I fired up Castlevania SoTN last night and I thought it looked much better. I couldn't bring myself to play through it with my PS2, because it looked way too pixelated on my 55" HDTV, but with the scaler on and 1080i it looks a lot smoother, it reminds me of the image quality I get when playing the Castlevania games on the DS, some pixelation but not overly so.

Wow, that is good news that they have an east coast shipper. I canceled my sub a while ago because it took way to long to get the games, but seeing as how I live about an hour from Pitts I think I may retry them.

You should be able to transfer them on a Pro Duo stick as long as you have the 60 gig PS3 version with the pro stick input. My question is how are you getting the saves from the ps2 to the pro stick?

Also the USB option will work as well on either PS3 model.

I could trade you for Genji Days of the Blade. I finished it already, so I could ship right away.

Does anyone know what resolutions the PS3 versions of MLB and The Show support?

[how I should set them up to enjoy said luscious visual upgrade]

how I should set them up to enjoy said luscious visual upgrade

For most 480p games you have to hold down the x and triangle button at start up to set it to progressive, some games like Shadow of Collosus allow you to select it from the option menu. Also you will want to change your system settings to allow for progressive playback and widescreen support of DVDs.

YGM

We call this hardball tactics in negotiation. I hope it worked out well for both sides. Of course they say that when a deal is reached and niether side is happy, then you know it was a good deal.

Simple fact is that the revolution may come in third this generation, but even if it does it will still sell well enough that Nintendo wont loose their shirts. Millions of people will buy the Revolution for the first party titles alone. I know I will.

Also, did anyone else notice the lack of slots in the console pics, I wonder if there will be memory card ports in the back only or if they are reverting to the N64 Dreamcast design of having them in the controllers (bad idea).

I am trying to unload a lot of my PC games. The following list is what I have to offer. I’m not interested in trading, just cash. I was a fairly active trader over on GG with a +20 rating. Shipping is included in the prices listed. I have the box for every game listed and I should have the manuals too. My email is [email protected]

$35 games
Star Trek Battle chest w/ Elite Force 1, Elite Force Expansion Pack, Armada 1 and 2.
World of Warcraft (30 days free still unused)(never been registered)

$15 games
GTA Vice City (Pending deal)
Vampire the Masquerade
Splinter Cell 2
The Suffering
Halo
Chronicals of Riddick

$10 games
Madden 05
Neverwinter Nights
Temple of Elemental Evil
Deus Ex 2
Enter the Matrix
Max Payne 2
Tron 2.0
Scrapland
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Splinter Cell 1
Lord of the Rings The Return of the King
Rainbow Six 3
Star Wars Galaxies (30 days used)
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb
Simpson’s Hit and Run
Operations Flash Point
Half Life Blue Shift

$5 games or 3 for $12, must order at least two
IL2
Madden 04
Madden 03
MVP Baseball 03
Empire of Magic
Tiger Woods 04
Tiger Woods 03
I was an Atomic Mutant
The Incredible Hulk
Warlords Battlecry 2
Dragon’s Lair 3d
Platoon
Contract Jack
Giants
Rune

The original Ninja Gaiden for the NES. I beat it once without dying and I could routinely get to the second to last boss (Your Father) without dying.

I haven't played the Xbox version though so I'm not sure how good I would be at that.

You have the hero corps thing down.

As for the group dictating the difficulty. I believe that the highest lvl member determines the difficulty within the set difficulty of the person whose mission the group is running. So if your group has 3 lvl 6 guys and one lvl 8 guy the mission will adjust to be more difficult for the lvl 8 guy, within given limits. Don't quote me on that, but that seems to be how it works.

As for the new costume. The anime stuff is a featured new item, but I don't think the new costumes are limited to anime, the official website says that they are adding 100s of new clothing options from popular trends throughout the world. Who knows what that means but I'm willing to bet it wont be limited to anime.

THey didnt kill soloing, some zones are populated for teams and some are populated to solo. My suggestion at your lvl wouold be to go to Kings Row and get some missions there. You can also adjust the difficulty settings of missions now by talking to a Hero Corps NPC.

I would say that issue 4 will be live sometime in the next 30 days, but they havent announced for sure when it will be.

I dont think Trench coats are in yet, altough they do have some long coats that you can wear, I dont know if I would call them tranchcoats though. Also they are adding several new costume choices with issue 4, but they didnt list a complete set of what will be added.

Also I dont know of anyway to change special effects colors. You can change your outfit and design at lvl 20 and beyond but nothing on effects. You can also do a couple of character respecs if you are unhappy with your powers. Those start at lvl 24 i believe.

I already gave away my key, but if anyone gets in you should look up the Wanderers on Virtue and the Hangover of Justice also on Virtue. They both have CG and OO members.

My main char is Hanton, look me up in game. The Wanderers leader is Inspectre, look him up also.

I loved SM64 and I collected every single star in that game.


I also beat Mario Sunshine, however I did not collect every single item in the game. Why? The game was really good, but it didn't have that sense of new and wonder that 64 had.

Sunshine is basically 64 with newer graphics and more powerups. The storyline in sunshine is a bit better because sunshine actually has one. Overall if sunshine had come out before 64 I think most people would like sunshine better, but as it is, it was just more of the same. Which is not a bad thing. If you like 64 then you should like sunshine, especially at $20.

Wal-Mart had a wireless one on sale this week for $49.99, it is capable of both wireless and landline connectivity. It's regularly priced at $59.99.

I have Tactics Ogre, what do you have for trade?

I'll be getting it. The only RE game I haven't played and finished is 0 and the online one. (The rail shooter doesn't count, that game blew ass).

