panasonic MD boombox is very aesthetic
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@rinv#21790 ah man i had that panasonic VCR. watched jurassic park on it many times
Panasonic was also known in Japan as “NATIONAL” brand. Very epic. Sony is so overrated. Let's get those Panasonic, SHARP, JVC, Hitatchi, Zenith LG Samsung in the mix.
The day has finally come. About 3 or 4 years ago this little gem caught my eye in the trash heap behind my office. I was visiting not for work but as a patient, having fallen and injured my wrist earlier that day. The allure of this object was enough to compel me to use my remaining good hand to drag it out of the heap and toss it in my car…not an inconsiderable feat considering its heft. I'm assuming it was some sort of obsoleted hardware from an endoscopy suite, a PVM-20N6U manufactured 11/2000.
Well, after several years of sitting in the garage, I finally cleaned it up and inspected it and it seems to be perfectly functional!
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I have some other cables, adapters, and such on the way...looking forward to playing around this thing. I am sure it will appreciate some PSX and GCN games over its prior life of presumably displaying various bodily orifices.
@kory#24128 hooray! I love to see a resurrected crt
Not really “showing off” per se, but I did want to bring this bit of hardware to people's attention. I really wanted an SNES style GCN controller, but the $200ish used Hori models on eBay just seemed exorbitant. I came across this convincing looking “Old Skool” branded replica new on eBay for about $32 shipped, so I decided to take a chance:
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I've never held a real Hori model, but I’m happy to report that this thing feels and works great! The build is perhaps a notch below a first party SNES controller, but the d-pad and buttons feel right. The Y button did not depress fully when I first tried it, but a quick disassembly revealed a small easily removed loose bit of rubber between the pad and the contact. Despite that little annoyance, I’m pretty pleased with the purchase.
@kory#24680 What's been your main use case for this controller? I ended up getting some NES and SNES to GC controller adapters to play Gameboy to GBA stuff on my Gamecubes. But I have been eying this one.
@robinhoodie#24682 Only real use case is for my GB Player for the GameCube. I recently set up my GCN on a PVM and tested it out with the player and it seems like a really fun way to experience GBA games. Specifically, I’m hoping to finally play through my Mother 3 translation repro cart—I played several hours years ago but got distracted and it languished in storage bins across several major moves. The controls feel nice and tight, and I’m even able to land more timing-based hits in combat than I remember landing when I played it on the DS Lite.
@kory#24680
I also purchased one of these, and I‘m very familiar with the original Hori pad, I borrowed one from my friend and gave it a ton of use. I am very discerning when it comes to plastic feel, button feel, responsiveness etc, and this controller falls within 1% accuracy of the original, pretty epic. The only thing that felt off to me, was the face buttons A B X Y are not 100% the same color opacity of OEM gamecube buttons, but I’ve yet to check if they can be swapped with OEM gamecube buttons. I also want to cover the stupid Old Skool logo with a sticker or something. Even the backside of the controller has the same comfortable rise as the HORI pad.
@robinhoodie#24682
The original Hori pad was made for use with the gameboy player. I also use it to play Viewtiful Joe and Mr.Driller. It is basically a SNES pad with slightly more textured plastic, raised grip in back, and the iconic gamecube style face buttons. It's slightly conkier in thickness too.
I also have the raphnet SNES to GCN adapter. Both are valid, and I enjoy them both!
At this point, I think I've tried all my favorite GBA classics on gameboy player with one of these controllers. The Hori/Old Skool pad was especially fun for Aria of Sorrow, MK Super Circuit, F-zero.... Actually it's fun for all of them.
@treefroggy#24685 you are too right about that logo…the company name emblazoned on there is quite obnoxious. Considering that this brand produces high quality reproductions of relatively obscure hardware, you would think they would be self aware enough to know that their audience would cringe at such a dumb name. I like your idea, though, I’m going to dig through my stack of stickers to see if I have anything that fits.
@treefroggy#24685 Cool. I always love to try out new controllers (even if just for one game) so there's definitely enough positive votes for this model for me to pick one up.
it honestly makes me want a GCN to SNES adapter so I can play Snes games with a fat ass A button
I just realized that this thread exists so i thought might as well show off my PVM 2030. I found this pvm on my first year of highschool just laying there with some other smaller pvm's and asked the school owner/principal if I could buy it from him and he kind of ignored me and went away lol
Then during my senior year I took it to my classroom and we used to play mario kart double dash, super monkey ball, DDR and a lot of guitar hero in the classroom, in the last days of high school I was kind of thinking of asking the principal if I could take it, at that time he knew me a lot better and actually liked me, unlike in my first attempt in which he didn't even knew who i was. But then I realized that the possibility of him saying no existed, and that i might never see another pvm again, so I kind of decided to steal it. I bought a cardboard box exactly the size of the pvm, I put it in there, and walked out the front door on the last day of school with the pvm in the box. A few weeks later I had to return to the school for some paperwork thing and the janitor who was a chill and friendly person told me that he knew I took the monitor but he wasn't going to rat me out.
I kind of regret that I didn't took the other smaller pvm's but I didn't know where they were on the last days of school.
Now I am tempted to call the school to ask if they still have them but I guess that that would give me away. But I don't know... it would be nice to save those pvm's
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I'm calling the cops
@treefroggy#24704 Call them!! the owner of the school was a misogynistic asshole so I have no regrets
@Syzygy#24705 lol just a couple more months and im not a criminal anymore
I‘m glad y’all could tell I was joking! I‘m 100% for what you did, I wouldn’t expect anyone to care! I remember being in AV club as a kid and seeing all the broadcast monitors used for the school news, by now they‘re all trashed I’m sure! I would have taken all of them much sooner than you did, and never looked back!
Here‘s a story!
When I returned to my “hometown” as an adult, I was forced to attend service at the church I grew up in, where you can’t even imagine the abuse, trauma, corruption that took place there. This is a racist little burg, there's a reason I ran away at 15 to live in a car in socal while finishing high school. I preemptively brought a douffel bag, went straight to the youth center and took an Xbox 360, PS2 Slim, PS2 Fat, and a Ps3 and original Xbox. The douffel bag was ripping from the weight! This was around 2009 or 2008, when that stuff was contemporary, lol. That was my first Xbox 360, and all I used it for was Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars and Lumines before I gave it to my friend. No regrets! This southern baptist church ruined my life before I was even born!
I usually don’t buy little plastic toys… but this just arrived from eBay and it is so so so cute! I can’t wait to put it together!
@antillese#24803 It‘s a slippery slope. Now that you have a mini arcade cabinet, you need someone to play it. Then you’ll need food for them, and a house, and friends.
I have a little Pop'n Music Fever arcade cabinet my friend gave me. It feels like such a rare gem, yet simultaneously cheap, manufactured waste. I wanna give it to someone who will appreciate it more.
This is all coming from someone who still plays pretend with my mini figures as though I were a five year old. What mini figures I've decided to keep, that is.
I just got my wonderswan IPS replacement kit in the mail. Pretty simple mod. Just two wires to solder, they go directly onto the battery terminals and they‘re pretty large points to solder to. No shell-cutting required, thank god. My only real gripe with it is that the ribbon cable they give you is unreasonably long, but everything else about it is A+ in terms of workmanship and design. It’s nice to see a kit come out for a non-gameboy handheld that doesn't require you to cut away at the shell, 3d print a bracket, and then have a weird non-native resolution screen at the end of it. Would recommend.
