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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Emmett The Crab on November 17, 2013, 06:11:19 pm
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Check out my ebay auctions. Selling tons of SEGA stuff, if anyone is interested.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/cb_podcast/m.html?item=161153327341&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
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I need to sell all my Saturn Collection as well... So i'll be making notes and seeing how your auctions go.
Best of Luck.
Personally I would've liked to have sold my entire collection to a trusty physical retro store. But those ******** always sell double the price of ebay and buy for 50% off ebay.
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I bid on your Dungeon Master II for Sega CD =)
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That SEGA CD rocks disc is so strange. So it's music and images appear on screen? Is it a normal music CD as well?
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so tempting..
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That SEGA CD rocks disc is so strange. So it's music and images appear on screen? Is it a normal music CD as well?
I have that. Yes, they do work as audio discs. When played on a SEGA CD, you get various images either of the artist/artists, or album artwork, along with trivia/liner notes that appear on screen. When SEGA CD failed to meet Sega's expectations, they started including a ton of software. My brother bought one of these packages. We got SEGA Classics (Golden Axe, Shinobi III, Columns and Streets of Rage), Sherlock Holmes, Sol Feace and the Rock Paintings 2-Disc set. Most gamers pawned these for games. Great novelty though.
I like it for The Information Society's "What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy)". The liner notes are almost pure nonsense and the drawings are goofy. Reminds me very much of Maniac Mansion, but brighter and more cheerful.
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Do these types of CDs exist outside of SEGA, like was it something that CDs at the time featured as a bonus and it played on systems other than SEGA CD, like the Phillips CD-i?
I ask because I'm interested in picking up a few off ebay, non SEGA ones, just to experience the wacky tech of the 90's.
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Yes. CD+G discs, if I remember correctly, are still used today for karaoke. As far as I know, the VCD enabled Saturns, CD-i and TurboGrafx-16 CD were capale of playing CD+G discs. Beyond that, I don't much else. I used to come across 'em all the time in second-hand shops in California, but none for artists I cared about.
P.S. The 3DO plays 'em too.
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Thanks! I came across this online: http://www.cdplusg.com/cdplusg/Main.html
Might hunt down the classical music ones and a few compilation discs. Gotta love that old technology...
Remember photo CD players?
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Oh my God, talk about nostalgia. I used to see Photo CD players at Circuit City way back when....
We're old, Barry. :(
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Somebody threw it in when I bought my SEGA CD, so I haven't put Rock Painting in yet to try it. I suppose I should do it once before I sell it. Joey might like it.
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Oh my God, talk about nostalgia. I used to see Photo CD players at Circuit City way back when....
We're old, Barry. :(
True dat... Photo CD, Betamax, Phillips CD-i, Laserdisc... our house had all the failed tech. Which is funny because when blu-ray came about my dad didn't get it because he has been burned too many times by buying new tech early and it ends up being the wrong choice. He finally did get a blu-ray player last year and loves it. Still has the CD-i... I might ask him to bring it along for Thanksgiving so we can try and play some Mad Dog McCree, Mystic Midway Phantom Express, The Apprentice, and The 7th Guest.
CD-i actually had a pretty sweet gun. The "Peace Keeper Revolver":
(http://www.freetimeweb.nl/home/picture/sub/electro/video/cdi/cdi_peace-keeper_gun.jpg)
Somebody threw it in when I bought my SEGA CD, so I haven't put Rock Painting in yet to try it. I suppose I should do it once before I sell it. Joey might like it.
Yeah! Check it out! Would be interesting to hear what its like.
Hope I'm not hijacking your thread. It's just that seeing your auctions brought back a lot of memories.
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I miss Betamax. My aunt had one way back when. She would record movies off of cable since you could still buy blank tapes at retailers. Whenever my folks and I would visit, I'd watch Alien, Big Trouble in Little China and Lethal Weapon all the time. Some of those tapes were old as shit, but the quality was fantastic. Betamax was a much better format than VHS. It's a real shame.
We never had enough money to be early adopters, though I did screw up with HD-DVD. However, I felt the quality was better. Serenity, The Thing and Batman Begins looked so much better on HD-DVD. Movies were cheaper and many discs would carry over extra features from the DVD releases....
I miss HD-DVD. :(
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I preferred the name HD-DVD, as it was exactly what it was: an HD DVD. I've gotten used to blu-ray, but the name still isn't great for what it actually is. Plus, having "blu" in the name lead to blue packaging, which made total sense when going against HD-DVD (blue=blu-ray, red=HD-DVD), but now here we are years later and companies are STILL using the blue cases and in turn artwork for covers tend to include blue in some way to tie in with the package color: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZvIpcAwQS._AA1500_.jpg
And when they don't go with blue, it typically works against the design: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81gAezoDU8L._AA1500_.jpg
On black, that could be an effective cover for a horror movie. But as is, red and black on blue reminds me of Papa Smurf or Santa.
