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Okay. That makes a lot more sense. I thought you meant like, the entire video cassette/LaserDisk/whatever else Flashback is on.

I have G1 Jazz. Hes a lot more interesting that way than in flat silver. I ALMOST bought G1 Starscream. But I still hate the look of the mold, so.... yeah. Waiting for US Masterpiece 'Screamer.

Because only part of Flashback was intended to be in DYRL in the first place. The rest is a mish-mash that, oni many cases, doesn't fit with the movie(since Flashback has DYRL AND TV series sequences in it). Again I say: Flashback is grossly over-rated.

But remastering the visuals is just restoring them. Repairing damage and going back to source to get away from artifacts introduced in prior video-ifications(mainly interlacing, unless we're dealing with a VHS rip instead of LaserDisk). Not fabricating non-existent information. That's more like colorizing black&white films. I'm very much in favor of leaving it in it's original format. Restore it, by all means. But don't go wasting the disk space on a 6-channel mix for a show that never had a surround soundtrack to start with. Also worth noting that, contrary to your statement, using the original stereo format actually allows for higher-quality audio, since all the audio data is dedicated to two channels instead of split up among 6(even granting that one is a limited-range subwoofer channel). Not that it matters in the US, since we almost invariably get a Dolby Digital soundtrack at a fairly low bitrate, regardless of how much disk space is left(though that bitrate would have better sound with less channels), while Japan tends towards high-bitrate PCM soundtracks. So the US gets lower-quality audio, and almost invariably has space for more soundtracks, though they don't bother to put the original stereo/mono track in.

*expletive* the used decks. Don't even go NEAR them. Seriously. The system's known for having reliability issues, you don't get a proper warranty, there's almost no price break, and GameStop can't even test a PS2 right(took my sister 3 tries to get one that actually worked). You don't say what the Costco bundle is, but I doubt it's really much different than buying a 360 Premium and the game/accessories separately. Get the Target one. 10% off is good. The Intercooler is considered a VERY BAD THING. Aside from being connected to system-killing electrical shorts, it also stresses the system since it leeches from between the system and the power supply. As I understand things, the 360's voltage regulation is in the supply, not the console. Which makes leeching off it a bad thing. Intercooler is so messed up MS actually made a press release saying "Don't buy this. It's crap." They said if you DO buy one, get a USB-powered one. Though they officially deem it unnecessary and note that any unlicensed peripherals void your warranty(though barring Intercooler-related scorch marks, they'll never be able to tell). I don't see much need for the battery pack. I'm still on my first set of AAs. And there's not a good way to handle the charger unless you leave a big nasty cable hanging off your 360, which kinda defeats the purpose of wireless controllers. That's one excuse. Most people think MS just screwed up big-time. The system's so crowded there's just no airflow over the main heatsink. It doesn't really matter how long you play. The new heatsink should be out now. The new chipset is certainly worth waiting for at this point. But I was under the impression it was already hitting shelves. Not likely to be a good sale. Consoles rarely get marked down any appreciable degree below MSRP.

Like this? http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/11/datel-x...-to-pc-via-usb/ I've seen it at Best Buy before. Dunno if they still carry it.

Ikaruga had that option? I must've missed it somewhere in my distaste for the game as a whole... Was it in the DC release, or added for the 'Cube version?

Know what'd be REALLY nice? A "horizontal" mode. Where it rotates the game area AND controls, and uses a redesigned HUD. Essentially make it a horizontal scroll game, for those of us that want the better view area but can't, or won't, rotate our displays(I use a 32" CRT for gaming. Like hell I'm manhandling it around just to play a shooter arcade-proper).

You forget the average shooter fan is a bit nuts. Vertical mode winds up giving you arcade-identical graphics, since the resolution winds up being the same as the arcade one. Hence the draw. And I believe the option originated on the Dreamcast, which had VGA output(CRT PC monitors can usually be rotated fairly easily, though LCDs are certianly extremely friendly in that regard).

The TV, probably.

Ewwww.... I mock the "turn the screen sideways" options, but I at least see a POINT to them. I can't for the life of me fathom why someone would want to dork up the game by stretching everything to hell.

Now, I'm all for silly standards elitism(BTW, I see your enhanced resolution and raise you a no flicker and better color depth ), but.... I'm ALSO all for viewing media in as close to the native format as possible. The show was made for NTSC in the first place. The film is made for at NTSC frame rates, and assumes NTSC color and resolution. I also propose all TVs be sold with a 24, 25, 30, AND 60 FPS mode, for optimum reproduction of all standard framerates. ... And that they all be CRT, since you can only truly get variable resolution on CRTs. Frame-doubling can fix flicker.

