/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4338436]

What is your grail?

The one item that you've always wanted, but could never find or afford?

Do you still plan on getting it, or have you given up?

[Anonymous No.4338440]

Good taste.

[Anonymous No.4338445]

cute little fm towns setup. then i can rip the archaic hardware from the case and throw a 1060 in or something.

[Anonymous No.4338447]

L5 pvm
Astrocity cab
Fukkokuban Ps2 Saturn pad

[Anonymous No.4338448]

>>4338436
>Someone makes a video about X on YouTube
>Suddenly posts about X
Really fucking retarded shit, it's like people here are sheep and can't think for themselves at all. (Probably also because they are youngsters and don't even know about X before it gets a video by some dumb e-celeb hipster.)

[Anonymous No.4338454]

>>4338448
What the fuck are you on about

[Anonymous No.4338456]

Terra Drive. It's never happening. I wish I knew about it when they were 400 bucks.

[Anonymous No.4338457]

20th anniversary ps4.

[Anonymous No.4338484]

This sucker.

[Anonymous No.4338508]

NTSC Amiga CD32.

I've wanted one of these since the mid 90s, but not with the shitty default controller.

[Anonymous No.4338513]

NTSC model. With a '060 and some bitchin' fast RTG card. Though now it would probably make more sense to get a Vampire II board, whenever there's a 4000 version.

[Anonymous No.4338520]

>>4338436
My holy grail currently is the PC version of Splatterhouse. It was only sold in Japan, but this port was arcade perfect.

[Anonymous No.4338521]

castlevania rondo of blood

[Anonymous No.4338546]

>>4338520
as disk image or the physical game disk?

[Anonymous No.4338585]

>>4338447
2/3 for me, good taste.
For me, there's also the Sega CDX, and the Osamu Tezuka Game Boy Light.

[Anonymous No.4338591]

>>4338436
Wondermega is definitely the most pimp looking Megadrive/CD, and I wouldn't mind having one, but I'd probably keep a CDX as the unit of choice simply because it is so small.

My personal grail would be either the Hi-Saturn Navi, or being able to do a teardown of the Pluto.

[Anonymous No.4338594]

>>4338436
The more you advertise the thing you want, the less chance you will ever get it. Because now 100 more anons are searching for that thing.

[Anonymous No.4338605]

>>4338594
The Wondermega isn't particularly rare though, it's just expensive as fuck. And you won't risk anons here buying it all up because the people on this board keep bitching about SNES carts not being $5 any more.

[Anonymous No.4338610]

>>4338513
Why do people like amiga so much?

[Anonymous No.4338612]

>>4338546
Physical game disc.

[Anonymous No.4338613]

Completely useless, but.

Given up.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4338626]

>>4338484
>>4338508
Would love both of these but they emulate pretty good

[Anonymous No.4338643]

>>4338610
Because it's awesome.

[Anonymous No.4338651]

>>4338513
>NTSC model.
Why?

Get a 1200 once they have a Vampire 2 for it and build it into a tower case with a Mediator PCI.

[Anonymous No.4338656]

>>4338651
>Get a 1200 once they have a Vampire 2 for it and build it into a tower case with a Mediator PCI.
Then you could also pop in a Voodoo 3 or Radeon 9000 card with RTG drivers and a G3 PCI accelerator for PowerPC stuff, with the Vampire for 68k.

[Anonymous No.4340240]

>>4338436
>>4338594
Doesn't hurt me to present what I want, not like it'll ever get to a point where I can afford them. Hell, there are no 20"+ BVMs around, so tack on the cost of some custom courier that would accept the weight and treat with care just makes the price astronomical. I plan on getting them if I ever win one of those rigged lotteries, so giving up is my only option.

[Anonymous No.4340247]

>>4340240
that middle doohickey is so fucking sweet

[Anonymous No.4340339]

>>4340240
Tell me about it. Candy cabs are fucking rare on the east coast and last I checked it would take like $700 for freight shipping on one since they're seemingly all in Cali.

[Anonymous No.4340340]

>>4338585
Man I wish I had the foresight to get a CDX back when every store had at least one of them super cheap.

[Anonymous No.4340343]

>>4340247
It is the Aiwa release of the Mega Drive. The cartridges go in the bottom, frontloader-style. I think I saw a picture someone got the 32X working on it but it has to lay on its side, that picture made me lose my shit. It is a very satisfying shade of blue, but I think there is a black version of the same thing, as just a boom box, that cannot play MegaCD nor has the cartridge port on the bottom. The system is ridiculously priced now, and even back then it cost a fortune, such that I always wanted it.

I think what hurts more was that I was unable to afford Keio Flying Squadron as its price rose all those decades at every turn, from $30, to $80, to $200, to $400, and now its $1000+ price making me want it more and more.


>>4338591
Yeah, I got the WonderMega based on its aesthetics alone. It sat on top of my TV for decades and I had no clue it got expensive (it is how I get my Keio Yuugekitai fix to compensate for my desire of the US version).

[Anonymous No.4340348]

>>4340343
Why on earth do you have those expensive flash carts plugged into such a piece of shit?

[Anonymous No.4340357]

>>4338513
Holy shit that's alot of money.

[Anonymous No.4340370]

>>4340240
Keio isn't rare, just expensive.

The Aiwa is legit rare, it is also worthless for anything more than novelty. It also suffers from defects.

PVMs are rare?

[Anonymous No.4340373]

>>4340343
>it is how I get my Keio Yuugekitai fix to compensate for my desire of the US version

You should ignore the USA version if you have the Japanese one anyway. They removed enemy flashing so you don't know what to shoot at, and cut out an entire cutscene.

[Anonymous No.4340398]

>>4340339
Yeah, it is my fault for living in the middle of nowhere. I wouldn't even know what freight services are available that would deliver to a residence in this dump. Candy cabinets are very nice, are there any arcades around you that do have them? I would think the east coast would have tons, as New York has those nice arcades, even some modern ones too.


