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[High Score Records / "Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf" High Scores]

Yeah this is probably going to be the most pathetic high score thread, but it's a score I've had saved so I'm posting it  .

Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf
139 - Keranu

I did absolutely awful practically the entire game, so anyone who is at least average at the game should be able to anhilate my score!

[High Score Records / "Galaga '90" High Scores]

I was a panzy and took the easy path through the game.

Galaga '90
#1 ceti_alpha - 1,406,180
#2 NecroPhile - 1,326,510
#3 grolt - 1,321,570
#4 MottZilla - 1,288,200
#5 RoyVegas - 1,275,940
#6 blueraven - 1,206,110
#7 Odonadon - 1,141,500
#8 Keranu - 497,080
#9 Phase - 443,540
#10 Joe Redifer - 382,970
#11 Tatsujin - 320,740

[High Score Records / "Dead Moon" High Scores]

I have a few scores from Turbo games I've saved on my computer some months back after beating them, so I'll be posting them.

This is my score after beating the game through the Japanese version and I specify the Japanese version incase the American version made any difficulty changes like other games (Sinistron):

Dead Moon (U.S.A.)

4,861,400 - Obfuscate
3,830,100 - RoyVegas
3,433,300 - geise
3,319,900 - DesmondThe3rd
1,977,500 - Necromancer
1,928,100 - DQ187
1,745,500 - chany60126
1,632,700 - lukester



Dead Moon (Japan)

829,400 - Keranu

Probably easy to beat.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Is there a comparison anywhere between PCE and MD/Gen BMan '94?]

Yeah they did a craptastic job porting it to the Genesis.

Awesome screenshots, CrackTiger! I found these ones in particular to be interesting:

PCE


Genesis


The Genesis version seems to believe that nearly all Bomberman should be white. Racism?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: My latest tattoo]

Nevertheless, I'm rockin' all over the place!

Haha, I love this post! The smiley really tops it!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Graphics: Turbo vs. Genesis - ye old debate]

What's interesting about Chaotix is that the 32X is only responsible for the sprites.  The Genesis draws all of the backgrounds 100% with its own colors.

Impressive! That's really interesting that the Genesis does the backgrounds, is there a reason for that?

An example I gave early on was Super Darius.

It scrolls the top and bottom of the bg and uses sprites to overlap inbetween and it works perfectly. This type of effect would recreate R-Type's stage 2 parallax no problem.

I think that it shows that pretty much any kind of horizontal scrolling dual layered bg can be done well on PC Engine.

The second stage in that Darius video is the best example. I left the third stage in just for fun, even though it doesn't have any overlapping. I would've added a some more, but the game mysteriously crashed at the end of that third stage(first time its happened to me in over 15 years ).

Very nice!

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

AirRaidX is all over that vid with his new alias airraid4. I'm guessing that he got blocked from commenting on too many of the Users' accounts he still wants to harass. I never blocked him, since his comments are all gold, but he used airraid4 to recently comment on one of my videos:

HAHAAHA, thanks for pointing that out! He's lines are as shiny gold as usual it seems too:

"The day I saw Genesis Altered Beast for the first time, I could instantly tell it was a major downgrade compared to the arcade game - which I had been playing for months. I knew every large & small detail that was different in the Genesis translation; graphics, audio and gameplay."

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: funny auction]

It doesn't just stop at the TG16... He puts up Earthworm Jim and adds a power supply to sweeten the deal. 

Hahaha, what the heck? Do you have a link for that auction? I want to see if he kicked up the shipping a bunch just to make it look like he's justifying the extra shipping cost of the AC. I guess he just doesn't want the damn thing anymore.

[Off-Topic / Re: my new computer]

Super sweet, thanks!

[Off-Topic / Re: Did Keranu get a girlfriend?]

Aww, I'm glad to see people actually care ab00t me! Though how dare you accuse me of getting a girlfriend - you know I don't date!

The E! True Hollywood Story of what happened to me

As I reached the peak of my stardom of fame in the 80's, I started hanging around the wrong crowds. Instead of looking for new hot flicks to star in, I slipped my way into the night life of hanging out in clubs with the hottest celebrities and sniffing lines of coke off any woman I wanted to. My drug addiction got so bad that I couldn't even land a role in Munchie and before I could realize it, I was diagnosed with HIV. Time went on and AIDS was taking over my body and my cure for it was to inhale as much coke as I possibly could while playing rounds of Insector X over and over. After beating Insector X for the 956th time, AIDS had won and I laid dead on top of my Genesis (first model of course) with the "Jackin'" song of Insector X looping. But then one dark night, lightning struck my grave and I raised from it! Now in the new millenium, Keranu is BACK and this time as a CYBORGNETIC ZOMBIE and posting on PCEFX once more! THE END!

