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Keep in mind that it's 5 hours due to SCE restrictions upon developers. Sony refuses to license games that don't get 5 hours of battery life, and explicitly told developers to not use the full power of the system in order to prolong battery life.

Lol... I watched the movie and it hasn't got the slightest resemblance with mario world. Take a body of a man and put a 1:1 scale snake head on it... how cheap Yet Miyamoto co-wrote the movie. I actually enjoyed it, probably because it was so different from the typical Mario world, yet bore a twisted "Through the Looking Glass" type resemblence to it. Plus it was a lot of fun, you could tell the actors were having a good time with their roles. I'm not gonna argue that it's some classic of cinema, but it was a great rainy day flick, totally underserving of most of the trash talk thrown its way. Indeed. It's a fun show. And if it was faithful, people would be complaining about how crappy the writing was, how cliche the stars were, and how lame the set designs were. Game-movie adaptations are a lose-lose situation. If it's faithful, it's poo. If it's not faithful, it's poo. There's no pleasing the target audience.

Ah, DNS error. That was my guess. Nice to see I guessed right.

Thank goodness I never took my collection very far during the first release. Or updated when they re-released with stories they dropped for the first run added back in. Now I can put off buying flipped books instead!

Problem is it's very decentralized. And made in countries with no real copyright enforcement(if the laws even exist). Nintendo HAS started suing importers, but that's about all they can do. In China, they can't fight the Famiclones legally, so they fight economically. They launched a N64-in-a-pad called the IQue that used flash RAM cards. Logic was that they could undercut the pirates by flashing new games onto the cards cheaper than pirates can burn ROMs and solder them onto boards, while offering a superior product. I don't think the IQue made much headway, though.

I suspect that they'd buy several copies to "document the offenses", then decide it's "the best game ever ohgodYES!".

But... where's Vanessa? She's the bridge bunny to get.

Ahhh, the infamous Rez article. Sure it's old, but who can complain if it keeps popping up. Shame the Mahoro fanart doesn't show up more often alongside it.

Really? They look like kids to me, about right for the story. Yes, I'm a big fan of Mikimoto, glad to see more of his stuff. Link in LoZ is a really little kid 6yrs old or so. In Zelda2 hes a teen like the drawings. In legend of zelda on NES there is absoloutly nothing to indicate links age in game. Maybe some of the artwork on the box or something, but we all know how innacurate nes box art was back then. My point is that, Links age isn't given. And if you're going off his looks? well he's the same size and shape as just about every other person of his type in the game.. sorry i just hear alot of people claiming they know links age when really, there just isn't enough info given. We still have Zelda 2's insistance tha the just turned 16 at the beginning of the game. And that "many seasons have passed" since Link killed Gannon. So he's not all that old in the first game. 13 at best.

Wellllllll... we haven't seen Milia in it a million times already... But the suit's kinda lame.... But Milia looks better... Okay, diffrent reaction for Milia.

And here's somthing called SRX.....I nto sure what it is but it looks cool. Although the transformation looks like it has alot of parts swapping ala Spawn Interlink 6... SRX is a super robot from Super Robot Wars Alpha. And the parts swapping can be considered faithful to it's origins, as the one in the game had a lot of parts that blew off and flew through the air during formation.

Personally? I think it's a tired and overdone fanart. I second VF19, but without the smiliy.

I was under the impression that pirate series DVDs usually re-encoded the episodes to get more per disk. ... Which means 4 eps a disk is a good sign of legitness, if it's right.

Sweet! Well, Getter 3 looks pretty goofy, but then... Getter 3's ALWAYS looked pretty goofy.

Not much backstory. They come on updated VF-1s seen in the game Macross 2036. Which is a non-canon PCEngine title that doesn't fit continuity. The 1Rs also have integrated FAST packs. http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/macross2036/ There's some pics of the mechs... http://www.gearsonline.net/macross/2036.php And some more... Game's fun to play, though the lack of free transformation is a strike against it. And if I recall correctly, this game stars Komillia, making it the closest anyone has to information on her.

Nah, I'll just buy an Xbox and be done with it... A. Won't run PS2 games. B. Not exactly the paragon of reliability either. Though it's a sight better than Sony's record, and the drive is a standard part, easily replaced.

They removed that easter egg because the CSS was threatening to revoke their DVD license. And moved the player to flash ROM to stop people from installing the old player on new PS2s. Being able to scrap the pack-in memcard was just a bonus. Ironically, the updated drivers that come with the DVD remote install to the memcard anyways, presumably because they decided people were too stupid to do a BIOS upgrade safely.

You can also call Sony's tech suport line and gripe at them. Depending on who you ask and how old your PS2 is, there's a possibilty you'll get free repairs that way.

I did, too. And it really is pretty bad when you look back on it.

Dear sweet merciful Granas... Custom Balls? I fear for society.

*applauds* DYRL is beautiful, no one will dare argue that. It's even got some interesting changes relative to the original TV series. But it's just not a complete story, which makes it hard to enjoy.

True. Emulation can go a good way in many cases, though. Hee. Encryption scared people away from emulating the 7800 for a long time. Which was a pity, as the encryption didn't stop emulators, just homebrew authors. The BIOS in a real 7800 read a code written into the cart based off the game contents. Bad code or no code = deck booting into 2600 mode. No BIOS = no code check, and as this is all the 7800 BIOS does it can be skipped without hurting things. But if you want to make your own 7800 games, you need the code generator(which has recently been found and released into the public domain). Exactly my thought. Maybe. Games like Combat and Super Mario/Duck Hunt are never going to be valuable. They're just too common. Yah. And people doing copy protection on floppy software took lots of crap over their blocking of backups. Even Nintendo's titles aren't guaranteed a re-release. You're never gonna see Gyromite show up again, for example. And you're not going to see a good Donkey Kong release because Nintendo would rather just use an NES emulator to run the NES version, which is missing half the levels due to the ROM space limitations at the time it was made. One of those things where you buy what's available for legitimacy, then continue using the arcade emulator anyways.

I remember people doing this to the old PSX's, they amplified the lasers power so that they could better read (cheap) CDR media. That helped out in the short run, but in the long run, the lasers burnt out even quicker. I wonder if something similiar is going on here. The original model or 2, I can see that. They had serious overheating issues, though the big problem was warped components as I recall. Later models there's no real good reason not to up the intensity. Laser power has no bearing on how fast those Althena-forsaken plastic teeth on the head wear out.

m7? dont you mean M+? i thought M7' animation sucked compared to M0's and M+ Yes, I did mean Plus. Thank you.

I'm an advocate of the copying of out-of-print unavailable products. Good Example: Metal Storm on the NES. It's not available, and not likely to be available in the future. Piracy of it hurts no one. Bad Example: Legend of Zelda, also on NES. Available currently on GBA. Piracy of it hurts Nintendo, even if they ARE gouging the crap out of people on the NES GBA carts. If reissues, ports, or remakes of products I've pirated show up, I make the effort to purchase the new product and legalize my piracy, even if I continue using the old copy(example: arcade ROM images I tend to emulate with MAME, even after purchasing commercial emulations of them).