It's not that the PC port takes better advantage of the hardware, it's that the arcade version runs on PC hardware. The Type-X hardware the arcade version runs on is actually a 2.5GHz P4-Celeron PC running XP Embedded. Seriously, it has PCI and AGP slots, the ATX backplate and EVERYTHING. I'd link pictures if System16 wasn't down right now. It's a standard PC in a metal crate. Not to start any platform fanboy wars or anything(I can think of reasons to own the 32x, for Bushnell's sake! I think I'm fairly platform-agnostic. ), but a gaming PC IS a LOT more powerful than a PS2. Stands to reason that a PC "port" of a Type-X game would be far closer to arcade-perfect than a PS2 port.

I thought the logic was obvious. It's the same reason Basara and Mylene are playing Hikaru and Minmay, even though they look NOTHING like the characters in question. While officially presented as a Minmay tribute, it was clearly meant as an advertising vehicle for Fire Bomber.

It seems to be IP-related, at least here. I stay logged in fine for an indefinite time period.... until my ISP changes my IP. THEN it boots me off.

Shatner made V'Ger a different "species" of Borg. It was part of the collective, but not the same part we know and love. It assimilated by "digitizing" instead of the more personal approach favored by other "races." Given the differences(assimilation technique being the biggie, since Next Gen did it surgically and the later ones used the less plausable, but faster and scarier, nanobots) between Next Gen Borg and Voyager/First Contact/Enterprise* Borg, the idea of muliple kinds of Borg gains a bit more weight. Overall, I wasn't very fond of Shatner's Trek books, though. 'Specially when he started claiming Starfleet made hacking the program the INTENDED solution to the Kobiyashi Maru. *WHY? We had a chance to take a break after being COMPLETELY Borged out by Voyager. I think I actually said at the premiere that one of the good points of a prequel was they COULDN'T do another Borg episode. And they HAVE to work in a Borg episode anyways! That does NOTHING for the story, since Q introduced humanity to the Borg at the same time Enterprise scheduled the Borg to find out about us.

Who are you again?

For the most part. I've heard there's some back-compatibility issues with versions prior to 6 or 7, because the interface kept shifting around. And while it's not really DX's fault so much as Vista's(Vista features a complete driver rework, and the sound interface was radically altered), there's no longer a way to get hardware acceleration in DirectSound 10. Or 3D sound. Apparently the changes kill a lot of games.

My local WalMart had TONS of Transformers out today! ... But not from the movie. Seems their warehouse was a mess and they failed to get a few cases of Classic and Cybertron toys out for clearance. So they had tons of Classic Prime, Jetfire, Cliffjumper, Mirage, miscellaneous Cybertron Deluxes, AND an endcap half-full of Masterpiece Primes. Of course, with all the movie hype, this'll probably work out well for them. Any Transformers are better than none(unless they're Cyber Slammers).

I LOVE this movie! ... Hey, I never claimed to have taste.

You fancypants people with your HDMI and your compnent video. ... Seriously, I wish the 360 "believed in" 800*600. It'd be a bit of a boost over 640*480, and my display(an old 32" Mitsubishi presentation monitor I was "gifted") can actually SUPPORT that(If it were in good shape, I've heard they can be "pushed" to 1024*768, but mine isn't and can't). I need to upgrade sets. I'm torn between taking my XBoxeses to the next level(XBox 1 won't even do progressive-scan over RGB. WTF?), or maintaining perfect compatibility with my legacy stuff(a lot of digital sets take offense at various older systems' non-standard abuses of NTSC).

I don't think people DID buy the Atari games. Mystique went under after 3 games, and PlayAround didn't do much better. The fact that no one carried the games certainly didn't help, but...

Oh, for f... It's bad enough this guy's STILL getting attention, but dragging Custer's Revenge out too? It wasn't funny when Seanbaby did it, and it hasn't improved with the 8.753154 million rehashes. Yes, it's a porn game. On the Atari. WE GET THE POINT. You know what? It was one of a SERIES of porn games on the Atari! And there was more than one company making them, too! And ALL OF THEM TOGETHER aren't worth more than 2 sentences.

I admit it's unlikely, if for no other reason than black isn't the standard treatment. But it's generally assumed there IS overscan. Don't forget many of those same scenes were used in the movie. So they were probably all shot on movie stock(assuming it wasn't all done in computer). Actually, it does. It's just in the form of film grain instead of pixel counts. In a movie setting, it's generally far finer than DVD. In a TV setting, not so much. It's why if you saw Fantasia 2000 in IMAX Sorcerer's Apprentice looked like ass. It was a far larger screen than it was ever meant to be displayed on, and the grain was blown up HUGE. More relevantly, it's why the modern DVD releases of Macross have film grain in them. They DID edit the grain out during the restoration, but they had to put it back because it left everything looking really flat.

That could be why the border is there. To reduce the amount of image lost to overscan.