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EGM2 issue 18 scanned. Up next is issue 21.

As long as you scan it, we'll let it slide

That is when I will stop buying new music. mp3s don't go higher than 320, and if you have a half decent sound system, it's simply not good enough. I can't really tell the difference between 192, 256, and 320. But between all of those and flac/ape/wav, I can definitely tell.

No. Listening to the same song 320 mp3 and a flac file, I can tell the difference. And that is only on $70 Logitech speakers. They sound even worse on my $200 home theatre in a box. And once I connect new home theatre...well, I'm afraid. So I started buying CDs again, and will probably ripping them into wavs, as well as decompressing the flac and ape files I have. If DVD Audio was more popular, or even SACD, I wouldn't even download mp3s anymore. Though for my mp3 player, they work just fine

You really should use flac, ape, or even wav. MP3s are absolutely terrible unless you listen to music solely on an mp3 player with ear bud headphones.

Yeah, he's from my town. YCDTOTV was a great Ottawa TV show.

Just about all the Pixar films, Role Models, and the original Star Wars Trilogy when it's released.

As far as new 2D games, it seems the Wii has the best selection, though it's incredibly sparse. That Capcom vs takataktoyorodherhcnhweieud game, or whatever it's called. Plus some of the 2D platformers (Wario Land Shake It, A Boy and His Blob).

As opposed to what? New FPS + gimmick? New FPS + no gimmick, just the same old stuff again? New third person shooter + gimmick? New GTA + gimmick? New Resident Evil + gimmick?.... I think Nintendo should stick with what they are doing. Them catering to the younger audience is good. If they don't someone else will. What is the point of them doing the exact same thing as Sony and Microsoft? Why have three of the same thing? They've been successful. They tried catering to the older crowd with the Gamecube and finished last. It's just not their thing. I think they will continue on a similar path. They'll add more power, for HD and more on screen characters/zombies/items/etc. But there is no real need for them to go nuts. sure, the better eye candy would be nice, but the most important thing is that they keep putting out their style of games in the quality they are known for. Limiting the amount of shovelware crap being put out on the next system would be nice, but if it's making money, they won't do it.

What, some sort of hippie protest?

Yes as well. At least they never found the bodies

He's trying to take his mind off his grade 4 outfit consisting of the red pants

I never had luck at thrift stores the ones that had old games only had the cartridges. there is one pawn shop in town that has a not-bad selection of old games, but the prices aren't as thrifty as they should be.

1. 1440 pixels wide. Or if you are ambitious (or it's a small magazine), you can do 1600 wide. 2. Use WinRAR to save a .zip file. Then just change the file extension in Windows. 3. Save the images as JPG for the cbr. Image Quality between 8 and 10 is good.

I don't consider those retro, nor d I consider the Saturn retro. The Saturn, Playstation and Nintendo 64 are not that different than todays consoles as far as gameplay. They all do 3D, it's just that today's consoles push out graphics that look a lot better. I consider 16-bit and earlier as retro. Once things changed over to 3D, it just wasn't the same. Things haven't changed again, so that's why I don't see those early 32-bit consoles as retro, even though most of the games looked terrible with their very jagged eadges and boxy characters.

Scanned EGM2 issue 17, and am now doing issue 18.

Because paying for cable means people get jobs, and it means broadcasters get revenue from advertising that the viewers see. If everyone went to downloading stuff from BitTorrent. how long do you think it would be before there was nothing to download because there was no money for new shows? What you get for free costs somebody else something. I download shows from BT as well. Not because I refuse to pay for cable. I'd rather sit on my couch and watch TV than sit at my computer. But because I don't have cable. Ad I don't have cable because I did not like how the one cable company serving my city was doing business, so I canceled it, along with their internet service. Since I live in a townhouse, I am not allowed to put a dish up, and Bell Canada doesn't offer their TV service through the phone line in my area. If they did, I would have that. So I am stuck with nothing. so far it's been easy, but hockey season starts in a few months, and not watching the games will be lame. But in this case it is a matter of principle rather than just wanting something for nothing. Even when I move where I can have a dish, I will have a paid service, along with grey market dishes swiping signals from US providers. And "free-to-air" signals as well

Here is my backlog: Xbox 360 Fable II Banjo Kazooie Grand Theft Auto IV Full Auto Sega Genesis Collection Burnout Paradise FlatOut Ultimate Carnage (currently playing) Burnout 3 (Xbox) (Currently playing) Assassin's Creed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Braid Peggle Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 Nintendo Wii De Blob Nights House of the Dead: Overkill MadWorld Super Paper Mario Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Lego Batman Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Boom Blox Bash Party Super Smash Bros. Brawl Call of Duty: World at War Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Sam & Max: Season One Link's Crossbow Training WiiWare/VC World of Goo Fun! Fun! Minigolf Lost Winds Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Mega Man 9 Toki Tori Alex Kidd in Miracle World Kirby's Adventure Kirby's Dream Land 3 Bonk's Adventure Bonk's Revenge Balloon Fight Excite Bike Ice Climber Mario Golf 64 Nintendo DS Final Fantasy IV Chrono Trigger DS Final Fantasy III Dragon Quest IV Dragon Quest V Sonic Chronicles Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon Big Bang Mini Retro Game Challenge Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Kirby Super Star Ultra Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice Lunar Knights Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis Age of Empires: The Age of Kings Ninjatown Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness GameBoy Advance Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Metroid: Zero Mission Now that is a backlog.

I started on the 2600, then went to the Master System, and then the Super NES in early 1992. The 16-bit era was the best. The 32-bit era could have been even better had they stuck with 2D games. I never liked how the 3D games looked. The consoles weren't powerful enough for what they wanted to do, so everything was jagged and ugly; especially looking back at it now.

They do this kind of crap in Canada too.

so it's like $5.00? That's insanely awesome. For people wanting a subscription when this deal is not on, Best Deal Magazines has subscriptions for $12.95. Even works for Canadian residents, with some sneakiness Best Deal also has Game Informer subscriptions for $6 for those who don't go to GameStop and get an Edge card. The site has some really great deals.

This came in handy tonight as there was a question abot Ralphy baby on 1 vs 100 tonight on Xbox Live. It was a video game trivia show. I was surprised at how many questions pertained to Nintendo, even in the general trivia games. Tonight, only 1 question asked about a PS3 exclusive game (inFamous).

I didn't know sister was spelled with a Y . Cool stuff. I wonder if Joystiq or those animals at Kotaku will pick this up.

It gets it perfectly most times, before I taped black construction paper to the lid on the inside. Since then it crops around the excess c.paper. But without it, yeah, it did a really good job almost everytime. But because EGM used the cheapest, thinnest paper possible, almost every page bleeds through, so the construction paper is a necessity. Otherwise cropping in photoshop would be very minimal. Now I just have it scan the whole bed. I haven't tried it with a stapled magazine. With those I suspect it would crop around the edge except where the staple is. It looks for the white background of the lid and crops around anything that isn't it. And it does a hell of a job printing photos too.

Sega didn't keep dropping magazines. They had Sega Visions, which, while it sometimes didn't come out on a regular schedule, stayed Sega Visions for its whole run. Before that, they had their small Sega Challenge newsletter thingy. I remember getting a couple of those, one with Altered Beast on the cover. I am surprised they are not available on here.