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That's a given. Although the initial batches of VF-19s were used as an elite group during the Protodevlin war, we know that since it won SuperNova that it's going to replace the VF-11 as the main fighter. After the Protodevlin war, the Macross 7 fleet makes their repairs, and more VF-19s will replace the VF-11s lost during the war. But we clearly see in Dynamite 7 that Diamond Force is upgraded with VF-22s, meaning that they replaced the VF-17s for the elites. While the VF-22 might still cost more, you give the elites the best... and that would mean that the VF-22 is superior to the VF-19.

A pile of downloadable files. You need a CUE sheet, and depending on the distribution, either the disk image or the rips of the data track and assload of redbook tracks(likely distributed as moderate-to-low-quality MP3s). the cue is absolutely vital due to the non-standard format of PCE CDs. Track 1 is redbook, track TWO is data, and then everything else is redbook. Some burners actually can't burn them. CUE sheet, eh? Any links where I can read up more on this?

Yes, but even then, the VF-22 retains the aforementioned advantages of a sleeker design, passive steath, the Q-Rau's inertia vector control system, and the ability to lose all four of its limbs and still be able to operate in fighter mode. You shoot both the legs off of a YF-19, and at best it'll try to gun you down while it's falling from the sky. Also, as I mentioned, the VF-19 will become cannon fodder in the future, while the VF-22 is reserved for the elite teams like Diamond Force. I'm pretty conviced that the YF-19's victory over the YF-22 came down to three things: 1. More conventional technology. David can say for sure, but I think this is one of the reasons that the F-35 won the JSF competion. 2. Lower cost. Probably one of the reasons why the F/A-22 beat out the YF-23. 3. It was the only one left after the Sharon Apple thing. Winning SuperNova on those counts says nothing about which plane was actually the superior fighter, which I believe is actually the YF-21/VF-22.

Ooh... PC Engine games... I wanna play! I got emulators running for just about everything, but I gave up on PC Engine since all the good games were on CD, and I thought that I'd really need to the CD. Am I to assume then that there's someway to play the PC Engine Macross games with just a downloadable file and an emulator?

In an ideal world, the Macross game would get a US release for the PS2. That said, a US Cube release would be the next best thing. Failing that, a Japanese Cube port beats importing for the PS2, because to import for the Cube all you gotta do is get the game, and either get a Freeloader or an Action Replay (Freeloader is part of the AR software), load that, swap discs, and play away.

My vote goes for the VF-22. Although I'm given to understand that the both the 19 and the 22 ended up with some form of active stealth technology, the 22 looks like it'd have a smaller radar cross section without it... so the 22 is the only one that incorporates passive stealth. As David pointed out, the forward swept wings don't really mean much on the 19, and although the canards help in an atmosphere, the VF-22 has the Q-Rau's inertia vector control system. Without a full count and listing of locations for all the verniers on both fighters, I'm not handing the "most manoeverable" award to the 19 yet. Now we toss in the fact that they 22 can continue to operate in fighter mode with all four of its limbs blown (while the 19 would be missing... well, the entire back half of the fighter...), and the fact that an average pilot can fly it without killing himself... I think it's obvious which is the better fighter. Which makes sense... even though the 19 won (by virtue of being the last fighter standing), the 19 was going to be the main fighter... in time, the cannon fodder, even. Meanwhile, the UN buys the 22 for it's spec ops groups... in other words, the elites who get the better machines.

I'm with Keith. I remember getting like half of the series, and the then guy I bought my fansubs from quit... fortunately, the owner of my local anime store is a huge Macross fan, and he copied the rest for me from his fansubs. For those that have really watched Macross 7 to the very end, it's hard not to like the characters. Even the annoying ones like Basara are kind of likeable in a way. Spiritia aside, Macross 7 is probably the best character story in the Macross universe, and if pressed, I'm more likely to watch Macross 7 again than SDF Macross. But if no one's going to push me, I refuse to pick one! The only place I disagree with Keith on is Basara's VF-19. I don't care how gaudy a mecha's paint job is, it's okay by me until you put a face on it. Once you put a face on it, you've crossed a line for me. The VF-19P is my favorite of the VF-19's, but I hate Fire Valkyrie, and I pretty much hate all of the Sound Force valkyries. I think the Jamming Birds' VF-11s are the way to go if you want a valkyrie for singing at aliens in.

Anyone know if those PSX thingies still have the territorial lockouts? As it stands now, I'm considering to buy a Japanese PS2. That way I have a no-fuss solution for playing VF-X, VF-X2, DYRL, and Rockman Battle and Chase (and Super Adventure Rockman, if I can ever get my paws on it!), as well as the new Macross game, the Generation 1 Transformers game, and AEUG vs. Titans if it doesn't see a US release (although, looking at Bandai's track record lately, it will). On the other hand, if PS2's drop in price to $99.99 like the rumors are saying, I'll be able to get a used one for like $55 with my employee discount... I could just do that, and mess around with mod chips or slide cards and figure that if I break it, so what? For $55 bucks, it was worth a try.

