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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG-16 arcade joystick: Durability? Like it? Use it?]

To me the TurboStick has 2 issues:
1) it's too light. it's way too easy to tip the thing over during intense bomberman sessions or such like.
2) it's too big. I know they were trying to be bigger than the NES Advantage, but it doesn't make sense when it weighs that little. it might have been more acceptable if it were the same weight, but smaller (like the Atari joysticks.)

by the time it came around, though, I think most Americans preferred gamepads anyway. Europeans, though...

[Off-Topic / Re: Monster In My Pocket, I think?]

does it have numbers on the back? or maybe feet. I remember Monster in my Pocket... 'figures' having numbers on them somewhere. it was how many points they were worth.

edit:  read, then post.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: PC-FX in March 1995 review book]

-The Jaguar is cast in a shockingly positive light. "Genius engineers", "Cool architecture" "Hardcore 'American' games." 2000 systems sold in Japan. There's a long article about 3D shooters, and much time is spent talking about Alien vs. Predator.

Frikkin' oobaeews.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Alpha Trading Co. Jamma Arcade Board]

I find it odd that the price of a thing that Koreans are selling to British is in USD. Otherwise awesome 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: RAU-30 on other PCE / TG systems]

  love the pictures!

  hate the forum layout.

On a related note:

Love it!

really? tapatalk tells me there are no forums about turbografx, pc engine or pc fx. How did you add it?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

Quadruple post!

Bruh, do you even enter key?

I have a lot of posting to catch up on :p

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Just a tiny weird thing about NEC's relatively open platform]

There are lots of great Sega games and lots of great ports of them for PC Engine, like Cotton, Bikkuriman World, Monster Lair, Dragon's Curse, Dynastic Hero, Afterburner, Puyo Puyo, Fantasy Zone, Bonanza Bros, Columns and Outrun (popular opinion).

It's hard to say the wonderboy, cotton, and puyo puyo games are sega, since they're not originally sega developed! westone and compile had close relationships with sega, but they're not sega...

There's no such thing as real Sega or real Nintendo. Going into the 16-bit generation, publishers tried to keep dev team members from even using their real names in game credits. Publishers always contracted various dev teams to make their games. It wasn't until the 32-bit and the generation after that which major publishers like Sega let teams advertise who they are. Even then, many dev teams like Tose never received any credit at all for much of their work.

Ikegami to made Donkey Kong, Congo Bongo, Zaxxon and Popeye. Are they not real Nintendo and Sega games?

Ahh Ikegami, the company that the biased editors at wikipedia will never acknowledge. Up until a year or two it was listed on the donkey kong wikipedia page as a "fringe theory", and nowadays is "some sources claim", besides all Donkey Kong mask roms having this data:

"TEL.TOKYO-JAPAN 044(244)2151 EXTENTION 304 SYSTEM DESIGN IKEGAMI CO. LIM."

fringe theory guys

Yup. Wikipedia has serious issues. Did you know it overstates Atari jaguar sales by almost twice? Their article used to link to a tax document that stated they sold something like 135,000 jags, and the rest were liquidated. that document went back behind a paywall, and jag fanboys started pretending the liquidated units were 'sold'.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

I don't have that specific turbo-less pad.

I have two other pads that lack turbo, though - the IllustBooster and the pachinko controller.  Do they count?  Both were bought from forum peeps. 

sure. :p

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

I got two, but only one is actually a turbo-less controller.  One came with a boxed white PC Engine system I bought years ago.  The other one, I'm not sure where I got it from but I ended up turbo modding it recently.  It's now my go to controller since it was hardly used and not all worn out. 

kewl!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

The PC Engine didn't have an RF out jack, just molded plastic of the shell in its place. So the PCE itself couldn't be played on its own, even if you had a compatible power supply.

weird. IIRC, can't you supply it power through the expansion bus?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

I actively seek them out and convert them to MSX/X68000 pads

Why?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Do you own a turbo-less PCE pad?]

speaks for itself. If you do, how did you acquire it?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: 50 Great PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Games You Should Play ‪]

good stuff!

[Off-Topic / Re: dumb drama question.]

lé guy!

le yes?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / How to impress?]

You have some Snerd or Genesissy friends over. They comment on your 'weird' TurboGrafx. Since everyone knows you never get a second chance to make a first impression, you only get one chance to impress them with Turbo Power.

What game do you pop in?

[Off-Topic / dumb drama question.]

Is Sarumaru, AKA DJ Medina, THAT Dave Medina? from New Jersey, that had fights with Sini all the time? Was he trolling all that time?

or am I creating resemblances where they don't exist?

[Off-Topic / Re: The Anime Thread: Finding Good Anime]

gave up the anamoo several years ago so I could afford my crack habit. What's good lately?

[Off-Topic / Re: AWOL Members]

Yeah, I'm in the FB obey group. it's fun. I get why people don't like FB, and I would abandon it like hot shit on a summer day if only everyone else I know would do it at the same time. But they don't, the jerks. Google+ seemed like it might be the thing to do it for a minute, but that hope has faded.

Is there a list of turbob homebrew somewhere for me to check out? I vaguely remember something about a pyramid.

[Off-Topic / Re: AWOL Members]

why are people leaving? I never thought Tats would leave!

anywho, what's been happening in the 4+ years I've been gone?

[Off-Topic / Re: AWOL Members]

Woot, I'm back!

[Off-Topic / Re: Sini passed away]

Wow. That sucks.

[Feedback / Re: New Forum Design - unused space, hard to read]

I kind of like the new design. I could do without the narrowness, though.

[Off-Topic / Re: Nintendo Power Shuts Down Afther 24 Years]

who cares, really.

