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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #200 on: September 05, 2019, 11:33:24 am »
Yeah already done that.  What I meant was this particular gamestop apparently occasionally forgets to check morning reservations and sells reserved stuff.  I've only seen it happen once (boy that guy was pissed).  I really don't need the thing, but it's a do-dad... to put on my shelf!

Yeah Gamestop is not the most dependable on those things ( Esp. if one of the employees sees it set aside and hadn't noticed the sale price and decides they'd also like one but the others have already sold ! ) - Hopefully they get it right for you - For the $20 price even if you only wind up using the USB controllers and the USB/HDMI cable you get your moneys worth.   

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #201 on: September 05, 2019, 01:06:05 pm »
I think that people that complain about GameStop are looking for something to complain about.  I've never had a problem with online reservations, I've never had them sell me an open copy as new, and I'm cool with
 their business model of paying a kid $5 for a 2 week old game and reselling it for $45. 


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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #202 on: September 05, 2019, 01:16:26 pm »
I honestly haven't bought a new game from Gamestop in years, so I don't know if they still do this, but my only real beef was how they would remove the plastic wrap from new game purchases. Mostly hate it because I look like an ---uvula--- when gifting a game that looks like it has been used.

In more recent years I have had problems with the clerk not honoring some of the price mistake / multiple discount stuff I pounced on, but then I just go to the other gamestop near me and that problem is solved.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #203 on: September 05, 2019, 01:41:27 pm »
My friend's dad worked part time for one of those companies that eventually folded into Gamestop.... Electronics Boutique or FuncoLand or some BS like that.  They opened EVERY computer game, made copies, and put new shrink wrap on the box.  He had a 2 drawer filing cabinet full of games sorted alphabetically.  It was awe inspiring.



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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #204 on: September 05, 2019, 01:49:00 pm »
I don't have any real complaints about gamestop other than they need to get with the whole free shipping business model the rest of the internet has. 

Well on paper anyway they've reserved me one, so I'm going to go pick it up in a few.  First time in there in probably two years. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #205 on: September 05, 2019, 02:08:25 pm »
They opened EVERY computer game, made copies, and put new shrink wrap on the box. 

Ah those days were great.  Me and my buddy could go halfsies on a PC game, make a copy for one of us, while the other guy kept the legitimate copy.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #206 on: September 05, 2019, 03:26:56 pm »
My GameStop has them according to the site. Will have to grab one on the way home.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #207 on: September 05, 2019, 06:48:53 pm »
I remember doing game swaps and just copying games and returning them. I also remember feeling especially cool discovering copy machine contrast settings, when some of the bigger titles used code sheets printed on dark maroon paper as a copy protection.


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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #208 on: September 05, 2019, 07:26:11 pm »
For monkey Island, I had a photocopy of every possible combination of the pirate wheel.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #209 on: September 05, 2019, 07:39:26 pm »
I managed to get one.  Must have been sad, older gamer day at the store today... nobody under 30 in there.  I think that might be a bad sign for the company as a whole.  Anyway, got it home and played a few rounds of Mr. Driller... the emulation is ok enough. 

The menu is hideous though.... I get what they were going for with the bad dithering and low color count art, but unlike the nes/snes the artwork isn't purposefully crafted one pixel at a time, but rather a full color image is ruined.... that doesn't hit the nostalgia button, rather it reminds you of how crappy the psx was at handling images.  Also the nes/snes classic used full color images for the game art in the menu for this exact same reason. 

As per usual the cables are too short.... usb extensions can literally be found at the dollar tree though, so I'm not going to complain too much. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #210 on: September 06, 2019, 12:48:47 am »
I managed to get one.  Must have been sad, older gamer day at the store today... nobody under 30 in there.  I think that might be a bad sign for the company as a whole. 

At least they had some customers -- I went to pick mine up at 4PM yesterday and only other 2 people in the store were both working !

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #211 on: September 06, 2019, 08:54:06 am »
I got there and the only one they had was reserved. But they gave it to me anyway.
I kid.

It took 10 mins to find that out because the guy working there never heard of them so he didn’t know they sold them.
Other guy had to tell him.
He offered to see if other stores had one but since I pulled it up on my phone faster than he did in his system I declined and told them I could do it.

Funny thing even if I had reserved it, they only had 1.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #212 on: September 06, 2019, 12:49:28 pm »
I got there and the only one they had was reserved. But they gave it to me anyway.
I kid.

It took 10 mins to find that out because the guy working there never heard of them so he didn’t know they sold them.
Other guy had to tell him.
He offered to see if other stores had one but since I pulled it up on my phone faster than he did in his system I declined and told them I could do it.

Funny thing even if I had reserved it, they only had 1.

Might check again today - since they only hold it on reserve for the one day - if the other person didn't show it might be back in inventory and you could reserve it for today !

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #213 on: September 06, 2019, 01:24:49 pm »
What he said... check again.  How can you work at a store so relatively small and not know about a console you sell?  I mean was he the "special" employee that wasn't allowed to unload inventory or something?  At the gamestops around here anyway most of the people working are huge gamer nerds.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #214 on: September 06, 2019, 02:08:37 pm »
$29 shipped at Amazon while we speak... or keep wasting time and money going to GameStop....

