The OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL ILG Retrogamers thread!

1 NES (mine)
1 SNES (roomy's)
1 Turbo-Graffix 16 (mine [only 1 game though {Alien Pinball}])
1 Sega Genesis (roomy's)
1 Sega CD (roomy's)

We have in the past split-screen his TV to different game systems. We are losers.

I'd give you a link to a great import games site but,......I'm selfish.
There are so many CD MD/Gen, SNES, and Saturn titles I must own before i divulge this info...
http://www.segagagadomain.com/gaminginjapan_select.htm

This is great help if you're going or know someone there. I got both of those happening.

I wanna play wizkid on my laptop :(

If the Wii virtual console hooks me up with Mastersystem/Megadrive games as well as old nintendo, i'll be made up.

I plan on owning every ROM(that I enjoy) for every system(ditto) I've emulated.

I also plan on getting a Japanese Mega Drive and Mega CD, despite new import carts coming out. They look so much cooler. Red areas, blue reset buttons...
I wonder if Sega My Cards have the same Pinout as Master System cards...
as it is, i'll need to MODIFY(IE de-solder and wick away what's left on the connectors) the opposite pin adapter to play Mark III carts with my Power Base Convertor.

Fuck, I need to get the best of the few Master System carts out there first.
Neat system. I look at the graphics emus do and find it hard to beleive that it has fewer on-screen colors than the NES.

Too bad nintendo had a monopoly(bad business practices they've turned around since the crash of the N64. Now they have the best licensing deal out of the new big 30, other wise there may have been more great games for it. Sega's systems always seemed better built than the competition, despite their occasional limitations.

My Saturn's still runnning at full capacity, and I've yet to see a fully functional Playstation first run.

http://vnes.thatsanderskid.com/

I did not realize it was designed by Will Wright of SimCity/Sims fame:

Wright said that he enjoyed himself so much in using his level editor to create terrain for Bungeling Bay that he conceived of a game where the player could create and simulate traffic and cityscapes. This game was SimCity, which would become a major hit and spawn a long line of sequels, earning Wright major recognition as a game designer and programmer. Still enthralled with simulation and world building Wright would cement his reputation on the field by designing The Sims, the best selling PC game in history.

Does anyone remember something called Andy's Animation Studio? It was a freebee on a magazine for the Amiga. It was a tremendously simple animation program which with no bells and whistles just a small white rectangle to draw in and you could see the previous frame underneath as slight greyed out.

Imagine MS Paint with animation.

It was basically a flip-book emulator. I want something like this again, I spent hours fucking about with it. All the animation programs these days are way too complicated for the likes of me.

D/l the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World.

^ whoa

I love 8-bit versions of 16+bit games.
All slow and weird. The slowdown that happens in 8-bit sonic 1 add a level of difficulty. You have to learn when it'll happen and how to deal with it (kill the enemy first, then get that box of rings, that'll speed things up enough for you to run across the bridge and get enough rings to get it to fullspeed...etc).
The bonus levels in Sonic Chaos(one of my favorite games in the Sonic franchise) are ludicrous. Get 100 rings, you get an extra life, then you grab tons of rings while flying around and every 20 rings of so you get another life.
I have like 52 lives on the last level. The second to last level if you just die at the end of the level you can leverage that one lost life you then get a chance at another 15...

thing is, getting the Chaos Emeralds...is something I have no idea how to do.
So while it's the first sonic game I've finished, I still didn't win!

Had some grounding issues, because I was dealing with ...wait, you don't care.

I dislike soldering tiny wires to tiny pins.

Dude, when has that ever stopped you?

And yeah.
That DIN connector is nearly impossible to work on.
The sheild is huge compared to that little thing and I eventually just moulded the collective chield for the RGB cable(an old serial cable) and the seperate comp. video cable into big lump of solder and wire and attached a little lead to it.

I can't even run PAL on any kit here in the USA, but there aren't that many games available in Europe not around here in the US or Japan.

The stranges thing I did was make a 'dev system.'
It's a Genesis 2 that I gutted down to the board, and a SCD 1 that's down to its 3 boards, all mounted to a wooden plank.
Next is the region mods, clock speed knob/clock switching, and a Multibios.
The drive wouldn't move(knowing what I know now I might have been able to make it work, but it certainly won't now...) so it's not locked shut. You have to take out 2 screws that clamp the disc down and then insert the disc.
What I've done is burn the Sega CD Transfer Suite to just leave in there.
I just have to take a serial cable and put that in the second controller port. I can then use the program on the disc to load games directly into RAM.

Any chance of an emulated version floating around anywhere? Damn, that game was hard but awesome.

so a coworker just gave me his old Atari 2600! wood paneling and a switch to toggle between colour and B&W TVs!!!

i will have to get my hands on a controller and power cord if i want to get the thing working tho.

do people still want Dreamcasts? I have one, in the end not very used, so it's in tip top condition. I have a bunch of games too, but no controllers. I'd be willing to ship it to anyone here for just the cost of shipping it.

Nice revive; I never owned any Atari, but the 'youth club' that I went to as a nipper had one. All I really remember is pitfall and centipede though.

On another note, I can't be the only one that misses GZeus? Not as much as I miss that pile of consoles I mentioned upthread. I am resigned to a netbook running Windows XP and a pile of emulators.

Euler where do you live? I'm very interested!

also i still have my childhood 2600, its one of the later models though with no wood panelling. Activision made the best games for it!

in the end did the Dreamcast ever get any great games? i remember a lot of arcadey stuff (marvel v capcom, house of dead, crazy taxi) and shenmue which i always thought was kinda boring?

i dunno - it was sega, so i would assume the games were good.

I live in the middle of the USA, Zappi. if you're really interested, maybe webmail me through ilx?

aw i'm in UK, would probably be quite expensive to mail, no?

yes, probably $60+ :(

hmmm. probably much cheaper to send it up to say... Toronto?

yikes, that's me out i'm afraid! hope it finds a good home though.

might be region locked too? Euler, I sent you some emails...

got it, mailed you, Mordy

in the end did the Dreamcast ever get any great games?

speechless

lol for shame mordy

I never had one! I just remember playing House of Dead and Crazy Taxi at a friend's house

yeah, c'mon man. virtua tennis is prob the best sports game ever for starters!

and rez is prob the best on rails shooter too.

never played bc I don't speak japanese but how can this not be amazing?

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/segagaga/segagaga.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7IbLEPRUs

Dreamcast had a LOT of great games is the answer here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HjVbEZgtjU