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Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!
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So I have Megaman 1-4 on the Gameboy and just need the best one Megaman 5. Unfortunately it's stupidly expensive. I laughed when I saw it for $80 in the US last year. Unfortunately that's the cheapest I've ever seen it go. But then I can't leave the collection incomplete!
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Threw on the N64 last night and found I had to resort to the PAL N64. The PAL s-video cables give a very dark picture on NTSC machines so need to source a s-video cable before I play it. So I was bound for PAL land so tried a few games out. First was Doom 64... meh. That one didn't last long in the cart slot. Next was Pilotwings 64, a great game utterly ruined by a terrible PAL conversion. It's really appalling stuff with a framerate around 15 FPS. I'll need to get that as a NTSC game. Last was Castlevania 64, a game where you don't just battle demons but also the crappy camera as well. There's thre camera types you can choose between. I saw no difference between either and all seemed to want to show you a close up of N64's crappy texturing on the walls rather than the enemies you were fighting or the jump you need to make. It's not a train wreck some people make it out to be but it's not great either.
N64, still not impressed.
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Were any of you guys following the emergency landing/plane diversion thread for Dublin airport last night? Unfortunately I missed it, looked like great craic.
They were able to track the plane approaches/aborted landings/diversions with flightradar24.com and were listening in to scanners.
22 diversions and 2 landings in two hours :eek:. The landings sounded like they were absolutely awful.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056928782&page=45
Happened to me before. Went to the UK with my brother to see a Fulham game. Storm came in -17 degrees and the place was frozen over. Match was cancelled. Flight back the winds were so bad we were in the air for an extra hour. Plane had to come in sideways to land. Just before we hit the runway the pilot aborted we had to then land the same way in Belfast to refuel and then land again in choppy weather in dublin.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Happened to me before. Went to the UK with my brother to see a Fulham game. Storm came in -17 degrees and the place was frozen over. Match was cancelled. Flight back the winds were so bad we were in the air for an extra hour. Plane had to come in sideways to land. Just before we hit the runway the pilot aborted we had to then land the same way in Belfast to refuel and then land again in choppy weather in dublin.
Are we sure Retr0 wasn't controlling them via Pilotwings 64?
To confirm check if any hang gliders, jet packs or Autogyros came in for a heavy landing!
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atavan-halen wrote: »Yeah I was watching that thread last night. Funnily enough I was staying with my grandad because my uncle who lives there was going on holidays this morning at 6am. Wonder if they were able to take off.
Not so much action tonight! Weather is calm.
This is super geeky, even for me, but this website is brilliant.
Tracks every plane over Ireland in real time with loads of info about their altitude/speed while also broadcasting the Dublin Airport air traffic control comms.
Cool thing is I can watch the planes on the map, listen to their comms/see their destination/speed etc and then see any which are going to fly by my house and look out the window :pac:
http://www.airwavesireland.com/
Yeah I may have crossed some geeky/nerdy line here
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