Retro console and games thread

Got "The Super Spy" today for the AES. It's the first time I booted the AES up with a game in and I got no boarders and English text. I'm guessing it's an NTSC USA model which is a pleasant surprise as almost every AES I see on Ebay is Japanese.
 
WatchTower said:
Got "The Super Spy" today for the AES. It's the first time I booted the AES up with a game in and I got no boarders and English text. I'm guessing it's an NTSC USA model which is a pleasant surprise as almost every AES I see on Ebay is Japanese.
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Cool, been tempted to grab that game.
You going to throw in a Universe BIOS?
Put 1 into my MVS and love, now considering doing the same to the AES, though from what I can tell, it's going to involve a bit of work.
 
Straight after getting my Saturn I had to head off with work for a couple weeks, hence the splurge of games purchased on ebay, now I am home, picked up a new CR2032 battery as the one I got with the Saturn was dead, and after some light soldering and poor plastic cutting skills, installed myself a 60hz switch.

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Daytona with huge borders:

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Daytona with a small lower border, guess as a 1st gen game they were struggling:

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JonnyCasino said:
Straight after getting my Saturn I had to head off with work for a couple weeks, hence the splurge of games purchased on ebay, now I am home, picked up a new CR2032 battery as the one I got with the Saturn was dead, and after some light soldering and poor plastic cutting skills, installed myself a 60hz switch.
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Well done on the 60hz mod mate. Switch looks pretty discrete! The boarders are probably down to the resolution Daytona runs in.

I've been setting up this JVC monitor i picked up on thursday. Finally got the picture pretty much spot on. I'm really OCD when it comes to PQ and Geometry.

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Cheers, going to tidy up the hole I have cut next week when I get a chance but yeah liked the idea of a mini black switch rather than a silver level which is commonly used but sticks out like a sore thumb.

Monitors look excellent, I need a new CRT the one I have makes a crazy noise now and again and the image can go a bit squiggly sometimes, think its on its way out, but have been warned that the replacement must be the same size of smaller as its in one of the spare rooms, can't wait to move next year and get a proper room for gaming cave, somehow 3 bedrooms isn't enough.....

Also..... ROOOOOLLLLLLLLLIIINNNNNGG STAAAAAAAAART!
 
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but have been warned that the replacement must be the same size of smaller as its in one of the spare rooms, can't wait to move next year and get a proper room for gaming cave, somehow 3 bedrooms isn't enough.....
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I live in a 2 bedroom semi and i have 4 CRT's! The wife can't understand why i have so many, i told her i have them because if one dies then i have a spare... they are old now. She just shruggs and leaves me to it! :D The largest CRT is have is my 21" Trinitron. The Good thing about the monitors is you can stack them. I have two stacked in the Storage above the stairs hahaha.
 
60hz mod is the best thing I ever did on the saturn and its pretty much a MUST if you are going to buy an action replay and import games, in standard form the sound and image are out of sync and half scrambled on xmen vs streetfighter until you get 60hz working

correct on daytona, it was seriously rushed to meet release deadline and its half finished tbh. i still love it though. Championship circuit edition is worth picking up mind you :) seems to be about a tenner on ebay atm

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thats my 60hz switch...found an epson thermal printer in skip at work and resurrected its power switch :D

All of my lynx stuff finally arrived :)

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That's a nicer install, yeah I have the championship edition but for some reason I have always preferred the original version, same as when I was 15 and owned my original saturn.

There is a 4 cabinet Daytona on eBay. How I would love to own that :p
 
Amstrad Action Special Edition Dizzy (Rare)
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ( Hard to get hold of )
Spellbound Dizzy ( Rare Amstrad, doesn't come up very often )
Yolkfolk ( Expensive when it appears! )

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Nice, was the special edition dizzy the magazine freebie, a mini prologue to either magic land or fantasy land dizzy, I remember getting it free for the Spectrum when I was a kid.
 
When you want to promote a game, what is the best way to get coverage? TV advertising? Glowing reviews? No, write a special cut down version and get one of the computer magazines to put it on their covertape which is what Codemasters did with Dizzy. In this cut down Special Edition, you have to collect the ingredients to the potion which kill the Evil Wizard Zaks.

Those thinking of getting the ingredients and making the potion in this demo then repeating everything they did on the full game (and cutting down on the amount of gameplay time) were in for a shock as most of the objects were in different places and some couldn't be picked up at all, instead giving you adverts for Codemasters games and Amstrad Action magazine.
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:)
 
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