>>4340348
They work, and it was all I could afford. See that Zenith digital converter? That IS my TV and it isn't even a good brand. It is the problem of being poor, that's why those flash carts are fake Chinese ones, so they are cheaper.


>>4340370
OP only asked for personal grails. I am not going for rare, just what I want. Keio was a game I always wanted since I read about it in Gamefan and later EGM. The Aiwa I knew about and thought it looked cool (plus it plays cassette tapes). PVMs and BVMs are rare in my area, no one has them here, and no TV is produced in this area. I worked at a hospital before and they threw out all their CRTs the moment those early blurry flat panel LCDs became widely available back in '97, heath care is not given much a priority in these backwoods.


>>4340373
I did think it was cool to have the import version back then. It is a game I seriously always wanted. I just constantly was too broke to ever get the US SegaCD one, when I finally got a way to play SegaCDs. I guess that is why it is a personal grail.

[Anonymous No.4340417]

>>4340240
>Hell, there are no 20"+ BVMs around
At least in SCART land you can get a consumer black Trinitron at 24", 28" or even 30"+ and it still has RGB input, PAL60 and full geometry settings in the service menu.

[Anonymous No.4340450]

>>4340398
Man I wish. I check craigslist regularly and they're always beat to shit and I'm not really looking to sink a ton of money trying to restore one. I'll find a good deal one eventually. I kind of like the hunt. It makes it all feel worth it.

[Anonymous No.4340516]

Net Yaroze. I know it's not that rare, but I can't justify the price for it at the moment.

[Anonymous No.4340531]

I got my grail already, twice.
The problem is.. I want more of that grail and all its variations.

AUTISM: NOT EVEN ONCE

[Anonymous No.4340538]

>>4340531
you can always go higher

[Anonymous No.4340576]

PSX
It was the first XMB device.

[Anonymous No.4340618]

>>4338436
An AES and a pc engine duo even
That thing on your pic would be good too, never had a mega drive

[Anonymous No.4340675]

>>4338585
At my local game store they have a boxed CDX for about 200 bucks. Is it actually that rare?

[Anonymous No.4340810]

>>4338436
>What is your grail?
Creative 440bx Blaster board, PII 450 w/ Golden Orb cooler
Quantum 3D Obsidian X-24
Diamond Monster mx300
SB16 SCSI
SCSI slot loading Pioneer DVD driver and Nakamichi 5 disc changer
And everything packed in pic related.

[Anonymous No.4340838]

>>4340576
That's X-treme dude.

[Anonymous No.4340902]

>>4340576
Unfortunately they were shittily made and all died.

[Anonymous No.4340909]

>>4340902
>died

probably just needs replacement capacitors and stuff, the motherboard isnt going to die

[Anonymous No.4340934]

>>4338651
Because 12 year old me wanted it.

I know a 1200 is better.

[Anonymous No.4340941]

>>4340934
>I know a 1200 is better.
It isn't strictly better, it just has gotten more love over the years as the 4000's where rarer.
Back then the 4000 was obviously better than the 1200 without expansions.

[Anonymous No.4341393]

>>4340675
Bump

[Anonymous No.4341429]

>>4338436
Honestly the real true Holy Grail of game consoles is the Nintendo Playstation. A console I wish I could own, or at least a replica of it that can play both Playstation & SNES games.

[Anonymous No.4341436]

One of these days, one of these goddamned days, I'm going to assemble my own Capcom Bowling arcade cabinet with a working trackball bowling ball.

[Anonymous No.4341579]

Some day I'd like to get my hands on a Sharp Famicom Titler. There's something about the way it looks that really grabs my attention.

[Anonymous No.4342139]

>>4338626
this setup looks like a dusty 90s trash pile. I could see this at good will and not recognize it, even though I'm into games. lol. its no wonder they didn't make many. collectible, but ugly.

[Anonymous No.4342202]

This badboy

[Anonymous No.4342204]

>>4341579
Is that thing used to draw graphics on top of famicom games? Like for TV commercials and stuff?

[Anonymous No.4342873]

>>4338436
Sega CDX, I remember they were selling them new for like $30 at my local ToysRUs near the end of high school.

[Anonymous No.4342886]

>>4342204
I guess:
With the flip of a switch, the Famicom Titler could be used to produce intertitles or subtitles for video footage. According to the system manual, the resulting demos were intended to allow the addition of narration in the form of subtitles to create video invitations to parties, holiday events, children's athletic events, weddings, birthdays, and other celebrations.
Character input was made upon a small touch-sensitive tablet mounted into the console. A stylus was included as attached to the body, and audio additions to the demo could be made using the included microphone. Flipping the switch back would superimpose the video and subtitles on the console.

What's also great about it, is that was pretty much the only product besides the japanese famicom TV's to have an RGB PPU instead of a normal composite PPU. Funny thing is, it still only does S-Video by default because they encode it internally. Should still warrant a better picture quality than any other unmodified console.

[Anonymous No.4342992]

I still really want a PC Engine Duo, I've found HuCards and CD games at different yard sales but none of them had the system.

Also I'd like to own another Pokemon Gold and Silver GBC since I stupidly traded my original one in for store credit in 2002.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4343321]

>>4342139
Less sexy than the Saturn Prologue Karaoke Commander perhaps but with a much wider library. If I had either I'd be sure to take same glamour shots

[Anonymous No.4343406]

>>4341579
that's my grail too hombre. that and one of the mini playchoice-10 cabinets.

[Anonymous No.4343581]

>>4340810
>Golden Orb cooler
kek, all that hype back then for this meme cooler

I still have the very first s370 model on a Coppermine. It's loud and inefficient compared to anything copper with a proper larger fan.

[Anonymous No.4343779]

Lammy's guitar.

