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[RevPokemon]

I just have one question, does anyone here think super man can get one good game based off of him?

His role in Lego Batman 2 is GOAT

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

His role in Lego Batman 2 is GOAT

"LEGO BATMAN 2" is not a superman game
A SUPERMAN game is Superman "64"
Why?

1. His name is in the title.
2. Is all about him
3. The only playable (or one of the main cast of playable) characters
4. You know if you see superman on the title not to buy the game.

 

[Jayro]

Bought a Graph-Link USB cable for my TI calculators from eBay.

I collect them cheap from Goodwill stores, anywhere between $10 and $20 each. I have an 82, an 83, an 83 Plus, and an 89 so far. Still need the 84 Plus variants, and the 85/86 models. I don't care for the 92+ models, as they don't travel well in the pockets.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Texas-Instruments-TI-Graph-Link-USB-Cable-I-0603B-/172191271318?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Just how advance has calculators gotten that they use usb conntections? O_O

 

[Jayro]

Just how advance has calculators gotten that they use usb conntections? O_O

It's just to put software and games onto them. Been this way since the 90's when the TI-82 came out. But the first Graph-Link cables used a 25-pin parallel port, not USB, and are grey. Then came a black serial port model. Now we've had USB for a long time, which is silver/clear.

The 84 Plus variants all have USB OTG now directly.

 

[migles]

Bad week for my junk collection really, however accepting that my destiny is to become a hoarder I say yes when people ask me if I want their old stuff.
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+box and leads and everything, does output to a TV as well.
Sadly the folks at hitachi did not envision a time in which anybody would want to record to SD card so only stills can be taken with that and I would have to feed it miniDVDs to record video (less than 20 minutes of 480 vertical, though it does do 16:9, at a hit). Amusingly it does have a manual focus as well, digital rather than ring but still has it. Along with that also came a box of writeable mini DVDs (some have cases in that, it otherwise has some nice paper label ones stuffed in there). Might be time to chip a gamecube.
To sample the full glory of the image quality I thought I would swap cameras, even busted out the monopod for this one.
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funny, i remember the "show your junk in table" thread that i created, and i could see how you where one of those guys which the house looks like a garage, full of old tech and cool stuff but obsolente, like several VCR, a very good old sound stereo probably from sony like this one, old computer running windows 95 or even DOS, a box full of walkie talkies, a box full of broken radios etc...

 

[FAST6191]

Have you been hacking my webcam? In most of the shots I have done of this you would not see it but that is a fairly accurate description of the area you would not see, though the only old machine you see there runs XP as it is my video capture machine, the one in front of it the video editing machine.

Also it is not that my place looks like a garage, just that a lot of garages look like my place. It is not a bad thing.

Oh and so as to get it a tiny bit on topic. Got a fairly fancy scart switcher from a box of junk as it seems most modern TVs decided to do away with having 5 scart ports and 1 is not enough, and I certainly don't want to have to put a VCR in the chain. Also found some supposed diamond plate sharpening things for next to nothing (£2.99 for 2) but have not tried them out yet.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Have you been hacking my webcam? In most of the shots I have done of this you would not see it but that is a fairly accurate description of the area you would not see, though the only old machine you see there runs XP as it is my video capture machine, the one in front of it the video editing machine.
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Also it is not that my place looks like a garage, just that a lot of garages look like my place. It is not a bad thing.

Oh and so as to get it a tiny bit on topic. Got a fairly fancy scart switcher from a box of junk as it seems most modern TVs decided to do away with having 5 scart ports and 1 is not enough, and I certainly don't want to have to put a VCR in the chain. Also found some supposed diamond plate sharpening things for next to nothing (£2.99 for 2) but have not tried them out yet.

Is that a real dual audio casette player? I haven't seen that in like forever. I have one with twin microphones you can record voices and such, i used to record cartoon voices and music so i can hear my favorite part anytime. Except i dunno if they still make or sell audio tapes.

