Recent Retro & Bootsale items - Last bootsales of the year!

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PostRe: Bootsale Bargains!
by Spindash » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:07 pm

Anyone in the north west (of England, obv) should investigate Victor Wright Electronics in Bury. It's "arranged" like a bomb went off in the store room but there's loads there for all formats. Well worth a visit.

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PostRe: Bootsale Bargains!
by Catheter Rising » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:45 pm

Sounds a bit like X-electrical in Croydon.

Well worth a look if you're ever in the area.

(Pro-tip - avoid Croydon)

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PostRe: Bootsale Bargains!
by Joer » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:52 pm

I bought The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Gamecube) for £2.50 at a bootsale once. Still not played it so it's probably broken or some gooseberry fool for me to have gotten it at that price!

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:47 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

Christmas Nights JAP £2.99 and currently bidding on a 3D pad including sega rally plus JAP.

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by Pattybean » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:54 pm

Had a splurge of stuff recently just buying bits and bobs at the moment:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

Sega Saturn SEGA SPORTS DECATHLETE £4.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

Zelda Link To The Past SNES Game JAP Boxed Famicom £26.50

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

Nintendo Super Famicom boxed £55

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

SEGA SATURN * DAYTONA USA * JAPAN £4.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

sega master system console and games £7.20

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

BLAST CORPS for NINTENDO 64 N64 COMPLETE £15.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

Nec TURBO GRAFX 16 CONSOLE - BRAND NEW - TG16 pc engine £44.95

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

NiGHTS into dreams... £10

My bank rang me this morning to see if my card had been stolen due to the influx of purchases!

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by Lagamorph » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:31 am

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BLAST CORPS for NINTENDO 64 N64 COMPLETE £15.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

NiGHTS into dreams... £10

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by Pattybean » Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:19 pm

Been to the Redcar Racecourse today picked up some new bits and bobs:

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Timesplitters - £1
Tetris - £2
Ready to Rumble - £2
40 winks (no instructions) - £1
Castle of Illusion - £5
Alex Kidd - £6
Time Crisis + GCON45 - £5
Xbox and all wires/controllers + San Andreas - £11

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by Pattybean » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:29 pm

This weeks new stuff from redcar racecourse and sedgefield booty:

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Ratchet and Clank: £1
Atari 600XL: £3
Lion King, Krustys Funhouse and Virtua Fighter 2: £2 each
10 PSone games: £5
5 Dreamcast games: £4
2 Master System Controllers £4

Not Pictured - Metroid Fusion no box/instructions £3 and GBA Super Puzzle Fighter £3 again no box/instructions

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by Lagamorph » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:29 pm

Insert 10p to continue wrote:This weeks new stuff from redcar racecourse and sedgefield booty:

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Ratchet and Clank: £1
Atari 600XL: £3
Lion King, Krustys Funhouse and Virtua Fighter 2: £2 each
10 PSone games: £5
5 Dreamcast games: £4
2 Master System Controllers £4

Not Pictured - Metroid Fusion no box/instructions £3 and GBA Super Puzzle Fighter £3 again no box/instructions

....Why do you need 2 copies of Sonic Adventure....?

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:51 pm

Haha I bought the first one for a quid then I was walking round and saw someone selling 4 DC games including sonic adventure for £3 which was alright because the one I bought for £1 didn't have instructions.

Im not a raving sonic fanboy lol

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Jazzem » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:15 am

Weirdly I'm envious of the Master System controllers, they're quite uncommon and pricey for what they are on ebay. You need them to play certain SMS games though, annoying as the Mega Drive controller works for the vast majority!

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by Christopher » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:04 pm

I need a Super Famicom guys, point me in the right direction.

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:29 pm

Jazzem wrote:Weirdly I'm envious of the Master System controllers, they're quite uncommon and pricey for what they are on ebay. You need them to play certain SMS games though, annoying as the Mega Drive controller works for the vast majority!


I can get more master system controllers at £2 from this guy whos at the boot sale every week just let me know if you want me to pick some up for you and ill send em down to you as long as you cover the postage shouldn't be more than £5 for 2 controllers and P&P.

As for the SFC Suzz I think I was quite lucky to get mine from eBay for £45 boxed but it was missing a actual famicom controller it was just a SNES one but I managed to grab a SFC one for 1p with £7 postage.

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Gonna pick up Tetris Battle Gaiden soon, saw it unboxed for something like £4. Best version of Tetris ever.

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by Jazzem » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:19 pm

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Jazzem wrote:Weirdly I'm envious of the Master System controllers, they're quite uncommon and pricey for what they are on ebay. You need them to play certain SMS games though, annoying as the Mega Drive controller works for the vast majority!


I can get more master system controllers at £2 from this guy whos at the boot sale every week just let me know if you want me to pick some up for you and ill send em down to you as long as you cover the postage shouldn't be more than £5 for 2 controllers and P&P


Yeah sure, I'd much appreciate that :) If you could grab two for me that'd be great, paypal okay for payment?

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:34 pm

Yeah sure matey Ill message you the details after I have been on Sunday.

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:35 pm

Woop new package waiting for me when I got home tonight

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Not bad for £35 quid I'd say, the boxed games are complete with instructions too. Space Station Silicon Valley :wub:

Also its NTSC and has had the flaps taken out to run jap games, which also leads to the potential of having the console RGB modified for greater picture.

Only thing is the joypad is battered so that will need to be replaced but I do have some 3rd party replacement thumbsticks on the way.

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Jazzem » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:44 am

Nice one on getting an NTSC unit, I want to get an American NES/N64 down the line. Especially good for the N64 as I understand you can't get anything better than composite on it. Old 3D games look bad enough as it is on a HDTV!

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:09 am

Jazz thats not strictly true, I posted this in the N64 picture thread:

I just bought a N64 off ebay (ntsc/jap) and the supplied component lead to a very poor picture practically unplayable. Heavily saturated colours and so bright the castle in mario 64 was impossible to make out each section. I was about to send it back as I thought it was faulty but I thought to myself since some one has taken the time to convert the machine to play jap games they might of also done the RGB mod too with it been a US machine so I took a gamble and ordered a £4.50 RGB cable to see if this sorted the problem.

strawberry float me is all I can say! absolutely stunning picture crystal clear and running full screen and full speed. I have only played PAL nintendo 64 before and even then that was some time ago but even now I can tell the difference in speed and its like playing the games again for the first time.

To sum this up, yeah you can RGB mod a N64 but it has to be a early US or Jap model but it does work and it is worth the effort.


looks alright on a HDTV:

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Composite cable

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Thats with RGB

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by Pattybean » Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:04 pm

Today's purchases:

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PSone games: 50p each

GBA: Fire emblem and Street Fighter Alpha 3 - £2.50 each

and a master system controller for jazz £2

bit of a naff day today, although one guy is bringing me a sega saturn unboxed PAL for £15 next week.

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PostRe: Recently purchased Retro items including Bootsale Bargai
by IGM » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:58 am

I got Red Faction 2 and Star Wars: Rogue something Rebel Strike for gamecube for a quid each at a church nearly-new the other day*. Not played them yet but has to be a good deal, yeah?



*about 6 months ago but I just found them again yesterday under the telly.

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