Cost/shipping for multiple? Also, have you tried doing an N64 box? I'd also be interested in having the bar code there but fine if you'd like to have a marking somewhere else on the box.
I'm interested in say.. 5-6 boxes. One of them being Top Gear Rally on the N64. Rest are just snes Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Super Metroid, and Top Gear.
I'll copy and paste this predictions thing I wrote about a month ago. Somewhat serious but also a little exaggerated for fun. Excited for E3 because last year was nuts watching the Sony press conference live.
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Microsoft will have thrown all of their money to get timed exclusivity on one big important game. Maybe Fallout 4 or something, if it's Halo or Gears then they've dropped the ball big time and shows how out of touch and slow they are to make the games people want. They'll show some other small interesting things, a chunk of it will be weird indie games because they want to seem relevant in that area and get a piece of all this console indie game talk.. They will mention some sort of Xbox Gold bonuses that are comparable to PS+ because Gold right now is garbage in comparison. Forza Horizon 2 trailer. But all anyone will be talking and screaming about is Fallout 4 because people are crazy.
Sony.. hmm. Definitely PlayStation Now details. They'll roll out some footage or info on some middle of the road titles like the Mad Max thing or The Order. Probably some new MGS Phantom Pain footage. Another trailer for Final Fantasy 15 which makes it look even less like a standard (i.e. loved) FF game and further cements my disinterest in it. There will be some general PlayStation game montage at some point and it will include some brief clips of Gran Turismo 7. Project "Beast" will be announced as a new Souls game exclusive to the PS4 with a trailer. This will almost single handedly allow Sony to run away as the lead platform for this generation and Microsoft will have no chance against this unless they do announce the timed exclusive Fallout 4. Sony will have a monstrous indie showing, even larger than last year, because they've received such praise for doing so and this is an area where they can strike Microsoft again while its down and trying to catch up. We'll see some cool new indie games and we'll see even more very popular existing indie games announced as coming to the PS4. Vita will barely be mentioned, maybe a game or two that are meh looking, which is a shame because it's an amazing piece of hardware. Sony will hopefully also announce a couple of classic IPs they are resurrecting via that crowd submitted stuff whoever was doing. Things like Parapa and Crash Bandicoot.
Nintendo. They will talk about Smash Bros and Mario Kart. Other weird small Nintendo titles. They'll announce something they think is big but its not. Everyone is left staring at each other thinking "What the **** did I just watch?" Nintendo appears to be asleep at the wheel. Are they digging their own grave? Things will look super grim for the future. But that's just because the Nintendo war machine has only recently begun to gather it's forces over the past 6 months. E3 2015 they will return with big names like Zelda, Metroid, Mario Galaxy, and Starfox. They'll announce an F-Zero game but it will be exclusive to the 3DS. I, among many other people, will curse Nintendo to no end. Everyone will fall in love with Nintendo again and the Wii-U will return from the sales dead. People will be quick to forget those dark times. After a few years and toward the end of the generation we'll all be left thinking.. "So aside from the same old three games they make over and over.. why do I even care about Nintendo? How long are they going to milk this?". The Nintendo cycle will repeat itself.
What do I want to see there? I want a new Banjo-Kazooie game to be announced. I want a full trailer for Gran Turismo 7. I want another Souls game and for it to be PS4 exclusive. I want a new LittleBigPlanet. I want a Final Fantasy 14 trailer to show a new job and announce the first expansion. I want Fallout 4 announced but not a timed exclusive. I want a new Ecco the Dolphin game announced, preferably for PS4, and it looks absolutely stunning as an underwater showpiece for the hardware. Throw in a new Stuntman game that doesn't suck and shows off awesome destruction modelling. A new Splashdown (jetski racing) to show off some insane water physics on the PS4. A new Ape Escape game exclusive to the PS4. Nintendo will announce a Metroid that isn't necessarily a first-person shooter. A new F-Zero for Wii-U that looks brick shittingly good at 60 FPS with lots of colors, great music, and wild tracks. The trailer for it will open with blaring Big Blue music. Nintendo will announce their Pokemon RPG for the Wii-U, which will single handedly turn people's frowns upside down. Wii-Us sold out everywhere. Genki will return from the grave of making pachinko or washing machines or whatever the company does now and will announce a new Shutoku Battle/Tokyo Xtreme Racer or Kaido Battle for the PS4, my bowels will simultaneously release from my body. A new Bomberman game somewhere.
I don't know, I could go on and on.
TL;DR - Microsoft will be all peaks and valleys. One big hit and a bunch of other junk people don't really care about. Sony might be much more even across the board, lots of good looking stuff. Nintendo will further disappoint with nothing anyone wants announced.
If you want, I have a Game Shark I might be willing to sell/trade.
Little strapped for cash atm and I'm not sure I have stuff to trade lol
Well I took it apart and don't see anything that points to obvious modification. Only odd stuff was one of the posts in a connector between the main board and the power board had some solder on it, not really connecting anything but had to clean it off so I could disconnect the two boards. Disassembly guide I used doesn't mention the solder there so thought that was odd. And the little resistor thing across the one chip in the last picture but the solder points look pretty clean.
