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Yeah, I remember that add well. It was in Joypad as well at the time. Oh and here's the rabbit version.

Hehe, yeah that's true. Having the real deal next to you for comparison is so much easier. That tutorial I've made actually is for Photostudio which came with my old Canon Scanner. I started doing one for Photoshop a while back, but it took so much time and effort to put together that it was put on hold. I really should get back to it and get it finished.

Just got this game last friday after being rather pleasantly surprised by the demo version. While it's certainly not perfect, it is a huge deal of fun, which is what really matters in the end. I do have one big gripe though. Been playing a bit of multiplayer these past few days and there seem to be a few omissions that boggle the mind. This is the PS3 version btw. You can't seem to play all the multiplayer types the way you'd like. Certain game types can only be played in combination with others, which is called a mixer. I don't understand why you can't just select a capture the flag gametype and go into a server to just play that. That being said, the way the servers work is also something I'm not too fond off, or should I say the matchmaking. You don't get to see a list of games in progress, instead you're thrown into a random configuration where the only way to change something like say, the map you'd like to play in is to veto the selection. Problem is that you'd need half the players to veto as well before you can do anything, which I've never seen happen till this day. One of my biggest gripes though, is when you've finally played a full game with a bunch of people you like and you'd like to play the same gametype again, on a different or on the same map, well you can't seem to do that. When I select "next game" I get kicked out of the server and the search for another group starts. :-/ Why can't we just make our own servers with or without custom rules, set the kind of gametype and maps that we'd like and get on with it? You can create the game you'd like with many different stipulation, lots of options and everything, but the only way to play those games is to get enough people (up to 16) on your friendslist to play at the same time, which isn't a very easy thing to do when more then half of them live on another continent. If I'm missing something and it is possible to, for instance continue a game with the same people, please let me know what I'm doing wrong here. It can be so much fun, but these things are very, very annoying. Unlike say, Crash Commando where you start a server, choose the gametype and levels and play with the people that want to join as long as you'd like.

Funny how those things work out. Perhaps it's because I'm in Europe, but over here the system was not looked at for it sports games, a bit for the fighters, but nothing special until Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter came out. Here it was popular for it's platforming games, shooters, arcade conversions, action games and RPGs. All of which had plenty to choose from.

Looking great there. The only thing I could comment on is the saturation in the end, which might have to do with the difference in screens we use. I find that the re-saturated version look a bit too saturated actually. That might also have to do with Dr. Bones using a different scanner with different settings as well. So a saturation of 20 on other scans might look perfect, while I think 15 or perhaps even 10-12 might do the job here. Making the images much more vibrant, without overexposing the warmer colors.

After all these years I'd still have to go with Final Fight. Such a classic and the game that got me back into games and sold me a MegaDrive (don't ask ) when I was around 14-15 years old and thought I was too cool to be playing games. The MegaDrive thing was because my friend at the time told me when we played Final Fight at the yearly fare that it was out on that system. So naturally I saved up for the system and Final Fight never arrived on it until the Mega CD was released, but i only got that many years later. I did get Streets of Rage which we played for a long time until the early hours of the night. Such an incredible game. But still Final Fight has something all the others lack, even though it's so straight forward. And since the arcade version isn't on there, I picked the next best thing: the Sega CD one. Final fight One on the GBA is awesome as well though.

Not sure if this would help, but would pressing down on the d-pad fix this during play? I've hear several people mention something like that. I don't know myself, even though I have had the game for the past 3 weeks since it came out. Because I have only been able to try out the sports that don't require much movement, like frisbee, bow shooting, Waverace and the plane flying. Should be able to get into the others within the next couple of weeks though.

I loved the little system and got a Japanese one even before it was released in Europe simply for Crush Roller, the sequel to the classic arcade game. Just like it's big brother the NeoGeo Pocket has one of the most impressive quality/crap ratio's ever seen in video game history. The Dreamcast is another one, but doesn't come quite as close as either NeoGeo's ratio wise. Possibly the best d-pad ever with the tiny click stick. It's so depressing that no one has licensed the technology behind it so they could put it in a console or handheld. One of my most played games on the system is without a doubt Capcom VS SNK. The mini games alone were worth the price of the game. What more could you ask for? A great sonic game, Bust-A-Move, 2 original Metal Slugs, lots of fighters that played like a dream on the click stick, strategic games like Card Fighters Clash and Faselei. Oh and how could I forget Magical Drop.

Wow, I somehow missed Video Games & Computer Entertainment March 1990 in the release list, so I'm gonna download it right away and put it on RS asap.