[Anonymous No.4343819]

My grails used to be:

20" BVM
NEC XM29
Sharp X68000
Neo Geo AES
Panasonic Q
PC Engine Duo R

Literally now acquired all of those except the NEC XM29 (although I have a lead on one which I will buy soon) through ridiculously hard searching etc. Feelsgoodman

[Anonymous No.4343845]

>>4343819
I guess now my grails are things like a WORKING SEGA CD model 1 (I've got 4 units but none of them work), 32X, Atari Jaguar CD unit. Some slightly more obscure game consoles like the CD-i, Vectrex, Apple Pippen etc. I guess I'd like to own but not really dying to get them. I would really like to own some older PCs like the Amiga and C64 but they're not too hard to find.

[Anonymous No.4343891]

>>4343779
those P90s

[Anonymous No.4344019]

>>4338436
Don't correlate video games with an item related to the lord himself. Shame on you.

[Anonymous No.4344137]

>>4340675
That's a good price for a boxed cdx. It's not that rare because I don't think demand for it is super high. It's my personal grail, just waiting for a broken one to pop up on ebay.

[Anonymous No.4344143]

>>4343779
I feel like you could get this made for under $1000

[Anonymous No.4344315]

a crt in actual decent condition with 0hrs on it and every port imaginable.

[Anonymous No.4344316]

>>4344315
When will someone on /vr/ have the balls to just DO IT for shits and giggles

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-quality-CRT-TV-17-21_60657004573.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017115.1.4d281874ib1bcW

[Anonymous No.4344318]

>>4344316
a 720p pos tv? ok

[Anonymous No.4344319]

>>4338436
Not even the rarest game or anything but the game i want the most at the moment is the retail version of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

[Anonymous No.4344320]

>>4344318
>shits and giggles
Boring fuck.

[Anonymous No.4345807]

>>4344316
So we could get a factory in Guangzhou to make a bunch of late-model CRTs if we were willing to buy a thousand of them? Maybe someday.

[Anonymous No.4345905]

>>4344315
>a crt in actual decent condition with 0hrs on it and every port imaginable.
You can buy NOS / NIB Trinitrons with VGA and RGB inputs that also support composite/S-video and SoG and sync to both 3kHz1 and 15kHz.

[Anonymous No.4347141]

>>4340810
Huh, never knew Creative did mobos. Good taste.

[Anonymous No.4347151]

>>4343819
HOLY SHIT, you have a Panasonic Q? Damn, i it true that the inside of the controller is different than a normal controller?

[Anonymous No.4347156]

Even ir its non-retro, a Sammy ASCII Gamecube Keyboard and controller.
The prices are inflated as SHIT

[Anonymous No.4347228]

>>4347151
I haven't taken my controller apart in a while but from what I remember it's just the same. Will have to take it apart again some time soon though to confirm that.

[Anonymous No.4347261]

This is the ultimate

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4347279]

>>4347261
This is the ultimate

[Anonymous No.4347294]

>>4347279
Fuckin atari jews, if they arent gonna give that to the gamers it was supposed to be given to, they should put the remaining treasures in a museum or something.

[Anonymous No.4347304]

>>4347279
? Is that the stolen one?

[Anonymous No.4347325]

Can't believe non of you posted the real grail here yet.

[Anonymous No.4347326]

>>4347304
Technically is not stolen, as the swordquest contest was never completed, it was never given.

Supposedly, some old high geezer suit from atari has it. Tho for all we know, he might have pawned it or sold it to some gold foundry or something.

[Anonymous No.4347356]

>>4347325
That's a PC. My PC is better.

[Anonymous No.4347421]

>>4347356
That's not a PC, it's a PW.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4347440]

>>4347326
Jack Tramiel is dead now so there's not even a prime suspect as far as current owner. The most likely fate is that it's been liquidated, sadly. Especially with the spike in commodities over the last decade. I doubt he ever cared much about gaming culture or had associates with money like that who would have. It would be amazing if it were to be found though.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4347454]

>>4347294
None of the gamers got fucked though. The two champions got checks for 25% of the sword's value. People who bought Waterworld specifically for the contest have the strongest case but every copy is worth like $500 now boxed so they theoretically came out winners too.

[Anonymous No.4347760]

Donkey kong country competition cartridge, CIB. Had the opportunity to hold one this weekend but affording one ever will be difficult.

[Anonymous No.4347765]

>>4341429
Played on that this weekend, its awe inspiring

[Anonymous No.4347790]

>>4347765
did the jewd-bro owner charge you 50$ to touch it?

[Anonymous No.4347804]

>>4347790
Nah it was just set up for anyone to try out.

[Anonymous No.4347817]

>>4347804
Neat.
While I really am glad it was discovered and everything, I also feel like indifferent to it because there aren't any games for the CD part of it that anyone knows of.

just playing snes games on it is blah, i want to see what the cd portion was capable of back then

[Anonymous No.4348270]

>>4347325
An anon on /vr/ just got one for free and posted about it, nobody gave a shit.
He asked how to use it with a 15kHz TV.

[Anonymous No.4348284]

>>4338454
He's butthurt that others dare to join his le secret club

[Anonymous No.4348286]

>>4338436
Just a nice tv set up with a functional sega genesis/mega drive and Shadowrun

[Anonymous No.4348301]

>>4342992
Goddamn I wish I still had my G&S GBC, I'd send it your way. I got mine from Gamestop in 2005 new for like $30. I don't remember what I did with it.

[Anonymous No.4348324]

>>4338436
Fmtowns GPS monitor, photo unavailable everywhere, literally

[Anonymous No.4348354]

>>4341429
>Nintendo Playstation
>>4347804

what?

[Anonymous No.4348359]

>>4348354
He never heard of the legendary Sony SNES/Playstation

welcome to the internet my dude

[Anonymous No.4348360]

>>4348354
Usually I encourage people with interest to lurk communities they are interested in, even when it's something like /vr/ and you have no direct nostalgic connection.

