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There's FIVE games, plot-wise. Not 2.

That's actually in the vast minority of efforts. 2 games, really. 3 if we count the totally retarded FF4 easy type effort. One of which genuinely needed to be done. (note that FF2, 4, and 5 were fan-translated BEFORE Anthologies, Chronicles, and Origins were created). The FF translations just get the most publicity because, well, they're FF. The SRW games have gotten pretty fair attention. Alpha was an early PS1 translation effort(it's a shame LNF folded before they finished it). 3 is done(albeit with misarranged battle quotes resulting in some exultations of victory when people die and severe distress when they survive). And efforts of varying degrees have previously been expended on SRW2, SRW1, SRW4, SRW R, and SRWGaiden. My reference is http://donut.parodius.com/

Gaiden was remade for PS1, too. Common title is Shin Masoukishin: Panzer Warfare.

One. A GameBoy Color game called Metal Gear: Ghost Babel(renamed "Metal Gear Solid" in America to confuse people). As I understand it, it's a transitional game, to fill in the gap between Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid(and clean a few plot inconsistencies up)

Oh, let them be. I'm going to wait for the next delusional person to say.... "It shouldn't be that hard to make a ray-gun to enlarge ourselves to the size of Zentraedi. Just attach a flashlight to a broomstick, put a hair drier on the other end, and plug it in." That's just absurd. No one would EVER think that's possible. You need a laser pointer to make it work, DUH!

Pushing Lord of the Elementals would be a good idea too. As it deals ONLY with the SRW original mechs, there's no giant mass of anime references to decipher. And as a prequel, there's no worries about what happened in the prior games. It could be sold as a standalone strategy RPG.

Gotcha. I can see that point of view. I always thought this girl's costume ruled for sheer costuming skill. Not really "hot", but still... I've got photos of her from last year and this year's AKon. And I've seen her without the helmet. She has a nice face.

I doubt SRW will ever have a legitimate english release. Very few people in the USA know what Mazinger Z and Getter Robo are, much less why they would want a game where they can fight together along with 8563 other heroic mecha from 316 diffrent series against 9734 villainous mecha from the same shows, regardless of whether Gundam Wing and Evangelion have been added. Of course, ILLEGITIMATE english releases happen... http://agtp.romhack.net/ And welcome to Super Robot Wars 3, the ONLY english game in the series to date, as well as to the world of fan translations. The almighty Gideon Zhi is also working on (at least) SRW Gaiden. Too bad LNF self-destructed before they got Alpha done, though...

It COULD be a player glitch. Unlike a VCR, all DVD players are not created equal. And some have really stupid bugs in them. BTW, READ the liner notes instead of just asking about them. Animeigo mentions both in the liner notes and on their website that disk 9 has no notes.

They weren't entirely compatible, is the problem. Like the concert hall fire. Isamu COULDN'T get in the latest edition of Galaxy's Dumbest Police Chases because he was ... otherwise occupied. That's why Guld was allowed to verbally abuse Isamu for not coming to Myung's aid. Isamu couldn't tell him "oh shove it you green-haired bastard" because HE WAS RIGHT. Isamu completely blew Myung off in her hour of need for a night of wild sex. AND it's why Lucy didn't tell Isamu that Myung was leaving. She wasn't just a freaky stalker that hacked his answering machine and deleted to his messages(best explanation of the line in the OVA). Or the YF-19/YF-21 fight with the live-fire accident. Since Isamu (logically) got hospitalized after Guld crashed his VF-11, the fight(cool as it was) couldn't happen. And movie viewers were spared that bit of overly-contrived nonsense with the loading live ammo into Isamu's gun, then stealing it and shooting him. The above scenes in particular annoyed me from the moment I saw them, and really detract a lot from the show with their raw stupidity. The story is better off without all 3. There's some sweet scenes in the OVA version, but in my opinion the movie version is the one to watch, if you have to choose. It has 30% less retarded filler(yes, a lot of it is filler), and 300% more Guld kicking the Ghost's cybernetic ass.

Never had the tolerance to kill a PS1 pad. Though it's given me a few blisters(there IS a reason I use 3rd party pads almost exclusively).

ROM packs were rarely used. RAM expansions were what helped most games.

