Merged.
360/ps3 Mad Catz sfxt fightstick pro on buy.com for $88 free shipping., and $80 on buy.com only for the xbox360.
Brawl stick for $19.00. on Gameshark. I got one.
Time to stock up on FightPads for modding boys.
So my friend Yuki from before was back in Texas for a while and dug around at his parentsā place, and tells me to come over because he found āthe shoeboxā:
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Full spread:
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Holy shit. Iām gonna miss him (heās already on his way back to Japan) but Iāve been playing the hell out of the games he gave me before, now Iāll be playing even more.
I think the first game Iām gonna play is Ikki, just to be ironic.
I really oughta set up FDSLoadr, I told him that thereās basically an āelaborate R4 equivalent for the FDSā and he was really glad Iād be using the disk system in some capacity. Still gotta replace the belt on itā¦
Also got two PVM 2950Q monitors recently, bought one with burn-in then another popped up without any, each was $40. The burned-in one is going to a technically inclined retrogaming friend of mine from out of town, the hassle of ending up with one extra is gonna be worth dragging him out of his home to come get it and visit me 
Nice deal
I think I have you to blame Dan for starting my fascination with the famicom:eek:
I have picked up original Famicom and an FDS since you last posted your Famicom finds I just love those crazy color carts and how some games have additional sound programming over the NES. I love that thing
FC carts are kooky, I donāt think doing your own shape and color for cartridges at will would work for much else than an old 8 bit system.
Youāre not the first preson Iāve made want to get random retrogaming stuff. I have a friend who got bitten by the retrogaming bug hard, once he saw some of the stuff I had. Thing is this guy tends to be kinda indecisive (for example buys/sells PS3s and 360s all the time since he canāt decide if he wants either/both/neither) and I felt a bit of blame for seeing random old consoles join his rotation of stuff he bought and then wanted to sell.
Hopefully soon, Iāll throw some wall shelves and some random IKEA stuff into the gameroom, and will have an entire (small) room to post pictures of.
First time visit to a local retro video game specialty shop today.
Looks like a winner to me.
Got a lens now for my D200, well 2. A Nikkon AF 50mm 1:1.8 and an AF-s 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G
Also it always help to read the manual
Good deal.
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Got a hold of two NOS Wico microswitch joysticks. My only issue is that theyāre incredibly stiff.
Of course, Wico is long gone and ALL officially US-manufactured parts are long out-of-print ā hence, collector status and very short supply among parts vendors --, BUT Paradise Arcade Shop does have the old Wico red balltop handle in production. Itās 38mm diameter with a different thread than Japanese balltops but they do sell it with an adaptor compatible with Seimitsu and Sanwa joysticks. (Your red āWicoā plastic may vary from the Seimitsu and Sanwa shades!)
Just sayinā.
Oh, and long, long ago I had TWO Wico joysticks that were made for the Atari systems way back in the early 1980s. I had the bat handle and the āFamous Red Ballā joysticks. Back then, I preferred the ball handle, too.
And yes, those Wico joysticks ARE stiff.
You know theyāre going to the cemetery when they get as loose as a Sanwa JLF. These are NOT supposed to be the loosest joysticks ever made!
Recent buys (electronic) ā X-Mas Gifts =>
PS2 - Samurai Shodown Anthology (US)ā¦ I was NOT going to go a third year skipping this title because of the fluctuating prices on NEW condition discs;
PS3 - Lollipop Chainsaw, Super Street Fighter IV AE, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, and Persona 4 Arena.
Very good dealsā¦ All 5 for around $100, new condition.
BlazBlue CE and AquaPazza are definitely on the queque for the future along with SF vs Tekken.
Lots of flightsims slated for buying, too. I have to have multiple reasons (more than 3 games) to justify getting the Hori PS3 Flight Stick! (And there are at least 2-3 good WWII games this generation plus 2-3 decent jet fighter games.)
Game prices were around $15-$20 cheaper on average online than I would have paid in-store except Samurai Shodown. Iāve NEVER seen that title in-store and I always had a feeling that distribution on it was spotty. Heck, I spotted the God Hand and Star Trek Encounters games in-store but NEVER saw SSA in any game store in my area.
Oh, okay then. I was just making sure theyāre supposed to be like that out of the box. In that case, Iāll leave them be until I can find a proper use for themā¦
I one up you with a purchase of this guide from Gamestop for $2.49 only.
And I traded by copy of [S]The Adventures of Sophitiaās spoiled children[/S] err I mean Soul Calibur IV to Game Stop.
And that should let you know what I think of that terrible game, only other fighting game I ever sold or traded off was Super Street Fighter IV (because I got Arcade Edition) and Brutal Paws of Fury (cause it sucks liek SC 4 did).
Soul Calibur IV still has Sophitia and Cassandra in it. I guess I donāt get the comment about āspoiledā children in SC IV since they werenāt in that game. Besides, it was the āJediā gameā¦ ( = Aargh. The last few Star Wars games havenāt been great aside from the great Lego series and the two Rogue Squadron games on the GameCube.)
Iāve only played SC V a time or two since I got it but if anything SC IV is truer to the series than SC V. SC V feelsā¦ weird. Just like SF III did. Without more of the familiar cast from the past entries in the series, it feels like going back to your high school 5-10 years later with everybody else from your graduating class moved away from town.
To be honest, the last really good SC game was probably 2ā¦ (I went with the āLinkā edition. Didnāt own a PS2 at the time and am not crazy about the Tekken series.) The only reasons I kept interested as long as I did in SC III and SC IV was because of character customization. Aside from the sidequest games in the first two SC games, Iāve never felt that the SC series was the deepest fighting game series.
Picked up Sony brand component cables for PS2 at my local GameStop for $5.77. I was about to spend $18 for the shitty GameStop brand component cables then checked the other side of the display where they put the used accessories and found the Sony cables.
Those would be really nice to find, right now all I got is a Monoprice 3 in one cable.
Good deals on Madkatz stuff currently @ Newegg:
SFxTekken fightpads are 14.99 (lots of different art options)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874104236&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction--na--na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=1312731&SID=
And more importantly Soul Calibur V sticks and SFxTekken sticks are 79.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874104232&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction--na--na--na&AID=10446076&PID=1312731&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874104241&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction--na--na--na&AID=10446076&PID=1312731&SID=
Free shipping on all.
Dang, a 360 stick from above, and a Cerberus, would make for a ~$120 easily-dual-modded stick!