But fuck it, underage GTFO.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4348704]

>>4348324

[Anonymous No.4348792]

>>4348270
Actually there have been a few answers to his questions if you(r talking about the thread with a dirty gray unit on the OPs pic.

[Anonymous No.4348808]

I really just want earthbound with the box and strategy guide.

I used to own it but my apartment got robbed several years ago and they took all my vidya. I'm sure it got tossed in a dumpster because it was a snes game when they also took my ps3.

Fuck that still makes me mad

[Anonymous No.4348925]

i don't think i hold any particular console more dearly than this despite its flaws. Sure there are plenty on PSOne models around but, they're just not the same

[Anonymous No.4348956]

>>4348704
Maybe he literally meant that the photo is literally unavailable everywhere, literally. Like you open a jar of peanut butter and nope, no picture available here.

[Anonymous No.4348962]

Mine, a Candy Cab

[Anonymous No.4349081]

There are a lot of things that would be nice to have, but nothing I'd really consider a grail, even hardware-wise.

The one thing I constantly think would be really to cool to find in the wild is one of these, even though it's not all that useful or iconic. I picked up the game itself M/CIB for $10 about 5 years ago at a used goods store near closing hours and I was cheeky enough to look around for signs that it was broken out of the complete set, but of course it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.4349580]

>>4348704
Not from a shitty magazine damn, a real photo

[Anonymous No.4349601]

My grail was a 4mb STe with Cubase. I was so desperate for one of those babies when I was a teenager, but I simply didn't have the cash. That an Atari Falcon.

Now I have both.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4349612]

>>4349580
I'm sure there's a only-once-removed image if someone were to dig through Yahoo Auctions Japan but with that attitude you can go ahead and do it yourself. Now you know what it looks like.

>>4348956
He does seem to have a problem with definitions of terms so maybe.

[Anonymous No.4349628]

>>4349580
beggars can't be choosers

[Anonymous No.4349645]

>>4342202
i also want a cabinet

[Anonymous No.4349648]

>>4349601
What about this fucker?

[Anonymous No.4349653]

>>4349648
>What about this fucker?
Hnnng

[Anonymous No.4349658]

USB Official Sega Saturn Pad
Symphony of the Night

[Anonymous No.4349665]

>>4338436
https://youtu.be/0pwxsvPfbOI

[Anonymous No.4349808]

>>4349665
I rate this video Singapore/10

[Anonymous No.4349812]

>>4348808
that makes me mad reading it, sorry to hear that happened to you anon

[Anonymous No.4349854]

>>4348808
I've re-bought high value games that "disappeared" from my collection before. Sucks man, hope you get a great deal on another set someday.

[Anonymous No.4349873]

>>4349854
Having friends around your treasures is never a good idea.

Friends are just enemies in disguise
video very related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyw6kKMjp5A

[Anonymous No.4349889]

>>4338436
I have low goals. I just want to own every Phantasy Star game.

[Anonymous No.4349903]

>>4338436
Got this. Works no diffident than the Model 1-2, CDX.
Had them all at one point. Stopped collecting and sold it all.

[Anonymous No.4349926]

Tbh I just want to replace the stuff my Mum threw away, zx spectrum and tape collection, Amiga 500+ and multiple games and disks, SNES with a few games.

[Anonymous No.4350436]

>>4338626
between the fact that its a shit laserdisc player and the pac units having such shitty caps, it's hardly worth it.
also, composite video only (without mods).

>>4340240
Keio is garbage.

>>4347325
They're great, but I can't recommend them.
too flaky.

Hardware wise I don't think I have any grails anymore.
I got my 27" PVM, I've got the systems I want, special controllers are generally trash, so meh.

Games wise, there's enough good stuff that's cheap to not worry about the really expensive games.
yeah, Magic Knight Rayearth is great, but I'd just as soon play another zelda game.
I got the arcade boards I wanted, I've played the heck out of them, but now I think its more that I want the space back.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4350441]

>>4350436
There's no emulator for it, or for MSX-LD. Those things alone make it worth owning, but not at current prices

[Anonymous No.4350539]

>>4349903
Got this too, I had some extra cash so I said fuck it. I think it outputs better video than my model one and has slightly better audio. Something only an autist like me would notice.

[Anonymous No.4351365]

actually I used to have this ages ago, would be nice to replace it.

[Anonymous No.4351368]

>>4351365
Dual Vibrator Simulator X68000

A man of refined taste

[Anonymous No.4351371]

>>4351368
actually I'm not sure it was that, it was branded 'grandstand' and came with a Nazi pistol type gun for a shooting game.

[Anonymous No.4351383]

>Vectrex
>Twin Famicom
>Turbo Duo

[Anonymous No.4351426]

Clap version of Jack Bros.

[Anonymous No.4351429]

>>4340516
Absolutely this. The PS1 looks so damn slick in black. I have no idea why they changed it to that boring gray.

[Anonymous No.4351431]

>>4351429
sega saturn was black, so maybe thats why

[Anonymous No.4351434]

>>4351431
WE

[Anonymous No.4351436]

>>4351434
WUZNT

[Anonymous No.4351442]

>>4351429
>I have no idea why they changed it to that boring gray.
Yaroze was produced after the original gray console and green/blue debug consoles.

[Anonymous No.4351447]

Jurassic Park arcade game and Jurassic Park pinball machine

I'm fine emulating almost anything else.

[Anonymous No.4353032]

>>4350441
>or for MSX-LD
Wrong, as usual

[Anonymous No.4353045]

>>4351447
The pinball machine is great, but the first JP arcade game has no scoring and is (I assume) actually impossible to clear on one coin. Surely you'd rather have Lost World?

[Anonymous No.4353704]

Neo Geo Pocket/NGP Color
I was a poor lad incapable of saving money.
My friend had one and I basically stole it from him.

