Game Collecting
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Meteor_of_War
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I love Beyond Thunderdome.
OverclockN'
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Got my first reproduction game today. Final Fantasy II with English translation. Checked it out briefly, just the starting sequence of the story where you get full control and can explore. Seems decent, and the English translation is perfect so far.
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Meteor_of_War
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Cool. Where you get it from? Ebay seller, or a specific online store?
OverclockN'
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Bought it firsthand straight from OCDreproductions. I did some searching online to vet them out a bit and it seemed legit. Price was a bit high to me, but I didn't see a good alternative for this kind of option.
Silent-Runner
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The stuff you find while searching for something completely different.. (sorry for the potatoe quality..)
need to clean that stuff, it sat in a garage for i dunno how long....maybe 30 years or longer?
need to clean that stuff, it sat in a garage for i dunno how long....maybe 30 years or longer?
Meteor_of_War
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You dug up some relics there man, awesome!
Have to say, discovering your actual owned stuff from childhood is far better than re-buying it. Feels so good like a warm blanket.
Have to say, discovering your actual owned stuff from childhood is far better than re-buying it. Feels so good like a warm blanket.
Silent-Runner
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the stuff actually still works, i'm surprised
Meteor_of_War
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No surprise here. All the older cartridge based stuff will probably outlive us. Very simple tech that was built like a tank. As long as everything is clean, and capacitors are good.
OverclockN'
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Nice!! That's awesome. I've been trying to do the same from my parents in the house I grew up in. I grabbed all the games a long time ago, and now just trying to get all the boxes and strategy guides I kept when I was little. I'll get them some day.
Yeah, no kidding. I have no doubt most of this stuff will be around longer than us.
Silent-Runner
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funny to see what people throw away
funny to see what people throw away
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And yes, all of them are complete and fully functional. The box of the steering wheel is in bad shape, no wonder, it sat on the street for 2 days
funny to see what people throw away
Some findings
And yes, all of them are complete and fully functional. The box of the steering wheel is in bad shape, no wonder, it sat on the street for 2 days
OverclockN'
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Nearly finished with the Nintendo shelves. Just need to make up a few more backstops to stick on the shelves to keep the games straight and organized. Then also hang a couple brackets for the bottom shelf.
The Nintendo side of my game collection looks tiny when it's all out on the shelves. Plenty of room to grow! Second shelf is for more NES, 4th shelf is for more SNES. My favorites. I don't think I'll grow past a single shelf for N64, and I made that one tall enough to display as is, or lay the games on the sides so the labels face out like all the others. Will also be ordering the top labels soon. Intention was to have Gamecube on its own shelf, with Wii/WiiU/Switch on the bottom shelf. We'll see.
Might put some Nintendo figures or something on top, don't know yet. I really wanted to display the console systems themselves. So...maybe I'll get longer brackets/deeper shelves for the bottom and do that. I was also thinking about making LED lights somehow to light up the labels, but I'm not sure how to do that just yet without it looking all funky since the games are set up to the ege of the shelf.
Any thoughts or advice?
The Nintendo side of my game collection looks tiny when it's all out on the shelves. Plenty of room to grow! Second shelf is for more NES, 4th shelf is for more SNES. My favorites. I don't think I'll grow past a single shelf for N64, and I made that one tall enough to display as is, or lay the games on the sides so the labels face out like all the others. Will also be ordering the top labels soon. Intention was to have Gamecube on its own shelf, with Wii/WiiU/Switch on the bottom shelf. We'll see.
Might put some Nintendo figures or something on top, don't know yet. I really wanted to display the console systems themselves. So...maybe I'll get longer brackets/deeper shelves for the bottom and do that. I was also thinking about making LED lights somehow to light up the labels, but I'm not sure how to do that just yet without it looking all funky since the games are set up to the ege of the shelf.
Any thoughts or advice?
Meteor_of_War
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I don't really have any suggestions, looks good! Will definitely look sweet if you can fill them someday.
Only advice i ever really give about game shelves is try to estimate your needed future space for your planned collection as well as you can, or just have enough free wall space to expand. I know you are not a huge collector but you never know. When i started getting serious into collecting and hitting garage sales and thrift stores a lot i quickly amassed more games than i had shelving for and had to rethink it.
Only advice i ever really give about game shelves is try to estimate your needed future space for your planned collection as well as you can, or just have enough free wall space to expand. I know you are not a huge collector but you never know. When i started getting serious into collecting and hitting garage sales and thrift stores a lot i quickly amassed more games than i had shelving for and had to rethink it.
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It's a coded message to his fellow Satan worshippers.
OverclockN'
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Courtesy of the previous home owners. This was a 2nd spare bedroom that I rarely used or had guests that's now my office. I just haven't bothered with swapping it around yet.
Silent-Runner
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ain't looking bad, but as open as it is it will collect dust like mad.
OverclockN'
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So I've been waiting for the Super NT Analogue to become available for 8mo to a year now. I'm not confident they'll ever be in stock.
Any of you guys run into another FPGA based SNES console that runs 720P or 1080P?
The only other one I've come across so far is the open source MiSTer, but it doesn't appear to do any higher resolution stuff and takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work. Not really interested in something like that though either.
Just looking to see what else might be out there that I've missed.
Any of you guys run into another FPGA based SNES console that runs 720P or 1080P?
The only other one I've come across so far is the open source MiSTer, but it doesn't appear to do any higher resolution stuff and takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work. Not really interested in something like that though either.
Just looking to see what else might be out there that I've missed.
Meteor_of_War
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I was only ever aware of Analogue's products as being good quality FPGA based. Which is probably why they are constantly out of stock. But they really are the best company for quality SNES HD retro gaming.