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[***astro_boy***]

check out one of my mates sites which has not long been underway. www.retrobrad.com. also from australia ,steven

[Retrobrad]

Ive been a retro collector for a few years now (should have started earlier!) my almost complete collection can be seen at my website - WWW.RETROBRAD.COM just click on 'My Collection' ive got alot of double up / triple ups of games and consoles, especially the really common titles like super mario bros 1 (36 copies) the ninja approx 40 copies, super tennis approx 25 copies, and as far as systems go ive got on average 10 - 15 of each system i.e snes, nes, megadrive, master system, gameboy, lynx, game gear etc...

i'm good mates with ***Astroboy*** and used to go to garage sales with him when i lived up in newcastle, hes always got loads of retro games for sale on ebay so check his auctions out.

all up my cartridge collection (for all systems) is well over 1,000 carts. i have approx 3,000 - 4,000 amiga disks and boxes full of controllers! one of my best recent finds was a boxed Vermin game and watch which i got for $2 from an op-shop. on ebay these sell from around $200 - $400.

If anyone is interested in swapping, you can check out my collection and then contact me, im also right into retro modding too.

and lastly, my mates and i are looking at having an annual retro games convention in either melbourne or canberra. we just need to see if anyone would actually be interested in going??????

[Rybags]

Shroo-man, on Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:01 PM, said:

i just got a 7800 cheap off ebay but didnt come with any cables. can any fellow australians help me out for a 7800 power supply and video cable? Ill pay ofcourse

The power supply is actually 9 Volts DC (1 Amp), although I think a 500 mA supply would work.

This link has a mod to add a standard DC plug - might be easier than paying for o/s freight just for the sake of an annoying plug: http://www.geocities...0_powermod.html

[Retrobrad]

Rybags, on Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:26 AM, said:

Shroo-man, on Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:01 PM, said:

i just got a 7800 cheap off ebay but didnt come with any cables. can any fellow australians help me out for a 7800 power supply and video cable? Ill pay ofcourse

The power supply is actually 9 Volts DC (1 Amp), although I think a 500 mA supply would work.

This link has a mod to add a standard DC plug - might be easier than paying for o/s freight just for the sake of an annoying plug: http://www.geocities...0_powermod.html

If you need any help doing the mod, drop me a line. also if you have a power supply at home that you dont use that is a higher rating than 9v you can make a simple little circuit that can fit inside the 7800 that steps the voltage down to 9v. i.e you would be able to use an old printer power supply that might be 24volts etc...

again if you need help, drop me a line.

Brad

[pangasinan]

Hi,im from Adelaide,my collection inclues Atari 2600 with about 30 carts so far mangia being the rarest,also have 4 different type of Haminex consoles and a few other type of pong consoles,nintendo 64 with 12 games ,always looking to buy rare atari pal games,so drop me a line if you have anything interesting to sell...cheers

[Shroo-man]

Nah it's cool retrobrad I ordered an American one a while ago, it just arrived a couple days ago actually.

Hey cool site! Are any of your 7800 games for sale or trade?

btw I like the retro games convention for aus idea. Would probably be better to hold it in Melbourne rather than Canberra though.

Edited by Shroo-man, Sun Apr 1, 2007 10:15 AM.

[cavanor]

Time to brush the cobwebs out of this thread. Any active aussie collectors still around. Im in Queensland. Currently have a Jag, A2600jr, Atari 5200 (on the way fro US). Really would like to spring for a heavy sixer NTSC at some stage.

Checkout www.retrogamingaus.com if you get a chance, it's still in its infancy though!

[HARMIK]

cavanor, on Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:49 PM, said:

Time to brush the cobwebs out of this thread. Any active aussie collectors still around. Im in Queensland. Currently have a Jag, A2600jr, Atari 5200 (on the way fro US). Really would like to spring for a heavy sixer NTSC at some stage.

Checkout www.retrogamingaus.com if you get a chance, it's still in its infancy though!

The 5200 is a cool system not many of them down here, I would get the Best Electronics gold kit for them.

[AussieAtari]

I'm still here, although back on the forum very rarely these days I'm still collecting. Have changed to focus on consoles mainly having sold off a fair bit of my micro collection.

[nofrills100]

I'm a newbie since the original posting.... but definately keen and devoted to all things 2600!
Working on completing a full CIB Spectravision collection at the moment.

Based in Sydney.

[kuifje76]

Bought some gear here, now waiting for my collection to come over from overseas, including colecovision, jaguars, etc....

[cavanor]

I just use 9v 2amp centre negative packs I pickup from gamedoctorhk. Useful for a wide gamut of retro consoles as well.

[mattyg]

Thought I'd better throw a post in.

Mattyg of Newcastle checking in Red leader

Those of you in Australia will be seeing me and my collection soon on the tv show Good Game this year!

