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It's been a while since I posted, so here goes...
- I got most of the non-box set videos and games switched over to DiscSox, basically anything with a box or slip-cover doesn't get moved over. The PS2/Xbox/Wii/Gamecube stuff takes up a lot less space... so more space for more games!
- Unfortunately, I've had to box up most of my stuff to get my room re-carpeted.. though the game shelves didn't move. I never did get all the systems hooked up right, as I had misplaced the bag with all the power supplies for the older systems. The plan for the new layout is to only have one or two systems hooked up at a time and the TV isn't even mounted yet.
Here are some updated pics..
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Okay I want to know more about that CV game pad. That looks 100 times more comfortable than the original. Sure, can't use overlays, but who cares?
It's one of doubledown's mods, if I remember correctly. Which controller did he use? I think it was from a japanese system, can't remember which one. But he rewired it to work with the ColecoVision.
That was a controller that came with the NTT Data modem for the Super Famicom.
I think it looks more like this one.. from the Nintendo Famicom Network System
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As usual, mine is: Wntermute
That's one of the perks for having a fairly unique username.
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I would have to go with Galaxy Force, since Environmental Discs Of Tron has already been mentioned.
The whole machine was like a ride in itself.
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Anyone notice that they clearly state it'll be sent in a bubblope?
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I got a set and installed them without problems on my iMac.
However, when I used BootCamp to boot into Vista Ultimate, the Centipede disc would not read. So I just rebooted into OSX and copied the Centipede AIR package to my HD so I could install it next time I boot into Vista.
Has anyone else had any problems similar to this?
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My feelings exactly. I'd probably never use linux on my ps3 but it was a feature on it when I bought it and it should not be removed. Personally I'm shocked that anyone is defending Sony in this at all. A lot of people were singing the praises of this when the ps3 first came out and now they're silent when it's being removed....
It was a half-assed implementation of multiple OS support to begin with since it reserved SO MUCH of the bare hardware away from Linux. Installing Linux means you're giving up a CPU core AND the advanced RSX graphics chip. That left just a paltry amount of RAM compared to what you could put together yourself in an off-the-shelf PC form.
The drawbacks just outweighed the benefits. Sure, you could throw VLC on there and play DVDs or videos from the hard drive, but why limit yourself to the storage space of a single notebook-sized SATA drive plus whatever you could plug into the USB once the ports were filled with keyboard & mouse?
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You keep them on the floor? Wow.. that's brave of you.
Either way, keep up the good work!
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I guess it's because I was so used to the ST version of Populous before trying the SNES version.
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I never played it much since the button combos were much less than intuitive.
However, according to a list I looked up, Populous II is compatible with the SNES mouse.
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I never used the OtherOS feature of either of my BC PS3s. I just never saw the need. If I want Linux, I'll use a machine I can get better use out of. There were just too many good hardware parts that Linux couldn't touch, like all of the CPU cores and such.
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Actually, there is a region lockout of sorts, but the main difference is PAL and NTSC (Japan & US have the same region chip).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Regional_lockout
I have a Pro Action Replay for SNES and it has 2 slots for the purpose of bypassing region lockouts. One for the cartridge to be played (on top) and one for the domestic cartridge lockout donor (on the back). Unfortunately, it was created back when most of the games only used the middle section of the cartridge slot, so it doesn't have a wide enough slot for special chip games like Star Fox and Yoshi's Island.
I double-checked with my SNES Game Genie, it has a wide slot on the top, but the extra pins aren't connected to anything.. it has the middle section only on the card edge side.
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I had my eye on one of those combo floppy drives that had the 3.5 and 5.25" mechanisms in one half height chassis. Should pop right into a spare external bay with no problem.
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We're not?! Who the fuck else would buy it? People too young to remember these old games probably won't buy them. The people who are old enough to remember them won't buy Microsoft's gimped versions. The audience for Game Room is NOBODY.
