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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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  • #9512
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,092 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    We haven't even gotten started on train jingles:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=470_2wt2t1o


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-hmSvZM3So


    Change here for the Ueno subway line. That brings me back.


  • #9513
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    I've been with letshost.ie for a good while now hosting websites and renting servers and I need a 2MB file restored for from a backup and they want € 25 + VAT to do it.
    Feckin cheek of them. You'd think the amount I pay them each month they'd do something like that for nothing.

    Anyway, sorry for the rant. It just pi$$ed me off.

    .


  • #9514
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_F2wHOZNE
    :D


  • #9515
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,318 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Ah I see, I don't subscribe to threads..only forums so that would explain why I don't see the number :)

    19704958.jpg

    Speaking of grammar, the correct plural of forum is fora. :p


  • #9516
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,092 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Found the 7-11 one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTmeInrOiDA


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  • #9517
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Found the 7-11 one:
    I used to love the ads
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfEQFbDWT40
    another one

    just found this too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exp_NkV5BXsp


  • #9518
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    Oh I know, but there's something immensely more entertaining levelling up monsters as opposed to people.
    Aren't we all monsters?


  • #9519
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    July 27th for Pokemon Conquest over here


  • #9520
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    SdoowSirhc wrote: »
    Aren't we all monsters?

    Lemme just put my sunglasses on and grab a mirror.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86AAGZ9BBg


  • #9521
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    a5y wrote: »
    Lemme just put my sunglasses on and grab a mirror.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86AAGZ9BBg

    So epic! "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick a**, And I'm all outta bubblegum"


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  • #9522
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,083 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Some fan translation news. It seems Pokemon Trading Card Game 2 has gotten a full english translation:

    http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1736/

    Also after a bit of turmoil when the project was handed over to a bunch of jokers the Front Mission 2 translation seems to be back on track, it's being created by the same team that did the excellent Front Mission 5 translation. They've had the first two patches released in the last month, that's 2 out of 3 patches before the final release. Also as a bonus they've released the first patch for Front Mission Alternative.

    One other thing I noticed a new translation for a game called Jesus: Tale of the Terrifying Bio Monster. I need to play this game!


  • #9523
    ondafly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭ondafly


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    We haven't even gotten started on train jingles:

    Change here for the Ueno subway line. That brings me back.


    awesome vids ! takes me right back too. I loved so many of those jingles. I'd love to get my hands on the Kyoto subway, it was very Blade Runner-esque, and I only have a crap recording of it.

    The subways over there are so clean too

    dsc_0895-1024x679.jpg


  • #9524
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Speaking of grammar, the correct plural of forum is fora. :p

    Ya don't say :p that was the joke & why it was in bold text, to piss off any would be grammar nazi's :D


  • #9525
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,318 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Oh! I thought you were pointing out the fact that he used a capital letter when it wasn't needed :D


  • #9526
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Oh! I thought you were pointing out the fact that he used a capital letter when it wasn't needed :D

    Nope, derp :D

    I think I'm saving for a US Snes, there's no point in buying a Super Famicom really for me because the PAL machine is identical barring the name on it, & can play the SFC games.

    I really like them too :o

    Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System-USA.jpg


  • #9527
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    I've always liked the look of the US Snes including the button colours! Yep o1s1n, I really said that. The square carts too, they look cool. :cool:


  • #9528
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    EnterNow wrote: »

    Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System-USA.jpg

    Product shots like this always make me wonder why photographers have a hard-on for the world's shortest joypad cables.


  • #9529
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System-USA.jpg

    4101494613_0920e7a496.jpg


  • #9530
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I like it, it's certainly no uglier than its cousin which is the Famicom

    Famicom.jpg

    But that's probably allowed to be ugly because its Japanese yeah? :D


  • #9531
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    But that's probably allowed to be ugly because its Japanese yeah? :D

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  • #9532
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,083 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Always preferred the look of the PAL and Japanese SNES. It was a lot more colourful and so were the controllers.


  • #9533
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Always preferred the look of the PAL and Japanese SNES. It was a lot more colourful and so were the controllers.

    I prefer it too, it's just converters for the carts are crap & I'm not cutting my PAL snes up to fit the larger carts...which leaves but one option, a US Snes :) I actually do like the look of them though which is handy :p


  • #9534
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Hmm, it's been a while since I unboxed my still mint, pristine, no yellowing, A1 Sharon, fully boxed Super Famicom. I'll put a reminder in my calendar to look up at my shelves and admire the box tonight.

    Adore-smiley.png


  • #9535
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Always preferred the look of the PAL and Japanese SNES. It was a lot more colourful and so were the controllers.

    Certainly looks more flamboyant as o1s1n would say. :P

    Ah the PAL Snes looks cool of course but nothing wrong with the meaner looking US one. The US is Arnie's T-800 and the PAL the T-1000. :cool:


  • #9536
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,318 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The snes isn't meant to look mean though!

    The Megadrive is mean. Black. The model 2 looks like a ninja with red eyes. Even the sound chip sounds mean.

    The snes on the other hand is colourful, chipper, sounds soft and unoffending and dare I say it, is a bit flamboyant :D


  • #9537
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    o1s1n wrote: »
    is a bit flamboyant :D

    Stephen Fry kinda flamboyant ?

    US SNES is just plain ugly..


  • #9538
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,318 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Yep, I could see a PAL snes donning a gown and prancing around a gold wallpaper lined room, all flamboyant like.

    Meanwhile an NTSC US Snes sits on the corner of the street down the road, begging for change - nobody wants to go near him though, they just recoil from his ugly ugly horror.
    ...

    WTF am I even saying?!?


  • #9539
    valleyoftheunos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭valleyoftheunos


    I remember when it was launched I thought the Jap SNES was the most beautiful. sleek and modern console I'd ever seen, I think its a design classic really. God knows what NoA were thinking with the redesign for the US market.


  • #9540
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,083 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    SNES = Stephen Fry

    Megadrive = Danny Dyer


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  • #9541
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,318 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Nothing, not even an inanimate object should ever be compared to Danny Dyer.


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