It's funny how the little things in life can sometimes make it all worth it. While I will most likely never have such a guitar (and I can't actually play any instrument either), I think I can at least understand partially what something like that should feel like. For me a similar moment was when I finally got my own NeoGeo only a few years ago, after wanting one ever since I played one in a shop when it was first released. I know it's not the same, but the sentiment comes close, at least for me. Too bad I won't be able to make it to Philly since it's quite a way from home for me, but I must say that being able to talk to you like this is almost just as sweet

Hmm, tried looking it up on the wiki, but couldn't find anything besides the NES, Master System and MegaDrive versions it seems. Well at least no N64 version for now. Could be that the index for that particular magazine hasn't been filled in though. http://www.retromags.com/w/index.php?title...00&offset=0

Happy belated birthday Bill! I'm so sorry that I couldn't be here on the day itself as I remember vividly how excited triverse was about the thought of presenting you with the very first compilation of the Kunkel report. Really looking forward to the next one.

That doesn't surprise me at all, you can go as long as 3 days when you get sick enough. you will "wake up" a couple of times during that, but won't even remember anything due to the fever. The fact that some people need that part to be explained alone makes my day.

Hehe, like I said it all depends. I know someone at work who only sleeps for 4-6 hours a night and has been doing so for as long as he can remember. Never had a problem with it. When I do that for 3 nights in a row, I start breaking down and can barely function during the day. The longest I have slept (besides being sick, as you can do crazy hours when things get pretty bad) was just over 16 hours. Again, nothing special happened that week, besides me only getting about 6 hours sleep for a couple of days at the end of a morning shift, so I fell asleep friday evening around 8PM and woke up somewhere after noon on saturday. Not something I've done since though.

Guess it depends from person to person. If I get 8 hours a sleep for a full week, like when I have the early shift, I'm a wreck by thursday. If I don't need to watch the clock I sleep between 9-10 hours a day. This week I've pulled a couple of 11 hour nights as well, but that might be due to circumstances. When I go one night without sleep, by noon of the next day I barely even know if I'm alive anymore. I get in something that's more like a zombie than a dream state. very weird and disorienting. So in the end, sleeping all day long till the sun goes down, only to go out for the hunt and find some lovely ladies to turn into vampires as well doesn't sound too bad for me.

Well, listen up, sonny Jim: I ate a baby. Oh, aye, Baby: the other, other white meat. Baby: it's what's for dinner.

Well, I seem to hate sunlight most of the time, so that's a good start.

Sorry to hear that, but welcome nonetheless. It's indeed in the wrong section, or should I say in it's own thread instead of the introduction thread, but we won't hold that against you. Moved it to the correct one btw.

For the record I always used EAC at a VBR of 256. After playing around with all the different settings and various different formats at the time, I came to the conclusion that a VBR at 256 was good enough for me not to hear any difference between the original CD and the MP3s. This is all electronic music mind, going from New Beat to chillout and minimalistic techno, so perhaps the rules of encoding these kinds of music differer from encoding Celine Dion CDs.

One thing I've done when I was converting all my House, Trance and Techno CDs from the 80s, 90s to MP3s was scan in the covers and booklets to keep inside the folders. Now that iTunes for instance allows you to include images into the MP3s that's come quite handy. Especially since there were lots and lots of very rare CDs in there which you'll never find online. Been thinking about scanning Japanese manuals since they are so beautiful compared to the European manuals we get. The only problem is that it would take a lot of time and work and I really want to get back to scanning and editing magazines as quickly as possible.

Well, I can't blame myself since Tony_32 is on a role it seems. It's hard even keeping up with all of his quality releases! Fantastic job there!

The very first system I "owned" was a Space Invaders arcade cabinet. Now let me explain, I grew up in a café which my mom owned every since my deadbeat father left her when she was 3 months pregnant with me. So while I didn't exactly own the arcade cabinet in there, it sure felt like it. The very first one that was mine would have to be a Popeye Game&Watch in '83. I played the 2600, C64 and especially the Oddysey at a friend's house all the time but the first actual console I owned was the NES, which came out on September 1st 1986 in Europe and I got mine for my good grades somewhere in December.

Oh man, now that's a difficult question, if not impossible for me to answer. Right now it would probably be Lost, but there are just too many good ones. V Battlestar Galactica, old and new series. Married with Children X-Files Alf (don't laugh ) Star Trek! all of them. House Dexter 24 Sleeper Cell And I'm probably forgetting way too many at this point.

This one has just been put up as well: http://www.retromags.com/forums/Game-Infor...O-file1335.html

Just wanted to let everyone know that all recent releases have been uploaded to rapidshare as well. Due to unforeseen circumstances I hadn't been able to update the links this past month, but that has now been rectified.