 

[FAST6191]

No, only cassette deck I had I gave to a friend which still has lots of tapes, at least after I digitised a few things that were not available in other forms. The thing at the bottom is an amp, the green things are drawers, above that is a VCR and the top thing is a radio receiver (only thing I have which does long wave).
Relevant as of the tape discussion

 

[Akira]

I just bought a brand new 32GB WiiU(Mario Kart8 and Splatoon Edition) with a free Call of Duty game and a two brand new PAL New 3DS XL Hyrule Gold Edition with chargers from a guy who sold it to me for $560

 

[driverdis]

I got a GTX 970 for $180 used and am waiting for it to ship to me. I am going to SLi it with my other GTX 970 so I can run games better with NVidia's DSR setting. I am hoping to run Overwatch at 1920x1080 with 200% render scale also.

 

[alirezay]

ordered these. such an underrated system. I freakin love my wii u.

 

[Shadowfied]

I put a bid on this auction for the luls, expected someone to overbid but didn't happen. Not that I didn't want it, it's an American one, which I've actually been looking for
Guy who sold it also included 2 RCA (1 that also has S-video) cables, 1x YPbPr component cable, 1x Scart, which is nice cause I wanted more Nintendo AV cables. Also that's probably the biggest fucking power brick I've ever seen..
First controller port looks a little borked but works perfectly fine, and the controller is in great condition too
@FAST6191 Is there any way I can get color from NTSC on a PAL CRT?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I put a bid on this auction for the luls, expected someone to overbid but didn't happen. Not that I didn't want it, it's an American one, which I've actually been looking for
Guy who sold it also included 2 RCA (1 that also has S-video) cables, 1x YPbPr component cable, 1x Scart, which is nice cause I wanted more Nintendo AV cables. Also that's probably the biggest fucking power brick I've ever seen..
First controller port looks a little borked but works perfectly fine, and the controller is in great condition too

For some reason that game reminds me of persona and shin megami tensei... But is called trauma center. So is a wii doctor simulator? Is that game hard? Using wii mote is hard enough but now you're a doctor doing it with wii mote? So confusing! O_O

Surgeon simulator wii edition.

Oh snap wave race 64? Man nintendo should have more of those games!

. such an underrated system. I freakin love my wii

Captian toad treasure tracker.... They made a actual game based of a mini game of another mario game? What gives? Is it really that fun? Why not just make it a download game or content add on, or 3DS port.

I already found it strange is a puzzle game where toad doesn't jump and collect coins on a small screen. Nintendo can do better than spin off title games like Super luigi u and Captain toad that one starfox defense game.

 

[Armadillo]

@FAST6191 Is there any way I can get color from NTSC on a PAL CRT?

Nice, NTSC 64 ftw.

As for the colour issue. 64 doesn't support rgb out the box , so no quick fix there. Your options for colour from it are:

RGB mod it (you should do this anyway).
Go find a crt that supports NTSC colour encoding. Shouldn't be too hard to find one in EU.
Buy one of the many NTSC->PAL colour conversion boxes. There are lots out there and unfortunately lots/most of them are shit.

I'd go with the first option. RGB mod it and just use RGB scart. Best picture and will get you colour on any tv that supports 60Hz and has rgb (which is most EU tvs).

 

[Shadowfied]

Nice, NTSC 64 ftw.

As for the colour issue. 64 doesn't support rgb out the box , so no quick fix there. Your options for colour from it are:

RGB mod it (you should do this anyway).
Go find a crt that supports NTSC colour encoding. Shouldn't be too hard to find one in EU.
Buy one of the many NTSC->PAL colour conversion boxes. There are lots out there and unfortunately lots/most of them are shit.

I'd go with the first option. RGB mod it and just use RGB scart. Best picture and will get you colour on any tv that supports 60Hz and has rgb (which is most EU tvs).

Thank you
How hard is a RGB mod? I'm quite confident in my soldering skills.

 

[Armadillo]

Thank you
How hard is a RGB mod? I'm quite confident in my soldering skills.

Depends on the model.

Early NTSC models that have the VDC-NUS encoder, very easy. THS7314 amp and some resistors.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/ntsc-nintendo-64-rgb/

Other than that, you just have to decide how your scart cable will be wired for sync (luma, csync or composite). NUS-CPU-04 motherboard revision still has the VDC-NUS encoder, but needs csync to be rebuilt if you want to use that. The difference between where sync is taken from, is just an arguement over picture quality and a "hatching" effect that can show up on some enquipment. Generally for a pal tv with native rgb, composite sync is fine, while luma or csync seems prefered for scalers. Some tvs can show the hatching effect though, so I would probably go with sync from luma or csync. If you've already got an rgb scart cable, unless specified otherwise, it's probably taking sync from composite, so you can always just try it, if no hatching stick with it, if not, get a cable that uses luma or csync.

