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Post by englishinvader on Mar 14, 2016 10:28:47 GMT
NES cartridges are a 'thing' now, so 15 year olds shell out waaay too much for them, and have driven the price up ridiculously. Probably the cheapest system in Canada to collect for is the N64, but so many hipsters have jacked the price up too. It's a hard hobby to have nowadays :/ That's why I use flashcarts.
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Post by englishinvader on Mar 11, 2016 10:21:02 GMT
Couldn't afford them, but in the past few months 3 SMS's have popped up for sale in my town, going for $100 each. Way to rich for my blood but damn I was tempted. Make the best of what's available in your region. You have the whole North American NES library at your disposal and you could most likely run an unmodded Famicom without issue and play Japanese games as well. For European gamers, NTSC NES and Famicom imports are a real money pit which is why I take solace in the SMS's PAL-centric demographic. Over here, you can get a working SMS for £15 because they sold like hot cakes and it's probably a similar deal with the NES in your neck of the woods.
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Post by englishinvader on Mar 6, 2016 11:43:47 GMT
Englishinvader you on here also mate,anyway the nes has a good library of quite good games as does the master system.Contra,LifeForce,GunSmoke just a few games the master system doesn't have the equivalent to.Unless I'm incorrect. Indeed. I like the NES a lot as well. I just wish it was a bit more import-friendly. As far as I know, the SMS doesn't have anything like Contra but it's got shooters like The Ninja, Mercs, Alien Syndrome, Action Fighter, Transbot and R-Type that are similar to Lifeforce and Gunsmoke.
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Post by englishinvader on Mar 5, 2016 17:28:02 GMT
Do region bypass adapters exist in any useful capacity for the NES? Certainly, Japanese → Western adapters for the Master System seem fairly scarce, but at least Sega had the courtesy to make all western models of the SMS cross compatible, and the console has barely any Japanese exclusives anyway. Considering how difficult it would appear to be in order to play import games for the NES (Thanks Nintendo, I'm sure region locking has had such a positive effect on gaming...), it does annoy me to hear people saying "The Master System has no games", when comparing it to the NES, considering it probably had a more expansive library than the NES in a lot of regions. The NES region locking is done at hardware level through the 10NES chip. It can be disabled by clipping one of the pins as shown in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vL5TE0UQoThe main obstacle is that the games themselves are designed for a 60Hz refresh rate and there is no way to mod a PAL NES for 60Hz.
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Post by englishinvader on Mar 5, 2016 13:06:52 GMT
About six weeks ago, I was thinking of branching out to NES/Famicom imports and made a few enquiries about NTSC NES hardware and getting it to run on a UK television and it actually poses quite a few problems:
- NES hardware doesn't support a mod for 60Hz (which rules out modding a PAL system) - the NES RGB mod is very expensive (even if you're able to do it yourself) and RGB is the only way to successfully run a native NTSC system on a PAL television; by contrast, the Super Famicom is a lot easier to branch out to because it supports RGB output off the bat - that leaves clone consoles which leads to an entirely different set of issues
Then I started thinking about how lucky I was to live in a country where the SMS outsold the NES 4:1. A standard PAL Master System will play most games in the SMS/SG-1000 library without issue - a £15 SMS2 and a £60 Master Everdrive and you're pretty much sorted.
Game for game, virtually every killer app on the NES is covered in some way on the SMS:
Castlevania - Master of Darkness Super Mario - Alex Kidd, Psycho Fox, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Wonderboy, Sonic the Hedgehog Zelda - Phantasy Star, Golden Axe Warrior
Don't know if I'll ever branch out to NES imports beyond emulation but, for now, I'm having a lot of fun enjoying what the SMS has to offer.
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 29, 2016 20:00:51 GMT
SMS 1 - factory specs, PAL BIOS 2.4 (Hang On/Safari Hunt) Serial No: 40I 12279 Model No: 3005-05-A Made in China
SMS 2 - mods for RGB output, power LED and switch for 50/60Hz refresh rates, PAL Alex Kidd BIOS Model No: 3006-05 Serial No: 220458885 Made in Thailand
SMS 2 - factory specs, PAL Sonic BIOS Model No: 3006-05A Serial No: 230830081 Made in Thailand
I believe all three consoles came from the UK
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 29, 2016 0:18:16 GMT
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 24, 2016 12:58:58 GMT
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 23, 2016 22:26:43 GMT
Another Daffy Duck (no manual) for 6 €. Nothing great, but hard times. if thats hard times, i wouldn't be upset Daffy Duck got a red rating in the Retro Gamer Collector's Guide so that's a pretty good deal.
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 21, 2016 0:42:20 GMT
Flicky It's nowhere near as good as the Mega Drive version. Space Invaders Sega Galaga Girl's Garden Monaco GP The SG-1000 is under-rated. The arcade ports are more than a match for anything on the Atari 2600 or Colecovision. Just needed a wider distribution and better software support (ports of Pac-Man/Ms Pac-Man and Rally X are greatly missed as well as Activision gems like River Raid and Keystone Capers).
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 17, 2016 10:58:15 GMT
My Master Everdrive arrived yesterday. I've used a mint CIB copy of Jurassic Park for the case and I put the games on an MMC card to avoid cutting a hole in the cartridge shell.
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 13, 2016 19:48:17 GMT
Wow and now they are a tenner on eBay amazing how things change. So what are the advantantages of CRT is it just phaser and 3D games? I use a modded sms2 via scart lead on my 60" LCD but I'm currently converting a room to a games room. Should I invest in something like this? Apart from CRT being more suited to older consoles/computers (especially the really old ones like the 2600 and the Speccy), it just has a more authentic retro feel. Some people believe that if you're not using a CRT you might as well be using an emulator. I don't even have a modern LCD television. I'm still using a 14" TV/VCR combi for everything.
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 4, 2016 12:59:00 GMT
Please forgive the rambling of a man that enjoys festive beverages and doesn't have to be anywhere tomorrow. I'd be interested in the story of how you got into the SMS. It wasn't a particularly popular system in your neck of the woods (100 US released games if memory serves). Did you own the system back in the day or are you a late adopter?
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 1, 2016 15:28:56 GMT
I would recommend doing a re-print of the label (or finding someone who can do it for you). Just make sure you mention it in the item description if you ever plan to sell the game on lest you incur the wrath of die-hard collectors.
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Post by englishinvader on Jan 13, 2016 12:52:20 GMT
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