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Haha! I am currently composing my top 50 lists for quite a few systems, but with the Mega Drive I could easily do my top 100 for it. I just like stuff, and making lists about that stuff. My life is pretty exciting and action packed.

Hmm, that is not Twinkle Star Sprites is it? I am not that au fait with the Dreamcast's library so that is the only cutesy one that comes to mind.

Also, I have a little rant pertaining to this game. Though it is not about the game per-se, but about idiots who sell physical copies of it. MUSHA is an unfortunate example of a game that is not truly rare but goes for rare prices. A rare game at any one given point would not have multiple copies listed on eBay, but MUSHA does! I think it is just one of those games that has snowballed a slow hype train over time and prices have been driven up like media circumstance elevated The Beatles to a status far higher than they actually were at. There are always copies of the games for sale somewhere so it is not rare, but everyone puts the word 'rare' in the listing title. That is just something that annoys me. Haha, yeah they sure were designed to drink those quarters down like a camel in the desert. After my house renovations are done I want to sit down and focus on DoDonPachi like a madman to see if I can beat the game in one credit. It will be a good challenge to focus on. That is seriously the best description of that game. It was like it should not have looked like that but did, and it was one of the contributing factors in why it was so good. Granada is my 17th favorite Mega Drive game of all time. Take a look at number 17 here. I think next to Capcom Cave might have to be my favorite game publishers, they really did make some amazing stuff! You have good tastes.

I have games that I play religiously. There are about 27k games on my LB/BB setup but I probably play on average the same 10 or so. I think that is good though because then there is so much more to discover later. It is not like I am miserable playing the same ones because of some weird OCD that won't let me move on, I just love playing those handful of games. When I finish renovating my living-room I plan on picking games I have not played before and giving them a good going. I will pick one at a time and focus just on it like I have spent all my pocket money on renting it from the video store back in the 80s/90s. As for the 194X series I do love them. I much prefer the more 'sophisticated' ones like DoDonPachi but I could play 1942 all day and be a happy-chappy. Have you ever finished the game without pumping an exorbitant amount of free credits into it via MAME?

Despite the SEGA Mega Drive being my favorite system of all time I have to this day never played MUSHA. I used to collect for the system but never purchased a physical copy doe to the asking price. It is of course on my setup now but I just have not gotten around to it. I definitely will one day. As for you young man, for shame. Don't be such a lazy bum. Scroll down a bit further and you will find a whole new world of shooty goodness waiting for you.

Just wanted to hear people's thoughts on shmups they dig, on any platform. I am partial to the Arcade and in particular love the bullet-hell/manic-shooter/maniac-shooter variety. So I naturally love Touhou Project but have never been able to properly get them running on my setup, but anyway. Here are my favorite all time shooters (which all happen to be Arcade) in order from most favorite: DoDonPachi Guwange Mushihime-Sama Cyvern Espgaluda II Ray Storm Deathsmiles Vasara & Vasara 2 ESP Ra.De. Sengoku Blade (Tengai) Dragon Blaze Gunbird 2 Progear Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams Truxton II Shienryu DoDonPachi is incredible, it rocks my knob off! Though, the creativity and imaginative nature of Guwange's mythological world captivates me and tickles my pickle like no other.

You probably already saw this then. It is the only one I can find. The cord needs mending however. Would you be confident in doing so yourself or taking it to someone you know? The seller calls it rare, which everyone does on eBay in order to try and sell things but in this case I would say that controller does seem pretty rare. If the cord was not buggered I would have been all over that like a fly on a turd. It is the only controller I have seen with a 6 button layout on the face accompanied with analogue sticks, it might be the holy-grail of sexy-time-controllers despite any potential flaws it may have. EDIT: Hold on! I found some pre-owned for $55 with international wide shipping (I went through the checkout to see and it looks like you can get shipping to where I am for about $9: here. They say We hand-pick all of our pre-owned products in order to ensure their condition is in the best possible state and knowing Japanese kids or people in general pre-owned should mean perfect condition. It looks like they have one black one left in stock. Which one of us is going to pull the trigger on it? It is like a wild-west stand off. Probably not, but I like to dramatize things.

I’d like to think it’s not that obvious and he’ll surprise us by saying something like China or Hati.

What country do you live in?

I am guessing it might be as I had never heard of it before and although I didn’t try searching too hard couldn’t really find one for sale. i wish people would stop posting in this thread. The Ryu Dual Link Controller by retro-bit is gorgeous. I want to buy everything!

I’d be interested in seeing what the one with analogue sticks looks like. Someone posted a pic at segaage of the 8Bitdo M30 and it looks very stylish and comfortable. Though for a controller to ‘do it all’ I’d want the 4 shoulder buttons and home button, but then it wouldn’t be a Mega Drive controller anymore. I find the Hori Fighting Commaner perfect for retro games. I think the 8Bitdo M30 looks perfect but one might venture down the path of then getting too many controllers and potentially complicating their setup. At least that’s what I have to keep stopping myself from doing. There’s probably not a completely perfect controller ideal for absolutely everything but with compromising the analogue feature the FC? Does the trick nicely. I feel the M30 might only be good for the Mega Drive enthusiast and whilst it’s my favourite system of all time the controller falls short for me PC-wise.