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #215 on: September 06, 2019, 05:47:46 pm »
I don't know how much longer GameStop can survive from selling Funko Pops and foam Master Swords. Somehow there are 3 in the city I live in. All are usually dead.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #216 on: September 06, 2019, 07:16:29 pm »
I got there and the only one they had was reserved. But they gave it to me anyway.
I kid.

It took 10 mins to find that out because the guy working there never heard of them so he didn’t know they sold them.
Other guy had to tell him.
He offered to see if other stores had one but since I pulled it up on my phone faster than he did in his system I declined and told them I could do it.

Funny thing even if I had reserved it, they only had 1.

Might check again today - since they only hold it on reserve for the one day - if the other person didn't show it might be back in inventory and you could reserve it for today !

I stopped at a different one after I picked up kids. $15 for a returned one. Guy played it once then brought it back. Left a power brick and cord in the box so better deal.
Will play with it this weekend.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #217 on: September 06, 2019, 08:18:16 pm »
Go ahead and order the OTG cable now.  Find your oldest thumb drive to install bleemsync.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #218 on: September 06, 2019, 11:30:57 pm »
I don't know how much longer GameStop can survive from selling Funko Pops and foam Master Swords. Somehow there are 3 in the city I live in. All are usually dead.

I dunno…. I saw this over-sized snes super Metroid cart do-dad marked down to 8 bucks, I would have picked it up but the other over-sized snes carts they had (yes there were many) had only been marked down to 25 bucks, which is ---smurfing--- ridiculous.  My point is, they have cool stuff, if they'd just realize that they might sell some of said cool stuff if it were priced it reasonably. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #219 on: September 07, 2019, 09:36:11 pm »
Go ahead and order the OTG cable now.  Find your oldest thumb drive to install bleemsync.

got an old thumb drive to work.
have an OTG cable for the firestick but it don't work with the mini.
found the link for the right one and ordered it.



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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #220 on: September 09, 2019, 01:29:36 am »
Trying to find something old and busted enough for the classic to detect as we speak.... I might have to hunt down a power adapter for one of my hubs. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #221 on: September 09, 2019, 02:13:53 pm »
I was stuggling to find a suitable flash drive for mine. So I ended up doing the current limiter removal mod instead.

I can confirm it works. But I have to say, with the benefit of hindsight, it wasn't worth it. It's not obvious from the YouTube videos, but the solder points you have to bridge are absolutely tiny, and there's a very high probability of screwing something up.
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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #222 on: September 09, 2019, 02:39:11 pm »
I've been tempted to do that mod.  I'd probably use conductive ink or something to bridge those points.


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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #223 on: September 09, 2019, 03:01:23 pm »

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #224 on: September 09, 2019, 03:08:15 pm »
I had no luck last night....all my hubs have those tiny barrel plugs so I've got to try and find an adapter with universal tips. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #225 on: September 10, 2019, 07:39:08 pm »
I got mine up and running.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #226 on: September 12, 2019, 12:59:16 pm »
Me too.  For those of you struggling to find a low powered usb drive, just on a whim I tried a micro sd card with one of those cheap thumb-drive shaped usb adaptors and that did the trick.  Makes sense really as sd cards use less power. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #227 on: September 18, 2019, 11:03:15 pm »
So, I got the 128gb Autobleem build.  It’s got a little clunk in the interface, mainly unavoidable with RetroArch, but it plays and looks great.  (Never have to get out of my chair, but I don’t think it’s good for unsupervised guests.  CoinOps still in the lead there.)

PSP emulation seems spot on, so I’ve got a decent version of Pac-Man Championship Edition going.  MAME and FBA support overlays and look nice on my flat screen.  The menu for browsing PS1 games is so much better than the stock interface it’s hard to believe.  Wireless controllers and analog sticks would have made this killer but nothing comes close to touching this for $20.



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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #228 on: September 18, 2019, 11:10:37 pm »
For a cheap way of getting Pac-Man Championship Edition playable, getting the psx mini is worth it. I should have jumped on that $20 deal.

I’ve always wanted to put together a dedicated Pac-Man CE cab. Hmm, it’s not too late!

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #229 on: September 18, 2019, 11:42:01 pm »
Pretty sure there were some cabinet friendly patches for the PC version.... I’ve also played some hack of Pac-Man 256 that was on a vertical screen and didn’t require touch interface...

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #230 on: September 19, 2019, 02:08:41 am »
I've got the rotated sprites and a wrapper sitting on my pc for pacman-ce right now.  I built it so it rotates the screen 90 degrees in menus so you can read it on a vertical monitor and the sprites are flipped for vertical gameplay.  It's like 90% there but I've always got other projects so it got put on the "maybe later" pile. 

If someone wants to work on it I can release everything but the game itself. 

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #231 on: September 24, 2019, 06:39:02 pm »
Just picked up a used one for $10. I didn’t think it was worth picking up as I have a PSIO and a R-pi with retro pi. But the classic look of the thing makes me smile. Lots of fun so fair, loved me some twisted metal. Need to look into to the  different rom pacs.

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Re: Playstation Classic coming December 2018
« Reply #232 on: September 24, 2019, 07:24:08 pm »
Make sure you do safe shutdown on autobleem or you're going to have a bad time.