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Name: David Low
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Re: Gaming Bargains V2 (5 months ago)
Cerebral wrote


What the heck.
When was the last time a game shop trolled the dominant market leader? Seriously.
Ingram wrote
Why is that?

There is an OFLC sticker on the shrink wrapping, the box has EUR languages on the back, so I imagine it's the PAL version, possibly the AUS version if the AUS version also had the EUR languages on the back?
There were two PAL AU releases, the first was a proper Australian version, the second was a Euro release with OLFC stickers added.

I doubt either would be worth much in all honestly.
Some people understand, some don't. I'm OCD and I need my game boxes to match dammit!

If you've got a copy you want to sell, gimme a PM with a price.
That last adapter is simply for raising the slot to allow a Super Famicom to play US SNES games. It won't 'convert' anything.
Little Kings Story and PS3 component cable sold.
Damn this thread moves fast.

Scribblenauts sold, paid and posted
Gradius sold, paid and posted
Master System sold
Wii Sports resort sold

Mario Figurines pending.

charizard wrote
$25 RE5 stuff
Sorry.
Re: Post your Pix (9 months ago)
TheAnswer wrote
Tsargrad wrote
^^^ When I see that Super Famicon controller, makes me think I shoulda kept my Wii. Playing the SNES games on that woulda been cool. They need a N64 Wii controller!! Be super sweet for Wave Race 64
Well recently a 3rd party device has come out which lets you use a snes or nes controller on the wii, I'm thinking of picking one up.
I've had a SNES controller adapter for the Wii for almost three years, never use anything else for 2D VC.
Re: Wanted : Snatcher (9 months ago)
A copy just sold on ebay for $120, which is pretty cheap actually. Often sells for $200-300.

I will never sell my copy, it has sentimental value.
Master System and Resort listed on ebay now, consider it gone.
ALx wrote
$20 + post on the RE5 tin
No.
^^The Bomb Omb is the size of a regular marble, for scale.
Scribblenauts sold. Got a million PMs for that one.

genxevo wrote
i'll take gradius collection if it isn't gone yet
Done.

grone wrote
Can I take Ghost House posted?
You know it only plays in Master System 1 right, as it's a card based game?

Will drop Apollo Justice to $20 since piracy makes it hard to sell DS games on ebay.

Also the Mario figures for $15 posted, really just don't want to throw them out.
Thought I'd chuck these on here before hitting ebay. Prices based on completed listing search of ebay, minus the fees I would pay there.

Apollo Justice, Cart only $25 includes postage



Scribblenauts plus rooster hat, $45 including postage ($40 if you don't want the rooster hat, obviously it's bigger to post).



Little Kings Story, new and sealed, $40 including postage



Endless ocean, 100% mint condition, $35 including postage


Wii Sports Resort + Motionplus, 100% mint as new, $80 posted.



Street Fighter 4 PS3, 100% mint condition, $40 including postage



Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition package, brand new, NO GAME INCLUDED
Contains: Double tin case for game with making of DVD, Tricell backpack, Chris Redfield figure, BSAA patch, Africa map necklace, Original box.

The package is exactly the same for PS3 and 360, there's a spot in the tin game case to put your RE5 disc in, so this pack turns your regular edition into the special edition.

Originally cost $170 including game!

Taking offers for this one.






PS3/PS2 component cable, brand new. $10 posted.




Megaman Maverick Hunter X PSP, $32 posted




Every Extend Extra PSP, $15 posted




Ridge Racer PSP, $16 posted



Gradius Collection PSP, $22 posted




Rare European Edition of Super Mario Bros 1 with box, $35 including postage


Mario vs Donkey Kong Figurines, $15 posted the lot




Sega Master System, Box, all manuals and pamphlets, two controllers, all leads PLUS AV cable (so don't need RF), two built in games (Hang on and Snail Maze).

It has been 60Hz modded to remove the black borders from the picture and play at full speed. No switch fitted, as 60Hz is universally compatible and superior to 50Hz on the Master system. But I can put it back to 50Hz if buter wishes.

Looks to be going for around $100 on ebay right now, so I'll do that price posted here.






Also two great Master System games, $10 posted each or $15 for both added in with the Master System.
+1 Terrestrial_Hominid for Blu Ray
+1 Charly for buying freeloader
+1 fishonthecarpet for Advance Wars
+1 secret666 for PS1 game
+1 The Truth for a bunch o stuff
+1 El Taco for DC Controller

(that catches me up since July lol)
Re: Your newest purchase (10 months ago)
BurnZ wrote
Trust me, it's a 3000.
Ah, okay, HEN firmware. Bit of a shame though, HEN is a bit feature poor compared to M33 (or GEN now). Still much better then standard FW though.
Re: Your newest purchase (10 months ago)
BurnZ wrote
PSP stuff
I think that's a 2000, not a 3000, just based on looks. And you can't really put Custom Firmware on a 3000 properly, so if you did that then it's def a 2k.
It is very disappointing. But still vastly superior to the ugly art, clunky physics, dumbed down gameplay, and presentation abortion that is Street Fighter EX4. I will NEVER forgive Capcom for what they have done.
Re: Your newest purchase (10 months ago)
46" Panasonic G10 Plasma. And Serenity Blu Ray.
Doubt it's fried at Mobo level, they're pretty tough and had a good fuse.

