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On 11/4/2016 at 10:14, Azure said:

I also always wanted a Wondermega, but it's really just because I love the design and want to enjoy the aesthetics.

 

This. 

 

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Those lights and the powered lid :wub: The mk2 with the infrared pads would still be ace to have but the mk1 for me is the ultimate Megadrive. I've already got a Asian MD with the purple bit on it, a Mega CD and a 32X, plus a Nomad so this and a Multi Mega are next on my wish list. Would I use them much? Probably not, but I dream of having them on the shelf in some sort of usable / display state alongside the other hardware.

 

Oh, and as for a piece of hardware which would definitely never get used but looks so cool...

 

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This outrageous piece of shit! I've always been fascinated by how awful it looks to hold. It's absolutely gorgeous though, and so painfully 90s-looking. I've actually never even played on a Sega Saturn before, as I never knew anyone who owned one. I finally bought one about ten years ago on NTSC-UK, but the sale fell through. It was never meant to be.

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Mine would probably be ideal versions of my two childhood machines, Spectrum and Amiga. 

The problem is there's no such thing. With the Speccy, you obviously want the aesthetics of the original 48k, but only having a 48k machine means you are stuck with multi-load and no music, on most of the later period releases. 

With the Amiga it's the other way round. You want the aesthetics of one of the later machines like the small form A600 or A1200, but you want the compatibility of the stock A500 model. I mean, the A500 was an amazing machine, but no one wants to have one set up under the TV in their living room any more.

 

This has been the thorn in my side during my quest for my own personal gaming holy grail, for a long time. I don't want to have a room full of old hardware gathering dust, and with my personal favourite systems, you need a couple of models of each of them to get the full experience. 

 

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12 minutes ago, Anne Summers said:

The problem is there's no such thing. With the Speccy, you obviously want the aesthetics of the original 48k, but only having a 48k machine means you are stuck with multi-load and no music, on most of the later period releases.

 

The original 128k looks like my ideal Speccy - Rick Dickinson design, but with all the 128k and AY goodness. I never even knew they existed back when I was a kid, I only knew the rubber key, the Spectrum+ and the later Amstrad-based models.

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2 hours ago, Anne Summers said:

Mine would probably be ideal versions of my two childhood machines, Spectrum and Amiga. 

The problem is there's no such thing. With the Speccy, you obviously want the aesthetics of the original 48k, but only having a 48k machine means you are stuck with multi-load and no music, on most of the later period releases. 

With the Amiga it's the other way round. You want the aesthetics of one of the later machines like the small form A600 or A1200, but you want the compatibility of the stock A500 model. I mean, the A500 was an amazing machine, but no one wants to have one set up under the TV in their living room any more.

 

This has been the thorn in my side during my quest for my own personal gaming holy grail, for a long time. I don't want to have a room full of old hardware gathering dust, and with my personal favourite systems, you need a couple of models of each of them to get the full experience. 

 

 

Although it seemed otherwise at the time, the A600 does have a really high compatibility rate with A500 games. If you're booting from Floppy then you can use relokick or Tude to downgrade it to a 1.3 Kickstart. If you get an A600HD, you can add a modern 2.5" HDD (or a Compact Flash one, but I never got that to work ;-) ) and stick hundreds of WHDLoad games. Technically all A600s can take an HD, but Commodore messed up and some can't actually support an HD... If not then you could replace the A600 floppy drive with a Gotek USB drive. 

 

The only issue I've had is with flight simulators that use the numerical keys (which are missing from the A600), but then to be honest most Amiga flight sims are painfully slow now!

 

The A600 is a great little machine, it's a pity that Commodore messed it up though. It was supposed to be the low cost model (original name was the A300), attempting to bring the C64 users to the Amiga, but they ended up adding in loads of expensive new technology to it (PCMCIA, HDD) making it more expensive than the A500...

 

The A1200 would probably be the better choice, but it's basically the same size as an A500...

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On 07/11/2016 at 09:42, Camel said:

You'll hate me, but I got mine at a boot sale for a fiver.  

