Recent content by ferant316

Bad Blu-Ray Diode, so unfortunately cleaning won't help. Luckily it is only about $30 for a new laser assembly and if you are comfortable disassembling to clean it is not much harder. You just have to make sure not to move any gears out of place as those are a huge PITA to get back lined up as...

So all in all I had a pretty good day but not without a couple heartbreaks. A sale popped up yesterday that mentioned vintage video games and to email with any questions. I emailed and she said she had a SNES, Saturn, N64 and PSP with 10-20 games for each. I asked her to hold them for me and she...

My dad still rubs it in my face that he turned down stock options in early Apple in favor of a cash bonus to help when I was born! EDIT: My bad I realized later it was Microsoft stock he was offered as a bonus (500 shares) that today would be worth almost $4 million.

Got caught by a fake yard sale trap today. Person posted on craigslist saying they were having a yard sale and had many vintage game systems for $5/ ea and games for $1/ ea. The pictures they posted showed an NES, Turbografx and Sega Genesis/ CD/32x combo in the top of a box and 3 or 4 boxes of...

Ditto on Lego Marvel. I am refreshing in hopes it comes back but then it will be one game by itself and probably come by the time Lego Marvel 2 comes out (obviously exaggerating but still their standard shipping is SLOOOOOWWWW)

Relatively easy and only about $30 to fix. Just make sure not to move the gears on the Blu Ray drive when you replace laser as they are a pain to reset correctly and will take it from a 30 minute repair to several hours of trial and error.

It's funny how many of us found 3DS systems this weekend. I got another one today but this one the top screen just stays black. Must be the weekend of 3DSs

1st sale - Black GameCube, Platinum Gamecube, MGS: Twin Snakes, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2, Mario Kart, SW Battlefront, Battlefront II, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Republic Commando, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight $40 2nd sale - 52 60s Matchbox cars $10 3rd Sale - CIB Wii, Loose Wii...

See that a lot people see listings for Heavy Sixers for $120-150 and think their 4 switch Telegames Atari is worth that.

Yes yes a million times yes. A few times now I've even resorted to peeing in empty Gatorade bottles. Getting older sucks I used to be able to hold it all morning even after chugging two large coffees.

I've done this quite a few times. Sucks being nice sometimes doesn't it?

No battery in Castlevania, it saved to memory cards. The blue crystals must have been some Heisenberg level Meth.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/pre-sale.html You have to be able to ship in 30 days and set the handling time to how many days until you receive the item to ship.

Bing if you haven't already try taking the cart apart and rub the contacts with a pencil eraser until they shine then scrub with alcohol to clean them. 9/10 times that fixed games people told me they couldn't get working

I guess you could say I was having a shitty day. I wish I could say it was the first time it happened, but have found raccoon or other wild animal shit in boxes that were obviously stored in barns/sheds. That and other gross stuff you accidentally tough is why I always keep jugs of water...