NeoGeoNinja
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Post by NeoGeoNinja on Jan 18, 2013 16:46:25 GMT
Gah I wish I could have sent some money to help, delayed pay because of Christmas bonus, so at the moment I'm running on empty, not brought a game for a week... DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT... to be honest, based on the donations, I think we all severely over-estimated how much this was going to sell for: 1/3 or 1/4 the raised amount! Which is great tbh
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Post by zyrobs on Jan 18, 2013 17:53:20 GMT
Gah I wish I could have sent some money to help, delayed pay because of Christmas bonus, so at the moment I'm running on empty, not brought a game for a week... DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT... to be honest, based on the donations, I think we all severely over-estimated how much this was going to sell for: 1/3 or 1/4 the raised amount! Which is great tbh I donated more rather than less on the prospect that I can still get some of it back if bids end up lower, but we won't get a second chance to buy the manuals if donations are too low. If one of my bank transfers got through by yesterday, I could've sent $100 more, but luckily it was not needed. Also I believe that there was a big enough coordination and public awareness with the fundraiser between all concerned retro communities, which prevented bids to be inflated by friendly counter-bids (except for that one case with the game gear manual).
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Post by zyrobs on Jan 18, 2013 17:55:46 GMT
Good work, I am having trouble with a VGA mod I'm doing on one of my Saturns (jailbars); and I believe this will help me alote Thanks again for getting this for the community Perhaps you should open a topic about that; VGA output is something the machine was only half-designed to do. I've done it before, it gets you a nice sharp image on the total of 2 homebrew apps that support VGA output.
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Post by infernalcombustion on Jan 18, 2013 18:01:04 GMT
Absolutely. The more we know the better. --- I couldn't monitor how the bidding worked out today, so I've had to wait until I got home to find out what happened. Anyway, I'm so happy that the manual got snagged for such a poultry amount. Good news indeed and nice work regarding bidding on our behalf by omp - Cheers Pete - You're a star!! ;D As far as over estimating the selling point - well, no-one here had any idea of either the interest or the value of the item. So it was always better to err on the right side of caution. Big thanks to everyone who contributed - especially to omp for contacting us and setting up the fund in the first place. Lets hope the contents of this manual are put to good use further down the line.
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Post by buzzmx on Jan 19, 2013 0:36:15 GMT
Good work, I am having trouble with a VGA mod I'm doing on one of my Saturns (jailbars); and I believe this will help me alote Thanks again for getting this for the community Perhaps you should open a topic about that; VGA output is something the machine was only half-designed to do. I've done it before, it gets you a nice sharp image on the total of 2 homebrew apps that support VGA output. Yea, I remember reading about that feature of the GPUs. I should have been more clear in my first post: I had a spare CGA to VGA adapter left over from a Sega ST-V thing I was doing and decided to use it on a Saturn I put together from 2 broken ones. I get jailbars; I think its to do with the SYC line; tones of info on this on the Mega Drive verry little on Saturn If i have no luck in with what I think is causing the jailbars I will open a new thread; Thanks for the advice
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Post by omp on Jan 19, 2013 2:35:31 GMT
Hello refunds were issued to the folks that did large donations.
Sorry it was just a ball park figure with paypal fee's and their general tom-foolery.
Cheers Pete
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Post by infernalcombustion on Jan 19, 2013 3:33:06 GMT
Cheers Pete - and hats off to you sir!!
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Post by saskatoon on Jan 19, 2013 7:02:31 GMT
Holy smokes that is so useful. I am super glad to see this will end up in the community... had I known it was going on I would have just bought the thing personally and scanned it... I have bought far more stupid things off ebay (for more as well)
I know I will be looking at this thing in the future... so thanks in advance!!
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Post by buzzmx on Jan 23, 2013 11:12:38 GMT
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Post by mancity on Jan 23, 2013 12:18:07 GMT
Can you even sell copies legally?
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saskatoon
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Post by saskatoon on Jan 23, 2013 16:40:42 GMT
Well he sold one copy to people who are going to put it in the internet so his ad description will only be accurate for another week or two, this will all end up on the internet very quickly.
And yes, selling a photocopy of work that has a copyright is highly illegal and this guy will get banned from ebay the second somebody reports him.
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Post by zyrobs on Jan 23, 2013 17:00:23 GMT
I can't blame the guy for trying to make more money off of it, due to the fundraiser most documents only had 1-2 bids and went away for the cheapest price. And once we get this stuff scanned, we'll have access to an unheard amount of insider information, which we may have never got if the guy hadn't started selling his copies to begin with.
But, I reserve judgment until omp and bock report back that they got the manuals.
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Post by omp on Jan 23, 2013 20:52:00 GMT
L@@k! lol!
I got postage confirmation on Tuesday. Fingers crossed they will be at my Father inlaws business by tomorrow (I have called him to let him know....He loves it when I get mail there).
We knew there were more copies as a member here got a PM not 5 minutes after the Saturn manual auction ended.
I seriously hope these do end up being scannable. The text pages are obviously not the problem, as long as that is readable, it's the schematics etc that has people concerned.
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Post by mancity on Jan 23, 2013 21:52:44 GMT
Did the wider retro community win the manuals for the other systems does anybody know?
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Post by omp on Jan 23, 2013 22:59:45 GMT
Yes
Sega-16 Spritesmind SMSPower
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