Retro console and games thread

daz · 6 Jul 2015 at 16:51

DEL 707 said:
Ah, the asteroid flinging ship.
Managed to get to level 3 tonight, would have gotten further if I had used the ol' "no kills on the 1st level" trick.

Is that really a trick?

Awesome shoot 'em up game though. Would be great to have more modern mech related games.

Whoop · 6 Jul 2015 at 17:21

DEL 707 said:
Someone with a Spectrum needs to buy this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-...HE-ENORMOUS-TURNIP-w-Story-Book-/391139174169

Then post a "lets play".

I remember having a whole load of these as a kid.

The Enormous Turnip educational game for the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum, includes Parent's Guide booklet and story book - the keyboard overlay is missing. Good condition, has some wear and rippling to the back of the sleeve insert.

It had me tempted... for a moment

DEL 707 · 6 Jul 2015 at 18:14

daz said:
Is that really a trick?

Yep, from what i remember, go through the 1st level without firing a shot except for on the boss, and on the 2nd level you get some kind of fully upgraded flamethrower.

Whoop said:
The Enormous Turnip educational game for the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum, includes Parent's Guide booklet and story book - the keyboard overlay is missing. Good condition, has some wear and rippling to the back of the sleeve insert.

It had me tempted... for a moment

I remember the old overlays, funny how you remember this stuff, Hansel and Gretel in particular.

Spacedeck · 6 Jul 2015 at 21:26

I feel sad

When my sister moved into the place she is staying now, she found an Atari 520ST in the attic. Well this did end up at mine and it's been here for a good while. I've only just got around to fixing it up to give it a go and it doesn't have a joypad so I can't even play anything.....

I tried Lombard Rally, The Running Man, Ikari Warriors. Some games don't seem to have all the discs like Night Raider; although this game says nothing like Disk 1 on the disk so I didn't know it needed another.

The only game I've been able to play so far using the keyboard and mouse is FireZone. I haven't figured out what to do on this yet though.

Do I really need a joypad to play games on this computer?

phatboy · 6 Jul 2015 at 22:34

It does male life a lot easier

I use mega drive arcade stick on my amiga

Spacedeck · 6 Jul 2015 at 23:14

Yeah, I just want to play Lombard Rally and Running Man

do you know of any good places to purchase one of these MegaDrive arcade sticks?

Did manage a game of FireZone but I lost

naefeart · 7 Jul 2015 at 08:49

I'm almost certain the old Atari ST will not use anything other than Atari joysticks, despite the ports looking the same as those found on Mega drives etc.

Your best bet is to get on ebay and find a proper Atari joystick/pad.

Firestar_3x · 7 Jul 2015 at 09:58

naefeart said:
I'm almost certain the old Atari ST will not use anything other than Atari joysticks, despite the ports looking the same as those found on Mega drives etc.

Your best bet is to get on ebay and find a proper Atari joystick/pad.

Used to use Master System controllers in mine back in the day.

daz · 7 Jul 2015 at 10:08

DEL 707 said:
Yep, from what i remember, go through the 1st level without firing a shot except for on the boss, and on the 2nd level you get some kind of fully upgraded flamethrower.

Yeah I just meant I thought it was common knowledge and pretty standard to do that. Can imagine it is more difficult without that gun though, the bosses especially.

naefeart · 7 Jul 2015 at 10:39

Firestar_3x said:
Used to use Master System controllers in mine back in the day.

That's funny because I didn't think the pin layout was the same. We couldn't get mega drive controllers to work at all.

Just found this guide that tell you how to modify the pins to make the controllers work: http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/fre.../7.TechnicalResourceCenter/showarticle.php?63

Perhaps Master System controllers were different?

oweneades · 7 Jul 2015 at 13:18

zeegy said:
The lounge is clean for once, quick! take a shelfie! - taken a month or two back, been meaning to share on here for ages.

