amazon.com/HKYRD-Powkiddy-Handheld-Console-Foldable/dp/B09VK94JRY/ref=sr_1_2

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I just upgraded to a ryzen 7 5800x cpu and a dell 34” ultrawide monitor…..and then downloaded Warcraft 2. Have to say, the video cut scenes have never looked that good before. Lol

I sold all of my games a couple years back. I have an everdrive loaded with the complete game library for my NES, SNES, And N64. Then my Game cube, Dreamcast, and PS2 are modded to run off of either SD card or hard drive. All of that I connects to a sweet Sony CRT or projector to play them. I also have a homemade 4 player mame arcade with everything up to the 90’s on it. Add in a half dozen Arcade1up’s and a skeeball game and a PS3 on a racing seat setup and you can find almost any game to play.

Not to mention my collection of mini consoles that I can connect to a new hdmi tv for convenience.