The target demographic is ppl around our age that don't already have compilations (Atari Anthology, Activision Anthology, Intellivision Lives, etc.) or real actual old-school hardware lying around. The people that remember what arcades were like and will appreciate being able to put one together (even if it is virtual).
And ppl who have more MS points than sense.
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It just boils down to... we're not this software's demographic really. This is for those new to nostalgia to start a collection or send challenges to XBL/WL friends.
Sure, I might grab a game or two once it gets going but probably something that appeals to me and is not available in a set somewhere else (read: none of the Atari & Intellivision games already released)
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Sorry about that, I just always assumed Digital Eclipse was handling those too since it was happening around the same time they were porting things like Root Beer Tapper to XBLA.
Edit - IGN list Backbone Entertainment/Digital Eclipse as the developer for them and SOE as the publisher and the following video showing Joust confirms it.
Of course, I assumed from the wording in the press release that they would be porting it themselves rather than giving it to DE/Backbone. Some companies just love taking credit.
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I don't think anyone knows the real story behind it. The Midway titles done by Digital Eclipse on PSN (Gauntlet 2, Championship Sprint, etc.) remain available which confuses the situation.
Wonder if the Midway titles on the original XBLA for the Xbox 1 are still available.
The PSN versions were licensed and ported by SOE. Digital Eclipse didn't do the PS3 versions. Since Warner and Sony are so close, they probably worked something out.
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No he can't. Midway removed all their games from XBLA.
Actually, Midway went under and its IP assets were bought by Warner Bros. I'm guessing that Warner Bros. doesn't have an agreement in place with Microsoft and Digital Eclipse to sell the Midway XBLA classics at this point.
Basically the same situation as Double Dragon way back when. The only time M$ cuts XBLA titles without warning is due to licensing issues.
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I used to have a Genesis with a language switch and widened cartridge port. There was even a local game rental shop that stocked some import games. Also, there are quite a few games that had differences when played in JP mode (different title screens, Miles/Kilometers Per Hour on driving games, etc.)
That's why I mentioned Devil Crash MD, that was one of my favorites and the watered down domestic release looked silly by comparison.
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I had the 4 at a time sub with GameFly for a long time until I left my job. I have to say I didn't mind the turnaround, given that I had such a big discount on the games I chose to keep (which was practically all of them).
The game discs in general had little to no wear & tear on them and the ones that did, I got a better copy by reporting & returning them.
I would say if you're worried about turnaround on the games, get a 2-4 game subscription and stagger your returns so you always have a game out ready to play.
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Different platforms have variations on what they trust as a Certificate Authority and how they parse the certificate. I know one of my browsers (I forget which) had problems parsing a certificate with a wildcard in the hostname (ex: *.domain.com) and whined like crazy until I told it to trust it.
When things like this happen to known good sites, I just double-check the cert info then whitelist it.
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I'm pretty upset with this thing now. I saw the scores on the Yars' Revenge leaderboard and I figured I could get my name on it easily. My TG record is 364,463 Points on Game 2, Difficulty B .. highest leaderboard score as of this writing is 170K. So I use the Token bonus play feature to use 5 of the provided 20 tokens to buy a game session and use the interface to set up the same game variation.
I get about 130K into it and BAM get kicked out of the play session with 4 or 5 lives remaining. I check the leaderboard and I'm nowhere on it, even though the lowest score listed is 94K. Check the friends' leaderboard, no score listed. It didn't even record my game progress one iota.
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This would've been much better if they had "blank" arcade machines you could stick your XBLA games into. As it is, I'm not going to spend $3 I don't have on Asteroids or Tempest when I already have them in other forms. There just isn't enough new stuff for it to be compelling to me.
Aslo, note that the $3 is to add it to your collection for use in "your" arcade.. it costs $5 to play it anywhere, including friends' arcades.
What really disturbs me is they offer 1-3 "medals" for each of the games, but don't tell you what the medal requirements are.
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The uncensored Devil Crash MD (released heavily modified as Dragon's Fury here)
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