March 2018 hauls - Stuff for the 3rd best month of the year!

[TDIRunner]

Yea these are great sticks for the PS1 and even for the PS2. I only have one and I am on the hunt for a 2nd. Be careful when opening it up to clean it. the turbo switches like to fly across a room. and it is a good idea to get some lithium grease on the stick.

Yeah,  unfortunately it's not working perfectly.  The analog stick isn't working in the right direction and the X button appears to be stuck down like it's always being pressed.  The place I got it from guarantees it, so I'm going to see about getting another one.  If they don't have a replacement, I might look into trying to clean it.  I can return it and get my money back, but I hate to because I've been looking for one for so long. 

[TDIRunner]

I'm done hooking everything up.  15 consoles are hooked up into the inputs and I have 4 outputs running to 2 TVs.  I also have all of the presets programmed which will make selecting a system with its output easier.  There are only two things I still need to do.  I have to make labels for the inputs and I need to make s-video to BNC adapters for my systems running s-video (I currently have them hooked up with composite).  You can buy s-video to BNC adapters, but for some reason they are crazy expensive.  So far everything is working properly and the signal quality looks great. 

[Bear78]

Finds from a flea market over the weekend.

[tylerbgood]

I don't typically post my hauls, but I got such a good deal yesterday that I had to share. I stopped at a garage sale (first one of the year!) and this guy had 3 mixed boxes full of video games, cell phone chargers, coaxial cables and grime. He offered to sell them to me for 10 dollars. I saw a couple Xbox 360 games mixed in with his DVDs and he sold them to me for a quarter a piece. He threw in the GBA for free. I told him that the stuff was worth more than what he was charging me, he agreed and said he knew that some of the games can sell for big bucks, but he just wanted to get it out the door. It turns out he buys abandoned storage units and resells what he finds, and gets so many old electronics he just wants to be rid of them. Apparently there are another couple boxes that he's going to dig out also filled with "video game wires" so I'll be stopping by again soon!

I spent a few hours last night cleaning it all up and testing it all. Not pictured is the large bag of old coaxial, component, and USB cables, old phone chargers, and broken headphones. Everything pictured works, although the PS2 disc tray struggles to close. I have no idea what the value on Pirate Adventure is, pricecharting doesn't list it and ebay isn't much help. Overall, this is probably the best deal I've ever gotten on a video game purchase. $10.50 for all this!

[RealPlumpBox]

Retro Games Plus here in Connecticut has a Donkey Kong arcade machine, and offered a $50 gift card to whoever sets the high score by the end of February.  The high score was 140,000.  I tried several times but stalled at around 130,000.  Finally, on my last game on the last day of the month, everything went my way and I scored 320,000.  Now I have to wait for some good Saturn stuff to get traded in so I can spend my prize.

That the one in Southington?  If so I remember when they opened.  They had a terrible selection but I would ALWAYS find at least something to buy.  The owner was really cool to.  Unfortunately I moved from there almost 6 years ago to Seattle.

[redsox2012]

Retro Games Plus here in Connecticut has a Donkey Kong arcade machine, and offered a $50 gift card to whoever sets the high score by the end of February.  The high score was 140,000.  I tried several times but stalled at around 130,000.  Finally, on my last game on the last day of the month, everything went my way and I scored 320,000.  Now I have to wait for some good Saturn stuff to get traded in so I can spend my prize.

That the one in Southington?  If so I remember when they opened.  They had a terrible selection but I would ALWAYS find at least something to buy.  The owner was really cool to.  Unfortunately I moved from there almost 6 years ago to Seattle.

No, that's a different store.  Retro Games Plus has stores in Norwalk, Orange (where the DK machine is), and Newington.  I live only a few miles from the Newington store - they always seem to have great stuff.

@tyler above - great haul.  Seems odd that someone who buys storage units for a living can't be bothered to sell the valuable games he finds.

[TDIRunner]

Last picture I will post of this.  I made some labels for the inputs.  Luckily someone on my local Facebook retro gamer group already had a template sized perfectly.  I just had to drop in some logos and print. 

I guess I need to buy one more console to fill in the last slot.  Keeping an eye out for a cheap AES or consolized MVS.

[tylerbgood]

@tyler above - great haul.  Seems odd that someone who buys storage units for a living can't be bothered to sell the valuable games he finds.

He's an older gentleman and it appeared to be more of a hobby than an occupation. I got the impression that there are certain things he looks for like precious metals, jewelry, and old tools. Everything else - items like clothing, old electronics, kitchenware, etc - just piles up in his garage and he sells it all off dirt cheap to make room for more.

[Tech13]

Last picture I will post of this.  I made some labels for the inputs.  Luckily someone on my local Facebook retro gamer group already had a template sized perfectly.  I just had to drop in some logos and print. 

I guess I need to buy one more console to fill in the last slot.  Keeping an eye out for a cheap AES or consolized MVS.

WOW that looks great!

A while back MY GF made me these with her vinyl cut machine. http://www.mediafire.com/file/7apg4wg4wh9gth4/IMG_0093.MOV

[TDIRunner]

Last picture I will post of this.  I made some labels for the inputs.  Luckily someone on my local Facebook retro gamer group already had a template sized perfectly.  I just had to drop in some logos and print. 

I guess I need to buy one more console to fill in the last slot.  Keeping an eye out for a cheap AES or consolized MVS.

WOW that looks great!

A while back MY GF made me these with her vinyl cut machine. http://www.mediafire.com/file/7apg4wg4wh9gth4/IMG_0093.MOV

Those look good too.  What kind of switch box are you using?

[Tech13]

This is it: Pelican System Selector Pro (Black) however I did scrape the pain of the backs of the plastic tabs and the black vinyl was placed to make the new logos. 



https://www.amazon.com/Pelican-System-Selector-Pro-Black/dp/B0002MHF22/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[Stryphos]

Love seeing the Saturn pickups.  Don't see Saturn locally too much anymore.

[Tech13]

Love seeing the Saturn pickups.  Don't see Saturn locally too much anymore.

I have not seen a Saturn game in the wild for almost 3 years now.

[Megatron]

I finally grabbed a retro access cables SCART cable for PS1 and a pretty ok SCART to HDMI converter.  PSX games look great!




And I was in a local game shop and found one of the games from my Bucket List...these 3 cost me about $200 total.



I'm not one to pay retail price, so I was surprised to see Tron Bonne for $160.  It was marked $200, but was 20% off due to minor water damage to manual and back insert.  If you look, it's there, but it isn't noticeable unless you look directly for it.  So I was happy to grab it.  Darkstalkers I already have, but its the long box version.  I am after an all Jewel Case variant for PSX ( I like uniformity) so I grabbed this one for $40 with a plan to sell my longbox version.  Finally, the Saturn controller was only $20.

[Tech13]

Got some chinese Amiibo cards. the Mario Kart set.