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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Dynoforce? Unfinished PCE shmup?]

Thread on it from a few years back.

[Off-Topic / Re: PRGE 2017]

I'll be there! We should grab a burger or something. PM me and we can work out meeting up again. 

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: RARE? PCE/TG-16 JAMMA Conversion Kit]

The more I look at the pictures the more this looks like it was pulled from a cabinet similar to the one another member here has.  If I remember right (it's been awhile) his had a lot of those molex/quick disconnect connectors and that go to each section (monitor, power, controls, coin mech, etc) and they weren't all off a unified JAMMA connection. 

A little info on where/how you found it would be nice to know before you throw it up on ebay.  Like NecroPhile said I think there is some value, but your market is real small considering it is untested as well.

Yeah, if you are willing to hang on to it for a couple weeks, I'd love to do some research and see if it fits in the cab. I won't pay tons for it, but maybe we can work something out. I'm pretty busy for the next couple weeks though.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: HUVideo Why didn't this get used WAY more often?]

Curious, has the homebrewn scene cracked huvideo? It would be interesting to see what else could be used with it and what limitations you could do with it. It would be rather humorous to see like an early Turbo/PCE commercial being played on the platform. It also would be even better to see Guilver Boy get a proper fan translation some day.

Tom had a HuVideo demo with Bubblegum Crisis videos, IIRC.

[Off-Topic / Re: Donald Trump Thread aka End of Days]

I just watched the conference at your suggestion, I did not see anything better or worse than I've seen from politicians in the 20 years I've been old enough to follow.  Which points of the video were standout problems in your opinion? 

I know this wasn't directed at me, but calling news "very fake news", repeating bullshit ("won in a landslide!"), and bragging about how awesome he is when in reality he hasn't done much of anything yet were my problems with it. Basically he acted like a douche, and I get it. That's his personality and some people love him for it. It irritates the shit out of me, and again, I get it. Some people love the fact that he pisses off people.

He's only been in office for less than a month. I don't think the sky is falling and I don't think he'll end all of humanity. Frankly he hasn't actually done anything terrible yet aside from acting like a jackass. I'm hopeful that he'll do a great job. I just wish he'd act like an adult.

The irony with this thread and with all similar conversations on all sides is that we are primarily a centrist country, we just let the loud voices on both sides overpower the sensible centrists.

I'm with you here. It gets old seeing meme after meme, slogan after slogan shouted at me about "god emperor trump"  just as much as it gets old being told that Trump is the worst thing that's ever happened and all his supporters are racist misogynists who want to end anything that isn't white and male.

[Off-Topic / Re: Donald Trump Thread aka End of Days]

Alright Trump supporters, I'm gonna need you to watch today's press conference (or whatever the hell that was supposed to be) and take your best shot at convincing me he's not a fucking lunatic. You don't even need to defend the last week of insanity. Just today's press conference.

The floor is yours.

Whelp, not a Trump fan, seriously sick of talk about Trump and politics in general, but I've read enough from Trump fans online that I think I can take a crack at this.

"LOL More winning!! He's trolling the media! No one has ever had the balls that Trump does! Best president in history!! #MAGADRAINTHESWAMPPRAISEKEKSORRYYOURGALLOSTCUCKBETAFAKENEWS"

[Off-Topic / Re: Donald Trump Thread aka End of Days]

Misogyny is not the fear of women; it's the hatred of women. The fear of women is called gynophobia.

All hate comes from fear.

Ehh, I wouldn't say I fear leaf blowers.

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

Started at 211. Finished at 209.6. Damn, I really lost focus. I did hit a low of 203.4 in late August. Oh well.

Congrats to everyone who managed to stick with it!

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

Convention sickness. Joe gave it to me last year, trying to figure out who gave it to me this year.

LG G4 boot loop. I was happily browsing the web in bed this morning when it suddenly rebooted. It's been stuck on the LG start screen since. Safe mode doesn't work, clearing the cache doesn't work and factory reset doesn't work. Apparently this is a hardware issue. I feel so helpless without my phone. 

Can you take the battery out? I have had to do that before with my old Droid Razr Maxx.

Ha! I'm sick too, which I'm blaming on the convention.

Yeah, I tried taking out the battery a bunch of times, no luck.