I thought so, but just wanted to make sure. Spank you very much kind sir.

Hey, just a quick question regarding caching images in BB. If I do it but then never alter anything as in add games etc is it something I need to do again? As in, is it something that benefits from doing every once in a while or only when a bunch of new games and stuff has been added to the setup?

@Mr. RetroLust I have not used any of the controllers you mentioned above. The Hyperkin Duke just looks really awkward to me. Just looking at it the button layout looks icky, though for all I know it could be awesome. As for the Hori ones I like the look of the Hori Onyx out of the two you mentioned. I have the official PS4 controllers so if you want that design because of the analogue, they are great to me. I image the Hori Onyx would be a magnificent substitute going by looks alone. The only controller I know of with a six button layout on the face for fighting games with the analogue option is the Hori Pad EX Turbo 2: Very Tempting! Even though it looks a little cumbersome.

Looking through eBay the Hori FC4 is a heck of a lot more expensive than the Hori FC5. You would think the FC5 being the newest model would be more expensive. Is it then safe to assume that the FC4 is the more popular and therefore likely better out of the two?

My last five are: Tetris (SEGA Mega Drive) Street Fighter Aplha: Warriors' Dreams (Arcade) Muchi Muchi Pork (Arcade) Mushihime-Sama (Arcade) Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting (Arcade) I love me some shmups and Street Fighter, and I am addicted to Tetris on the Mega Drive (I like it better than the NES version).

I have only just discovered this thread and program. I need to explore this forum in much more detail as there are some awesome stuff to be found. I downloaded Stellar and gave it a whirl and it worked great. It is so much easier than doing it via RA itself. Thank you so much for making this great program available to us all.

Well, as a moderator you are partially responsible for this by default so for compensation for my loss during this stressful time you will be required to hand feed me strawberries and cream whilst I watch my computer go up in flames. It will be slightly homo-erotic and awkward but this is what you signed up for, soldier.

I went to update the box art for my Nintendo Virtual Boy and LB downloaded 20GB of beastiality on my computer. The database certainly has expanded.

The front part?

Just to add something to this. I just checked my computer and the image clean up tool had finished which I had going whilst I was asleep last night but there still are multiple images in my Arcade Box - 3D folder: I am not sure if that is useful information but thought I would share in case it is. I can live with that though

I take offence to that, you didn’t capitalise the ‘c’ in Commonwealth which is an insult to my ancestors and heritage who’s bravery and hardwork spread disease and cruelty to many peaceful indigenous peoples across the globe. I will accept an official apology in the form of a magic trick.

@Jason Carr I certainly don’t expect magic except for if I ever travel back in time to my tenth birthday party then I want a magician hired for the occasion because I never had one before. sometimes it is just nice to know the reason why things are happening and your investigating achieved that and is appreciated. Only out of curiosity, is there much chance the LB and Emu end up catching up to each other with available media or is one usually a lot more ‘supplied’ than the other? I think I’ll just run the cleanup tool every once in a while as that’s certainly not the end of the world.

To be honest, I am surprised this has not been raised more. I have mentioned this before but for the life of me I cannot remember where I posted it and who replied, as I got an answer. I recall someone telling me that it is basically just what happens. I too had multiple images for the same game. Sometimes up to seven images of the same image (named XXXX1, XXXX2 and so on as the OP stated) as that is how many times I had LB update media. It should not download the same thing again as far as I am concerned but it does: If you will notice above in my Arcade Box - 3D there are multiple images of the same game. There used to be a lot more but then the clean-up-images feature was implemented and it did get rid of duplicates. Though, then I updated media to scan and download anything I had missing that may have been added to the database and once again the multiple images started appearing. I chose to only add media to fields that were missing ones but it still downloads images for games that already have images. This does take up a lot of space, especially people with many thousands of games. The clean up feature is great but really should not be needed too much outside of this issue. @Lordmonkus Have you not had the same thing happen on your setup as shown above? This does not ruin LB for me at all and I do not spend time getting angry at it but it would be nice if it did not do it in the first place regardless of there being a clean up tool/feature or not.

How bloody silly of me, thank you so much. It sure did work. Thank you very much for your help, it is much appreciated. I tried to get my head around learning how to do it before asking but my aptitude/understanding for this kind of stuff has not quite clicked yet. EDIT: I should have stipulated so my bad but I wanted the images to appear in the folder that 1.jpg is so I can easily cut them to paste somewhere else. I tried searching for ".jpg" in the images folder but about 27k images show up, I tried sorting by date but unfortunately I will have to pull them out of each folder manually. Silly me for not saying that. EDIT 2: I just manually grabbed them from each folder which only took about 5 minutes. Thanks again.