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I've also just noticed something a bit lazy and unprofessional in this illustration, and it tells me that Shinkiro must've gone all-in with Photoshop later in his career: the wrinkles in the jacket's arms are just cloned/mirrored from one side to the other, with some minimal warping to adapt...

Shinkiro has always been a great painter, from a technical standpoint he's truly a master. Fantastic use of colors. But of course most of his characters looked alike, and if I had to take a guess, I'd say that he probably heavily relied on photographic reference to compose his works. When you...

Ha! Smooth talker... 😏 Sorry man, but I think I'll pull the trigger for a japanese import on ebay and pay the fees (considering the price and the free shipping, it's not that bad). Need a copy/dump of the SD that comes with the paddle controller?

Got it this morning (damn, that was fast). It's so strange that you can move the mouse pointer with the trackball and scroll the browser pages with the spinner, but you've got no chance of using it in Mame setting mouse controls. I'm sure there's a technical reason, of course (otherwise people...

I've found an offer on italian Amazon for 79 eur (shipping included) and I've snatched it, thanks for the advice! I've read it can be used with a Mister setup, maybe they'll fix the compatibilty with other systems in the future.

Too bad. I wish there were quality alternatives... one million brands of arcade sticks, and still no easy solution for paddle and trackball with Mame on PC. And the Mame library is literally filled with paddle and trackball games (I refuse to play them with a mouse)...

Anybody tried to use the Paddle and Trackball Game Expansion Set on PC, or some Raspberry setup like RGB-Pi?

Wow, I had no idea that board has these issues. I guess the M1VC was very popular for consolizing 'cause it was the only "top loader" 1slot board, but isn't that a little superfluous now that horizontal-to-vertical adapters are on the market? Aliexpress link Anyway, personally speaking, if I...

It's more complex than I initially tought. In theory, all RGBs (RGB+synch or composite) capable TVs should have both 50 and 60hz. But I've asked a friend who knows a lot about CRTs (he can repair them too) and Mivar in particular, and he told me that some models might struggle doing 60hz well...

Since you're interested in this brand, I took a few pics of my best Mivar - though it still needs work. ;) It's a 21" V1E, one of the models from the 80s/90s. Unfortunately it's not the stereo version. Gotta change a couple of capacitors to fix that red&blue line at the top of the screen, and...

Here's one of my good flea market finds, a 14" Grundig Supercolor (model p37-443). I always had a Grundig TV in my home since I was little and the picture quality was always great. This model has a nice design too, reminds me of some Philips monitors of the Amiga era. This little thing, like...

Speak of the devil... found a genuine Brionvega Doney 12" in a flea market this morning. Of course, when you look at the back, you see it doesn't make sense for videogames (black and white, RF only? No thanks). TVs with these specs are mostly vintage ornaments at this point, nothing more...