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Mazinger Z made it to the US as Tranzor Z. Historically notable as the first super robot with a cockpit(as opposed to the remote-controlled predecessors). The show also had a female support mech. With breasts. That it could shoot out as missiles. I'm dead serious here.

It's nice to have connections.

Have you SEEN the Sonic 1 "port" to the GBA? It's an embarrassing half-assed glitchfest. Hell, the speed shoes make Sonic run SLOWER. How about the load times on Sonic 360? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naVshTpD9l0 These are the sorts of releases that Sega should be ashamed of having CONSIDERED for release, and Nintendo and Microsoft should be ashamed of approving. Most people have been saying that Sonic's been downhill since Adventure 2. And in true Sonic fashion, it's been accelerating all the way. Atari at least isn't DEVELOPING the crap games they're releasing. And hasn't had a reputation to defend for ages.

Hey, there's not many mecha designers still catering to Mazinger fans...

Indeed. The full story is NASA was using pencils, and having trouble with broken leads floating around where they could get breathed in or short out equipment. That and they burned real well in the full-oxygen atmospheres of early space missions, which became a serious concern after the Apollo 1 accident. Pen company Fisher developed the space pen on their own initiative and sold the finished products to NASA. And the USSR.

Yeah. I remember laughing at the Sega fanboys' proclamations of doom if they stopped making hardware. Long rants about how their games would suddenly start sucking if they were on someone else's systems... It doesn't seem nearly as funny anymore.

Yeah... my other monitor runs at 1152*864. It can run higher, but it's too small to be useful at higher resolutions in my current setup. But my 800*600 screen is huge! If I were designing a site, I'd place 800*600 support towards the bottom of the list too. I just thought I'd mention it as long as I was there(I didn't even notice it the first few times I looked).

I can confirm the site works nicely at 800*600, for the most part. I've got 2 screens, and the second maxes at that res. It's also the better one for browser usage, resolution aside(I don't use the browser maximized on the other display anyways, so the actual resolution loss is mostly vertical). The only issue is that the header bar breaks in 2 at that res. [attachmentid=39575] Anyone using an 800-pixel-wide browser window is used to horizontal scrolling(of which there isn't much), and the layout is good. I have to agree that a blank line between sections would be nice, but it's hardly killing the site.

There were also several spring-loaded transformations in the G1 product line. Usually with pull-back motors that sent them flying across the floor before they popped up. Again, very simple transformations(even by G1 standards), but...

It probably IS transformable, given the guy says it looks great in robot and car mode. 90 bucks for a Bumblebeevangelion, though? It's an awesome toy of a crap design. Pity this isn't being done in the Classic line.

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Yah. The "protoculture" identification happened when Exedol was watching some battle footage, and saw some poor squishie get knocked off a building by a Reguld. Earth might've been attacked anyways because it looked like we were allied with the Supervision Army. But only sort of, since the Macross wasn't rebuilt to SA specs. Lacking any other evidence of SA alliance, they probably woulda leveled the island and wandered off, in the interests of resource conservation. Bodol didn't issue the orders to sterilize the planet until AFTER cultural contamination had become widespread in Britai's fleet, and he delayed those even after finding out contamination had occurred AND was affecting morale. Britai had better things to do than start a war with underdeveloped cavemen. But underdeveloped cavemen with nukes, reverse-engineered overtech, AND repair facilities... that's another story.

TECHNICALLY, the humans shot first. Remember, the Zentradi were just looking for the Supervision Army when the Macross' cannon fired on them. Granted it was an automatic attack that they were trying to abort, but the Zentradi didn't know that.

There's an important difference... the VF-11, YF-19, and YF-21 aren't ugly.

Your own link says HD-DVD and BluRay use the same wavelength. Depth has a lot to do with it. BluRay's data is VERY close to the disk surface to allow for tighter laser focus, and thus smaller "pits." It also made it really easy to kill your disk before the scratch-resistant coatings came up. Fortunately, all 3 formats are designed for multi-layer, so none of them NEED to hit the reflector directly. If they were all single-layer formats like CD, it'd send everything straight to hell.

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But would they have a bunch of people running around wearing t-shirts that said "Kaifun shot first" after the edit?

I don't know about HD-DVD. Just BluRay. Which by some accounts is more processor-intensive when pushed.

Emilia got bigger-ized, customized a QRau with colored smoke jets, and took up singing in the mountains of some backwater mining planet.

But the people on-board didn't know that. I've always wondered how much imported media they had. If Macross were in a real-world setting, the government would probably be beaming selected media to the ship once they found out it was still there. It could be distributed to provide an influx of new media to the population, albeit of a limited selection. Would greatly reduce riot possibilities if nothing else. But Macross isn't in the real world. It's in a world where disco wasn't dead in 2010.

I'm not complaining that the designs are different. Just that they're ugly. I also think the Alternators look funny. But not outright ugly. And yah, the originals benefited greatly from anime magic. But still... The Bayformers have sliding metal plates everywhere... why not add sliding metal plates over the Alternators seats and wheels? That'd spruce up a lot of them. Though they still wouldn't have trunks or back seats. But I doubt there's REALLY room for them in the Bayformers. Hollywood tends to have a poor grasp of physics, even when they claim to be doing it right. As I understand things, the official excuse was supposed to be that they tucked excess mass into a pocket dimension, or something. It just never showed up in the media. Compressing/expanding the structure is problematic because that changes volume, but mass(and thus weight) stay constant. So you either have REALLY light robots, or REALLY heavy guns and tape decks. Since humans could lift Megatron and Soundwave, neither of whom blew away when the wind picked up, mass has to be variable.

Ah. I'd missed that. I was hearing something along the lines of "Nothing but the PS3 supports it right now" with firmware as a potential update. Indeed... Kinda makes you wonder why even bother? Why is a dual-format player "way more expensive"? They're just computers. Heck, the early BluRay players were literally P4 PCs in a pretty box(I'd hope they've moved to Cores now). Both formats use an identical laser wavelength, so the drive mech is the same. And that's the only part that needs changing if your hardware is programmable and has enough power. Aside from the licensing fees, which aren't exactly breaking the bank, and software, which I assume a dual-format company already has for both formats, I don't see any reason for a dual-format player to cost more than a dedicated player for the more expensive side. BluRay players cost more than HD-DVD right now, so... slight premium over BluRay only, to cover the HD-DVD license and cost of a second set of software.

Does the AR+ require you to lodge the CD door switch, so the system doesn't know it's open? If so, I'd recommend unlodging the switch first. If not... save, shut down, boot off disk 2, and hope the game works like I think it does.

Is it? I know they recently had a BluRay release that only works on PS3, because the current standalone players don't support BD-JAVA(which, as the name implies, is a variant of the Java language).

Licensed games tend to oscillate. There were some damn good Atari-era and NES ones. Every once in a while the "genre" gets so bad that developers realize they HAVE to expend effort. Then we get some kickass licensed games, and it starts sliding downhill again.