What retro things have you done today?

You've really got to push through the initial stages until the controls click. It was one of my favourite games when the Dreamcast was out. You just eventually learn to work with the jank part and get in to the flow!
 
LewisRaz said:
Something I tried to do many times but never had the patience to finish! Great job
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Few annoying stars, but rest of the game was enjoyable. I always found the 100 coin stars is what made me give up early on. But I started doing those first where I could or alongside the red coin stars. Rainbow road was interesting :D
 
I'm thinking about rebuilding my Celeron 300A system, torn between the Asus P2B or the QDI Legend (b6i440bx).

Fancy going through Duke, so apparently my Savage 2000 will be nice for that. Got my AWE32 also, so thats going in.

Might slip my voodoo 2 in there also, for some early glide games.
 
cee-S-dee said:
Is this the one with the slate blueish cart? I saw a yt video this other day on this. Looked really good!
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Yeah I think they were going for a gunmetal look, but I can see why you've said 'blueish'. It's by no means the best way to play Doom, but it's still impressive for the platform.
 
naefeart said:
Yeah I think they were going for a gunmetal look, but I can see why you've said 'blueish'. It's by no means the best way to play Doom, but it's still impressive for the platform.
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Does it play on MiSTer or flash carts naefeart? Or does it have a special chip?
 
Looks awesome for what it is!
My big retro thing for the week was I unpacked all my SNES stuff the other day and cleaned it all with IPA. Took me hours as you'd probably expect of scrubbing to remove the years of dirt, permanent marker name tags on the top, general grime etc, most of the cartridges have discoloured at this point and some have stains in the plastic itself, but everything looks better and fresher and less grimy than it did, and given the grime off the contacts, I can't help but think they should read better. All 44 games worth of it :)

The downside was I went to test everything at the end of the day, I'd already sourced a TV with the appropriate connectors, only for my chinese aftermarket PSU to go pop almost immediately on powering up the console, so I've had to order another one before I can go through and retest everything. The PSU went pop pretty immediately so it was obviously on the edge after multiple years in storage, I doubt it's damaged anything, but still bloody annoying. On the plus side before the pop, the TV did switch into RGB SCART rather than SVideo mode, so it confirms at least one of the cables I had WAS an RGB SCART cable :)

What I will do when the new PSU comes as well, as this gave me time to think about it, is I'll use one of my cheapest cartridges as a cartridge slot cleaning tool to get some IPA into the actual cartridge slot in the console. Now I've seen the dirt off the carts, I can't imagine it won't help the console too (not sopping wet but a nicely IPA damp/wet connector into the cartridge slot 10-15 times to break down any gunk) and then let it dry before testing the machine and all the games :)
 
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