[Anonymous No.4353708]

>>4349648
>Gamingwise anything but macs until Windows 3.1

[Anonymous No.4353715]

>>4353045
More of a nostalgia thing for me I guess, I only got to go to any sort of arcade (including chuck e cheese) like 3 times as a kid and every time I'd spent most of my time on that Jurassic Park machine. If I wanted an arcade game based on just quality of the game I'd probably pick something else.

[Anonymous No.4353820]

>>4353708
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you implying DOS wasn't the dominant gaming OS of its day?

[Anonymous No.4353838]

>>4353820
>Are you implying DOS wasn't the dominant gaming OS of its day?
You're serious?

[Anonymous No.4353914]

>>4353838
Are you?

[Anonymous No.4353942]

>>4353914
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzX16mN2wKg

[Anonymous No.4354064]

>>4343819
I just got a xp29 plus Anon. It's fucking beautiful. If you have a lead go ahead and get it. It's glorious.

I've been playing some Dreamcast on it lately (too poor for the rgb cables n sheiit next on the to do list).

[Anonymous No.4354401]

>>4353708
>macintosh games
Nice joke.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4355137]

>>4353032
Post MSX LD emulator and LD rips

[Anonymous No.4355216]

>>4355137
Learn to google faggot

[Anonymous No.4355243]

>>4355216
not him but I googled faggot

thanks anon, I think I've found a new interest

[Anonymous No.4355256]

I’d like a copy of Gimmick, and Popful Mail for Sega CD along with the systems.

Or a couple arcade cabinets specifically Marvel Vs Capcom 2, TMNT turtles in time and the Rescue 911 pinball machine.

[Anonymous No.4355293]

>>4338448
Fucking this. Happened with that Ahoy fuck and Polybuis. I counted at least 7 threads about it.

[Anonymous No.4355305]

>>4349889
o man the hours I put into the GC version with my friends. Good shit back in the day.

[Anonymous No.4355313]

>>4338448
>>4355293
It's the nature of curiosity. Not everyone already knows everything. Once they encounter something for the first time in popular (ugh) media, a lot of people will come here with questions.

[Anonymous No.4355315]

>>4355313
Lurk more

[Anonymous No.4355353]

>>4355315
Yeah yeah, I know, retardation or gtfo.

[Anonymous No.4355506]

>>4355353
>retardation
It's called being autistic, you retard.

[Anonymous No.4355621]

>>4355243
You're going to make a great OP some day

[Anonymous No.4355690]

CIB Sutte Hakkun

[Anonymous No.4355826]

Cubivore would complete my collection of rare GameCube games... Plus I always wanted to actually play it st least once.

[Anonymous No.4355917]

>>4351365
Isn't that one of those Scientology machines?

[Swift S. Lawliet !!VIQsbxF6xwO No.4357986]

>>4338626
Not sure if those LaserDisc games are worth it but it probably has no value for me as a PC Engine, Sega Genesis and/or LaserDisc player.
I already have an HLD-X9 LaserDisc player, a model 1 High Definition Graphics Sega Genesis with the Sega CD and 32X expansions, and a PC Engine SuperGrafx with a Super CD-ROM2 attachment.

Also, Composite-only=no go.

[Anonymous No.4358058]

>>4353704
I picked one of these up MISB a few years back for pennies, must have been before the normalfag price-gouging retro implosion. I remember last year, having been too busy to keep up with retro since buying it, looking up the prices for additional games and nearly having a heart attack. At least I got the Metal Slugs for it when they were cheap...

[Anonymous No.4358220]

>>4358058
>MISB a few years back for pennies
Are we talking somewhat recently or did you get in on that great bundle deal on it in its last days? I got mine while it was still technically alive, but I hardly played it before it was discontinued, and I could have saved a bit if I'd known they were going to drop that bundle.

[Anonymous No.4358312]

Retro: TurboExpress
Not Retro: Panasonic Q

[Anonymous No.4358319]

>>4358312

Great, now I want it too.

[Anonymous No.4358326]

>>4358312
Don't buy an Express, it's not worth it. Screen doesn't let you see shit, shit battery life.

[Anonymous No.4358330]

>>4358326
I was wondering about that. Sounds like the Express had similar screen aging issues to the Game Gear.

[Anonymous No.4358347]

>>4351447
There are so many giant arcade machines I'd like to own.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4358354]

>>4358326
>>4358330
But the Express has a composite signal in it so it's pretty easy to put in a new LCD - and modern LCDs with LED backlights improve battery life (although TGE was way better about that than GG)

>t. still trying to replace the TGE stolen from me in '95

[Anonymous No.4358410]

My initial thought on seeing this thread was an X68000 but a few people have already mentioned that and it's kind of a lesser artifact of power than the grail, they come up for sale on ebay every once in a while. Maybe a Defender machine or any of the other classic Williams games, but they're not exceedingly rare either... The only thing I want that's practically unobtainable is a giant RGB monitor like a Mitsubishi Megaview

if I was rich as fuck I would want an early unix computer

[Anonymous No.4358417]

>>4338436
>What is your grail?
babbage's grampses stuffed dead body

[Anonymous No.4358431]

>>4358417

>hating a namefag THIS MUCH

Do you mind? Your loud REEEEEEEE!'ing is beginning to give me a migraine.

[Anonymous No.4358442]

>>4338436
a system like this.

[Anonymous No.4358445]

>>4358431
Good lord you're not fooling anyone Gramps.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4358449]

>>4358417
Would you mount my carcass in a display of my collection arranged as if it were a Babbage's store so it's on topic? If so, I'll leave my remains to you in my will.

[Anonymous No.4358453]

>>4358442
I'd fucking kill to be able to travel back in time to Neverland Ranch around the mid-90s. Literally a fantasy world.

[Anonymous No.4358457]

>>4338436
Its not fair

[Anonymous No.4358474]

>>4348301
This. I have a purple one that I could put in an Aliexpress housing but it just wouldn't be the same.

