Another user scammed by Good Smile Europe

Another user scammed by Good Smile Europe

I too have preordered a Kasane Teto figure from them back in February, a figure supposed to release in July.

Had no news from them since then, and mails I sent them went unanswered. At this point i feel like I could just buy the same figure from japan and receive it way before good smile europe does anything... (there are litterally sets of 2 for 21 bucks on mercari lol)

u/Seledreams — 9 days ago

Original Miku song I'm working on (Heavy WIP)

Lyrics aren't written yet so she sings la notes.

u/Seledreams — 16 days ago

Fun fact : You can convert PC-98 Touhou instruments to play on Yamaha DX7

I recently got a Yamaha DX7 and I thought "the synthesis system is fairly similar to the Sega Genesis and the PC-98, so couldn't it be technically possible to convert PC-98 touhou patches to DX7 patches ?"
And that's actually totally possible !

the way to do it :

  • Grab the VGZ rips of your choice on vgmrips or another site
  • Get the VGM files from the VGZ
  • Convert the VGM to YM2612 .TFI files (the sega genesis format) using opna2tfi
  • Pack them into an OPM file using TFI2OPM
  • Convert the OPM to a DX7 patch using DXConvert

it's a little bit convoluted but in the end you end up with the patches converted in a way that works on the DX7 synthesizer just fine.

u/Seledreams — 21 days ago

Question about upgrading Total Studio

I currently own Total Studio 4 Max V2. I'm satisfied of it, comes with lots of cool sounds and i got it for only around 120 bucks some years ago on thomann.

I was considering upgrading to Total Studio 5 Max. however, some details felt a bit concerning so I put it off for now.

My main issue is that it seems software such as Syntronik, Sampletron and Sampletank 4 max expansions such as Shipwreck piano, which I love, got removed from 5.

If i do the upgrade to 5 from 4, do I keep access to these removed instruments ? or would they also get removed from my account once my license gets converted to a 5 license ?

That's an aspect that's not very clear.

Thanks in advance.

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u/Seledreams — 1 month ago
▲ 48 r/k_on

Just found out about japanese band score books so I bought k-on ones !

I'm a guitar player (stil a beginner) and quite often I noticed that finding high quality tabs of japanese songs in the west in general was often pretty tricky. A lot of them are fan made and are pretty inaccurate to the source material (if we even find one at all)

Then I found out about japanese band scores on japanese sites where the official scores for an entire rock band are published as books covering the notes for all members of a band, which includes guitar, bass, drums vocals and keys.

So I went on a big shopping and bought multiple K-On ones (as well as Bocchi ones, Angel beats one, haruhi ones and many more). Can't wait for them to arrive !

It will go well with my Harley Benton SC-450 Plus Cherry burst which looks just like Yui's guitar

u/Seledreams — 1 month ago

Got this saturn in a set of 3 junk ones. Decided to restore it

I got this saturn in a set of 3 junk ones from japan for 28 bucks.

When it arrived it was in pretty poor condition. It had scratches everywhere, sharpie in several places... It was really dirty.

I fully disassembled it and did a deep cleaning inside out. Took time to give a bath to the top and bottom shell, used steel wool to polish all scratches and make them disappear.

I couldn't get rid of its tanlines since it would require retrobrighting the bottom or repainting it. But since i don't have the tools and retrobrighting would risk damaging the shell, i prefer to keep it as is. I'm pretty satisfied of how it turned out.

I plan to go through the same process for the two others.

u/Seledreams — 2 months ago

Suggestions on a good cheap symbian development phone ?

I'm an indie dev with lots of interest in old hardware, whether it's old pcs, old consoles and old phones. I have the project to build a game engine working on win 9x-win xp pcs, consoles like the nintendo ds, gamecube, etc and potentially old phones running old opengl es versions.

So I'm looking potentially for some that provide access to a native C/C++ api with good debugging capabilities to help the development. with an open source homebrew sdk.

Do you have suggestions that would fit well ? I don't need it to be high in terms of specs since i want to build an optimised engine in the first place.

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u/Seledreams — 2 months ago
▲ 44 r/retropc+1 crossposts

Does anyone know the specifics of this Visual Studio pack ?

I was looking around for visual studio 6.0 on various websites as I was interested in windows 98 and 95 development for retro gamedev. And I found this on Yahoo auctions for only 56 bucks and *had* to buy it because, it felt legit insane as every disc is still sealed and the activation serial is included.

However this doesn't feel like a bundle people could simply buy at retail, it feels way too heavy in material for it. between the mostly blank box, the fact it includes both BackOffice Server developer edition and visual studio 6.0 plus pack...

I'm wondering if some people know more about it so that I can learn more about what I bought ? I was mostly interested in the VS 6.0 part but maybe there's some other interesting stuff to check out in there.

u/Seledreams — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/Ebay

How do you even handle shipping prices when selling

I often sell on other platforms in france like Leboncoin and vinted, but these platforms just handle the shipping price on their own depending on where the buyer lives, so as seller we pay nothing shipping wise, it's all automatically handled by the platform. however when we set a shipping method on ebay, instead of automatically defining the price based on where the buyer lives relative to the seller, it just asks us to set a flat shipping fee. But it is litterally impossible to set a flat shipping fee if I don't even know where the potential buyer even lives.

After all, depending on where the buyer lives, it can go from 15€ to over 80€ to ship. it changes a ton, i can't simply set like 30€ since, if the buyer lives close, it would make them overpay, and if they live far, it would litterally make me *lose* money.

So I'm confused, what am I even supposed to do here.

Right now i end up just activating national shipping with mondial relay since it's the only shipping method that ebay handles the price of on their own without much variation. but i'd like to be able to set international shipping. but i can't predict the price if i don't know the buyer in advance.

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u/Seledreams — 2 months ago

Battery for a Panasonic CF-Y8

Hi.
I recently was able to import a Panasonic CF-Y8 from Japan, that I plannned to use as my retro development and visual novel machine.

However due to shipping via surface, the proxy service had to remove the battery as lithium batteries are banned via surface shipping.

I live in France, so i'm looking for an EU based option. Is there any battery that would work with this model ?

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u/Seledreams — 2 months ago

Where's the setting to disable the automatic parameter completion for functions ?

When I start writing code and i get a recommended function and press enter to autocomplete, zed has a tendency to complete it by filling the inside of the parentheses with placeholders like

https://preview.redd.it/7xy6816umpgh1.png?width=1010&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff5336a0f14b0fcaae512c1dd347c467d73834bc

I wonder if there is a setting that i can adjust to make it just do something like "gluPerspective()" letting me enter myself the parameters ?

because i always end up having to go back and erase what it auto filled which i find pretty slow.

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u/Seledreams — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/pc98

Schematics for a 9821nr15 ?

I'm working on repairing a 9821nr15 that has some power issues. I was able to fix some of its issues but right now i need to fix a broken through hole trace of a capacitor, and i felt like a schematic would be very useful to have a better view of how each component interacts.

Is any schematic available ?

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u/Seledreams — 3 months ago