Retro Collections...I'll show yea mine, if you show me yours!
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All of which are played on this..
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A 1984 50inch Projection Tv
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Side by Side Cabinet with running Mame. Emulation of most Gaming consoles and Mugen
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Not shown. 2 Gameboys, and 2 More Ataris
Wow, very nice collection. I especially like the projection screen and the nintendo carrying case the looks like one that was used in The Wizard... where do you get one of those cases?
From a second hand store. I have a old school shelf case as well, also purchased second hand.
This is the morale of the lesson friends.
Go to estate and yard sales. Go to fleamarkets and Goodwills. Go to salvation armies and any Second hand shops or pawn shops. I have gotten Most of my collection through this process.
I wish I had the means to put up my pictures but here's all I have.
Consoles
atari 2600 later model with wood front
nes1
nes2
famicom
supernes
n64
wii
xbox
accesories
standard controllers for nes/nes2, famicom, n64, snes, xbox and wii
paddle controllers for the tennis and racing games on the 2600
So far with everything except xbox wii and n64 going to an old panasonic tv... good for zapper games if i had one.
I wish I had the effort to photograph all my collections - alas most is packaged up and the rest is a sunday afternoon's work :(
We already have a thread just like this, and I posted all of my stuff there.
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Heh, in the 4th picture, I have that same red camera..or at least it looks like it from that angle
I have a Samsung BL103; 10.2 megapixels
That's a Dreamcast VMU. xD
yes dreamcast VMU lol anyways on the first collection post I like how you have your alcohol nearby just in case a game doesn't want to boot lol
How much did Fire Emblem for the Famicom cost you? Also, is it very Japanese-intensive?
Quote from: nurd on February 24, 2009, 04:35:57 pm
That's a Dreamcast VMU. xD
Wow. My camera looks almost exactly like that...
You just blew my mind :o
Quote from: Rogles on February 24, 2009, 05:22:48 pm
How much did Fire Emblem for the Famicom cost you? Also, is it very Japanese-intensive?
10 bucks in public.
It is, but if you want to learn Japanese, it's a learning opportunity from just plunging into it.
10 bucks, like in Japan?
Amazing Collection Tone Man
Especailly the Neo Geo..I wonder more on the price you paid for that, From what I understand those don't come cheap, neither do the games.
Any idea where a guiy could get a deal on one of those babies?
Quote from: Rcoehrs on February 24, 2009, 06:17:19 pm
Amazing Collection Tone Man
Especailly the Neo Geo..I wonder more on the price you paid for that, From what I understand those don't come cheap, neither do the games.
Any idea where a guiy could get a deal on one of those babies?
Had this set since 2002, for 200 bucks with Samurai Spirits 1 and 2, and Fatal Fury Special
duely noted gonna start using other thread now sorry!
Just recently?! Post it in the " All other Finds" thread! :P
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this's what my arcade supergun looks like when it's hooked up to a pcb, in this picture it's hooked into ketsui
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on the right is a sf2 world warrior 911101 pcb, this's the revision without glitches in it. The neo geo on the left has a female headphone jack which I wired into stereo sound. Sounds way better than mono through the jamma harness
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from top to bottom: neo drift out bootleg, neo driftout legit, world heroes perfect legit, samurai showdown 4 legit, and samurai showdown 2 legit (which I sold since I took this picture)
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stuff I was too lazy to take pictures of:
snes model 2
various cheap import megadrive games
various cheap snes/sfc games
few genesis games
2 sega genesis model 2s, one I modded to play megadrive games only because I was bored
various cheap nes games
various cheap gameboy and gbc carts
other controllers (I have 2 official japanese controllers for my import consoles)
snes multitap because 3 player secret of mana is awesome
snes mouse and mario paint (the mouse is probably worth more than the game)
I'm quite jealous of the supergun.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on March 01, 2009, 09:36:25 am
I'm quite jealous of the supergun.
thanks. I built it myself (as you can probably tell). It works great. uses usb cords for kick buttons. And the rgb to s-video circuit is hooked up through a scart switch so anything that has a scart cable can use it. So I also use the rgb to s-video for my megadrive and super famicom just at the simple flick of a switch.
Very nice, I wish I had the knowledge to build one of those.
Cool!
Out of interest, what are the glitches that were taken out of SF2?
I especially like how you've set up the boards in tupperware housings :) genius!
Yeah, the supergun is awesome.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on March 01, 2009, 08:02:39 pm
Very nice, I wish I had the knowledge to build one of those.
you honestly want to know how I learned how to build one? google, wikipedia, more google, ebay for parts. I started with zero knowledge of how to build one and how it even works. Then I spent about half a year carefully researching on jamma, rgb to ntsc, how to do modding, etc. And carefully searching for the cheapest parts possible. And I also built it slowly piece by piece to make sure each individual part worked.
l_e_t if you want to find out the glitches use youtube and type in "street fighter world warrior glitches", they're pretty bad glitches. And yeah I figured since I'm putting money into buying a pcb spending another 15$ to build a proper container with a cooling fan to keep it safe wouldn't hurt. I have a lot of parties with this thing so I don't want to spill a drink or accidentally break a pcb somehow. Anyway here's a bit more detail on the supergun
power supply, it's just a regular 25$ atx 2.whatever psu I bought from a computer store, completely original and unmodded
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my supergun is based on a vogatek that uses sega genesis controllers for the basic jamma buttons. So here's what the inside of my arcade sticks look like. Kick buttons are simply straight wired.
