Retro console and games thread

ShiWarrior · 12 Jul 2017 at 08:46

Lemmings !

ShiWarrior · 12 Jul 2017 at 11:27

oo, nice little bundle for a Retron 5 on the bay
not sure if its worth that much, any idea guys ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RetroN-5-...824507?hash=item361b64cb7b:g:mcQAAOSwt5hYjeTd

SFII Japs !!

ShiWarrior · 12 Jul 2017 at 15:54

just bagged a Raspberry PI3 from the MM,
Retro PI here we come !

barmyllama · 12 Jul 2017 at 17:11

I can see me getting one once I've sold everything off.

kinger8938 · 12 Jul 2017 at 18:42

I have one for this soul purpose but I've never really used it! Must set it back up, it's a nice bit if kit and the u.i is really nice

ShiWarrior · 12 Jul 2017 at 21:32

been reading up on installing RetroPie ready and decided to have a blast on Chase HQ, double dragon etc again, those were the days !

kinger8938 · 13 Jul 2017 at 13:08

barmyllama said:
I can see me getting one once I've sold everything off.

Let me know when the time comes mate as I may part with mine, i set it up, got a smart little case for it but tbh I just haven't used it. Have the official charger and SD card etc

K@rl · 13 Jul 2017 at 23:15

Picked up this little baby tonight ... been playing Pinball Fantasies!

kinger8938 · 14 Jul 2017 at 10:47

Before my time

never really played anything like that and maybe I should some day!

malachi · 14 Jul 2017 at 10:55

K@rl said:
Picked up this little baby tonight ... been playing Pinball Fantasies!

Lost many hours to Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Dreams

K@rl · 14 Jul 2017 at 11:49

I lost a couple last night. What amazes me still is the sound quality of the Amiga. It blows the rest of the 16Bit consoles out the water.

I got 50 disks with the console - many Amiga Format demo disks. Can't wait to go through them all.

kinger8938 · 14 Jul 2017 at 11:58

I remember I've asked this before and did get the answer but instead of searching through..

What's the best thing to pick up to play my game cube/ps2 to my hdmi monitor. Currently I have rgb scart cables for both. So I recall a converter of sorts being recommended?

I do have a CRT But my little room it's In gets so hot at the moment I would sooner just have a bash at my desk through my monitor. Thanks in advance

ShiWarrior · 14 Jul 2017 at 15:44

Kinger
for me, i hooked the PS2 via component to my TV, but you can simply buy a converter from Component to HDMI if need be (as its a monitor, not sure it will still work) which should give you the best quality
as for Gamecube, the rbb scart is ridiculously pricey, get a wii and get a wii2HDMI adaptor instead

kinger8938 · 14 Jul 2017 at 17:24

ShiWarrior said:
Kinger
for me, i hooked the PS2 via component to my TV, but you can simply buy a converter from Component to HDMI if need be (as its a monitor, not sure it will still work) which should give you the best quality
as for Gamecube, the rbb scart is ridiculously pricey, get a wii and get a wii2HDMI adaptor instead

Are you referring to the component cable for the GC? Silly money that!

Yea I just have hdmi in the back so maybe I'll try something like a component to hdmi converter for the ps2

ShiWarrior · 14 Jul 2017 at 17:28

ah sorry, that be the one

kinger8938 · 14 Jul 2017 at 18:35

ShiWarrior said:
ah sorry, that be the one

No worries! It looks like people now mod hdmi slots in to gamecubes but that's all too technical for me

barmyllama · 14 Jul 2017 at 18:54

Component cable for GC is pointless anyway, since PAL games can't make use of it.

So you can either use a Wii and component cables to play GameCube games or an upscaler which can can cost anything from £10 to £400

kinger8938 · 15 Jul 2017 at 10:38

barmyllama said:
Component cable for GC is pointless anyway, since PAL games can't make use of it.

So you can either use a Wii and component cables to play GameCube games or an upscaler which can can cost anything from £10 to £400

I did think only ntsc benefitted from that.

Gamecube is a weird one

TheAlex · 15 Jul 2017 at 17:12

ShiWarrior said:
been reading up on installing RetroPie ready and decided to have a blast on Chase HQ, double dragon etc again, those were the days !

I bought an SD card with everything already set up from ebay - so I plugged it into my new Pi and was playing in a couple of minutes.

It probably cost about £10 extra, but saved a lot of time I guess, as the Metadata and box-art for games was included.

My bro' and I have had great fun on SNES Tetris Attack, Micro Machines, Wrestlemania (was fun for one match, so we quit while we were ahead) and Mario 3's battle game. It's been much less hassle than setting the old consoles back up.

I also didn't expect to be playing N64 games with a SNES pad.

kinger8938 · 17 Jul 2017 at 08:51

I'd imagine something like this could do a fair job for playing my GC/Ps2 on my monitor?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00RMMGOGS?psc=1

'half price' at them moment if that really means anything. I imagine these sort of devices vary in quality vastly