I found the opening a bit slow for a BotW sequel. But once it opens up, it really goes wide open and forces you to think on your toes.
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Picked up another Philips crt on a whim.
21" shadow mask. Model 21PT2665/00
1000 hours of use according to the service menu counter. So practically brand new.
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looks super vibrant! great pickup
New PCB day is best day. And make that double!
Just got back from a 3 week trip to Japan. Wasn’t exactly expecting much since the market is insane nowadays, specially in Akiba, but good deals can be had if you’re not looking for stuff in demand. As expected the farther from Tokyo you get, the more decent prices you find, but not exactly cheap either. I must say I’m disappointed at how crazy GameBoy stuff got.
Anyways picked up a couple of shooting PCBs to keep me occupied until next trip, some parts for my cabs, and some 360 and Saturn stuff which were in great condition a very decently priced. Darius Towel was a gift from a friend!
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Mushihimesama? or is it Futari?
Either way… damn dude. nice grab
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Yeah dude it’s the original Mushihimesama, and P47 Aces is no slouch either. Overall happy with these two, but my last trip I got like 6 PCBs so a bit disappointed in that regard. There’s always next years though!
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My “vintage” PS3 game, Wangan Midnight, arrived! 
(super late edit)
Upon further inspection
Someone born when this game released, 5 July 2007, will turn 16 and could have a drivers license in almost three weeks. F*** I’m old! Vintage confirmed. Wow.
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I used to play this game to death in the arcades. I even bought the soundtrack!
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The arcade games soundtrack is S-Tier Yuzo Koshiro work, IMO.
I posted this in the music thread, but here it is again, lol
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Picked up some Xbox games at the flea market in the main square here last week.
It’s getting harder and harder to find videogames out in the wild like this, but it still happens from time to time.
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Solid selection, DoA 3 holds up really well.
Offtopic, but do you know if the Xbox version of R:Racing uses a deflicker filter? I think it’s absent on the PS2/GC
Yet another TG-16 RPG arrived, got a sealed copy of Cosmic Fantasy 2 (that awful ‘90s American cover art…). Unlike Ys 1&2, which I played briefly many years ago, I have no experience with this game despite it being just as famous:
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No, but the deflicker was a hardware thing. The TV encoder chip had a deflicker that blended adjacent lines. I’m sure it was on by default. What didnt help the PS2 was mostly the fact that many games rendered at half vertical resolution. 640x240 was common.
So always on for Xbox games in 480i, good to know, was thinking it might have been a mixed situation ala PS2/GC. iirc my soft modded Xbox allows it to be disabled altho mine has been in storage for over a year now.
Yeah out of the field rendered games on PS2 R:Racing stands out, I don’t know if it’s an art style thing but Tag (both deflicker/no-deflicker versions) and RRV look better.
Somewhat related, I’ve always wondered why RE4 had such a rough IQ, and was messing around with the frame buffer option in USBloader to finally see what was going on, it’s really not rendering anything close to 640x480
