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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What are some good PC Engine home brew titles?]

Huh... I heard whisperings about that guy essentially asking zero permission from anybody to sell his stuffs. So Pcedev just took all of that stuff down because of it? Bummer...

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What are some good PC Engine home brew titles?]

Wasn't there also a MegaMan homebrew port pcedev made a while back? I remember poking around with it back in the day. Now that I have a Super SD System 3 I've been trying to find it again, but alas, all links to it seem to lead nowhere.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Super SD System 3]

I just got mine in a couple days ago and I'm lovin' it so far! I think it shipped just after they went back and flipped those caps around on the boards. (Though I'm using HD Retrovision Component cables so I'm not sure if that'll matter much in the long-run.)

As far as audio noise, I haven't seen much. Maybe a little bit here and there but I've gotta really be hunting for it. That kind of stuff has never really bothered me, but I suppose it could for other people.

[General Gaming / Re: RetroBlox : Another new Play-Everything "Retro" Console]

Teraflop has been legitimate since the 90s with Intel.

I know it's a legitimate term, but that's not the point. You can douse the masses in flops, chipsets, schematics, and technical jargon all you want... but what does that mean?! that's not necessarily going to convince people that this is a console worth getting excited about, and pre-ordering/buying. They want to see what you're doing with all those terms you've come up with.

Bringing this back to the RetroBlox/Polymega, one buzzword has been thrown around a ton without much meaning behind it: hybrid emulation.

[General Gaming / Re: RetroBlox : Another new Play-Everything "Retro" Console]

Doesn't that apply to Sony and MS too?  They all have existing products that they'd rather you buy now rather than wait for the next thing that you know you want, so you only get leaked specs and educated guesses.

I've seen instances of Sony and MS bringing up vague, possibly made-up terms to describe their tech. "Terra-flops" immediately springs to mind.

This is why I never get excited about anything anymore. I've lived through too many Coleco Chameleons. While we do actually have some people with actual industry experience on board this time around, it's vapor as far as I'm concerned... until it comes out.

[General Gaming / Re: Mario Kart 8 is the tits....]

I think he might be mine, too. That was just my first Grand Prix with him, and I aced the whole damn thing!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

A tad bit late, but I got a sweet Fix It Felix repro a while back. Vid of it in action:
https://vine.co/v/MQ3tJZtzI22

[Off-Topic / Re: Word association thread]

Judge Judy

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

The fact that Abilene, TX is so damn far away from any other piece of civilization!

EEEK!!!

and this is coming from someone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Im in dallas next week. Grapevine.

(replying to something really old but wtf...)
Huh... Seems the more time I spend in the retro gaming scene the more I find fellow retro gamers who live in Texas. This makes RetroPalooza all the more tempting...

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Ooh... this is really tempting. Not a bad price either. If so we should have some kind of pcenginefx meet up or something!

[General Gaming / Re: Mario Kart 8 is the tits....]

Finally got a highlight reel I can feel proud of:

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Music CDs
Soul Coughing - El Oso

That takes me back.

Me too! That's why I bought it for $2. Except I grew up with the Flintstones version of the music video.

[Off-Topic / Re: Word association thread]

Atari Jaguar

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

But I already enjoyed it on the way there. And it was night... and I was tired. That's what I really didn't like about it.

But no matter, I survived without falling asleep thanks to a Starbucks Doubleshot+energy and the Initial D/Super Eurobeat Pandora station.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

The fact that Abilene, TX is so damn far away from any other piece of civilization!

Context:
I'm writing this at a Starbucks I stopped at in Midland on the way back home, (to Abilene) and that's still 3 hours away. 3 hours of nothingness I might add. Ugh... really not looking forward to it.

[Off-Topic / Re: Word association thread]

Laser Cannon

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I'm baaa-ack! Been on vacation/other fun life things for the past month or so. Got some imports in while I was gone.

Famicom
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem Gaiden (not pictured)
Bakusho! Jinsei Gekijou 2
Super Famicom
Daibakusho! Jinsei Gekijou
GBA
Mother 3
Sega Saturn
Metal Slug (not pictured)
Dreamcast(none of these pictured.... sorry)
Gunlord
Neo XYX
Dux ver1.5 Collector's Edition
***
One of the places I stopped on my recent travels was Austin, where the classic game scene was very VERY good to me:

(boxed games have manuals unless otherwise stated)
SNES/SFC
Exhaust Heat
Super Return of the Jedi

PS1
Road Rash
Final Fantasy VIII

Dreamcast
Shenmue

NES
Willow
Journey To Sillius
Star Force
Dragon Power
Arch Rivals
Renegade (no manual)

Genesis
QuackShot
PAC-Mania (no manual)
Space Harrier II
Virtual Pinball
Road Rash 3 (no manual)
Alien Storm
Gain Ground (no manual)

Music CDs
Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
Soul Coughing - El Oso

[tl;dr]
It's officially time for me to slow the hell down and play some of these!

