And on the subject of money (and the title of this post) I have some kind of upsetting news from the Defconsoft household. Due to the current financial climate a few items from my collection are going to be going up for sale on eBay in the not to distance future, in fact I am pretty much giving up collecting PlayStation hardware and am going to concentrate on software, demos and promo items. I don’t really want to give up the hardware collecting but needs must at the moment, and having a house to live it is better than owning a rare console.

So basically that means that my 10 Million Model set will be up for sale soon, along with my Yaroze and debug units, memory cards, the lot. The only hardware I will be keeping is stuff that comes packaged with software. I will be sure to make everyone aware when these items go up for sale and this will probably happen in the next couple of weeks.

Hopefully this will allow me to recoup some of my money and put me back in the black, and it will allow me to concentrate on more important matters like the Online Database which I know you are all waiting for still.

So keep em peeled for when I throw up the auctions and of course keep posting in the forums, we got quite a community building back there.

Cheers
Defcon

Well calm down dear its only a headline and it relates to the two bits of news I have to give you.

So first off all lets deal with ‘Selling Up’. As everyone knows time are hard at the moment so I have decided to sell off some of my stuff, but before you get too excited its just my doubles and spares. I have chucked up a few auctions on eBay and I have been quite generous with my pricings so get on over there and take a look. Anyone buying anything from me can send me their login name here through the eBay message system and I will see what I can do about postage amounts/discounts.

Anyway here is the link to the auctions.

Now what about the closing down? Well don’t worry I am not jacking it all in, that is infact some advance warning that over the coming days/week and a bit the site may well be down for extended periods while I do some jiggery pokery to try and make this more wonderous than you could ever believe! So please don’t be too distraut if you cannot get the site to load, just come back later and I am sure it will be fine.

Well thats it for now guys, more after the maintenence, oh and buy my stuff

Cheers
Defcon

Hi Doctor Nick…. oh wait no its not that is it.
Ok I apologise in advance but this is going to be a huge update. Lots of information is going to be contained in this post so sit back, relax, grab a squirrel and get ready.

Complete Collection Sniper News

Well I have been a busy boy on the complete collection front with a few games already sourced and hopefully heading my way thanks to some kind people and eBay. But for now I can tell you that…..

…I have managed to obtain Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Dritte Editon, and Tekken and Ridge Racer double pack. So that leaves the list at

• 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue
• Adibou Et L’Ombre Verte
• Arcade’s Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2
• Castlevania Symphony Of The Night Limited Edition
• Championship Motocross 2001 Featuring Ricky Carmichael
• Demolition Racer
• Destruction Derby Raw / Porsche Challenge
• Gekioh: Shooting King
• Grand Theft Auto: Double Feature
• Gute Zeiten – Schlechte Zeiten: Vol. 3
• Guy Roux Football Manager Saison 97/98
• Moorhuhn Kart
• Namco Museum Vol. 4
• Nascar 2000
• NBA in the Zone 2000
• NBA Live 2003
• Raiden Project, The
• Rayman Junior: Anfaenger
• Star Ocean: The Second Story
• Super Pang Collection
• Tail Concerto
• Taxi 2: Le Jeu
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 2000
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire / Who Wants To Be a Millionaire: 2nd
• X-Men vs. Street Fighter
• Yattaman: Time Bokan

Soon it will be mine!!!!!

Next up…

Added Stuff

Well I decided to really hammer it today so we have quite a lot of new stuff to go through.

Golf Twin Pack	Toca Limited Edition	Venom Memory Card
Jaguar Memory Card	Driver Memory Card	Top Drive 3
Top Drive Sprinter	Harry Potter Console	Wild Things Magnifier
Ascii Grip	Joytech Essential Pack	Namco Arcade Stick
Intec Starter’z Pack	VisionPad	Classic Trackball

So yeah just a small update . Some real great finds in there, and some stuff I have been hunting for ages, finally I have them.

Teh Future

Ok the final part of my update today is some news. As our regular readers know I am not happy about the speed of the site recently, well I think I have tracked it down however in order to solve the problem its going to take a big overhaul of the site. Now because of this I am going to be stepping back into the shadows for a little while as I try to get it all sorted out, so what that means is that I will not be throwing up as many updates as I have lately until I get it done. I will continue to update you all on the progress to a complete collection but that will be about it as I ferret around in the back end.

I will still be around to post in the forums and stuff so its not like I am dissappearing, and also it might give AtariBuff a kick up the butt to do some updates as I know he has some great stuff to show you guys. So everyone should hassle him to update, throw a comment on this post and I am sure with enough name calling we can get him to do it.

You will know when I am going to make a comeback on updates as well, as you will see a big change around here. Anyway for now I hope this is enough to keep you going for now. I will see you on the forums and try to get this done as soon as possible.

Cheers
Defcon

Well lets see now. As you know, well at least the frequent visitors to the site here know, I do get a bee in my bonnet about eBay and its buyers/sellers now and again. I really hate to see when sellers do not get the money they deserve for their rarish items because people contact them on the side and get them to take whatever game out of a bundle and sell it to them cheap (only for those people to relist it straight away and get the profit.

And it drives me crazy when people ask for insane amounts of postage for small tiny items that cost next to nothing to send. And grrr I do hate those power sellers that use stock photos!. And….. see I get a little irate.

However sometimes I do just have to sit back, pour myself a beer, light up a cigarette and say to myself…… OMG WHAT THE FUCK!!!

And yes dear readers I did that just now, and I WTF’d so much I had to come on here and write about it straight away. So want to know what I was WTF’ing at? Well this

If you click the above link you will find, at the time of writing, a Castlevania Symphony of the Night Limited Edition and the stupid price of ??140 with almost 2 days left to run.

