Happenstance

Spec Ops The Line is currently free on the Humble Bundle Store for 48 hours. Well worth it if people haven't played it before https://www.humblebundle.com/store/spec-ops-the-line

Ok then, here we go: N64 WWF No Mercy Playstation PSOne Console Memory Card Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy IX Incredible Crisis Metal Gear Solid Speed Freaks Tekken 3 Tony Hawk 2 Tony Hawk 3 Tony Hawk 4 Wing Commander IV The X-Files Sega Saturn Clockwork Knight Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition Die Hard Arcade Street Fighter Alpha 2 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Oh and an 2tb external hard drive to make me feel a bit better that I didn't burn all of that trade in money on retro games

I'm getting close to clicking pay on this latest CEX haul. Its a lot of games...

Witcher medallion finished. I can finally start officially witchin!

Just wanted to say as well, I do love this thread and how much discussion we get going in it! (and how much money it gets us all to spend!)

I liked THPS1, played the hell out of the demo but 2 was just when it really hit for me. I went back to it recently on emulator and found myself losing hours to it just like I used to.

I have more fondness for Tony Hawks 2 but I agree 3 was probably the peak. With this latest voucher I may start recreating my old ps1 collection and those games would be damn near top of the list.

Just took the second half of my anime collection into CEX and got a nice £350 voucher so that's gonna be a lot of retro stuff for my collection! (Or one copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga )

You might be interested in this as well @Shorty. I'm gonna try and get some tests done to see how well I can get it to work. I've wanted a good way to scan 3D objects in for a while now but never looked too hard into it. https://www.prusaprinters.org/photogrammetry-3d-scanning-just-phone-camera/

I should really talk to @Goafer more about his Saturn collection. He has Burning Rangers and always seemed to talk highly of it.

I may get some more games sooner than later for it as well. I've still got a load more blu rays I plan to trade in. I just didn't want to take them in all at once!

I think I read a few months ago that Saturn emulation has finally been cracked properly now.

Going through all this stuff today just makes me wish yet again that Sega would do a better job with their older titles. The Mega Drive stuff has been pretty well looked after and we have loads of collections for that but things like the Saturn and Dreamcast eras (and Master System I guess) just dont get enough love. The Saturn especially I think was such a weird era that deserves to be shown off more.

If you don't want to buy a memory card I think its pretty simple and cheap to replace the watch battery in the Saturn so that the internal saves will work again.

Looks like you are getting some good quality prints now. That Witcher one was my first I've printed at 1.2 layer height and also the first I've manually added supports instead of allowing programs to add them automatically.

Decided to make the Witcher medallion. Just need to try and fix my primer spray can next otherwise I'll have to buy another one before I can start painting it.

I'll just get @Goafer to bring round his copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga! There were some other games I will probably still get at some point but I already went over my voucher amount buying that damn 3D pad so I could play Croc properly!

Ok then that's my CEX stuff ordered. I ended up going with: Sega Saturn console 3D Control Pad Official Backup Memory Cart Sega Rally Fighters Megamix Die Hard Trilogy Tomb Raider Croc Legend of the Gobbos X-Men: Children of the Atom

I was kind of tempted to say I'd changed my mind just to see what happens but I hate those damn postcards that you get with limited edition blu rays so I was just happy to get rid of them. Very weird thing to do though.

My problem tends to be that I've already owned most of these consoles before with loads of the games so when trying to get them again for the collection its a lot less exciting lol.

Speaking of CEX, it was a weird trade in experience today. Not only was an old couple yelling at the manager that they would be starting legal proceedings because she wouldn't give them a cash refund for the phone they claimed didn't work even though it was out of the 3 month warranty but the guy checking all my stuff did it while chatting to his girlfriend (who doesn't work there) about each blu ray and saying "we aren't allowed to sell the postcards that come with these limited editions, you can have them". So instead of offering me them back saying they couldn't sell those parts he just handed them to his girlfriend, right in front of me!

Or I could blow it all on an Atari Jaguar.

I'm basically going through CEX's site at the moment, listing everything I want and how much it costs lol. Here's what I have so far: N64 Console Mario Golf WCW vs NWO WWF No Mercy WWF Wrestlemania 2000 Sega Saturn Console Sega Rally Die Hard Trilogy Virtua Fighter 2 Croc Fighters Megamix Daytona USA Fighting Vipers X-Men Children of the Atom Virtual On

Traded in a load of stuff to CEX today so ive got £150 to spend on their site (if it ever lets me log in to register the voucher!). Gonna go for a retro haul again so need to figure out if I want to try and fill a couple of the console holes in my collection like the N64, Saturn, GBA etc or get some more games for the ones I already have, maybe even some rare ones.

I see Swery's crowdfunded game is making a return, this time on Kickstarter and with a lower asking price. I may actually back it this time. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-26-whats-changed-in-swerys-second-attempt-to-crowdfund-the-good-life