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Other end of the controller cables is very simple. Sega genesis plug for regular jamma buttons, usb plug for extra buttons.
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Here's the sticks I'm using on my supergun, got them for VERY cheap because they were "not working" when I purchased them. I got the x-arcade for 15$ and the street fighter one for 25$. And I'm talking canadian $ here.
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demonstration of how my pcbs are firmly fastened to their containers and basically don't go anywhere. You can turn it upside down do whatever and the pcb stays firmly in place
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Here's my neo geo case, showing you the basic features I implement into my cases. Mono sound can come out of the supergun itself. For stereo sound I get it straight from the neo geo pcb.
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Here's the rgb to s-video board. The rgb lines just come out of a scart plug. The rgb to s-video board has the colour saturation too high. So to solve this I added resisters to the colour wire of the s-video cord coming out of it. Now the picture is perfect.
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Quick screenshot
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Here's the scart switch I use. It lets me switch between using rgb to s-video for my supergun, sega megadrive, and super famicom just by hitting a simple switch. rgb to ntsc is powered by the same psu that powers the supergun. the atx extension cable between the psu and the supergun I soldered the power on wire to ground so it automatically turns on when I flick the switch at the back. So to power the rgb to s-video circuit only I simply disconnect the atx cord from my supergun.
(http://drakonmusic.com/rare/supergun/scart%20selector.jpg)
I could have gotten rgb lines from my scart by lobbing apart a scart cord but this method looks a little nicer. And I can quickly disconnect r, g, b, and sync for testing purposes with this setup
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another random screenshot
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here's some of the features on the supergun
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here's the rest
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Here's the supergun guts. I started with a vogatek and did a LOT of modding. sync wire is soldered directly from the jamma harness to the sync line on the scart port. Audio has left and right speakers soldered together since it's mono. And the ground on the audio port is disconnected since I'm plugging it into an amplifier and it doesn't work when the ground is connected.
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picture of it hooked up to my neo geo
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pcb feet holding the vogatek in place
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here's it running
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quiet desynced video of it working
http://drakonmusic.com/rare/supergun/supergun%20playing.avi (http://drakonmusic.com/rare/supergun/supergun%20playing.avi)
so here's the bad things about my supergun
1: it's sort of ugly
2: it's not as small and portable as it could possibly be, but luckily I don't care about taking it anywhere
3: building it took a lot of time and research
4: all the soldering caused my electrical bill to go insane for one month, but luckily my landlady was okay with it happening just this one time
here's the good things
1: it was stupidly cheap, less than half the price of other superguns and that's including the cost of arcade sticks
2: it produces amazing quality s-video picture, all my friends who also play on expensive new arcade cabinets agree my supergun picture quality looks amazing.
3: with it you can use either rgb through scart or s-video through my encoder
4: the s-video encoder can be used with anything that has a scart cable
5: it supports both stereo and mono sound through a simple stereo headphone jack
6: the sound can be plugged into an amplifier so you can really getting it sounding better than at the arcade
7: everything is safe, you can spill a drink on it, push it around, even when it's running and nothing happens to the supergun or the pcb
8: everything is connected through easy to connect ports. It takes me less than a minute to switch pcbs. And I could train a kid how to hook a game up to my supergun including extra features like stereo sound and kick buttons and the cooling fan.
9: it supports up to 3 extra buttons for stuff like neo geo or fighting games which use kick buttons.
10: coin and bios buttons are on the supergun so you don't accidentally hit them while playing your game
11: everything is adjustable. On my amp I can adjust bass, volume, treble. On my rgb to s-video board I can adjust r, g, b levels individually
12: everything is powered by the same psu and I can unplug the atx port to power the rgb to s-video board on its own.
So what does it support? Anything that uses standard jamma, neo geo extra jamma buttons, stereo sound, mono sound, street fighter and other fighting game kick buttons. Easy to switch rgb to s-video circuit for any other system I own that doesn't internally generate great looking s-video. And all the parts were things you can buy almost anywhere. Only rare parts I use are a vogatek and the pcbs themselves. And the only other rare thing I came across was arcade sticks being so cheap. Tools I used were a soldering iron, solder, exacto knife, small screwdrivers, regular screwdrivers, hammer, vice grips, plyers, hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, scissors, electrical tape, and decades worth of soldering/electronics handling experience that I already had. So aside from the decades of experience all the tools I used were extremely common. Well, I hope you guys found all of this to be somehow interesting.
