One of the things that I got for my Pi that's extremely useful is a power switch. [Link]

Without it, you need to unplug it and then plug it back in in order to turn it on, and with the switch, you can just press that.

I don't think there's really much super important things, but you should probably have a USB keyboard for command line stuff and certain games, like MSX, and maybe PC-88/98. Obviously USB controllers too. I use Xbox One controllers. With 360 controllers, you may need to download the drivers for it on the Pi (XBDRV or something) I'm not 100% sure you need to do that though. I'd try them without it first.

That RetroPie site should have pretty much everything you need.

I have one of those custom Genesis cases (off Etsy), so I guess you may want to look there if something you want isn't on Amazon.

I recently got Streets of Rage Remake running on my Pi, I'm really damn happy.

I loved Octopath as well, but I totally agree with your complaint. It was annoying that only the characters on your team gained levels and you regularly had to grind a bit to level up your benched characters for their stories. But overall I was pretty satisfied with the game. I hope Square Enix will make a sequel or a similarly styled game in the future. I still need to get DQXI! I’m really curious for it but I want to clear up my backlog a bit more before buying any new (and lengthy) games.

By the way, I finally got to play the fan translation of the SNES Lodoss game and it’s awesome The game is a bit difficult, but not difficult enough to justify the 3rd place as most difficult SNES RPG game on Gamefaqs to be honest. The story is divided in four chapters and it’s really interesting because you’re not only playing with Parn & Co as usual, but you get to play as Karla, Beld and Fahn in the first three chapters of the game. Beld and Fahn even get joined by both Ashram’s and Parn’s fathers, which is pretty neat. I never saw Ashram’s father being shown before! The last chapter focuses on Parn & Co as usual and covers the entire Grey Witch Arc. You should really play it someday, it’s such a great game for Lodoss fans

$90 for 15-20 doujinshi doesn’t sound too bad! Seems like you sold them for more or less the same price you got them for, assuming the doujinshi were moderately priced at Suruga-ya. I know what you mean! I bought lots of doujinshi during my Japan trip was well because they were so cheap, but when I had to carry all of them home with me in the suitcase I was second-guessing my decision. I think that’s a mistake everybody who starts collecting makes. There’s just sooo much stuff and it’s all so tempting!

That’s not a bad idea, although I’d probably just keep waiting for good offer for the English version. I’m not really a fan of buying Japanese games if an English version is available Unless the Japanese version comes with any cool extras of course. Oh I see, I thought you might be interested in them as well, but if you haven’t played the main games that much it’s natural that the spin-offs won’t seem that appealing

You’re right, the 30th anniversary was this year, that’s why I’m so bummed that we didn’t got anything. Even the Steam game you told me about still isn’t finished and wasn’t that supposed to be for the anniversary? It’s October already, come on But did you see that this figure was announced? [Link] A model kit is less than ideal, but at least it’s a decent looking figure of Deedlit and not a garage kit for once The Plamax figures all seem to be prepainted standard releases, so I’m definitely getting her. I’ve never build a model kit before, but for Deedlit I will! But look at how many other people are commenting on this figure and asking for a decent figure of her! Lodoss hasn't been totally forgotten yet... By the way, I bought my first garage kit! I came across a garage kit of Beld a while ago when I googled for something Lodoss related and I was amazed to see that such a thing even exists since I had never seen it before. It seems to be super rare and naturally I thought I'd never even see it up for sale anywhere, but about a month later it suddenly popped up at Surugaya! I had to do a double take since I couldn’t believe it Needless to say I snagged him immediately. I never thought I’d own a figure of him someday! I’m not sure if I’ll try painting him though… probably it’s better not to try and ruin it

That doesn’t sound like a bad deal at all, although I don’t know how many doujin you actually sold in the end. They sold pretty quickly, too! Glad to hear you got such an understanding buyer, that’s rare on Ebay! But I don’t blame you; the shipping options can be pretty confusing at times. I always end up double checking everything because I’m afraid I might mess up something, too

I’ve only seen a few pages of the artworks from these books and I am curious to see what else is inside… but not curious enough to spend so much money on them without exactly knowing what I’m getting I agree, it’s surprising how many Lodoss artbooks were released, considering there isn’t that much “merchandise” to begin with. I think the two artbooks you linked are nice (especially for their inexpensive price), but like you said, they are material collections for the OVA rather than a real artbooks so expect to see a lot of “screenshots” and pencil drawings of certain scenes. There’s also a quite lengthy interview in the book which I would love be able to read

I guess if you wait long enough the price will decrease a bit again I’m more surprised about the price for the European version of P3 FES. I bought the game around 3-4 years ago for around 23€ and now it’s around 100€ everywhere :shocked: I’m glad I got it when it was still affordable… It seems strange that Atlus excluded her from the dancing game since they released a lot of DLC (I believe even Shinji is DLC) so why not add the female MC to the line-up, too? Are you interested in getting any of the spin-offs? I preordered P3 and P5 dancing already

No, unfortunately I don’t have the Deedlit figure from that line. I got another Deedlit figure a while ago, but she’s a lot taller than Parn so they look a bit weird together I also wonder why they never made Spark to go with Neese. That makes it look like they suddenly decided to discontinue the figure series altogether. I totally agree, I want new Lodoss figures, too! And no garage kits please, just normal scale figures :cries: They didn’t even make anything for the 20th anniversary besides a wallet and a book mark as far as I’ve seen…

I see that you’ve finished Octopath Traveler a while ago! How did you like it? I love the game I finished all stories this weekend and defeated the shrine bosses to get the secret jobs. I hope I’ll be able to eventually defeat the final boss as well, although that seems to be a lot of work.

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