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by the way, that impossiblity you stated... is possible upto or over $500.00 Comlete Getter Robo: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?SHE030 Updates of the classic Getter Robos in single transformation versions: Shin Getter: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?SHE015 Shin Getter 2: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?SHE020 Mini version Getter Dragon: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?SHE022 Mini Getter Robo: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?SHE021 That all-in-one Getter always struck me as kinda ugly. It's an incredible engineering feat, but too many compromises had to be made. There's joints and seams everywhere. The 2 Shin Getters are interesting, though. Neat to see how the planes in the 2 packages differ(due, of course, to the design changes needed to make the target mech).

Asdf is right! That's a BEAUTIFUL Legioss.

I THINK PAL games will run nicely on NTSC PS2 decks. Not sure, though.

Guld wasnt cheating. I dont know how but with the brainwave system on the YF-21, Guld was able to use it to predict projected paths of the missiles so he would know where to go to avoid them all. Millard imo just found it surprising that he could dodge them all... i dunt think he was suspicious of it. If you saw the movie version, you would see that he wasnt cheating since theres a part where Guld dodges a bunch of missiles being thrown at him by the Ghost. I meant that I thought Millard was a parley to Guld cheating. While I think the BDS system is quite advanced, I don't think it could actually predict accurately the paths of the missiles. It's a very simple process, actually. If you know how maneuverable the missiles are and where they are currently, you can plot their future motion. Adding a moving target doens't complicate things as much as you'd think. In point of fact, it's a task that could be done NOW. But we have no real need for such a system, because we believe in chaff and flares, not out-flying the missiles. Countermeasures are actually a better idea, generally speaking, because the missiles don't have a soft squishy pilot to worry about killing with g-forces, so they can pull far faster and tighter moves. A missile can be designed to outfly any piloted vehicle that ever will exist. And even if we did have a need for a system like seen in M+, we have no way to rig an intuitive interface. That's where the BDI/BCS comes in really useful. Not only does Guld have a suite of advanced sensors and an incredibly powerful computer at his disposal, he's also got a perfectly intuitive interface to them. The sensors of the YF-21 are just like another set of eyes. Just eyes with diffrent ranges. The computer predictions may as well be worked out in his head, because he has instant access to them without looking away from the battle. Same goes for all his instruments. The technology is incredibly powerful. If Macross were the real world, I would expect it to show up again relatively soon. It's not the kind of thing that just gets thrown away and abandoned because it had one accidental murder attempt...

Pfft... SNK VS Capcom Cardfighters Clash is bestest!

Well, that's true. And I DO kinda like the PS2 design. But I've also looked at a 5200. Sexiest piece of hardware ever made.

I don't know what some people do with their ps2... I have mine since launch in vertical position and I NEVER had a single problem with it. Too bad the new one has no hd support... my HDLoader is indeed loaded I agree, only time I had a console break was when my cousin was trying to get a dirty game on SNES to play and kept turning the thing on and off until it no longer turned on. For petes sake, my atari 2600 still works, you just have to be gentle. But 2600s are built like a tank and have no moving parts. You simply CAN'T hold them to the same standard. Tehre's no cooling fans, no heat sinks, no laser tracks, no cd spindles...

I prefer Rondo of Blood in it's natural form. I really don't like pattern recognition filters.

Hikaru marries Misa prior to the Megaroad-01's launch, then gives birth to Miku months later. That's what Macross Compendium says. Waitwaitwait... HIKARU gives birth?!?!?! Man, I knew the future was a strange place, but... yup, in the future, we won't be limited to such narrow constraints as biolgical gender differences... both genders will be EQUAL even if it means massive surgery to make it so! Has equal rights gone too far? Next time on 20/20.

Disgaea is NOT PS1/Saturn level graphics. PS1 level graphics would have MAJOR aliasing on the map. It IS over-rated, though not massively so. There's some serious flaws in the gameplay implementation. I think it gets most of it's credit for being just plain fun. It's amusing if nothing else. Now if you want massively over-rated, go check out FF7. People act like it's the only video game in the world, when it's poorly written garbage that consists of more plotholes than plot; "gameplay" that wasn't exactly great a decade ago; and a few interesting concepts with flawed executions.

