1st July 2013, 10:51 PM
So, I got a few things. First a package from ebay, second a few things I got locally.
The Ebay stuff was $20 for the four games, about $4-6 per game.
Sega Master System
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Bomber Raid - cart only. This is a shmup from Sega. Kind of feels like 1942 with a dash of Compile, or something. It's alright. Unfortunately the game requires SMS controllers, Genesis controllers don't work with this one. :(
Gamecube
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XGRA - disc in generic case. My XGRA disc died a few years back (got scratched, or something, I don't know; tried resurfacing, it didn't work), so I've been thinking of getting a replacement... and I finally have. And yeah, the game is still one of the best racing games ever made. :) It's fantastic to have this game again.
PC
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Heretic II - jewelcase only. For some reason Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen II are on DD services, but not this fourth and final game in the series. It's okay, but not great, but it was cheap enough to be worth getting, now that I have Heretic 1 and Hexen 2 thanks to some DD deals (I've had Hexen since like 1995, of course).
Saturn
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Command & Conquer (GDI disc only, disc only) - I got the NOD disc maybe last year, locally, but didn't have the GDI disc... so when I saw this, for a pretty reasonable price, I decided to pick it up in order to complete my copy of Saturn C&C. It's an okay version of the game, considering the hardware.
Also got these locally:
Dreamcast
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Tee Off - $3, complete. Golf game with a Gateball mode. Apparently it's a Japanese variant of Croquet. I wouldn't have bought it just for golf, but the other mode sounds somewhat unique... very few games about that.
And finally, and maybe most interestingly, I got a Brain Boy. It's a third party Game Boy Color accessory, and looking them up online, they cost a good $12-30 online. This one cost me $2, and works perfectly. The thing was mostly released as a Pokemon hacking accessory, as it allows you to modify your pokemon or something with some of the GB/GBC Pokemon games, but it also allows you to do several other things. First, you can create, and save to the cartridge, color palettes for use with original GB games. This lets you choose each of 10 colors, 4 for the background, 3 for the active sprites, and 3 for inactive sprites. Pretty cool feature! It's like a Super Game Boy, with the GBC's "sprites are colored separately from backgrounds" colorization mechanic. Pretty interesting. Even better, though, the Brain Boy has some kind of flash memory chip on it (yes, I see no battery in sight, only two chips!), and works as a SAVE FILE BACKUP DEVICE for ANY GAME BOY or GBC game! And it's a pretty large space, too. Room for quite a few backups. Unfortunately you can't upload the files from this thing to a computer, as it's just a cart and has no ports on it, but still, for saving some of those files from dying GB batteries, or for while you're replacing one of those batteries if you know how... yeah, it's a really, really awesome feature. You can enter a name for each file you've saved, and it actually lets you upload any games' file to any cartridge. Yeah, I'm sure you could mess games up very easily, so pay attention. Still though, it's a really, really cool feature. The Brain Boy is quite large and bulky, and using it with a Game Boy Advance SP is pretty funny looking, but it works... very nice find, I think! Oh, and finally, there's also a somewhat amusing option to run B&W Game Boy games with the CPU running at double speed (ie, GBC speeds). The results can be entertaining. :) There's another version of this device called the "Monster Brain". I believe that it's the same, except it has Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal support added; I think that this one has only Red, Blue, Yellow, and the Trading Card Game, for save file editing.
The Ebay stuff was $20 for the four games, about $4-6 per game.
Sega Master System
--
Bomber Raid - cart only. This is a shmup from Sega. Kind of feels like 1942 with a dash of Compile, or something. It's alright. Unfortunately the game requires SMS controllers, Genesis controllers don't work with this one. :(
Gamecube
--
XGRA - disc in generic case. My XGRA disc died a few years back (got scratched, or something, I don't know; tried resurfacing, it didn't work), so I've been thinking of getting a replacement... and I finally have. And yeah, the game is still one of the best racing games ever made. :) It's fantastic to have this game again.
PC
--
Heretic II - jewelcase only. For some reason Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen II are on DD services, but not this fourth and final game in the series. It's okay, but not great, but it was cheap enough to be worth getting, now that I have Heretic 1 and Hexen 2 thanks to some DD deals (I've had Hexen since like 1995, of course).
Saturn
--
Command & Conquer (GDI disc only, disc only) - I got the NOD disc maybe last year, locally, but didn't have the GDI disc... so when I saw this, for a pretty reasonable price, I decided to pick it up in order to complete my copy of Saturn C&C. It's an okay version of the game, considering the hardware.
Also got these locally:
Dreamcast
--
Tee Off - $3, complete. Golf game with a Gateball mode. Apparently it's a Japanese variant of Croquet. I wouldn't have bought it just for golf, but the other mode sounds somewhat unique... very few games about that.
And finally, and maybe most interestingly, I got a Brain Boy. It's a third party Game Boy Color accessory, and looking them up online, they cost a good $12-30 online. This one cost me $2, and works perfectly. The thing was mostly released as a Pokemon hacking accessory, as it allows you to modify your pokemon or something with some of the GB/GBC Pokemon games, but it also allows you to do several other things. First, you can create, and save to the cartridge, color palettes for use with original GB games. This lets you choose each of 10 colors, 4 for the background, 3 for the active sprites, and 3 for inactive sprites. Pretty cool feature! It's like a Super Game Boy, with the GBC's "sprites are colored separately from backgrounds" colorization mechanic. Pretty interesting. Even better, though, the Brain Boy has some kind of flash memory chip on it (yes, I see no battery in sight, only two chips!), and works as a SAVE FILE BACKUP DEVICE for ANY GAME BOY or GBC game! And it's a pretty large space, too. Room for quite a few backups. Unfortunately you can't upload the files from this thing to a computer, as it's just a cart and has no ports on it, but still, for saving some of those files from dying GB batteries, or for while you're replacing one of those batteries if you know how... yeah, it's a really, really awesome feature. You can enter a name for each file you've saved, and it actually lets you upload any games' file to any cartridge. Yeah, I'm sure you could mess games up very easily, so pay attention. Still though, it's a really, really cool feature. The Brain Boy is quite large and bulky, and using it with a Game Boy Advance SP is pretty funny looking, but it works... very nice find, I think! Oh, and finally, there's also a somewhat amusing option to run B&W Game Boy games with the CPU running at double speed (ie, GBC speeds). The results can be entertaining. :) There's another version of this device called the "Monster Brain". I believe that it's the same, except it has Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal support added; I think that this one has only Red, Blue, Yellow, and the Trading Card Game, for save file editing.