I've got a bunch of systems, but hardly consider anything newer than NES as particularly retro, though don't own anything older than that era either. The pic shows about 200 NES games including the CIBs I haven't taken out (most recent addition was Mermaids of Atlantis for $1.50 at a local PlayNTrade [half off $2.99--they seem to price all of their American Video style carts for $2.99]). Famicom and Famicom Disk games have been a fairly recent thing I've gotten into, so there isn't a whole lot there, but I've got Castlevania 3, Splatterhouse, and Kid Dracula on the way (as well as a recent 8-bit porn purchase from JC [sounds like it may be Sexy Derby from other posts--just so I can say I have one without going the expensive NES Panesian route...yet]). I also took a shot of the title screen (camera made it look weird) for my SMB2j cart (I don't know if it is a less or more common pirate screen [perhaps someone will inform me], but it does have the level select [seems all the pirate screenshots I've been seeing lately have actually said Super Mario 2 or are blank).
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=P~ @ your Super Mario 2 (3?) pirate cart! Rambo, eh? How is it, is there much differences? I've never heard of or seen this hack! Also, great collection there. Remember, using turbo is not cheating if it is built into the console. ;)
Quote from: turbo D on March 04, 2009, 01:46:11 am
=P~ @ your Super Mario 2 (3?) pirate cart! Rambo, eh? How is it, is there much differences? I've never heard of or seen this hack! Also, great collection there. Remember, using turbo is not cheating if it is built into the console. ;)
Aside from the weird title screen and using the name Rambo for Mario (in addition to the handy level select), it is identical to Super Mario 2 that was made on the FDS.
Awesome stuff, guys!!!
Wow you guys have some interesting stuff. Great collections!
Awesome supergun! ;D
Using tupperware containers is an excellent idea in lieu of woodworking skills/tools
Quote from: Drakon on March 03, 2009, 03:26:32 pm
4: all the soldering caused my electrical bill to go insane for one month, but luckily my landlady was okay with it happening just this one time
What? Did you use an industrial soldering tool or something? My cheapo soldering iron uses around 20 Watts, which is almost next to nothing compared with other appliances. I sometimes forget about it and it stays plugged in for days on end and it's hardly noticeable.
OTOH my video projector uses a 250W lamp and that's going to impact my electricity bill sooner or later ::)
I have woodworking skills and tools. But plastic containers are cheaper, lighter, easier to install things in, and they come with a lid and handles already. I guess maybe it wasn't my iron that made the electrical bill go high then. Must have been one of my other roommates or maybe the heating system of the house.
mod edit: Please don't quote the post directly above you. It's unnecessary.
I'm wondering how much my new PS3 will affect my bills. :D
But 250W for a projector isn't that bad, right?
A big plasma eats much more.
A couple of my incoming additions arrived yesterday ;D
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What console is that?
They are both famicom, but the Splatterhouse cart is just larger than a typical famicom cart (I had mentioned them both in my initial post, so I figured I'd post the photos here too if anyone was interested--I actually didn't know I was getting the stickers and other cards, so that was a surprise). The other cart is Castlevnia 3 if there was any question on that (and the music is even better than I thought [the youtube videos of the famicom CV3 music is NOT a good representation of hearing the real thing]).
cool things you got there
Forgot to show these...
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toneman the sfc box looks so darn sexy in real life. Too bad it looks terrible in pictures. Also I love dracula x, I play my copy all the time. really fun game you got there.
Dracula X definitely is a classic. Y'know alot of people say that the Dracula on Super NES is a port of the original Dracula X Rondo of the Blood on the PC Engine/Turbografx CD.
It's NOT a "port" or a "version". That's just a result of Konami of America's localization practices
Here's more SFC pics....now in 3-D! Well, first is a better res version of one of the pics I previously posted. The reason why the last one looked terrible was because of the lossy results in the compression
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yeah it's definitely not a port. completely different game with the same name. and I prefer the pc engine one. Still the snes one is awesome in its own respect. Snes one is my second favourite castlevania game of all time. Another great sfc game to get your hands on would be terranigma. Especially the english version of it, so hard to find
Will the English version work in an SFC since it's a European cartridge?
Quote from: Toneman on March 08, 2009, 08:35:11 am
Will the English version work in an SFC since it's a European cartridge?
I found an adapter on ebay that supposedly makes pal games work on a sfc
Quote from: Toneman on March 08, 2009, 08:35:11 am
Will the English version work in an SFC since it's a European cartridge?
Either buy an adapter (like above post said)............or easier is just to disable the region protection (you need to open the sfc to do this)
when i get my camera i can take some pictures
Quote from: superfamiking on March 09, 2009, 03:57:40 am
Quote from: Toneman on March 08, 2009, 08:35:11 am
Will the English version work in an SFC since it's a European cartridge?
Either buy an adapter (like above post said)............or easier is just to disable the region protection (you need to open the sfc to do this)
I'd rather buy the adapter