The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread

[Ji-L87]

He bought one of the two I told you about. ;)

I need to figure out how to buy stuff in Japan.  Seems like it would make A.) my life easier and B.) my life cheaper.

Me too! What's a good english website to buy stuff from japan without having to go through eBay??

Rakuten, Game of Japan, Japan Game Stock

All of those, and then there's the Segagaga Domain Store if you want to buy Saturn games.

[Nando]

coming soon...Dr Paolo! but for now this will do

I have to bug Rob to let me play that some time soon

[JapanTokei]

You did damn good.  Terra goes hits 100 by itself at times already.
Bonks revenge has gotten more desirable too.  Im still after a minty copy myself.

Picked up nice, complete copies of Terra Cresta II, Dead Moon, and Bonk's Revenge (all PCE versions) for $112 shipped.  Did I do alright or do I need to turn in my F@CK EBAY card?

[SuperDeadite]

Managed to get the massive full on SX-Window 3.0 System Kit for a very cheap price.  And even cooler, when I opened it, it also contained a full original set of SX-Window 3.1 (the last and greatest version) as well!  Making a great deal, and amazing lucky find.  The box for this thing is insanely big though lol.

[Mathius]

Is that some kind of OS? I notice that Hudson Soft played a part.

[SuperDeadite]

Yes, it's a windows like OS for X68k computers.  Hudson created Human68k (like DOS), while Axis created SX-Window, which is a shell that runs on top of Human.

[DragonmasterDan]

Yes, it's a windows like OS for X68k computers.  Hudson created Human68k (like DOS), while Axis created SX-Window, which is a shell that runs on top of Human.

It's like GEM for DOS if anyone remembers it.

[SuperPlay]

I remember GEM, showing my age now ;-) LOL

[Opethian]

didnt someone hack Win95 to run on the X68030?

[SuperDeadite]

didnt someone hack Win95 to run on the X68030?

Haven't heard of that myself.  But Sharp did officially license and release an X68k version of OS-9.

[Nando]

Helping the X68K fund and my collection

[JapanTokei]

Guys, this is off-tangent but since I'm looking to buy a TV soon, prob can get by to put in what did I buy here. 
I;m 90% moving back to Tokyo soon!.. if I bring my US HDTV, can I still watch the new JP standard digital broadcasts or would I need to get some special JP set-top box?  Deadite - you seem to be the master at these A/V stuff... anything I should know about?

[SuperDeadite]

Sorry total garbage shit like LCDs are somthing I ignore.  They are shit plain and simple.  If you come back here and want HD, just get a Sony Trinitron HD-CRT.  LCDs are a cancer that need to be cleansed.

[NecroPhile]

The boxed CG showed up yesterday.  Thanks, Tokei!

[Opethian]

some obey came my way

[Sparky]

Nice ope!!! And nice to see your getting some use out of the Xbox as a display table


For me I picked up this last week, I thought it was a transformer at first but a working cassette deck was what I got. Model number PK-3 from 1985 and its in amazing shape. Now to find my first cassette.... Van Halen 1984

[Mathius]

Nice, Sparky! The song Jump(1984) always transports me back to the mid 80s. It's made of pure nostalgia.

[PunkCryborg]

Man I love it Sparky! I always have my eyes peeled for 80s walkman when I'm out. Some of them are very collectable and sought after!

[Samurai Ghost]

Man, that is one radical walkman!! Seems pretty compact too. My old walkman I had as a kid was gigantic and heavy. Then I got a kool-aide walkman from saving up kool-aide points but it was really cheap quality...

[Tatsujin]

few HO stuff

[dingsbums]

@ ope
I'm looking for Sol Moonarge like forever  - Congrats.

on topic

PCE
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PCE box games
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other games
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PS1
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PS1 opened
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Arcade PCB
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it's this game 
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Mega CD2
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it's with a Multi BIOS Mod 
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MOTU
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[Mathius]

I'd give my left nut for that Namco collection box set.

[Tatsujin]

I'd give my left nut for that Namco collection box set.

accepted

[Mathius]

I'd give my left nut for that Namco collection box set.

accepted

Shipped. 

