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What's wrong with the GameCube? It's got a strong library, if not exactly the largest. Also worth noting that the GC had a strong first year. It wasn't untill year 2-3 that it started faltering.

Ah. Was probably just the emus of the time, if it was a few years ago. SegaCD emulation only started in '01 and it's not simple or well-documented hardware, so it was still iffy for a long time. Good plan. Shining Force ticked me off on the SegaCD, actually. Thing ate every last bit of save RAM I had for one file. WTF kind of insane logic is that? I'd bet money that they are. It's very rare that a store DOESN'T want people to throw money at them. Personally, I say screw preorders. Get it off the shelf. If there aren't enough to get one off the shelf, the preorders are gonna be a disaster anyways, so just kick back and wait a few months.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, it looks like the chest locks actually WORK on Hot Rod! I also like that they're painted, as is the grille. Those parts on Mirage look a tad flat.

I think you're thinking of The Lost World. The first JP was fairly close. Heck, Crichton even cowrote the screenplay for the first movie.

AKA perpetual motion machines.

Prime actually looks kinda like a naked Cybertron Prime. But other than that... And unfortunately for Prime, naked isn't the Transformers style. It also makes no logical sense for a warrior mech to have unarmored vital bits(not that transformers make logical sense anyways...).

I don't like the half-naked Sentinel either. So no hypocrisy here.

And if they could've printed gray reliably at the time, he'd still look like that today.

Iron Man looks intentionally under-detailed in that pic to me. Sorta like the New York Godzilla ads that only showed the lizard's foot, eye, etc. They want to show off that they have an Iron Man without actually showing what it looks like.

As much as they did for the rest of their content... Which, without being able to actually SEE any of their content, sounds like absolutely none.

I've heard conflicting reports about the frame rate. It's probably not an issue except in a small handful of cases. ... Unless cavia went Drakengard on things and pushed for too much too soon. Drakengard had horrible slowdown and popup issues because of it. Was still pretty darn fun though. To heck with Devil May Cry 4. I want P.N. 03.2! Seriously, I need to play some of the later DMC games. DMC1 was good, but needed a bit of polish IMO(most notably to me, the roll command was configured unintuitively). I'd've probably appreciated it more if I'd played it before PN3. Both games are actually built on similar principles, but PN3 benefits from being the producers' second attempt at that style of play. Interestingly, DMC4 will be the first game since the original to have one of the original producers at the helm(at least if GameFAQs' current credits can be believed).

I'm not touching the Battlecry comment. I'd heard nothing but good things about the PS2 Macross game. Personally, I love the older sidescroller Macross games... The PS2 GITS game benefitted greatly from the developer. Cavia's a pretty good group from what I've played. Which reminds me... *checks something* Ooooh, someone DID pick Bullet Witch up for localization!

What do you mean by real game? Because there's a good bit of existing Macross software across multiple systems and genres, with the most recent entries being the Windows Macross VO and PS2 SDF Macross games.

Wikipedia has a seperate entry for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itano_Circus If Wikipedia is trustworthy, Itano Circus covers more than 3M does. Either way, it makes sense that more than one term would evolve for the same thing.

Reminds me of the old Shogo mod that never really got off the ground.

:'( I gather the DVDs are extended versions, though. That should be worth something. And during the pre-release hype, I heard they were going to have a commentary track... by Haruhi. If I knew any amount of japanese, I'd buy them just for that.

Isn't that what this IS?Do you mean "goes back to the '95 remaster and does a proper anamorphic transfer of it," or did I miss some horrifyingly ugly part of this mess?

What emu and version are you using? I haven't had any serious glitches in some time. If you're not using original disks, it's also possible you have bad games. The standard idiocy of ISO/MP3 sets injects a LOT of variability into things, especially when people botch the cue sheets later. Some games really don't like variation. I don't know the original disk issues with the emus. I know most PS1 emulators work better with disk images than games, though(has to do with crappy drive system emulation as I understand it).

If I made movies, I would Sub-stitute Namor for naval captains in random Sub-marine shots.

I am suddenly compelled to go find a copy of Freespace...

The europeans are used to it. Heck, they used to treat things as if the US Dollar and UK Pound were a 1:1 exchange rate. You wanna talk about being shafted, that was basically an immediate doubling of price. 1:1 USD/Euro is downright cheap by comparison.

Heh. That looks like a bad model kit hack.

It was GOING to be able to, if you purchased an external dongle like the XBox1(keeps the DVD playback license cost out of the system). It's not going to now. Nintendo decided there was no point, what with you being able to buy an entire standalone DVD player for 30$. The "classic" controller is like a handle-less DualShock, if I recall. 2 sets of shoulder buttons, 4 face buttons, select, start, and a pair of analog sticks(dunno if they're clicky). I'd be hesitant to place Saturn and 32x bets, but SegaCD has good odds. It's a matter of processing power and system complexity more than licensing. Both systems are very complex and fairly powerful. I wouldn't place bets on either of them being practical on the Wii.

I'm still waiting for a localized Rondo of Blood. But I hate NES Castlevania, so... whatever. If they offer Ninja Gaiden, though... What I've heard said is that just wrist motions will work, but they'll be "more fun" if you make a complete fool of yourself.