That's why I prefer boxed sets that don't use any cases, or releases that use black (Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit) or clear (Criterion) cases for the blu-rays.
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I agree. Totally. I know Sony went with "blue" because they used blue laser diodes and all, but I would've preferred something a bit more streamlined and to-the-point.
The one company I love is Criterion. It seems that, no matter what format, they go with clear cases now. Admittedly, you really need to pay close attention to the box and make sure that you're getting the desired format. I almost bought Kubrick's The Killing on DVD when I wanted the Blu-Ray. Thankfully, I caught it before reaching checkout. Same thing happened with Fincher's The Game. In any case, I'm glad they go against the grain.
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Laser Discs weren't failed tech. They lasted just as long as VHS, and were superior to VHS.
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LaserDisc is deemed a failure only because it failed to gain widespread appeal. It sold a bit better in Hong Kong, Japan and so on; places where VHS couldn't gain ground due to humidity and expense. Even then, the VCD was more successful because they were cheaper and easy to reproduce, which pirates loved.
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Sorry, didn't mean to say it was an outright failure. More like what AJ was saying. It was a niche market. The tech itself was great, but it failed to gain widespread appeal. It's like how people thought blu-ray would be, but that ended up to break through the niche markets thanks to blu-ray players being so easy to come across nowadays.
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I knew that's what you, personally. Figured I'd clarify for you. :D Hahaha!
The tech was great, and some movies and extra features haven't crossed over to DVD or Blu-Ray. LaserDisc, in Japan, even received the theatrical version of The Phantom Menace; something that hasn't found its way - officially - on DVD. It was a gorgeous presentation. The Criterion Collection had some incredible releases too. I'd love to snag a player myself.
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I had an animation professor in college (recently) who still prefers laserdisc to current formats. I don't think the compression was as bad as it is on DVD. Although you do have to flip 'em and swap 'em like vinyl records. Also, some more obscure films have never been reissued in new formats.
I remember as a kid, in a summer school activity, a teacher brought in a laser disc player. This player was capable of recording a user-programmed sequence of scenes. You could rearrange the order of scenes in a movie. So the activity was for groups of kids to make their own edits of Ghostbusters. This was pretty hip for circa '85.
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Oh yeah! A lot of folks still prefer LaserDisc over DVD especially. Even some more notorious films haven't found their way to new formats, like Disney's Song of the South. That was available on LaserDisc; not DVD. As far as I know, Disney has no plans to release it for either Blu-Ray or even DVD.
I read about that. Sounds badass. If I remember correctly, even ILM made use of LaserDiscs as an alternative to film and VHS when capturing practical elements that had to match previously filmed sequences. That format really got around.
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Have you heard of this recently discovered laserdisc?
https://www.facebook.com/rotjeditdroid
30 minutes of Return of the Jedi footage from a long lost EditDroid Laser Disc, used for demos showing off Lucasfilm's EditDroid technology.
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Isn't Laser Disc superior until they get damaged, where they can really fuck up the picture quality in certain areas?
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Isn't Laser Disc superior until they get damaged, where they can really fuck up the picture quality in certain areas?
That's kinda' true of any format, though LaserDiscs did have one unique problem; "laser rot". The deterioration of the aluminum layer due to oxidation or other chemical change. This usually results from the use of insufficiently pure metal for the reflective coating created during replication, but can be exacerbated by mechanical shear stress due to bending, warping or thermal cycles (the large size of laserdiscs makes them flexible, so that movement along the bond between layers can break the seal -- this is called delamination). Deterioration of the data layer can be caused by chemical contaminants or gases in the glue, or by moisture that penetrates the plastic substrate.
From what I understand, that was a bit on the rare side. Possible, but unlikely.
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Have you heard of this recently discovered laserdisc?
https://www.facebook.com/rotjeditdroid
30 minutes of Return of the Jedi footage from a long lost EditDroid Laser Disc, used for demos showing off Lucasfilm's EditDroid technology.
Not before you posted it, no. That's badass!
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Fair warning: the SEGA CD Rock Painting CD will be mine. :|
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Alright, who bid on Dungeon Master 2? We're gonna have to duke it out.
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Thanks guys, buying my sega stuff is getting me out of trouble with my wife. I was supposed to buy. 3DS with the proceeds, but I bought one first because a good deal on an XL came up on craigslist.
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Knuckles, I mailed out your package today, so I would feel a lot better if you paid. :)