IrishNinja
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^you should totally do this and sell me your Robo Aleste & MUSHA!
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Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Appreciation Thread: Alien Storm > Golden Axe
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Genesis Knight
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End of an era. After long being THE affordable Genesis gem, Gunstar Heroes finally hit the ceiling along with everything else.
sixteen-bit
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So what's the go-to now, lol? Rocket Knight Adventures? Way better game than the sequels, and way cheaper too.
Probably the last of the Konami releases that haven't exploded. Bloodlines and Hard Corps got expensive recently.
What was the price at before? I've had one for awhile, but look at Amazon its like 40 bucks.
sixteen-bit
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It was like, $20 complete for a while.
Don't tempt me. While I love the games dearly, they could fund a nice backlog of GB/GBA collecting. As I've gotten older I have decided to narrow down my game collecting to a more realistic perspective and systems. I see some of the same guys in this thread pop up in those threads as well so you probably understand. LOL
Gunstarheroes
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You have a few i'd love to get my hands on. Will have to see though, not to try and coax you worse.
sixteen-bit
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The thirst is real.
Yo lemme get dibs on that Rolling Thunder 2.
Yo lemme get dibs on that Rolling Thunder 2.
sixteen-bit
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IrishNinja
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^he's on normal yeah? i swear, i used to be able to do that; you can cheese most bosses so it's not too terribly hard honestly
god, picked up both again last year loose for like $30, ugh. now i want them CIB and it's stupid.
i hear you man! take your time, no push from me.
it's just...it'd be a real shame if them boxed GBA games went up in the next six months, you know? being nintendo stuff though, i bet you're totally safe.
an excellent call!
i remember that time i ignored your elbow and missed out on $20 Chase HQ for saturn...never again
god, picked up both again last year loose for like $30, ugh. now i want them CIB and it's stupid.
i hear you man! take your time, no push from me.
it's just...it'd be a real shame if them boxed GBA games went up in the next six months, you know? being nintendo stuff though, i bet you're totally safe.
i keep a tab with paypal open at all times
an excellent call!
i remember that time i ignored your elbow and missed out on $20 Chase HQ for saturn...never again
Man, I tried to get into Saturn stuff back in the day but it just didn't click with me. All I have left is Darius Gaiden and Galactic Attack which were pretty much ruined in a basement flood....and this...
Here are some more random carts I snagged from my last visit to the basement...along with a closeup of some of my most played carts. Nothing too great this time though, but a bunch still have the $0.99 clearance stickers on them from when Funco was cleaning house circa 1996. Roadblasters was a great port.
Always loved the Genesis boxes. So classy. The first three and Thunder Force II were all games I've had since launch.
IrishNinja
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^oh man, some great titles there womp! and saturn totally clicked with me, tragically after the prices soared though...
as for those funcoland labels, ive gotten pretty decent at removing them (between hair dryer & goof off), its a lot easier if they're not on the label though!
as for those funcoland labels, ive gotten pretty decent at removing them (between hair dryer & goof off), its a lot easier if they're not on the label though!
Nice collection. I'll get around to pozting mine sometime soon. Although I must say there's nothing I hate worse then loose Genesis games. SNES and some of the other systems I can tolerate cart-only but I have a ton of great Genesis games loose (Turtles, Phantasy Star etc) that I don't consider part of my proper collection because it's not cib.
It's a sickness...
It's a sickness...
I would like to play Forgotten Worlds and Thunder Force 2...just sayin.
With how much CIB costs these days, sometimes you just have to roll with it. Genesis is easier due to plastic though I guess.
I agree completely. My collection was all boxed, and outside removing the hanger tags, complete. Any loose carts I have I picked up years later when I would raid the 'graveyard' clearance bins at FuncoLand. That said, it was in these bins that I found some great stuff like Gunstar Heroes, Lightening Force and Dragon's Fury cheap.
Loose or not I wasn't passing games such as these for a little as a buck at the time! Heh
IrishNinja
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i now have manuals or nearly 2/3 (i wanna say?) of my looseys, with nicely reprinted covers. sadly it's getting to a point where only the more rare/expensive stuff needs em, but i'm in no hurry.
drhankmccoyphd
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Anyone in the Bay Area/Norcal region that does s-video/stereo modes on a Model 1? Know someone that does?
Took all the Genesis stuff I could snag and that I could find in my parents basement and combined it in a tote to pack for our move to the new house.
I was at a local famers market where they have a retro game store. Since I was considering a new Genesis I inquired.....$89. Uh, yeah.
I was at a local famers market where they have a retro game store. Since I was considering a new Genesis I inquired.....$89. Uh, yeah.
