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PC98 emulation is a major pain in the ass, although I seem to recall one of the iMacross servers having the emulator and the three rom packs for the Macross games available for download. At one point a year or two ago I managed to get one of the games to work on my ex-GF's computer, but haven't touched it since then. Figured as much. Computer emulation gets messy fast.

That's an easily escapable tradition. GaoGaiGar springs to mind immediatly.

*cries* Best for... Famicom/NES: NEStopia or VirtuaNES. Super FamiCom/SNES: ZSNES or SNES9x. PlayStation: ePSXe is the best of a universally bad lot. PS emulation sucks. Saturn: Cassini is the best of an even worse lot. On the upside, no freaking plugin system. PCEngine/TG-16 and expansions: Magic Engine, though it's shareware. Hu-Go is pretty good too. Arcade: MAME is really the only option available, sadly. Dunno about GameBoy Color or PC98.

Should I point out that DYRL and VFX2 are also "available through emulation"?

You can get decent distance if you flick them right. Besides, they're super-powered playing cards. May as well give him a playing card railgun.

A sentiment vocalized by many diffrent people at many diffrent times.

Problem is this looks like a throwback to the old silly combiner super robot shows from the 1970s and 1980s instead of something that has the potential to usher in a new era of mecha anime that takes a step closer to reality. *shrugs* Giant robots are giant robots. I've got no problem with a few good super robots, which is fortunate since that seems to be the trend lately.

I never thought of it that way before..... Britney Spears isn't so bad though...imagine an alien "boy-band" performing a Backstreet Boys song while dancing to subdue us....ZOMG....DE KULCHA!!!! So THAT'S why Exedole tried to sing "My Boyfriend's a Pilot"!

Well, they sorta acknowledge this at the end where Misa admits that it was simply a "pop song" about love. Nobody ever claimed that they had discovered a masterpiece by the Protoculture's Mozart. Also, if you had never heard any music before. . . and had no concept of any culture, I would think that any music would be shocking. Possibly even Ashly Simpson. H To be fair, I find a lot of our music shocks me into a non-functional state.

That goes without saying. Graham *sketches a UN Spacy logo on the chest of a Wing Gundam* It's a genuine 100% real Macross product. Honest. The guy inteh alley in China wouldn't lie to me...

Oooohhh... shiny...

Team Knight Rider made me sad. They should not have the ability to improve KARR. Writing was, generally speaking, bad. At least from the handful of episodes I saw. And the vehicles were lame. No awesome special abilities, they were just bulletproof cars. ... Except the motorcycles. And whoever thought bulletproof motorbikes was a good idea should be run over by them.

As long as we're doing phonetics... Pheyos sounds a lot like feo. Spanish for ugly. Nah, the VF-X2 names were Hollywood movie-related on purpose, Timothy Dalton and Marlon Brando etc. Remember all the mission codenames were movie titles, with the last one named "Do You Remember Love?" Heh. Pheyos STILL sounds like feo, though.

Actually, it's not simple fascination with the idea. There's good valid reasons to do it when the tech is available. It gives faster response times and more intuitive controls and interfaces. They've actually found in modern research that a chimp wired into a robot arm will actually develop brain sections devoted to working the robot arm. It becomes just another part of the chimp's body. If I recall, similar effects can be seen in sensory devices feeding data in through the tongue(long story short, it's got a LOT of nerve endings and isn't doing a whole lot with them unless you're eating, making it a perfect place to hijack for input). They actually try to show some of this with the scenes showing Guld's "view" from the YF-21. He can "see" the full sensor suite's view without having to look down at viewscreens or toggle modes. X-ray, IR, visible light, etc all comes in like an extension of his own eyes. Furthermore, he can see things that would be virtually impossible to project onto conventional displays intelligibly, like missile maneuverability cones. And, of course, there's the launch sequence where they show him "flexing" his hands to adjust the plane wings and his feet to tweak the thrust vectoring. A massive dumbing-down of the actual situation, but really the best you can do with a visual medium. Despite the massive complexity of a top-end variable fighter, once you learn the interface piloting a VF becomes as intuitive as walking down the street, which is more than any modern single-mode fighter can claim, much less a variable fighter with conventioanl controls. Which ties back to DYRL-style Bodol, actually. A fleet commander doesn't need a conventional body. What he needs is instant access to his fleet without a chain of peons standing between him and his comm system, defensive weaponry, offensive weaponry, etc waiting to misunderstand orders that already take valuable seconds to hand out. What better way to do this than make the ship istelf the commander's body? The big question is why ALL zentradi aren't interfaced to their ships in DYRL, from the regults on up. And THAT is the same reason Macross 7 isn't full of BCS/BDI valks. It's all about aesthetics. A pilot that sits there motionless with his eyes shut doesn't make for good animation. It's alien and un-natural to the viewer. They want to see people running around and yanking joysticks. ... Truthfully, Mac7 should be full of BCS drones(Sharon Apple is but one of a large number of problems with AI, and likely not the first one to worry about). Remote piloting removes the restriction of the human body, which is enough of a problem that real-world fighter jets have limiters to keep pilots from killing themselves. But remote control is even less appealing to the average viewer than neural interfaces.

Ah the metric system! You mean that little known system that's in use by 99% of the world Graham Yah. That silly thing.

He's a car. He takes it up the tail pipe of course! Graham *cries* Oh yeah? Well the VF-1A has a penis on it's head!

Nah. They left it back on Earth, half a galaxy away.

As long as we're doing phonetics... Pheyos sounds a lot like feo. Spanish for ugly.

KITT WAS NOT GAY! As a sidenote... I feel sorry for whoever had to write up the description on the back of that DVD box. Really, everyoen that cares already KNOWS what Knight Rider is, and the people that don't know aren't going to be sold by a 2-sentence description. In point of fact, you're correct. William Daniels who played K.I.T.T. is not gay, at least according to IMDB. However, with K.I.T.T.'s effeminate voice, and condescending nature, it's not a very big leap. Let's be honest, talking cars are gay no matter how you slice it. But, if K.I.T.T. were gay, that would be yet another homosexual advance that Agent ONE would have to rebuff How can a car BE gay? Technically, you have to have a sexuality to be gay, and cars are asexual.

And in your bedroom via wall posters with big hearts drawn all over them... You seem to follow me around Macross World making homosexual comments... I can only conclude that this is some sort of attempt to have homosexual relations with me... I appologise. I am straight. Don't feel alone though you are not the first homosexual man that has been turned down by me. If you are looking for a man I suggest looking to M7 fans. Are you sure it's not just that your awesomeness is so great that it makes even straight men want you?

KITT WAS NOT GAY! As a sidenote... I feel sorry for whoever had to write up the description on the back of that DVD box. Really, everyoen that cares already KNOWS what Knight Rider is, and the people that don't know aren't going to be sold by a 2-sentence description.

Talking cars are too implausable, but you're a fan of a show that has 30-foot men and transforming jetplanes?

Looks less painful to me. ... Of course, the artist exempted her from having to strap her knees to her butt...

You mean the DVD sets, right? Not actual production costs? Paramount likes ripping Trekkies off. Always has.

Political intrigue isn't really the order of the day, though. 6, 9, and 10 only. ... Granted, they've tried for it in both of the last 2 movies.