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nipsen
11/27/09

In reply to Q-Games' Reflect Missile Coming To DSiWare
"which sounds potentially fascinating."

...*cough*. What?
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D-K
11/27/09

In reply to Q-Games' Reflect Missile Coming To DSiWare
How comet doesn't look that exciting..? Seeing as it's PJ, the sales will probably skyrocket.. Still seems like a bit of a giant leap from it's usual style, though.

Maybe it has to do something with those blank backgrounds, void of any art..

We'll just see at launch..
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Friedhamster
11/27/09

In reply to Q-Games' Reflect Missile Coming To DSiWare
Boy those pixelated missiles sure are small. Oh my old eyes can't see in my late age.

Oh! Good thing I have a DSi XL that's the size of a netbook! I can see clearly now.

That actually does sound interesting though, brick breaking games are alright, maybe adding in some missiles will give the genre a kick in the pants?
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JoBo
11/27/09

@Friedhamster: Uh....i think those DOTS are guides for the missles while those BIG things...are the missles. If you can't see that then you don't even deserve an Dual Screen Lite i Extra Large.
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Friedhamster
11/27/09

@JoBo: It was a crummy joke.
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NeVeRMoRe666
11/27/09

In reply to Your Black Friday Reference Guide To Game Shopping
Your Black Friday Guide to Shopping

1. Go for electronic goods first.
2. Avoid being trampled.
3. Avoid bringing children along. They have small hands.
3. Utilize the "drop-kick" when necessary.
4. Take no prisoners.
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Kobun
11/27/09

In reply to Your Black Friday Reference Guide To Game Shopping
I would have loved to play that sit down cabinet when I was a kid. I only had the stand up machine available at my grocery store arcade.
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Portalgamer19
11/27/09

@Kobun: Strangely I still have the access to go down to my local Casino and play racing games and a wide variety of games for me to stand up. Then of course, there's the midway games (and not the company).
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Kobun
11/28/09

@Portalgamer19: My local casinos don't have arcades, at least any that I'm aware. That's possibly because they're all standalone casinos with no room and board making them an unlikely family outing, at least enough to consider having an arcade. The ones in Biloxi were built with hotels, and I know one of them at least used to have an arcade. Maybe when I'm bored one day I'll make the drive to check it out.
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Weirdwolf Hates Hospitals!
11/27/09

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AWW! The lucky little so and so, I would love one of the sit down Star Wars cabinets, I loved playing that game.
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High Speed Indeed
11/24/09

In reply to Tearing The DSi LL To Pieces
What is the point of these posts? Maybe it's supposed to be educational for electronics buffs, but it seems like a pointless waste otherwise.
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pokerkick
11/25/09

@High Speed Indeed: atheros chipsets allow for wifi injection, good for homebrew applications and developers who would look forward to such info
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High Speed Indeed
11/25/09

@pokerkick: OK, that I can understand. I was concerned it was done primarily for some morbid fascination.
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(Starman) Starman
11/23/09

In reply to Tearing The DSi LL To Pieces
I cry solemnly in peace knowing that an electronic brethren has sacrificed herself for the common good and knowledge of the scholared fanboys...
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Eternalbl
11/24/09

@(Starman) Starman: Unless I'm some kind of freak of nature, the person doing this can probably take something apart and then put it back together without extra screws and still working...
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(Starman) Starman
11/24/09

@Eternalbl: Oooh, so now it's gonna become a Frankenhandheld?

I mean it's already got the green paint on it...
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Michael Dukakis
11/23/09

In reply to Tearing The DSi LL To Pieces
Disembowelment is never cool man...
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Trygle12... NOW IN HD!
11/23/09

@Michael Dukakis: ...I predict an Ironic disemvowelment.

Whther it be mine or yours. It needs to be done.
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(Starman) Starman
11/23/09

@Trygle12... NOW IN HD!: Wt wht?
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Paradox me
11/23/09

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There's just something about exposed hardware...
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(Starman) Starman
11/23/09

@Paradox me: Helvetica!!

