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It's an amazing collection.

I'm currently in the boat where I'm in the 'need more room' phase. I also would love to display my boxed stuff. I'm going to hold off for as long as possible, but eventually the wall where I have my Nintendo sign and Zelda cels will most likely become another rack of games. I'm going to try and prolong that for as long as possible.

What I find interesting about this video is that many times he's not even sure of what he has. That's how huge his collection has gotten. He doesn't even know what he owns! I've actually found myself getting to this point too, and it's kind of scary. I saw that Next Level Games was selling The Castlevania Adventure for Gameboy. I got all excited and thought how I should go buy it. I started thinking about it and it hit me, I already owned it. Not a good sign.

Also, love that he busts out the Action Max. I didn't have a working one, but you could still watch the tapes/games in any VHS player. Pops Ghostly was so bad. There is a very slim chance that and a few other Action Max games are still at my parents.

I find it interesting he also had to build a corner of his room just to house more games. Like that wall of NES games. He built that out just to fit all that shit. It's crazy.

The only thing that sucks about that room is that it's ugly. It kind of just looks like a junk store down there. None of the shelves are painted and they're all just nailed in against that plywood wall tile shit. If he was somehow able to empty that room out and completely rethink it, it would be the most amazing place in the universe. Actually it's still pretty fucking amazing.

Went to NL games on the way home from work and finally picked this up...





Also snagged Pro Wrestling for $1.99 The Amazon FTW.

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Nice. Duck Tales is still great.

The Nerd's collection is crazy. I'm never going to get to that point, mostly because I just want to get things I want to own. Having complete sets of console games has never occurred to me. That being said, I do want a lot of different games and I enjoy owning harder to find stuff, but I'm not gonna go track down a copy of something like Panzer Dragoon Saga just because it's rare.

Anywayyyy, picked up some stuff I had on hold at work today. Final Fantasy Adventure, Omega Boost, 1943, and Dual Hearts. Little of column A, Little of Column B.

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Cool pick ups. And yeah, my collection would also never get like his because I'm not interested in owning every freaking game. He had a shit ton of 3D0 games, but how many are actually worth having? Then again, his business is also based off hating on bad games, so I can see why he grabs everything under the sun.

I've been wanting to play through FFA again for ages now. Who knows if I ever will. Omega Boost seems like an awesome game.

I played through Final Fantasy Adventures a hundred times, the final boss song of the game is still one of my favorites.

I haven't played it since I was a kid. Never owned it. I'm ready.

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I don't think I played through FFA. I know I played most of Final Fantasy Legend(s?) 1 and 2. At least, I remember playing through one of them until almost the very end, and simply didn't know how to continue. There was this boss that you had to kill, but I could never figure out how to kill it. I even leveled up to the point where it couldn't kill me, and I couldn't kill it. I remember fighting it for over 6 hours one day thinking just one more hit and it will die....

And Ducktales is a great addition. I always wanted to get the second one, but have never seen it in a price range I would pay (it is pretty rare, so it goes for like $20-30, which is more than I want to pay). Where is Next Level Games? Is it over in PA or something? I think I have been to someplace with a similar name, maybe it was Next Level... I don't remember anymore, as this would have been a few years ago probably a few months after the 24 hour NES marathon which got me back into playing many of the older games again.

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It's in Blackwood New Jersey.

Yeah I never had Duck Tales growing up and always wanted it and have been trying to get it for a few months now, finally NL got another one in so I snagged it for $7.99.

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That's a good deal. I wish I had it.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

I could just go to the moon and listen to the music and be pretty satisfied. Game is that good. Fucking canned nostalgia.

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Duck Tales is actually harder than I remembered it being. I could blast through that game easy when I was a kid, but when I played it for the marathon I got my ass handed to me. I ended up finishing it, but it was a battle.

So I'm looking into how to connect the Xbox to the cabinet and it's going to cost like 150 bucks. I was hoping it would be cheaper. I have to buy a controller adapter, the monitor/audio adapter and something called a J-Pac, which is the JAMMA adapter these things hook up to. So... bummer. Doing the Dreamcast would cost even more as for some reason the controller adapter for that is like 3 times the price of the Xbox one. But I think once I get the Xbox set up, that's all I'd need to get the DC going. I'm assuming the J-PAC would work with the DC, and I already have my DC running through a VGA cable, which I think also goes right into the J-PAC. I don't know how the audio works though... it keeps saying you run a line to your PC speakers. I don't really know what I'm reading when it comes to this shit. There has to be a way to run the line into the cab speakers. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

This thing is basically going to be like my hobby car. Something I dick around with and figure out probably more so than actually sitting there and enjoying it.

Jim, how come you never got MAME running on your cab?

edit: Also, I don't really want to buy any of this shit until after this thing is inside my house. So it's just going to be sitting there for a week or two. That is going to drive me bonkers.

Did you get the good ending? You have to score above a certain amount of money. And by "good" ending, you I mean he's sitting on top of a pile of gold instead of just having a chest of gold.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

During the marathon no. When I was a kid? Yes.

I want to leave the Simpsons cabinet dedicated. If I made that a mame I'd end up wanting to alter the buttons. I took apart my mame cabinet and built a big ass digital picture frame. I have a new idea for a mame cabinet I've been planning for a few weeks now. I was actually going to build a coffee table with joysticks a and a computer so all you'd do is plug it in hook up the hdmi to the big screen and play.

