Most liked posts in thread: What's new Pussycat too?

In the meantime lads... live from the Kings Theatre Glasgow....

 

SHOWADDYWADDY... STILL, going strong, Al.

Who were the backing band, Mud? Rubettes? Krankies?!!

I'm only jealous - I love 70s rock n roll, me.

 

50th Anniversary tour Andy. And they still have the same original drummer!

 

Brilliant, mate. Absolutely incredible. All I wanna know is... will Swifty Tail still be rocking n rolling in 2074?
In fact, will anyone if Trump/Biden/Putin carry on

 

Lovely lot there, Al.

Fingers crossed that that disk contains the "long lost lists" indeed of your ST formative years, mate...

Keep us updated, pal.

 

How much of Showaddywaddy is original members?

As for Best Electronics, be warned, Bradley, the owner, is a bit of a Marmite guy. He can be right helpful one day and starts complaining about what and how many you are ordering from him. Met him once a long time ago, he came over from the states for the PCW show, tried to get a free catalogue off him, but he wasn't having any of that

Also, the last time I heard, he had a minimum order limit of 20 dollars (I think), probably more now.

Lastly, be grateful Chris linked you direct to the ribbons, Brads site is just a MESS, and he refuses to bring it into this century

 

The only original member now is the drummer, been with the band since they started in 1974.
BEST's website is an absolute riot and I've heard of Brad's 'unique' sales technique.

 

Still not had a chance to try the usb drive with any of the emulators but I will eventually. In the meantime found an old disk catalogue of mine for the Amiga in amongst a pile of Workbench discs so that give me something extra to aim for!

 

It's great isn't it Richie? Cracking price as well. Very chuffed with mine, loading times are crazy good!

Any particular Saturn favourites?

 

I used to have the Video CD card for my Saturn back then but they cost a fortune to pick one up nowadays. That's one thing the Playstation does better, playback of FMV is a lot better. The Saturn wipes the floor with the PS1 when it comes to 2D games like X-Men vs Street Fighter. After I bought the last couple of Saturn games released in the UK, House of the Dead and Deep Fear, it was a bit of a gap until I bought a Dreamcast as soon as it came out. I think I paid £400 in 1998 for a Japanese import Dreamcast. I was so keen to get one I couldn't wait for the UK model. Trying to work out what people were saying in Sonic Adventure
The Saturn was my favourite 32 Bit console even though it didn't do as well as I would have liked.

 

You should give it a go under emulation bud. I know physical kit and games these days are getting on for silly money for some games. Deep Fear for example is I think, the last game released for the UK Saturn and didn't get a big release. I bought it at the time but I traded my copy in back in the late 90's ( it's a bit like my mum selling my original vinyl caped Jawa for a Fiver! ) so on Ebay it's on for £400. Is it worth that? absolutely not. The voice acting is abysmal, the cut scenes aren't very good but the idea and game itself are good though. It's Resident Evil meets The Abyss, set on an undersea base infected by a virus brought from outer space.

 

I really like the Saturn emulator on the PC (Mednafen) but much prefer using the real console on a CRT with the Saroo cart. I got a great deal on a Japanese Saturn a couple of months ago when I heard about the Saroo

McRae is good although I'm more of an arcade racer, think Sega Rally. Auto Modellista is a belter of a title if you get the chance to play it Richie. The graphics really are something else. I'd like to add the original boxed version to my PS2 collection but it can be quite expensive nowadays so until I come across a cheap copy it will be the iso image on the Playstation 2 instead

 

I was looking at Gran Turismo 7 on the PS5 yesterday (video of it) and it looked AMAZING, and it was VR-2, but at 350 - 529 for the VR headset, it's way way out of my range, even as a pay in 3 it's beyond what I can afford. But it still looked stunning. Normally, I am not overly fond of management style games where customizing is a huge part of it, this I liked. Will snag a look at the Auto Mod game. Like you guys, I just look and laugh at game prices now, as Richie says, it might be rare, but the game can be a real crap fest, yet some nutter wants a gazillion quid for it. It only takes one mug, sorry, buyer to pay the huge price and the trend sticks.