Hope you all enjoy, great to see much love for the neo geos. I have an AES, Pocket and CD front-loader... Would love to own an omega MVS

Nice collection although I would be worried about the Xbone cooking itself...

Firestar_3x · 7 Jul 2015 at 13:25

naefeart said:
That's funny because I didn't think the pin layout was the same. We couldn't get mega drive controllers to work at all.

Just found this guide that tell you how to modify the pins to make the controllers work: http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/fre.../7.TechnicalResourceCenter/showarticle.php?63

Perhaps Master System controllers were different?

Prob was, the MS controller only had two buttons, same as the ST stick, MS pad worked really well and much better than clicky joystick!

Just found this link

https://lowresmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/using-joypads-on-the-atari-st/

"The first solution is to get an old Sega gamepad for the Sega Master System. Those simply work by plugging into the ST’s joystick ports."

JaFFa · 7 Jul 2015 at 13:29

oweneades said:
Nice collection although I would be worried about the Xbone cooking itself...

He's prob got enough money to buy another

One thing though, are any of them plugged in? Can you actaully use them ?

naefeart · 7 Jul 2015 at 14:18

Firestar_3x said:
Just found this link

https://lowresmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/using-joypads-on-the-atari-st/

"The first solution is to get an old Sega gamepad for the Sega Master System. Those simply work by plugging into the ST’s joystick ports."

Ha. Wish I'd known this years ago... thought the ports/machine were broken. The Amigas I had didn't have any issues with the joypads.

Every day is a school day

zeegy · 9 Jul 2015 at 10:27

JaFFa said:
He's prob got enough money to buy another

One thing though, are any of them plugged in? Can you actaully use them ?

im a pc master race kinda guy, its hardly used. theres ample ventilation round the back too. the only console that used a lot is the WiiU

regret getting the xbone really, i swapped it for some of my old megadrives.

A few are plugged in, i have wired extensions cables for scart, rca, antenna and hdmi into the centre black box. its very quick and easy to fire them up and play

barmyllama · 9 Jul 2015 at 10:35

Looking for a GameCube.

Post in my wanted thread if you've got one you're looking to move on.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18680227

XPE · 9 Jul 2015 at 19:19

Pick this up, fantastic condition the picture doesn't do it justice.

Spacedeck · 10 Jul 2015 at 23:56

Getting pretty fed up here :/. Today I dug out my SNES and N64, connecting both using the RF wire from system to TV. Trying on the TV downstairs for a while and I have got a picture at least two or three times today on the SNES, but now it just isn't finding anything. Tried a different RF lead, for some reason that found freeview channels but didn't find the games system! It has stages where it picks up some sort of sounds but screen is just blank.

Trying at the moment on the TV in my bedroom, but so far I haven't got anything!

N64 seems to be picking up more than the SNES but both getting me a little annoyed as I want to play

Deo_volente · 11 Jul 2015 at 10:14

Spacedeck said:
Getting pretty fed up here :/. Today I dug out my SNES and N64, connecting both using the RF wire from system to TV. Trying on the TV downstairs for a while and I have got a picture at least two or three times today on the SNES, but now it just isn't finding anything. Tried a different RF lead, for some reason that found freeview channels but didn't find the games system! It has stages where it picks up some sort of sounds but screen is just blank.

Trying at the moment on the TV in my bedroom, but so far I haven't got anything!

N64 seems to be picking up more than the SNES but both getting me a little annoyed as I want to play

If it's picking up a freeview signal then it won't work as it means you're on a DVB tuner, it needs to be on an analogue tuner to work properly. You could pick up a composite cable from ebay/amazon (they are pretty cheap) and that should technically work with both consoles as they have the same connector iirc.

Spacedeck · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:25

After tinkering with it today, one of the cables pick up freeview and the other didn't. I'm able to get the system to display but I think it's more a system issue now. Sometimes when I load a game up, it doesn't actually load properly, and just gives a black screen. Takes few resets to get the game running but it does work.