Retro gaming thread

Will it be a working keyboard or the usual fake one these things tend to get? (I assume the C64 one was cosmetic only too anyway)

As I understand it, the full sized units feature a working keyboard. It's just the minis, which are cosmetic only. It's not like a Spectrum keyboard would break the bank 

I bought a modded gamecube for swiss on boot combined with a gameboyplayer and to play a select few games such as kirby air ride and Chibi-Robo. Paid relatively little for it.

This got me back into collection some GBA and GBC games. I only found out 3 days ago that there was a sequel to Guardian Heroes and Gunstar Heroes on the GBA! And that there is a pretty good metal slug game... Bought all 3 ar decent prices comfirmed to be original. Interested to see how they hold up today.

It’s great seeing stuff like that, especially the “late era” C64 games from when Thalamus was around because I didn’t get a computer until 1989. That’s a time when most collections like that are absolutely dominated by consoles and when you look at a 1992 game like Nobby then you’d be more likely to see Mega Drive titles from that era now.

Hopefully that increases awareness too; how many people know what Summer Camp is, for example, never mind Winter Camp? I also remember that having at least one bit where you had to waggle the stick, I hope there’s a solution for that on the Evercade controls.

That one feels doable too since Mark Cale has always been rattling around in the background.

Shame to see them go this way.

Dunno if it helps with the PS1 disc you've got but of the music CDs I have that have started to rot, some seem to exhibit a change in colour, looking gold/bronze-ish and/or have areas in the data layer that appear broken and disintegrated. If I shine a light from behind, I can see small areas of what I assume is the rot (holes where the metallic layer appears broken down). Most seem to have manufactured by PDO in the 90s.

I don't think it's rot but I've also had some DVDs become useless after the clear surface has become sticky in the case. I'm guessing it's some chemical reaction between the discs and the case they were sold in (one of those wider box-set ones that holds several discs).

I've not noticed it with game discs (yet).

Nice to see some Japanese Dreamcast games in the rack

I haven't checked my older console doscs for a long time, but the only CDs I noticed deteriorating horribly were some 3DO games where they had holes in the shiny layer.

Analog DLC 😅

I find it amazing that worked to be honest, there must be some not insignificant noise and interference in the chain

I saw that. Can’t work out if they were selling repros or emulators?

That seems to imply they were replicas, but I’ve seen nothing like that on sale. You always get adverts for companies selling cheap hardware with 20,000 roms pre-installed, with cheap looking PS5 pads, but never exact copies of any console.

They’d be advertised as original hardware from the 80s and 90s though so you’d never see an ad with ‘replica’ in it

SEGA are delisting a bunch of classic games on Dec 6th.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/71230/view/4459220334542848044?l=english

So if you don't own Crazy Taxi already, now is probably the time.

Is this black lable or green? There were recent reissues of FF9. Maybe those had some issues?

I only have disc rot on one game so far, Koudelka PAL. I managed with trial and error to get through that part of the disc with 20 crashes. Finished the game but its obviously not selleable or useable for a replay.

Another thing that seems to impact disc rot is sun rays on the disc/case or high humid conditions.