During the PS1 VS Saturn period it was a lot of mediocre or bad games VS a few good or great games. Should I point out that most of those were released after the Saturn folded in America? And personally, out of that list the only must-have title I see is MGS. The others range from "don't care about racing games" to "moderately good" to "OH GOD WHY DID I SUBJECT MYSELF TO THIS?"(FF8). Most of my favorite games haven't been the reason I got the system, they've been titles I picked up because I owned the system. Things like Tales of Destiny, Valkyrie Profile, Bushido Blade... stuff most people overlooked, but turn out to be damn fine games once you get a copy. The reason I got the system was Lunar: Silver Star Story. Which turned out to be something of a slap to the face as a long-time Lunar fan. Yes, The Silver Star needed a remake. But completely rewriting the plot, making villians out of heroes, stripping out all the major "scary badguy actions" like enslavement and muder of entire cities of poor widdle humans, and just in general making a mockery of everything I loved about the game? No thanks. ... But that's a rant for another thread. Enough, since in Japan it was going equal to PS1 untill Sega axed it for Dreamcast. The Panzer Dragoon series would be my specific nomination, though. Or Albert Odyssey. Others might go for Shining Force 3, but I personally never cared much for strategy RPGs. Heck, if Sega hadn't pissed Wokring Designs off, we might have got the Lunar remakes on he Saturn, and a good bit sooner than the PS1 versions. But I can generate a list of reasons to own a Jaguar. Or even a Virtual Boy. Every system has a few must-have games. EVERY system.

But still, even if someone had to buy another unit because one became kaput, they still bought another unit and Sony still sold another unit. That's irrelevant. The numbers they print up during the lifetime of a system are used to show retailers how many potential game buyers there are out there. When in fact there are far less due to this very reason. There might be 100 million PS1's manufactured and shipped to stores, but I'll bet that less than a quarter of them still exist. I thought the point was to see how many units they sold, not how many units are out there functioning. That would be what they say. What they IMPLY is that all of those systems are in use. They want people to THINK there are 10 million people out there with PS1s.

It's because your browser checks it's cache before it tries to download it. The picture is on your harddrive because you looked at it. Hence, when you view the thread, your picture shows up.

HEY! I LIKE the 5200. ... And it's only the controllers that are poorly engineered. The PS1 ... is amazing. How many companies can turn a product that overheats and dies just from being left plugged in while powered off(the first couple models of the PS1 had this flaw, including the first run of US decks) into a major success? It's among the worst systems ever made, AND one of the most successful. I blame this in large part on A. Nintendo's incredible tardiness on Project Reality, as it was known when the PS1 and Saturn started dukign it out, and B. the Saturn's near-total failure in America. That left Sony with the only viable console for the largest part of the video game market untill Nintendo's system(renamed Ultra 64, then again to Nintendo 64) hit the shelves. And that was too little too late. The PS2 is even more amazing. They turned a product that WAS NOT AVAILABLE into the hottest gift of the holiday season. They had people paying upwards of 1,000$ on eBay just to be the first to own a system with almost no games(and if you think that none of those eBay auctions were by Sony America...)

Your thesis is about Macross and possible references to other animes?

Sweet.

Yes... that IS the problem with NSF files. You can probably convert a tune to MP3 using WinAmp, the included diskwriter plugin, and a good NSF plugin. I know you can do that with SPCs.

I always liked the title/intro theme from the original Legend of Zelda. Another tune that hasn't been reused, as far as I know.

What we know is HG got rights from Tatsunoko, and Tatsunoko doesn't have rights to everything. What they DO own will only start an endless debate, complete with pictures and babelfish translations.

I wonder why there aren't bootleg plushies.

