Post any time you get ANYTHING retro 3.

[Cepp]

I have never heard of Devestation but I always love checking out early to mid 2000 games that fell through the cracks.

[Kotatsu Neko]

I hadn't bought anything retro in a while so I decided to treat myself to a nice little xmas present.



I haven't played Bangaio in years and I forgot how great it is. I just wish it supported the fighting pad, as I really try to avoid ever using that god awful stock DC controller.




I bought the Saturn to replace my old white one which was turning irretrievably yellow (retrobrite no longer worked) and had a failing optical drive. This smoke coloured one works great and as a bonus, it's much happier booting CDRs so I can play the English translation of Sakura Taisen. (my old one either didn't load CDRs at all, or there was lots of corruption on screen). I think I'll ripp my Grandia discs too and patch them as well. These black transparent Saturns go for a small fortune on eBay but they're not too bad on Yahoo Japan. Such a nice bit of kit, I do love the Saturn.

[wakka]

Nice SEGA themed gets. Like the This Is Cool Saturn - mind saying how much it cost on Yahoo?

[Kotatsu Neko]

22,000yen, with controller and cables. No box though, but I'm never going to sell it so I don't mind. Condition is immaculate, it looks brand new.

It's a nice match to the smoke grey Retrobit wireless Saturn pad. Actually on the subject of the Retrobit pad, I have some new beta firmware for it now which reduces the lag quite a bit. It's still some way off being fixed, but it's a lot better.

[wakka]

Decent price! Condition looks great too. The This Is Cool/Derby Stallion machines are way cooler than the white one imo.

I wub my grey one though.

[Deuteros]

[MENTION=6808]Cepp[/MENTION]

I have a small collection of older PC games but I mostly avoid buying physical copies of games from around that era and newer because I fear their DRM must be terribly restrictive and crippling. I'm thinking of Tagès, SecuROM or even Games for Windows - LIVE.

How do you handle that sort of DRM? Do you look for cracks and patches that remove it?

[Cepp]

@Cepp

I have a small collection of older PC games but I mostly avoid buying physical copies of games from around that era and newer because I fear their DRM must be terribly restrictive and crippling. I'm thinking of Tagès, SecuROM or even Games for Windows - LIVE.

How do you handle that sort of DRM? Do you look for cracks and patches that remove it?

I play a lot of them on period correct versions of Windows so it doesn't tend to be an issue. If I'm playing on Windows 10 I will often have to resort to cracks and patches though.

For newer retail games from the 360 era that have more intrusive DRM there's usually a patch of some kind to remove it, but it's quite rare that I buy physical copies of those games tbh.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home is a god send in this regard.

[importaku]

Starfox command & Dragon quest V arrived today, Dragon quests previous owner still has their saves on the cart so i shall back those up to my PC to keep as he managed to get to level 99 in a 100+ hour save file. I like to keep the previous owners saves as you find some fun stuff especially in WFC compatible games.

[vanpeebles]

Treated myself to a DS and GBA for Xmas. The famicom games were from Hirst, we both set a spend limit and a list of what games we had, and had to surprise each other. The Fammydodd Christmas Card Company has improved on their designs too!

[Hirst]

Here's my Christmas lineup from VP above!



Going to be spending the time between Christmas and New Year playing my new (old) games!

[Leon Retro]

Treated myself to a DS and GBA for Xmas.

Rolling Thunder, Goemon, Final Fight One, and Mario Kart Super Circuit.

[vanpeebles]

Rolling Thunder, Goemon, Final Fight One, and Mario Kart Super Circuit.

That’s how we play them playings round these parts.

[Leon Retro]

That’s how we play them playings round these parts.

[Team Andromeda]

LOL

Better than my part of the world. Here's how we play in my neck of the woods

[vanpeebles]