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zetastrike

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  1. The original NHL Faceoff for PS1 is probably my favorite. It has a 3D rink, but the players are all scaling 2D sprites. It's the best of both worlds, you get a good vantage point, responsive controls, and easily distinguishable players. The only flaw is that it came out in 1995 so it doesn't have the Hurricanes.
  2. How do you change the region to Japan? Whenever I start a Neo Geo game, the bios screen says the region is Europe and I don't see an option to change it. Also, did the AES see a release in Europe or did it only get the MVS cabinets?
  3. What firmware did your unit have when you got it? Mine shipped on Friday and was wondering if I'll need to update it to the latest one from Mike's site.
  4. From the POV of someone exploring the library years after the fact, Metal Storm can go straight into the fire. I was very excited to try it after seeing screenshots, I love 80s Japanese mechanical designs, I saw the parallax and was very impressed. Then I played it. Watching yourself die over and over again while struggling with controls and needing to plan your moves is never a fun experience. I guess I wanted it to be more Mega Man like, but that's just not what it is.
  5. I purchased a Majesco Genesis Model 2 from Bruce on Monday. He got the label printed that morning and I got it 48 hours later. It's in pristine condition and looks/sounds fantastic. Don't hesitate to do business with him.
  6. Is that the composite to SCART adapter that you can order? I didn't spring for that because they only mentioned composite. If I knew it also has s-video I would have included it in my order.
  7. Absolutely not haha. I don't think men should wear graphic tees once you reach your 20s.
  8. Is the framerate here better than the PS1 version? I've sunk a ton of time into D32xR for the past month and popped in the PS1 version last week and I swear it runs worse.
  9. Here is a complete Ultimate Intellivision Flashback console made for me by Byte Knight in 2017. It works a treat and is 100% ready to be played. Asking $150 shipped from 27707, continental USA only.
  10. Any chance games like Space Rocks and Galagon work with this implementation?
  11. Didn't Nintendo at least adjust the music in their own NES/SNES games so they wouldn't be off pitch/tempo? For the European folks here, did you play Sonic 1 back then and think something was off about it? How common was it for PAL localized games to not have the music fixed? Sonic 2 had the music fixed and Sonic 3 had it adjusted, but quickly falls out of sync with the NTSC version.
  12. My best score in MSX Pac-Man tonight
  13. Who would have though that a nice gesture to the 3DO community would make some people so irritated?
  14. You have to go through the OS on the 3DO, bare metal programming to the hardware isn't possible, bitd or now. It functions much like a modern day OS, complete with multi-tasking and lots of API calls. It was meant to be easy for devs and allow migration to newer generations of hardware. 3DO was never meant to be tied to a specific hardware spec, it was really the OS software that was the heart of the whole outfit. Had the M2 console seen the light of day, the intent was to have M1 software be compatible through a translation layer, not through direct HW backwards compatibility. The devs on the 3DO discord are putting together a brand new SDK that will hopefully open the doors to more projects like this. This OpenLara port alone is garnering a lot of attention and may get more smart people interested in tinkering with the 3DO. That's the goal. If it bothers you so much that the 3DO community has a legit homebrew game to look forward to, why don't you slide into XProger's DMs and extoll the virtues of the Jaguar? Or port it yourself, OpenLara is open source. As someone who's played this on my actual 3DO console, I can't wait to see the finished product. I can't stress enough that what we have so far is the product of less than two weeks of work. It is by no means close to done. The dev himself says there is a ton of optimization ahead and a stable, playable framerate is 100% within the realm of possibility. I think a lot of people are looking at this alpha release and thinking "Oh, it's rendering polygons, it must be 99% done" which is a mistake.
  15. Is there a way to use the USB keyboard as an in game controller? I got a nice mechanical keyboard last month that I would like to use to control games, but it doesn't work in the Mister. It allows me to map controls to the keyboard inside of any core, but once I exit the OSD, the keys I just mapped do nothing.
  16. I've played it in my 3DO model FZ-10. It's accurate. I'm not using emulation to play it.
  17. I have access to this demo. Enemy AI is implemented as are damage and level hazards. This only began development less than 2 weeks ago. It went from 100% software rendering to this in less than 10 days. The dev estimates it will take over a year to get everything optimized. This demo is not an indicator of what the final product will be.
  18. I would pick Galaxian 100% of the time. I find Galaga too reliant on memorization of enemy waves, Galaxian is a perfect pick up and play anytime kind of game.
  19. What do you think is the single best year of Garfield comics?  I used to rent all the volumes from the library and the 96-97 ones were my favorite.

    1. Frozone212

      Frozone212

      Food for Thought was pretty good for the early 2000's

    2. thanatos

      thanatos

      Wow, kinda stopped paying attention in the 80's, there were already like 10 books by the end.

    3. Charlie Cat

      Charlie Cat

      @zetastrike That's a very good question Zeta. Hmmm. Hard to answer. I personally feel when Garfield started to really become successful during the mid-1980's onwards. Jim Davis made the transition of making the Garfield characters more on a cartoonish look and make Garfield more relying on walking on to feet like a human.  I don't have a particular year to say, but I'm thinking mid 80's to early 2000's were the best years for the franchise Zeta. 

  20. Today I saw a PAL 50Hz signal on a CRT for the first time.  I was surprised how much more flickery it looked vs the NTSC I'm used to.

    1. x=usr(1536)

      x=usr(1536)

      Were you watching it under 60Hz lighting?  If so, that may explain the flicker.

    2. zetastrike

      zetastrike

      Yeah, I'm in the US.  

    3. _The Doctor__

      _The Doctor__

      72 hz would help us all out so very much, let's change the power grids! hehehehehehe :) !!!

  21. I'm wanting to thin out my collection. Here's what I've got Atari 2600 heavy sixer (refurbished by Osgeld) - $150 Atari XL with 64K and composite mod - $150 Atari 2600 Jr (no PSU included) - $60 AV Famicom - $120 Everdrive N8 Original - $75 2600 Uno Cart - $40 Pac Man Arcade Cart - $30 Phantasy Star IV (authentic, still saves) - $50 I'm in North Carolina USA and will only ship within the continental USA.
  22. I always got the impression that the European consumer was ok with dropping a bigger check on the computer itself (vs a console) because the software and games were cheaper than carts, or often free. One of the arguments that gets cited in favor of the micros is that with computers you could do things besides play games, yet whenever I ask someone from the UK if they did anything with their Spectrum/C64/Amiga/ST/etc aside from play games the response is "well, no..." or "deluxe paint". Were the 8/16 bit micros more of a Trojan horse to get video games into the house, easier to sell to parents than a dedicated video game?
  23. I'm looking for an Intellivision console in decent to good condition. The original model or system III would be preferable. I had one years ago and would like to own one again. I'm located in Durham, NC and have Paypal and Venmo.
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