Now first off, that’s batshit insane!!! The game is not that damn rare. There are at least 50 for sale all over Europe at the moment. Yes this may well be a decent example of the game, with no scratches etc but still its not worth ??140.

Now that would be enough to drive my WTF meter to full, however there was something that drive it even higher than possible and that was the little blue text underneath the current price. And that being Reserve Not Met!!

Reserve not met? OMG WTF LOLZ!!! Talk about a greedy seller. Its no wonder that this game becomes ’seemingly rare’ when people put reserves on over that amount. Seriously this is enough to put me off collecting PlayStation altogether. So i would just like to go on the record now and say.

THIS GAME IS NOT ALL THAT RARE. Yes it may well be a good game, but it is not that rare, and the extras you get for it being a ‘limited edition’ are not worth an extra ??100 on top of what the standard edition would give you, and you can get it on Xbox Live as well for a couple of quid.

You wanna know a rare game? Try finding Whizz. That’s a rare game. Or TinTin UK version, thats a rare game, or Jet Ace, thats a rare game. Castlevania Symphony of the Night, that is NOT a rare game and is not worth ??140 plus. And anyone willing to pay that amount of money (and yes I am looking at you Bidder 6) deserves to have their testicles stapled to their eyelids.

/rant off

I guess we will be discussing this in the comments so please feel free to add your flames/insults/castlevania fanboyism towards me.

Cheers
Defcon

But I cannot just leave it at the for you guys so lets have a little look at some software shall we.

Well I think most of know about these 2 following games.

Fun & Learning	Fun and Learning 2

Now these are two unofficial releases from Blaze, unofficial because they do not have SLES or SCES numbers and therefore never went through Sony’s Submission process that the official games do have to go through.

The Fun and Learning series are a bunch of edutainment like games for kids between 5-9 to play in an effort to improve their learning skills while playing games at the same time. There are games that improve spelling, hand-eye co-ordination, letter and number recognition, maths, and memory. Built upon the usual game mechanic systems like matching pairs, collecting letter while platforming and puzzle based aspect.

Now these are not the only pieces of software that Blaze released through unofficial channels. Below are three other titles all from the same people.

Feeding Frenzy is a set of screensavers for you to run through your PS1. It features 9 different room enhancing screensavers across three different themes, Shark, Eagle & Piranha. It features and I quote ‘Amazing Full Motion 3D Movies’ !!

Yes you read that right, it does say Virtual Fireplace. Not all of us can feel what its like to sit in front of a roasting hot fire inside a wooden chalet in some Austrian mountain location. Well now we can with Virtual Fireplace. Yes its a screensaver of a fireplace.

But wait it also includes Virtual Space and Virtual Disco!!! And once again I quote ‘Calling all disco queens! The collection of disco screensavers transforms your living room into a virtual nightclub’. I am sure AtariBuff could really use something like this for his Saturday night prep routine before he hits the discoteques.

And Virtual Space, because in space no one can hear you save your screen.

And finally we have this twin CD pack. Basically it is an enhanced music player for your PS1. You throw this disk into your console and soon you will have an enhanced CD player, and effects menu and a unique light-to-sound screen effect.

Or in other words. A Cd player front end, something to make your music sound like its coming from a toilet, and some pretty raytracing on screen that will either take you back to the 70’s or a bad trip listening to the Happy Mondays.

It does however come with a bonus CD which includes music from Final Fantasy x, Resident Evil and Virtua Fighter (a game that was never released on PlayStation).

Well there you go, a little look at some unofficial PAL PS1 releases. Now one caveat, these all bare the legend ‘For PlayStation 2 & Psone’ so they are not 100% PS1 releases, however they are part of the history I guess.

Also these are not that easy to get hold of, they come up on eBay now and again, and also on Amazon if you are lucky, but if you do manage to see them for a cheap price it might be worth snapping them up.

And just to start you off…

Feeding Frenzy on eBay
Virtual Fireplace on eBay
DSP Music Revelation on eBay

Right I’m off to site infront of my Virtual Fireplace, throw some banging happy hardcore into my Light-to-sound screen generator, and feed my virtual shark….

Oh and keep an eye out for anymore unofficial releases and be sure to mention any that you know of or see.

Cheers
Defcon

The average male brain can process millions of thought processes at a time, however most males do not have the cognitive ability to actually gain any use out of these thought processes. Further more the male brain can be tricked into seemingly not seeing portions of images if enough suggestive thought is put in front of them.

Take this following image for example. Somewhere within this image there is a well known PlayStation 1 game. See how long it takes you to spot it.

Did you spot it? I know its a toughie isn’t it. Well I shall give you the answer. Its Diver’s Dream by Konami.

Now enough of this stupidity. This little joke here is just to announce that I have added 3 more posters to the poster gallery. You can visit it by going to the Other Stuff > Artwork and Posters section.

I also need to add that I have added the searches for eBay France and eBay Australia to the Search Assistant, click the image in the sidebar to go see them. I have also started adding searches for the search term sealed in order to satisfy those collectors that like to collect only sealed versions of games. (Or in other words those guys over at Sealed Game Heaven, hi guys!)

I will throw up a complete search list when I have got them all finished, and find a better way to navigate through them all.

Well that is really me done tonight. Look out for more tomorrow I guess.

Cheers
Defcon

If you think I have missed an obvious search, or there is a search you would like to see, drop me a line and I will see if we can get it working. I will try and get the country searches up as soon as I can.

Cheers
Defcon