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by The Doom Spoon » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:26 pm

Green Gecko wrote:I was bored/depressed so made a giant gamecube logo

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That looks amazing! I would put some LEDs behind it and have it as a floating wall hanging with ambient lighting. :wub:

Would look perfect in my soon to be Gamecube-tastic games room! :toot:

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by Trelliz » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:36 pm

Put a little speaker behind it and hook it up to the light switch so whenever you turn the lights on it plays the GC boot up sound.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by The Doom Spoon » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:40 pm

Trelliz wrote:Put a little speaker behind it and hook it up to the light switch so whenever you turn the lights on it plays the GC boot up sound.


YES! :toot:

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by Corazon de Leon » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:58 pm

The Doom Spoon wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I was bored/depressed so made a giant gamecube logo

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That looks amazing! I would put some LEDs behind it and have it as a floating wall hanging with ambient lighting. :wub:

Would look perfect in my soon to be Gamecube-tastic games room! :toot:


I've got a neon GameCube light(Japanese plug) if you want it...

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Jazzem » Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:13 pm

Oh my that's lovely, wonderful work Gecko :toot: And double Yes on it playing startup jingle w/light switch!

Amusingly, the GC intro sequence went into meme territory a while back, the kind of meme I actually don't mind as folks get creative with the gags. My personal favourite:



(try and avoid seeing title so as to not ruin punchline)

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Green Gecko » Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:56 pm

I could probably do all that with arduino etc. but unless I reduce it down afterward it's gonna cost like £40 :dread:

I might put some LED strip behind it.. hadn't thought of doing on standoffs like that. Should be able to splice into 6 segments, solder leads beteen and hook up to an inverter somewhere.

Although it's translucent so the diffusion wouldn't be great (you'd get heatspots).

May as well just make a full lightbox. If I had a bandsaw that would be a lot easier but I could mill a small one.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Ironhide » Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:00 pm

I have an LED wall light (from IKEA) that basically looks like a lightbox, could be tempted to stick something like that GC logo on it.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Green Gecko » Sun Oct 07, 2018 3:58 am

I'd do it very reasonably on an acrylic like that, the trick will be finding a good transparent contact adhesive or tape.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:51 pm

grabbed two psp games today for £3 complete Modnation racers and everybodys golf 2

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by jawafour » Sun Oct 07, 2018 3:14 pm

kerr9000 wrote:grabbed two psp games today for £3 complete Modnation racers and everybodys golf 2

kerr, dude, it seems that you pick up quite a lot of retro games... which is cool, and we'd love to invite you to consider popping a pic or two in the Retro Club Weekender thread if you wanted to :-).

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Oct 07, 2018 3:21 pm

jawafour wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:grabbed two psp games today for £3 complete Modnation racers and everybodys golf 2

kerr, dude, it seems that you pick up quite a lot of retro games... which is cool, and we'd love to invite you to consider popping a pic or two in the Retro Club Weekender thread if you wanted to :-).



Once I can work out how to post instergram pics I will do it :)

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Sandy » Sun Oct 07, 2018 3:37 pm

Upload them to a free image hosting website that isn't hidden behind logins :)

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Ironhide » Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:28 pm

kerr9000 wrote:grabbed two psp games today for £3 complete Modnation racers and everybodys golf 2


EG2 is superb, definitely one of my favourite PSP games.

Such an overlooked system (in Europe and the US at least).

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:51 pm

Yeah I have to agree I absolutely love the PSP

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:04 pm

Today I got a complete Japanese copy of Ghost Busters for the megadrive for £10.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Kriken » Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:51 am

Recently got a ps3 so picked up a few cheap PS3 games that looked alright when I saw them yesterday. Heavy Rain, Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3 for two quid each. Also got Metal Gear Solid 4 for that much not too long ago. Probably ones for the backlog since I want to play earlier entries first but I might play Heavy Rain soon-ish.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Dig Dug » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:31 pm

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The kind of content found in the pages of Official Nintendo Magazine back in 2005.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Green Gecko » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:50 pm

This is why I do my part to preserve quality journalism.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Kriken » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:52 pm

I think I had that issue. 12 year old me loved that NOM era and for quite a while afterwards I'd talk about how that old magazine was better, but then again I'd read any Nintendo publication back then and grew an attachment to it through regular reading. (Looking back - not just at this page but others I've seen - it's not as great as I remembered lol)

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Green Gecko » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:59 pm

I still think there's a degree of maturity in the writing mixed with zaniness that makes NGC the ultimate magazine, I have it all in my living room.

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