Enig

H-holy.... You, sir, are the code master.

You're doing it without your wife's knowledge while she's on vacation to visit her family though. You're a disrespectful husband and terrible parent. I hope your wife throws all the new shoes she secretly bought on her visit through your glass walls. You're posting this without consulting your wife's knowledge while she's out at the hospital with her uncle to visit her brother who got in a car wreck. You're a horrifiyingly awful husband and generally assholish neighbor. I hope your wife deuces your wheelbarrow through the Costanza gate to another place and dime. Anyway, back in my day, the nickels had bees on 'em. "Five bees for a nickel", you'd say...

Since you're building a secret gaming room, I'm building an obvious gaming room in plain sight on my roof with reinforced glass for walls and for the ceiling. Try making a moral standpoint about that, people.

Voted the vertical shooter, all because I'd love seeing a 5200 game where one space fighter goes up against spaghetti and Daleks.

it would be stupid if someone bought one of those "high priced" systems that DaytonaUSA and Mendon talked about and it dosent work and you can't take it back. Well, no kidding. Maybe I should have clarified: at the flea's I go to, I generally find good deals. It's mostly the "retro game" stores that are the crazy prices to me. I get it the opposite. All the flea markets are outrageous, yet I've gotten great deals like Super Street Fighter II for Genesis for $3 at the thrift store.

So... Kirby's turning 20. Nintendo's got this wonderful collection disc and all sorts of new games lined up, all to celebrate this one event. Yet, last year, a certain series of theirs, a series that was there when they first started to assume dominance, that helped build them up to where they are now, turned 25, and yet their was nothing for that. This is like a kick to the face from a Nordic god. They skipped Metroid in favor of a character that was originally meant to be a placeholder- a fact that most everyone seems to forget over time. I don't really get it myself, though. For all that people said about it, Other M wasn't all that bad. I mean, it wasn't the greatest, but that's because they were not only trying to do something new, but they also had to follow the Prime trilogy. That, and it wasn't as bad as the Duke Nukem incident. Yet, somehow, because of Other M, we got nothing. They could've at least ran a sale on the Virtual Console, or at least said something, but no, the pink blob that has had eighty billion spinoffs, most of which are mediocre or just plain unoriginal, is more important. And that makes it even sadder than last year. If they somehow considered MP: Trilogy an early present, than that's just flat-out hitting the customers with a shovel. After all these wonderful games that have given great gameplay, music and settings, we've seen nothing to acknowledge that Metroid even exists. It's bad enough seeing Star Fox and F-Zero vanish for whole generations, but this is plain awful. Mario and Zelda were understandable, but it's... well, disappointing. Here's to hoping that Ninty doesn't pull an Episode 3 manuever during the WiiU's lifetime with any of the forgotten three. -Enig, 8:34 PM CST

Quick question here: Are there any soundfonts out there of the TIA at all? If there are, then it'd be fun to hear TIA renditions of Doom II music.

Speedruns- a virtual race to see who can beat a game the fastest, glitches or no. Tool-assisted speedruns- a virtual race to see who can beat a game the fastest by just letting a bot do the work and then gloating about it. For years, these videos have gone on- people make a video where they pretty much walk away from the computer while a program plays for them. Then, they upload these, and proceed to act like pompous asses over the fact, even though what they're doing is akin to either steroids or corked bats. Yes, it's time for the anti-TASvideos bandwagon! TASvideos is a community of people (re: lazy users with severe USI) who strive to beat and improve the high speed runthroughs of video games... with computer software. These people are somehow proud of the fact that what they're doing is actually cheating on many levels, no matter how many times they throw out the old "it's to push the limits and go beyond human limits in a gaem!!1!" line in pitiful defense. Not to mention how bad the site's design is, especially the whole, oh, I don't know, every frigging video appearing on one page. Not only that, but when you go there, it seems like all sorts of great videos of different games being pushed beyond bounds that improve times by great jumps are refused in favor of the admin's (not even going to namedrop here) 78,933rd rerun of Sonic 2, improved by 1.8 milliseconds. Somehow, these people are entertained by millisecond gaps. Proof that Daleks use the internet? (have to investigate into that field now...) That, and they're the community who attempted to abandon FCE Ultra (one of the best NES emulators ever made, sans NEStopia) for "BizHawk", a new emulator that doesn't pass on accuracy, has poor emulation, won't support ROMs that don't have mappers, changed the video file format to the highly self-centered .TAS format, runs at half-speed (and even lower sometimes), and is literally a worse-off version of Mednafen, an already cluny and GUIless multisystem emulator (even though MESS already won in that sector). Also, concerning their database, in order to add games to it, you better have a hex editor geared up and that you don't screw up the SHA-1 hash, or else no videos for you (if you somehow still enjoy TASes at all)! And speaking of the emulator's lack of mapperless support, they must not have wanted people to play Super Mario Bros. I don't know about you, but I'd rather trust glitchruns through Elder Scrolls than an automated run of Mario 64 for the 80 billionth time. -Enig

...go on...

Origin, the TORtanic, ME3, it's all just part of their fast decline. Now, to wait for EA to fall and for Valve to buy some of Bioware's IPs...

So... former exec stalking or breaking into the Franklin, anyone?

But will it help it run at 1.21 Jiggawhats?

It's pretty easy if you use ProBoards if you're lazy or have no spare money for vBulletin (ugh) or Xenforo (Javascript City!).