Awesome stuff you've just bought (+pics please)

[undamned]

Just got this awesome package yesterday ...

i was just expecting the pcb and got a complete kit i don't even know where the big mr driller sticker is supposed to go and got 2 marquees not just one just complete awesomeness

If that's a Mr. Driller 2 art set, it all assembles and sits atop your cab. Mine is
-ud

[SA-DaleCooper]

Just got this awesome package yesterday ...

i was just expecting the pcb and got a complete kit i don't even know where the big mr driller sticker is supposed to go and got 2 marquees not just one just complete awesomeness

If that's a Mr. Driller 2 art set, it all assembles and sits atop your cab. Mine is
-ud

Oh i get it now, that's why there's two marquees then right? do you happen to have a picture by any chance? i just don't want to fuck it up

[Obiwanshinobi]

Talk about pointing finger.



Hot 8ing on Capcom action goes on.
The Castlevania is Circle of the Moon, released as "Castlevania" in Europe. Alas, its battery seems to be out of juice. Which is the worst of it, really. Even 30 fps in the Ghost Squad port rubs me the wrong way only during cutscenes (all skippable, thankfully, in what already is a short game, so gutsy move for this time and age). Though the impression remains that if it was ported in the PS2 Sega Ages period, it would be 60 fps. Perhaps at the price of lowered textures resolution, but it already looks like a Dreamcast game with a hint of DirectX 8 glow here and there (nothing PS2 couldn't have pulled off).
At least doesn't shimmer as badly as OutRun 2006 in 640i on the PS2 (outsourced as well). Both outsourced ports are, above all, playable (and the Ghost Squad cover actually says ).
A game of mandom, then.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

What's cool about that Konami produced Gradius Advance (aka Gradius Galaxies in the USA) GBA cart, it runs at a silky smooth 60fps. Looks gorgeous on a low-res arcade monitor with a GC console + GB player & a modded GC JPN D-Terminal cable to output in 480p via VGA with an Ultracade UVc setup. Easy as pie.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Cagar]

Gunpowder tea is absolutely terrible.
It LITERALLY smells and tastes like cigarette. Yuckh..

The best of these ones are mint and oolong.

Nice Cagar I love tea, try Rhubarb with a flavor of cream, it's one of my favorite. Also Japanese cherry tea.

Thanks, i'll try those!

[ryu]

^gunpowder?

[CIT]

Gunpowder is a type of green tea or Oolong tea where the leaves are steamed and rolled up before being dried. That way the leaves preserve more flavor, and these teas tend to have a stronger, "earthier" flavor.

I'm more interested in the Milky Oolong. Have never tried it before.

[Udderdude]

No pics yet, but I just got a BenQ gaming monitor .. with SDOJ and the smoothing turned off, it's made it actually playable .. very responsive now .. the game practically requires it O_O

http://www.kaldata.com/img/image-5C7C_50F589EA.jpg

[Jockel]

Well fuck me sideways, I just bought a 40 year old bike.

It's fast as hell.

[moh]

fuck me sideways

well, if you really insist

[z0mbie90]

Nice Cagar I love tea, try Rhubarb with a flavor of cream, it's one of my favorite. Also Japanese cherry tea.

[brentsg]

No pics yet, but I just got a BenQ gaming monitor .. with SDOJ and the smoothing turned off, it's made it actually playable .. very responsive now .. the game practically requires it O_O

http://www.kaldata.com/img/image-5C7C_50F589EA.jpg

I play the Cave ports on a gaming monitor with a very fast panel and little latency. I wonder if that's why I haven't been bothered with the lag.

On the computer gaming side it accepts 120Hz.

[Raytrace]

That game is great fun (Ghost Squad - I've never played the other).

[shmuppyLove]

Cheers! Enjoyed my Pink Bullets on the deck yesterday



Also wow my phone takes god-awful outdoor photos ... wtf

[AntiFritz]

Cheers! Enjoyed my Pink Bullets on the deck yesterday

image

Also wow my phone takes god-awful outdoor photos ... wtf

That's what you call awful?

[null1024]

Cheers! Enjoyed my Pink Bullets on the deck yesterday

image

Also wow my phone takes god-awful outdoor photos ... wtf

That's what you call awful?

Yeah, seriously. That's a billion times better than my phone.

[shmuppyLove]

That's what you call awful?

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

I have a Canon SD1400IS that is infinitely better, but of course my phone is always in my pocket so it gets used more often.

[KBZ]

Since my old Nishiki was stolen, was time for a little upgrade.




Now that Planetring is back online, I decided to give it a go.



And the 25th anniversary Phantasy Star visual chronical

[dingsbums]

The stuff of the last months




The PCB is Virtua Fighter 2

[Obiwanshinobi]

That game is great fun (Ghost Squad - I've never played the other).

Gotta wonder about those PEGI ratings. Neither game seems to display red blood (that I recall seeing) and Zack's death animations are way more graphic. Not the American brand of cartoony violence.
Ghost Squad is the first Wii game that makes me wanna play it with a gun-shaped Wiimote holder. Not for the immersion as much as for those bonus points. Though I believe it would feel more "authentic" than playing games of mounted gun with recoil origins on the Wii.
Any cheap peripherals one can recommend? Something that works just fine in Ghost Squad. I don't feel like paying much for stuff that certainly isn't expensive to produce.



One of those "kids on the run" games it seems. I don't dare to hope it to be as good as Ico, BoFV: Dragon Quarter or Crimson Tears, but Pandora's Tower still attracts me a bit stronger than The Last Story at this point.

[shmuppyLove]

Any cheap peripherals one can recommend? Something that works just fine in Ghost Squad. I don't feel like paying much for stuff that certainly isn't expensive to produce.

DealeXtreme or eBay should be able to sort you out. There are an abundance of them.

http://dx.com/p/light-gun-controller-for-wii-19570

As just one example.

[Ed Oscuro]

Everybody seems to have found a non-sunfaded Gun-Dec...except me

It's a brave fellow who tackles Final Mission on Famicom. It seems like it's very strict with upgrades and fire rate, as opposed to the NES versions.

[Vexorg]

The latest addition to my growing Disney art collection. This one is called "Donald's Better Self" by Allison Lefcort, and is based off a 1938 cartoon of the same name. I should probably know better than to be buying art off cruise ships, but this one was just too cool to pass up.

[Domino]

First smartphone ever:



LG Motion 4G with MetroPCS. I don't even know what I can really do with it. To be honest I'm only using this as a phone, Chrome, texting device.

But with smartphones you can have cool lock screens like this:



And three main screens just to see the plane from Fire Shark:



When I swipe it part of the background moves so you can see part of the artwork.

[Dragoforce]

Got some random stuff during our last visit to the US:



Really surprised that Kinokuniya in LA had a big shelf of Doujinstuff and games for sale. Got the two Touhou games from there.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Sky Odyssey is the awesome. You'd better complete all turorial missions first. Also, press the analogue button on controller every time you boot the game.

[Dragoforce]

I've actually finished it a couple of times before in the past, I just wanted to switch my pal copy for the NA. Great game, a real underrated gem.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Well, early PS2 PAL games were notoriously unoptimised, so I would search for NTSC replacement as well.

[CHI]

Not in the best of shape but at least it's complete... NC marquee get

[jonny5]

Great stuff CHI! Glad it made it back across the pond no worse for wear. See, the broken bits aren't even that noticeable from a distance.