And yes, I run a Japanese DC with a PAL power supply in it, works fine.
Lol, I can prolly fix that as well, depending on the problem.
Re: Damaged mac book pro. (11 months ago)
If confident yourself, why not open it up and have a look and see if anything inside is damaged? Which model is it?
Could fix it for you, and maybe do a 50/60Hz mod, disable the lockout chip, whatever. Fuse is simple, the only dificcult part is having the extended line-head screwdriver.
Denny wrote
lapzod wrote
rankodour wrote
Makes a lot of sense from a Sony money making point of view! Gimp the PS3 from playing legit PS2 discs and force people to re-buy games they own already.
Works for Nintendo.
But the difference is you're not allowed to diss Nintendo for it. icon_razz.gif
Exactly what has Nintendo done that requires dissing in terms of BC? It plays the last gen of Nintendo game discs flawlessly. Did you expect them to put an N64 slot on the Wii? VC games are at least ten years old and not readily available anymore, and much like PS1 games on PSN you're paying for the convinience.

If anything Nintendo stance on BC (ie perfect and free for last gen games) has hurt them. It meant the Wii was stuck with the same architecture to allow flawless BC. If they'd gone to a more advanced Power PC chip (which wouldn't have cost much more, or maybe even less, but would have made BC harder if not impossible) then the Wii could have had more power at the same price/profit per unit. I don't understand why they did it, unlike the PS2, the GCN didn't have a decent market position to defend with BC (like how the PS1 compatibility of the PS2 made it as obvious 'upgrade' choice for PS1 owners).

And Sony didn't drop PS2 BC in order to 'rip you off' later either, it was a cost cutting exercise on a system that cost far, far too much to manufacture and sell. They've come up with a bunch of excuses since then to explain it, but really they were just avoiding saying 'we had to gimp the system because it cost too much to make and we're drastically losing marketshare and have to try something to stem the blood loss'.
Re: Famicom Games (11 months ago)
I've got like 100 Famicom games, almost all bought on ebay. Use US ebay, AU ebay misses things, even when you 'roam' overseas within it.

I'm mostly a Famicom disk system collector, have about 40 games just for that. One day I might even be able to complete the set. Love those disks.

You'll find it gets addictive, and you'll move on into harder drugs like PC Engine, Saturn, and Neo Geo collecting.

"I'm David and I'm a PC Engine-aholic. I've been clean for about six months now."
Re: Beatles Rock Band (11 months ago)
Hmm, thinking about getting the band kit of this, I've never liked plastic guitar games but vocals and drums will be cool for Beatles.

Trying to decide what platform to get it on, Wii or PS3. Wii is at the top because the console is the smallest, easily portable etc to bring around to people's places, reviews say it's the same on Wii, DLC and all, but obviously the graphics will be low res. Can't see myself dragging PS3 around, but obviously better graphics and easier DLC etc is cool. 360 is right out, I'm buying one soon but no way I'd invest $300+ in band gear (thus locking me in for music games to that platform) on such an unreliable piece of hardware.
David wrote
Heh, never knew about this thread.

I've lost at least 28 kilos over the last year. I was in the mid-high 90s (don't know what my max was, but I definitely hit 96 a few times, maybe even got near 100). I'm now 69 kilos.
Pictures:

Me with Goichi Suda about 18 months ago, not quite at my heaviest


And a video cap of a couple of weeks ago, not quite at my lightlest


The latter pic is from this video I made as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Dreamcast, caution, fairly inane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AgQHIFqGg
Toyota Yaris Sedan



I was originally looking at Corollas, but the new Corolla sedans are huge, they are pretty much a Camry with a smaller engine. Don't like the Yaris hatch, but I saw the sedan and fell in love.
Heh, never knew about this thread.

I've lost at least 28 kilos over the last year. I was in the mid-high 90s (don't know what my max was, but I definitely hit 96 a few times, maybe even got near 100). I'm now 69 kilos.
Re: Love to Hate #7 (1 year ago)
It's a game I love despite all the obvious flaws.

For me the biggest one was that it got repetitive, there were really about four types of colossi, and the change was simply how you got onto them. For all the 'it's like the good bits of Zelda' comments, Most Zeldas have more variety in their boss fights. And they also have far more content on top of that (full overworld, towns, side quests, dungeons etc as well as epic boss fights).

While parts were spectacular, it was also quite ugly sometimes, the overworld was often a shimmering, colour banded, muddy PS1-like 8-bit textured mess. The developers got greedy and overstretched the PS2 hardware.

But it's a game that sticks with you. And I really liked the morally ambiguous story.
username wrote
For the record, I'm prettu sure the GC uses at least one of the same cables as the N64 and SNES so they're not hard to track down.
It's the same shape and does work, but you lost image quality when compared to a real, official GCN AV cable.

Don't know how anyone can stand anything less then component these days anyway though...
Is that Valis 2?

By the looks of it, you've actually got Ys I&II (on one disc), plus Ys IV.

I'll have a look at my collection and get back to you. Good to see someone into PC Engine though.