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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.

Solid Snake flying the Vic Viper! Snake on a Plane!

Cannon Fodder's Eulogy.

I'm watching it. Hopw many times did the Vic Viper show up in that ep before the fansubbers put in the (totally un-needed) translator note about it's origins, anyways?

Yeah. I can reocmmend a browser that doesn't crash regularly. Like Seamonkey. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Screw the collection. I wanna see pics of the war.

You recall correctly. There's no XBox ports on the 360. And even if you buy/make a XBox->USB adapter(the XBox actually uses USB, so it's just a matter of wiring the plugs), they STILL won't work because 360 game controllers have to use a proprietary encryption scheme, and XBox 1 controllers don't. Odds are that the 360's emulator will never contain a Steel Battalion profile for this reason. You'll be able to play Steel Batalion on a PC before the 360. I gather the controller issue would also cause a problem with any game that required pressure-sensitive buttons, too. Which I think consists of Metal Gear Solid 2 and... MGS2. Other games CAN use the pressure-sensitive buttons, so it limits your control config choices on those titles. But I think only MGS2 REQUIRES them. It would ALSO cause a problem with House of the Dead 3, if you wanted to use a lightgun. But then again, I don't think anyone made a decent lightgun for the 360.

Yah. My big objection to the Core was always the complete lack of save media. Given the cost of a memory card, it just didn't make sense. But add a memcard and 5 free games, and it looks a LOT more appealing.

Happy b-day!