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General Gaming / PS3 HD Upgrade

« on: June 05, 2014, 07:13:33 AM »

I decided to upgrade my HD to ensure that I had enough space to patch all my games and download new ones.  Plus I figured a 7200 RPM drive wouldn't hurt.  So I had an 80 GB hard drive that was pretty much completely full.  My backup said it was 63 GB.  Then on my new hard drive I show 116 GB used after restore.  Did something mess up in the transition?  Do I need to re-restore?  Everything seems to work fine.  Games play, they all look there.  I put in a big enough HD that the extra space isn't too detrimental.  I'm just confused how I would end up with more unless something was corrupted. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Stealth Inc 2 (Wii U exclusive)

« on: May 01, 2014, 07:14:53 AM »

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-s-an-actual-new-wii-u-exclusive-coming-stealth-inc-2-announced/1100-6419285/


I'm intrigued.  Looks like a platformer where the gimmick is the stealth part.  Looks really hard.  Not sure if anyone has played the first one and has other opinions of it. 

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General Gaming / Retron 5 - ???

« on: September 23, 2013, 10:11:26 PM »

I haven't seen a post on here about the Retron 5.  I've never had a clone system before but I couldn't help but to pre-order it. 

Plays NES/SNES/GEN/Master System (thru Power Converter), all gameboy systems
Upconverts all games to 720p
Bluetooth controller + slots for NES/SNES/GEN/MS controller (controllers can be remapped)
10 save states per game through SD card support
Use any controller with any system
# of different filters including scan lines
supposedly 100% compatibility and no lag action
ability to speed up or slow down games (Mario at 200%?)
built in game genie code support
$99 price tag

Am I dumb?  I actually have all these systems and a GBA player on the gamecube, but I'd been considering getting a 2nd SNES for another TV and I think this would be nice to try instead.  I'm big on the save state support (only reason I've been supporting VC), and HDMI output since it is difficult to get a good setup on an hd tv with an old system. 

Typically clone systems have provided an inferior game option compared to the original and this may not be able to pull it off, but I like how this is trying to bring something new to retro games.