 

Nice Dreamcast set up oop for grabs in Hull, fellas.
No idea if this is good value or the guy's going for top dollar but you seem to get quite a bang for yer buck:

Dreamcast with games and accessories
£200






https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

 

I do like Zelda - Wind Waker, I have the GameCube original and the Wii U HD remake.I also have Madworld for the Wii. I don't have Okami on the Wii but I do have in on the Switch. I am thinking it was called Red Steel. You had a samurai sword ( Wii remote ) and pistol ( Nunchuck ) I think it was by Ubisoft.
Prices for Dreamcast's vary a lot these days but I think Shenmue 1 & 2 can be expensive. I would like one in the future but not just yet.

 

Go for it Al, XIII is just different enough to make it catch the eye. I think it was on one of the XBOX's when I played it..Good fun..

 

Yup, sounds like Red Steel.

I have Wind Waker on the GC, brought it the second it landed. Same with the Metroid games on the GC, hell, got a US import of Prime, well that and an Action Replay to play it via. We had just got back from Orlando and they had a playable demo in the now gone HUGE toyshop on International Drive. I was in love, Cindy offered to buy a US Gamecube and the game, but I thought I would get hassle from customs, so got back and got it from an import shop. One nice Zelda thing we have is the Zelda big old art book. Not cheap, but it was when Serena was in Hospital. Lovely book as well.

Although I own a Wii I normally just play them on Dolphin, nice that you can use a Mayflash optical board (just the IR board from the real Wii but usb) with your real Wiimote and nunchuck. Also paired up a PS4 controller (with drivers) to use on the PS3 emu, Resistance 3 has parts where you turn the controller like you are driving, to unlock barriers.

Great fun...

 

Oops, I did it again
A couple of new to me additions to the cave on the console front today. I'll try and post some pictures up if I get a chance tomorrow night. In the meantime, guesses on the back of a postcard. Anyone who guesses correct gets our version of the Golden Joystick. It's called the Golden Joyshite and has been kindly donated by Paul as he couldn't manage to flush away his latest monster

 

Oddly, I sold those but never tried one out (slightly lapse in recommending a product you have not used). Loved Ridge Racer, used to got to a rival shop to play on their import version of Ridge Racer, we could not have those as an official supplier.

If you want a real retro printer that was all over the place at the time, get an Epson FX-80, the one with the graf-trax chips in. That my not be the correct spelling. I didn't know anyone who had a different printer, apart from the Atari own brand..

 

Came home from work today to find that the DDI-5 for my Amstrad had finally arrived. Left on the doorstep by lovely Mr Postman....





For those of you who might not know it's a Gotek floppy drive replacment for the 464 that also comes with Parados and a built in 512k ram expansion. Had it up and running after a couple of minutes, and my oh my some of those Amstrad games are lovely looking on original hardware with the colour monitor. I'm still thinking about selling the kit, but playing stuff like Arkanoid Revenge of Doh and Pinball Fantasies on this makes it a difficult decision.

 

HANG ON TO YOUR VALUABLES, AL!
Tis a beauty the old 464 and doesn't it play Pinball Fantasies as well as a 16bitter?
Lovely bit of kit you've acquired today, buddy - enjoy it to the max, mate.

 

Hey, I had a BJ as well, I'd pretty much forgotten about it till you said the name. Nice little printer too. I'll look and see what Negcons go for..A little bit of analogue control never hurt anyone.

 

Andy you deserve to be flamed for that pun....

 

Nice work, Al. Some great titles there for the ol PS - for some reason the Wrecking Crew title artwork reminds me of the Americana/US Gold Atari tapes from the mid-80s - anyone else get the same feel? Maybe just me!

Hope you have loads of fun with the greaseweazle interface and creation of image files too - just up your street, mate.

PS, Totally off topic, sorry, but would you say, fellas, that this is an example of crappy AI imagery - it thinks it's so clever yet gets it so utterly wrong when you start to look at the little details? I think Paul drew attention to this kind of thing the other week:

 

It was the cover of Wreckin Crew that made me buy it Andy and yes, I did think Americana too when I saw it at first

I've found a very neat program that integrates ST/Amiga floppy disks into the Windows shell so have already recovered a couple of old catalogue disks and created a floppy of Sensible Soccer from an ST image file.

That picture just doesn't do it for me. Way too fake looking.