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Great video. Thank you.

Which Peroxide percentage are you using? And do you dilute it? Sorry for bad english😞 Also: What are u using for cleaning the Key-caps? Thanks a lot for an aswer!🙂

Dig Dug Revival!? Hold on. I've got to get on my PC and download something...

Typing of the dead for dreamcast is awesome!

Flea bay in my local country is slightly better priced, but the retro game market has been stripped for all its meat down to the bone, deals are hard to find anywhere, I do feel,stupid for keeping all my comics and leaving behind my games decades ago in my parents house, comics are worth nothing to what those game would have fetched now

WHy can't I run ini_settings script? When i select it nothing happens. Other scripts work.

Outrun FM vs PSG do not have the same pitch. It sounds terrible together, unless you are tone-deaf.

I had a Philips Videopac G7000 as a kid. My favourites were KC Munchkin (used to spend ages designing my own mazes!) and UFO. It also came with Cartridge 9, which was supposed to turn it into an actual programmable computer. It took ages to enter a program--and even then it would only do something trivial like add 2 numbers together! But basically I loved it, and played it endlessly.

Came to learn how to properly play Pick Ax Pete, subbed to watch everything else. Nice meeting you today at Video Nutz today, good luck with your 5200 games search 👍.

it gets very expensive with various upgrades FM-Town could be next one

Have you ever seen a N64DD in the wild?

I actually started with your part II, but glad I came back to part I, really gives a sense of how far this poor little guy came. Glad you eventually got even the sound working!

These prices make baby Jesus cry. No more buying. Besides not like the backlog is not infinite already.

There are literally thousands of these mitsumi floppy drives with broken read/write heads. I am still surprised that after all this time, no one has taken on the effort to recreate these heads and make a few thousand to repair all these broken floppy drives... Until then, if there's a lever on the C64 floppy drive, stay away from it...! Regarding the prices going up so quickly, the problem is that because people have seen all these computers on RUclips, they want to try these repairs for themselves. Sellers also see these videos and accordingly raise their prices because of the increased interest in the drives and the computers themselves...

Like many others, I went through a phase where I sort of became addicted to repairing Commodore C64s. Although I've had some 6510's fail, by a large margin, the issue is typically the PLA, MOS made logic chips or M/T RAM. Jan Beta sort of created the c64 term "future-proofing". It would be in that computer's best interests if all MOS logic chips (I saw 1 for sure) were removed. The other chip that fails quite often is unfortunately the precious SID. Your diagnosis approach is spot on and your soldering technique is very good. Good video and congrats on the repair!

I didn't see you at Maxload 20 years ago. Of course all the good deals are gone, did you just wake up? Not even mentioning what is going on with Friends now?

I'm sure there's a joke to be made about a store named "Hard Off", but I can't come up with one.

The easily found and cheap retro stuff in Japan has been gone for years. I’d say about 5-7 years a least. Everything was getting picked clean from rural areas to sell to tourists in Akiba before the pandemic. During the last three years auctions took over because money. Now, the same stores are charging for the last bits available to pay rent as competing with the internet is a thing. Come to Japan to enjoy the culture instead of shopping for retro stuff that doesn’t exist at a reasonable price.

Honestly, I feel like the C64 is more of a British computer despite being designed and built in Pennsylvania. The Brits were the ones who pushed the C64 to its limits and most of the most beloved games for the computer came from there. Other than a few noteworthy EA, Activision, Origin Systems and Epyx titles, I ended up selling my NTSC breadbin collection because those in PAL land had it better.

That's my fav retroshow

New games and demos that push the C64's limits are still made to this day, nuff said...

Maybe I'm just getting old, and nostalgic, but there is something really charming about old-school, clunky computers. I remember playing Ladder as a kid on an old Kaypro (II, I believe) while lying on the floor. I gave away my Mac collection ("fat Mac" and onwards) but scratch the itch with videos like this one. I still have a TRS-80 Color Computer v. 1 somewhere...

Always good to see another breadbox brought back to life 👍. Spending $30+ on a new CPU is probably not worth it at this time, but who knows maybe someone will come up with a cheaper clock perfect replacement in the near future. I recently had to bite the bullet and spend $35 on a new VIC chip for my c128, I think it was worth it because it's back to fully working, but it's quite a lot of money.

Worked great, thanks

I hope E got her turn shopping for her interests!!