For those who were really interested, a thunder storm broke my DSL modem and instead of paying $50 for a new one, we switched to a cable internet service.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine Screen-shot quiz]

OK, how about this one:



If you can't guess this one within one minute, you hate PC Engine games!

Ordyne ?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Not another screenshot quiz...]

Err... Basted?

Err... No. 



Nice avatar, TurboD.  I like seizures. 

Thanks, I made that avatar like five years ago . It's based off a cartoon version of a friend that will someday be a full length animated movie!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Rating systems...opinions wanted]

Seperate from the disclaimer(s), I also have a breakdown of what the scores generally mean. To me, even a game that earns a 4 overall isn't garbage.

Ahh that's very good, that's how I think of a out-of-10 score bar too. I love the Bonks!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Devil's Crush "censored"?]

Very interesting, thanks for making this topic! I don't get why they would remove that, did they not want to make Judaism look like it was satanic or something?

I'm guessing that all that got changed for the VC version is the little 'star of david's.

Hey thanks for bringing this to my attention, I wasn't are there was a difference between them! Personally I think the TG16 one looks cooler ;) .

[General Gaming / Re: Is the PC engine/turbografx consoles the defenitive platform for shmups??]

;)

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Not another screenshot quiz...]

Oh man, I love that cheesy half minute photo editing . IMAGE SAVED!

And yes, I think it totally has to be Blodia, especially since he said "This post is dedicated to GUTS."

Using the marble from the cover - brilliant!

[Off-Topic / Re: Its my b-day]

I am a strong anti-soda user, that word is stupid. The closest I come is saying "sodapop", but that's kinda pushing it. Pop all the way man.

Pop vs Soda

I never have and never will refer to that beverage as 'soda'.

I should've figured this considering you're part of the Nerd HURD  . That's jawesome though since I had no clue what Canadians called it!

Right on to everyone else who calls it pop!!!

EDIT: Wait, what exactly do you call it out there in Canada, CrackTiger? Pop?

[General Gaming / Re: Looking for the name of an arcade game]

Was it Dungeons and Dragons - Tower of Doom or any other D&D games for CPS2?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Highest on-screen colors screenshot]

In my opinion, less colors are almost always better. Many colors usually mean that there's a lot of shading used, and I hate shading!

So does that mean Adventure for Atari 2600 with its three colors on screen looks better than Final Fantasy III for SNES with its 100+ colors ? 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: 1989 clip of Nickelodeon's show Total Panic previewing TG16]

Yeah, the arrow points to Kenny G, with Milli(of Milli Vanilli), George Michael, & I'm not sure who the guy on the right is.  It was supposed to be some kind of pop super group in the 90's, I think they had a couple of hits, but, faded out.  So, they're now back doing there solo projects.

They had one of the best hits of all time - I WANNA SEX YOU UP! 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: 1989 clip of Nickelodeon's show Total Panic previewing TG16]

[General Gaming / Re: Games with better US box art.]

The ULTIMATE example of a better American cover is for EXILE: WICKED PHENOMENON! While the Japanese version featured the cliche anime cover, the Working Designs went all the way to design a claymation scene of Sadler and the last boss as the cover! I would totally post pictures of the covers, but I can't find them!

[General Gaming / Re: Games with better US box art.]

Whoa, good one, GUTS. In an all serious manner, I think the American one definitely looks cooler as the Japanese one looks a bit dorky, not to mention the kick ass flames in the background of the USA one.

Here's a choice from me:

Wimpy Japanese



ALL AMERICAN!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Just when you thought that Bonk couldn't get any cooler...]

Dragon's Curse: Mild Fantasy Violence + Use of Tabacco

You don't think they're refering to the kind pig who volunteers his time to help out at the local church do you?

LOL! I didn't even think about how that smoking pig hangs in the shops AS WELL as the church! So not only is he selling you weapons, presumably stolen weapons, but he's also a damn fine minister. That pig kicks major ass. 

[General Gaming / Re: Is my Neo Geo CD bunk?]

Is my Neo Geo CD bunk?

Yes. Yes it is.



Extremely rushed and sloppy, sorry.

Haha, ok now that was a pretty cool edit!

