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General / Re: September 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: September 03, 2026, 12:19:06 am »

Bought a Switch 2 on August 31st, and have Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza and Star Fox coming in the mail. I saved 50 bucks on the hardware before the price-hike and I guess that's as cheap as the system will be for the foreseeable future, maybe forever???. It's a relief knowing this is *perhaps* my last dedicated console purchase ever given that the future generations will likely have zero physical media or ownership of games

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Modern Video Games / Re: Stage Tour revealed | Guitar Hero spiritual successor from original publisher

« on: March 10, 2026, 10:15:06 pm »

Dumped probably $1000 into Rock Band 4 DLC since finding a cheap used copy in late 2024. Got some adaptors to make my old PS2/Wii instruments work again, hopefully they'll work with this new game. I played Fortnite Festival (gag) and dipped a toe into Clone Hero, but I'm so glad a new option with the classic five-button rhythm game guitar controller in mind will live again.
Can't wait!

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: December 27, 2025, 02:59:03 pm »

6. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch) | 8/3/26 | Time: 09:26 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: none
5. Windswept (Nintendo Switch) | 6/30/26 | Time: 09:26 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: none
4. Split Fiction (PS5) | 5/29/26 | Time: 09:26 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: co-op w/ Ryan
3. Snoopy & the Great Mystery Club (Nintendo Switch) | 1/21/26 | Time: 07:33 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: none
2. Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Game Gear) | 1/11/26 | Time: 01:40 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: none
1. Final Fight CD (Sega CD) | 1/10/26 | Time: 03:45 | Rating: ★★★★★ | Notes: none

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General / Re: Refurbished controllers.

« on: June 19, 2025, 09:38:00 pm »

How much did you pay? I"ve bought at least five ps3 controllers that didn't work but just needed a new battery from thrift stores over the past few years

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Off Topic / Re: How to deal with rude drivers cutting me off?

« on: March 18, 2025, 06:48:56 pm »

As someone who was in a car wreck a few years back where my life flashed before my eyes due to a bad driver, I just let it roll off my shoulders. Fortunately I only walked away with a slightly screwed up spine and wrist.
Driving aggressively will only end up in harm to yourself or others, you have to drive defensively and pay attention because lots of folks aren't, they really think they are the only people on the road, have room temperature IQs, and have no business driving in the first place. Also, there are tons of @5$holes on the roads, and the police seem very lax about impaired drunk or high drivers, at least where I live.
If there's any advice I could give, it's that no job, event, or really anything is important enough to risk the lives of others and yourself.

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Is there a way to connect a CRT TV to HDMI capture card to stream?

« on: November 11, 2024, 08:44:40 pm »

Your question still doesn't quite make sense.  You don't stream from the TV.  You stream from the capture card.  The line goes: console -> capture card -> SPLIT out from the card -> to whatever TV you want AND ALSO the computer you are streaming from.

You can play on whatever TV you want and it will have no effect on your streaming.  Several retro streamers I watch play on CRTs, but you could never tell because the stream source is the capture card, not the TV.

How would you split from the capture card if it captures a digital signal? Wouldn't you split before the capture card and have one analog out go to the CRT and one into the converter/scaling device that's going into the capture device?

Just split your raw analog signal, have one output go into your CRT with zero lag (maybe a touch of noise due to splitting the analog signal) and have the other output go into the scaler device and into the HDMI device for stream or digital capture, probably the easiest way to do it. Why would you convert analog to digital then split said digital signal, then convert it back to analog? (If I'm understanding your idea correctly)

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General / Re: How do you prefer your Sonic games? 2D or 3D?

