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[Arkhan]

Those cables are legit.  I have purchased from there in the past.

get some

[HuCARD00845]

Thanks for the advice Tasujin. I think I might leave it for now. I will try to go to Hard Off later on and dig out a PC Engine.

You wouldn't happen to know of any good used video game shops or hard off type shops in Osaka, Shiga or Kyoto would you 

I actually did a little walking trip from Minami-Urawa station yesterday to get some exercise and visit a Hard-Off.  Nothing much there (though there was a Duo-RX for pretty cheap.) but they did have a box with about 2 dozen PC-Engine games, even Hu-Cards in cases.  Unfortunately, they were almost all sports shit (Power Leagues, Fire Pro Wrestlings, etc.)  Blah.

That's because I have raped that Hard-Off regularly for about 4 years (second floor with a parking lot underneath, a KFC next to it and a lot of car dealerships on the road... I know it well!).  It's only about a 15-20 minute bike ride from my house (in Warabi/Kawaguchi)!  There are actually five Hard-Offs within an hour or 1.5 hours bike ride from there that I know of (seven if you count Higashi Tokorozawa and Fujimino, but those always took me over 2 hours to get to on my bike... Kawagoe Hard-Off is about 2.5-3 hours... I was hardcore!  If you can make it to Tsuragashima, Iruma or Kuki Hard-Offs on bike from Minami Urawa... you are completely insane).

Got a CIB AES system there in awesome condition for 5000yen.  Got my first CIB Duo there as well, I think it was also 5000yen.  Found a loose Duo there for 1000yen once, which was pretty sweet.  Do they still have those couple CIB 3DO systems on the edge of the isle?  I bought a couple, but there was also a couple left.  They were pretty good deals, actually.  Maybe 2000-3000 each?  Also got a Mega Drive 1 with a Master System Converter there for 2000yen, and picked up some pretty decent SMS games to go with it (Space Harrier, After Burner, a couple Alex Kidd games, etc.).  That was sweet.

Did you pick up the Duo-RX?

　

I still haven't picked up that Duo-rx but plan to this week. I found a shop that sells the cables for 400 yen. I just hope it is still there. I can never find enough time to go there will all my over-time.  Japan is a wonderful country to live in, but a 9 till 5 job is quite hard to come by.  If I pick it up I will let you all know.

Just wondering have you been to the Super Potato in Osaka, and is it quite close to Umeda?

[Firebomber7]

I still haven't picked up that Duo-rx but plan to this week. I found a shop that sells the cables for 400 yen. I just hope it is still there. I can never find enough time to go there will all my over-time.  Japan is a wonderful country to live in, but a 9 till 5 job is quite hard to come by.  If I pick it up I will let you all know.

Just wondering have you been to the Super Potato in Osaka, and is it quite close to Umeda?

PCE cables for 400yen isn't bad.  They can be hard to find sometimes.

I've never been game shopping in Osaka.  I'd say it is very safe to guess that it is located in Den-Den Town.  By the way that you're asking if it's "close to Umeda", I'm guessing you really don't know much at all about Osaka.  Just look up where Den-Den Town is on the metro system if you're planning to be in Osaka.  I think it's at Namba station, if I remember right.  Just get on the Circle Line at Umeda and I think Namba is on one of the lines that goes through Tennoji Station.  I haven't been to Osaka in a couple years, so my memory might be fuzzy.  I don't even remember the exact train line.

[blueraven]

I've worked with pcenginesales before, her cables are better quality than OEM, and very reasonably priced.

I recommend her for them exclusively.

Buy that Duo.

Welcome to the board.

[rainbow_bright]

Welcome O:), that duo is only 35 pounds? My gosh, what a deal. I wonder is there any chance you or anyone else who lives in Japan can pick me some stuff up?

[Frank_fjs]

I wonder is there any chance you or anyone else who lives in Japan can pick me some stuff up?

They probably could but the shipping always kills the price.

[rainbow_bright]

I wonder is there any chance you or anyone else who lives in Japan can pick me some stuff up?

They probably could but the shipping always kills the price.

I don't mind shipping, I have to pay it on ebay or whatever anyway.

[HuCARD00845]

If you are getting things sent to you from Japan to the UK, you can send it quite cheaply with their SAL service. EMS (there quick service) claims to have insurance if a box goes missing, but I recently found out that this isn't applicable for the UK and there is no insurance. The SAL service takes about 1 week later, but is more than half the price in some cases.

[Frank_fjs]

Check rates here: http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/charge/list/parcel3_en.html#

Compare shipping types here: http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/service/dispatch/index_en.html

I have a lot of stuff sent over to me from Japan (to Australia).

EMS is not only fast but 100% reliable. I use this for expensive/heavy items (such as consoles) or items that I really care about.

Registered Airmail doesn't take much longer and is a little cheaper than EMS. Plus you still get tracking and insurance. I use this for smaller packages (such as games).

SAL is slower than both EMS and Airmail and offers no tracking or insurance. I've had items go missing before via SAL but never with EMS or Airmail. I don't use SAL anymore.

There's also surface mail, which is damn cheap but it takes months for your item to arrive, if at all.

[Arkhan]

Bite the bullet and get EMS for anything that is a console.  If its games, and not alot of them... try registered airmail. 

you want your consoles and stuff on the fastplane to yay-ville though.

I paid 200$ to ship a boxed MSX and boxed accessories and games.  I paid on a monday.  on wednesday I was playing games on it.