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I bought an new xbox 360, and gotten 2 games aside from forza and skyrim which came in the bundle. I got Mass Effect and Gears of War used but in good condition seperately. Ive had to exchange controllers 4 times now though, they squeel and one didnt even hold zero calibration which made lockpicking in skyrim a nightmare. I cant say im thrilled with the 360’s QC or userinterface. You can tell its a gameconsol first, and a multimedia machine second as you cant even manipulate the harddrive properly. The PS3 is miles ahead in terms of user interface and what it allows you to do. So the XBOX was a disapointment, but i got it for the exclusives (of which the skyrim addons which seems growingly unable to work with ps3 tipping the scale) and not as my primary modern console. My PS3 will definetly keep that role. Its my film player, my game player and if i get decent speakers and sound equipment, it will be my music player as well.

Ive also bought the new X-Com game for PS3, and pre-ordered Forza Horizon Limited CE a few days ago.

Not much retro-games in the past 6 months, as my cat is ill and im trying to cope with costs surrounding that, my economy is even worse than it usually is, being unemployed. But i get some sponsoring from family members about the cat so thats some relief. Its thanks to them that i can get some games to keep me occupied and distracted.

Just won myself a SNES 2/mini/junior or whatever you wanna call it, off ebay. Not a deal, but not a steal either (for ebay), and shipping is much cheaper than most others. It will eventually recieve a RGB mod, and hopefully a guy from youtube, DamoMonster, can help me with a workaround to get ikaru’s switchless mod to work on it. He would look into it for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SNES2-…..#038;rt=nc

Edit: Arrived and happy to anounce the Retro-Bit controllers work fine with this version also. Displayed below beside the SFC and US Snes. 

Thank you. I think i like the SFC the best, but with the larger US cartridges id have to chop up the slot (actually i do have a simple passthrough adapter that works, but its a little flimsy and builds on height so its difficult to insert a new game with the console in place in my console shelf), and either live with a too small dustflap, or remove it all together, alternativly lengthen it with plastic and plastic cement which im sure would just end up badly… So ive always had a lookout for the US “junior”, its nicer looking than the original US model, and it has the larger slot with dustflaps so you dont have to modify that one. I have basically no pal games (only star wing/fox), so for now region free isnt necessary.

But as i stated, id like to have it modified and i have two different guys willing to look into it for me, but they asked me to get back to them in a month or two. The mod i have in mind is the switchless one designed by someone called ikarus, its really nice as you can switch hz and region independantly, so you can play NTSC in 50%, and Pal in 60% should you wish to do so, and all the commands are run through the reset button. It is 100% compatible with all games this way. The problem is that he designed it to work with the older snes models which uses two main chips, the later revision of the old snes aparently runs 1 chip combined, as does the junior model. So these two guys have both mentioned a workaround might be possible, which would be great. Otherwise, my original US model can take that mod without any issues.

It will definetly be getting an rgb mod though. Composite is supposedly better on this model than the older snes, and it turns out fairly good on my LG LCD, but rgb would kick it up another notch, so id like that one.. Its not cheap if you cant do it yourself, but its worth it.