Not much else to say - specialise in 3DO but love ALL consoles

Current List

1- Sheen pong clone cib

2- Magnavox Odyssey 4000 cib

3- Magnavox Odyssey 2 cib

4- Atari VCS cib

5- Atari 2600 “Vader”

6- Colecovision cib

7- Intellevision cib

8- Vectrex

9- Commodore 64C cib

10- NES cib

11- Sega Master System 2 – Sonic version cib

12- Sega Master System 2 – Alex Kidd version cib

13- Atari 2600 Jr. cib

14- Sega Mega Drive – cib

15- Sega Mega Drive II sonic 2 version cib

16- Sega Mega Drive II 2 controller version cib

17- SNES base version cib

18- SNES Starwing version cib

19- NEC PC Engine Core Grafx version cib

20- Sega Mega CD II cib

21- Philips CD-I 220

22- Philips CD-I 470

23- NEC PC FX cib

24- Amiga CD32 cib

25- Panasonic 3DO FZ-1 cib

26- Panasonic 3DO FZ-10 cib

27- Sanyo 3DO

28- Goldstar 3DO cib

29- Atari Jaguar 64 cib

30- Atari Jaguar 64 CD cib

31- Casio Loopy cib

32- Sega Saturn cib

33- Sony Playstation

34- Nintendo Virtual Boy

35- N64 standard version cib

36- N64 Pokemon version cib

37- SNK Neo Geo AES

38- SNK Neo Geo CD cib

39- Sega Dreamcast

40- Nintendo Gamecube cib

41- Nintendo Wii

42- Xbox 360









Handhelds

1- Nintendo Game boy

2- Sega Game gear cib

3- Atari Lynx cib

4- Atari Lynx II cib

5- Bandai Wonderswan cib

6- Bandai Wonderswan Colour cib

7- Neo Geo Pocket Colour

8- NDS

9- NDS lite

[nofrills100]

mattyg, on Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:50 AM, said:

Thought I'd better throw a post in.

Mattyg of Newcastle checking in Red leader

Those of you in Australia will be seeing me and my collection soon on the tv show Good Game this year!

Not much else to say - specialise in 3DO but love ALL consoles

Never get my shit together to be on the couch at the right time on the right station to catch the Good Game - So let us know when it has aired - cause I'd like to check it out online.

You need a 2800 for your collection

[nofrills100]

Any other Sydney collectors out there?

[Rom Hunter]

Hi there,

Any of you Australian collectors own a Video Vision cart?
http://www.atarimani...r_2395_2_G.html

Also, I'm interested in scans of SpaceVision carts for the Atarimania database:
http://www.atarimani...r=2138&step=200

Please let me know if you own any.

Thanks!

[nofrills100]

Rom Hunter, on Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:26 AM, said:

Hi there,

Any of you Australian collectors own a Video Vision cart?
http://www.atarimani...r_2395_2_G.html

Also, I'm interested in scans of SpaceVision carts for the Atarimania database:
http://www.atarimani...r=2138&step=200

Please let me know if you own any.

Thanks!

pretty sure I have a spacevision or two... will check it out when i get a chance in the next few days.

[nofrills100]

I'm sure you have good reasons - but what makes you think that they are australian?

[Rom Hunter]

Most of them were found there.

That's all I know.

nofrills100, on Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:24 AM, said:

pretty sure I have a spacevision or two... will check it out when i get a chance in the next few days.

Thanks.

Really appreciate it.

[nofrills100]

nofrills100, on Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:24 AM, said:

pretty sure I have a spacevision or two... will check it out when i get a chance in the next few days.

sorry Rom... i'm renovating my studio at the moment - so most of my stuff is in boxes - way behind the piles of everything else.... will get back regarding these when I unpack in the next couple of weeks.

[Rybags]

Just wondering - has anyone else out there used the Cash Convertors online auction site?

I finally got River Raid 2 after waiting almost 3 weeks. It was a BIN @ $9 + 6 postage from a Perth store.

Despite being marked as having being dispatched about 4 days after I bought it, it still hadn't arrived here a week later.

Ended up sending them an email through the site's inquiry facility and was told they had another in store and were going to send it registered mail.

A few days later, it finally arrived (normal mail parcel).

I tend to think the story of it being sent/lost and them having another copy is bullshit. Not exactly the most common game around, and I'm fairly sure it was only listed once on the auction site.

All turned out well I suppose, but they need to get their act into gear.

[nofrills100]

Rybags, on Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:15 AM, said:

Just wondering - has anyone else out there used the Cash Convertors online auction site?

I finally got River Raid 2 after waiting almost 3 weeks. It was a BIN @ $9 + 6 postage from a Perth store.

Despite being marked as having being dispatched about 4 days after I bought it, it still hadn't arrived here a week later.

Ended up sending them an email through the site's inquiry facility and was told they had another in store and were going to send it registered mail.

A few days later, it finally arrived (normal mail parcel).

I tend to think the story of it being sent/lost and them having another copy is bullshit. Not exactly the most common game around, and I'm fairly sure it was only listed once on the auction site.

All turned out well I suppose, but they need to get their act into gear.

wow!!!! never been to their online store...
space invaders $39
missile command $29
pitfall $29
and all other commons $9-12

[Rybags]

Yeah, forgot to mention.

Their valuation process is a joke. $39 for probably the second most common videogame going around, yet I managed to pick up RR2 (somewhat uncommon) for $15 delivered.

[nofrills100]

Rybags, on Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:30 AM, said:

Yeah, forgot to mention.

Their valuation process is a joke. $39 for probably the second most common videogame going around, yet I managed to pick up RR2 (somewhat uncommon) for $15 delivered.

Yeah
I guess it's a good thing for us atari nuts.... one day a super-rare thing will pop up and they'll want a fiver for it!

[nofrills100]

Anyone based in Sydney / Sydney Outer / Melbourne - that has a cart dumper?
I need to verify the authenticity of a valuable recent purchase - to determine wether I should return it for a refund (long story). I would appreciate 15 minutes of your time, to dump it - i'll buy you a pizza / give you a bunch of carts or something.
Please PM me - it would be very much appreciated.
Cheers