But I liked Macross 7. If they could have found a way to do the story without Sound Force, yeah, it would have been better... but I still liked it.

If you want my just my three favorties, two off the bat would be the Gundam Mark II and the Nu Gundam. In my opinion, they are the two most elegant takes on the whole Gundam design. Every Gundam before them was too much like the robots of 70's sci-fi. Every Gundam since has been too stylized or over the top. That'd make my third choice come from one of the alternate universe stories. So for that one, Gundam Virsago from Gundam X. It had what's cool about Epyon and Shenlong from Gundam Wing amalgamated and polished until you had a supremely cool, supremely evil Gundam.

I'm curious, what are your favorite mobile suits from each Gundam series? This isn't a poll, because I didn't feel like listing a few choices from each series. Just write in and tell me which ones you like... but just one from each series. (I'm grouping all the One Year War suits together, but if you want to break them up by series, go ahead. I just don't want to see stuff like "From Char's Counterattack, I really liked Sazabi, the RE-GZ, the Jagd Doga... etc, because that just gets ridiculous. I only want to know your one most favorite for each series.) My list is thus: One Year War - Gouf Zeta Gundam - Gundam Mk II ZZ Gundam - Bawoo Char's Counterattack - Nu Gundam Gundam F91 - I'll go with the RX-99 Neo Gundam... but in my opinion, UC mobile suits are all downhill from Char's Counterattack. V Gundam - Victory 2 Gundam G-Saviour - I'm gonna go with the J-Saviour from the game version. G Gundam - Master Gundam (but Manager Gundam gets props for the tie and cigar) Gundam W - The Endless Waltz version of Deathscythe Hell Gundam X - Virsago Turn A Gundam - Borjarnon! Gundam SEED - Blitz Gundam For you manga lovers out there... Sentinel - Sigma Gundam Under the Gundam - D Gundam 3rd Hathaway's Flash - Penelope Gundam F90 - RF Gouf Silhouette Formula 91 - Silhouette Gundam Gaia Gear - Zorin Soul Crossbone Gundam - Crossbone Gundam X-1 G-Unit - Gundam Griepe

Ah yes, always nice to see people unafraid of giving their opinion. So here is one right back at you. I can't really comment on the Macross TV series. However, I imagine I would not like it as much as Robotech considering I don't like reading my television shows and I don't plan on learning Japanese. I also like the voice acting in the Robotech series. BTW you smell like a Macross snob. Don't take it personally, Deadzone. From time to time, we get snots from RT.com who come over just trolling over, looking to start a flame war. Now, whenever someone comes around, admitting that they're not familiar with Macross and talking about Robotech, we instinctively reach for our guns. In all fairness to you, you weren't trolling, you were just asking an honest question. The honest answer is that Jack Archer was made up for Battlecry. He may or may not have turned up in the comics later, but he was definately created for the game. As far as the whole reading subs vs. watching dubs, I can respect your opinion (although I myself prefer subs, as the Japanese voices are usually much better than the American dubs). However, unlike other anime that's been shown in the States, where they just translate and maybe change a few names here and there, that's not the case with Macross/Robotech. Robotech is actually a meld of three unrelated shows, and much of the story has been edited and re-invented to make all three parts fit. The original Macross TV series is a much more mature and slightly darker story than the Macross Saga of Robotech. And, Macross has better sequels than Robotech, that take the story in a much different direction. While we do have some fans here who still claim to like both, many of us actually drop RT entirely for Macross. If you ever get the chance, check out the original Macross and see what you think. For more info on the differences between Macross and Robotech, check out Leb's Site or the pinned topic in the beginning of this forum. For more info on Macross in general, check out the Macross Compendium.

If you're gonna unite all over the place... try to form some sort of mighty robot like Voltron, would ya? Otherwise... it just sounds a bit frilly. EDITED because spelling things correctly is fun. And I'll form... the head! Go! Voltro... uh, Macross Snob force!

I couldn't have said it better myself. I mean, given the average age of gamers today, why would they keep the TF game with the characters we grew up with away from us... and give us this Armada crap instead?

Mods, sorry if this is the wrong spot for this. I wasn't sure where to put it. I was wondering, though, if Big West has an official website. It's definately not www.bigwest.co.jp, and www.bigwest.com is some sort of real estate site. The official Macross homepage doesn't have any links to an official Big West site, either. If Big West has one, does anyone know what it is?

Too bad it's not one of those printable dealies that you can actually use in the store.