[JapanTokei]

nice sexy mints.  Sol is a great RPG.  enjoy it. 

how is that Dragon Knight & Grafitti?  I've been after a minty one like that for a while now..

some obey came my way

[TheClash603]

I was jealous looking at the other He-Man stuff, so I got this at the flea market today.

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**EDIT**
SHIT!  I knew something was wrong and this castle seemed smaller and was missing something...   this is new Castle Grayskull.

Throwing it in the garbage!  Worst $2 I ever spent.

[Amadeusama]

June so far ...
Bottom right is for Win95-XP @640x480res  (Still got an XP-partition on my iMac, used for gaming sometimes.)

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[Opethian]

I loved Izo great film not one of Miike's best but nothign could be worse than Andromedia lol

[PikachuWarrior]

Picked this up for $35 from Half Price Books. I believe he also did illustrations for Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed, among other ones. It's a 2 disc cdrom that has various sketches/drawings, a mousepad, and instruction manual in the front inside flap.

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[Sparky]

June so far ...
Bottom right is for Win95-XP @640x480res  (Still got an XP-partition on my iMac, used for gaming sometimes.)

That Shawn of the dead: self defense looks interesting... Could you let me know how it is

[Bernie]

Its terrible Sparky..  I hated it.  But, that is my opinion...

[SuperDeadite]

A long time dream come true.  Original Japanese Riot loke-test/proto pcb.  This game was cancelled after the loke-test and was never released in Japan.  (It was sold commercially in Europe though).

[Tatsujin]

nice one dead

[hoobs88]

A case of the newest Mountain Dew Flavor!

These arrived on Friday but I didn't have time to photograph them until today:


Thank you Bartre for the awesome job on the repro cartridge of Castlevania: Blood Moon 


Cave Story 3D

[Opethian]

anything new in Cave Story 3d? or is it just 3d now? heh

[hoobs88]

anything new in Cave Story 3d? or is it just 3d now? heh

anything new in Cave Story 3d? or is it just 3d now? heh

I was hoping it would be a new adventure but so far it appears to be the same game just in 3D.

[Amadeusama]

That Shawn of the dead: self defense looks interesting... Could you let me know how it is

Well I just sat through it, and it was a real meh!-experience.
"Zombie self defense force" was nothing like "Shaun of the dead", really. It was not scary, it was not good, and it wasn't even funny, this side of a single good joke in the whole thing.
They had obviously no budget beyond lunch for the crew, and sadly they don't act it quite badly enough to be fun.

I've been spoon-fed with really bad flicks like this in the eighties, so I could sit through it, and not "want my money back", yet I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

"Izo" on the other hand rocked!
Took me a few minutes to get into the film, but once I understood what it was about, I felt this movie had been made with me personally in mind. Great thing, truthing all the way, great inescapable nihilistic anger-fest. Add to that the fact that it guest-stars every other Japanese movie star out there.

"Ashura" I liked way more than I thought I would. The ending was stretched and broke with the mood of the whole movie, but I really liked the leading male actor's performance. The guy came from theater/musical stage background and had never been in a movie before. He completely ignored the camera, and played to an imaginary audience instead, and the director got that to actually work in this film. Remarkable. 


EDIT:

Oh, and as of the PCE games I bought:

CD Battle was a real let-down. I didn't expect it to be much of a game in the first place, as I knew its background as barcode battler rip-off. But the randomly generated characters don't make any sense. You get characters with so few HPs, they almost die all by themselves, without the enemy side having to do much. Sometimes you get characters generated that have awesome spells, but they are randomly generated to not have enough MPs to actually cast these... How dumb is that?!
Plus, I went through like maybe 20 audio CDs, and I only got a "hidden" character out of one of them.

Avoid this "game".

[munchiaz]

Here are my recent pick ups. the Gunpey, cookie and cream, and meteos were found at good will.

[SMF]

Here are my recent pick ups. the Gunpey, cookie and cream, and meteos were found at good will.

I love DKC Returns, They need to make more. Also How is Lollipop Chainsaw? Ive heard mixed reviews on it. Some say the controls are odd and some say the games to short and the bosses too easy. Ill prolly pick it up buy when its used in a year.

