Recent acquisitions

[Fool's Requiem]

So, I found out that Game Gears have capacitor issues as they age and many might not work. Tested mine, it turns on and than off again. Clear sign of dead capacitors. Supposedly its pretty easy to swap out the caps using soldering, but there's like twenty that might need replacing. Ain't no body got time for that. Bought replacement power and sound boards with brand new capacitors already installed. Not much more expensive than just the capacitor kits.

Disappointing that there's no way to play Game Gear games without a Game Gear or one of those Retron clone consoles with the 50 game slots in it. Apparently, the Game Gear displays more colors than the Genesis is capable of outputting, so an adapter won't work like the Master System -> Genesis adapters do.

 

[Smacktard]

I have a Game Gear somewhere that my brother used to own. Caps are definitely toast.

The sound board and power boards you replaced -- are they authentic or second hand? How easy were they to install?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I have a Game Gear somewhere that my brother used to own. Caps are definitely toast.

The sound board and power boards you replaced -- are they authentic or second hand? How easy were they to install?

I haven't replaced them yet. Only just ordered them over the evening. Should arrive in a couple weeks. They're from CHYYYNA, and they were the cheapest ones on eBay even after the 7 dollar shipping fee. I'm not really caring much about the quality, TBH. Game Gears (and their games) are not expensive or hard to find because NO ONE is collecting them. Gonna find a USB power cable thar works with it if the replacement boards work.

 

[Smacktard]

Game Gears (and their games) are not expensive

Lmao I think you might wanna recheck that. Mega Man is about $1800. It's one of the most expensive, but there are others in that range

 

[Smacktard]

The problem with a lot of GG games is that they're just inferior ports of Genesis games or direct ports of SMS games.

That said, I intend to get the GG port of Gunstar Heroes because fuck yeah! Gunstar Heroes!

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Lmao I think you might wanna recheck that. Mega Man is about $1800. It's one of the most expensive, but there are others in that range

there are a handful of games that are expensive, just like every system (Wii U and Atari 2600 included), but the VAST majority of GG games are dirt cheap.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Ok, big haul today, dont know how much spent, but it was a lot.

2600

- Star Raiders

NES
- River City Ransom
- Stinger
- Goonies 2
- Tecmo Super Bowl
- Kid Niki
- Devious
- Crystalis
- Solstice
- Defender 2
- Sky Shark
- Wired Hyperkin Cadet controller (my dumbass only saw the 10 dollar price tag and not the fact that it was not the BT wireless one)

SMS

- Fantasy Zone 2
- Blade Eagle 3-D
- Sonic the Hedgehog (CIB, PAL)

GB

- Solar Striker
(Saw V-Rally being sold for 40 and was having none of that)

Genesis

Captain America and the Avengers (CIB)

SNES

- Power Rangers the Fighting Edition

Jaguar

- Cannon Fodder (cart only, someone beat me to the CIB copy)

Dreamcast

- Zombie Revenge (no manual)
- Crazy Taxi (CIB, I only had the disc before)
- Flag 2 Flag
- MDK2

PS2

- Taito Legends 2

Xbox 360

- Test Drive Unlimited 2
- Tiger Woods PGA 12 (first one with Augusta in it)
- Deus Ex Human Revolution Directors Cut (wanted the Wii U version, but I've accepted that its going to be hard to find, and the 360 one is cheaper)

Wii

- Gunblade NY @ LA Machine guns (this was the most expensive item I bought, been looking for this for a while)

Wii U

- Lego City Undercover
- Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper

Switch

- Astral Chain
- Pac-Man Museum
- Cruising Blast
- Dragonball FighterZ

I saw a lot of good games being sold well above market price today. Especially Famicom games. Saw a copy of Star Solider being sold for 9 AND 19. It's only 3 bucks on the market price. I get shipping imports is expensive right now, but most sellers get imports in bulk (and via friends who snatched them up while on their travels) and likely got them WELL before Trump was elected. 3 dollar games shouldn't be going for 3-6 times the market value.

Edit: Also, I had to drive 2 and a half hours and get a hotel, and I don't have the advantage of buying games from people trading games in for cheap.

Side note: I think I'm running out of cheap games that I want. Going to start slowly migrating towards buying more expensive titles but at a lower pace.

And I anticipate trading in a bunch of games (or giving them away to Goodwill).

 

[dimmerwit]

I have a Game Gear in the draw. My diagnosis went no further than "it's fucked", but maybe I'll get it up and running. I had heard of the capacitor issue.

 

[Smacktard]

Sonic the Hedgehog (CIB, PAL)

Theres no way to tell. The only indicator that it's NA would be a small paper barcode sticker on the case, and that could've been removed at some point. PAL and NA copies are otherwise completely identical.

Deus Ex Human Revolution Directors Cut (wanted the Wii U version,

Why the Wii U version?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Theres no way to tell. The only indicator that it's NA would be a small paper barcode sticker on the case, and that could've been removed at some point. PAL and NA copies are otherwise completely identical.

PAL boxes have more colorful binding designs on the boxes, I found. NA copies all use the same font and color. Also, it dodnt cost me an arm and two legs. It was 35 complete (box isn't in tbe hest shape.

Why the Wii U version?

When I looked up what multiplatform games were considered the best on the Wii U, Deus Ex comes up a lot, up there with NFS Most Wanted and Rayman Legends. I believe a large factor is the Gamepad integration.

Note: Most threads were posted before the Switch/PS4/XBONE came out. However, generally, if the game pad is ACTUALLY used well, the Wii U version can be the best of its generation. Madden 13, is another example.

Also, the Wii U version is on one disc. 360 is on two.

 

[Smacktard]

PAL boxes have more colorful binding designs on the boxes, I found. NA copies all use the same font and color. Also, it dodnt cost me an arm and two legs

Sonic, specifically, is completely identical.

When I looked up what multiplatform games were considered the best on the Wii U, Deus Ex comes up a lot, up there with NFS Most Wanted and Rayman Legends. I believe a large factor is the Gamepad integration.

Rayman Legends' definitive version is on the Switch. But I didn't know that about Deus Ex, and I didn't realize that game was supposed to be so good. I guess I'll have a reason to bust out my Wii U again.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Note: Most threads were posted before the Switch/PS4/XBONE came out.

 

[Smacktard]

Yeah you weren't clear whether those games were examples of still definitive, or once-were definitive.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Note: Most threads were posted before the Switch/PS4/XBONE came out. However, generally, if the game pad is ACTUALLY used well, the Wii U version can be the best of its generation. Madden 13, is another example.

Also, this isn't counting PC versions. Consoles only. Human Revolution doesnt have a more modern port than the Wii U version (it was the last version released) and NFS Most Wanted U is basically the PC version with some Gamepad integration.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I have a Game Gear somewhere that my brother used to own. Caps are definitely toast.

The sound board and power boards you replaced -- are they authentic or second hand? How easy were they to install?

So, I FINALLY got the boards. Installing them was easy. The power board works from what I can tell as the screen turns on. Games aren't working, so I don't know if there are other issues.

I don't know how much I want to fiddle with the thing. I only have 3 games for it. Sonic 2, NBA Jam TE, and Tails' Adventure. Only Tails Adventure is worth anything but its in Sonic Origins Plus along with Sonic 2.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Also, the power switch and volume knob weren't 1 for 1, which seems like an odd cost cutting measure.