Hikaru marries Misa prior to the Megaroad-01's launch, then gives birth to Miku months later. That's what Macross Compendium says. Waitwaitwait... HIKARU gives birth?!?!?! Man, I knew the future was a strange place, but...

Dude, the "walking on air" metaphor predates TELEVISION! As always, you're reaching for straws in a .... place where there isn't straw.

I want an old IBM AT keyboard. Heavy enough to kill someone dead, loud enough to wake them back up.

Memory stick is no worse than the other half-dozen flash RAM form factors out there. Actually, I'd have to disagree on that. Memory Sticks are expensive, akwardly shaped, fragile, and relatively large. When you consider that you can get the same storage capacities from a postage stamp sized SD card, and for less money, MS loses a lot of its appeal. It was also doomed to failure simply due to being a proprietary format. For what it's worth, I HATE SD cards. Same form factor as MMC, but they decided to not even attempt to be compatible with MMC readers. I also don't think DRM belongs on memcards, but that's another story(except that I think it's the primary reason they aren't backwards compatible). Personally, if I had to pick a favored standard, it'd be CompactFlash. It's big enough to be signifigant(smaller is NOT always better), and can make use of micro hard drives for grotesquely large storage at cheap prices. The contacts are also recessed and protected, while they are bare to the world on MMC/SD, SmartMedia, amd MemoryStick packages.

Yes. I think the argument is make japanese DISKS regionless. Not players. A regionless disk can be played in any region player. So an R2 player could play the japanese disks AND they could export them.

VICTOLY! Good to hear you got that cleaned up finally. And Anubis is right. Cannon fodder all the way.

Memory stick is no worse than the other half-dozen flash RAM form factors out there.

My Circut city is terminally understaffed. Half the time there's not even anyone on the register. ... Of course, tehy use the return desk for ringing up sales, too. Saves them the effort of walking someone out to the registers.

Tha thappened to me once in WalMArt. After 45 minutes waiting for someone to open the case and get one lousy video game out, I left. At this point some 3 people had been by. As near as I could gather, someone had hidden teh key in the stockroom and no one knew where.

Personally, I've never had a problem with Best Buy. My one quibble was a DVD that rang up as more than it was tagged. I commented that it rang up diffrent, and the error was quickly corrected. Fry's I've also had one quibble. Bought a DVD. The tabs holding it in broke, and the disk was scratched when I opened it. Attempted exchange failed, because it was the only disk in their stock. Full refund, no questions asked. ... Of course, they DID pull the return tag off, reshrink-wrap it, and put it back on the shelves as a new product. And given the # of times it's disappeared and re-appeared(the package in question is out of print, and was when I bought it, so it's not exactly like they're getting new shipments), I doubt it was an isolated incident. Personally, I can't stand Circuit City. The store layout is poor, and they can't be bothered to keep their shelf prices even remotely reflecting the real price.

I still maintain it was the other way around. The DVD had already come into it's own by the time the PS2 launched. The players had reached the <100$ range. Every store around carried the disks. I think DVD helped the PS2 more than the PS2 helped DVD. I think it depends on what part of the world you're talking about. In Japan, the laserdisc market was strong and right on track up until the PS2 was released. There was a definite positve correlation between PS2 and DVD sales in Japan. In the US, well the LD format never really caught on, so DVD's had an instant appeal when compared to our crappy VHS tapes. Okay, that makes some sense. And I've heard that DVD players WERE still pretty darn expensive in Japan at the time the PS2 launched. Making it very attractive. I know the stats were pretty vocal. In Japan the decks were flying off the shelves, but the games just sat there . On the other hand, DVDs were suddenly flying equally fast. In America no such correlation existed.

*gasp* WE ARE NOT WORTHY!

DARN RIGHT!

I don't think it's been rolled out yet.

Early PS2s are really bad about it. The promised firmware updates never materialized because Sony doesn't trust their customers to leave the system on when it says "Do not turn off while updating or you will FUBAR your PS2 BIOS making the system totally unusable!" so the only way to update for some time was buy a new deck. Now you can buy the remote control. It installs new drivers on to your memory card, just like the original japanese release. Funny how they made the BIOS flashable so they wouldn't have to do that, isn't it?