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Well, yeah... it's a gaming blog. Rationality is NOT their standard business.

At least it was a fresh transfer, right? They didn't just upsample the old DVD transfer? But yeah... I was rather disappointed in the DVD. Go to all the effort to create a 6-channel soundtrack out of the stereo, and totally ignore the low film quality. It needed a video remaster more than a surround soundtrack. I guess it's the same on HD, just higher-res.

Ummm... the PS2 Robotech games aren't americanized versions of the J PS2 game. In fact, they predate the J game, were developed by a totally different company, and one of them is MOSPEADA-based. Japan has it's games, we have ours, and never the two shall meet. Except in niche-market import stores on both sides of the pacific. As far as blasphemy goes... The first Robotech game is pretty good, despite it's extremely low flight ceiling. IMO. I never played the second.

Ya know, I STILL haven't played that... *goes to download now*

Well, crap... I was hoping I'd found a way to at least slow the plague, but... back to square one.

Fortunately, this is the GAMECUBE we're talking about here. If anything can save us from Mass Addict, it's the 'Cube... Or possibly the Dreamcast.

You're not the only one that's disappointed... http://www.lilformers.com/home.php

I didn't say it did. I was just pointing out that the DVD Forum was acting like retarded monkeys instead of launching a serious offensive. I doubt they would've done it, for precisely the reason you mention. Everything I've seen says more layers was only intended for HD-DVD-ROM.

I hereby place a request for a BetaRay release of Flashback 2012, so that the masses can see that in motion.

That's because they were handled in a retarded manner. Rather than filing them in the HD-DVD section, and putting a DVD-only release in the DVD section, they should've REPLACED the DVD release with the HD/DVD combo disk. Then come back in a year and gone "Hey don't you think it's time you bought an HD-DVD player for all those HD-DVDs you bought?" I don't believe triple-layer was ever intended for movie usage. And the problem with BR's profiles is two-fold. A. it punishes early adopters. The people that MADE the format a success are getting screwed by the fact that they can't use the special features of their disks. In the case of 1.0 adopters, they essentially can't use ANY special features(many early releases are basically featureless due to the limitations of 1.0). B. It's a blatant example of abusing the customer for marketing purposes. They forced an incomplete standard on unprepared disk presses with broken matering software out the door just so HD-DVD wouldn't be alone in the marketplace. If this war had been based solely on launches, HD-DVD would've beaten BluRay so hard that all the BR disks physically shattered. Or had the DVD Forum just adopted BluRay instead of telling Sony to STFU, and then forcing HD-DVD to be adopted. Seriously, they brought HD-DVD to a vote FOUR times. It was rejected three times, and they had to change the rules for the fourth vote to get the standard adopted.

IMO, the "nose" cockpit implies it transforms. If it were non-transformable, I'd expect a robot mode... well, more like the Legioss has, really. But the existence of wings on the Condor does a lot more than just IMPLY that it transforms. No designer of any repute would put wings on the back of a mech that can't use them in some capacity. It HAS to have some sort of air mode, if only a GERWALK equivalent. ... Of course, they DID claim the Legioss was a valid aircraft, so... maybe they aren't designers of repute. And the Super Condor apparently is a condor with a booster clipped over the back... could be something like Macross' GBP armor. Improves performance in a specific mode at the cost of transformation.

My experience was that adjusting the display settings made a HUGE difference. Turning the brightness down helps with the 50Hz flicker(the system's achille's heel, if we ignore the marketing difficulties), and the "depth" control on games that offered it(not coincidentally, this was mostly games with a deep playfield) was a VERY personal setting. Reliable blue LEDs became affordable the year after the VB's stillbirth. Big whoops there. The VB exists in an interesting hybrid. Nintendo was pushing it as a portable for some reason, and it kicks the GameBoy's ass. But, well, it's not portable. Now, if you're comparing it to the SNES, Genesis, and 32x... it's more arguable. It's higher-resolution than the SNES and Genesis, but lower-color(32 shardes of red VS hundreds of distinct colors). But none of them have 3D graphics.