Yup. Maybe I was the first here to find AnimEigo's site with Macross' linear notes Message-ID: <ugs99u0lsolj7jra7e8joq6kpce14kbbje@4ax.com> 17 March 2002, more than two years ago Funny, I've owned the DVDs since January 2002(my shipment didn't QUITE make it in time for Christmas 2k1). Anyways, my point was that there were Trek references as well as anything else. And as you're the person saying the entire Macross universe can be extrapolated from a few references(references you're really reaching to formulate, BTW, as many seem to be simple coincidence)... But AFAIK in Star Trek alien spaceships don't have toilets This is the proof of the lack of relations between Macross and Star Trek, really Ummm, no. And just because Trek doesn't show toilets doesn't mean they don't exist. Heck, they've never shown HUMAN toilets in Star Trek. I like thinking of the Macross's ones like Philip Dick's homeostatic machines Tough. I say they're a Red Dwarf reference, which means that the Megaroad 1 fell into a time vortex and wound up in a future where everything happens backwards. But all the turbines are before the fusion reactor, plasma is expelled magnetically. Visual of the turbines from behind is impaired. You can see this from the schematics of the VF-1. I think we can't go on without pics, so I'll paste one. No. If plasma is expelled, the reactor ceases to funciton. It HAS to be contained for a fusion reactor to work. What you describe is something akin to a plane spraying jet fuel out of it's engine, or an automobile that blows gasoline out it's exhaust pipe insetad of exhaust gases. Must be easy when you have no idea how stuff works. No, WAIT! I think you were supposed to point out some scientific sites about nuke effects proving your assertions Tough. Near the Earth plasma can be found in the form of solar wind, magnetosphere and ionosphere. I should check better, though. In such low densities as to be insignifigant. There is, as of yet, no serious evidence of cold fusion. And we use a wide variety of techniques to induce fusion. Including simple electromagnetic charges. You would be wrong. It's concealed by the same shielding that protects the pilot from deadly radiation. Right where I wanted you. What are these particles, exactly? Electrons? Protons? In nature there aren't many particle types you can choose from (physics often sounds like a mystic thing with particles sprouting everywhere, but it's not). Stripping a proton of its electron is called "ionization". When someone is talking about "particlized" matter, usually he means plasma (I don't really know if other options can be real, but I doubt the extents of my physics knowledge). We're concerned with photons, actually. Gamma rays. Though there's also protons, neutrons, electrons, even positrons. This is pretty basic fission effects here. If you don't know this, why are you chattering about the workings of a fusion powerplant? If there is one thing we can be absolutely sure, is that authors for Macross TV didn't know any scientific or sci-fi theories following 1982. So far, no spaceship was nuked. Your supposition about radar disturbing confetti is very well reasoned, but authors surely only thinked of standard known nuke effects. Now I'll point out a scientific site: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowland...project155.html A. I'm not discussiong EMP. B. They DID know what chaff was. It's not an exotic material created by nuking spaceships. It's just metallic shards. It would be only LOGICAL to assume that destruction of s aspaceship would fill the area with debris that would impede radar detection. Again, I'm not TALKING about that. Yes, I did know that. I also knew it was irrelevant to the topic at hand. It is actually sprayed out the exhaust, like I believe, and is. No turbines after the thermonuclear reactor whatsoever. It doesn't matter. The principle behind a fusion engine is you use heat exchangers to get excess heat from your fusion reactor into the combustion chamber equivalent of an otherwise normal jet engine. The diffrence is heat is provided by a fusion reactor, not burning of chemicals. No transfer of matter takes place. Now go look at a central air-conditioning system. The heat exchanger is outside. And yet it still cools the indoor parts. Same concept, only with lower temeperatures. The air conditioner in the house is the equivalent of the valkyrie's fusion reactor(yes, AC units generate heat). The part outside is the heat exchanger. The air outside is the "combustion chamber". Or you. You implied it. OH BOY! Speed of light is only constant within a vacuum. Speed of various forms of "light" DOES vary within an atmosphere. And before you nitpick that gamma rays won't impact radar because they're diffrent wavelengths, they WILL interfere, because as you politely demonstrate, they are the same form of radiation. That's why you can't have a white laser. The various wavelengths interfere with each other, and the beam breaks up. Radio waves in an area full of gamma waves WILL be scrambled. It's debatable, as XRays are not in the portion of the spectrum known as light, and laser stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation(radiation meaning EM radiation, not the particle radiation people think of when they hear the term). I'd grant it, though it should properly be XASER. MASERs(micorwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) are debatably a form of laser, too. Actually, the flight controls were rather unique. The deformable wing surface, at least. XRay vision, not RADAR. I don't see the relevance. No, they don't. You don't get that kind of detail from radar, because rather than going through someone and letting you see their skeleton, a radar wave will, for hte most part, go AROUND them. You'll get a very fuzzy image from radar, because the wavelength isn't enough for high resolution. Furthermore, radio waves don't have the penetrating power of XRays and gamma rays. And by your argument, the visible wavelength and IR pics should've all 3 looked hte same, as they're all taken with EM radiation. Very diffrent. Diffrent EM waves behave diffrently for a given type of matter. And radar that doesn't use radio isn't radar, as you so politely demonstrated. BTW, I prefer the term LIDAR, as it isn't