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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I have a modded Cube and a non-modded Cube with a FreeLoader.
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Thank you.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
"Where are you finding this so damn cheap? " There's this store that is LITERALLY 2 minutes from my house (and I live 20 minutes away from EVERYTHING) called Granny Beas. People from all over the midwest come to it. No joke. It is the greatest used gaming/movie/etc store ever. Also, in greenwood -- about 40 minutes from me -- there's a disc replay, and it has so many awesome deals. I got Tomba! there for $5 (it goes for like $80), Persona 2 for $20 (sold it later for $70), Ikaruga for $15 (and it goes for like $80 I think, or it did). There are seriously 20 pawn shops in my town, or around them, and I live in a super small town and am surrounded by smaller towns... so, yeah, who knows, guess I'm just lucky, but my game collection has always been pretty fucking awesome (till I kinda stopped caring and tradedeverything last year for a $1500 laptop.. though I still use my windows me computer most of the time!) and I haven't paid shit for any of them. My favorite deal was Castlevania: Dracula X for the SNES. Bought it for $3, sold it later for $92. And it was an AWFUL game, easily the worst in the series next to the Game Boy one starring a chick. Also, the Wario games are badass, those are the only games I even really...at Granny Beas, you can trade 2 games on one system for one game.. so I traded in those shitty games and got 12 new games.. I got the Ogre Battle game for the N64, probably the best game on the system, and it goes for like $60, haha. Forgot to mention that I got Chrono Trigger -- with the manual -- at Granny Beas, too, for $6. Haha. Sold it earlier this year for $74...
... or perhaps R-Type Final... both on the PS2...
...I mean, they made, what, 15 Monster Rancher games based around putting cd's into your psx.. (anyone remember how they used to release those "master lists", haha? In the back of magazines, they'd have, like, 1000 different cd's listed and would list the monster it'd create... PUT IN THE GREAT MILENKO TO CREATE A CHAT-ER-NOOK!)
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Damn I wish I had even one store around here like that. The best place to go for deals around here is this pawn shop that sells all "vintage" games (anything not currrent gen) for $5 no matter what they are. That's actually where I got my sweet Super Metroid pin.
It sounds like the stores you've mentioned don't even check the game's worth whatsoever before selling it. All the local game places around here find out what a game's worth online, and sell it for a price slightly higher than that...it sucks. I hardly ever get "steals".
If you could see how much God Hand is there, I'd mail you the money for it. Keep an eye out for it next time.
And yeah, R-Type Final is GREAT!
I used to play Monster Rancher 2 all the time. What a fucking game! So much more fun than any of the Poke'mon titles (which I don't necessarily dislike), in my opinion. I completely forgot about that one... creating monsters based off cd's was so much fun...haha. Damn.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Yeah, ...time to get me a new 'Cast, fuck... look at this shit!: http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...Main.ShootEmUp
Mark my words, within a year, I will have every single one of those. Hey, nr, do you remember the link you gave to Joe re: burnt DC games? I know it can be done fairly easily, don't you have to download a program that will shrink the games size a bit to fit on a CD-R or something? |
You definitely should. The system is simply outstanding. OUT-STANDING, I TELL YA!
But yeah, fuck the link that NR gave me (haha no offense, NR). I just go to
EmuParadise for all of my DC ISO's. They'll have anything you'd ever want there (although it seems all illegal copies of Ms. Pacman's Maze Madness have been removed from the net...so if you're dying to play that for some odd reason, it looks like you'll have to buy it)
But scroll past all the American games, and the PAL games, to the section right before the Japanese games, called "Dreamcast Other". This is where you'll find an NES emulator + ROMS, a SEGA Master System + Game Gear emulator w/ ROMS, and a Genesis Emulator with ROMS - all ready to play on your Dreamcast! They also have a BETA version of Rez, and if you're looking for all of those shmup titles - well why not check out their
Dreamcast Shmup Collection section?
So you're gonna want standard 700MB CD-R's and a program called DiscJuggler to read the .cdi files. Just get the demo version, it lasts forever, and burns at the lowest speed possible (you actually want this).
Here -
http://www.padus.com/downloads/demo.php
Once you've got DiscJuggler all set up here's what you do...
Go to File > New > Burn disc images
Now that you have that window opened up, insert your CD-R, click the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a cd on it, and select the .cdi you want to burn, and the drive or "destination" w/ the disc you want to burn it to.
Now go to the advanced tab, change the Mode from "Audio" to "Mode 2", check RAW write, and if necessary, check overburn disc. It'll usually say in the game's description if it has to be overburned.
Now this only works for .cdi files (which most Dreamcast ISOs are) but there are sometimes other weird files you're gonna run into that you're gonna have to figure out how to burn yourself. I've had this problem with Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Dead or Alive 2, and Ikaruga (although I haven't tried the link in the shmup collection yet). If you can figure out how to get those working (yes, I've even tried Alcohol 120% - which comes with spyware, I wouldn't recommend this program) pleeeeeaaaase let me know.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. A few games are gonna initially read as audio cds (ChuChu Rocket, Rayman 2, Space Channel 5, etc.), so you're gonna need to get yourself the
Utopia Boot Disc to play these.
But yeah, that's about it! Happy burning bro!