Schwing!
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Ackers thanks Brian Ashcraft
11/23/09

In reply to What Games You Should Give and Get For the Holidays
I'm getting Assassins creed 2 for christmas, not any earlier, no way - not getting it early or even thinking about playing it before christmas.... O_o halp.
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Cookie
11/23/09

In reply to What Games You Should Give and Get For the Holidays
Games make such good gifts but are too expensive to give. For me at least.

Then again, my friend and I give each other gifts that cost use exactly $0 dollars each year. She gave me a "fine" shampoo sample last year.
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mrantimatter
11/23/09

In reply to What Games You Should Give and Get For the Holidays
If your a ps3 owner and you don't have Uncharted, your missing out on one hell of a game.

Ratchet and Clank is a great platformer, something the ps3 needs more of.

Dragon age is a brutal RPG, not for the faint.
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captain kiwi
11/23/09

@mrantimatter: dragon age is indeed killer. but man do i love it.

i've gotten all of this year's blockbusters with my own money. i would actually be ecstatic if someone bought me a small bundle of older games, ones i haven't tried, like dead rising, indigo prophecy, beyond good & evil, etc., since all those games together could probably add up to a single fully priced game. i was thinking of doing something along those lines for my brother. just a matter of finding which games and for how much i suppose..
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Shiryu
11/23/09

In reply to The Nintendo Download: Bits, Trips, Karts, And Blobs
Sure took Nintendo a long time to emulate the DSP chip on their VC software... 3 years! Makes me think they might have just requested help from the emulation scene. Still, nice to see this and Pilotwings hitting the SNES VC.
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cjlopez
11/23/09

@Shiryu: its been in the jap and eu wiishop since a while

wonder why it took so long over here, hell there's even a couple of injected wads with this game while longer than their official releases
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Shiryu
11/24/09

@cjlopez: ZSNES was the first emulator to achieve DSP emulation, this was like 8 years ago or something... Im old, because I remember being there...
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cjlopez
11/24/09

@Shiryu: sorry dude, i'm older. Zsnes achieved DSP emulation in 1997. Thats when i started playing roms on my old 486 and mario kart was one of my first games.

Though i first tried snes9x, but when i found znes, i never looked back to it!!!

Man, now i feel old, xDDDDDD
#speakup
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Shiryu
11/24/09

1997 was when I got Internet at home, 1996 was the first time I got ZSNES, was version 0.300, the first one with correct transparencies emulation. FF6 only looked good on that, SNES9x came much later with them, mostly colabs between authors of ZSNES to implement the coDe. the DSP code for Mario Kart was also ported from ZSNES to SNES9x. Good times... now BSNES rules supreme. I am indeed old for remebering all of this. #speakup
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cjlopez
11/24/09

@Shiryu: dam, beat me to it. i got internet till 1997, but i began emulation in 1996, with gb97. I was working as an apprentice of a computer technical on a goberment department, and in one of the pc's i gave support (just running a antivirus program) i found this folder with gameboy as a name, was pretty curious and checked, then i saw this files, zelda.gb, kirby.gb, mario.gb, kof96.gb and i was like, what is this, decided to copy the whole thing to a 31/2 1.44mb floppy disk and brought to my house. found the readme text file and i was mind blowed by what i found!!!!

later in 97 i got internet in my house and the first thing i looked for was "snes roms" on altavista. and that how it all started, xDDDDDDD

#speakup
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Shiryu
11/24/09

@cjlopez: Good times... I don't think its piracy at all, but of course this is questionable. The fact was that even if I was in pure bliss with my PSX, the truth is that being a gamer in Europe, or even worse, in Portugal meant that I knew all about those amazing SNES games out in the States and Japan that never saw the light of day in Europe. Playing from one end to the other of "Final Fantasy VI" and "Chrono Trigger" were priorities. Truly, we were really bady served over here in Europe in those times... I had my revenge, then. =)
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excel_excel
11/23/09

In reply to What Games You Should Give and Get For the Holidays
I've already got SMB Wii. Thats all I need! And Dragon Age.....and more. MORE
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