[Anonymous No.4358484]

>>4338436
looks like a digivice

[Anonymous No.4358491]

I'm POOR. My main grail is an Atari XEGS.

[Anonymous No.4358787]

>>4338436
This baby.

[Anonymous No.4358796]

>>4338436
A Polybius Cabinet

[Anonymous No.4358806]

>>4358787
good taste I wouldn't have thought of that

[Anonymous No.4358821]

>>4358806
Here's another cabinet I'd like to own, amazed they never brought this back as a Kinect title.

[Anonymous No.4358860]

>>4358821
best arcade game ever?

[Anonymous No.4358925]

>>4338436
maybe a NEO geo AES with all the candy...

or maybe a mint in box PSX import.

I probably will get an AES in the future but I once bought a victor saturn that was defective so Im a lil scared getting expensive old crap...

[Anonymous No.4358929]

>>4358796
dude. no.

[Anonymous No.4358930]

>>4358457
Arent those not even backlit? no thanks..

[Anonymous No.4358938]

This sucker right here would be a bless to own..

[Anonymous No.4358947]

If I ever got a full fledged cabinet it would have to just be either metal slug or marvel vs streetfighter>>4358938

[Anonymous No.4359269]

Couldn't find a decent pic of the machine, but Blood Brothers. My brother and I had so much fucking fun on this game whenever our family went to this one specific Hotel that had a badass arcade,

Shit was Co-Op at it's finest. Now fite me mother fuckers.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4359331]

>>4358442
>>4358787
>>4358821
>>4358938
>>4359269
>Not dual R360s with Wing War or possibly four linked Cycrafts with Initial D

[Waterworld Box-Chan No.4359429]

This game was such a huge part of my childhood, what I would give for a cabinet of this...

[Anonymous No.4359439]

>>4359429

Thankfully there are home ports. I think the presentation is different, though. I seem to recall the arcade version letting you select which world to play from a menu, whereas the console versions have an explorable rendition of Sumner's Tower.

[Anonymous No.4359454]

>>4359429
Gauntlet games are fun as hell as long as you put a limit on the number of credits you're willing to feed them. Otherwise it's just insert coins to win (aka perfect moneymaking arcade games from an ownership standpoint).

[Anonymous No.4360893]

>>4350436
>Keio is garbage.
I really like it. That's part of the reason why I want it. The US version was always just out of my means to get it, until recently where it is now far out of reach of the realm of reality.


>>4358330
>>4358354
I have been looking for someone willing to do a screen replacement. All the trusted modders have a huge backlog of orders, busy with other projects, or just too costly for me to commission. While it is early LCD, I don't think it is a blurry or faded as a GameGear LCD, but mine has 2 dead pixels in the corner.


>>4359331
I would love that one or the Taito one for the ride, but I only remember one place that had the cabinet around me and I think the game was G-LOC which I didn't like. It is a worth expensive cabinet to own, but typically it would require someone outside for safety when the emergency button above would be hit.

[P No.4360894]

>>4359439
ps1 version of this game is total ass. the DC version is pretty much arcade perfect though with additional levels

[Anonymous No.4360948]

>>4360894

The PS1 port was given a six month deadline. All in all, I think the team did a fair job. Granted, it's not nearly as polished as it could be, but it's playable. And there are additional levels in PS1 Gauntlet, too.

[Anonymous No.4360967]

>>4348925
Are you literally retarded? You can buy a fat PS1 at literally any game store or website for $30 maximum.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4361005]

>>4360893
Yeah, G-Loc was the game that came in it and the only game I ever played in it although I really enjoyed Wing War as a stationary dual cabinet. Ever since I discovered they were compatibly I admit I've been sort of fixated on it. A Cycraft would probably be more achievable since I know where there's one orphaned after a Sega Gameworks turned into an independent barcade and then shut down.

[Anonymous No.4361752]

A full size MAME cabinet. I own a 360, PS2, Genesis, Game Gear, Game Boy, NES, and 2600. The only one I’ve played in the past few months is the Atari. I like the simplicity of only having a button and joystick

[Anonymous No.4361867]

>>4360893
after watching Enemy of the State I don't want anything to do with that fucking thing >pic related

[Anonymous No.4364197]

I'd really like to have professional CRT monitor with diagonal larger than 20 inch. I asked around few local TV stations and video editing companies, and seems that in my country they only used to import 14 and 20 inch monitors.
Getting 28 inch consumer TV seems like a good idea, but finding them locally (and in good condition) is not easy.

I'd also like to own few VGM soundtracks on vinyl and maybe arcade PCBs of some of my most favorite games, but these are not priority.

[Anonymous No.4364210]

>>4364197
Why though?

>>4358372

[Anonymous No.4364229]

>>4364210
>finding them locally (and in good condition) is not easy
I'm in PAL land and keep searching through local craigslist type site often, and can't find good deal AND good condition. Was really close to buing one recently, but glass was chipped in few places.

[Anonymous No.4364243]

>>4364229
The ones like >>4364210 pic related, usually go for free to 5€.
There's always at least two on local sales and auction sites.

It's funny how different the market can be even inside PAL land.

[Anonymous No.4364259]

>>4364197
>VGM soundtracks on vinyl
Why? Vinyl adds warmth to natural sounds, but unless you're talking about recorded orchestrated sounds, VGM OSTs are synthetic by nature. The purest way to hear them wouldn't be vinyl, it would be straight from the sound hardware. A vinyl recoding would actually be the lo-fi way to enjoy them.

[Anonymous No.4364293]

>>4364243
Yes, market can be different in different countries. Most people in my country couldn't afford such big TVs back then, so market is oversaturated with 14" and 20" TVs.

>>4364259
Mostly for presentation, and one of sountracks I'm chasing is orchestrated, but I missed it on YJA recently and hope for another chance.