I have the old G2 and was considering "upgrading" to the G4 until I heard about the boot loop problem for the early batch.  Hopefully you can get yours easily repaired/replaced through warranty.  That sucks...I definitely know the helpless feeling of not having a phone. 

I really liked the phone prior to this. I just went to the Verizon store, it's covered under warranty so that's good news. They're overnighting me a new phone, so I just have to endure a day without phone.

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

LG G4 boot loop. I was happily browsing the web in bed this morning when it suddenly rebooted. It's been stuck on the LG start screen since. Safe mode doesn't work, clearing the cache doesn't work and factory reset doesn't work. Apparently this is a hardware issue. I feel so helpless without my phone. 

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

I'm buying my ticket and will be around a while at least for today.



EDIT:

As a huge PCE fan with a couple games I've worked on being demoed, I walked away with a stack of Intellivision and Neo Geo games.

Sarumaru turned out to be as cool as people say, which was honestly a relief. Tried out Henshin Engine for the first time and it's much more satisfying than it appears in videos. The new miniboss in the latest stage was a nice surprise.

Wish I could have met up with you. Sadler and myself hung out by that booth for a good hour or two on Saturday chit chatting. Once again, we missed Aaron lol but at least I got the opportunity to meet with a few folks here. It was so unbelievable how many the vendors were this year in comparison to last year. I got a few pictures I can post of my fat arse and the Oregon Trail booth and of course kicking ass in RC Proam until some schmuck (no relation) beat out my top score by literally a few hundred points. Overall, a lot of fun and got a chance to meet with a few other youtube guys (8-bit guy, The gaming historian and Ben Heck) and will definitely make a trip there next year if my new job permits it.

Yeah, it was awesome getting to meet you guys! I *think* I saw Black Tiger at sarus booth Saturday and Sunday, but he seemed pretty engrossed in the game and I didn't introduce myself. I picked up some boxes from syphic, and a few misc other games. I also cornered Bob Mackey in a bar and drunkenly demanded more tg16 episodes. He was super cool and chatted with me and my buddy for an hour or so. Anyway, I had a great time! Hope to do it again next year!

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

Just saw this:
http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/schedule.php#panels
5:00 on Saturday, the Nintendo Playstation with Ben Heck. Nerdgasm!

That should be super cool! Also, I didn't realize there was a cosplay contest. Look for me as Nurse Nancy!

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

Hell no.

C'mon man, I'm just talking about lunch. I swear I won't use my power as a star to imply consent for any puss grabbing again.

Edit: wtf happened to my avatar?! God, I don't have any idea where the original is anymore. 

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

Ha! Awesome man, looking forward to it.

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

nope

Your words wound me.

[Off-Topic / Re: Portland Retro Gaming Convention 2016]

I'll be there! You guys that are going want to meet up for lunch or something?

[Off-Topic / Re: Donald Trump Thread aka End of Days]

I can't stand Trump and won't be voting for him, but I ran across this Cracked article on Trump supporters and I thought it made a lot of good points. Which is surprising given the usual nature of Cracked articles.

[Feedback / Re: Broke a nail deleting 3 emails, I'm angry! Who's responsible for this injustice?]

People call me out, I call them out. You obviously have a problem with that yourself. It doesn't work one way as much as you would like it to!

It's not always necessary to do so though. 

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Henshin Engine Game for TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarumaru/henshin-engine-the-game-pc-engine-tg-16-pc-steam

420 backers
$28,270
49 hours to go

Thanks everyone!

Make that 421 backers.

[Off-Topic / Re: That TV Series You're Watching]

I plowed through 10 seasons of the X Files (and both movies) and the one season of The Lone Gunmen earlier this year and I've been looking for something to fill the void. Several years ago I started watching Fringe which certainly had an X Files feel to it. Unfortunately Fringe season 1 is pretty rough. A buddy of mine has been telling me for years that Fringe really gets awesome and just stick with it, but I gave up near the beginning of season 2. I thought I knew what the big reveal was and it just didn't live up to the hype for me. Still, in my desperation, I had to watch something, so I figured I'd give Fringe another go.

HOLY. SHIT.

