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Whatchu talkin' about? The 80s style is awesome! Disco is not dead!

That's what I expect happened. He's probably a hero of some sort now. Results matter, not motivation.

BluRay players WILL upsample a DVD, but that doesn't really change the fact that the source image is low resolution.

Metroid Prime 3 is decent. The subfranchise has been going steadliy downhill, but it's still good. Well, it'd have to be a complete GameBoy in a cart, like the old Super GameBoy. There's no way to shift the GBA hardware in the DS into 8-bit mode(assuming the 8-bit hardware is still present), and the ROMs communicate use different voltages than the GBA mode even if they were understandable. Not that it'd really be hard to do. I've seen other devices that dump audio and video straight into the DS before, and an 8-bit GameBoy is CHEAP hardware at this point. The big problem is convincing Nintendo there's money to be had there.

Mine too. There's no way that Basara can hold a candle to Kaifun.

Either way, it kicks off a host of OTHER commonly-asked questions like "Kawamori needs to write more of them! WE WANT MORE!" Which isn't even a question. THAT is why she hypnotizes people. Let their imaginations make up for her physical shortcomings. Someone start this as a thread!

Maybe, but there's a difference. BluRay players can play DVDs. CD players can't play cassettes. If the transition DOES occur, it'll take a LOT longer.

I still have two. Great size and weight, excellent buttons and d-pad, HORRIBLE HORRIBLE displays. I'd buy a GBA in an original GameBoy shell with original controls. Maybe even a GameBoy Color. But an original GB? ... Aww, heck. They probably can't get the old LCD panels anyways. At worst it'd be a GameBoy Pocket with green-tinted screen in there.

Yeah. There's several newbie questions that have very complex and/or vague answers. "What happened to Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay" being perhaps the definitive example.

I don't think there's really a lot that can be gained by putting SDF Macross on BluRay, other than money in Bandai's and Big West's pockets. It just doesn't have enough detail in it to warrant an HD transfer. And if it were reworked to be 16:9, it would probably be cropped, not stretched.

Possibly dirty. I had to open my first DualSuck 2 after a few months of ownership to clean it. Was losing sensitivity in the buttons after going on a shooting spree, and just tapping the fire button didn't register. To be fair, I only had to do it once ever, but... Take a pencil eraser to the electrical contacts(which are on the underside of the plastic circuit "board" if it's constructed like mine is). I'm fairly comfortable with the process, being a shameless Atari 5200 fan. The 5200 controllers are horrible horrible pieces of crap from a reliability standpoint, and breaking the sticks down becomes almost instinctive.

INTJ in the house.

Then what's the point?

Epilepsy: Genetic defect in humans, way of life in zentradi.

Does it come with a hydraulic frame to mount your TV into?

He probably stays evil, given he has Decepticon box art. Well, most of the movie toys were designed before the CG models were finalized. That certainly didn't help anything. Of course, they weren't very toy-friendly final designs. I like some of the movie designs. I think Wreckage is pretty sweet, actually. Looks more like Megatron than Megatron does, IMO(gut cannon aside). Longarm's a neat toy, too, even if his gun IS screwed to his hand. Ratchet was fun, too. Well, the G1 revision. The original is too green for my tastes.

The real question is... are the smaller guns aimed the same way? Because it'd be hilarious watching a zentradi troop shaking his head to aim the back guns.

Actually, it was matter-of-fact, not you're-an-idiot. I don't take it personally every time someone misuses a term, though some people DO take it personally when they're educated. I sometimes forget that there's no room for fact on the internet. You either accept that wrong is merely a different definition of right, or you flame someone. I actually run ALL the stores. Even the little mom&pop ones. Every. Last. One. Wasn't trying to impress you, so no worries.

Good question.

A HiVision DYRL woulda been awesome, though!

This isn't A2. It's A1.5, basically. Anyways, SRW games tend to be slow projects. There's a LOT of text to translate.

Not that I know of. I think the official stance is "It happened." You could skew things by making laws to encourage breeding. But that's still a LOT of kids to be raising. And clone or natural-born, they aren't going to have what we would consider a normal childhood, for obvious reasons. ... That may explain why Milia's trying to marry Mylene off in Macross 7. She's old enough to have kids, it's time she starts doing her part! Not that I really think that much thought was put into the situation, buuuut... Yup. But unless a deranged cyborg with a god complex takes over the Vajra hivemind, everyone's fairly safe.

I posted this in the games thread in teh anime and sci-fi forum. Didn't think of this one. Knowledge of SRWA isn't really required, for what it's worth. You just need to know that Gunbuster's battle by Pluto has happened and there's a huge gravity shockwave headed for the Earth because of it. The Zentradi have come and gone too, but it seems to have had far less of an impact on Earth than it did in Macross. Also: Pre-patched disk images are for wusses. Not that anyone's figured out why the patching process works sometimes and generates (more) bugs at other times. Gideon's got very good reasons for considering this release a beta. There's still a few major text bugs. Most of the issues are cosmetic, but the pilot swap option in the intermission menu can get fairly frustrating. I've just gotten the Valks back. Focker has a great line in the intermission after that stage. Everyone's been all mopey about how screwed up the situation is for the last dozen or so stages, and now ... "First we get warped to Pluto, then to the future. What's next, the depths of Hell? Gahahahaha!" It's so Focker, and putting him against all the accumulated Gundam Angst makes it hilarious. Then he offers to take Isamu out drinking. And Hikaru pities Isamu, because he's gonna get totally wasted trying to keep up with Roy.

Actually, he probably DOES want to cut that in half, but... There ARE HD Laserdiscs. They were branded Hi-Vision, and have 1035 visible lines(interlaced). I suspect that they used true RGB outputs, since neither composite nor s-video is spec'ed for anything more than standard NTSC/PAL. I don't THINK the DYRL LD was Hi-Vision, though. MOST LaserDiscs only offer 480 lines of resolution. Also, at least for standard Laserdiscs, the disk itself actually contained composite-encoded video. Whether s-video was better or worse than composite depended ENTIRELY on whether the LD player or TV had a better comb filter circuit. So if your TV had a good comb filter, or your LD player had a bad one, you could actually see a WORSE image by using s-video instead of composite to connect the two. Upscaling will never be as good as a proper HD source. Not that a standard laserdisc can provide that source, but... And if the original masters are in bad shape, it may require an extensive remastering process to generate something worth putting on BluRay.

As I understand things, a trademark does NOT denote that you own the copyright to a product. Merely that you're using that brand. Especially since trademark is not restricted to the media. We've all seen the infamous Robotech pool cleaner. No one would argue that they own the Robotech cartoon/merchandise amalgamation. Or that Harmony Gold is claiming ownership of a pool cleaner. Now, I'm not denying that the Macross trademark would get ugly fast if anyone felt obliged to argue the point. But it doesn't denote that they're claiming they own the Macross copyright. In fact, HG has consistently designated Macross as a copyright of Tatsunoko Productions. They're certainly attempting to confuse the issue, but not in the way you claim.