[munchiaz]

Here are my recent pick ups. the Gunpey, cookie and cream, and meteos were found at good will.

I love DKC Returns, They need to make more. Also How is Lollipop Chainsaw? Ive heard mixed reviews on it. Some say the controls are odd and some say the games to short and the bosses too easy. Ill prolly pick it up buy when its used in a year.

I really like Suda 51. Thats why i got it. I enjoy it. I think the controls are fine. Im not really to far yet though. I say if you arent really a big fan of suda 51 games (killer 7 no more heroes) then wait until its cheaper. Also im sad about this but im returning the DKC tomorrow to the game store. my girl bought it used for me and they charged her $40 for it. Which is way over priced for a used copy of the game.

[nectarsis]

I think I am going to pick up the PS3 version just so I can play the MSX originals.

To be honest the versions included with the PS2 and PS3 releases are not the MSX originals. 
They are actually ports of the cellphone versions.  Same game, but they use new character portraits
instead of what's on MSX.

The Vita version shows the MSX load up screen when they start.

[SuperDeadite]

Well I can't speak for the Vita as I haven't bothered to check, but the ps2/3 ones were the cell phone version.  And yes the cell phone versions had the MSX bios screen as well.   The games are pretty much the same, differences being the character portraits.

[Colossus1574]

Nice, Sparky! The song Jump(1984) always transports me back to the mid 80s. It's made of pure nostalgia.

just saw them back in May....man Eddie still ROCKS on that guitar!!! Lee Roth doesnt rock so much on the mic...

I was jealous looking at the other He-Man stuff, so I got this at the flea market today.

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**EDIT**
SHIT!  I knew something was wrong and this castle seemed smaller and was missing something...   this is new Castle Grayskull.

Throwing it in the garbage!  Worst $2 I ever spent.

Clash, it would help if you have a Sorceress figure instead of a NES cartridge sitting there  HAHAHA

[Mathius]

Pity. I still feel bad for not being able to attend a reunion show though.

[nectarsis]

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[Lilgrafx]

I wanted to buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lords-of-Thunder-TurboGrafx-Turbo-Duo-CD-Complete-/290732101155?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item43b0fbce23&autorefresh=true#ht_500wt_1182

But I have to use my bros paypal and when I asked him to make a bid last minute he started yelling "darkness!" and refused to buy it. He says darkness when ever I want to buy a PCE game, because for what ever reason he only wants me to get TG16 stuff. When the auction ended he looked at it and said "oh that's a turbo game, I should have bought that" Bastard

[chany60126]

I wanted to buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lords-of-Thunder-TurboGrafx-Turbo-Duo-CD-Complete-/290732101155?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item43b0fbce23&autorefresh=true#ht_500wt_1182

But I have to use my bros paypal and when I asked him to make a bid last minute he started yelling "darkness!" and refused to buy it. He says darkness when ever I want to buy a PCE game, because for what ever reason he only wants me to get TG16 stuff. When the auction ended he looked at it and said "oh that's a turbo game, I should have bought that" Bastard

$50 is isn't exactly a good deal for LOT. That game can be had for $30-35 with a little patience. But it's a great game nonetheless and definitely worthy of having in your collection.

[Mathius]

I wanted to buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lords-of-Thunder-TurboGrafx-Turbo-Duo-CD-Complete-/290732101155?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item43b0fbce23&autorefresh=true#ht_500wt_1182

But I have to use my bros paypal and when I asked him to make a bid last minute he started yelling "darkness!" and refused to buy it. He says darkness when ever I want to buy a PCE game, because for what ever reason he only wants me to get TG16 stuff. When the auction ended he looked at it and said "oh that's a turbo game, I should have bought that" Bastard

$50 is isn't exactly a good deal for LOT. That game can be had for $30-35 with a little patience. But it's a great game nonetheless and definitely worthy of having in your collection.

Yeah I picked up my copy brand new for $35. Patience will be your friend with this game.

[Tatsujin]

brand new like sealed brand new?

[Tatsujin]

he started yelling "darkness!" and refused to buy it. He says darkness when ever I want to buy a PCE game, because for what ever reason he only wants me to get TG16 stuff.

what a very strange bro