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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:01 pm

I was gonna ask about the labels Nintendonerd - did you print them for a template, or design them yourself? I need to get a set of stickers for my collection.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Nintendonerd69 » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:24 am

Corazon de Leon wrote:I was gonna ask about the labels Nintendonerd - did you print them for a template, or design them yourself? I need to get a set of stickers for my collection.


Hi Corazon, I decided the sets you could get from eBay were overpriced so I bought 20 sheets of sticky back paper, I think the original template was just googled and imported to gimp, after that I just googled the artwork for each game and used gimp to resize into the template, unfortunately I didn't save each sheet or I could have sent them, it does take some time though as each one needs to be cut out after they have printed.

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by Lagamorph » Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:30 am

I know it's incredibly immature but I crack up everytime someone talks about Gimp.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Squinty » Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:48 pm

Gimp <3

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by Ironhide » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:23 pm

Squinty wrote:Gimp <3


Paint.net > Gimp

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by Ironhide » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:23 pm

double post :fp:

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by Ironhide » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:23 pm

Triple post :fp: :fp: :fp:

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:47 pm

Had a rubbish day at work so popped into a few shops after for retail therapy, it was that or go nuts at a few people.
I grabbed a few bits in one of the pawn stores.
Killer instinct for SNES cart only for £4
WarioLand for Gameboy cart only £4
Shadowgate classic for gameboy color cart only £4
Pokemon gold for Gameboy cart only for £8
and then 5 gba carts for £5 Rayman hoodlums revenge, minority report, Charlie and the chocolate factory, treasure planet and Jimmy neutron vs Jimmy negatron.

Nothing Earth shattering but it made me feel better

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Squinty » Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:32 pm

Wario Land is strawberry floating awesome. That's a good haul.

Not sure what Paint.net is, but I'll take a look.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Green Gecko » Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:44 pm

I can print and machine cut stickers bespoke btw, not on vinyl but other permeable films (I do vinyl decals but can't print on vinyl, for that I need like 5 grand, I've already invested about 1.5 grand in this setup), I mean inkjet glossy, matte, transparent or white etc stickers like you buy in shops. All I need is a layout with a vector layer or other indication of what the cut line is, I do up to A3 sheets. The contour can be any shape whatsoever so they can fit the shape of the cart, whatever that is. I literally have an A3 printer just sitting around that desperately needs to do print jobs regularly or the print head will just die and I'll have to replace it (thankfully I have 3 year commercial warranty).

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Drumstick » Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:26 pm

Latest addition to the family, feat. some bananas.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:42 am

Had a thought the other day, I have my grandad's small vhs player up in the attic the heads are knackerd on it but we never threw it because it was his , well it has a old in socket and outputs in scart, I was thinking it would make a good pass through for old computers and consoles for my bedroom TV that doesn't have the old Port on it, thought this idea might help someone else as well.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by jawa4 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:05 am

Drumstick wrote:Latest addition to the family, feat. some bananas.

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Nice pickup, Drum - an essential classic for an N64 collection!

kerr9000 wrote:Had a thought the other day, I have my grandad's small vhs player up in the attic the heads are knackerd on it but we never threw it because it was his , well it has a old in socket and outputs in scart, I was thinking it would make a good pass through for old computers and consoles for my bedroom TV that doesn't have the old Port on it, thought this idea might help someone else as well.

Sounds neat, kerr, but just to check my understanding: you're using the video to enable the ability to connect up systems via, say, RF or s-video so that you can then use Scart output to a TV?

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Qikz » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:16 am

Ironhide wrote:
Squinty wrote:Gimp <3


Paint.net > Gimp


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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Cheeky Devlin » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:28 am

jawa4 wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Had a thought the other day, I have my grandad's small vhs player up in the attic the heads are knackerd on it but we never threw it because it was his , well it has a old in socket and outputs in scart, I was thinking it would make a good pass through for old computers and consoles for my bedroom TV that doesn't have the old Port on it, thought this idea might help someone else as well.

Sounds neat, kerr, but just to check my understanding: you're using the video to enable the ability to connect up systems via, say, RF or s-video so that you can then use Scart output to a TV?


Sounds like it.

It's a fairly common solution to getting an AV signal from non-AV systems.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:45 am

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
jawa4 wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Had a thought the other day, I have my grandad's small vhs player up in the attic the heads are knackerd on it but we never threw it because it was his , well it has a old in socket and outputs in scart, I was thinking it would make a good pass through for old computers and consoles for my bedroom TV that doesn't have the old Port on it, thought this idea might help someone else as well.

Sounds neat, kerr, but just to check my understanding: you're using the video to enable the ability to connect up systems via, say, RF or s-video so that you can then use Scart output to a TV?


Sounds like it.

It's a fairly common solution to getting an AV signal from non-AV systems.


Yep that's what I'm thinking, didn't realise it was common but I suppose if it just came into my head the same thing must have drifted into other people's brain boxes.

I got Extreme G2 cart only for N64 today for £3 , it's ok, it's no Fzero though.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Corazon de Leon » Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:01 pm

The Extreme G series was absolutely fine but it really was unfortunate to have to compete with the majesty of F-Zero X and GX. Still the best future-themed racing games I've ever played. :wub:

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Ironhide » Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:14 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:The Extreme G series was absolutely fine but it really was unfortunate to have to compete with the majesty of F-Zero X and GX. Still the best future-themed racing games I've ever played. :wub:


Xtreme G 3 was the best future racer on the PS2, seeing how utterly crap Wipeout Fusion was.

Wish the genre would make a comeback, there's nothing wrong with serious driving sims but it'd nice to see more arcade-y racers that aren't made by tiny indie developers.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Corazon de Leon » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:58 pm

In my sadness I’ve done a quick sweep to see how many black-border N64 PAL boxes I can find and I’m on 39. All published by Nintendo, but not all Nintendo published games have the borders - Majora’s Mask, all four Pokemon games, Banjo Tooie and Perfect Dark are all exceptions. I’ll post the list when I get home - if anyone knows of any others please let me know.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:50 pm

Grabbed a few bits and pieces today nothing earth shattering but it makes me smile.

V-Rally 99 for N64 cart only for £2.50
Alone in the Dark the new nightmare cart only for GBC for £2.50
Championship Motorcross 2001 cart only for GBC for £2.50
GT3 Advance + Moto GP on one cart , cart only for GBA for £2.50
Escape from Monkey Island complete for PS2 for 50pence
Final Fantasy XII complete for PS2 for 50pence


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