Is that all a soldering iron costs is $10? I could fix something I have held together right now with tape and glue of all things.
I have this Konami LCD handheld that can sometimes get pricy for what it is of Gradius but the seller(ebay) sent me a broken one I had to reassemble creatively.
Great job fixing it, looks as original as it should. Have fun playing it I hear it's fun.
I forget the exact price tag on the desoldering iron, not expensive, but it's more than ten dollars. Replacement tips are $2 extra. I bought it about a month ago and this is my third time using it. My first project was harvesting the DSP1b chip, oscillator, and hex inverter from a Ballz 3D SNES cart, to upgrade my Everdrive. Second project was installing CopyUSB on my NES, and now Panic Restaurant surgery. 3GenGames recommended I apply extra flux to the pins prior to desoldering, and it really made the removal a lot cleaner. No bent/broken pins this time around as I was extra careful.
Originally I was tossing around the idea of doing a trade or sale since I figured I could use the dough or exchange it for another rare. Then I popped it in and my heart warmed up a bit. It's really a charming little game. I made it to the stage 2 boss last night. The attacks are pretty easy to dodge once you learn the pattern. I really do enjoy a good platformer, but
Great story and thanks. I really do need to get one of those things at some point but I don't want to drop a lot on it as it would get light use as needed. I do like a good platformer and I used to be able to crush the Mega Men and Ghosts n Goblins level stuff but I don't have the tolerance for it much anymore. I like a mid grade challenge or less due to time restraints these days and that game looks great, just not the price so it's one of those 'if I get lucky' things right along with Little Samson.
Is that all a soldering iron costs is $10? I could fix something I have held together right now with tape and glue of all things.
I have this Konami LCD handheld that can sometimes get pricy for what it is of Gradius but the seller(ebay) sent me a broken one I had to reassemble creatively.
Great job fixing it, looks as original as it should. Have fun playing it I hear it's fun.
I forget the exact price tag on the desoldering iron, not expensive, but it's more than ten dollars. Replacement tips are $2 extra. I bought it about a month ago and this is my third time using it. My first project was harvesting the DSP1b chip, oscillator, and hex inverter from a Ballz 3D SNES cart, to upgrade my Everdrive. Second project was installing CopyUSB on my NES, and now Panic Restaurant surgery. 3GenGames recommended I apply extra flux to the pins prior to desoldering, and it really made the removal a lot cleaner. No bent/broken pins this time around as I was extra careful.
Originally I was tossing around the idea of doing a trade or sale since I figured I could use the dough or exchange it for another rare. Then I popped it in and my heart warmed up a bit. It's really a charming little game. I made it to the stage 2 boss last night. The attacks are pretty easy to dodge once you learn the pattern. I really do enjoy a good platformer, but Über-hard games like Megaman are just a frustrating mess to me. More power to you if you can play those "hardcore" NES platformers. Puzzlers, arcade, and pinball are my other favorite game catagories.
I just picked this game up too and my first thought was man i could trade this for something on SNES i really want, but then i played it and it really is a charming game. I only played the first stage but it was quite fun whacking stuff with a frying pan and spoon!
I wish the bastards at Vintage stock would have let me have the Duck Tales 2 that had broken pins, i may have been able to save it like this.
That's the feeling I get from a few pricy licensed 'grail' quality titles I have that I just had to consume my paypal keeping it off budget to get back -- Bonk and Bubble Bobble 2. There's just something special about how they play, presentation, game play values that I just really wanted them back. For what I got them for I could profit on one now and definitely soon enough the other to be worth it but I won't. It's like how I got Earthbound for $2 last summer which I could have flipped easy for $150, but I still have it. Sometimes quality is more important than a fatter wallet.
That's the feeling I get from a few pricy licensed 'grail' quality titles I have that I just had to consume my paypal keeping it off budget to get back -- Bonk and Bubble Bobble 2. There's just something special about how they play, presentation, game play values that I just really wanted them back. For what I got them for I could profit on one now and definitely soon enough the other to be worth it but I won't. It's like how I got Earthbound for $2 last summer which I could have flipped easy for $150, but I still have it. Sometimes quality is more important than a fatter wallet.
I had Bonk's Adventure once. I enjoyed playing TG-16 Bonk on Wii Virtual Console, and decided to seek it out for NES. I originally paid $60 for Bonk's Adventure several years ago from DK Oldies, and at the time it was the most I'd ever paid for a game. It turned out to have that kind of charm. Last fall, I decided to do a private trade it in for another rare game (Shantea Game Boy Color). Then after I dropped the mailer off at the post office, I went to bed that night and had a dream that I was playing Bonk. I also collect Famicom, so I ended up importing the much Cheaper Famicom version. Shantea is also a great title with lots of charm.
