ClassicGMR

I have every CD, live CD, compilation, boxset, DVD released. AC/DC is my #1 band (though Disturbed took the #2 spot years ago). I, for one, get it. Scott or Johnson? (yeah yeah... but Evans doesn't belong in the conversation)

I already have mine on pre-order. Walmart is allowing customers to put them on "lay-away" as a way to pre-order. This will allow me to pay it off slowly and get my console on release day. I also get my 10% Associate discount so another incentive to do it through Walmart. This will almost definitely, in all honesty, be my last console purchase. I stopped at PS3/X360 and have not regretted it. I have so many games now that I will never play that it makes little to no sense to buy yet another system that will sit there and stream Netflix... My NES, SNES, GBA and N64 are set up with Everdrive carts and my Atari has a Harmony cartridge, my PS2 has a HDD with McBoot and on top of that the PS3 and XBox 360 still have games I haven't played through. My PSP emulates everything up to PS1 (except N64) and makes it all portable. Oh... and my GameEx arcade cabinet with every emulator available plus MAME. Not even mentioning the library of over 270 GoG games waiting to be played. That's ridiculous. I'll never play all that even if I am reincarnated as my own great-grandson and have another lifetime to play them all. So yeah ... I want the Switch. I will have it. I doubt I'll ever buy another system though so I will enjoy it all the more. Besides... I'll say it again... EDIT: I am also curious to see if the community can "crack" the Switch and turn that into the all-encompassing emulation station the PSP had become. EDIT2: I just noticed I mirrored Draco's comments from this weekend. Unintentional but true never the less.

And now we've lost Debbie Reynolds today as well. Mom and daughter within days. Sad year we've had.

I was going to splurge for one but I have a PSP that's running Stella plus emulation all over the place. I WILL get one but I'm thinking next year if they come up with a new model. Hell the Flashback is almost every year. As for the extra buttons I'm sure most have option assigned but the reason for it is they used the same housing they already manufactured the Genesis portable in.

I have a few of these framed in my office. They look good next to the MAME arcade cabinet. I don't know if they are originals or reprints but I don't care either. It's for display and not for collection (in my case). My personal favorite is the Mat Mania flyer. There are some in the video I will be looking for now though. I love the Marvel vs Street Fighter flyer @ 23:25. That looks great! I've also tried to get some Star Wars flyers on the cheap like @39:02 but always get outbid. Guess I'm a cheapskate.

This is another HUGE selling point. I like that the console that can be picked up and taken out without loss of quality. ELDER SCROLLS! I will most likely be doing a pre-order/payoff on this. Something I haven't done in 16 years. I read some more on it here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

I am not a huge fan of what Nintendo has done lately. Having said that I am actually looking forward to the Switch. This is the first time since the Playstation2 that I am excited about a console launch and will be following this closely. The architecture looks good and while it's obviously not a $1800 PC gaming rig it looks like it will be able to run the games I care about very well. We'll have to see.

Mat Mania was the game I spent the most time with simply because it was installed at the laundromat not a half mile away from my house. We spent hours and hundreds of quarters on that machine.

Shane! Come back!

And to drive the point home - I'm watching some of these clips on my laptop in the bedroom. I played the last one and my wife pipes up and says "YOU'RE watching Star Wars???" (I'm not a fan) Off-topic : Clint Eastwood is such a badass.

Ah this will be a nice upgrade for my system and I'll be watching my bank account for any spare money. I'm still running a 1GB nVidia card from a few years ago.

Obviously you've been discussing this for a while but have you checked out the Mayflash adapter? Every controller in my arcade setup is an OEM controller with a USB adapter connection. There's also the obvious Genesis clone USB pads.

Well now I hadn't seen this until today. Very nice update to the launcher! I'll be adding this to my arcade cabinet tonight. Awesome work Adultery as usual. And thanks yet again for doing the launcher in the first place!

That will be a must buy. Yeah people are going to yell at me - and I do love my Atari games - but there are a lot of Atari games that had better artwork than gameplay. Offtopic - Now having said THAT there were a lot of games that became even more fun when you read the manual and immersed yourself into the story. Those are my favorites. Yar's Revenge is a great game made better by placing yourself into the story!

I go through phases. There will be months I won't play anything emulation-wise then I suddenly want to again. Like right now my entire gaming universe is EverQuest on the Progression server Phinigel. Since I work 3rd shift again I don't have a lot of time to spare. It's good to know, though, that it will be there when I want it again.

February 1986 - SNK releases Ikari Warriors. How old do you feel NOW? Positively ancient... My Atari from 1977 still works...

At the risk of sounding like a 13 year old fanboy... That was awesome. I love Disturbed. Loved their remake of Land Of Confusion. This one goes right up on my list as well. I like how they started the song as a soft remake then by the last stanza it was all their own sound. Very nicely done. Thanks for the share Draco.

TL;DR - unless you're lucky enough to find premade sets you're going to have to do the matching by hand. However since most of us are Completists you're also going to have to edit your ROM lists manually to filter out the stuff you don't want. -------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately I had to do what tthurman mentioned but in the end it was completely worth it. I love my setup now and it's exactly how I want it. I edited every ROM set on my Arcade Cabinet for every system(except MAME - I use the Favorites feature for that) and matched the file names for box, cart, overlay, snap, etc as I downloaded them. When I started doing this though there wasn't much on the internet set up for this kind of thing. There were a few sets I acquired that were pre-matched and I just deleted the ROMs I didn't want but these are rare. Perfect example is Atari 2600. There are a couple thousand ROMs according to Good2600 but you don't need 7 versions of Asteroids. I deleted anything that ended with [a1], [b1], [R2-D2], had a European release under a different name, etc. One shortcut I used later on was finding Hyperspin-labeled sets and matching the ROM name to the set. Someone did all the muscle work so it took less time. Side note - There's some games I just can't find a video preview for so I downloaded a YouTube video of the game (there's a lot of them) then used a program to cut a section out as a video snap. It's on my cabinet so I'm not sure exactly what that program is called right now. Some video snaps also don't show how to play the game. You can tell the snap was made by someone who didn't know the game so this method also shows a better representation of game play on your cabinet. Hope all that made sense. I'm still tired this morning.

There's a lot planned for this year's 50th Anniversary. I have to admit though - of all the things I would like to see this has me the most excited. I don't know why but I cannot wait to see the old girl flying proudly once again. Restoration of Star Trek's Original Enterprise

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