Anyway, back to the actual mod.

If you don't have a revision with VDC-NUS encoder, then it's a little more effort and expense, but can still be done. It's dac replacement time

You will need this

http://etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?crn=209

and instructions

http://etim.net.au/n64rgb/instructions-new/

There is an earlier revision of that (still works fine), that can be programmed and built yourself.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/n64rgb/n64rgb.html

If you don't want to open and check, this guide here will give you an idea of what encoder you

http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27684

Ignore any info that says "only X models can be done". All can be done with the replacement dac method, just a lot of pages are out of date or just ignore the replacement dac method because "it's too hard" or other nonsense.

 

[Shadowfied]

Depends on the model.

Early NTSC models that have the VDC-NUS encoder, very easy. THS7314 amp and some resistors.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/ntsc-nintendo-64-rgb/

Other than that, you just have to decide how your scart cable will be wired for sync (luma, csync or composite). NUS-CPU-04 motherboard revision still has the VDC-NUS encoder, but needs csync to be rebuilt if you want to use that. The difference between where sync is taken from, is just an arguement over picture quality and a "hatching" effect that can show up on some enquipment. Generally for a pal tv with native rgb, composite sync is fine, while luma or csync seems prefered for scalers. Some tvs can show the hatching effect though, so I would probably go with sync from luma or csync. If you've already got an rgb scart cable, unless specified otherwise, it's probably taking sync from composite, so you can always just try it, if no hatching stick with it, if not, get a cable that uses luma or csync.

Anyway, back to the actual mod.

If you don't have a revision with VDC-NUS encoder, then it's a little more effort and expense, but can still be done. It's dac replacement time

You will need this

http://etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?crn=209

and instructions

http://etim.net.au/n64rgb/instructions-new/

There is an earlier revision of that (still works fine), that can be programmed and built yourself.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/n64rgb/n64rgb.html

If you don't want to open and check, this guide here will give you an idea of what encoder you

http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27684

Ignore any info that says "only X models can be done". All can be done with the replacement dac method, just a lot of pages are out of date or just ignore the replacement dac method because "it's too hard" or other nonsense.

Huge thanks!
If I can do the first thing I'll do it without a doubt. I'll look into it tomorrow and update you Thank you! <3

 

[alirezay]

For some reason that game reminds me of persona and shin megami tensei... But is called trauma center. So is a wii doctor simulator? Is that game hard? Using wii mote is hard enough but now you're a doctor doing it with wii mote? So confusing! O_O

Surgeon simulator wii edition.

Oh snap wave race 64? Man nintendo should have more of those games!

Captian toad treasure tracker.... They made a actual game based of a mini game of another mario game? What gives? Is it really that fun? Why not just make it a download game or content add on, or 3DS port.

I already found it strange is a puzzle game where toad doesn't jump and collect coins on a small screen. Nintendo can do better than spin off title games like Super luigi u and Captain toad that one starfox defense game.

I can see why you are saying that.....but honestly you can find the game very cheap plus it has so many levels and the graphics are just like a pixar animation.
Its worth it you gonna love it. I usually try games on loadiine then i buy them if i like the game and i seriously loved captain toad!

 

[Armadillo]

@Shadowfied

Did you try with the Scart cable labled "Mt-8888"? I've not seen one like that before, so it grabbed my interest and on looking, according to this page https://playoffline.wordpress.com/cable/ultra64/, it converts the S-video of an NTSC 64 to RGB. Of course not as good as true RGB from the source, but should get around any colour encoding issues. There's not much info on that cable and I had to use google translate, so it could be a bad translate or bad info and is just S-video over Scart (scart can deliver S-video).

It does have what may be a video encoder inside (can't make out the full markings), so if it does as the page says, it should give you colour without modding (although true rgb would still be better), unless it's broken or your scart socket is not wired for RGB. Appears to be produced by Blaze and making a cable like that (converting the highest quality signal an unmodded console can output) to RGB would make sense to get around colour encoding issues without modding. I'm not even sure if the RGB mod was even available when the console was new, some form of the cheaper method may have been, but the replacement DAC certainly was not, so producing a cable like that for imported consoles, would have been a good move.