[Anonymous No.4364481]

>>4364259
>Vinyl adds warmth to natural sounds
Vinyl adds nothing, it's just that some sounds within a certain frequency range are rendered quite nicely. And yes synthetic sounds also sound quite nice on vinyl, my Jean-michel Jarre records are among my favorite.
>A vinyl recoding would actually be the lo-fi way to enjoy them.
Depends on the recording. Some older recordings were done quite sloppily (they sound like they were taken from a cabinet's speaker with a microphone), some others were done like it was synthesizer music, and the usual effects were applied to the games' musics just as if it was a DX-21 or something (see the taito game music LP, I particularily love the kiki kaikai and super dead heat II tracks).

[Anonymous No.4364518]

>>4364481
>Vinyl adds nothing
The natural and initially imperceptible crackling noise of vinyl is the warmth I'm talking about. As you know, vinyl is lossy in the sense that every single playback is micro-destructive to the medium. You're scraping vinyl grooves with a metal needle, it's just a physical reality of the format, and those extra scrapes will add up over time to color the sound more and more. That's part of the "precious" nature of vinyl, and it's part of why initial audiophile critics of CD claimed that CDs produced lifeless music. They'd never heard such consistently clean music before.

>synthetic sounds also sound quite nice on vinyl
Sure, but lo-fi in this sense just means less accurate, not necessarily bad. Any analog recording of digital music is going to be lossy compared to playing the actual digital track straight off the sound processors it was designed for.

I'm not criticizing vinyl, just describing its reality.

[Anonymous No.4364528]

>>4364518
>The natural and initially imperceptible crackling noise of vinyl is the warmth I'm talking about.
There is no cracking noise when you have a good player and a recording that hasn't been rubbed all over the dirt floor.
This is how you can call out a hipster, they think the cracking is normal, if one of my older brothers records back in the day would have cracked, he would have thrown them away, if it would have cracked after I used it, I would have gotten my ass beat because it would have been obvious I damaged the recording.

The way you explain it, is like everybody was using shitty soviet vinyl players with shitty needles and cheaply pressed records.
No.

[Anonymous No.4364530]

>>4364518
>Sure, but lo-fi in this sense just means less accurate, not necessarily bad. Any analog recording of digital music is going to be lossy compared to playing the actual digital track straight off the sound processors it was designed for.
A proper pressed vinyl from a master usually sounded way better than a CD when CDs first became a thing, because the master for the CD was almost always over saturated and hot. Hence vinyl was called better at the time.

>I'm not criticizing vinyl, just describing its reality.
You're criticizing it for the wrong reasons without knowing the reality.

[Anonymous No.4364541]

>>4364528
Listen, vinyl has amazing dynamic range but for noise it's just not a clean medium. Just because you can't hear the crackling at first, like I said in the last post ("initially imperceptible") doesn't mean the crackling and pops aren't there. They are. That's the natural noisiness of vinyl. Even preservationists won't deny it, only fanboys.

>>4364530
Dynamic range is where vinyl is king. It is not compressed in any way. The harmonics sound natural and warm (warm because of stated reasons, but warm nonetheless). That is the truth.

The colored masters of CDs were production errors. Even given a proper source, CDs sounded compressed due to transfer limitations at the time.

[Anonymous No.4364542]

>>4364530
>Hence vinyl was called better at the time.
It still usually sounds better because of better dynamic range compared to CD masters.

[Anonymous No.4364569]

>>4364518
>The natural and initially imperceptible crackling noise of vinyl is the warmth
It's not. It just means you're not cleaning your record/using one in a not so good condition. A good vinyl record sound really clear.
>why initial audiophile critics of CD claimed that CDs produced lifeless music. They'd never heard such consistently clean music before.
No, the initial critics was the aliasing when playing high-frequency sound while those same sounds were reproduced perfectly by vinyl records. Those issues were fixed later.
>Sure, but lo-fi in this sense just means less accurate, not necessarily bad. Any analog recording of digital music is going to be lossy compared to playing the actual digital track straight off the sound processors it was designed for.
Except that those sounds were designed using the DAC on those games' board/consoles, that DACs produce a fully analog sound, that you sure didn't have exactly the same sound from one DAC model to another, and that analog effects could be applied to those sounds' recording. It isn't less accurate, the sound that is produced is analog, it was . Your average PSG chip (be it General Instrument or Yamaha) output analog sounds directly. Some games like Gyruss actually use filters on this same analog audio output. Some sound chips like the SID are actually analog synth chips. When it comes to soundchips, the digital part is just calculation, the actual sound is meant to be analog.
>>4364541
The "noise" in a vinyl doesn't necessarily comes from the crackling and pops. It's the same background noise as with cassette tapes. My Dirty Pair soundtrack record have no "crackling and pops".

[Anonymous No.4364576]

>>4364569
>My Dirty Pair soundtrack record have no "crackling and pops".
Do you own many anime records? What are your favorites?

[Anonymous No.4364580]

>>4364541
>ust because you can't hear the crackling at first, like I said in the last post ("initially imperceptible") doesn't mean the crackling and pops aren't there. They are. That's the natural noisiness of vinyl. Even preservationists won't deny it, only fanboys.
Man, you see all kinds of retards on /vr/ these days.

[Anonymous No.4364597]

>>4364541
>Listen, vinyl has amazing dynamic range but for noise it's just not a clean medium.
Agree.

>Just because you can't hear the crackling at first, like I said in the last post ("initially imperceptible") doesn't mean the crackling and pops aren't there. They are. That's the natural noisiness of vinyl. Even preservationists won't deny it, only fanboys.
I'm no fanboy, but I have records that I have listened for decades without them ever getting any pops, clicks or cracking.
Maybe you just only have experience with shitty records and players? I'm not even a fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, I even prefer CDs for most music.

[Anonymous No.4364598]

I used to want this when I was younger ,my goal was to hook it up to cable and just autistically record the shit out of everything in the world and burn them to DVD-Rs.

