Interesting that they're able to do a CD drive for only a very moderate cost increase on the Mega Sg. I thought maybe they'd avoid CD but I wonder what else they will do now. PlayStation seems an easy bet once they can fit it on an FGPA chip, although they'll have to reverse engineer the BIOS.

Got it back. It's working fine but there's still some banding on the screen. Enough to be offputting     There is a pot I can twiddle with inside so I might check that out.

It's the sort of thing one has to expect with old hardware unless you are going to go under the bonnet yourself and start replacing resistors and capacitors.  I could make this a project machine and learn some basic soldering skills.

I'm considering getting the Retron 77 which may be a better buy in the long run. They aren't cheap but probably would have covered the cost of the fucking about I have done with this thing.  Might just be better getting some USB adaptors for my 2600 controllers and running them through Stella but where's the craic in that?


In other news Nights for JP-PS2 has arrived. Very nice. It's basically the same as the Steam version (which at £5 is a hell of a lot cheaper) but this feels better -could be the PS2 stick being better than the fake 360 wired pad I use with the PC.

Twinbee Deluxe Pack for the JP-Saturn arrived on Friday too. Gorgeous game.

No more fucking game buying this year unless I get a family game for the Switch.

Aye. I have a PAL 7800 but I'd like an NTSC one modded. Expensive proposition too. I have a PAL woody too and I can play PAL60 games with that. Just would have been nice to play original US games.  The PAL woody has started to play up a bit too - I always got a really nice picture with it even with RF.

I only got the US one modded because the CRT's tuner wouldn't pick it up that way.

I need my head examined really.  This US unit has been a saga to say the least - on and off for years.

Yeah - the old woody. Sadly I sold off my actual 1982 console. Like a dick when I was about 20 and spent the money on drink.

I get a bit upset thinking about that as it's all tied up with memories of my father, an uncle and a cousin - all of whom are gone now.  That little machine lit the IT spark in me too and it's how I earn a crust now. 2600 Asteroids is all part of that too.

That's why I recently bought a CIB copy of it. Not to play (have the ROM) - just to have. 

I don't think the consoles go for that much any more to be honest and I wouldn't sell the small CIB collection I have.

The 7800 does have a superb version of Asteroids - it's the only reason I hold onto to it. It's game catalogue isn't really all that special.

The main reason I like the 2600 is for paddle games - Super Breakout, Warlords and Kaboom! are still very much in my list of favorite games ever and unless I can get a way of playing those with a paddle then I'll hold into the hardware.

A Retron 77 would be cheaper than a modded 7800.

I need to put it all aside and think about what I really want.

My instant reaction is ‘how the fuck does a person end up with that many (non-pirated) games?’ But then I remembered what my record and CD collections used to be like.

Like I said, I gave my head a wobble.

My peak was probably around the 800-1000 mark, I started offloading about 2006.

I'm probably around 200 physical now, all my Switch and 3DS purchases are digital and about 80% of my PS3 and PS4 collection to.

Latest sell off was my PAL N64 console and collection. Replaced it with an RGB modded NTSC console plus a RAD2X HDMI adapter with a Everdrive 7X.

That set me back just over £200, but I made hundreds overall and saved a ton of space.

Yep, I think I sold at the right time.

NES collecting has dropped in price overall for example, obviously some are still expensive but overall retro console prices seem to peak and drop back down a little.

Gratuitous collection pic. I have everything in this corner now.

Lovely work davy!

Other than my Dreamcast collection mine is totally uncurated and consists of numerous bulk buys that I shelve and forget about. I dread to think how many I have and could do with a purge to be honest. I've still not got round to shift 4 x AV receivers that are sat gathering dust under my bed.

@davyK that's probably the biggest Wii collection I've seen.

Odd console in many ways, it's reputation for shovelware is understandable but it's got some real gems.

Just today I was searching for Silent Hill after it was mentioned on a podcast I was listening to.

Still so many games on it I never got around to buying and would love to try.

My Wii collection was trimmed slightly a few years ago. During lockdown I've started going through it playing them and so far what I've  played I'd keep...but there's some there I don't know why I'm keeping them - collectivitis I imagine. I mean I doubt I'll ever play Conduit 1&2, never mind complete them but I like the control scheme on Wii as I can't manage twin stick 3D games.

I've got Metroid Prime Trilogy too - abandoned that so many times. I used to have Prime and Prime 2 for Gamecube as well - unplayed.

Have a set of 4 boxes for Let's Tap that are out of the picture.....

The big space saving was getting rid of the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero games - had several of those with 2 guitar and 2 DJ controllers. Space was a major issue.

The wii games I'd offload are probably worthless too - so I'm keeping them on point of principle as I wouldn't give them to some reseller for pennies. Have a batch of Just Dance games the girls played too - they aren't in the picture either.

The Wii is by far the most played ever in my house - it was there at just the right time for my daughters who got into game playing age at the tail end of Gamecube. so MK Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Party, Lego Star Wars, Animal Crossing, Tetris Party, Kororinpa, New SMB Wii - all got hundreds of hours...

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@davyK that's probably the biggest Wii collection I've seen. Odd console in many ways, it's reputation for shovelware is understandable but it's got some real gems. Just today I was searching for Silent Hill after it was mentioned on a podcast I was listening to. Still so many games on it I never got around to buying and would love to try.

Quite misunderstood as a console. It was dismissed as host to mini game waggle and while there was a lot of that there was a lot of it that wasn't. In terms of mini game waggle, Nintendo's own titles in that genre were really quite good and still are. 

One example is Wii Party - a late release that in all liklihood was overlooked that feels like a assortment of ideas that didn't quite make it as a main game but are put together into a package with Nintendo polish. There's some fun ideas on that disc that we really won't see again as they used things like the wiimotes' speaker for setting up a game of hunt the animal for the kids with the wiimotes making noises every so often for them to be tracked down. There's throwaway stuff like that right up to some nice little tactical games wrapped around the usual minigame fare. Is still a regular Christmas Day thing in our house.

The motionplus upgrade to Wii Play (called Wii Play Motion) has an assortment of games that benefit quite a bit from increased fidelity and I'm betting hardly anyone played it.

You have some big box Wii games too I see? I meant to pick some of those up - Pandora's Tower et al as I reckoned they would be collectable - but just left it in the end - I was really running out of space.

This has me wondering what Wii games are of value? It will probably be some time before they go that way since it was such a success.

My daughters have a reasonable DS collection and I got them little cart pouches and made sure to take the boxes and manuals off them and put them in storage when they were young. They have some crackers - the real cream of the library - because I bought them games every Christmas for it. Not sure what they are worth now.

My modest Wii and very modest Wii U collections.



Both were much bigger once upon a time, especially the Wii U. I have since fallen in love with the Switch and have got everything re-released on that and sold the older versions.