Fox Mulder
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I tried to get into Saturn back in 2002 or so, but got scammed on ebay for a lot and paypal sided with sellers still at the time. I just dove into other things instead and saturn has blown up into a price that's a turn off if you aren't really into it.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
shining in the darkness i gotta be getting close to having all non sports/kids games
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
nice did ya get any games with it?
sixteen-bit
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Yeah, never pay top dollar for preowned stuff at a flea market. Recently I talked a vendor down to $3 on an HDG model 1 because it didn't have the power cable. Still salty because somebody raided the software before me though, lol.
theSlacker
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I don't know if it is just my area, but it really has just been a waste of gas for me to even try to go around to flea markets and yard sales. I have literally never found anything that wasn't already priced to ebay prices or already raided.
sixteen-bit
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I think it's just people being more savvy and not giving a fuck. Typically if a seller advertises on CL about their yard sale starting at 8:00, best believe thirsty motherfuckers be out there waiting in their driveway at 5:30 and shit, haha. You're totally right. If you're not doing the earlybird thing, it really is no use.
IrishNinja
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not bad though, man! a few of us were talking about finally hitting up the homestead shops just to see what all they got down there sometime
Yeah, I've seen this alot, this past weekend, we hit the big flea market by us, got there at 7am as most of the vendors were still setting up and there already resellers walking around. Now that said you can still find good deals if you look and haggle, you never know what people have stashed away if you don't look and ask. We got some pretty good deals early on and later on when we went digging around. Sometime you can also find some deals with resellers cause a bunch of them don't always know what they have.
I think that motherfucker had a Christmas Carol dream the night before because I've never seen Wario make deals like he did that day.
And yes, "no early birds" means get there an hour early or everything will be gone.
ANOTHER THING, my garage sale rules are that if shit is still on the table, it is fair game. Resellers better pick up as much as they can carry around me if we're there at the same time.
And yes, "no early birds" means get there an hour early or everything will be gone.
ANOTHER THING, my garage sale rules are that if shit is still on the table, it is fair game. Resellers better pick up as much as they can carry around me if we're there at the same time.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
Yeah, I understand people gotta do their hustle to pay the bills and all but lord they don't have to be dicks about it. Nothing worse then the ol' hey, don't touch anything, trying to make a deal for the whole lot... I always give the same response, it's nice to want things. Hell a buddy of mine even said that he said one basically start a fight cause someone was trying to look at some games on a table. wtf.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
ive yet to see one that wasnt a total dirt bag
We had a three block yard sale last year and are due again in May. I left our table to walk around and take a break to see what anyone else is selling and it ended up being my best find to date at one of these things. These kids were selling a mint copy of Pokemon Crystal for $2 and a GBA SP 101 for $10.
Fox Mulder
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it's still fun to walk around those places, and it's pure luck anyways. I've gone months without finding anything and then score multiple times a day.
I found an OG Genesis (which is the type I had as a kid) and therefore packed away the Model 2 I had.
I noticed that the headphone jack on mine has a wonky volume slider, but that isn't the worst thing about it. Plugging in a pair of headphones and listening to the audio it put out, it became blatantly obvious how much of a delay my LED TV is adding to gameplay. Maybe 1/5 of a second between sound out of the deck compared to the sound from the TV. I'm not playing anything that intense on my Genesis, and all of my retro stuff is put up for display more than anything else, but would switching from the RF adapter (which puts out video closer to the way I remember it) to composite lessen the lag? I really don't want to make space for a giant CRT again.
I noticed that the headphone jack on mine has a wonky volume slider, but that isn't the worst thing about it. Plugging in a pair of headphones and listening to the audio it put out, it became blatantly obvious how much of a delay my LED TV is adding to gameplay. Maybe 1/5 of a second between sound out of the deck compared to the sound from the TV. I'm not playing anything that intense on my Genesis, and all of my retro stuff is put up for display more than anything else, but would switching from the RF adapter (which puts out video closer to the way I remember it) to composite lessen the lag? I really don't want to make space for a giant CRT again.
Yeah, the issue here is that your TV is having to do the upscale to an HD resolution, and most HDTVs are not designed to upscale stuff as quickly as possible. So it will add lag. The only way around the problem without a CRT is to buy an external upscaler, and a good one like the XRGB mini will cost you.
If you want to go down that rabbit hole, you might check the RGB/upscaler thread.
Also, this has nothing to do with your model 1 genesis. Your model 2 as well as every other console that puts out a sub-HD resolution will have this problem.
IrishNinja
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yeah, sadly there's no lessening it without a CRT unless you get an HDTV with less input lag - here's a handy site
Is this site actually looking at input lag based on upscaling or just in general?
sixteen-bit
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Bare Knuckle 3 and Vampire Killer on Megadrive both turn 20 today.
Gunstarheroes
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Finally started doing my Sega Endings blog again, just beat Chester Cheetah: Too Cool To Fool. Game is garbage, but man did i want some cheetos paws after playing that. Sad they don't make them anymore.
sixteen-bit
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JP Alisia Dragoon has incredible box art.
Armoured Priest
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Yeah it does.
Such an underratted gem from back in the day. I think it is better known now (at least as far as people who know the Genesis/MD library are concerned anyway).
Has a pretty good soundtrack as well.
Shadow Hog
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I regret that I only know of Alisia Dragoon through its soundtrack and having it show up when I was eBaying Panzer Dragoon games.
Here is a pretty good, somewhat NSFW review of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT38jG6ahWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT38jG6ahWI