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General / Re: Childhood Gaming Christmas Stories

« on: November 16, 2018, 05:08:35 pm »

BUMPED TOPIC FROM 2017


OLDGAMERZ'S REPLY:

I was always lucky at Christmas, in 1997 I got my 3rd gaming PC

 a Packard Bell with some games I discovered came with it later on. I used to love playing "G-Nome", it was an underrated mech game that let you get out of your mech or tank or vehicle and roam on foot to find and steal other means for transportation. It was the first video game I ever played that let you exit your mech and find something else in fact. The game even let you enter buildings and steal your enemies encryption code and go through the level undetected. This game also had multiplayer but for some reason you didn't need to be connected to the internet in order to play multiplayer, This game was full of many glitches and poor AI but I still love it

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General / Re: Current Collection Goals?

« on: November 12, 2018, 03:21:15 pm »

BUMPED THREAD BY OLDGAMERZ 11/12/2018 (edit) forgot about the collection achievements thread

found this thread before creating another one

I currently have not been playing too many video games, As of today I am happy with my current status of my collection, I need to play the games that I already have in which is a lot of video games in my opinion. I more often listen to music rather than watch tv or play video games. I own many compilations so I do have way more video games in my collection then I can list on this site, since I learned you should not add any arcade games if you don't actually have the physical arcade machine, other wise it is considered a waste of data in the database.

edit

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General / Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games

« on: November 12, 2018, 02:55:55 pm »

Were you using Internet Explorer to download these?  If so IE had trouble handling large file sizes.  Generally when downloading a file it will create a placeholder in your downloads folder.  After completion of the download this is usually deleted.  IE had a bad habit of "completing" large downloads but only leaving you with the placeholder instead.

I had this problem a lot when I was using it.  Switching to either Firefox, or Chrome was the fix for that issue back then.

Yes exactly, I was only using Internet Explorer back then in 2013

It is impossible to say without a sample for inspection.

My first guess is that it was a file fragment.

probally some kind of fragment I guess probably also an issue with Internet Explorer because that is what I used to use for everything.

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Classic Video Games / Buying Old PC Games Digitally Online (Vs) From An Abandonware Site For Free

« on: November 11, 2018, 06:39:46 pm »

When it comes to old PC games how do you download them? Do you usually download them for free off an abandonware site or do you use GOG? or Steam? I only keep 1 PC game on my computer today, but when I used to download games for free, I would aim at the full versions of  vary old games off various sites. However the I had better luck off some abandonware sites rather the ROM or dedicated pirate sites that give out 1kb ISO or Torrent Files. I no longer do any download things either free or from Steam. I don't trust Steam anymore but I do kinda trust GOG.

I've had bad luck with the current Steam app for PC. The app when installed before I reset my OS last time on my PC. The Steam app would cause my computer to freeze at random, and the steam app takes up a ton of CPU resources in my experience even makes my computer boot longer than normal

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General / Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games

« on: November 11, 2018, 03:01:57 pm »

If it's a standard file with the .iso file extension, it functions like a compresed archive. You can check its contents with the likes of WinRAR and 7-Zip.

Thanks for the information @Agozer

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General / Re: What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games

« on: November 11, 2018, 10:07:58 am »

1 kilobyte ISO? I've never come across these. Care  to elaborate?

sometimes when I downloaded something back in 2013, The ISO file size was 1kb or was a file that was completely unmarked and needed to be pried off my hard drive because it just would not delete. And sometimes I would literally have to force it off my hard drive like change the coding or name and or extension. A lot of these files appear worthless and also undetected under most virus software. All I can say is that there is a such thing on somewhere on the internet.

But I don't even know how to open ISO files, and don't really care to use abandonware games any more or any kind of pirated video game

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General / What Is The Purpose Of 1 kilobyte Size ISO's I Used To Download Games

« on: November 10, 2018, 06:39:11 pm »

I used to emulate video games. But I stopped this a while back. I never understood games that you can download a 1 kilobyte ISO that seems completely worthless. Of course I stopped downloading games a long time ago before I started collecting.

Some people may say laugh out loud but I don't find this funny and It always puzzled me. My guess is that is was a virus. But what I never could figure out is why I mean what is the point? of these unmarked files all over the internet

It cost money to run a website so whats with the possible malware up for tricking people

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General / Re: Where do you get your games?

