Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the Thrift is so delightful

So I wanted to put the Duel shock 4 to the test on some retro stuff, So I Fired up ZSNES and plug the PS4 pad in the USB to my old laptop, Of course it is never going to be that easy there is a few things your going to need first, If you haven't alright, You need to install the Xbox 360 pad drivers Once That's done you need to install a programme called DS4 This will use the 360 Driver to connect your PS4 to the PC, Then its just a case of configuring the pad to a emulator and your always playing retro classics on this modern controller.

I must admit Ive been having a blast with the PS4 pad used with emulation, Its got every thing you need and then some, Its on par with the 360 controller as far as a emulation solution is concerned, But if you plan on emulating PS1,PS2 this would be the better choice with the lay out matching Sonys previous controllers. All in all one of the best Pads for retro, The Xbox one controller drivers Are also available, I have had chance to tried it with them not coming with a cable off the bat, So maybe when I can pick up a plug and play kit cheap I will give it a goes, Needless to say the Xbox one loses points for the extra spend Booo Microsoft, Booo.

Having a bit of a sort out the other night I finally had enough plugs free to plug the megadrive MegaCD, And still have room for the heater and TV laptop, So I picked up a few ebay games for it Dragon Fury and Cool spot £2.99 each £1 postage.

Cool spot was a Genesis Cart, That the majority of them work in PAL mega drives, But turns out Cool spot has a lock out chip, That the Ebay seller had not mentioned in the listing bad form!

I could of give the seller shit but for the sake of £2.99, Plus I Remember I have one of these Atgames Megadrive that can swich from PAL to NTSC, I totally forgot I had this thing you can use all your own assories and cables so its pretty sweet.

So a Quick cable and controller swap and I was able to play cool spot no problem with my 555xpcAsciiware Mega Drive Arcade stick, Groovy.
Another Ebay purchase Ex-Mutants for Genesis this game works fine on a pal Mega drive only £2.99 for the cart and its not a bad game based on a comic book of the same name.

Let see what the last cheeky thrift before Christmas had in store, Starting off with some PS1 games for £1.99 each Rayman Rush Destruction Derby and Colony wars, All complete and in good order from scope.

Then in british heart foundation GTA 1 and Tomorrow never dies for 99p each, GTA is quite good because its black label and has the map inside and bond I played back in the day so It has some nostalgia value.

Coulple of NOFX cd's The greatest hit and the anti bush jive, One of my favourite punk bands and for 99p each had to turn them down and will stick them in the mega CD and blast them out all hipster and ting.

99p for the Age of empires collections in banardos, CEX still sell this for £8, Trade £3 cash £2, So there will be close to the CEX price to be had on ebay or just trade fodder. Not that its not good its just already install on my PC.

From Age of empires to Dynasty warriors 5 Empires for £1.99 in Dove house, Only sells for £3 in CEX, So getting it a Pound cheaper and money going to charity bring in that win win scenario that Thrift bytes likes to invoke on a weekly basses.

In Age concern a whole bunch of Xena Box sets for £2 each, I watch this show when it was originally aired,Sword fighting scantily clad women and lesbian subtext made up for a bunch of cheesy acting and ropey CGI and worth more then £2 easy.

So I have being picking up more PS1 then ushall would recently, I have sold, Traded and Rebought countless PS1 games over the Years, Subsequently I have ended up with a strange mixed of games comprising of some So-So titles and some total tat, As well as some total classics and a few rare titles as well, So I have convinced myself to collect for the system no real rules on what I am going to pick up just anything I don't already have and not to many shitty sports games, The goal is to fill this 5 tier black shelf just because I think it would look awesome full of PS1, Long way to go but its starting to look fuller.

Got my Christmas present a few days early, Super smash bros for Wii U, looking forward to diving into this, I played brawl on wii but at the time I only had a Wiimote and nunchuck that made it a bit of a mess to play, Compared to the time I spent with Smash bros melee on GameCube with the excellent game cube controller, I have plenty of controller options for this version so I may recapture the magic of melee in this newer incarnation.

I was planning to go out and squeeze the last drops of pre-Xmas Thrift, But when I woke up the thrift came to me, My next door neighbours kids are all getting new tables for Christmas so they where clearing out some handheld stuff So I paid them reasonable prices for some good stuff, GBAsp red with 4 games, A PSP 3000 slim with UMD and 1GB memory Card and Jax and Daxter lost frontier, and Deep labyrinth on DS all for £35.

Having a bunch of PSP stuff I have bought over the years still on my PSN account I was glad to have a PSP back, This made even sweeter that I finally have the model that does AV out to a TV So we may see a few more Shitty UMD films Next year.

Glad I finally upgraded the SP I have for tested game boy games The old one I have has seen better days, So a nice red one with crash, Spyro and Simpsons, Hell yeah, And to top it off we have a Mystery game, No label cart what could it be?

Its Crash nitro kart, Not to shabby, All in all a pretty epic Christmas thrift, Wishing you all a merry thriftmass and as always until next time Thrift on!