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Apology accepted, then. It really SHOULDN'T be modernized. Kawamori COULD have made a much mroe complex transformation then. He could've done it on the VF-0, also. He chose not to, because the people IN MACROSS can't do it yet. It wouldn't make sense for a VF-1 to have as complex a transformation as a YF-19, because the YF-19 has three decades of technological evolution in it. It was, within the Macross continuity, a first attempt at a variable fighter. The mechanisms used in the VF-1 were big, bulky, and only capable of doing simple transformations. It'd be like making a movie set in the 1970s and using LCD TVs on the set. Once you scrap the basic design of the VF-1 and start integrating design features from later VFs you can't really call it a VF-1, can you? If you want a more modern VF, we have the 4, 11(which seems to be exactly what you're looking for), 19, and 21. If you want a restyled VF-1, we have the VF-0. I don't see a point behind redesigning the VF-1 when it's been done twice already, particularly not if it won't actually be USED for anything. IT'S. JUST. STUPID.

And the boxy leading edge is stolen from the F-15. Also gives the plane enough fuselage to make a decent chest, which is difficult to do without either a large splitting fuselage or a far more elaborate folding nose like the YF-19 has. That part wasn't a negative comment. I was just guessing at where you were going with it. And the eyeroll smiley gives that apology the feel of sarcasm. I'm not sure if that was the intent or not.

Great. 2 of the ugliest(but not THE ugliest, as I have been shown before) super robots to ever disgrace the genre. 377343[/snapback] ...did you just call Grendizer a 'disgrace'? what the christ 377404[/snapback] Aesthetically speaking, yes.

Nothing wrong with any of those 3 goals. DYRL IS a good movie, don't get me wrong. It just has a few holes because they expected TV series knowledge.

DYRL by itself typically leaves a newbie with more questions than answers.

Not a guarantee, though. *grumbles about Parasite Eve Rebirth and Chrono Break*

Oh I remember those... Breast missiles... woot.... And there was an endless supply of those too. 377345[/snapback] You just WISH real life had an endless supply of breasts.

Great. 2 of the ugliest(but not THE ugliest, as I have been shown before) super robots to ever disgrace the genre.

Shao Pai Lon definitely falls into the "annoyingly catchy" category. Gets stuck in my head and I CAN'T GET IT OUT! *starts humming* GAH!

Prequel, actually. There's Rayforce, they Raystorm, then Raycrisis, which takes place before Rayforce and ends with "Operation Rayforce" being launched.

IDEA! Bandai should make a Gundam game with MS Girls! Who's with me? *silence* ... Never mind.

No, you said they LOOKED like they could be made. Which isn't the same thing. And until Japan can make me one of these... ... they need to not waste time on airplanes.

*looks at GameCube*That's not a bad idea... my computers get it often enough, but I've got 3 game machines with active cooling that are pr'ly full of dust monsters. Course, I need one of those damn security bits to get the 'Cube's case open and do it right. But the DC and PS2 won't fight me too much. 375566[/snapback] Not really. All you need is either an air can, or a compressor with a blower attached to it. Blast the air into the Gamecube, and use a vacumn cleaner to suck the dust up. Works wonders. I wanna open it anyways.

Yes. Raystorm is awesome. ... Played Raycrisis?

I didn't say you moved them for any reason. Just that the relocation reminded me of the YF-21. I was just looking at it from an aesthetics PoV. As Kawamori's never going to redo the original story, he has no need to re-redo the VF-1. Any remakes will appear as new vehicles. Probably with new features, as there's a limit to how many prequels you can do. Just imagine a VF-11 without all the extra spec'ed equipment. Give it the canards because we're talking about a massive redesign anyways. Hell, your own "redesign" seemed to move the tailfins off the "backpack" and onto the legs, just like the VF-11. It's the same transformation sequence(plus a snap-off shield), same overall silhouette in battroid mode, etc. It IS a modernized VF-1. Sadly, it's also a tad anorexic. All those criticisms of the VF-1's chunkiness have given it an eating disorder. That WOULD help give people a better idea of your goals.

Nobody "watches" the Oscars! Just check the results on the IMDB and avoid all the self-congratulatory butt-kissing for 2+ hours 377052[/snapback] Someone had to watch them to get the results to post on IMDB. ZOMG PARADOX!

But removing nekkid Lucy caused continuity problems!

Someone watched the Oscars?

Not enough respect for the Defender of the Universe in this thread.

Spill some Coke in your shift key?

You just took the VF1, moved the tailfins, and stretched everything out of proportion. No. They look contemporary. Like modern real-world planes. And the POINT was that if you redesign the VF-1 more signifigantly than the VF-0 was, you wind up ahving to go back and refresh the entire timeline. Every VF Kawamori's done has been closely related to a real-world airplane. Some are seemingly ageles. Others have started looking pretty old. Others are based on contemporary planes, and it remains to be seen how they'll age. Speaking of other VFs... Hey Yamato, VF-4 plz kthx! Just looking at things... it's also arguable the VF-11 is a VF-1 remake. I'd stick with the VF-0, as it's more closely related.

I just thought the tailfins were YF-21-ish. I'm assuming they won't stay on teh ankles in battroid mdoe, since that'd get in the way. It's not a very good effort, and a head-on view doesn't show a lot of detail. The intakes are WAY too exagerated, and the nose needs to be scrapped and redone totally. Beyond that... can't tell from that angle.

I thoughjt it was because Diamond Force was a sort of rapid response force. They were depoyed to the area that looked like it was going to need the most attention the fastest. Hence why they got better fighters and better pilots.

Well, it looks mainly like an amateurish attempt at increasing the angularity of the VF-1. ... And like you moved the tailfins so they attach to the ankles. Going for YF-21-style shields, I hope? Cokpit's absurdly tall, engine intakes are absurdly wide... it looks like it might work as an SD version...

Which Macross game has sounds? Which version of Mame supports it, BTW? I know Macross II has sound. Either Macross I or Macross+ doesn't, the driver that is; I played them a couple of years ago. 376941[/snapback] ALL Macross games have sound. I can't pinpoint exact version numbers, but the most recent one certainly does. The original DYRL game definitely didn't have sound for some time after it was implemented, and there's still a few bugs to this day. I don't THINK Plus had sound originally either. I know DYRL's sound emulation was initially implemented about 2 years ago, so a LOT of MAME versions support it to some degree. I'd recommend getting the most recent version(currently 0.104).