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  1. Hydro Thunder

    Still love a good run at Street Fighter II.  Something about making your way through all the opponents, and then say, taking out M. Bison with an uppercut that sends him off the screen, finishing him.  Satisfaction :)

  2. Hydro Thunder
    YOSHIMITSU...is interested in your "game console"! (but he can has no fundings..... wah waaaah)
  3. Hydro Thunder
    I agree and feel similarly. You & I are likely part of a small group who prefer Galaxian (I get the awesomeness that is the dual ship thing in Galaga, I really do...). Not sure if it's just nostalgia, the little needle like bullets, the sounds, or what it is. But Galaga always seemed a bit more...squishy? Cartoony? IDK. Galaxian kind of had its own vibe that I still prefer to this day.
  4. Hydro Thunder
    My understanding is that it will work with anything that uses "X-input", and I thought that included Xbox 360? In any case, I can vouch for the Xbox One as well as the 8bit Do Arcade stick working flawlessly with the GSP so long as it's wired connection. I don't believe any wireless controllers work with it except the stock ones.
  5. Hydro Thunder
    I still adore mine and find it worth the $80 that I paid. Even though I have an FB...10? And a Retron77. And a modded Vader with Harmony. It does a lot of neat stuff, and is an easy way to play 2600 5200 7800, in HDMI. Tiny footprint too.
  6. Hydro Thunder
    In many ways it's the perfect best of both worlds between emulation and original hardware. Imagine if someone gave me this as a kid forking over his three part time jobs' paychecks on Saturn Games.
  7. Hydro Thunder
    No. Seriously though, with disc rot, and laser drives getting less popular, the SD thing (got a GD Emu in one of my Dreamcasts) helps preserve the games. Give them at least that much credit. Especially with the ridiculous and outright unfair Saturn prices nowadays, they're letting people get ahold of a Saturn & games that never would've or could've before. Doesn't have to be for you but...at least give it a tip o' the hat to the good it does for some.
  8. Hydro Thunder
    I've got three myself Japanese White with Satiator, a custom painted blue / blue grey one that is modded to play backups, and a nearly brand new US Model 2 with box, instructions, etc. Not going to ODE any of them. Unless a disc drive fails.....
  9. Hydro Thunder

    Just got to say how much I love Mortal Kombat 9 (specifically).  Always been my favorite of the series.  Nothing against MKX, 11, or the new one...just didn't have the same magic as the big return to 2d playing field.  Love the graphics, the AI, just adore it, great fun.  And finally got a copy on PC so I don't have to worry about killing my Xbox 360. :)

  10. Hydro Thunder
    You know, I'm an overthinker. I dwell on the past pointlessly; did this relationship go wrong because I undervalued that woman, should I have not said that one thing when trying to lease a space to open an arcade right out of college, why TF would I have ever sold my Gibson SG and Marshall Tube amp just because I was short on $ and space... And this 382 page and counting thread just brings me a level of perspective, self-value, and yes, schadenfreude. My mistakes are ones I can certainly learn from. But at least I'm not making them on an hourly basis, in full public view from a jeering internet, and then having to sell my garish Spiderman house or think about an editor for my next BS email blast promising things that I know aren't true. How do these people even find their way home after a trip to the grocery store?? Back to playing Shark! Shark! on my Evercade I go...
  11. Hydro Thunder
    I feel compelled to admit...I don't hate the little dude that's their new mascot, Mico. Every single other thing about what they've done lately, despicable, hilarious, nonsensical, pathetic.... But that Mico dude, not bad. Kind of makes me think of like, Quisp cereal or something. I dig it.
  12. Hydro Thunder
    I don't like handhelds as a rule, much less black & white BUT...this little ditty has me tempted sometimes. Just to support them. Also, looks like they are up to about 70k more units than Trasharico has built, much less sold....
  13. Hydro Thunder

    Just bought a little indie game on Steam that I STRONGLY recommend :)  "Dome Keeper" is currently $8, and it's like a cross between Dig Dug and Tower Defense games.  I really....dig...it.   Wah waaaaah.  Seriously though, give it a shot.  Plus if you hate it Steam lets you get a refund if you don't play it too much.

    1. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      I love both of those things. I will order it. Thanks for the tip.

  14. Hydro Thunder

    Just skipped my way through a couple of videos discussing whether a new fighting game was "dying", and complaining about the social media managers not responding to player complaints and releases of patches, new content etc.  And I remember with one of my arcade consoles, reading a ton of "this company isn't doing this isn't doing that", not to do with game releases etc.  And my summary is that I'm just so very glad to not be a part of this whiny, I-bought-your-product-so-you-must-fellate-me-constantly-24/7 mentality.  I don't play online or care about it, never have, never will (except for like, co-op stuff once in awhile just to chat up a friend).  So I'm glad but I also want to say... these are the jackholes that are causing game prices to rise; $70 is alarming especially for an incomplete game.  Why so expensive? Because they have to have teams of people constantly placating whiners online.

