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How I crushed in to
Video Games |
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Hi PAL! (or are you NTSC?) Here is the story of me getting in to this hobby long time ago, before the word "Retrogaming" was even invented. Starting with 8 and 16-Bit era, where games been played, projected on a cathode ray tube scree |
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Castlevania Symphony
of the Night ~ 21st
birthday |
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21 years ago in November of 1997 a follow up to the greatest game series of all time Castlevania was released in Europe for the original PlayStation under the subtitle Symphony of the Night. At the time when most games went 3D, this one stayed loyal to 2D sprites. I borrowed SotN from a local rental store and knew directly it was a masterpiece! Back then . |
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Shenmue, Yokosuka,
real life places &
interview with spot
guide map co-creator
Ms. Eriko Furusaki |
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Last month I went to Yokosuka in Kanagawa prefecture and also visited Dobuita street. If you familiar with Shenmue (a video game from 1999 for the SEGA Dreamcast) then you know what I am talking about. Yu Suzuki, the creative director behind this game used names and specific places from Yokosuka in Kanagawa prefecture as insperation for Shenmue (chapter 1). Now 19 years later a person, who likes and play video games and also work for the city of Yokosuka tourism department, had the idea to bring out a guide that takes you to all these places in real! We met that person and talked about this guide map and the story behind it creation.
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Demon's Souls Server
shutdown OFFLINE |
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Today was the last day for Demon's Souls to have it's online features. With shutting down the servers, the great era of unique onlineplay going to an end. After 9 years I finally managed to finish my first playthru and put this beast to slee |
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PlayStation 4 Slim
GT Sport Limited
Edition by ALDI |
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ALDI (Sued and Nord) going to make an exclusive offer on 24th October by seling a PS4 Slim with exclusive design for a limited period. If you interesting in silver-black design and a silver PS4 controller (by the way its a same controller you can get at amazon as LE Set), then for 299,- you can do nothing wrong. ..but personally I would prefer a PS4 PRO
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Booty from
Retrobörse 2017 in
Bochum |
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Yesterday was a Retro-Games-Market in Bochum where I got some completion to my collection, since there still some games missing. It was a hell rainy day, but in the end it was worth it for me to go there. ----> Sexy Parodius! Finally! |
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Game Boy cartridge
battery replacement |
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Common problem with all cartridge based games, that use a battery cell to keep volatile memory alive. Now one of my games lost it save states and I would like to use this opportunity by sharing some tips with yo |
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www.bangkokthetravel
guide.com in
Uncharted 4 |
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The website on the back of the "Ultimate Traveler Info Guide" magazine in Uncharted 4 is already purchased by somebody. *UPDATE - ... but naughty dog removed it with a 1.04 patch for good! |
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Twin Famicom running
in RGB mode |
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Just a couple weeks ago I bought a Sharp Twin Famicom on my last trip in Japan. Now finally I installed the NESRGB PCB from Viletim http://etim.net.au/nesrgb/ in to it and it works! I will do a review on that later... |
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Game Boy cartridge battery replacement
posted by Kaneda – on Sun. 28.August 2016
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Surprise Surprise!
All your save states are gone!
Wellcome to 20 years later ...
Since 2010 or even before you may notice many tutorial videos appeared on the internet, where people started to post tips how to replace battery on a single cartridge. That was the time when 3V button cells (made in mid 90s) began to say "good bye".
Why using batteries anyway?
So why did they had to use batteries back then? Why not using flash-memory? Using volatile memory like DRAM & SRAM was very common in consumer products. It was very cheap in first place. Flash-memory existed already, but it was much more expensive to implement it. Also nobody expected back then, people will still play this games after 20 years. Retrogaming was not invented yet.
What kind of battery and where to get new one?
First of all you have to know what kind of battery type you need for your game. Usualy it is a CR1616 in almost all GB Games. But there are also some games uses CR2025 type, like Wario Land 2. The exact name of the battery you need, can be found on the PCB near the battery itself. Also it is important to know that it is not good try to solder the battery on a solder tail/tab or cable. If you do it, you will add enormous stress on the chemical content of the battery, reducing it lifetime or even damaging it completely. Go and buy a proper button cells with tabs on it. I got my batteries from AliExpress, you can also get them from eBay if you in hurry or don't care about the price.
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Wario Land was my first game on the original DMG ... I love it!
Well thank you for that Nintendo! To open cartridges or other peripheral you need a special "NINTENDO" screwdriver or bit. Nowadays it is very easy to get one, but back then(mid 90s), without internet and living in the countryside, almost impossible. To make bit by melting plastic pen was never an option for me.
Date code on the battery: 95-08
0,125 Volt ... dead
Got delivery from Aliexpress ... CR1616 100pcs.
New battery is now in place
I always put a date code on it, for some irrelevant statistics another 20 years later.
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