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  1. socrates63's gaming collection and setup

    in Video Game Room Tours

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    2 minutes ago, socrates63 said:

    Yes, I noticed some warp and color distortion -- nice funky colors that went well with the pink/magenta sky 🙂 I moved the speakers slightly and that helped. I also put rubber/cork pads under the speakers and they lift up the speakers an inch, and that has solved the issue. There's also a chance that the piano in the room gets moved to a different part of the house, and that'd allow for me to move everything, so speakers aren't on top of the TV, and that'd be the optimal solution. This corner space is a bit small especially for a 27" TV. 

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    You have a piano in the game room too? Do you play?

    I took lessons once but could never do well at it. My sister loves the thing though. I find the guitar is much better for me.

  11. Watching Christmas Specials

    in Television & Movies

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    Leave it to the Rudolph special to make Santa seem like a real ass!

    I vaguely remember watching a Pac-Man Christmas special when I was younger. Pac-Man and all of his Pac-family didn’t know anything about Christmas until Santa crash-landed in their world and taught them about what Christmas was. This special was part of the old Hannah-Barbara cartoon from the eighties. Anyone remember this?

  17. Pie Factory Podcast

    in Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by HDN

    I have yet to listen to Pie Factory. I enjoy listening to @dauber on the 7800 Homebrew Podcast, so why I haven’t tried this one out is a mystery. I will give this a listen soon while waiting for the next episode of 2600 GBG, and maybe even send in feedback for next time.

    What are the next games, and where do I send in feedback?

  19. socrates63's gaming collection and setup

    in Video Game Room Tours

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    Funny that you mention the TG-16. I am not very well acquainted with the machine at all. Yesterday, while working on hacking Zerobeat’s Wii, I decided to load up a multi-system emulator on my own Wii U as well. Now I can play TG-16 games for the first time, as well as Lynx, Virtual Boy, and more. Anyone have any good games recommendations? I picked up a few ROMs from past squad challenges here, about four or five total.

    And that console looks very cool, @socrates63. It’s ridiculously tiny! 

  20. Squad Challenge - 2020 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge (Super Nintendo)

    in High Score Squad

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    2 hours ago, Sabertooth said:

    2' 40"72.

    First game via emulation. I don't think I've played this since the early 90s on my cousin's SNES (Pronounced S-N-E-S, never "Snez"). 😂

    This is a fairly technical track. A lot of fun! It will be a challenge to shave of 15 seconds and catch @HDN!

     

     

     

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    I’ve always alternated between what I called it. Mostly, I’ll just say “sness”, “Super Nintendo”, or “Esseniess”.

    1 hour ago, Sabertooth said:

    2' 35"11

    Last one for the day. What car is everyone using? I've gone through them all. This was with the "Fire Stingray."

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    Same here. The Fire Stingray is the best car by far. Keep up the good work!

  21. Scored a free "broken" Wii

    in Nintendo

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    19 minutes ago, RickR said:

    I have not.  Sounds pretty neat.  However I'm more interested in how your ripped Wii discs onto a USB drive and then get them to load on a modded wii.

    Fun fact: Since my birthday in 2011 when I got my Wii, I have gotten only two more physical Wii discs. One was Deadrising, which was for my dad to play at the time, and I still haven't played it because it doesn't look fun. The other was Puzzle Challenge, which I got for free at a garage sale.

    Back in the day, we would go to Family Video (our local video store which lasted a surprisingly long time until it closed a few Atari Days ago) and rent some games for the Wiikend (see what I did there?). Then what we would do was put the game in the system, load up a program called Configurable USB Loader, and then select the option to rip the disc to the hard drive. Don't tell Nintendo!

    It is much, much easier to rip discs to the Wii than to find usable disc images online. At least for me, I couldn't find any good sites. So for this project I copied the games from my hard drive (I had to pick and choose because of limited space) using another program called WiiBackupManager.

    If you're interested, check out the GBATemp forums. It is a very good resource.

  22. Scored a free "broken" Wii

    in Nintendo

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    31 minutes ago, RickR said:

    No.  Fixing the drive is most likely not possible.  Replacement is.  Replacement drives on ebay are about $20 shipped.  IMO it's not worth the effort.  Just use them as modded emulation stations as you've done.

     

    That makes a lot of sense. You could also set up USB loaders if you want so you can play Wii games.

    Have you heard of this program called Nintendont (for some reason spelled without the apostrophe)? What it does is that it will unlock GameCube functionality for later-revision Wiis and Wii Us. It will even emulate memory cards and let you use either standard Wii controllers (like the Classic Controller or Wii Mote and Nunchuck) or use the Nintendo USB GameCube controller adapter. These newer Wii machines still can't read the discs, so you'll need to either rip the original discs to a USB device or SD card using an older-revision Wii or add some disc images online. It's a very neat program and worth looking into.

  23. Scored a free "broken" Wii

    in Nintendo

    Posted

    I’m currently softmodding @Zerobeat2004’s Wii, as I previously mentioned. Turns out the system has a bad disc drive as well! This seems to be common as I see this stuff everywhere. I asked him about it, and he says that he hasn’t been able to properly play games on it for a couple of years now. I added a few USB loaders, so now he won’t have to worry about that good-for-nothing drive. I have to use my personal Vader-Wii (whose drive functions) to rip the game disks to flash drives, and then hook up the other Wii and plug the drives in. It’s cumbersome, but as always I’m having a lot of fun softmodding something again.

    Anyways, that reminded me of this old post. @RickR— did you ever get that drive fixed? Just a little curious, don’t mind me!

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