    Give me Robotron, Street Fighter II, Borderlands, or Mortal Kombat 9 all day over this dipsh1t stuff.

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    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      The makers of Aardvark and Frogs and Flies would disagree with you.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      It was a "Coleco Chameleon" (Mike Kennedy) quote (heh)

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      @bent_pin  "bugs"  heee...That's funny right there!

  15. Hydro Thunder

    Shall you defeat Gunrock at Downvolta??  Shall you??!??

  16. Hydro Thunder

    Working on SD cards for my Modded Dreamcast.  And...having trouble paring it down to TWO 32 gb cards (the max size that GD EMU will accept).  So. Many. Great. Games.  Soul Calibur, Speed Devils, Armada, Silent Scope, Project Justice, Power Stone, Space Channel 5.  Just 7 of the 50 I had to narrow down to.  Just crazy.  Oh, and just in case anyone asks, yeah, I have and purchased all my games too.  DC nut. :)

    1. Reaperman

      Reaperman

      Is that a limitation of legit gd emus? I've never owned a 'real' one, but I have a 256gb in my aliexpress clone.

    2. Hydro Thunder

      Hydro Thunder

      Unsure, but in skimming Reddit and other users, a lot of GD Emus will not read over 32GB.  Which just means I have to swap a couple of cards but...kind of too bad, since they're so physically small that it's not easy to label them etc.

  17. Hydro Thunder
    Actually I was referring to the Tommy Trasharico gif of him popping out of the garbage with what looks like a shopped Amico controller. I loved the Doom one too though.
  18. Hydro Thunder
    Just got to ask....where in hell is this gif from?? Maybe I read about it hundreds of posts / long ago, but that's too freaking funny and fitting to not ask. I don't care if it's shopped either. Still way too perfect!! Tommy Trasharico indeed!
  19. Hydro Thunder
    Indeed - I would also be interested to know if DCDigital can play Plasma Sword. In the meantime, as the only game I care about that I can't run in my GD Emu VGA DC, I'm happy enough to play it in ReDream. And yes, I can has my original copy too. I don't have any TVs that have S-video unfortunately, best picture on my composite "regular" disc drive DC is on my GX TV. Looks nice but...13". Mwah Mwaaaaa.
  20. Hydro Thunder
    My family and I played this over Christmas break in 2019, the board game. We failed. (I honestly still feel at least a twinge of guilt over this) (ridiculousness or not, your emotions are not necessarily good at the "cause and effect" logic system)
  21. Hydro Thunder

    Finally got around to some of the lesser known Dreamcast games; weird since I'm a huge Sega and DC guy, strange that it took me so long.  But having an absolute blast with Suzuki Alstare Racing, Tech Romancer, and Test Drive LeMans.  What a great system, when even the unheralded games are pretty awesome. :)

    1. dudeguy

      dudeguy

      I beat Suzuki Alstare Racing 100% several years ago, it's one of my favorite games of all time. And yet I still don't know what an Alstare is lol. Dreamcast racing games rule

    2. Austin

      Austin

      I always tell people, Dreamcast has one of the most consistent libraries out there. Even many of its dumb/bad games can still be fun to play.

  22. Hydro Thunder
    Yes, I personally find it worth the $10 to just have the downloaded game for PD:O, Star Wars Battlefront II, SW: KOTOR, etc even though I have the original games. Easier to select, less wear on the disc drive and discs, etc.
  23. Hydro Thunder
    Just adding from further into the video a bit more of the left side:
  24. Hydro Thunder
    Just going to throw out there that I have been running my games through VGA on a TV that has the input and LOVING the picture. Also, a thing that makes me exceedingly happy, is somehow my Hydro Thunder via GD EMU is "fixed" and plays perfectly this way (even though there are tons of reports out there that this particular game will not run any way any how you try it via VGA). I just loaded it via the GD EMU program with "VGA Fix" enabled. Only question that I probably know the answer to is...this isn't the case for Plasma Sword, one of my actual honest favorite DC games (guilty pleasure, I have no defense). Can't get it to run even using the method that worked for HydroThunder above. If anyone has a solution, I am very interested. Thanks in advance!
  25. Hydro Thunder
    My head just spins in both disgust and mild amusement at the thought. How many dozens of people (or hundreds?) were being paid how much in what parts of the world to sit around offices for years, doing nothing because there was no product and they never truly marketed? There should be a sitcom made about this whole situation, with Poor Tom played by Steve Carrell or something. This would be worth a season or two of laughs. Much less if you somehow sideline it into Billy Mitchell / Chameleon / Ouya / N-Gage extras just for funsies. Oh and the low level "failure" story redemption arc should have something to do with Trip Hawkins / Naughty Dog making Way of the Warrior, filming the fighting moves in their sweatsuits and cheap kids costume pieces...but then going on to be the Naughty Dog we know today with Crash Bandicoot & Last of Us.
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