Way back when Game Boy Advance came out, I heard through the grape vine that Game Boy Color games were being discontinued, so I went to Toy-R-Us and grabbed all the GBC games that I could. I ultimately picked Ratz over Shantea, because I thought Shantea looked like a kiddie game, and Ratz was $19.99 while Shantea was $29.99. Yeah, you heard right; I picked a mafia rat over a sweet little Arabian teenage genie.
Shortly after I started collecting NES, I missed out on Bubble Bobble 2 at Game-X-Change in 2003: My friend saw BB2 on the shelf for $20 (same price as Bubble Bobble) and I already had the original Bubble Bobble and decided that one was enough. There are a few other titles I missed out on, like Warios Woods (which I picked up years later), but Bubble Bobble 2 was another one that got away... And sadly, the Famicom versions of BB2 and Little Samson are just as rare and expensive as the NES versions, so importing is futile, unlike Bonk's.
When I saw Panic Restaurant at Game-X-Change, I saw dollar signs with roach poop on it. Now that I've invested so much into reviving it, and the gameplay is so charming, I can't let go of it. Besides, Panic Restaurant is rarer and worth more than BB2 anyway, so it wouldn't be that great of a trade on my end.
As far as Earthbound goes, it is way too common to be selling at over $200, so I just gave up and decided to play it on my EverDrive (I know, boo on me). But the good news EB is coming to Wii-U Virtual Console later this summer.
I get you the feeling of loss. I had BB2 back in the later 90s and it was only $20 with the book and Shantae I had just 2 years or so ago at a flea market for $5 but that one I just couldn't get into unfortunately but maybe I should have given it more time I don't know. I've had Wario's Woods too, both releases and keep going back and forward for some reason between them and while the SNES one is more colorful for some reason the NES game seems to have more enjoyment and personality going for it.
No boo on you $150-200 for a common SNES game is bs, I don't blame you. I've had it 3 times over the last 15 years and I only wish I had kept the original I got complete and basically untouched for another $20 buy at the same place, second copy was 70 in store credit here in town where I am now again maybe 5-6years back. Like you I'd love to find Samson (and Panic) but I've publicly never seen either at any form of a for sale type situation, just one in a private collection (CIB no less.) I'd like to have them, Flintstones 2 since they're good games, but the prices are sick.
No, I just saw the picture on my way out the door. It looks great now though. I recently picked up a game with some pretty nasty corrosion on the connectors but managed to get it working again.
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Is that all a soldering iron costs is $10? I could fix something I have held together right now with tape and glue of all things.
I have this Konami LCD handheld that can sometimes get pricy for what it is of Gradius but the seller(ebay) sent me a broken one I had to reassemble creatively.
Great job fixing it, looks as original as it should. Have fun playing it I hear it's fun.
I forget the exact price tag on the desoldering iron, not expensive, but it's more than ten dollars. Replacement tips are $2 extra. I bought it about a month ago and this is my third time using it. My first project was harvesting the DSP1b chip, oscillator, and hex inverter from a Ballz 3D SNES cart, to upgrade my Everdrive. Second project was installing CopyUSB on my NES, and now Panic Restaurant surgery. 3GenGames recommended I apply extra flux to the pins prior to desoldering, and it really made the removal a lot cleaner. No bent/broken pins this time around as I was extra careful.
Originally I was tossing around the idea of doing a trade or sale since I figured I could use the dough or exchange it for another rare. Then I popped it in and my heart warmed up a bit. It's really a charming little game. I made it to the stage 2 boss last night. The attacks are pretty easy to dodge once you learn the pattern. I really do enjoy a good platformer, but
Good job!!!
I love hearing about rare games being saved from an early grave.
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
Originally posted by: Tanooki
Is that all a soldering iron costs is $10? I could fix something I have held together right now with tape and glue of all things.
I have this Konami LCD handheld that can sometimes get pricy for what it is of Gradius but the seller(ebay) sent me a broken one I had to reassemble creatively.
Great job fixing it, looks as original as it should. Have fun playing it I hear it's fun.
I forget the exact price tag on the desoldering iron, not expensive, but it's more than ten dollars. Replacement tips are $2 extra. I bought it about a month ago and this is my third time using it. My first project was harvesting the DSP1b chip, oscillator, and hex inverter from a Ballz 3D SNES cart, to upgrade my Everdrive. Second project was installing CopyUSB on my NES, and now Panic Restaurant surgery. 3GenGames recommended I apply extra flux to the pins prior to desoldering, and it really made the removal a lot cleaner. No bent/broken pins this time around as I was extra careful.
