Retro console and games thread

Nice collection there.
My mum was talking about Lemmings at Christmas, she had a bit of addiction to it back in the day on the Amiga. :D

Do love those Amiga boxes, nice and chunky.
 
Neil79 said:
Sadly lacking in today's games, awful dvd boxes bleh :(
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I used to love the big box PC games, heck even boxed SNES games are awesome. Nice artwork, FULL COLOUR manual, guide books, posters, story book etc. Today you are lucky to get a manual. Once of the reasons I've given up on PC gaming for now is that 99% of everything is a Steam code.......

I recently got Zelda for the SNES and it came with a lovely colour manual that included a lot lore, a huge world map poster and guide book. Today to get anything close you need to pay an inflated price for some Uber super duper collectors edition, but even these are just some cheap action figure and a DLC voucher :(
 
Going to a car boot tomorrow morning in Derby (Cattle Market). Hoping i'll manage to nab Metal Gear Solid and the Resident Evil games on the PS1 i've been after for ages.

Is there anything I should specifically look out for while i'm there, retro game wise?
 
MrMarvelous said:
Going to a car boot tomorrow morning in Derby (Cattle Market). Hoping i'll manage to nab Metal Gear Solid and the Resident Evil games on the PS1 i've been after for ages.

Is there anything I should specifically look out for while i'm there, retro game wise?
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Goodluck mate, last time I went there it was really slim pickings.. You may want to try the one near Matlock, if your on that side of Derbyshire.

Both MGS and RE should be quite cheap as there on psn.
 
Do you know how much? I can't check as i'm at work at the moment. Would ideally like a physical copy though. When did you go last if you don't mind me asking, was it recently?
 
MrMarvelous said:
Do you know how much? I can't check as i'm at work at the moment. Would ideally like a physical copy though. When did you go last if you don't mind me asking, was it recently?
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It was over a year ago, I've moved to Mansfield and came back to my mums in Derby for a visit, since then I have moved to manchester.

I'm not a RE fan, but I did pickup MGS and the add on mission game for I think 17 pounds, both black label (if it matters), but that was on eBay; I wanted them together and it was over three years ago. but since then the HD collection has come out PS3. Me personally; I wouldn't buy anymore than 7 pounds for it now, which seems to be the right ebay price and I think the price of the digital version on PSN.

There's retro world in the Derby market place (part of the eagle center), I was there over Christmas and I'm pretty sure I spotted it there.
 
Jesus, what a waste of time. There were about 20 or so cars out (nothing compared to the size of the place and how full it used to get) and it was rammed with smelly Eastern Europeans refugees.

I'll have to shop around on the internet I think. I've seen the Resident Evil games (1 to 3) on the PSn store today for £11.99, is that a good price?
 
MrMarvelous said:
Jesus, what a waste of time. There were about 20 or so cars out (nothing compared to the size of the place and how full it used to get) and it was rammed with smelly Eastern Europeans refugees.

I'll have to shop around on the internet I think. I've seen the Resident Evil games (1 to 3) on the PSn store today for £11.99, is that a good price?
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Resident Evil is probably my favourite series ever, in fact Resident Evil 1 was my first ever PS1 game that I got with the console soon after its release in 96. If you have a means to play US games get the NTSC U/C versions because they run a lot faster than the PAL 50Hz version and don't squash the picture with ugly black borders. Back in the day I got an import version of RE2 and the difference compared my friends UK version was night and day.

On PSN RE2 and 3 are the US 60Hz versions which is nice. Of course the Dreamcast versions of RE2 and 3 is where its at ;) I'm really enjoying playing PS3 HD Remaster of the Gamecube remake, it is by far the best resident evil game and Capcom did an amazing job with the HD port! I picked up a physical blu-ray of the Asian version and its all in English, even the artwork on the cover.
 
MrMarvelous said:
Jesus, what a waste of time. There were about 20 or so cars out (nothing compared to the size of the place and how full it used to get) and it was rammed with smelly Eastern Europeans refugees.

I'll have to shop around on the internet I think. I've seen the Resident Evil games (1 to 3) on the PSn store today for £11.99, is that a good price?
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Sorry to hear that... Try the carboot near Matlock, there's a few resellers there so, worst comes to the worst you can pick games up from them. You should be able to pick them up cheaper than £11.99 per game on discs.
 
Larrs888 said:
It's the MVS in game in a consolised neo geo MVS, the Omega Entertainment Machine. Checkout arcadeworks.net , Quan over at the Neo forums builds them, inside is a genuine 1999 MV-1C MVS board modded for Stereo sound, built-in PSU, virtual memory card and Unibios 3.2.

I bought it a few months ago and its an amazing looking machine, to play the real deal arcade hardware at home but not use up half the room for a cab for me is fantastic. Also MVS games are way cheaper than the AES home versions. The Unibios even allows you to play MVS games in AES mode if you want to since the rom chips are exactly the same.

Here is my baby:
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Really like the look of this... Larrs do you just use a converter for the US psu?
 
naefeart said:
Really like the look of this... Larrs do you just use a converter for the US psu?
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It really is such an awesome CMVS, the internal virtual memory is really nice as well. I just completed Metal Slug X and then it saved my game and unlocked the stage select screen, on an arcade game!

No converter needed, the internal PSU is international 100-240v so just use a UK 3 pin lead (kettle cable) or a socket adapter since it ships with a US 2 pin cable so thats it, no step down needed :)
 
Larrs888 said:
It really is such an awesome CMVS, the internal virtual memory is really nice as well. I just completed Metal Slug X and then it saved my game and unlocked the stage select screen, on an arcade game!

No converter needed, the internal PSU is international 100-240v so just use a UK 3 pin lead (kettle cable) or a socket adapter since it ships with a US 2 pin cable so thats it, no step down needed :)
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Thanks Larrs, that sounds ideal. I've played all the Metal Slug games but having the proper hardware would be ace.

Cheers :)
 
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