My buddy wasn't joking, this show gets damn awesome and I had quit just before it got awesome. The episode "Peter" in season 2 (episode 16) is where it gets amazing. I mean, there are decent episodes before this, but after this it's just great. Is it as good as the X Files? Well... probably not, but the mythology of Fringe is much better than that of the X Files. So that's what I'm watching now, I'm about midway through season 3.

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

Same here I'm fine with total or % either way.

My weight curve took a turn upwards after a few weeks of allowing beer to creep back into my diet, along with too many mexican food meals Calories in have outweighed calories out, and I am a couple lbs back up (238 as of last weigh in this morning:( )

I made the same mistake. I need to get back on track. I ordered myself a rowing machine which I must not let turn into an incredibly expensive piece of furniture.

[Off-Topic / Re: Has summer started for you?]

That's a lovely looking house.

Thanks! It's soon to be painted, so those hail marks on the paint should be gone soon.

Hope it goes quickly for ya!  This is my second roof in as many years as well so I'm a bit peeved about having to pay the deductible again.  Here's my skylight :O

Yikes! Which storm was that? Did you lose any windows? I was 100% sure I was going to have busted windows and skylights from the storm that hit at the beginning of June up here, but by some miracle nothing shattered. I'd hate to have to crawl up on the roof after that and tarp that hole!

[Off-Topic / Re: Has summer started for you?]

Snow on the summit of Pikes Peak here...  Winter is coming!

I'm not ready for this.   My roof is still in shambles from the hailstorm and I need a new skylight 

My roof in is similar condition, though after 3 months the contractors finally started working on it today.



I'm definitely ready for fall though!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: $200 Magical Chase on eBay - what a deal lol]

Well I guess I should say it's not necessarily the hobby that's getting bad (except in terms of higher prices) but more the way that many newer folks in the community are acting.  To me it's always about getting to play/replay fun games when I can.  The goal is not always collecting, but having a library of titles that I want to play and enjoy. 

Obviously I could just use CDRs and Everdrives for the whole thing and never need to "collect" anything but I suppose there's a fun aspect to being able to look through what I've got and decide on what to play for the evening and go from there instead of just scrolling through a ROM list.  I can't say I'm not a collector (or collectard) as well either, who else out there has a complete Pico collection.  But seeing the "professional collector" makes me envision a profiteer with no desire to even enjoy the games, just collect them and put them on shelves. 

Also, picture from FB
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Yeah, fair enough. As you know, I'm all about having original stuff. I love fondling boxes, reading manuals, etc. I guess I mostly feel that way about TG16 stuff though, so I'm not too upset if I'll never afford all the SNES (or whatever) games I wish I had. I feel like, to me, the larger enjoyment is stuff I listed above. Those Atari games for the TG16 someone posted youtube vids of a few weeks ago far outweighs my inability to find Contra III for a reasonable price.

As for the pic, someone get that man a phone charger quick!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: $200 Magical Chase on eBay - what a deal lol]

Therein lies the key problem with this hobby now.  You really can't sell anything cheap anymore.  If you offer something at a good price there's a good chance someone will flip it.  Too many greedy vultures these days.  It's not a hobby anymore, it's a business.  When I saw someone use the term "Professional Collector" on Facebook I knew the hobby was done.

Lol, I saw that asshat on the Obey group as well. 

I can't remember if I've asked this before, but what is this hobby to you guys? To me it's about playing games I grew up with, learning things I never knew about the systems I grew up with and occasionally kicking it with people who enjoy the same (side note: we should kick it again! ). People spending lots on a repro or anything else, calling themselves a professional collector or whatever just doesn't factor into the equation. I just don't care. Maybe I'd care more if I was on the FB groups. I just want to get all nostalgic and nerd out with folks that actually know what the TG16 is.

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

Thanks Null, your effort and progress is awesome to push me to keep up with it - a lot of hungry (or craving for food I don't need) moments, and quite a few opportunities to have excessive amounts of beer, but I keep thinking "null is so far ahead, must resist"

Keep the pace up man!

Nice job so far everyone!

I have every intention of breaking my beer-free streak on September 2nd. That'll mark 60 days alcohol-free, the 3rd is my birthday and it's a long weekend. I've been dubbing it the Second Coming and have pretty much blocked out several days to sit around drinking beer and playing games. After that weekend though, it's back to the grind until maybe PRGE.

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

I've hit a plateau. I've been roughly 209 lbs for more than a week now. Oh well, I'm going to keep sticking with what I'm doing.