« on: November 09, 2018, 07:37:18 pm »

I bought a ton of stuff from
www.JJgames.com online, all retro video games.
I've also bought some at a local indoor all year round flea market where I live.

a few were purchased from
www.amazon.com

I never used ebay for anything

HINT: if you shop for anything on JJgames you need to know, that you might have better luck at first choosing a console and then. clicking on see all items that way, it tells you the condition the item your purchasing off bat. and you usually can snag a better deal that way. Rather then looking through game genres

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Classic Video Games / Re: If You Could Buy Any Arcade Cabinet What Would It Be?

« on: November 08, 2018, 09:34:47 pm »

This dream can be made possible in anyone of our lives, for anyone one of us with an income. But me personally would never want to steal any of them.

I believe in consequences for doing bad things no matter what. If you steal chances are higher you may get robbed yourself by another person (or worse)  in the future that is how I look at it.

that is what I mean partially  when I consider that stealing does have consequences. even if you don't experience any right away

But I figure that not that many people on here are interested in stealing.

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Site Feedback / Forum Search Problem May Be Spreading Who Else Is Having These Issues?

« on: November 07, 2018, 05:56:49 am »

When The Word "A" Is Use in forum home Search I get a message telling me that that the letter A cannot be used by itself and If You delete the "A" and try again this happens

I have seen this code spread all year, mostly affecting my own searches while logged into the site. It appears to be the same bug as earlier only this time it appears to be more wide spread

When The word A Is Used In forum home Search. if you delete the text and try again. This Happens you get this code now included in more than a few topics

ong class="highlight">Gameong>s

General / Re: 52 ong class="highlight">Gameong>s Challenge *2016*

Video Showcase / Top Ten Must Have GBA ong class="highlight">Gameong>s! What Are Yours?

General / Re: ong class="highlight">Gameong>s That You Think Are Unplayable Or Are?





Edit: I do have some html programming experience and to me it looks like one of the tag codes may not be right  >Gameong>s! that may be what is causing this error

 this may require re reading all the code somewhere and making the needed changes the programming tag should may be something like,

 <ong class="highlight">Gameing</ong> NOT SURE

I can see a possible typo, by someone writing the code mistakenly it may, or may not need to be changed to what I said.

The ong tag might need to be closed properly somewhere.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: November 07, 2018, 05:36:14 am »

hello

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Video Game Deals, Sales and Promotions / Walmart Selling Arcade1UP Cabinets for $299 Less And More & 4 Feet Tall FS

« on: November 05, 2018, 07:39:28 am »

(FREE SHIPPING) NOT ALL OF THEM ON THE LINK ARE 4 FEET TALL, SOME PROBABLY FIT IN YOUR HAND INSTEAD SHOP ONLY ONLINE


I just thought I should point out that Walmart is selling 4 ft tall sit down arcade cabinets for cheap at lest on date of this post (11/5/2018)


1st Link is what this is about

2nd link is to shop and purchase

https://www.walmart.com/ideas/gamecenter/arcade1up-cabinets-let-you-bring-gaming-history-home/238261


To Buy The Cabinets
https://www.walmart.com/browse/video-games/retro-gaming/classic-arcade-gaming/browse/2636_1101552_4530062

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Off Topic / Re: Establishing meaningful active friendships as an adult

« on: November 05, 2018, 06:17:49 am »

I am a loner pretty much also. I live with my family, I don't like to go places, I lost too much faith in people to have friends again. I lost one recently because I just can't trust anyone. As a child I all the friends I had would steal from behind my back. Now my last friend never stole from me as far as I know.

 But he liked to stay active and I am not interested in outside activities like concerts, bars and fast food. I would not even go to any rock concerts that I had a chance to go to. I just felt uncomfortable with the idea of going to rock concerts, the bar, the gym and fast food with another man. I stay at home for days and listen to my music collection today, with the television and the occasional video game

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Off Topic / Re: CD's, Vinyl (etc) Music Collectors Unite

« on: November 05, 2018, 02:56:11 am »

I highly recommend this light to heavy metal band the goes by the name of Dokken here are some of their best albums in my opinion

1: Back For The Attack
2: Under The Lock And Key
3: Breaking The Chains
4: Tooth And Nail
5: Dysfunctional
 
Also worth mentioning would be a Don Dokken solo album called "Up From The Ashes"

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Classic Video Games / Re: If You Could Buy Any Arcade Cabinet What Would It Be?

« on: November 01, 2018, 06:33:49 am »

I want to add:
Smash TV
Total Carnage
Battletoads
APB
Mortal Kombat
Simpson’s
TMNT (both)
MoonWalker

But just got some news literally the same day I signed for the new house.

Short version. No more arcade machines for a while.

you may or may not believe in God "@dashv" but you could always try to pray for a bigger and affordable house, after all  it sounds like you've got nothing to lose. only to gain