Duration: 20:00
RetroOnyx
Nintendo Switch Virtual Boy Wireless Controller PCB
https://www.retroonyx.com/product-page/nintendo-switch-virtual-boy-wireless-controller
Virtual Boy BlueRetro Adapter
https://www.retroonyx.com/product-page/virtual-boy-blueretro-adapter
Virtual Boy Custom Wireless Controller (Fully Assembled, integrated battery and vibration)
https://www.retroonyx.com/product-page/copy-of-virtual-boy-wireless-custom-controller
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Cardosi Customs
Virtual Boy Eyepatch
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The Magnavox Odyssey. The first ever home video game console, Launching less than one year after the first ever video arcade game (Computer Space).
I have wanted one of these since I started collecting video games about 25 years ago.
Launched in 1972, and unknown to me whether it sold here in Australia at all (I suspect not).
It comes with game cartridges but there are no games on them, they simply connect different contacts together in the cartridge slot to enable different built in games. Real physical media didn't come to video games until later.
This one is untested and I'm pretty sure it's going to have battery acid damage judging by my quick look at the bottom AFTER I got it home.. really could have used that for some discount at the time of purchase but I was very distracted by stressing about an infrastructure failure which dumped itself in my lap on the drive there. I thought it was my fault but it later turned out not to be 🙄.. but the plastic is in fantastic condition so the rest can be repaired. I'm pretty sure I paid too much considering but I haven't seen one for sale locally for several years and I've been kicking myself for letting that one go so I jumped on this one.
This one is a late second revision console with Magnavox printed on the front, so it was likely made in late 1974 or early 1975, I will investigate further when I make a video on it.
Even the very last of the Odyssey consoles are now over 50 years old!
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Massive thanks to Frank for this lot!
There are the remnants of his “build one Channel F out of three” project, with hopefully enough parts left for me to make one working one,
A dead Tapwave Zodiac console with some case parts missing,
one Channel F game,
and the most abused Goldeneye N64 cartridge I’ve ever seen.. which may or may not be salvageable.
The Fairchild Channel F was the first console ever to contain games on external media (cartridges in this case). Before this any console with cartridges just used them as keys to choose different games already stored on the console.
The Tapwave Zodiac is a handheld from the 00’s which failed so badly that I’d never heard of it until a couple of years ago. It actually got a bunch of name brand games including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skate 4!
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Some time ago I bought a broken PS5 with no controller so the next time I was at a game shop I checked what cool limited edition controllers were available but there weren't any I liked. There was however an advertisement for the Astro Bot controller which was coming out in a couple of months. I figured I wasn't in a hurry since the console didn't even work yet so I decided to wait for it.
Now here's an example of how damned fast time disappears in your 30's.
I was recently at a game shop again and thought "Hey that controller might be out now but I don't see it anywhere." After googling it I must have got the PS5 a freaking year ago because that Astro Bot controller came and went in October last year.
So here's one I bought from Japan via Buyee. It didn't cost too much more than if I'd remembered to buy the local release, and I got the game itself (Which hopefully has an english option, the internet says it does) for much less than I could get it for here, even on ebay.. Until a few days ago when I got a promo email from a local shop saying Astro Bot was half price.
OH WELL!
Now I have it anyway. Expect a PS5 repair video at some stage.
Duration: 25:02
The SATA Cartridge Moron Color https://youtu.be/MXDdM80zslw?si=S_OnIGFZ8Ch5Hj_9
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This is two products from Retro Onyx.
Most importantly; The board kit to convert a genuine Virtual Boy controller to work wirelessly with the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and also important to me but not everyone; A wireless receiver so the converted virtual boy controller will still work on an original virtual boy.
An added bonus is the ability to power the Virtual Boy console from a USB C power adaptor. The console originally ran off the batteries in the controller, so another power method had to be provided.
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Massive thanks to Cheeseman1024 for sending me this one!
This is a NES Joystick made by Konix, It's a variant of the Konix Speedking featuring autofire.
This version and others were available for multiple consoles and computers.
It feels like it's using arcade microswitches but looking online it appears to have bespoke mechanical switch components. Nonetheless it's a very clicky guy.
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I just bought this off Facebook so I have options for quickly repairing the ones I use in my videos if they fail.. The two 9" monitors I have are slightly higher spec (9045QM instead of 9044QM) but most parts should interchange anyway.
The seller diagnosed it as having a dead colour in the picture tube, which is game over for the tube, but means if one of my monitors dies, and one of them is very much on it's way there, then I should be able to swap the tube from that into this one and have a working monitor. There is always the possibility that it was misdiagnosed but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
This incredible creation is an 8080 Fusion Multigame PCB from arcadeshop.com
It’s a drop in replacement for the Midway Space Invaders game and sound board assembly in my machine.
