It’s been a long time since I posted on this blog, I’m too lazy you see, but I just got some new stuff through the post which I think people will be interested in:
RGB SCART -> COMPONENT CONVERTER
On the left of this pic is a QED QCV RGB SCART TO COMPONENT CONVERTER, it’s quite a mouthful I know but this thing is the business. It basically takes an RGB signal from any device with an RGB output (retro consoles, set top boxes, DVD players) and converts it to a component signal which you can use on your HDTV without blowing the picture up so it’s all shitty. What you end up with is a super crisp, perfectly coloured image that looks as good as your gunna get off a HDTV.
I heartly recommend this to retro game players but a word of warning, this does not handle audio, meaning you need RGB cables with separate audio lines or an adapter placed before the converter. Now I don’t know the fine details of this device but the best thing to do is watch this guy’s videos on youtube, they are the reason I got the converter, and he explains it all beautifully CLICK HERE
JAPANESE MEMORY CARTRIDGE (Sega Saturn)
I bought this beauty straight off of eBay ready for the Sega Saturn I don’t yet own. I plan on getting a gorgeous white japanese Sega Saturn from the guys at Console Passion as they mod the fuck out of anything with 4 bit of processing power and over. This cartridge in particular is essentially a memory card, it sits in the back of the Sega Saturn and lets you save a vast amount of save files onto it, essentially keeping them much safer than the awful inbuilt memory in the Saturn itself. This one was part of a bundle with a game in japan, I can’t remember what the game is called but it looks VERY japanese. Hopefully this will work once I finally get the actual console…
SUPER MARIO WORLD (Super Famicom)
So here she is, the big one, Super Mario World! This is probably my favourite game of all time, and I couldn’t resist buying a boxed japanese version straight from germany to keep as a trophy among all my other games.
This game came out in 1990, so I was only a year old when it was released, and is the 4th instalment in the Super Mario Bros. saga. This thing has sold over 20 million copies, and has been rereleased for the Game Boy Advance and Wii. It has received an average review score of 97% which is almost unheard of these days and so obviously holds a place in many people’s hearts.
Now I hold this game high above any other Super Mario game, I don’t particularly know why, it just seems so much better; the levels are vibrant, the music is brilliant and the way the game is layed out just works so so well. It easily beats the “New Super Mario Bros.” games that are on the Wii and DS…if only they released a “New Super Mario World”…
I loved this game so much, that at school during sixth form I would play it on a SNES9x emulator on the school computer’s during my “study periods”. I worked so hard on it I managed to get up to 98% or 99% complete, I just don’t know what else I had to do to get that damned 100%!
The condition of my copy from eBay is very very good, the cart is immaculate and it looks brand new! The leaflet is in great shape and show off all the movements and locations you can go to. The box is in great condition considering its 20 years old and the colours are still as bold as ever. Cost me £20, which I feel is fair considering how god like this game truly is.
I’m sure I will end up playing this game through many more times and if you have any desire to play some retro games, please for the love of god try this one!
My Gaming Setup
So here is my gaming setup I currently own and by christ it’s a gooden, I will go into more detail on the Xbox and stuff at some point as I don’t want to ramble all in one post! In the photos are the following:
- Sony Bravia 40” KDL-40W5710U This set me back £800 when I bought it, leaving Uni present to myself, but it came with a free Blu-ray player which I sold to buy my PS3. This TV is stunning, Blu-ray just looks insane on it and I have no plans on upgrading…but the lure of 3D is pretty tempting,
- Xbox 360 120GB Elite Resident Evil Red Edition I had to go to the midnight launch of Resident Evil 5 to get this as I didn’t pre-order but boy am I glad I did, this thing is rare! They were only available for a few days and go for a fair bit on eBay,
- Playstation 3 120GB Slim Pretty standard, bought this with the money from my free Blu-ray player, bargain! Mainly used for Blu-ray, but I do own a few PS3 exclusives (Heavy Rain, BUY IT!),
- Dreamcast Funny story about this, I sold it at school to some random ages ago and it circulated around different pupils and found its way back to me, and they gave it to me for free, so 100% profit on that then! This one plays all backups, which is handy…
- Acoustic Solutions Amp I use this with the sound from my TV, its set to be all bass so together they sound brilliant. It drives the two oooolllldddd Sony Hi-Fi speakers (stolen from my brother),
- GURU Wireless Router This was a bargain off ebuyer.com and is a good 5 years old, but still works perfectly. Everything is connected via ethernet rather than wifi (except Macs), it just seems to be the better choice,
- MyBook World Edition 1TB I got this last month mainly to wirelessly backup my girlfriends and my Macs, but it has a media server built in so it can stream movies/videos/pictures to my PS3 and Xbox, I highly recommend!
So that’s about it, I am missing an oh so heavy hacked Wii that lives at my girlfriend’s at the moment but I’ll get round to that at some point. Any questions about the setup then formspring me :-)
DERBY STALLION 96 (Super Famicom)
Now, I used to own quite a sexy Super Nintendo collection around 5 years ago, it had all the big hits in there, but I sadly sold it for extreme profit to fund my crack habit, and by crack habit I mean an iPod…and by iPod I mean crack.
So back to 2011 and I suddenly find myself with a little spare cash and nothing to buy, so I want to start collecting retro games again, mainly for the amazing cover art. So I’m trolling eBay, like literally, I look awful when I’m on eBay, a gruesome sight, and I pick up this little beauty for £5 and its still SEALED! Someone spent 15 years looking at this and never truely knowing what was actually inside, maybe its spiders…or sausage rolls, who knows!
The only reason I bought this game is because it was so cheap and was sealed, I had pipe dreams of buying a small yacht with the epic profit I could make from it when I sell it in 2056. It’s for the Super Famicom game system (the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo) and is a Horse Racing Simulator…now I love horse racing as much as the next 21 year old, but if I wanna ride a horse I’ll go and steal one from the horse shop. It turns out this was made to be used with the Satellaview System that was only released in japan, it actually didn’t do half bad at over 100,000 subscriptions but it wasn’t cheap, selling at around $150. Now it wasn’t like satellite TV, you couldn’t get Babestation on it, it was a file transfer system that would let you download additional content for a very small selection of games.
You could only download software at certain times of the day, imagine if it was 3am; having to get up to download that oh so precious horse that had 6 legs and a rocket up it’s ass. The data was saved onto small 8mb cartridges that fit into the top of each game (in that slot at the top of the cartridge in the picture). The cartridges look a lot like the Super Gameboy, and I didn’t even look for a picture of the cartridge before I bought this thing, what a discovery!
Now I don’t plan on buying any more games that let me tame a stallion…in a dark stable….while the farmers away, but this game is certainly more interesting than I thought it would be!
Turning over an old leaf
So, I know Tumblr is full of cool people with arty pictures of yorkshire puddings and half naked ladies with tattoo’s of old cartoons we all forgot about on their nipples (I’m not complaining), but I though it was time for something different…and far less cool.
My tumblr ment absolutely nothing to me until now, it was essentially my Twitter’s bitch, so now I am turning it into a brand spanking new gaming blog, featuring new and retro gaming crap I either want, have or dream of. Out of with the old and in with the new/old i guess…you’ll get the picture soon….