Dude, that ship sailed 10 years ago. Akihabara is more like a retro museum now.

Sad to see akihabara start to fade. The Trader store closed last week, amongst others and are being replaced by hotels, pharmacies, etc. The retro game sections are being replaced by anime and Gundam figures. The end of an era

I just got one. Watching your vid while cleaning it up. I'm going to name it Bender since mine was built in Tijuana.

What a beast!

If you want something and you can afford it, just buy it. Seriously. Aside from overpriced tourist traps like Super Potato, you’re not going to save much by spending two hours each way to a random Hard Off that might not even have what you’re looking for. And it’s at least 1200 yen round trip. Why waste your limited amount of time in Japan looking for games that can generally be easily obtained?

Those price stickers pretty much say here you go you dirty American, go home.😂

I can't believe you scored that game for 10 bucks!

I see MSX... I'm happy :)

thank you~ I enjoy your video. :) I'd like to take a month off to shop around in Japan.

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If you really want a NeoGeo, look for a chep single slot MVS and grab a SuperGun addon. I got you NeoGeo MVS for free (yes, free, from someone who owed me a favour) but I regularly see them for around $30USD. You'll most likely pay more for the controllers than you will for the MVS itself.

No interest in old consoles beyond that Vectrex, but those shelves of video equipment had my attention.

We couldn't possibly have something like those bullet trains in the US. The "teens" would destroy them almost immediately.

Last time I went was 2015. I bought Neo Geo game for 800 yen in A-too :)(It was AoF2 but still common) Famicom disk systems in the Junk were 500 and the cart connector 300. I bought a spicy orange gamecube for 300 yen with gameboy player and controller. We were already complaining then about prices🤣

Lovely video Matt, really enjoyed the travelogue format, cheers!

Great video. Yes you need to get out of the city to find Hard Offs and retro game shops that offer better deals. Hiroshima seems to be nice now with several good stores. As a big PC Engine fan it's amazing to see so many boxed! I only have loose consoles because boxed ones are so expensive (CoreGrafx, Duo-RX and LT). My personal recommended setup is a CoreGrafx, Krikzz Turbo Everdrive Pro + EDFX (or Turbonanza internal mod instead if you want accurate S-Video colors) and RetroGamingCables MegaDrive 2 RGB cable (if using EDFX), Saturn cable if using Turbonanza. This is the least hardware that gets most out of the system = most cost effective. As it's a very expensive console to get into.

Akihabara needs a dedicated VIC-20 store.

I have no interest in any of that stuff but still enjoyed seeing the foraging.

Enjoyed it! Thanks for taking us along virtually. Could you use that dc kb for some typing of the dead action? 😄

This makes me so badly want to spend irresponsible amounts of money on retro tech!

That was great 👍 A cheap day/month out (assuming you don't include air fare, hotels, local transport etc!) just trawling through the stores is so much fun even without spending any $$. I love how not only are these stores, but they're essentially musuems with ever changing inventory. Just seeing all the old boxes with the graphic design of the time is fantastic - the Mega CD in particular has that painfully cool 90's style and the original Famicom's will never be out of style. As with lots of things you see in Japan, I also really appreciate the attention to detail they give things. Shrink wrapping even low cost hardware is a great touch and everything looked really clean too - not something you can say is true in the West in many places. Thanks for sharing your time there - it was fun 😉

Wow, I just scored an MSX2 machine today for 70 bux on yahoo auctions. I'm currently digging around for software. What timing for the video! The cool thing about the machine I scored is that you can mod it to 2+ specs, which I'm gonna do. Hopefully there are still some deals to be had when I'm over there in January.

16:34 - Dang - been a while since I went looking for PC Engine stuff, and I don't have multiple controllers, but I'd have been all over that multitap

Awesome video! It's wild that the various Game Boy console prices are so high there

That hard off Shinkanaoka on the Midosuji Line is my goto when visiting Osaka though it looks like you missed visiting Ojamakan which has stores all over the Kansai region (including one 4 stops from that hard off on the way back to Osaka). Ojamakan are what i call a shop for "locals" as i have hardly ever seen any westerners there in the many times i have been there, This is a few years ago but they had a mint boxed wondermega for 70000 Yen! ps. When i was last in Japan in Nov '23. Mother in Akiharbara had a boxed Famicom Keyboard for Y8000