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All right, if there's any common thread that unites us here, it's video games, right? So what have you all been playing that's worth talking about? I had tried it before, but I recently had a "clicking" experience with Thunder Force IV on the Genesis (check out the Saturn version if you can...

I saw this on another forum, and it knocked my socks off. It turns out that the Wii remote setup can very easily be manipulated into providing a virtual reality experience. You all should check it out. I used to think the Wiimote wasn't necessarily going to live up to much. I swear, though, the...

I met Megan about 6 years ago when I started taking Japanese at college. We were in class together for a long time, however, to make a long story short, we never hung out. It wasn't until about 3 years ago that we first really talked, and then I disappeared on a foreign exchange shortly...

I'm trying to make a mix of NES songs to give to a friend, in mp3 format. I used Nosefart in winamp and outputted my tracks as WAVs (at 44,100hz), and then I tailored the tracks in audacity before converting them with winLAME. The quality of the mp3 conversion is, regardless of the preset I...

I'm sorry to do this to you all, but my closet-fanboyism for the early Sonic games keeps me from holding back. Yesterday someone released a rip of the infamous canceled Sonic game for the Sega Saturn, Sonic Xtreme. There's a huge story behind the whole development of Sonic Xtreme, and I won't...

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This is a challenge for all the folks around here who are into video game music. I've decided to play an RPG called Princess Crown for a second time. It's a Sega Saturn game, and it uses redbook audio for all of its music. The songs it has aren't great, and I've mostly come to terms with that...

I remember talking to someone a long time ago about this, and he said that there was a way to access factory settings on modern televisions and manipulate their display settings. I don't mean the usual brightness stuff that you can get to through the normal menus, but the kind of settings you...

I've been in a long distance relationship for about 9 months now. When I first parted with her back in August, I really didn't mind the idea of having to wait for a year or so to pick things back up with this girl. Things were going really, really well. But now, as circumstances are evolving...

I see from other posts I made that my avatar has already changed, but the dumb Sonic gifs are still there. Will they be in any new posts? Let's see... edit: cool. So, whaddya think? too big? it's currently unscaled, but I may have to change that. <P ID="signature"> </P><P ID="edit"><FONT...

I have found that these days, I really love stand-up comedy. I feel like watching it is something that could become my hobby. The trouble is that I just don't know that many good comics and good performances. I really like Chris Rock, as well as Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Dave Chappelle, and...

I just got an old dual 400 MHz CPU system with 256 odd megs of RAM (unconfirmed) for free, and I'd like to use it to learn Linux. Can you recommend a distro that is friendly to the non-uber nerd and appropriate for the resources I have? Thank you! <P ID="signature"> </P>

OK, so I'm not asking about how to get emulators to run on a PSP. I sort of understand that anyway, and I don't really care about that right now. What I don't get is, why the heck are there all these emulators being made for the PSP for systems that seem like they shouldn't be emulate-able on...

If you go to college, you can meet some people who really know some amazing stuff. They may be native-born Americans who can read ancient Japanese, for example. But beware, because when it comes to any and all other human affairs, they can be some of the brick-dumbest people you will ever...

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For the first time in a long time, I made a new compilation of ROMs for my SNES copier. I have one of those CD-ROM caddies for my DX2, so I burned a nice big CD with lots of new translations and stuff on it. The trouble is, I have noticed that a huge number of the games that I just patched or...

This is only a general interest question that I thought would be most suited to this forum. I've been playing a lot of manic shmups lately, and it got me thinking about the speed of objects, specifically flat 2D objects like sprites, on TV screens in video games. It seems to me that given the...

...and I don't know jack about html. I don't really want to know, either, and for the most part I don't think I need to. All I'm aiming to do is make a humble little information/resource page for a certain obscure series of video games I love. I do want it to be just a little bit more than a big...

Right here. Just in case anyone else around here is a big-time old-school Sonic fan. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif> I really have to hand it to the guys in that community. Yeah, they've got their share of characters (nicest word I could thing of), but they really love what they do. They paid...

Ted Woolsey's translation was excellent. The jokes he came up with to replace non-understandable Japanese ones were kind of dumb, and he probably had to deal with condensing the script for space, but the quality of his output is outstanding both as a game translator and as a Japanese translator...