[General Gaming / Re: Coolest Cartridge/Worst Cartridge]

2600 IMAGIC & Konami cartridges. in the former case, they're all silvery and space-age looking, and have that handy grab panel. The latter are almost as good, but aren't quite as shiny and grabable.

YES, another IMAGIC fan! Not only do IMAGIC games kick major ass, but I always loved their shiny labels too! It does kind of suck that they loose the awesome 70's/early-80's artwork that most games had back then, but I definitely dug the shiny label and font. I don't think I have seen a Konami 2600 cart, I didn't even know they made games for Atari. Another Atari 2600 cart I've always admired was the Donkey Kong cartridge, which had a nice bananaish color to it.


phillip.htmlplanet.com/images/donkeykongjpg.jpg

[General Gaming / Re: Coolest Cartridge/Worst Cartridge]

Joe, I think NGPC cartridges are pretty neat! GBA's look stupid because it's essentially the same design, only shorter which makes it look like a little chubby bastard. Plus NGPC carts are easy to remove from systems, unlike all the Gameboy variation carts over the years.

By the way, another cool cart is the Hudson BeeCard or whatever for MSX.


Cool scan of the back of one.

Some of my favs:

Shape: Genesis

Art/label: Sega Mark III

Pick up and plug in feel: SMS

Overall coolest: PC Engine HuCards

Haha, I love how your overall coolest didn't really have any connection with the previous examples you mentioned

[General Gaming / Re: Coolest Cartridge/Worst Cartridge]

Favorite cart: Odyssey II - It has a nice handle to help you pull out the cartridge!



Worst cart: Maybe Super Noah's Ark 3D for SNES

home.clara .net/robwebb/shop/snes/noah_cart.jpg

Best cart artwork: Klax for TG16! I can't find any pictures of it online, but it looks really awesome. Maybe I should scan it later.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The TurboTap: A Lemon?]

Hmm, I'm sorry but I just don't see the resemblance between a Turbo Tap and a lemon. 

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: DVD of PCE ROMs on eBay]

Haha, I love this cover he made for it:

[General Gaming / Re: Your main computer/gaming computer?]

I prefer this computer:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Dragon Slayer]

I didn't like the MD version's graphics to be honest. Things were bigger, but looked goofier (and choppier maybe? can't remember). Just something about those little sprites and bright colors of the Duo version I admire so much. Also I remember playing a ROM for the SFC version and it had the small sprites of the Duo version, but it had like very little colors or something, really weird.

The voice acting is the best the first boss that you fight says something like "Why don't you go la di da da" i know its not a direct quote but what ever it was, was quite histerical to me.

I love this line, I was laughing so hard at it. I also love how the chick of the game (not Mika, the one on your team) sounds like a straight up hooker.

A.k.a. Lazer Dork's "best dubs ever" list.  ;)

Right on!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What was the best control pad?]

I think I've seen that pad before, but that's really interesting. Another weird PCE pad I've always admired is this one (thanks for relinking that page, Steve:



After looking at that page Steve linked, I saw a PCE pad that I have NEVER seen before and my god is it weird:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can't remember a game name, help!]

By the way, Melchoir00, you mentioned it wasn't Exile because Exile had side-scrolling scenes. Are you sure you just weren't confused with the overhead scenes in Exile for towns?

[General Gaming / Re: Midwest Gaming Classic]

Yeah that's a Pac-Man hat alright. I saw tons of them last year, I guess some vendor was selling them. Here's another pic:

[General Gaming / Re: Midwest Gaming Classic]

You're going to need to take lots of pictures of fat middle-aged bald guys playing Pac-Man, that stuff is always hilarious.

This is the closest pic I have for that description:



The cocktail Pac-Man cabinet was only a few cabinets away from that one actually.

[General Gaming / Re: super cheesiest game advertisements ever!!]

Thanks so much for the link, I absolutely love it! This is probably my favorite on that page:



God that looks so cool!

Also I found this to be very interesting:



Could this be the only non-Japanese woman cosplaying as Yuko!?

[Off-Topic / Re: "Sexiest female Quake player ever"]

I want a gamer chick that looks like this!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: PC Engine AV mod]

Also, I wanted to point out that dithering is not bad.  It can be used when the "magic" of composite isn't even in the equation, like DS games.  Look at this picture I took of "Phoenix Wright 2: Phoenix Touches the Judge Inappropriately":



As you can see, there is plenty of dithering that can be seen by the naked eye with no composite to perform its magic or sorcery to blend it into a new color.  It's simply part of the artwork.  That's not a bad thing.  Same goes with ancient systems that time has long forgotten like the TurboGrafx-16.

