iMPACt! Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 3 hours ago, DavidB6937 said: Which one did you order from eBay? It was one from a company called gamersgear. Seemed to have a few good reviews. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383535116892 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 This is very, very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 1 minute ago, SuperBacon said: This is very, very cool. If you've got the time this guy has made a few videos on making his own Lego Commodore 64, he's pretty entertaining too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted July 14, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted July 14, 2020 PeriFractic does some great stuff on his channel. Did you see the Lego 1541 disk drive he made to put his microSD card in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMPACt! Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 So my CRT arrived. Hooked up the PS2 and the picture looks great and it is amazing how responsive it is with no lag. A 14 inch screen is much smaller than I remember from my childhood but that's clearly because we were used to smaller TVs back then. I do have one issue though that I totally forgot about. The high pitched sound that constantly comes off these TVs! I don't know how we put up with it and it is driving me slightly crazy. I would have thought with being older and my hearing being goosed I wouldn't hear it but nope there it is still high pitched, might have to just use this with earphones. Another bonus aspect is DVDs look how they are meant to so putting on some WCW footage from the WWE DVDs looks tremendous. Hogan's god like tan in all its glory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 41 minutes ago, iMPACt! said: I do have one issue though that I totally forgot about. The high pitched sound that constantly comes off these TVs! I don't know how we put up with it and it is driving me slightly crazy. I would have thought with being older and my hearing being goosed I wouldn't hear it but nope there it is still high pitched, might have to just use this with earphones. I bought a CRT TV fairly recently and I genuinely haven’t noticed this. I’d actually forgotten it was even something CRT TVs did. My hearing must be terrible these days 😐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMPACt! Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 10 minutes ago, RedRooster said: I bought a CRT TV fairly recently and I genuinely haven’t noticed this. I’d actually forgotten it was even something CRT TVs did. My hearing must be terrible these days 😐 I actually could have hearing aids as my mid range tones (which most people speak at) is quite a bit under but for some reason my lows and highs are ok, which must be why I can still hear it. I can also just hear those things people put in their garden for cats to scare them off. Such a bizarre sound to try and get used to again. For some reason I feel I can still hear it just now even although the TV has been off for a few hours. What screen size did you get RedRooster? I wish I could have got something bigger but there were none locally and no way people could post them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 10 hours ago, iMPACt! said: I actually could have hearing aids as my mid range tones (which most people speak at) is quite a bit under but for some reason my lows and highs are ok, which must be why I can still hear it. I can also just hear those things people put in their garden for cats to scare them off. Such a bizarre sound to try and get used to again. For some reason I feel I can still hear it just now even although the TV has been off for a few hours. What screen size did you get RedRooster? I wish I could have got something bigger but there were none locally and no way people could post them. Same size as you. I don't even know how I would go about finding something bigger to be honest, it was hard even to find this one. Still though, there's something beautifully nostalgic about playing on a CRT again, and in the case of my Master System, tuning the TV so that I could play it and finding that sweet spot where it's tuned to exactly the right frequency. Getting to play a PS1 game without it looking like shit (well, no less shit than a PS1 game is supposed to look) is also nice. I'd been totally put-off playing Chrono Cross, for example, on my region-free PS1 because it just looked terrible on a modern TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RancidPunx Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Been laid low in bed all week and installed open emu on my Mac and have been going at the Lost Vikings (SNES) for the past few days . A classic that still holds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted July 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted July 18, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 11:40 PM, iMPACt! said: I actually could have hearing aids The perils of phone sex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMPACt! Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Tommy! said: The perils of phone sex. Legit just laughed out loud at that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 So apparently Nintendo had a breach a while back, and some of the stuff that came out has been cracked. One of the things was the code for Luigi in Mario 64, which was a planned thing but they dropped it before release. https://nichegamer.com/2020/07/25/luigi-discovered-in-super-mario-64-source-code/ Also some uncompressed audio from Star fox 64/Lylatwars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted July 26, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted July 26, 2020 My apologies if it's not the best thread to ask, I've got a retro pi running but it's with a cheap PS2 controller and it's got terrible lag. As I'm looking to replace it what's generally considered best to give most comfortable coverage for PS1, N64 and back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted July 26, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted July 26, 2020 I used a PS3 controller but as far as I'm aware most controllers work with it. I've used PS4. If it's USB or Bluetooth you can use it. I have retro pi 3 for reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I’ll echo the love for 8bitdo pads, I use the SF30pro which is the same as the plus but without the grips at the bottom (so it’s form factor is more like a slightly deeper SNES controller). Great controller very comfortable and reliable. The difference between the SN30 and the SF30 is just button colour, so go for the SF30 if you want to avoid the American purple colour scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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