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Big fat labels so that I won't take the wrong tapes box again!

I feel like finishing Aleste again ( It's been 35 years or so! ) but I need to see if I can get an hour or two free-time some day 😅

Don't know what took me so long to get one ;-)

New #MSX game in the collection! And what a game; ALESTE! Let's see if I still have what it takes to beat it! 😅

Difficult to get a good shot, this is the best I could do today. I know there's more of them, but they weren't cooperating and refused to fly all together simultaneously! 😜 Massive swarm of starlings in the south of Alicante city.

Special treat from nature this morning, showing off a massive particle system in front of my window. Life has a pretty good GPU! 😅

Any estimates on how many bird particles? 10.000? More?

Neat! @brewotaku.bsky.social magazine #008 did a review of #MSX Matchy Matchy ❤️

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Looking through my games, I decided I like these games very much, even though the chance of me ever playing them is extremely low. I just enjoy the cheerful boxes! 😅 #MSX

Oh, I give up! It’s impossible to take a cozy, wintry shot in the south of Spain with the sun blasting through the window. 😅

Merry Christmas, everyone! And remember, there’s a free Christmas game for the #MSX2. Have fun!

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In person, the Japanese box is way more impressive (at least imo ). The shiny front is beautiful.

Found a pretty unique (at least for me!) troops cheat sheet for Super Daisenryaku.
It came with a magazine, afaik, but it looks so good, it should've been in the game box!
All items photographed from screen, must've been a lot of work too! #MSX

It's really no match between the European and the Japanese versions of Magical Kid Wiz.

Glad I could pick up that shiny Japanese version for cheap, even though it was an empty box (since then, I found a loose cartridge too 😅) #MSX

I had a similar experience with someone using the original cardboard Konami box as the shipping box. Wrapped in brown tape, so the cartridge wouldn't be damaged in shipping. 🙈

I was lucky enough to find a loose "5th Anniversary" tape to complete my Hydlide 3 box! #MSX

And that's probably more #MSX Hydlide versions than I will ever need. Or is there a secret Bee Card version? 😅

And I'm actually going to use it! That's why I started this project in the first place.
Let's play some emulated games with my The Arcade Pro joystick. As they were meant to be played 😅
4/4

I'm not planning to start a business or anything, but it's a really cool experience. And amazing how much is possible for really very little money. Hats of to people who make complex devices though, this was very small, very simple and even so, it took quite some planning.
3/4

Yes, these are ready-made available. But I wanted to make one myself, just to see if I could. First a quick protype and when I got it to work, I designed and ordered some PCBs and got a bunch of connectors and RP2040s.
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I've made a little device that takes a 2 button #MSX joystick on one end and poops out a USB gamepad on the other side. There's an auto-fire option that can be (de)activated by holding down one of the fire buttons and rotating the stick a couple of times.
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But we'll never know for sure what happened. Seeing as back then, there was no color difference, so nobody noticed ;-)

You're correct though! 😅

Four shades of grey! What the heck happened at Philips in the 80's when they made these keycaps?

* Most of the keycaps got brown.
* QWERTY row sometimes remains grey.
* Numerical keys are always grey.

🙃 #MSX #Philips

Had some more fun playing with retroachievements.org/ but the biggest gripe is that I have to play in an emulator and I miss my joystick!

But I found this adapter in a drawer which serves pretty well to make my trusty 80's joystick talk USB. Just one fire-button though... 🤔

Just found out my Cube Droid are on this site that adds achievements to retro games, including #MSX games! It works by having the emulator watch specific memory addresses and overlay unlocked achievements on screen. Such a great idea!

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This is the official OST for the Parodius arcade game. I hear some similarities between this and the MSX version, but it's not the same music.

The eyepatch of the penguin is actually painted on the outside of the jewel case. When you pull the booklet out, he's got no patch! 😅

Finally found NG1 ( already had NG2 ). This is the Namcot Game series with on this disk:

Galaga
King & Balloon
Bosconian
Warp & Warp
Tank Battalion
XVM

They're all good #MSX games! 😍

Pretty dark stuff, imho. But beautifully done!

Some more Japanese HAL games for the #MSX collection! Got the Takara version of Heavy Boxing for a change. 😅

I really love this Gao figurine that #MSX gamers know from the Firebird (Hi no Tori) game. He's only got one arm, but that's how he's supposed to be in the game too. (Those who've seen the movie know that his arm count is going to change soon. 😱)

Took me forever to find one!

The SD Snatcher box is such an iconic #MSX release, I wanted to give it some love.

The original box art is from Naoki Satoh and I added a little AI trickery and some modelling and animation with Blender. Hope you like the result!

Just received the Philips edition ( NMS 8962 ) of Hydelide 1 for #MSX 2 in the mail. Afaik, there's no cartridge release for this game, only disk and cassette (!)

The Philips edition also comes with five languages in the manual.