Retro console and games thread

Larrs888 said:
They are awesome, all my retro systems look really sharp and crisp on my LCD TV. You can essentially make the games look as sharp and clean as they look on emulators, coupled with scanlines games look really really nice. There is virtually no input lag either, I would highly recommend one!
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DEL 707 said:
I used to have a XRGB Mini for my Neo Geo AES/MVS, but for me it wasn't really worth the money, since my old Sony LCD seemed to do a good job for some reason and I seem to be in that small percentage of people who aren't mad about scanlines. :p

I sold it on in the end, but do kinda wish I kept it now that I've modded my Mega Drive and SNES with 60Hz switches, the TV doesn't like it, so I had to buy a HD converter.

The units were over £300 from Japan when I bought mine, so prices are coming down and they are packed with all kinds of options/settings which I had no idea how to use.
Great unit, but too expensive for my uses.
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Just seen these responses. I had a little look after posting, I didn't expect them to be £300 tbh. But rich for my blood :). Gotta be better than keep relying on those old CRTs which are vulnerable to the old bulb blowing. I'd bite if decent ones cosy £100 :). My TV don't make these consoles look too ugly anyway :).
 
Picked up another TV, talked to the guy in the shop and he agreed to let me bring down my SNES to try out on the demo sets. Think they were more excited to see it work then I was. ;)
Good thing I did try them out though, the Samsung I had my eye on didn't work at all, in the end I took away a cheap little Logic that runs the SNES in 60hz no problem. It doesn't like the Mega Drive in 60hz, but I'm not too bothered about that, but will do some research into it.

Was tempted to see how far I could push my luck and try to plug it into 1 of those big curved TV's. :p
 
A few of my recent pickups, I have been loving Golden Axe at the moment although I still can't beat the last stage but I'm getting closer! I was happy to get another copy of Soul Edge in mint condition with the spine card, its one of my favourites of all time and I really wanted a nice example.

I happened to go into WH Smiths at lunchtime last week and saw the SNES/Mega Drive book on the shelves, this was a surprise since it went out of print ages ago and copies on eBay used to be around 30 quid plus, lucky for me they did another run! Great read so grab it while stocks last guys!

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DEL 707 said:
Went down to a shop to have a look at their 22" TV's, not much to select from, but found a cheap 1, but found out there's no kind of returns unless the thing is faulty, so I came away empty handed.

Didn't want to take a punt on a £100 TV that doesn't work for me, I have that problem with my current TV, doesn't like the SNES when I switch it to 60hz to play American games, goes slightly blurry, so I have to use a HDMI upscaller.
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You should have kept your XRGB Mini ;) I feel I will be in a similar boat soon as my TV is over 8 years old and I'd love a new slimmer one. Whilst I use the XRGB for all my retro stuff I do use my tv's VGA port for my Dreamcast. Sadly all new TVs have removed the VGA socket so I guess I need to buy an expensive sync combiner box to get the Dreamcast to work with the XRGB in VGA mode.
 
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Nice copy of Soul Edge there Larrs. I have the same having bought it when it was first released over in Japan in the mid 90's. Cost me around £85 back then.

They sure were expensive the old Jap imports.
 
Keep toying with the idea of slowly collecting systems and games i grew up playing!

Just became a dad and lately havent any time to actually play games but this may keep the fire burning until i get more time :D thinking megadrive, n64, dreamcast, ps1 i already have a megadrive and n64 from a while back when i wanted to start getting some bits together
 
Not so much retro, but I wasn't sure where else to put this ..just bought this for some retro gaming goodness. Haven't received it yet. But I shall post first impressions when I do! :D

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I don't use the iOS system unfortunately. I'm going to be using it with my PC and android.

All I know is, I think your apple product needs to be jailbroken unfortunately :( the brand is called 8bitdo. They do a SNES variant too without the analogue sticks.

Edit. I ordered from eBay. Should be with me in a few days.

Edit 2 : seems I may be wrong. You can use it with apple products with a cable as far as I can see
 
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Latest pick up out in the wild almost walked past it in a local second hand shop, already have an unboxed one but i couldn't pass this up for the collection in excellent condition, so i might be sticking my old one in the members market soon.

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ShiWarrior said:
like the look of that controller Deo
has that got games built in or do you buy them separately ?
id love a snes one..
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You can use the controller with any games. Works with emulators etc. Works really well. Got it in the post today. Got it hooked up to my android TV box. The Bluetooth is flawless, no problems connecting it up.
 
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