stacking acronyms. LADAR would be Light Amplification Detection And Ranging, as you drop part of LASER to make LADAR. Hence why LIDAR is the more commonly used term. The funny thing? It's all doable today. Electronic CounterMeasures, or ECM, planes are specially equipped to scramble radio. Though not precisely enough to really function as stealth. Reducing IR is done passively with creative exhaust manifolds that disperse the gasses(and mix cooler outside air with it, but that's not plausable for a space fighter). I think that's just hilarious. There's experimental active visible stealth systems, but they don't do what you think. Just match brightness on one side of a vehicle(above) to the other(below). Greatly reduces the distance they can be seen at. Sadly, our modern stealth planes are quite lousy in terms of visible stealth due to a retarded decision to paint them black so they'd look cool. There is no evidence of it. Bending light around you just isn't possible. And the sort of hologram emitters we're talking about would just be absurd. Simpler to paint them black for space combat, and a more conventional color for planetary combat(see the low-vis VF-1 toy). No, it's needed. You want to blunt the lasers, as you can't warp them around you. IR. Hence why killing the engines worked(remember, the reactor had to remain online to provide electricity). But discharging plasma would totally destroy your reactor's ability to generate electricity, as well as lighting you up across all EM ranges, since plasma spews EM radiation like crazy(hence why plasma stealth requires A SMALL CAREFULLY CONTROLLED AMOUNT). IR guidance is good because it's simple. Lot cheaper than RADAR weapons, which require a transmitter AND reciever. Of course, flares confuse IR. Visible wavelength guidance is probably the best, especially given the high-visibility paint schemes of most Macross mecha, but it requires a lot more processing power. Though I suppose a flash grenade-type device could blind them, similar to a flare for IR guidance. Heaven forbid I miss something stuffed into a glossary, especially when it's a term I already know from the real-world. Hence, I was using the MODERN REAL-WORLD definition of thermonuclear reaction, which is a fusion reaction(specifically a hot fusion reaction). So . Though it should be noted that modern fusion reactions do not require nuclear materials. Hydrogen is a favored fuel, as it's easy to do. For the record, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book...nuclear&x=0&y=0 Either they use sub-atomic particles for fuel(p[rohibitelvy expensive), or they use no fuel, as a thermonuclear reaction is still a nuclear reaction, and thus any fuel used in it becomes nuclear fuel. Yay for random technobabble. I assume the INTENDED meaning was that it used non-radioactive substances. Also quite doable with real-world fusion reactions. In fact, radioactive fuels are disliked, as they're too heavy. The preferred fuel currently is hydrogen, as it's easy to work with. Helium is the most promising fuel, as using the right isotope creates no radioactive byproducts. I thereby propose that "uses non-nuclear materials" is self-contradictory gibberish and should be clarified, or struck from the record. The big diffrence between Macross fusion and real-world fusion is how they got it above break-even(Dimensional rift! Cheaters!). This energy source is NOT nuclear fusion. It is a thermonuclear reaction. Which IS fusion. Note that that is only mentioned with regard to weaponry. But valkyries are powered by thermonuclear reactions, not pair-annihilation. It's a sci-fi theory, and he knew it. It's not true, but it's kinda grounded. Real world physics too invented lot of useless and not totally founded particles like bosons or gluons to understand the universe Minowsky particles are just a weird explanation for plasma radio disrupting effects. An un-needed one, as plasma emits EM radiation. And one with unrealistic effects like being able to me constructed into a containment vessel. So you acknowledge that that particular chink of text was totally irrelevant? They can't exist in Macross because MACROSS IS NOT GUNDAM! I thought you already knew it, and I was right No, you're wrong. Have you ever read Alan Moore's works? He like estrapolating characters from various sources and collecting them in a single comics (ie: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or Watchmen). I haven't actually read him, but that is what they told me. Narratively, it is indeed possible, and you can also remain faithful to originals if you are good You know what else? No one insists characters he hasn't "borrowed" are in his stories. Active stealth is canon, as you pointed out. Official words about how it works has not yet reached my ears, though Yes. And as it can be done without minovsky particles, it is not an indication of the existince of minovsky particles. In fact, the necessity of implementing it is an indicator that said particles DO NOT exist. This is right, but it lasted only few seconds. They could cut something else. Why should htey HAVE included it? But if anime Yamato were destroyed in a movie, that doesn't mean Yamato was really destroyed at all in the sequels Continuity is kinda troublesome: how was Isamu injured? But I am just kidding. Star Trek has it's own continuioty problems. But they don't include having alternate and conflicting retellings of the same story. I propose that it is RADAR only. Or C. it dropped off the radar, and IR isn't detailed enough data to render a decent picture, so they don't show it on the display. I know, but if you look even YF-19 has active stealth system. So how came radar guided missiles could detect it? What radar-guided missiles? How? It's a show ABOUT the military.And I think that everyone I've ever met that used a DragonBall Z name is a raging moron. You're no exception.

YES! THE ANIGIF SPINS THE RIGHT WAY NOW! AND A NEW PAIRED SHOT! Really is beautiful.

*bows* I'm under the impression they licensed them, and when HG sued for theft of "their" lineart, they were forced to settle out of court because they couldn't afford the legal battle that would have ensued. Either way it should've been Big West that sued, as Harmony Gold owns neither the lineart nor the mech designs.