Actually if you were someone who was actually participating in the thread instead of butting in, you would realize that I asked about that a couple of days back and the response from the others was that this was the place to discuss such things. You see I was concerned of bogging the thread down with discussions others wouldn't appreciate, so I asked. We are all trying to figure out what is worth buying and what isn't. Cost obviously is going to come into the discussion.
Excuse me? I
am someone who is and has been participating in this thread. I've been participating to this thread much earlier than you have, and I've actually contributed to the list whereas your first post in this thread was praising said list, then your second post was your standard `Howard-style criticism`: "I don't understand this about people" , "Doing this and that doesn't make sense to me"...ad nauseam. You see the pattern here don't you?
See the problem is you are accusing me of forcing my views on others and yet, you are forcing your view, that cost doesn't matter, on to me. You even interrupted the discussion with a tie-raid to make your point.
What in the world are you so upset about?!? I gave the advice to (gasp!) think before you buy and to (double gasp!) be financially conservative. Oh dear god what reckless advice did I give! Someone alert the KGB!!!
So by telling people to be financially conservative you are not forcing your views on people? Please. No one is going to tell me how to spend my hard-earned cash.
Talking about the price is fine, people should definitely be aware of the cost for these quality products. But pushing your views on what you think is worth said price isn't. Let people decide what is too expensive and what isn't.
I don't think we'll ever agree on a particular subject. Our views are drastically different.
I'm just going to leave it as that.
opt2not I did not even consider what would be needed to upscaling a NES properly. That may change thing for me down the road.
Yeah I know what's needed. I have my NES Mini modded for RGB, even uses a MultiAV connector:
Here's the RGB board installed:
For upscaling I took the plunge and got myself a XRGB-Mini, 'cause like I said, I like quality products and am willing to spend a bit more for them. Should you do the same? That's your call, based on your situation. I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money.
But, I can say the Mini is an amazing piece of hardware, it has so many scaling options, screen adjustments, and firmware updates are constantly being released. I love the fact you can save profiles for different systems and displays you're using.
I've been really happy with this set-up.
Here's a good question, what retro systems, accessories, or SD devises do you guys think are a good deal right now?
I would say the Original Gameboy is a good system to get into now. You can find them easily, and they're the last of the Nintendo hardware that is still affordable and hasn't blown up crazy like other Nintendo stuff.
I recently backlight modded a couple Gameboy Pockets, and have been enjoying playing games off my EverdriveGB with a nice back-lit screen:
Original games are still cheap, you can find the standard titles for $10-20 these days, a bit higher for rares. Pokemons are also usually higher, but that's a given due to all the pokemon fans out there (not including myself, I didn't get into Pokemon BITD and I think it's too late now).
Second to that: Sega Genesis. It seems that Genesis consoles and games are still on the cheaper end of the spectrum. I don't know how long this will last, but right now you can a Genesis for about the same price as a Original Gameboy. I haven't picked one up yet, but been considering it.