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

I've been sticking with my diet pretty well, and I've been walking 5ish miles a day. Yesterday marked day 30 without beer. I think I lost most of the easy weight already, I'm only down a bit over a pound in the past few days. I've tried to throw in some biking and bodyweight workouts this week, so I'm telling myself the slower rate of weight loss is due to the massive amount of muscle I've put on from doing pushups a couple times this week.

EDIT: I am below 210 for the first time in I don't know how long, at least 3 years. Just barely below 210, but that feels great. Can't wait to see the scale show something below 200!

[Off-Topic / Re: Weight Loss Challenge]

I'm in! Sent my $ and an initial weigh in to Dean.

It's too bad we didn't start last month! Here's my fatness this year-to-date:

[Off-Topic / Re: Fitness]

What start and end dates are you guys thinking?

[Off-Topic / Re: Fitness]

Congrats man! You're killin' it.

I've been stuck at the same weight for months now... actually just redoubled my efforts on Monday, so perfect time to revive this thread.

Anyone else want to make this contest a thing? If not, I'll just send sadler a prize and he and I will trade pics of our rock hard abs and marvel at all the ladies we're getting while everyone else drowns their sorrow in a bag of Cheetos, wishing they were us.

Awesome. I'd be willing to throw in a TG16 or SNES (*gasp*) game or something to the prize pool if we can get some more people. Dan, where you at?!

[Off-Topic / Re: Fitness]

190 is only 10 higher than my goal.

So are you game for participating in a weight loss competition/support group thing? Weekly weigh-in via PM. I'd maintain two progress charts comparing lbs lost and % body mass lost for all participants.

I've given a little more thought to prizes and will probably give away some turbo magazines to the winner(s), and a JO crystal to any participant who finishes with a net loss... assuming anyone wants to participate.

I'd be down for this. Last November I hit my all time fattest: 237.4 lbs. Most of this year I've been fairly steady around 220-225 without really doing anything special. July 5th I started really trying to make an effort again. I gave up all beer and I've been trying to eat at keto as possible the past week or so. I'm probably taking in too much protein and not enough fat, but today I clocked in at 212.6, down from 223.8 on the 5th.  I feel pretty damn amazing.

[Off-Topic / Re: Classic Gaming Quarterly shameless plugging thread...]

Jibba, do you plan on doing any more Let's Reads? The GameFan one was awesome, though I recall you saying it was a lot of work.

Ever listen to the retrogamesquad podcast ? Jibba was a guest on that awhile ago still it's a shame to that podcast will end by the fall.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!

[Off-Topic / Re: Classic Gaming Quarterly shameless plugging thread...]

Yes jibba i'm saving you time for this shameless plug 

Awesome, been looking forward to this since it was mentioned on retro blast! On that note, while I do dig the Vive cast, I hope you guys get back together and do some more retro blast episodes in the future.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: My LIKE NEW Turbo in box is up for sale]

FWIW, I'm still glad NecroPhile is a mod here and I think he generally does a great job. We're all guilty of being assholes sometimes. Except maybe esteban.

iretrogamer, I'm sorry for your loss. I enjoyed the one video of yours I watched and I hope you stick around and participate in discussions here and not just engage in commerce.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: My LIKE NEW Turbo in box is up for sale]

I don't care if iretrogamer brought it up his dad or if this guy is the bane of this boards existence (which I doubt), that is pretty low to say NecroPhile. As a moderator you should hold yourself to a somewhat higher standard

Agreed. That is pretty fucked up...

Cry to someone that cares.  Mods have the same rules to follow as everyone else, and last I checked "always be nice" wasn't in my job description.

You may not care, but I agree mocking someone losing a family member is pretty low.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: BitHead1000 YouTube channel]

On some vehicles you don't even need a tool. On my old Jeep turning the ignition on and off I think 3x in a row would display the error code on the odometer, which you could then Google.

[Off-Topic / Re: What happened to raffles on this forum?]

I had a bad experience with a raffle winner that really soured me on doing raffles. I'll still give shit away from time to time if I notice someone is looking for something I have an extra of.