 

£2 quid about 12 years ago...Sold it on ebay for £60 a year later

 

Snatcher and Guardian Heroes too for a pittance but sold on as a was naive Uni student wanting cash

 

AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH

 

Still guardian hero's is now on Xbox one for a couple of quid, same with castlevania. Convenience wins out now over owning the disks

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For pure nostalgia, I'd love a standup Spy Hunter machine, with volume turned up to 11, with a deep fat fryer cooking chips in old oil.

 

I could then close my eyes, hear the rousing edition of the Peter Gunn theme while breathing the heady aroma of greasy chips and be transported back to Pleasure Land in Arbroath in 1984 when life was still full of potential and all I cared about was getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas or collecting Stinky Stickers (maybe Garbage Pail Kids, or was that in 1985?)....

 

And then I'd open my eyes and weep, for there was nothing else to conquer....

 

...Because I'd have to be a millionaire to justify to my wife buying a Spy Hunter machine.

 

 

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On 11/6/2016 at 23:27, Paulando said:

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This outrageous piece of shit! I've always been fascinated by how awful it looks to hold. It's absolutely gorgeous though, and so painfully 90s-looking. I've actually never even played on a Sega Saturn before, as I never knew anyone who owned one. I finally bought one about ten years ago on NTSC-UK, but the sale fell through. It was never meant to be.

i've got one of those kicking about somewhere.

as for my grails - a couple of them were already listed actually. I'd love one day to have an OutRun cab, likewise one for Atari Star Wars. Other than that I'd very much like a full PCB kit for both of dodonpachi DAIFUKKATSU Black Label, and Ketsui.

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I found these bad boys on eBay the other day. I'd been looking for ages, and had kind of assumed that no copies would ever turn up, so was delighted to see copies of Marathon and Marathon Infinity on there - the precise games in the series that I didn't have boxed copies of - in pretty reasonable condition, complete with manuals, inserts, and the original disks. Even better, Marathon was the rarer floppy disk version. 

 

The boxes are a bit scuffed, but it's hardly surprising given the mad triangular shape and the fact they're over twenty years old. The design really is super-elaborate, what with the cut out section at the front with the protruding logo - big box games never got bigger or more boxy than this. 

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On 01/11/2016 at 12:46, Alexlotl said:

For me, it's one of these - the Sega Paddle for the Mark III/Master System.

 

Christmas came early!

 

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Finally found a UK based seller at a not-too-silly price, and was vascillating about it when eBay dropped a 15%-off-anything promo for Cyber Monday.

 

It’s in pretty decent condition for its age (31 years old!), with some slight colouration which looks more due to wear than yellowing, and a few non-structural melt marks in the (absurdly short) cable. I’ve never had a paddle controller of any kind before, and was surprised at the lack of detents on the wheel - it just turns freely between min and max, like the volume knob on an old Sony transistor radio. The grip is interesting - you can hold it horizontal like a normal controller, or vertically with your index finger on the trigger button. Note that both buttons are 1/Start - there is no button 2. 

 

Managed to get it working with my JP MD2 + Mega Everdrive X7, by selecting Japanese SMS BIOS - without that, it was totally unusable with gibberish input.

 

Brief game reviews:

 

- Megumi Rescue. The main reason I got this thing - it’s a fantastic game, and the paddle controls are made for it. 

- Woody Pop. An Arkanoid clone, so obviously good with a paddle. I suck at these, though. 

- Galactic Protector. A sort of rotary shooter starring Opa-Opa. Buckets of character, but rock hard, and it would make more sense with a paddle which rotated endlessly rather than having fixed min-max points

- Alex Kidd BMX Challenge. Fun but rock hard with wonderful production values. Best control of all the racers.

- Super Racing. Serious racing game, which isn’t my scene. Pretty damn hard to control with the paddle, not sure if it’s any better on pad.

- Outrun. I always forget how good this port was, particularly at 60hz. The paddle controls aren’t great though, as it’s too hard to centre your car. Fun being able to lock the wheel into corners though, and setting the stereo at the start with an actual knob oozes verisimilitude.

 

I’ll pack it away now until my Mega SG arrives next year (my MD + Scaler setup isn’t compatible with kids), then dig it out and see if I can clock Megumi Rescue. 

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