October 2009 Finds

[Kitsune Sniper]

So, what have you found this month?

Please don't make posts about the bags of candy you bought at a store.

[skaar]

I found... second place!

[Cornelius]

What happened to the tradition of whoever has the first find making the thread?

[InsaneDavid]

What happened to the tradition of whoever has the first find making the thread?

Starting to be like a YouTube comment list, isn't it?

Anyway, at about 1am this morning I brought home three of the 18,000+ Codes and Cheats books that Prima puts out. No big deal but they were defect and destroy so they were free - undestroyed of course.

Let the PSP go posts commence...

[Steve W]

Well, I'm down here in Lake Charles, Louisiana visiting my uncle. I decided to hit a bunch of thrifts in town, and sadly didn't find much. A loose Truxton for the Genesis, and Primal Rage, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Johnny Bazookatone for the Sega Saturn along with a boxed Saturn Game Shark cartridge, all $4 each. Then the lady tells me she's going to let me have them half off! Nice. I stopped at the local Play N Trade and didn't find anything of interest. I did, however, find something at the Play N Trade in Beaumont, TX. I bought a Sega Mega Drive cartridge (loose) called Mega Games 1. It has Super Hang-On, Columns, and World Cup Italia '90 on it, and was all of 99¢. I have a couple other British release Mega Drive games, and it always amazes me to locate them in the wild. How'd they end up on this side of the Atlantic? And how did they end up in a game store in Beaumont, Texas? I wish the cartridges could talk and tell me their life story.

[InsaneDavid]

I wish the cartridges could talk and tell me their life story.

I think that quite a bit myself, especially with arcade cabinets. When I look at a coin counter on one of my cabinets such as the Klax (which strangely enough has over 40,000 cycles on it) I think about all the games that have been played on that machine and the places it had been. One coin mech being for US quarters and the other for Canadian quarters only makes me wonder more. Same with the Galaxian cocktail, how many first dates took place at that machine in the early 1980's? Heck, on my girlfriend and I's first date we played Galaga on one of those 20th Anniversary Class of 1981 cocktail machines - and that was in 2006.

[Kitsune Sniper]

What happened to the tradition of whoever has the first find making the thread?

There's rules? Nobody ever tells me these things.

I found the first season of CSI on DVD for $4. There, you happy? :P

[Cornelius]

There's rules? Nobody ever tells me these things.

I found the first season of CSI on DVD for $4. There, you happy? :P

Of course! And I decide what they are.

A couple months back somebody got raked over the coals a bit for starting the thread without having a find, although I think he actually posted it before the month started, as well.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well.

So is this thread going to get locked too? :P

[Sonicwolf]

What happened to the tradition of whoever has the first find making the thread?

I embarassingly killed it three months ago by making the next months finds topic 6 hours too soon.

[Cornelius]

I embarassingly killed it three months ago by making the next months finds topic 6 hours too soon.

Fortunately for you, Kitsune, me, and all the other non-find-posting twits in this thread, this, IMO, seems to be the most easy-going section of the forums. Much easier to joke around here and not be mistaken (or taken?).

Er, um, anyway, I found Pick Axe Pete! and Speedway for Odyssey2. Don't come across O2 games much. I don't even have a system, but they were 60 cents each, so I couldn't really pass. About 2 years ago I found around 8 CIB O2 games, and both of these were in that lot, so they are for sale/trade, although I don't imagine they are really worth the cost of shipping.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Technically from yesterday, but seeing as I didn't really get the stuff until today,(Mom picked it up while I was at work). I took advantage of the Buy one get one 50% off sale at TRU and got:

Guitar Hero 5 - Game only - Xbox 360
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - DS

Got the KH at half price and already filled out and mailed out my stuff to get my free GH: Van Halen.

[Cornelius]

Stuff on the right is previously listed find stuff I hadn't taken a pic of. The LOTR game I hadn't seen before. It is a CD-rom interactive movie type of game, new/sealed, and was 2.80. Starcraft things were 1.80 each, pokemon games 5.80 each, and the SFII tiger game was 1.40. Bought the tape so I could test the talkboy (got rid of all my cassettes a long while ago), .60 and 2.80.


Got lucky on CL yesterday. Caught an ad for this lot within about 30 minutes of it being posted. By the time I got there (30 min away) the woman had had tons of emails about it. Paid the asking $35.


Picked up the router for 10 bucks at a garage sale, and it is now running dd-wrt and will replace my wrt54gs. My wife picked up the ornament today and it is an early xmas gift, I guess.

[NayusDante]

I had that router for a day, and the range was abysmal. Only reason we bought it was because my parents needed MORE range, so it went right back. I'd like to hear how it works for you, especially running the alternate firmware.

[Cornelius]

I had that router for a day, and the range was abysmal. Only reason we bought it was because my parents needed MORE range, so it went right back. I'd like to hear how it works for you, especially running the alternate firmware.

If you weren't using wireless-N only, the range probably wouldn't be much different.

haven't tested much yet, but what I've read says that the factory firmware has it transmit at ~20 mW. dd-wrt allows the setting to go anywhere from 0-251 mW, and defaults to 70. Supposedly it runs cooler, too. People have seemed to have very good luck once they switch the firmware. We don't really use the wireless a lot, but the dd-wrt firmware has made several of my routers go from unusable to rock-solid, probably because of P2P stuff, which a lot of default firmware doesn't deal with very well.

[ScourDX]

Stuff I picked up during the week



Shenmue 2 - $3
Chocobo dungeon - $15
Lux-Pain - $10
Mario & Luigi - $22
Dokopan - $10

[NayusDante]

If you weren't using wireless-N only, the range probably wouldn't be much different.

On N-Only mode, a Media Center Extender wouldn't even see it from a few rooms away. On mixed mode, a computer that connected fine on my old G router only got something like a 9% signal. We had better luck with this one.

[Nate Nanjo]

I picked up the following PS3 games for $25 (thats for all of them, not each)

Little Big Planet
Transformers The Game
and Monopoly

Putting me at 97 PS3 titles.