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Re: Got A Spare $13,000? You Could Own This "One-Off Dream" Copy Of Harry Potter On PS1

Blofse

Reading the sellers description:
“ Hi due to new eBay payment balance payment method I’m sorry for any inconvenience to you if purchasing but as a 100 percent seller for 16 years want a fair community on eBay for respected buyers and sellers so items want be sent out until cleared funds in bank thanks Tracey and thanks for understanding and if you require a quicker solution a lower rate for collection all items are best quality Tracey”

I’m guessing English isn’t their first language…

Oh wait there is more:
“ SORRY ON THE FEBRUARY 4 COLLECTION ONLY ON THIS SALE AS PAYMENT ON COLLECTION DUE TO EBAY RULES”

Wait, hasn’t it already been the 4th of February? So you buy this then not actually get anything?

When it smells wrong, it’s usually off!

Re: Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual

Blofse

So we had the same thing with tariffs in the UK (because of brexit) and it doesn’t do small companies any favours, in fact it wiped a lot of small businesses out because the extra cost to import goods. The only people it actually benefits are big corp companies (which have special deals to get around such tariffs) and the government (who absorb those tariffs without really piping that back into the economy). I do genuinely believe that we are all being screwed here somehow and the money is going somewhere just not into local councils. Instead I think it’s going into someone’s pocket, which then helps them remain in power for longer….

Re: Don't Forget The Sega 32X Turns 30 This Year, Too

Blofse

To think this came out the same time as the psx is quite amazing, when the Saturn was incoming, not to mention the N64, CDI, jaguar and 3do. I wished I had more money at this point in gaming as it was great for a gamer, although you knew not all those consoles were going to last and you hedged your bets to which one you thought would succeed. My brother placed our console budget on the cd32... That basically meant no more consoles until I could buy them myself after that point!

The psx was a bit of an underdog that really grew with time, but also heavily helped by the second hand market and the release of less expensive versions of the system, not to mention chipping and all that brought. I sold my psx to buy a Dreamcast, that was brilliant until it wasn't! Psx I had so many games, some were duds though. Interesting time for gaming though, very saturated and that generally means when the bubble bursts there is a lot of debris after. Somehow, the N64 still carried on through too!

Re: Monster Hunter, Mortal Kombat And Resident Evil Director Paul W.S. Anderson Is Making A House Of The Dead Movie

Blofse

Personally I would love a new HOTD which has many multiple routes and comes with a lightgun that works on OLEDs. But the days of physical games + physical devices seem over now, so the likelyhood of this happening is low. That is, unless the switch 2 has something like this up it's sleeve! Otherwise, emulation and the slindon is the way I've gone for now.

Re: Anniversary: 25 Years Ago, Sega Launched Dreamcast In Europe With One Of The Most Esoteric Campaigns Ever

Blofse

I got mine on release day at HMV with an additional controller and ready 2 rumble boxing. Was great, but I needed more games quickly. I really enjoyed the summer of 2000, when I had all the time in the world and playing virtua tennis, crazy taxi, shemnue, and lots of brilliant ports of fighting games (marvel Vs capcom, sf3, snk Vs capcom, soul calibre 2, dead or alive) with my official arcade stick I picked up in blockbusters for £30 when they were selling it in a bargain bin. Was a brilliant year and enjoyed it very much.

I wish more games come out like this - high quality, short sharp plays and not requiring hours and hours of gameplay. Them were the days!

Re: Hotel Mario, One Of Mario's "Worst Games", Is Getting A Fan-Made Upgrade

Blofse

This looks like a bad enough game for Nintendo not to shut this one down just as it releases, but who knows.

I love creativity and preservation like this, shame Nintendo is hell bent on killing things like this. I've never even seen this game and it looks quite fun, so unless Nintendo are planning something with it, it would be great to play this in the wild!

Re: SuperSega Team Doesn't Think Sega Will Have Any Issue With Its Branding

Blofse

Maybe sega, like we are, are thinking this is vapourware. But if it does then exist, sega will lay the hammer down. While it's just hearsay, nothing to sue. When an actual product, their done for. So many red flags for this and brazen attitude, if they actually pull it off and don't get clamped down, I'll probably get one. But not for a good few months after release and there inlies the problem. No one wants to gamble, but that's exactly what they need to produce this damn thing. So surely it's going to be a flop. And this is coming from an ouya owner!

Re: WipEout Co-Creator Throws His Support Behind Fan-Made Lego Set

Blofse

Be nice to have the original versions but with better textures and resolution, remastered and the full original music + new music tracks. I wasn't a fan of omega collection and for some reason it didn't capture the original feel of the game or look anything much like it. Something better than that would be nice

Re: 50 More PS1 Classics Coming To Antstream Arcade, PS2 And GameCube Games Could Be Next

Blofse

Meh I'll stick with legal emulation of my stack of PS1 games. Thankfully I backed them up - I do wonder how long they will last, can't be long now. I'm privileged to own a lot of them from OG plus loads of second hand shops and trading before they were all obliterated by game and eBay. Them were the days, and they really were - now everyone knows the value of everything. But subscription services like this IMO can't last and also don't help, mainly because licensing will always disappear eventually. Like gfn, they are all too greedy!

Re: Soapbox: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI

Blofse

Well it won't be long before AI replaces the game players for EA, at least it will replace me as I've not bought anything EA for a good long while.

