teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[nectarsis]

Lol, the German editions of Jackie Chan DVDs, since it can do teh PAL

Ah yes, I remember teh convo    Very few PAL dvd's so far (most from the UK, or Australia)..plus I have most of Jackies flicks already 

[Tatsujin]

if got me a compact DVD player as well which can play any formats and regions as well burns and mpeg2~4 avis etc. only for 20 bucks. very cheap china thing. but not much bigger than a portable cd player.

my old victor went up into smoke so I needed a replacement

the other advantage because of its size, we can bring it to where ever we stay (hotels, ryoukan etc.) and can watch some brought with or rental DVDs and stuff).

[JapanTokei]

Congrats Blue!!  looks like you came thru with that huge collection.... I'm drooling too.  DE2!!  want want want. 

If i understood correctly you have a lot of folks in the dibs for those.. do let me know which are yours to trade... we can work out the stuff you PMed me about from my list...

Tokei

Awesome Mathius!  Last year for my birthday my bro got me this enormous millenium falcon model... its so big I have no idea what to do with it.

In other news.... these few months seem to be the months of the monty haul.. so here's the latest that has shown up at the beamer household...

75lbs of gaming goodness (and a little bit of sad since its someone's entire collection)  Details to come, as some of this lot was intended to be spread around some

[grahf]

Nice haul! I'm still not sure if those little Master Systems are cool or crappy.. I never saw one in person though.

[JapanTokei]

dude, SMS rocks.  Ys and Phantasy Star were unbelievable on the system... Platformer favorites were Shinobi, R-Type, Outrun.  (Altered Beast was only 1 player).  Plane games my fav was Bomber Raid... Goldenaxe was good though 1 player only.

Always wanted to try Golden Axe Warrior (the Zelda RPG) .. but by then I had sold the system in favor or ....  TG16 !!! 
Man 1990 was the best year

Nice haul! I'm still not sure if those little Master Systems are cool or crappy.. I never saw one in person though.

[SuperDeadite]

Master System is nice.  But Master System 2 is shit.  No card slot, no FM Unit. Looks ugly.
Proper Japanese Master System (built in FM Unit) is the way to go.

[Senshi]

Is a Mark III really worth the price of admission?

[SuperDeadite]

Mark III's are cool, but pricey.  I mean the real Japanese Master System.  See in Japan first there was the Mark III,
it got an FM Sound Unit add-on.

The Japanese Master System looks just like the World Master System 1.  But it has the FM Unit inside it, also has a
port for directly attaching the 3D Glasses (does not require the card slot adapter).

The USA and Europe "Master Systems" are NOT really Master Systems.  They are Mark III's stuck inside a Master System
case.  Only Japan got the true Master System

[Mathius]

You should hear the difference in the sound between Japan's Phantasy Star and what the rest of the world got. It's a striking difference!

[Senshi]

Deadite, can you provide a pic of the "real" master system? I can't seem to find anything except for Mark III stuff.

Edit: You mean it looks just like the black/red maser system I have?

[_joshuaTurbo]

You should hear the difference in the sound between Japan's Phantasy Star and what the rest of the world got. It's a striking difference!

Holy crap man!  That is CRAZY!!  It sounds about as good as Genesis!  I never knew!  DAMN!!

[TheClash603]

Mathius, that was really cool.  Thanks for the sound comparison post, I never knew.

[Mathius]

I never knew either until about two months ago. It's amazing what we all are still learning.

[TheClash603]

Famicom had better sound than the NES too...  apparently the Japanese think we don't know any better.

[SuperDeadite]

Deadite, can you provide a pic of the "real" master system? I can't seem to find anything except for Mark III stuff.

Edit: You mean it looks just like the black/red maser system I have?

Yes, it's the same case.  It's just the standard Japanese Master System.
Here's the only comparison video I can find.