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

Game Sack will do the true in-depth look in a few weeks. It will feature A/B audio comparisons between real systems and Retron5.

I wonder if your unit will have proper save state re-writing. It seems like these Chinese clones always get one thing wrong. That said, I remember having trouble getting the Game Boy Color's "Mega Memory Card" to properly rewrite saves. It just wiped them out.

[Off-Topic / Re: Resize images using BBCode you shipwads...]

For all our sakes I hope that bitch has his honey.

OT: Great tip! I'd definitely make use of it if Flickr didn't already do it for me.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Huh, I'm genuinely surprised the 3DO had that many good games. Maybe I'm just mentally filing it along with the Jaguar in 32-bit systems that sucked.

And hey, it has a version of Street Fighter II, which means I'm cursed to own it myself one day anyhow.

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

Just watching some theory... some GAME Theory.

[General Gaming / Re: Wii U Nintendo ID exchange]

Huh... so that's why this update is taking so long. Sounds great, even though I have no clue what I'd use this for.

[General Gaming / Re: Mario Kart 8 is the tits....]

Hell yeah! Awesome game! Anyone upload any highlight reels to YouTube? I can never get mine quite right.

[General Gaming / Re: Wii U Nintendo ID exchange]

Just hooked mine back up and added everyone in the thread. If you added me before you might want to add again... apparently these requests expire in 30 days X(

[High Score Records / Re: "Alien Crush" High Scores]

That's Devil's Crush you silly dood!

[High Score Records / Re: "Alien Crush" High Scores]

I only have a few other great secrets of the forums and/or universe left... and I'll divulge one more of them here:

Do you have your mother stored in your address book as "mom"?  Ever notice the T9 numbers you have to dial to bring her up for a phone call?  Yeah... not a coincidence.

O_O" Good. Gravy....

I don't believe I can ever unthink that again. It's like the FedEx arrow... damn.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

Rain.....BAD storms rolled thru last night, kitchen and basement had 2-3 inches of water....lost $1,000's worth of games movies, etc. 

Sorry for your loss, dude. You got some insurance on that at least?

Actually, we could start a whole other thread on "What do you despise about the insurance industry right now" lol.

(Hurricane Katrina was nothing but a wind storm, my ass. Thanks for nothing, Travelers.)

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

That was my first time seeing that series. Good stuff! The use of shmup didn't bother me that much, but I'll probably notice it like crazy now.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

I despise international shipping fees.

I had to return that Neo-Geo:CD console I got a while back (cause it didn't work) and the buyer was fine. He said he'd refund my purchase price and up to $40 shipping, which is great... except that it's gonna cost me $89 at least to send this thing back to Japan! 

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

Against my better judgement, I've been getting back into YouTube Poop lately. Mainly thanks to the return of Mark3611:

[General Gaming / Re: Wii U Nintendo ID exchange]

Anyone planning on getting Mario Kart 8 this week? It looks hella fun.

I had to disconnect my Wii U for... reasons... but that'll probably be what gets me to hook it back up again, in which case I'll get back around to adding you chumps.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

That was very interesting, especially that bit on Aladdin.... huh.

Another great example of same name different game would be Shadowrun on SNES and Genesis. On the SNES it's a point and click RPG. On the Genesis it looks much more like an action RPG. (I haven't played that one myself.)

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Neo-Geo CD console]

Well after tinkering with this thing for a week, I'm just going to send it back. I've lubed the laser track, taped down the CD door switch, and much more, but nothing seemed to work.

So, consider this thread back to WTB status!

EDIT: Aaaandd, consider it no longer. I got a pretty good deal on a replacement. Thanks for playing!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

This week's import haul: (and a whole lotta other mess!)

Track #8: The Brazilian... masterful! Love the Invisible Touch album!

Oh yeah, that's in the shot too! I actually got that years and years ago and was testing it in that NG:CD to see if it made any difference. I think "Domino" is my fave from it.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Great episode! I support this Random Episode idea. Heck, with a name like Game Sack, it works. It's like stuff you've randomly pulled from the sack.

