JB0

Darn right. The future is steam engines!

Of course, space landings always need a backup, since reaction mass is limited. But you could also use the retrorockets to compenaste for a single hook landing provided they're firable. Whichever hook snags, the retrorocket on the opposite side fires automatically. This will at least reduce any slinging around

Shall we start a lynch mob? *Lights his torch, picks up his pitchfork* 389716[/snapback] I think lunch mobs are confined by law to the HG legal debate thread.

All of the above. The resolutions it supports isn't the same as it's native resolution. I can't really guess as to the native resolution. HOORAY!

Ahhhh, classic TV cons go high-tech. Damn shame they won't just sell a TV that's properly calibrated, adjusted, and timed. ... Of course, the mass market will shun it because it's too dim, not red enough, and lacking in definition(Read as "not way the heck too bright, red is in balance with everything else, and there's no retarded edge enhancement circuit mucking the image up beyond repair").

My PS2 is just connected through one of the S-Video inputs... I know my TV is capable of upconverting to 1080i, but isn't that only through the component video inputs? Any non-CRT set ALWAYS resamples. DLP, LCD, and plasma are fixed-resolution technologies, so all images MUST be converted to their native resolution before display. Feeding them an analog source compounds things, as it has to make a digital sampling of it first. Not a problem as long as it does it nicely and does it in the same 60th of a second that the frame arrives.

SRW games are awesome. Hundreds of little SD mecha beating each other up, how can you say no? ... Pity I have no f'ing clue what's going on.

91-95? Yeah, forget Shockwave. He was in the first wave, so more like EIGHTY-five. *suddenly feels old*

Nice touch in the pics I saw was that the character's gun style depends on how the player holds the wand.

Mech vs squishy = instant win.

Not that I know of. The impression given so far is that males and females use diffrent mechs. Even without the war of the sexes plot from DYRL there's touches in the original series, like Lap'Lamiz' ships being purple as opposed to Britai's and Kamjin's green pickles. Heck, they even had diffrent powered armor suits(males=NosGer, females = the almighty QRau) You're right anout the Regulds, though. Millia WAS on one of Britai's ships for the spy insertion. I hadn't thought of the Mac7 episode before. I'd always sort of figured that Lap'Lamiz' forces were just the elite of the gender, and the females had a full specturm of male-equivalent vehicles. Perhaps emphasizing speed and firepower over durability, if the QRau-NosGer comparison holds(NosGer always looked more durable than the QRau, but lower-performance).

It\'s only cause she\'s slurmty. 388505[/snapback] HEY! Those are fightin' words!

Shockwave was purple, and had a panel you could flip up with crosshairs on it. He was also the most badass raygun ever, but not a jet. Is it possible that 2 seperate toys have been merged in your mind by time?

What the hell is an ass salmon?

Sheesh, I saw a whole PILE of 'em at my local MalWart a while back(gone now, but then...). I thought it was just stupid. Guess I shoulda stocked up and become an eBay gouger instead of mocking the package.

Are you perhaps implying the YF-1R ISN'T totally awesome? 389056[/snapback] Given the choice between the Orguss Valk and the YF-1R, I'd rather fly the Orguss Valk Because as we all know, dimensional travel is much more fun than having a head-mounted autocannon that never fires. 389059[/snapback] If I recall, the "YF-1R" ALSO winds up with it's head beat in by a zentradi in the anime. I believe the Orguss Valk survives all of it's recycled stock footage encounters(though I feel really sorry for that Defender's crew...)

They may have been. They amy also have been assimilated into the new Varuta army. Are you perhaps implying the YF-1R ISN'T totally awesome?

I use games for tuning too. Symphony of the Night used to be a favored one for some reason. As far as DVD/PS2 diffrences... run the calibration DVD on the PS2? One thing I've noticed with my freebie Screenzilla is that everything I have hooked to it is starting and ending the image at diffrent places. ... Especially my NES. It shifts the picture WAY to the right. Mmmm... makes sense. I'm admittedly not very familiar with that aspect. I know they use RCA jacks, though! Yah. Good LCD = big sticker. Most people can't tell the diffrence, so skimping on the driver circuits is a good way to cut costs. Super-blue is odd, really. They overdrive the red because more red makes the TVs look "better" at a glance. I say that everywhere... HDTVs being fed HD source material that's been downsampled to NTSC RF so they can feed all their TVs the same signal scares me. Side effect of flatscreen, if I recall. You can't have the beam focused at the center AND the sides unless the tube has a spherical surface. So the beam is focused at the center, since that's the most important part, and gets progressively worse further out. On a widescreen, this aggravates things greatly.

Actually JB0 I think you just fell into a trap set by one of my pet peeve sites Dave Deitrich's Macross Mecha designs. Like the RRG it fills in it's own (mostly well reasoned) BS to fill out the descriptions of most mecha and ships, but unlike the RRG it doesn't point out where it's BS and where it's official. I haven't found anything in the official continuity to support his claim that the ASS-2 was never found again (incidentally I do believe that term ASS-2 is his creation as well). If you can point me to some piece of info supporting this that's not on Dave's site I'd love to see it. 389021[/snapback] Well, poo. I THOUGHT I'd seen that on the Compendium. Checked the right area of the chronology, and nothing. Mind must be playing tricks on me. ASS-2 was just a more convenient name than "that wrecked supervision army ship in the factory satellite episode." Logically it'd be ASS-4,750,000 or something, since we ran into a lot of alien vessels fighting the Zentradi.

Switchbox? That's what I use to manage excess s-video and composite feeds. ... That and plug-swapping...

And the fact that the official continuity says they couldn't find it when they went back supports the booby-trap notion. The trap failed, so it folded somewhere else to wait and try again.

That's what I've heard. Of course, a bad CRT is better than a bad LCD, just because it behaves exaftly like all TVs for the past 50 years. No resampling, persistance, artifacting, banding, just fuzz. There's so much involved in an LCD that I'm incredibly cynical about them as a rule. Maybe. ... Or maybe someone will roll out the neural interface and we can quit converting electrical impulses into light so our eyes can convert them back into electrical impulses. </tech-fetish>

Awww. I got a 33" monitor free recently. Replaced an ancient composite-only TV(current gen stuff was on a 32" Sony in another room, so this also unified all my games on one screen). Not really HD-suited(won't go past 800*600@60), but it's sharp(and I don't have anything HD-capable yet). Got composite, s-video, and RGBHV, which should fill in for component in most cases. Downside is I need to drag a VCR in here to return my Atari-era stuff to operation(I only really PLAY the 5200, but the Big Sexy justifies it). I'm still baffled as to how they NEED that big of a brick. Their hardware team needs to be slapped.

Really? I see a LOT of diffrence between composite and s-video. Haven't done a proper s-video/RGB/component comparison. Largely because my systems lack standard outputs, and I don't really feel like blowing a hundred bucks on cables just to test.

Awww, c'mon... Everyone knows you aren't a REAL mod until your first abuse of power.