This has potential comedy gold written all over it. besides she's not a horse face, it's all about the shadows.

They wanted 17,05 Euro's for shipping. Plus 27,95 for the game. It adds up tp way too much.

Does anyone know where I can get TNotR for less than $60 US? I looked into buying it from www.rollenspiel-shop.de but they want way too much for an expansion pack. I really want to play this game and it doesn't look good for a English release.

On the left side:
 Rome: Total War
Dungeon Master
Wing Commander 3
Total Annihilation
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Doom
Age of Wonders 2
Warcraft II
Warcraft III
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Quake 3
Civilization
Panzer General
Diablo
No One Lives Forever
Ultima Underworld

On the right side:

Freespace 2
Unreal Tournament 2004
Baldur's Gate 2
System Shock 2
Diablo 2
Gothic 2
Master of Orion 2
Grim Fandango
Wizardry 8
Starcraft
Ghost Recon
Knights of the Old Republic
 Civilization 2
Deus Ex
Master of Orion
Starsiege: Tribes

If all they do is copy KOTOR but put it in the LOtR universe then I will be happy with it. Of course that would mean that the writting would have to be excellent, I have my fingers crossed and I will be playing it on Tuesday.

Freespace 2
Hearts of Iron
Unreal Tournament 2004
Crusader: No Remorse
Unreal Tournament
Winning Eleven 7
Wasteland
System Shock 2  
Outcast
Diablo 2
Gothic 2
Quake
 Star Wars: X-wing
Star Control 2
Grim Fandango
 Wizardry
Wizardry 8
Rollercoaster Tycoon
 Starcraft
System Shock
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
Ghost Recon
 Knights of the Old Republic
The Secret of Monkey Island
Gabriel Knight 2
Everquest
 Deus Ex
Mafia
Master of Orion
Master of Magic
Starsiege: Tribes
Operation Flashpoint

City of Heroes
Rome: Total War
Europa Universalis 2  
 Heroes of Might & Magic 2
Wing Commander 3  
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Total Annihilation
Ultima VII
Conquest of Camelot
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Doom
Half-Life (vote for only one)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Age of Wonders 2  
Wing Commander
Warcraft II
The Secret of Monkey Island 2
 Warcraft III
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind  
Quake 2
Doom 2
Quake 3
Gothic
 Pharaoh
Outlaws
Panzer General
Ultima IV
Diablo
No One Lives Forever
Battlefield 1942
Ultima Underworld
Might and Magic 6

I have really enjoyed the last two years of Enterprise and the opening story arc of this year was really good IMO. It looks like next weeks episode is really going to set the pace for the rest of the season.

http://www.geocities.com/patrickschramp/night_vision.html

I must have cut and pasted that into the web browser.

There's a good republican joke in here, but I will abstain.

Voom looks good, but no local channels. That's a killer for me.

Tales of Symphonia isn't exactly a fighter, but at least you get to control one character and perform combo attacks. That's about as close as you're going to get with the GC.

Aaargh! I didn't realize the new season was due.

I can give a summary of the Ep if you want. Spoiler alert.

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Archer wakes up in the hands of nazi's, the nazi's also have some weird looking aliens dudes who are helping them create weapons. It turns out the aliens are trapped on earth and are using the Nazi's to build a portal so they can get back to their own time, the problem is earths current tech isn't sophisticated enough so the portal is freaken huge. Thus they have to tease the germans into giving them the supplies they need to build it by slowely giving them new weapons tech. With the weapons the Germans were able to invade the US and take most of the East coast almost all the way to the Mississippi River.

Archer is being taken to a new camp to get interrogated when his convoy comes under attack by freedom fighting gangsters and he is freed. Meanwhile the Enterprise is in orbit above Earth thinking that Archer is dead and trying to figure out what to do. It turns out a Solibon (spelling) is on board and he steals their only remaining transport shuttle and goes down to Earth. That weird time travelling guy shows up looking for Archer and he is dying. He says to stop the Solibon guy at all costs and to find Archer. Travis and trip go down to earth to try and rescue the shuttle and they subsequently get captured. Archer ends up capturing one of the aliens to find out whats going on, he gets a communicator from the alien calls Enterprise and they beam him up just before he gets shot. Archer talks to time travelor dude and is told that if they don't stop the aliens then all of time will be borked. The End.

Bingo, Why couldn't I remember that.

For some reason I can't remember the name of a game which I am trying to remember. It is a FPS war game, like Ghost Recon and it was released around the same time as Ghost Recon. The levels were a bit bigger and it had a soviet based expansion. Any clues?

Almost forgot.

I never imagined that I would see Bobby from the Soprano's in a ST episode. Of course what was his character? A mobster of course.

I'll tell you why I haven't talked about it. BECAUSE ITS ON FRIDAY

Tivo is your friend. Or if you have to get really draconian a VCR is your friend.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the season premier of Enterprise. I finally got around to watching it and I must admit that I was pleasently surprised by the 1st episode.


Sure this season deals with the whole time travel thing that tends to make ST a mess, but at least they are dealing with an alternate past.

The Episode actually had me rooting for Archer which is something I haven't done in a while. I figure that they will find their way back home by mid season, and if they want to save the season then they had better do so. The addition of alien nazi's doesn't hurt either.

Any other thoughts?

I actually like Genny Cream Ale.

That's all my in-laws drink and after 7 years of being force feed Genny Cream I have grown to like it. It does however make for a nice laxative. We call it Genny Screamer.  You can't beat a 30 pack for $11. I have some in my fridge right now.

Worst Beers:

Nati
PBR
Old Milwaukee

If one posts in here simply to raise their post count, does that then make them a whore too?

There are some good links in there.