Wonder how long it will be before we get made up customer sales numbers for products because a company faked the sales by using AI? Can't be far away from that.

The good thing is AI isn't actually that creative, it only creates based on the input given and therefore only combines ideas together rather than creating fresh new ideas. So think x factor music and not out there Avant-garde. This is perfect for EA who rehash games year on year, but when rewriting an entire engine based on new ideas and new graphics, that will surely have to be human.

Astro bot for example constantly makes me smile because there are so many new ideas in that along with a lot of tried and tested ones. Each level has something new however - I really don't think AI can do that.

But AI will be perfect for CoD, EA games and all the GTA6 online stuff coming when it does - rehashing the rehash until the cow is milked dry...
The good thing about that, is everything has a lifecycle in business and cash cows are usually end state until the product dies or people find a new market. AI will help kill companies like this implicitly and that's brilliant I say!

Re: Anniversary: It's Been 25 Years Since The Dreamcast's North American "9.9.99" Launch

Blofse

I bought this day 1 UK, along with ready 2 rumble boxing and I think that was it. Wasn't long though before I had many more games, ending up with about 30 in the end. Summer 2000 was brilliant, I was at college and had loads of time off in the summer just to play all my Dreamcast games, particularly crazy taxi, virtua tennis and sonic adventure 1/2. I also got into listening to Japanese chillout electronic music while playing shemnue, which had a real spiritual and emotional connection for me. Personally I think because I was a late teenager and so few people own a Dreamcast, it felt like my console. No other console has had such a heavy line up of games for that brief period. There were too many to afford to buy! Amazing to think these were direct arcade ports but without the costs of a neo geo.

Shame that it died along with pretty much the whole arcade scene after that. It was definitely a golden couple of years that I will always remember - freedom of having disposable income, lots of time and lots of less commitments, even if I was ready to be in a relationship which came just after that period of time!

Re: Latest AmigaVision Update Adds Amiga CD32 Support For MiSTer

Blofse

I loved our CD32 before giving away for some reason. Was a very "dark" time for gaming as literally the games were dark, liberation being one example. But also some amazing games like nick foldos, zool, diggers and such. Really wished we bought other consoles at the time however as it was an expensive console to buy at the time!

Re: SuperSega FPGA Team Understands Why You Think Its Console Is "Vapourware"

Blofse

Weird so basically they are saying "we know you think this is vapourware but wait until the end of September". September arrives and it will be "wait for the new year". So for me, they are actually proving out what they are trying to disprove.

Maybe I'm just cynical, the last vapourware one I went for was the ouya, I really don't want to repeat that again!

Re: The Making Of: Worms, The Bedroom-Coded Classic That Spawned A Million-Selling Series

Blofse

I had worms on the pc, although I owned an amega at the time. I spent quite a few hours with the inbuilt sound editor, which allowed you to sample audio and assign them to an audio pack, which you could then use in the game. We had "gangsters" recorded from a variety of tapes of good fellas etc, with a phono to 3.5m cable straight into a creative labs sound card. Every time I watch those films I still recognise the sample we used for that audio set, from what must be about 30 years ago ish. Very sad, but when your young you have time on your hands! Shame the internet wasn't a thing back then as sharing these samples would have been pretty cool

Re: Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Won't Include Yoshiki Okamoto's Most Hated Character

Blofse

@firenze this is correct. The psx version missed lots of frames and had slow loading times and was just generally pants. It didn't have the same vibe as the arcade and I couldn't wait for the Dreamcast version which gave us arcade perfect (this was at the same time as cps2/3 emulation was just capturing the ROMs and handling the issues like the kill switch etc). About 2 years after the Dreamcast version emulation kicked it's arse, but for me the best home versions of any of this era of fighting games was the Dreamcast, coupled with the arcade stick and it was wicked.

Re: Flashback: It's 1997, And The BBC Is Hyping Up The Battle Between N64, PS1 And Saturn

Blofse

The N64, when released, was simply outstanding. Playstation looked basic slow and fuzzy Vs super mario 64 which looked amazing at the time. Star fox and mario kart with their pre-rendered textures made it look a bit lessor, but overall it was quality over quantity Vs others. However the Saturn had amazing 2d performance only vested by the Dreamcast later on. Ps1 obviously had the main support and years of it too, as well as hundreds of quality games. They were indeed right that while the Saturn was out that the 32x and mega cd (and tbh the mega drive also) was too much for anyone.

The N64 was the last attempt for Nintendo to be cutting edge, ever since then they have been about 2-4years (or more) behind others. However, I still think the have it right longer term - lots of games that take a few years to produce with short sharp return Vs 1 game that takes 10 years or more for a 90hour game. Overall I would hope the short games win.
One brilliant thing about Nintendo - if you buy a game, you get all of it. Most games don't have DLC and the ones that do come with the annual pass which is cheap in comparison. Fingers crossed they keep that going with the Switch P

Re: Tetrisweeper Is What Would Happen If Tetris And Minesweeper Had A Baby

Blofse

Anyone else remember tetranet? It's what introduced me to Google in 1999, basically Google was easy to download files like this because it was the only search engine at the time where you could search file names and get back links, whereas altavista and yahoo didn't. Tetranet was brilliant when you had 6 people - was a bit like puyo puyo - but you could bomb your friends and stack power ups etc. probably my fav Tetris after the original arcade version and the gameboy version

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