The entire VF series is composed of completely impractical variable vehicles. Poorly designed is a matter of opinion. I was being sincere, if over-the-top, in my appreciation of them. I DO think the Super Condor is one ugly mofo, and in desperate need of a REAL transformation, but... it's still neat.

Where would we be without completely impractical, poorly-designed, variable vehicles? I think they're an established necessity for life. Food, shelter, mecha, and clothing.

The VF-1R isn't even the animation error. The head is an ugly hexagonal mess instead of the broken 1A head from the animation error. Not that I'm a fan of the 1A head, but the "official" 1R head is just a disaster(Actually, it's an attempt to steal the VF-11 head without getting sued, but that's neither here nor there. Besides, they screwed the 11 head up pretty badly so it's STILL a disaster). ... At least they haven't adopted the twisted wrecks from episodes like Virgin Road(I WANT to like this episode. I really do.). Interestingly, Real Macross has adapted that error too. Though they haven't canonized it on the VF-1, the concept got rolled forward... to the future! http://www.new-un-spacy.com/macross7/vf-19s.htm That head layout look familiar? (Woulda been hilarious if they'd done it to a VF-11 head too)

It's all the same content. As long as it's the Animeigo disks it's progscan. ... I should run through mine again, now that I have a way to watch DVDs in progressive.

Pfft, sissies. I'm only on page 53.

Yeah.... Incenerator's the only movie-line toy I've really considered recently. I'd already have him if he had hands. And if he had spring-loaded rocket-fists that could be swapped for death propellers of +5 child-blinding... I'd be all over it like fleas on a stray dog.

Ummm.... Mari Ijima's the only original cast member. You make it sound like they got the entire original team together for an english reunion. And no one's really faulting her performance. It's everyone ELSE that they have issues with. Partailly since her pronouncing Macross right makes everyone else's varying mispronunciations all the more jarring.

The Studio 2 is the single worst console in history. The Virtual Boy is a damn fine platform that was never given a fair chance because it was "a red gameboy" that "melts eyeballs" It's demise was one of the greatest tragedies of the entire gaming industry, and has likely ruined any chances we're ever going to see a system with 3D graphics in our lifetime.

It is. But for some reason, that often doesn't translate into electronics, and tech manufacturers proudly assume a 1:1 exchange rate. And if you think that's bad.... they do it to the pound too. And while a euro is worth 1.47 US dollars at this moment, a pound is 1.95. http://www.xe.com/

*sigh* IT'S NOT SONY'S FORMAT. No more than CD or DVD was, anyways. The format is owned by the BluRay Disc Association, who is also the official developer(though I certainly agree Sony was the primary developer). Sony is one of 18 companies on the board of directors. The full list is... Apple, Inc. Dell HP Hitachi LG Mitsubishi Electric Panasonic Pioneer Philips Samsung Sharp Sony Sun Microsystems TDK Thomson Twentieth Century Fox Walt Disney Warner Bros. Note that several hardware manufacturers are in there. I think it's pretty safe to say they would be somewhat unamused if Sony attempted to lock them all out of the format, and any such motion would be voted down.

My 5900 had thermal pads for the RAM, and something resembling old bubblegum for the GPU. For what it's worth. I'd recommend changing the heatsink just on noise issues. If they aren't passively cooled, video cards tend to have really offensive fans. I'm using a Zalman on my 5900, and it's a night-and-day thing. Granted the 5900 had a nasty squirrel-cage, but still...

I can't say on EVERYTHING. But I've only watched Frontier 1 once so far. Now the Nyan-Nyan song... god help me, it won't get out of my head!

Actually, it's NOT legal. At least, not if the license agreement is considered valid. Apple's OS license explicitly forbids you installing the software on non-Apple products.