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Hardware and Tech / Re: Need help with Dreamcast.

« on: April 14, 2013, 02:30:35 pm »

There is technically no "recalibrating" the potentiometer.  What it amounts to is lowering the threshold on the laser.  What this will do is allow you to play your games but will burn out the laser far quicker.  When you make these kind of adjustment you must do so in very small increments.  Larger turns will just render the unit unusable.

The laser is going bad.  Mine has the very same issue.  They can be purchased from Ebay for around $25. 

25 for the laser replacement itself or another dreamcast?

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Hardware and Tech / Need help with Dreamcast.

« on: April 14, 2013, 12:09:18 pm »

Hope you guys know of a fix. Dreamcast is having problems reading games now. Before it would only have problems with Sonic Adventure and Tony Hawk 2 but now when ever I pop in a game, a sega logo corp logo come out and then it goes right back to the disc menu. It does this now to all my games. Tried looking for a fix to recalibrate the laser but the i can't turn the little nob and its a different model then what I've seen online. Anyway I can savage this thing or should I just get a new one and get rid of this paper weight?

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: January 30, 2013, 08:39:14 pm »

Trying to finish Red Dead Redemption in between Black Ops 2. Want to try to finish both by next week in time for dead space 3.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Earthbound's Back

« on: January 25, 2013, 04:56:45 pm »

I bought it brand new, way back in the day for like $30.00 on clearance.  I don't understand how this game got to be so rare.  There are other games that are rarer than Earthbound, but don't command the same kind of prices.  I hope the prices go down, so that everyone can experience this great game.

Like myself. I don't feel like paying a new console price for an old game.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Earthbound's Back

« on: January 23, 2013, 03:32:41 pm »

It's crazy that has taken this long to release this game. After all nes has been in Smash Bros since the beginning.

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Marketplace / Re: Doubles up for trade (nes,gen,ps1)

« on: January 19, 2013, 06:55:09 pm »

Is there anything in particular your looking for?

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Marketplace / Re: Looking for: Castlevania

« on: January 19, 2013, 06:54:26 pm »

I got castlevania II for the nes

cart only no box or anything.

would be more than willing to part with it.

I'm willing to take it. I'm trying to build up castlevania collection. PM me

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General / Re: What rules govern your collecting?

« on: January 18, 2013, 07:22:30 pm »

Great set of ammendmants for collectors lol. I just want to add along the port rule and physical copy like the releases of classic games ie dreamcast collection and saturn games that have been showing up on xbla or psn, it feels more satisfying to have the original copies.

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Modern Video Games / Re: microsoft......

« on: January 18, 2013, 06:29:02 pm »

I had something like this w/ my xbox 360 slim last year where the dvd drive kept messing up and would not read my disc. Probably is a security issue and recommend going to a repair shop and getting it replaced. The repair shop I went to locally was about 80 bucks to replace the drive.

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General / Re: Where do you buy your games?

« on: January 16, 2013, 03:59:59 pm »

Does anyone know if lukie games only a online retailer or is it also a walk in store?

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Classic Video Games / Re: Any Miami collectors here?

« on: January 14, 2013, 05:10:05 pm »

Nice! thanks alot I'll definitely check it out

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Classic Video Games / Any Miami collectors here?

« on: January 14, 2013, 04:41:05 pm »

Hey guys,

New to the site as you can tell and loving it. Been trying to get back into collecting again and been needing some help find any stores that you guys may know of or recomend. Also wanted to know if by any chance we have any other retro collectors here from Miami?

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General / Re: first game you played

« on: January 14, 2013, 04:04:33 pm »

First game ever huh? A little foggy on that one but I know for sure it was on the atari 2600 and I think it was either haunted house or Indy 500.