The Saturn Game Shark can play imports and a used can be procured for under $20 used. It just wont work for the games that require ram expansion carts.
As to why this works for you I can't say. I always heard that the only way of playing playing imports was with the aid of a cart or a mod chip. Maybe your Saturn has been altered in some way. I've heard stories of lucky individuals who have bought a system like a PS1 or Saturn and found mod chips installed in them.
Interesting.
Yea this was given to me by a friend who said he attempted a mod on it once but it was an in-line, mostly plug-n-play thing I think and said it didn't fit/work. Not sure if another person we know had it before him.
But if it had a proper chip, wouldn't it just be able to start the game without swapping?
Veeeeety interesting.. Perhaps I'll take it apart and dig a little deeper this time.
I know you can play burned games on the Saturn, I don't have much interest in that, but I assumed you could play Japanese import games using the same disc swapping method. A friend of mine showed me this after he had given me his Saturn (Model 2). So I bought an import game (Zero 4 Champ Doozy-J Type-R) just assuming I could play it.
Fast forward, it shows up, after a bunch of failed attempts getting it to work based off how I remember the swap trick working, I gave up and decided to refresh my memory by checking online. It was using burned games as the example but I didn't think there was any reason a legit import disc would be any different.
The suggested steps were:
1: Initial start up with burned game in drive (I substituted with the import disc)
2: Wait for laser movement/disc speed drop, insert legit game (used Sega Rally Championship)
3. Wait until laser movement again and disc speed increase and swap back to the burned game (import in my case)
4. Success hopefully.
So I did it this way and succeeded after a couple tries, played the game for a little bit and then shut it off.
Later mentioned this to the friend who gave me the system and we were discussing playing import games etc. He reminded me of the Action Replay thing, which I completely forgot he used when he showed me how to play import games. He said it was weird that I was able to do it without it?
At this point we're both confused. I'm looking up information online and it seems to indicate that I maybe should not have been able to do this without an Action Replay or Modded chip.
Too prove I wasn't crazy, I attempted to start the game again and had no luck after many tries. No idea what I did differently before.
Eventually, after more practice and remembering the details of what I did before, I was able to do it again. And then I got my camera out and recorded me doing it AGAIN (3rd time) so I knew I wasn't crazy.
Is this a thing? Are people not aware you can do this or am I pulling off some magic here? There is just a specific moment that you want to swap it. Guides tell you to swap it as fast as possible when you see the disc speed up but for this to work you want to wait as long as possible for the disc to speed up but stop and swap out the disc before it changes over to the second Sega company screen.
Scooped up another set of games for my racing/automotive collection and they are all imports!
Never heard of this Zero 4 Champ series before and was intrigued by the images of real cars in it mixed with anime characters etc. Found someone selling the complete Super Famicom and Saturn games but didn't want to do shipping for so few/small/cheap items so I browsed his ebay store and found JP versions of Gran Turismo 1, 2, and 3 for cheap. My favorite driving series!
Been in a weird mood wanting to play/complete old racing games I've had but maybe was too young to do any of the Championship type stuff.
Was bored one night and decided to unbox the N64 and play Top Gear Rally. After thinking "my god how did I play this as a kid?" for a bit, I got used to it and ended up playing it for more than a few hours, eventually completing the Championship mode. After that I started up a few other games but meh, then put in Need For Speed: High Stakes, another one I played the hell out of with my friend when we were young. Noticed I had no save data for it so decided to play through the Tournaments and stuff to unlock the cars and tracks and ended up finishing most of it after a couple days.
Ended up buying a bunch of cheap random PS1 racing games to further scratch this itch (can view in the May purchase thread.) Spent my evening checking a few of those out and cleaning two Dual Shock 2s. Need For Speed: V-Rally sucked as expected. SuperCross 2000 was very hard to control and thus not very fun. Rush Hour was just a corny simple game but I already knew that when I bought it. F1 2000 was the surprise hit of the evening and after getting used to the handling I had fun with it. Rally Masters ended up exceeding my expectations, which were based on playing the PC version many many years ago and liking the physics, but I expected the PS1 version to not necessarily have that. It did and I had fun briefly playing that. So I expect to return to F1 2000 and Rally Masters after I finish checking the rest of the games out.
Micro Machines V3 is giving me some trouble though. My PS1 gets stuck at the loading screen on that but it did make it through once but froze on the next loading screen. PS3 plays the disc fine. Have not had any other issues with any of the games on the PS1.
Still a few more games to try out but that is for tomorrow.
the name sounds as hilarious as the the two games that i have called create city and snowmobile racing
The company who did Racing also produced such classics as Billiards, Bowling, Snowboarding, Tennis, Boxing and Shooter Space Shot. If you're a fan of any of these particular sports, your collection would not be complete without them.
