Contacting the bank tomorrow. Haven't done an international transfer before but I have identified the form I have to fill in that my bank requires.

This is exciting davy!

Money sent. Jesus.

I have an invoice from them and I've spoken to them on the phone. But still. Money.

I feel a bit like Grand Moff Tarkin after being talked into letting the Millenium Falcon escape from the Death Star with the tracking beacon.

Money out of my bank account now. Jeepers.

Post lots of pics so we can all live vicariously through you.

retroking1981 wrote:

Not been in here a while. What you end up paying @davyK

$2,600  inc. $600 delivery.

There will be import tax on top of that. My queries have resulted in answers ranging from zero to 20%. I am assuming the worst.

So it's approx £2,000 + up to £400 import tax which is applied to delivery costs which is a bit hard to swallow.

It has largely been funded by my clearout with chillout games which I got £2,000 for in total.

When I got that money from chillout it was used at the time to complete our house extension project but with the understanding I could do this when an endowment matured earlier this year. It was an endowment I originally started as part of the mortgage on my first house - I moved to a repayment mortgage 17 years ago but decided to keep it on until it matured as a little savings plan. So now it has matured and this machine is now available (have been waiting 18 months for one to become available).

It's all about the import tax and then hoping the delivery process all goes well. The supplier has a very good track record shipping pinballs and cabinets worldwide. So it should be OK.. 

I'm starting to think about selling some more stuff if I'm honest. I have 80-odd CIB SNES games , mostly PAL, that I simply don't play any more.

Also , if I had bought it at the time I did my clearout the supplier's prices were lower (was $2200 then) + I didn't have Brexit and the knock sterling took.

Timing wasn't right though. Shrug.

Great stuff davyK!

Shipping costs being part of the import tax sucks but I understand it's like that so people can't get by the taxes by paying higher shipping fees while marking the value of the product lower.

I just bought a fully modded (50/60Hz, region, modchip) Saturn from Consolepassion. Excited about it, now I can play some fan translated games like Dragon Force 2 and the Shining Force trilogy without much hassle while also getting the benefits from the 60Hz and region free mods.

Also bought Dragon Force (PAL), Duke Nukem 3D (PAL), Pandemonium (PAL), Dynamite Deka (JPN), Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius (JPN) and Bubble Symphony (JPN). Going to try to take a break now.

Pulled the trigger on Panzer Dragoon Saga. Been looking at eBay daily since I bought the Saturn and today saw a complete very good condition one for €299 or ~£260 from Spain. Hurts a bit but I really shouldn't be losing money if I decide to sell it one day and it really is in very good condition.

Been playing Asteroids this evening in the Four Quarters pub/arcade nearish me.  It's a striking game Davy, still looks incredible.  Great choice, it's the most timeless game in the pub, including Point Blank.

Edit: Maybe excluding Galaxian, love that.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Been playing Asteroids this evening in the Four Quarters pub/arcade nearish me.  It's a striking game Davy, still looks incredible.  Great choice, it's the most timeless game in the pub, including Point Blank. Edit: Maybe excluding Galaxian, love that.

I've opted for Deluxe which Atari created in response to operators complaining about people lasting too long on 1 credit. Hyperspace is replaced with a finite shield enabling more skilful play and there's homing satellites (which I believe at least partially inspired Geometry Wars) and more intelligent ufos that prevent lurking.  The score rolls over at 1 million (the original rolls at 100K) AND deluxe also retains the top 3 scores after power off.

With deluxe you are also looking at a reflected image instead of directly at the monitor - it gives a very effective "floating" image.

I can't wait. Excited and hopeful all will be OK....it's a long way to travel. Price includes power conversion for UK 240V.  They have delivered quite few to the UK so reasonably confident it will get here in one piece.

Don't worry about that!  I wouldn't even take the back off my old CRT. Big old capacitors in that technology.

Would be a waste of time anyhow - wouldn't have a clue. TNT offer lifetime phone support and I know a couple of local electrical-bods who mod consoles etc who could probably help if given directions from TNT if any problems arise. 

I'm told the worst they have seen after shipping is the fluorescent tube has come loose and just needs slotted back in.

However TNT clean every PCB connector, reseat and clean all ICs and replace all capacitors. They put in a new power supply & fuse block and they rebuild the monitor electronics;  new capacitors, diodes etc. They will put a new flyback in (whatever that is) if needed.  New LEDs on the 1 player/2 players buttons and they replace the controls too - new buttons etc.  They leave the machine running for 24hrs as a final test. So it should be pretty problem free given the reduced number of hours use in a home situation.

They will email me a video of the completed machine for my perusal before shipping.

Excellent story. Excellent game. The cabinet looks to be in decent condition too. I love the control panel.

Basically, I just loved the idea of using a GameCube controller to play an N64 game running on a Wii U via a Wii Remote. It's a four-tiered console-ception. BWAAAAAAMP.