A lot of people that haven't bought one yet would buy one if the price dropped that low. Combine that with the fact that SCE shifted half their resources to the PSP, and the fact that the PS3 is tentatively scheduled for 2006 or late 2005, and we have to realize that things are winding down for the PS2. On top of that, as many people pointed out, the DVD playback is a nice bonus, but not a prime selling point anymore. So, I'd say that right in time for the big Christmas drive, it's possible that Sony could do it just to kill Nintendo's sales. I mean, you can say that the Gamecube was worth it at $99.99, but when people have a choice at that price, I'd say most people are going to go with the PS2. I actually hope that the PS2 drops, because then I can talk my uncle into getting that and Need for Speed Underground. Of all the people that game with me, he's the only one that can match me on racing games (sadly, I kill him at everything else), so it'll be mad fun to match up our custom machines. However, given that the rumor started at Target, it's hard to think of it as more than a rumor at this point. Even if the internal fliers exist, it could be something like "Buy a PS2 for only $99.99 if you buy it with x number of games/accessories," rather than an official drop from Sony. We at Gamestop haven't heard anything. Of course, we're at the bottom of that corporate ladder, so even if the higher ups know something, they wouldn't tell us.

Yeah, that'd make sense, except that Haro was found in the wreckage of a colony? I'd suppose it's possible that there was the colony wreckage on the moon, and then the Feddies were dumping junk out of A Baoa Qu onto the colony, figuring that they'd just use it as some kind of landfill. Then Haro kinda rolls down in to the colony wreckage.

How'd Haro end up on the moon? We see some wreckage of a colony (would have made sense if the Delaz fleet dropped theirs on the moon instead of Earth), and in it, Camille finds Haro. But, last I checked, Haro was on White Base right up until the end... which would be A Bao A Qu, right? So, even if A Bao A Qu was anywhere near the moon, it doesn't explain why Haro was in the wreckage of a colony instead of wreckage from White Base or from A Bao A Qu (which is technically still out there, right?).

If I have to pick from that group, I'd say that the girl that plays Sailor Moon is the most attractive to me... but that there are a lot of other Japanese celebrities that I think are more attractive...

Only during cutscenes, or tutorials, or when you're using one of your special powers. 2D gameplay... the stuff that Capcom does best! Yeah, I bought two actually, one for myself, and one for my bud. Even though everyone who's played it has had nothing but good things to say about it, I'm afraid that it's not going to be "mainstream" enough to generate the kind of sales that it deserves. Oh, yeah, anyone figure out what to do with that big barrel just after you get the speed up power?

My wife never quite got into Macross TV, Macross II, or Macross Plus. She watched DYRL, but was less than excited. Flashback 2012 made her cry, because she immigrated from China, and it made her miss her family back in China. She loved Macross 7, though. She would watch like six or seven eps at a time, and stay up until after 2:00 in the morning to do it (which is odd, because she's normally like a 10:30 bedtime person). She got so into it that she was even listening to Fire Bomber in her car for awhile. I got her to watch both eps of Macross Zero, so far, too. She likes them when she's watching them, but then kinda forgets about it. OT: I'm yet to get her in to any Gundam since I started to collect them on DVD. So far, that's been all the One Year War stuff, and it doesn't look like Zeta is going to win her over either...

Oh sweet Buddha... I'm not the only one! 90% of the stuff I listen to is from Korea. My favorites include BoA, Shinhwa, H.O.T, JTL, Take, Moon Heejun, NRG, Eugene, S#arp, and Lee Jung Hyun. I also really enjoyed Seo Yeon's first CD, the special album that Lee Jihoon did with Shinhwa's Shin Hyesung (not that new Group S thing they did with Kangta, though), MILK, Dana, Space A, and Chakra's older stuff. I used to like some J-Pop, but that was before Utada Hikaru and Kuraki Mai got really popular. You know, back when the stuff that Tetsuya Komuro worked was considered gold. I especially liked MAX, Globe, and ELT. Most of the American stuff that I enjoy is older stuff, like Kiss, Def Leppard, Queensrcyhe and the like. I do really like the Juliana Theory, though. In fact, I used to hang out with them around the time they were just getting started, and I was at their very first show ever. That's pretty much it, although I do kinda like Stabbing Westward, and I'm thinking about picking up that best of Rob Zombie that was just released.

I wonder... did you ever buy the N-Gage or not, VF-17?

funny. i got busted so many times in HS for playing games on my TI-83 My TI-86 kept me awake during trig class in HS. Damn! I was lucky even to have a calculator that could add... And Trig... did I even take that? Funny, I don't remember. I was more of a history, language, and poli-sci student than math or chemistry. me too. i sucked at math, but my damned HS made me take all those crappy Chemistry, Physics and Trig/ Analytic Geometry classes.... Oh, wait, I did take trig, in my 11th grade year! I remember now! It was a Chicago math course... for those of you unfamiliar with that it means that the grading scale was slightly different so that each letter grade was 12%... like 88% was still an A, and 76% of was still a B... and to get an F you actually had to be lower than 50%. Now, that was combined with an agreement the teacher had with the class... do all your homework for a grading period, get an 8% bonus. Not points, %. I did my homework by copying the odd answers out of the back of the book, and then writing "?" or "SEE GRAPH" for the evens, as if I didn't understand or worked the problem out on a piece of non-existant graph paper. With the funny grading scale and the bonus, I had a B in that class... which meant that I probably earned a D...