Actually I like to think of portable games using their own sort of "magic" for dithering and that's due to their smaller screen. When a dithered image is smaller, it's harder to make out the pixel and it once again creates that magical effect again. But you're right, dithering isn't a bad thing at all and can look nice sometimes without being blended - as long as it's not overdone. Some Genesis games really pushed dithering to look like more colorful than it actually was and this is one of those cases where you really don't want to be playing it with crystal clear picture on an emulator, in my opinion. So I'm not saying that playing PCE or Genesis games with light dithering in RGB or any format that defines the dithering more is a bad thing, I think it just looks a lil better when done in composite.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: PC Engine AV mod]

So awesome, thanks! That's actually what I usually do when I take pictures of my TV. Image saved  .

Here are some more comparison rollover pics I took:

joeredifer .com/turbovideo/swap2.html

I don't have JJ & Jeff or Strip Fighter, but the Fantasy Zone comparison has lots of dithering!

Maybe you really do have to see it in real life, but the differences are very small, in my opinion. It just seems like things are a tad brighter and sharper in component. I don't mean to be an All-American hero here (even though I am), but I say component is not worth it if that's how much it improves . Also people can call me crazy here, but I thought some of the colors actually looked better in composite on Joe's site, especially the Legendary Axe.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: PC Engine AV mod]

Capturing 2 fields in fun!  I can't make the GIF animate as fast as it does on a TV screen in real life, but the picture below shows the shimmering effect that quite a lot of Turbo games have in composite.  NES games, too.  They must use a similar composite encoder (and sound chip).



CrackTiger, does anything like this happen on your system with S-video ?

I'm aware of the shimmering effect, but it certainly doesn't look that bad on any TVs I have used . Besides, the shimmering doesn't bother me at all, I think people just like to be nit-picky.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine Screen-shot quiz]

Mai trrrrrn!

War of the Dead!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine Screen-shot quiz]

OK how about this one:



Anyone who can't guess this one 2 seconds after seeing this not only isn't a true PC Engine fan, but they hate every NEC/Hudson product with an extreme passion and probably has AIDS as well.  I can't believe nobody has guessed this one yet and I haven't even pressed "SUBMIT" on this post yet.  What is this, some kind of Sony fanboy forum ?  Jeez!

Pipe Dream / Blodia ?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: so in all honesty how does the pcengine compare?]

Haha, this image really struck me as weird when I first saw it playing Kabuki Den. It totally doesn't fit in graphically with the style of the game and really sticks out, but looks so cool.

On a side note, I noticed you labeled your images as pp1.gif - pp4.gif . Just curious, what does the pp mean?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine Screen-shot quiz]

Here's a nice easy one as a warm up. Anyone who can't place this one right away isn't a real PCE fan-

Is that Psychic Storm?

[Off-Topic / Re: Recording Genesis and Master System games with capture card]

Dude, you can't expect me to read your posts and be informed before I reply.  That's just completely ridiculous.

Dude, quit eating RaisinBars and get with it! This guy seems to be with it:

Have you tried the AV in on your brother's capture card ?  No, not RF, but AV in ?

Unfortunately my brother's capture card only does S-video and RF, so if I use composite hook ups, it will look all messed up in S-Video mode.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Slowdown in Rayxanber II]

Hahaha, that GIF rules!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Post your scores for the Spriggan showdown here]

Phew! Finally here at the last minute! I forgot about this!

Normal Mode: 1441240
Score Attack: 318140

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Life span of CD games?]

This one's for you Joe: Yesterday, we were decorating the xmas tree and I was trying to get some xmas tunes. Well, lo and behold, it turns out that my parents-in-law have this beauty in their living room:

Clarinette 90! Radio Shack had an entire line of stereos/radios with that name, IIRC. Awesome. When it comes to product names, "Clarinette" is right up there with "Zune" . Please note: Clarinette isn't nearly as goofy sounding.

The tape deck was broken, though , So we couldn't listen to my wife's old christmas album by NKOTB. Dammmit! I wanted it to be a Funky Funky Xmas.

Very nice! My dad has a somewhat similar one (at least in style) from Technics. He used to have this RADICAL Technics record player, but it broke .

[General Gaming / Re: Sega Saturn]

Anyone remember ZBots? I really loved those little things when I was a kid, my favorites were the hockey player and the Johnny 5 rip off.