I’m fairly certain from the product description that either of these boards can be used with their original counterparts, or together as a complete replacement. I may use the new game board with my old sound board depending on whether I can tell the difference or not.
It’s incredible how bare these boards are compared to the packed-full and physically larger original boards. The entire game (actually a whole list of games, this is a multi board with a range of 8080 based games to choose from) runs off an ESP32.
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Duration: 06:38
The set is Perfect Order!
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I finally found somewhere with Pokemon booster packs, and it was the exact same little booth as last time. No 151 packs any more though.
I was only going to buy one set, I thought the promo would be Clefairy in all of them, but when the attendant unlocked the hanger there was a Charmander behind it so I had to get that too. There were others as well but not as interesting.
So for those of you in my $2.50 tier or greater I will be doing a one-take unedited opening video at some point.
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I’m working on getting one of each toaster NES text variant. These two arrived recently.
The main difference between the variants is the subtext under “Nintendo Entertainment System” the French NES doesn’t look any different from the front though, it’s not really part of that set. What makes it special is the fact that France neither supported PAL nor NTSC video formats, and SECAM, the french equivalent was so bad that most consumer electronics skipped it completely and went for unencoded RGB via a connector known as SCART, or Peritel if you’re french.
So France got their very own consoles which usually only output RGB and nothing else.
RGB is unencoded so it’ll look amazing right?
Well…
For consoles which have RGB baked into the hardware yes, but the NES does not. So internally the French nes produces regular PAL composite video (the yellow AV plug on old TVs) then feeds it into a composite to RGB converter before chucking the results out the connector on the back, which is not a standard Nintendo port despite looking similar.
So the result looks just as bad or worse than the composite output on any PAL NES.
My set progress:
Got:
No subtext (NTSC/U)
Mattel Version
Hong Kong Version
Asian Version
Hyundai Comboy
Samurai Electronic TV Game
European Version
French scart
Need:
NES Version
Version Española Spanish Version (purchased; on its way)
Versione Italiana
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Duration: 10:51
I'll be away in bali again for three weeks so I've scheduled this video to come out on youtube half way through the holiday.
Since you all get videos as soon as they are done there won't be any proper vids here for a while.
I do hope to make at least one unedited floatplane only video while I'm away though so you can look forward to that.
Hopefully I find something worth posting. Used video games are non-existent there and anything new is just regular english releases but more expensive than at home.
There aren't even any fun bootleg games.
There should be Pokemon cards again at least 😂
If you've been to Bali and know anywhere worth checking for retro games let me know. I'm not really interested in the places which just sell modded PS3s
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Duration: 04:27
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I’ve been wanting The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for ages now but the right deal hasn’t come along until now.
I didn’t really need another Wii U but it was well priced and the seller wouldn’t sell Twilight Princess separately.
Four out of the five games are ones I didn’t have, which is nice. and now I have a third Wind Waker HD 😂
The console is the black 32GB variant, which is the big one lol. The games are: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, Darksiders II, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, and most importantly The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.
I now own all three generations of Twilight Princess.
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Duration: 46:02
Here’s hoping this is a good solution to the poor ergonomics on the standard Joycon 2s.
The Nyxi Hyperion 3 is the very first switch 2 pro joycon set which actually connects natively to the switch 2.
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The Rockband MIDI adaptor lets you use real MIDI compatible instruments to play rock band on the Nintendo Wii.
That Reactor thing..
That is a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) clone which looks like a Wii, has terrible almost-wiimote controllers which don’t conform to the Megadrive Layout at all and include “motion control”. It has games built in and no capability to play anything else.
The best part is that this atrocity was actually licensed by Sega. They saw this piece of ewaste which At@ames crapped out and said “yeah sure, go for
it”.
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So I have this now. The Nintendo Switch Ring-Con is definitely up there in the weird accessories category. It’s not actually a standalone controller despite the name, you have to slide a Joycon into it. It also comes with a strap to attach the other Joycon to your leg. The idea is that the motion sensors in the Joycons keep track of the ring movement and your body movement.
The Sony Xperia Play was a gaming phone with a slide out playstation controller. It came out in 2011 so it’s basically useless today, but it’s a cool piece of history and you can still manually side load games onto it if you’re keen.
I saw Bringus got one and FOMO made me order one 😂
Except… Two arrived. They came in identical padded bags with identical shipping labels. Somehow the business which sold it printed the shipping label twice and both went through the system. Nobody in packing, dispatch, or even the postal company noticed, despite having identical invoice numbers, tracking numbers, barcodes, etc.
Everyone involved in the invoicing, packaging, and delivery chain failed.
So I want your advice. Do I let the company absorb their failure? Or does it become my problem by telling them what happened and possibly having to go out of my way to post one back?
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