[General Gaming / Re: Bloodstained E3 Demo]

Ha! Well if this demo is any indication, Bloodstained should end up being better than Mighty No 9 supposedly is. I played through it again last night, kung fu shoes are a weapon, not sure how I missed that! I wonder how many item drops and shards there are in the demo.

Edit: the tunes are awesome! Also the first time I played the demo the screen was scrunched oddly. That seems to be fixed now, it looks really good! Much better than the last 2.5D one. Controls a whole lot better too!

[General Gaming / Bloodstained E3 Demo]

They released a download code for $60+ backers a couple days ago. I just finished playing through it and it's pretty damn awesome. Basically exactly what you'd expect, it felt a lot like the later handheld Castlevanias. Anyone else played it? What the hell are Kung Fu Shoes and how do I equip them?

[Off-Topic / Re: brexit wins ... OMFG!]

I'm just joking, I fully realize it would destroy our economy. I could do without the the Trump's, Clinton's and Feinstein's of the world though.

[Off-Topic / Re: brexit wins ... OMFG!]

Now it's time for California to secede from the United States and become a sovereign nation.

Yes please! Take NY with you.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Demoscene, how much of this fuckery could the PCE do??]

That's the point Adventures of Batman & Robin is close.

Edit: on the Genesis, which I guess doesn't have much to do with the topic.

[Off-Topic / Re: Java stuffs]

Heh, that's pretty creative!

Edit: Because this forum hates double posts.


public String withouEnd2(String str) {
  Map<Boolean,Integer> scalar = new HashMap <Boolean,Integer>();
  scalar.put(true,0);
  scalar.put(false,1);
  int len = str.length();
  int scale = scalar.get(len < 3);
 
  int start = 1 * scale;
  int end = (len -1) * scale;
  return str.substring(start, end);
}

The editor on that page is a bit weird. It doesn't support the diamond operator and it really dislikes static.

[Off-Topic / Re: Java stuffs]

Is this cheating?

public String withouEnd2(String str) {
  int len = str.length();
  int start =Math.max(0,Math.min(1, len - 1));
  int end =Math.max(0, len -1);
  return str.substring(start, end);
}

Edit: first time I've written code on my phone. That's kinda awesome! 

Edit 2: the obvious solution is to abuse exceptions. Please don't abuse exceptions. You could also use a Map or polymorphism.

[Off-Topic / Re: Seattle Retro game stores?]

Yeah, I thought Pink Gorilla was pretty cool too. I also went to Another Castle and they had some TG16/PCE stuff as well. I don't think you'll find great prices at any retro game store, but it's fun to browse.

[Off-Topic / Re: That TV Series your watching]

Made it through the first 8 seasons of The X Files. What an awesome, awesome show. Even the mostly Mulder-free 8th season was damn good. I hear season 9 sucks, but dammit I'm too committed at this point to stop. I am taking a quick break to watch The Lone Gunmen though. I had no idea that the pilot of that show predicted 9/11! 

[Off-Topic / Re: Java stuffs]

My first experience with Java was making a game sponsored by Sun as my senior project in college. I knew C/C++ and some assembly going in to it and I knew that Java ran on a virtual machine and had garbage collection. I was pretty biased against Java, I wanted to be as close to the hardware as possible. Fortunately Sun had been working on JOGL, which allowed us to use shaders to do some effects that were neat at the time (normal mapping, environment mapping, procedural textures on terrain, etc).

After I graduated I got a job working on software that basically amounted to a game editor. I convinced them to let me redo the 2D graphics in it with 3D graphics using JOGL. That code is still in use 10 years later. I'm still at the same place now, still using Java (and some C#). In the years since college I've come to appreciate the ease that Java allows you to do things, but I do think it's significantly behind C#. I guess I'm a bit out of the loop with how features are handled behind the scenes in 1.8, but generics were pretty hacky in Java 1.5 (the type didn't exist at run time). 1.8 added lambda expressions and concurrent programming is a lot easier than it used to be thanks to parallel streams. I still prefer C# to Java, but Java is slowly catching up. I'd rather use Java or C# than C or C++ nowadays.

EDIT: God, I really need to proofread what I write.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Did I buy a fake!? Help!]

It was hard to get a good pic, but here's what my Cosmic Fantasy 2 looks like:

[Off-Topic / Re: Donald Trump Thread aka End of Days]

 

Here's to hoping for a 1 term president, regardless of who wins.