I shouldn't, but I do. It's like hearing a former friend you got into a fight with died. Any chance of reconciliation is gone now.

Nintendo Power went downhill around N64, and never really recovered.

IMHO, it went downhill well before that, during the SNES era. At least, that's when I stopped subscribing.

[Feedback / Re: Shout box?]

Okay, so another forum I belong to recently set up a shoutbox. Can anyone clue me in on how the shoutbox was used to breach security, so I can warn them?

[General Gaming / Re: Recommend me an arcade stick for the *Original XBOX*]

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

I don't understand the love for the SNES version. Sure, I played the fuck out of it back in the day, but compared to the other 16 bit versions it's clunky and slow. It even sounds bad compared to other Capcom SNES games.

Funny this topic came up, because today Street Fighter 2 is 25 years old. Get out your walkers.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Bad Influence! UK Kids TV featuring Magical Chase]

Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident.

I don't blame him. Anyone in their right mind would be pissed, after using the controller for 3 armed people for the first time. ;)

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

I also bought Night Trap at full retail price when it came out. I remember playing through it with my dad.

First of all, I'm sorry. ;)
Second, how did your dad react to the controversy about it later, given that he played this game with his kid?

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

KURATAS.

Awesome.

And the "SMILE SHOT" feature is hilarious (and, dare I say, a scathing social commentary). Bravo.

he's trying to kill us all! RUN!

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

KURATAS.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: chuck NO-RICE karate level 3]

Cool!

[Off-Topic / Re: TIPS AT RESTAURANTS]

Almost always. If the waitstaff has really wronged me or someone in my party, however, I'm not above not leaving one.

I also don't tip in situations where I think it's baloney to do so (fast food or coffeshop that just sticks a tip jar on the counter but gives the same service as any other fast food or coffeshop.)

[Fighting Street / Re: Should I rename the following threads title?]

Surely, the brain that brought us 'where the peppler grows', 'thierry stinkt', and 'I DO NOT KNOW HUMAN', can come up with something better than 'faggot'. Try harder Tats

[Off-Topic / Re: PCEFX Hall of Shame]

kazam.gr/online/modules/smileys/packs/emoticons/rock.gif

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER-ER-ER-ER

[General Gaming / (XBLA) Bomberman Live vs. Bomberman Live: Battlefest]

I have both games for my 360. However, I've never managed to get into an online game on Battlefest; everyone plays the older game instead. Anyone know what's up with that?

[Off-Topic / Re: some dude in denver opens fire at a Batman premier]

Time to install alarms at all emergency exits so when jackasses open them, alarms go off. 

This is the case in almost every place I've ever seen with fire exits. Is it typical for movie theaters not to do this? or did they just get left off (which sometimes happens)?

[General Gaming / Re: Majesco Game Gear]

I remember seeing gamegears being sold in TRU after 2000 - but assumed that they were leftovers from back in the day.

I'm sure they were very successfull, since the Gameboy had just caught up to it technology wise

[Off-Topic / Re: shit Gaijin never say]

3 tales of the toilet!

First time I encountered a bidet was in Spain. I had to pee REAL bad and entered the bathroom; the lid was down so I started peeing in the convenient urinal next to it. I then saw the sink-like handles on the bidet and panicked. I did not pee everywhere, but I did leave that bathroom looking rather sheepish.

Second tale of the toilet was in Japan. Was staying with my host family and used the bathroom. I saw a bunch of buttons on the wall next to me, and being a compulsive button pusher, I threw caution to the wind and pushed the big red one. SURPRISE ASS-SPRAY! I figure it's on a timer and wait for it to finish. and wait. and wait... I start pushing other buttons, labeled in moon language, to no avail. Eventually, I get the darn thing to stop. My ass was so clean it squeaked.

Finally, my only encounter with squat toilets in Japan went surprisingly well, though fortunately all I had to do was #1. However, I tried to do it like a urinal and stood full upright. There was splashing. to avoid dirtying myself I moved my legs apart until I looked like an inverted Y. Seemed to work.

[Off-Topic / Re: Ouya game console?]

Tegra3 promo video. Nothing mind blowing, but a little more involved than Angry Birds.

[Off-Topic / Re: Nintega: still crazy after all these years (now with added Nazis!)]

I got as far as 'leprechauns' before I had to shut it off.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo cab!]

awesome find!

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

dude, that's a secret of mana cart. grab that sucker!

[Off-Topic / Re: How many of your speak / read Japanese]

Nope!

Why not?

[General Gaming / Re: The Guardian Legend]

One of my favorites back in the day. I don't remember ever reading about it (even though I read every issue of Nintendo Power religiously) but got it from a neighbor's garage sale in the very early 90s. Best 5 bucks ever spent on a videogame.

it was butt-kickingly hard, though. Never did beat it fairly (but did manage with a game genie.)

[Off-Topic / Re: Some Vintage BMWs (dedicated to BlueBMW :) ) 56k Alert!!]

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it's the Urkel car!

[Off-Topic / Re: Midwest Gaming Classic 2013]

I should be able to go this year. If my car doesn't break down again. 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Have you guys seen this? Price Charting]

As others have said, this is less than completely accurate - the figures on Dynastic Hero were particularly strange - but this could be cool with some more work

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

 

[Off-Topic / Re: D&D Next Playtesting Open Beta]

Paizo is simply siphoning off the disaffected players, those who aren't staying with 3.x, anyway.

Both 3.0 and 3.5 had significant issues that Pathfinder nicely addressed. Grappling, ferinstance, was seriously broken in 3.5; CMB and CMD solved that problem nicely.

[General Gaming / Re: sega game gear help]

did you mess with the contrast dial at all? I've seen people mistake it for the volume control and declare it non-working.