I've decided that racing games (mainly the more realistic-ish ones, not so much the made up stuff) would be my thing as my other passion is cars/racing etc. Went and found some of the cheapest racing games I could find that seemed interesting for various reasons or just random. Not looking to get everything but just stuff to fill gaps in the collection and stuff I think is interesting. Or like Polyphony Digital eventually making maybe the biggest (best selling?) racing game of all time, but finding the other weird stuff they did before that became the only thing they do.
Grand Tour Racing '98 - Because I used to own this I think and didn't really like it. But I regret everything I've ever traded in so I'd like to get some of those back. Also interesting that its got Car & Driver magazine in the title, similar to the original Road & Track presents Need For Speed (still need a copy)
Jet Moto - Never owned any of the Jet Moto series but I know it's a staple of the PS1 library.
Rally Masters - I remember playing a PC demo for a rally game forever ago that felt like it had amazing physics for the time. From vague memories I think it was called Rally Masters. Turns out they also made it for PS1, which I'm sure is no where near as good, but eh wth.
Micro Machines V3 - Rented the hell out of this as a kid but never owned it. Was interesting figuring out exactly which Micro Machines game it was. Looking forward to this nostalgia trip.
Need For Speed: V-Rally - NFS attempt at a rally game? Think I remember it not being very good but interesting none the less. Bonus points for having the famous GC8 chassis #555 Subaru Impreza on the cover. The 555 was altered on games because it was a cigarette company or something. 555 in hexidecimal is 22B which is the much sought after, low-production homologation special Subaru Impreza 22B. One of the drivers for this car was the famous Colin McRae (RIP). And I used to own a '98 Impreza 2.5RS (subaru's signature blue w/ gold wheels)
Racing - Umm.. because Racing? What racing collection is complete without the definitive, one-and-only, genre creating game. Joking aside, this looks as budget as you can get but the title is hilarious. Bonus points for having a Mitsubishi Evo 5 or 6 on the cover art.
Rush Hour - Never heard of it. Produced by the lovely Psygnosis I guess.
SuperCross 2000 - Don't have any dirt bike games for PS1. Cheap so whatev. Curious to try.
F1 2000 - Don't have any F1 games in my collection in general. This should be funny. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Not a racing game but everyone says this game was amazing for its time? Curious.
Went through and updated the database with any missing artwork and descriptions for these games.
Im in between the Fire and Earth crystal stuff I guess. Characters are around lvl 45.
Party is Knight/sub Spell Fencer, White Mage/sub Time Mage, Black Mage/sub White Mage, Thief/sub Freelancer for Examine. The only times I've switched main jobs was to get levels on a different a job to unlock stuff but eh. I haven't found other stuff that works as well for me. Tiz (Knight) has two-handed on most of the time. I just super love the way Tiz looks as a Knight.
I just unlocked Swordmaster and Ninja, which so far seem kinda meh.
Thoroughly enjoying it myself, but I've been easily distracted from it the past few days which is not a good sign for me. I play things obsessively until completion or I lose interest.
I'm a little worried I won't finish it. I've got about 60 hours on the clock on mine (some of it from just letting game idle) and just completed the third crystal (got stuck on that dumb boss). I think the Norende town time stuff is bumming me out now. I was cool with it when I could complete a few things a day or leave longer ones overnight which would be completed when I woke up. But now all I'm left with is stuff with times anywhere from 68 to 99 hours and not enough villagers (27 atm) to get them going quickly. So now I'm stuck waiting for a whole day or two to complete one and I think it's killed some of my enthusiasm for the game.
Also the jobs that are unlocked farther down the road don't seem all that interesting to me other than maybe Swordmaster or Templar or whatever. I dislike how they made certain classes look or changed names etc. I want the traditional jobs and appearances
Regardless, the game is fantastic. The music, art style, and gameplay is all great. This should have absolutely been titled Final Fantasy and, IMO, belongs in the main numbered series much more than the the 13 series of games do.
I liked the PS3 XMB I guess. Mostly because I could have the fancy animated wallpapers, change background colors, and I could organize things into folders and such.
PS4 dashboard I'm kinda disliking for those reasons. I really don't like how it just dumps every game (that's installed?) right on the main cross bar. It feels like a mess already and this generation has barely begun.
I'd like to be able to create my own tabs and categorize things under them like my PS3 XMB, so I'd have folders for Arcade, Classics, Demos, Betas, and Free Games (PS+ stuff).
And would like to be able to remove or move tabs like the Music/Video Unlimited or Playroom etc.
Downloaded it a few days ago. Took about 10 hours for it to download and install. Not sure why but it seems to be a common issue with the game lol.
Seems cooler then I expected so far but I didn't really know anything about the game. I just finished the outpost thing where you get another Pawn or whatever and do the training stuff so still very early on. I'm trying to juggle checking this out while playing AC4 and a bit of NFS Rivals. And I need to get back to Lego Marvel at some point soon. And then GT6 comes out..
I'll have more thoughts on it once I spend more time with it.
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