« on: September 03, 2024, 09:43:41 pm »

After having a surprisingly good time playing Sonic Dream Team late last year, I decided to replay Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 quite recently. While they are fun, they don't hold up all that well, they give me the same feeling that Super Mario 64 did me when I replayed it earlier this year; in the sense that I can definitely see the appeal of it, and how revolutionary they were for their time, they just don't hold up all that great.
On the other hand, Sonic 1, 2, 3&K, CD, and Mania are absolutely awesome to just pick up and play, especially when I only have thirty to sixty minutes to game. I'd say 2D for sure, while the 3D entries are a mixed bag, decent at best, absolute dog crap at worst. 

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Off Topic / Re: FF7 Rebirth Soundtrack

« on: April 22, 2024, 10:15:43 pm »

You can buy the songs individually on iTunes for $0.99 it looks like

Interesting. Does iTunes still put the file in a propriatary format where you can't listen to it on anything but an Apple device or require iTunes on the device? It was Apple's closed system that turned me off of doing business with them.

Hmm... it seems Amazon allows the purchase of the individual songs on PC. I was checking on mobile and didn't see the individual download links. You just can't preview the tracks to ensure you're buying the right one.

I think Apple stopped doing that a while ago, but I'm not sure. I use software called Sidify that strips all of the stupid copy protected, device locked crap from Amazon and iTunes files so I can my move music around to any device however I please.

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Off Topic / Re: FF7 Rebirth Soundtrack

« on: April 21, 2024, 04:49:07 pm »

You can buy the songs individually on iTunes for $0.99 it looks like

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Modern Video Games / Re: What are your plans when everything goes digital only?

« on: January 23, 2024, 10:09:32 pm »

I've got enough games (as many do on this site) to last a lifetime. If things go completely digital, dedicated hardware might as well disappear also. We're really at the point of diminishing returns with gaming and entertainment as it is.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 26, 2023, 01:13:40 am »

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Yup Turn The Vibrator off on your Controllers to save them

« on: December 02, 2023, 11:54:39 am »

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Modern Video Games / Re: Are "triple A" games dead?

« on: August 09, 2023, 06:14:03 pm »

I view modern "AAA" gaming like I do modern Hollywood films, there'e a few good ones once in a while, but for the most part, the best is far behind us.

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General / Re: DK Oldies? A scandal, or just another smear campaign?

« on: April 11, 2023, 07:16:50 pm »

Business is business. If folks are willing to spend that type of money for stuff that's only worth half or a third of the price they're paying, that's their prerogative. That being said, the whole "game collecting" hemisphere is generally a cultish sect of humanity who 75% of which would scalp or "rip off" someone else in order to make a few bucks. If you know how to navigate eBay and know what to look for when you're buying in terms of condition and authenticity, there is absolutely zero percent chance you would ever use DKOldies. They are way overpriced, plain and simple. Many things are extremely overpriced right now, but plastic electronic boxes and games shouldn't be one of those things, even the prices our own "community" wants to charge is a large rip-off.

I'd say 95% of DKOldies clientele are folks swiping mindlessly through Facebook shorts with one thumb in the tuchus and one thumb in their mouth playing switch and then they see one of DKOldies lame videos and get nostalgic, and the other 5% are the dudes on YouTube who skeptically disassemble and break down the consoles they're buying which most folks are simply never going to do. Most people will buy an item and if it works, it works. That's all that matters to them.

I'm not even sure what is so controversial about it, people are still buying from them despite the plethora of discriminating information against them right at their fingertips. To me, it's degenerates skeptical of other degenerates, and I'll do my best to stay away from bullcrap like that. Gaming is for fun and escapism, it's not about smarmy YouTubers and overpriced rip-off "businesses" like DKOldies.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Wii Us are Bricking

« on: April 01, 2023, 04:59:50 pm »

I've had my Wii U since 2013 and it's worked like a champ since then. It's always been hooked up and ready to go and never neglected for more than a month or so. I'm not afraid of the NAND corruption because for one, I think the issue is overblown, and secondly, it seems only a certain type of NAND chip is being affected, and my 8GB console doesn't have it. The Wii U is by far my biggest collection as I own 120+ discs and 72 digital titles.