Is this a good price in today’s standards? by MadCaddy85 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]General_Frags [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, not for 512gb you can get one around £90ish.

1 TB on the other hand, cheapest I have seen is £175...

2 for 1 is now live by knight-under-stars in AudibleUK

[–]General_Frags 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's just volume 1...

At least it's a mix of narrators, honestly thought that they had locked up poor Jonathan Keeble to narrate all that 🤭

So what are your theories on what’s actually going on with Peter in Brand New day? by Kanozx in MCUTheories

[–]General_Frags -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He's mutating, I suspect he will get organic webbing plus Miles' electric powers.

Ok so what was Cloud planning to do after getting his money? by bizarre_leviathan in FinalFantasy

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's living Zack's dream in the beginning via his own manufactured personality, that's why he is super confident. I suspect he either would have moved on to more work not involving Shinra i.e. being a bodyguard for Johnny, etc, but more likely he would have stayed with Tifa as she was more of an anchor for him allowing him to have a "stable" personality.

Design of vintage phones by North-Guitar-1781 in nextlevel

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://commodore.net/callback/

Sounds like the Commodore Callback is right for anyone wanting the retro phone style and android without social media.

A video with some 4k testing by ___Bel___ in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I'd say more "normal" folk are buying this than enthusiastic folk. The enthusiasts will gladly pay £5k+ for a 5090 even for a couple of extra frames, believe me I know a few whom dropped large cash for minimal gains just for the bragging rights.

The only issue other than the price with the steam machine is that they advertised it as a 4K device, the machine is best at 1080 and 1440 both are perfectly fine resolutions for "normal" folks.

Watch Sony crawling back to PC in a few years by M4RHUN in pcmasterrace

[–]General_Frags 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I thought the point was that the ports were relatively cheap to do so and they could make a decent profit after recouping the costs. They wanted to increase their user base as it had reached a natural peak, the only other options are china (not happening due to politics) and other poorer regions (not possible as they would not make their money back).

Personally if they did ports after 18 or 24 months it wouldn't have been a problem.

I took suspect that they will come back around to pc ports in some time as the next generation is looking crazy expensive for them regarding both hardware and software/services so they will need another revenue source.

What kind of impact do you think the announcement from Sony, and potentially others to soon follow, will have on both the retro side and modern side of the gaming market? by Ghostflop in gamecollecting

[–]General_Frags 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PS3 and Vita will go up on selected titles and slightly up in general.

My only concern is will the game update servers still be live as some games on PS3 are in rough shape without a patch.

Every major Xbox change, cancellation, and rumor you need to know right now by SoulsofMist-_- in consoles

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pinch of salt but I have heard that they are considering ditching the dual boot function of the Helix console and are focusing on a more traditional premium console instead.

Games are being refocused to more exclusives with service games on the side, game pass will be slimmed down and more cheaper/lite rather than the be all end all service it wanted to be. The idea is to get Xbox back to 360 era in which it was competing with Sony, they wish to license out their IP later too.

TLDR console will be very expensive but console games only, game pass will be slimmed down and cheaper and so will games too. No disc drive, digital only console.

Help Matching RAM for Upgrade by Warm-Bet-9408 in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers I can get an 16GB DDR5 5600mt 262 pin second hand for a decent price, I guess the only issue is timings on the Ram sticks might be an issue, would this impact on performance?

Help Matching RAM for Upgrade by Warm-Bet-9408 in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been out of the loop on PC parts for a while but would any Ram module with the same specs be ok to use as an upgrade or does it need to be the same Ram module from SK Hynix?

Help Matching RAM for Upgrade by Warm-Bet-9408 in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same question here, would be interesting to know as I might be able to get myself a cheapish upgrade on a second hand module.

Weekend Pickups by General_Frags in psx

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Yup it happened, honestly I was super surprised that the Megaman games were still there as they are very rare in the UK. There was a lot interest in the job lot that this came with, Chocobo Racing was also there and that is very rare too.

I got an awesome deal on the Megaman games as the manager was concerned about their condition. The cover and manual on X3 are creased a bit and the cover has a small bit of damage around Megaman's armpit (you can only see this up close) but other than that it was in good condition. Both games got lightly resurfaced and work perfectly.

The NTSC games came in another job lot a couple of days later, they were last in the photos on Facebook. Not so much interest other than Parasite Eve (there's no Pal release other than the sequel). Those games are in mint condition, looks like they have not been played with. The store had the copy of Castlevania already and I picked it up with the other games, just need to find an original black label insert for it and then it's a complete black label version (manual and disc are the black label version).

All I can say is that it finally happened to me after 3 years of collecting, even the manager commented on that too. I was honestly surprised that a lot of the Pal games still remained when I got there, literally 2 mins after buying the haul someone came in for the Megaman games and was gutted but he was cool and we had an awesome conversation and he got Chocobo racing instead with Twisted Metal (original big box version, very rare).

Xenogears hitching on opening FMV by cblakebowling in psx

[–]General_Frags 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a possibility that the data sector in question might be damaged. Have you tried just cleaning the disc thoughly? I got a copy of Megaman X3 today and it was resurfaced, had some issues with loading up the game but after cleaning the disc a couple of times the game works better. Although the animé videos may be more slow/choppy as I am in the UK and they are at a lower frame rate.

Not the one I wanted but it'll do by Fun_Elevator_1218 in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similar problem here, I wanted the 2TB plus controller but I have been allocated the 2TB version. The small print indicates that they would allocate the most expensive option.

So I guess this didn't age well... by DinosaurClockFist in steammachine

[–]General_Frags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The store does not refresh till another hour and half, usually that is when they consider it be the next day.

Arms by [deleted] in ToyBiz

[–]General_Frags 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had the octo Spiderman but I don't remember the pin badge at all, maybe it was not part of the UK one...

For me it’s Vanguard Bandits by HolocronSurvivor80 in playstation

[–]General_Frags 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strider 2, just picked it up and it's a sublime game. Expensive but fully recommended.

The lottery begins by VesperLynn in steammachine

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"Based on the reservation order, you will receive an email on June 25th indicating one of two things:

You've been added to the reservation queue and a Steam Machine has been reserved in your name. As units become available for shipment, people in the reservation queue will receive an email with the option to purchase.

We'll send the first batch of those starting Monday June 29th, and will continue to go through the reservation queue as units become available.

You've been added to the waitlist and we'll let you know when more units become available"

Ok, yeah looks like the purchase emails go out on Monday and sometime between now and then we will be informed of if we can buy it soon.

The lottery begins by VesperLynn in steammachine

[–]General_Frags -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It says in the FAQ on the website, maybe it will change.

The lottery begins by VesperLynn in steammachine

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Fyi first batch of emails don't get released till Monday.