Originally I was tossing around the idea of doing a trade or sale since I figured I could use the dough or exchange it for another rare. Then I popped it in and my heart warmed up a bit. It's really a charming little game. I made it to the stage 2 boss last night. The attacks are pretty easy to dodge once you learn the pattern. I really do enjoy a good platformer, but Über-hard games like Megaman are just a frustrating mess to me. More power to you if you can play those "hardcore" NES platformers. Puzzlers, arcade, and pinball are my other favorite game catagories.
I just picked this game up too and my first thought was man i could trade this for something on SNES i really want, but then i played it and it really is a charming game. I only played the first stage but it was quite fun whacking stuff with a frying pan and spoon!
I wish the bastards at Vintage stock would have let me have the Duck Tales 2 that had broken pins, i may have been able to save it like this.
Nice work!
That's the feeling I get from a few pricy licensed 'grail' quality titles I have that I just had to consume my paypal keeping it off budget to get back -- Bonk and Bubble Bobble 2. There's just something special about how they play, presentation, game play values that I just really wanted them back. For what I got them for I could profit on one now and definitely soon enough the other to be worth it but I won't. It's like how I got Earthbound for $2 last summer which I could have flipped easy for $150, but I still have it. Sometimes quality is more important than a fatter wallet.
I had Bonk's Adventure once. I enjoyed playing TG-16 Bonk on Wii Virtual Console, and decided to seek it out for NES. I originally paid $60 for Bonk's Adventure several years ago from DK Oldies, and at the time it was the most I'd ever paid for a game. It turned out to have that kind of charm. Last fall, I decided to do a private trade it in for another rare game (Shantea Game Boy Color). Then after I dropped the mailer off at the post office, I went to bed that night and had a dream that I was playing Bonk. I also collect Famicom, so I ended up importing the much Cheaper Famicom version. Shantea is also a great title with lots of charm.
Way back when Game Boy Advance came out, I heard through the grape vine that Game Boy Color games were being discontinued, so I went to Toy-R-Us and grabbed all the GBC games that I could. I ultimately picked Ratz over Shantea, because I thought Shantea looked like a kiddie game, and Ratz was $19.99 while Shantea was $29.99. Yeah, you heard right; I picked a mafia rat over a sweet little Arabian teenage genie.
Shortly after I started collecting NES, I missed out on Bubble Bobble 2 at Game-X-Change in 2003: My friend saw BB2 on the shelf for $20 (same price as Bubble Bobble) and I already had the original Bubble Bobble and decided that one was enough. There are a few other titles I missed out on, like Warios Woods (which I picked up years later), but Bubble Bobble 2 was another one that got away... And sadly, the Famicom versions of BB2 and Little Samson are just as rare and expensive as the NES versions, so importing is futile, unlike Bonk's.
When I saw Panic Restaurant at Game-X-Change, I saw dollar signs with roach poop on it. Now that I've invested so much into reviving it, and the gameplay is so charming, I can't let go of it. Besides, Panic Restaurant is rarer and worth more than BB2 anyway, so it wouldn't be that great of a trade on my end.
As far as Earthbound goes, it is way too common to be selling at over $200, so I just gave up and decided to play it on my EverDrive (I know, boo on me). But the good news EB is coming to Wii-U Virtual Console later this summer.
No boo on you $150-200 for a common SNES game is bs, I don't blame you. I've had it 3 times over the last 15 years and I only wish I had kept the original I got complete and basically untouched for another $20 buy at the same place, second copy was 70 in store credit here in town where I am now again maybe 5-6years back. Like you I'd love to find Samson (and Panic) but I've publicly never seen either at any form of a for sale type situation, just one in a private collection (CIB no less.) I'd like to have them, Flintstones 2 since they're good games, but the prices are sick.
Glad you're keeping it too.
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=114727
Originally posted by: ALTQQ
Have fun cleaning that haha
Did you read the whole thread, especially my previous post? It's been meticulously restored and is up for sale right now.
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
Bump. If anyone is following this thread, Panic Restaurant is now up for grabs!
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=...
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
Originally posted by: ALTQQ
Have fun cleaning that haha
Did you read the whole thread, especially my previous post? It's been meticulously restored and is up for sale right now.
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
Bump. If anyone is following this thread, Panic Restaurant is now up for grabs!
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&...
No, I just saw the picture on my way out the door. It looks great now though. I recently picked up a game with some pretty nasty corrosion on the connectors but managed to get it working again.