That sounds good...I am thinking about building a mame cabinet soon...since my cabinet dream is still there. I was thinking about getting an empty cabinet sticking it in my garage, getting a PC that can handle MAME and one of these things...

http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joy ... sb-cables/

That's really all I would need besides a monitor.

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You can sometimes find empty cabs for free on Craigslist. I've even seen TNT give some away. They still require work other than just buying the guts though. They're usually beat to shit, so if you want to pretty it up, you gotta put in the time. New trim, a fresh coat of paint, etc. It would probably be pretty rewarding to fix one up. I was actually thinking of doing it down the line and just leaving it out in my garage while I worked on it here and there, but then I'd have no where to put it when it's done.

Jim the coffee table idea is pretty sweet. Maybe you could build your own custom cocktail table. Drop an LCD in there (since it's thin) and put glass over top of it. Then leave the option to either run it to the TV or fire it up through the table itself.

Phil, that is an interesting idea.

Oh and for those that are thinking of using those X-Arcade controllers, please don't. I know it is simple and easy, but I have played on them once, and to be honest, they felt horrible. It might simply be that it was an earlier model, but I don't know. The buttons themselves just felt mushy.

But the company at least has a sense of humor. Under troubleshooting:

"MY CONTROLLER IS TOO HEAVY!
Use your handheld controller and hit the gym. Excalibur is a heavy sword. Good luck!"

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Yeah I always wondered about the build on those controllers. If worst came to worse though, one could always just replace the buttons and sticks that it comes with assuming they use standard sizes. At least all the wiring and what not would already be done.

So I got my Blast City today. I uhh, don't really know how I feel about it. Hahahaha.

Well, one, it's more beat up than I thought it would be. I know I'm not going to find one in amazing shape, especially not for a fair price, but still, it was in worse shape than I thought. When I was riding home with it I was kind of thinking "Maybe I shouldn't have done this." It smells pretty bad too. It's actually not even in the house.

I drove home from the Pocono mountains this afternoon. I expected to get home earlier and clean up down here to make room for it, but I hit bad traffic. Told the buyer I'd be at his place by 3, so I literally only had time to eat a quick sandwich and leave. So anyway, when we were bringing it back we realized we needed a hand truck to get it down into here. Well since it was such a mess down here (I have stuff pulled out trying to gather items for this yard sale I'm doing) the thing smells so bad, and because I don't have anything to play on it, I just decided to throw it into the garage for now.

The first thing I did was take a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to it. That actually really helped bring it back to life pretty quickly believe it or not. The guy put some new sticks and stuff on here but I don't know why he didn't really take the time to clean the thing off. It had lots of just stains and dirt all over it. The coin slot was nasty. I removed that and cleaned it up and it helped a lot.

There are some serious scuffs on the sides of the unit. Like it looks like it got caught in some door ways. There are various other scuffs too. I plan on buying some paint for it and trying to cover them up. There isn't much I can do about the Blast City side art being scuffed. I guess if I really wanted to, down the road I could make new side art, but that would be really down the road.

The speakers are kinda dented in as well. The guy said he painted them, but it looks like he just took a brush over them really quick. You can tell because the holes on the speakers are filled in. I'm almost wondering if I could just dip these things into some sort of paint thinner, removed the paint job and do it myself somehow. The burn in on the screen is a little worse than I thought too, but it looks okay when everything is up and running.

So I mean, I'm not completely thrilled with this thing. I didn't expect it to be in 100% awesome shape, but I guess I expected it to be a bit better. Still, it is kinda cool having a Blast City out there. Like I said, the quick job I did with the magic eraser already helped things out big time. There are some ugly pealed stickers on there too. I took one off with Goof Off and it looked good, so I plan on getting the rest with it. It just needs a bit more care than I expected it to.

Here are some shots of it in my garage

Thats awesome Phil I am glad everything came off without a hitch.

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Thanks man.

The site Arcade Otaku is great. I just got all the user manuals, marquee and side art scans from there. So I could totally print my own side art at some point.

Phil, is it all metal? Or is that just a shiny plastic on most of it?

I am not sure what to tell you about the smell. A lot of that probably has to do with dust inside and grease/oil on the outside. If it was ever in a smoker's house, some of that will seep into things like the boards, etc., and can be very difficult to get rid of. You can always stick in a thing of arm and hammer baking soda or activated charcoal inside it to help absorb some of the smell. It may take a while, but after a month or two it would really help.

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Haha yeah I actually had the idea of sticking in something like baking soda in there to help the stink. I was out there with it all morning cleaning it up and whenever I'd remove a new panel the smell would blast me. It smells just like the dudes house, so I think it'll leave in time.

I tried to touch up the paint today. The cab is all metal. The paint on it is almost like car paint. I bought glossy white Rustoleum as recommended by my Dad. He did say the white would probably look completely different, and I agreed, but I was hoping once it dried up it wouldn't be so noticeable. Well, it's pretty dang noticeable in many areas. On certain angles and curves I can get away with it by the way the light is reflecting off the unit, but the moment I tried to do some of the larger areas on more flat surfaces it really looks bad. The thing is, I don't know what's worse, the bad paint job or the scuffs. Ha. But like I said, it looks pretty good in certain spots, so it's not all a complete wash.

I cleaned off the bezel and it was disgusting. It was also loose when I brought it home but I got it on there better than the owner did so it's nice and tight. I have no idea how to get to the speakers in an attempt to try and place them back properly. I thought once I got the bezel off that I would be able to sneak around the back and adjust them, but there is a plate between them and that area, so I'm really kind of at a loss there.