Now that I joined the cord cutter brigade I could care less.

[Anonymous No.4364610]

>>4364576
Not many, only 3 (Dirty Pair TV OST, Giant Gorg vol.1 and one of them from an OVA that haven't even been released), but I'm planning to get some more (like the other Giant Gorg volumes and pic related).
My favorite is Dirty Pair, but Giant Gorg is close second.

[Anonymous No.4364614]

>>4364541
>Dynamic range is where vinyl is king
>>4364542
>It still usually sounds better because of better dynamic range compared to CD masters.

It's almost like it wasn't said >>4364530 here
>because the master for the CD was almost always over saturated and hot.
A hot recording will sound flat, because it's lowest frequencies are too high as are its highest.
Vynil was only better at dynamic range at the time because of that, this was obviously fixed later.
So vinyl is good for music recorded before the early 90's. After that it's CD all the way.

Like >>4364541 said
>CDs sounded compressed due to transfer limitations at the time.
At the time.

[Anonymous No.4364618]

>>4364614
>After that it's CD all the way.
But most new albums have superior dynamic range on vinyl as well.

[Anonymous No.4364626]

>>4364614

Any music made after the early 90s is shit anyway.

Personally I love my laserdiscs because they have true analog stereo sound which is how classic movies used to be. Now it's all that garbage fake 5.1 upmix shit on blu-ray releases. I can't even get The Terminator in high-def with the original mono track and gun sounds.

[Anonymous No.4364627]

>>4364618
A 320kbps MP3 will have superior dynamic range to a modern vinyl.
Vinyl is good, it's not magic however, it's still analogue media.

The biggest reason vinyl was prefered back in the day with early CDs was not because CDs where shit, it was the way CDs where recorder, that was shit and ruined it.

[Anonymous No.4364630]

>>4364569
>>4364597
>A good vinyl record sound really clear.
To the human ear, for as long as the vinyl is maintained. But go ahead and record that vinyl digitally, pray that it's tracked properly to the exact intended timing of the track (manual RPM control, eh...), normalize it vs. the CD pressed for that same song, and subtract. There are your micro cracks and pops.

>aliasing when playing high-frequency sound while those same sounds were reproduced perfectly by vinyl records
Yes. And also the noise issues. I don't claim to have golden ears but the GEs of the day were very clear about the noise issue as well.

>Except that those sounds were designed using the DAC on those games' board/consoles
For such games and systems, sure, but there also exist many instances with no DA conversion or filters, and there exist ways to play those tracks back as accurately as possible without recording artifacts. I'm not referring to CD in this case. Even a simple PC with synth emulators playing the exact extracted tracks from the games will be cleaner than any vinyl recording. Those Mega Drive vinyl transfers that get posted all the time were done IIRC using standalone Yamaha black boxes. You can have the equivalent driving your music directly in your home. The actual sound is always more hi-fi than any recording.

>same background noise as with cassette tapes
Oh nonono, linear magnetic recordings have their own dumb set of noise sources. It is just horrible. As someone who used to try desperately on all kinds of cassette hardware to get good sound from CD-cassette transfers (Hx Pro, Dolby S NR, Super Metal Master/MA-XG/Metal Vertex tapes on a Nakamichi Dragon and even on some rented time on some really nice Teacs, everything you can try), audiocassette is a no-no compared to even VHS Hi-Fi.

>>4364580
I'd like to think I'm not replying to any, and I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. You seem more sure about me.

[Anonymous No.4364631]

>>4364627
>A 320kbps MP3 will have superior dynamic range to a modern vinyl.
First example of new album that comes to mind, latest album by Slowdive.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=slowdive&album=slowdive

[Anonymous No.4364634]

>>4364610
That's a cute cover, and I really need to get Dirty Pair soundtrack as well.

[Anonymous No.4364636]

>>4364630
>there also exist many instances with no DA conversion
This is misleading so I'll correct myself. I'll instead say that the color of most DACs in many cases was an unintentional byproduct that can be bypassed today.

[Anonymous No.4364924]

>>4364630
But the analog sound output of an actual console is in now way "lo-fi". Recording such sound and pressing vinyls with it would in no way give you a "lo-fi" record. Do you also consider italo disco records "lo-fi" because of the synthetic nature of the sounds used in this kind of music?

[Anonymous No.4364939]

>>4338436
The only Genesis models with superior sound are early Model 1's. There's really no need for pricey curiosities like that, and I have a CDX. Its cool that is is 1//10th the size of a Model 1 + Model 2 CD. But the sound and picture of the CDX are worse so I don't use it.

[Anonymous No.4364959]

>>4364924
Lo-fi is just relative to hi-fi. If the actual sound can be reproduced in your home at will, any recording will be inferior to it.

[Anonymous No.4364967]

I would really like a Net Yaroze.

[Anonymous No.4366207]

>>4358491
Why do you want one?
I have one, I dont think is that hard to find or expensive

[Anonymous No.4368426]

>>4358220
When I say "a few years back" I mean literally about three or four years ago.

I wouldn't mind picking up more units and games if I could find them for sane prices, the only thing that holds it back is lack of a backlight. Would love to see if it could be modded to include one.

[Anonymous No.4368489]

>>4338520
What kind of PC we talking about? A PC nowadays or something much older?

[Anonymous No.4368683]

>>4359429
i remember the movie theatre near me had this and it had a port on it to put your N64 memory card in to transfer data. fucking rad

[Anonymous No.4368715]

>>4342202
Hell yes. Either that or Lucky & Wild

[Anonymous No.4369061]

>>4354401

to be fair Marathon on an old Mac is probably more enjoyable than the Aleph One sourceport.

Fuck the Aleph One devs

[Anonymous No.4369063]

>>4353708
>>Gamingwise anything but macs until Windows 3.1
you misspelled amiga