I remember playing Blue's Journey way back in the day at an arcade that had a whole wall of Neo Geo units. I don't think I spent much time before hopping back over for some more Bust-A-Move Again though. Anyone know if they ever released it on Neo Geo CD?

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

This week's import haul: (and a whole lotta other mess!)

Good news: Got my Neo Geo CD way faster than I expected!   
Bad news: It doesn't work. 
The disk won't read or spin... at least not very much. (See this video: http://instagram.com/p/oGohb-HAGv/)
If anyone has any suggestions, throw 'em at me.
Here's everything else I got:
Neo Geo CDs
King of Fighters '94
King of Fighters '95
The Way of the Blade (That's the Japansese "Last Blade" right?)
Garou Densetsu 3
Shin Samurai Spirits
Famicom
Pinball
Macross
Itadaki Street

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Neo-Geo CD console]

Not sure if that's the problem. I opened it up before and actually held down the lid switch on the board itself and it does the same thing as seen in that video. I'll probably try to go to the store in a bit and get a small screw to fit into that peg to make it longer.

I'm also noticing now that the black spindle in the middle is spinning fast, but the disk isn't going with it the whole way. When the door is actually closed, I'll hear small disk drive-y noises, but the disk is always in the same position it was before.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Neo-Geo CD console]

Well... I just got one actually. However, it isn't working right now. (Disk won't spin/read) So I may just come to you if I can't fix this myself.

Don't get your hopes up though. I only have 6 TG-16 games right now, and they're all pretty common ones (Bonk's Adventure, Blazing Lazers, Keith Courage, etc.) PC Engine games, on the other hand... 

EDIT: If anyone has any help or suggestions for my NGCD predicament, here's a vid that shows what it's doing right now. http://instagram.com/p/oGohb-HAGv/

[General Gaming / Re: Wii U Nintendo ID exchange]

I really need some more people on my list. Mine is... SmaMan.

I know, right? Shocker.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Metal Slug 3 IS on XBLA.

Do the other SNK Xbox games work on a 360 too?

I know SNK vs. Capcom doesn't work on 360, which sucks because that's really the one game I really want from its library. (and they wonder why few people have used the 360's backwards compatibility, amirite?)

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Nice stash! Fire Pro Wrestling 3 was one of the first games I got for my PC Engine. Let me know if you figure out how to play it. I sure can't.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Thanks to SPARKY!!!
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I used to watch that movie all the time when I was a wee lad, hah!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How did you find out about the Turbo Grafx 16 PC Engine.]

No, silly, it's that fourth knob on the condom dispenser. Gotta practice safe OBEY

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I for one do not understand all the doom-mongering on the Wii U. I got one at launch and have had a hell of a fun time with it. Not to mention, with Wii mode you can obey off-TV on the GamePad!

Anyway, got me some imports today.

$100 Million Dollar Kid
Hokuto No Ken 2
and Gokujou Parodius! (I'm actually surprised how up to par this one is with the Saturn/Arcade version. There's even 3 more characters!)

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

I've been on the fence about getting one. But Joe and Dave just pushed me over it. I'm getting one!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Yep, nothin' like naked chicks and spaceships to get you ready to shoot your probe into things. 

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Speaking of Bonk, after being a TG16/PCE gamer for a year, I finally got it!

I also got Gaiares for the Mega Drive, as seen on top of the TV. Cool thing is it's one of those carts that will play in English if you put it in a US console. (Thank you Game Genie.)

[Off-Topic / Re: To All The CD Based Gamers Who Once Used Carts]

Since we're moving in the direction of tapes & floppies, some of my earliest gaming memories were with my dad's C64. I think he had the tape attachment, but I don't remember using it. We always used the floppy drive. He did some programming of his own for it, mostly shapes and colors learning games for my sister and I, but he also made the equivalent of multicarts for the thing, putting about 4 games per side of the disk. I think he also found ways to speed up the loading time on them too.

[Off-Topic / Re: To All The CD Based Gamers Who Once Used Carts]

I never really minded load times on CD games. I do have my limits, mind you, but it's never been a huge issue.

What I really hate is excessive CD switching. My dad and I used to play Tiger Woods PGA Tour on the Gamecube, and some of the later versions came on two disks. The game could be booted from either one, fortunately, so we'd usually just start the console on the one that was in there the night before. But without fail, whatever course we wanted to play was on the OTHER disk! X(

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

.....why does Super Tempo have to be so expensive? Eff.

Heh, good to know I'm not the only one who looks up all the episode's games for sale after I'm done watching it.