Happenstance

Ok well I didn't win Donkey Kong Country. but instead of stopping until January instead I bought Secret of Mana and have a bid in on a copy of Final Fantasy III...

Pfft. I don't buy these games to play them. Just test them once and shove them in a drawer

Quite happy with how my collection is starting to fill out now. Getting quite a few of the important games on my list. This weekend I've won: NBA Jam Mortal Kombat II Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island TMNT Turtles in Time Last one I'm bidding on for this weekend is Donkey Kong Country. I think after that I may take a break until January at least. We'll see if anything big comes up or not though.

Adventures of Batman & Robin on SNES sold for about £52. Couldn't bring myself to go that high!

Ok then those of you who would know. I've just got the Varia suit in Super Metroid. How far in am I?

No, I need this to be the breaking point! I've got a load of new PS4 games still to play and I've spent more time playing a Super Metroid cart this week so what do I know.

I used to do stuff like that. Buy a shit load of games, play about 15 minutes of each, feel overwhelmed and then never go back to any of them. Hope you do a better job!

Already starting to see some progress after cleaning these carts. Killer Instinct now works. Tetris/Dr Mario took 2 cleans and definitely had the most crap come off it but that's finally loading now as well.

The most important question is, does Thanos sell the crops from his farm? Would we bump into him at the alien farmers market?

Avengers: Shawarma is such a dumb name though. I don't get why they kept it a secret for all this time.

I kind of see it as another Bayonetta situation. A series which is well thought of but I don't think sold massively well.

It’s usually described more like a Diablo style game.

Jaffe is Jaffe. He’s always been a bit of a piece of crap. Made that terrible Drawn to Death game most recently then threw his toys out of the pram when reviewers thought it was shit.

Chrono Trigger gave me a scare. 3 attempts but it finally started working!

I'm going through them again and having a bit more luck this time but my pile at the moment has Super Probotector, Killer Instinct, Super Ghouls n Ghosts and Lost Vikings all just giving me a black screen. Some like Mega Man X work but then everything turns into a glitchy mess a few minutes in.

I'm also a bit worried about how many games it is failing to read. Some I know work on other systems.

Got the 8bitdo working now by updating the controller and receiver. Now I just need to get the NT to update it's firmware. I'm wondering if it doesn't like mini sd cards.

Well I'm having an interesting time trying to get my 8bitdo controller working with the Super NT. Just a lot of flashing at the moment.

While it never bothers me personally (I can very rarely tell the difference between 30 and 60fps) I think the fps argument becomes more and more relevant as we carry on and it seems like its important to so many people that it should be taken notice of. Pokemon Let's Go is a motion control travesty so I can't take that journey with you. I'm too hardcore of a gamer Being a PC gamer for a lot of my life the need for physical versions of games went out of the window years ago for me. It's just something you get used to. Obviously it's hard to say for sure as all these complaints are so much more visible these days but I expect that it's not that different from years ago. Just maybe we are a bit more knowledgeable about what we are arguing. I think the return of blast processing exclusive to say the PS5 would end all these complaints.

Well I won the copy of Super Castlevania IV. Glad to finally get that into my collection. I'm hoping the person I won Final Fantasy II ships it soon, they're taking their time! It's coming from the US as well so it's gonna take enough time as it is.

I need to order some rubbing alcohol next anyway. The contacts on the Tetris/Dr Mario cart I bought are filthy!

Well despite me changing my delivery day on the Super NT to Friday DHL decided they would deliver it today. Good on the one hand as it looks like my neighbour was in and accepted it for me, annoying on the other hand as if they hadn't been there I would have to have waited until next Wednesday because they wouldn't have allowed me to select the next day after a failed attempt even though it was their fault.

It hasnt finished yet. I've said before that I have no issue with repro carts, I like the fact that people can get access to these rarer games. What I don't like and have been noticing on this latest binge is when people try to sell repro carts as the original versions. I've basically been skipping a load of auctions because the carts look too clean. Thankfully the Batman one looks dirty enough that I'm pretty certain it's real lol.

Miucin working hard to get people back on side I see.