Also recently received the collector’s steelbook edition of Mushihimesama from LRG, I also got the mini TATE arcade shell, haven’t opened it yet and not sure how functional it is but had to have it as it looked so nice:
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that’s awesome, the steelbook looks so good
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I do like that arcade shell but the rest of the stuff I could do without.
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I became a fan of 60s/70s Japanese singer Linda Yamamoto 18 years ago because of the stage in Ouendan that used one of her songs.
Really fun bossa nova and cabaret-pop stuff. I got a CD years ago, but finally found some of her original vinyl releases for a decent price. I was after ‘Golden Album’ (a best of) for years but it was always hovering around AU$100 delivered, finally got a nice one for less than half that.
I then found another earlier semi-compilation 'All About Linda Yamamoto" for a good price too. The first side has some singles, the second side is original cuts for this album I think, it seems that was common for this era.
Looking rather cool in my ‘now playing’ section IMO, both still have the obi strips too!
Golden Album needs a professional clean. I’ve cleaned it myself with basic at home stuff, but it still gets some gunk on the stylus after a play! The local record store cleans discs with a professional machine for a couple of bucks each so will get that done.
I have a few others, but I’m going to start getting more vintage 60s-80s jpop!
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What the…
The Apple II does colour… but I read PAL Apple IIc doesn’t output colour…
It only works on the Apple monitor, not any of my TVs, though the TVs seem to be trying to display colour, it’s like the saturation is way down. Output does appear to be 50Hz.
How strange.
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This is called composite artifacting, and it was a planned feature of the Apple II. There after other computers that did it too, like the TRS-80. It’s a method of creating colours from a monochrome signal by using the artifacts that are created by the poor quality signal of a composite signal
Really interesting how it works, if you feel like a read.
This is why I’m so grateful to have found a cheap Apple II Color monitor for my IIe setup
Yeah I know how Apple II colour works, but I’d read in several places that the PAL IIc output was black and white only.
There is actually digital RGB via one of the other ports, but the RCA output was supposedly monochrome.
Also it doesn’t show in colour on my NTSC TVs either. Will maybe try Framemeister etc soon.
I picked up this gorgeous IBM E74 today. It’s a 17" model manufactured in April of 2002, it can display up to 1024x768 at 85hz or 1280x1024 at 60hz.
I’ve been pining over a VGA monitor for my Dreamcast and eventually MiSTer and this was close by and was hard to pass up at $80 AUD (Sadly the days when these were just free seems to be a thing of the past where I live). You can tell when something has been stored in a clean house its entire life because this thing is pristine I used a bit of windex and then a microfibre cloth on the glass to lift some grime but otherwise it looks like a brand new monitor.
Sadly I don’t have anything that can output VGA so I have no means to test it. That said I booted it up and left it on the no signal screen for an hour or so and there was nary a wobble or creak out of it. One annoyance is without an input none of the buttons on the front panel work, so it will have to wait until I get a cable in for my Dreamcast before I can put it through its paces.
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awesome pickup man. the Mister scandoubled will be a treat, as will the DC I can imagine. my DC’s VGA output is fried so I never did get to try it on a native monitor
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Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection finally came.
I’d have to say I’m somewhat underwhelmed, mostly due to the scanline/crt options being the same crap ones as the MW4 port in Asha in Monster World.
No, euro emulator guys, I don’t want CRT curvature, or curved corners, I don’t want blur added, I don’t want full screen, stretching and shimmering. This stupid set up offers a pixel perfect option for most games that looks good for chunky pixels (and 4:3 looks decent for the games with weird pixel ratios) but as soon as you apply their ‘shader’ settings it forces it to non-integrer full scren height 4:3 with gross blur over it.
I just want vertical integer scaling and horizontal interpolation for a nice 4:3 with no shimmering. And if possible a scan line effect with no blur or curvature or other crap. The highest selling emulated collection of all time (presumably), the SNES Mini led the way, just copy it.
The options in the Double Dragon/Kunio collection were also great, integer scaling option and nice scanlines without blur. Get Arc System or NERD to do all of these please.
Anyway nice to have a physical copy of the three arcade games, and it looks good on Switch handheld just in pixel perfect mode for most games.
And also the Wonder Boy revival has been nuts.
I’ll add them to my collection
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I found a CRT in Value Village (thrift shop) for the first time in years. I initially didn’t buy it, but after telling my wife the brand, she was surprised that I didn’t get it. To be fair, they never did make good TVs, it’s just their 70s audio equipment that I like.
After letting it stew for a few hours I decided that I’d like to have it anyway, and went back to get it. For $13, I couldn’t leave it there.
It’s a little 13" with RF and Composite which will be great for some old-school desktop gaming on the 2600, Odyssey II, Intellivision, Colecovision etc.
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Classic 90s vibes, would go well with those speakers next to it lol
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Yeah, I already have way too many speakers as it is though lol!
I was surprised to see how late this model was made though, 2001! Probably a good thing though, it’ll last for a long time yet.
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It finally arrived. Photos don’t do the case justice - it’s gorgeous. No impressions yet as I’m running the updater. I picked up some SNAC adapters as well so I could hit the ground running.
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What are we looking at here?
I think it’s a Mister.
The case is super slick, nice purchase!
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is that the aluminium case? I think that’ll be my major splurge next month. looks so clean, and although I’m a bit partial to the stock Mister look (looks like some alien contraption when all the lights are on and flashing), this looks like the wah to go
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I got mine too. Same case.
It’s pretty spectacular. I’m shocked at how tiny it is. Been playing only arcade stuff with a USB wired arcade stick.
I thought it would be more or less the size of a GameCube. But it’s much smaller. And yea, there’s no perceptible lag to me on my CRT. It’s been great for cave games and CPS2 stuff so far.
It’s exactly what you’d expect - a totally passive analogue reproduction of the original boards. Like, if the original board outputs in 57hz, you can output at 57hz. Yes, you can toggle for 60 if you want, but the option is there.
If the original board had dipswitches, you can access them too.
You can also output an upscaled image with crt filters if you wish too.
There are a ton of options here.
I just haven’t quite figured out how to configure the sound settings properly yet.
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it’s incredible and worth every penny when you think about it. how much would it cost to get a supergun setup of your favorite CPS2 games for example? a Dodonpachi PCB? a single Neo Geo MVS cart? there’s no need to with the Mister and you have every game at your disposal outputting in the correct video mode and functionally 100% accurate representation
also I’ve never played on anything with such minimal lag. for example, after over a decade of playing Mario on LCDs via various emulation on Nintendo consoles/mini consoles, it blew my mind to press A on a controller (tried to get one with as low input as as possible) and see Mario jump at pretty much the exact instance. I’m doing maneuvers now that I thought I could only do as a kid on the original NES
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