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try getting a wii. itrackr says they have like 2% availability across US. ps3 ranks about 85% stores having it in stock.

other than emulation, someone could simply mod a ds to work w/gb or gbc games. just widen the slot... will gameboy player work w/wii???

4am: double post? this has been long in coming... i thought they'd do it nxt year, marking 30 yrs after the original on 77... http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?ca...2_articleid=846

has anyone bothered trying to emulate any system on a sega cd? i mean, you wouldn't need to make costly cart.s or anything... could you imagine playing games from original gb or even programming in basic on a sega genesis?!?!?

i agree w/ MBJ and magroader81... i know someone at ibm, and seeing as they make the chips for all 3 systems, maybe they can be gotten at a lower price... wii DEFINATELY, but considering that most blu-ray and hddvd players cost $1000, if blu-ray wins i get a ps3, if hddvd wins i get the $200 XB360 hddvd upgrade that connects through usb2.0 and connect it to my pc

how'll they get the rights? i assume that matt groening will be back on, but haven't the rights to futurama been sold to adult swim on cartoon network from fox? w/e.... this rumor was goin around awhile ago... as well as 1 about new futurama movies

actually, this prob won't work, given that IP addresses change whenever 1 logs onto the system. Unless u use ur pc as a server, this change is most likely the case, so u'll need to start blocking ranges of ip addresses, which would stop others just b/c they r from the same isp as a troublemaker...

or else, just (temporarily) tack polls to the top of sections while they are around...

i agree w/dstryr420... however, i shouldn't speak as i haven't/can't contribute much... yet i don't make requests, only suggestions on how to improve/cheapen/make more efficient the processes involved...

why doesn't retromags just make 2 sections? like, one for "scanned but not edited" and 1 for "done"? to use an analogy used in another thread, it'd be like distributing roms that are complete w/an emulator, but also allowing roms downloads that didn't have an emulator and would be marked as such. then, ppl who don't give a damn about having an edited sheet can just download the unedited crappy-looking 1 (correct me if that is not the purpose of editing...)

this site was inspired BY gamemanuals.net! there aughtta be like a partnership or something between the two sites. Then, if someone on this forum had manuals to post, they'd send it to gamemanuals, or if someone there had scans or rare mags of some kind they would share with us. maybe there could be a video game scanner webring... without the voting of course!!! Has this idea been tried already? if not, this could be great... game box scans might be ok.............. it is a mag site, but........ on a related note, does the emulation section take roms? not COMMERCIAL roms... or maybe yes commercial following 5-yr rule... but focuing on homebrew stuff... you can find some gba/psp/ds/MAYBE GP2X in the future from various compos they did at www.neoflash.com... which, by the way, is where i found this site... phillyman was asking if this site was big enogh to recieve a FREE MagicKey 2 for review (see contest on homepage) and was complaining for awhile cuz they approved it but nevr sent it... but then they did. anyway, sry for the diversion there

i guess that this site ISN't open-source firendy after all (I don't know linux well enough to answer this question, though I want to, as I support open-source standards...like firefox!!!) on a semi-related note... can a pc dual-boot windows xp and linux on the same partition?

sry that post was so long and go toff-topic a LOT...

i vote noseface out of this forum.... anyway, as for cost of the site, does this forum php code cost money? if so, then dude, have u been gypped! u can get tons of moddable forums for free!!! like, say a wiki, or phpbb2. THEY ARE FREE!!! This is NOT commercial use, this is... puclic domain sharing... yeah... lets not talk in the "legal sense" as i know a patent/IP attorney, this could get all involved in trouble..... anyway, back to the point i (kind of) had... cost of bandwidth could be lessened (see my other thread)... if the arcade games/newsbot cost $$$, those could be easily replaced by free/open source products... (is this site open-source friendly? i think it should be... even though i don't have oppenoffice.org suite, linux, etc., i do view this site in firefox... look at ur data, ill betcha a lot of ppl do...) this site could probably do with more store-based ads. like, for example, a adlink for lik-sang which can generate revenue, or 1 for ebgames... but, as i hope he never will, phillyman has nevr resorted to pop-ups, spam ads like "get a free ps3!", those site list vote things (which some sites require you click/vote on before entering the site!), etc etc. Or, you could work with another forum or group of vg collectors, hobbyists, emulator/homebrew designers... honestly, evry1 here is a MASSIVE technogeek. THere must be a way to lessen the cost-load to phillyman (who, by the way, i heard works for geek squad, owned by best buy, who are known to give OK salaries (philly, feel free to correct me if i b wrong)... though being a geek squader is a dream job of mine...)... anyway, just been thinking... yeah. as per 5-years/"mag hoarding" policy... if u find a group of ppl who r on a "learning photoshop" site or some crap like that, their admins might take this on as a project for learners to work on, so 1 could scan em in and send in specs/requests to the learners to speed up editing... for 5-years policy... legally, should be life copyright, which i belive is life+20yrs or something for a personal copyright or like 50 yrs or something for companies... don't know exactly... but 1 could argue for this case w/fair use. anyhow, find some indie magazine publishers and offer to scan their mags and edit if u can keep them and distribute scans through the site... would be legal... could EVEN get pre-print, as in, how the layout is MEANT to be printed!!! it is set by pc... don't know WHO EXACTLY to get... go to usenet or google gourps, maybe alt.literature.magazines.technology (if it exists) or something... or just google it... i have a scanner and a... "copy" of photoshop, but i don't know photoshop well and the scanner doesn't work... ever at all... used to when hooked up to Windows ME IBM netvista... may be a bad usb 2.0 cable... sry i cant help * tear tear * (that's why i keep on posting! i can't help any way else... though i may have some 2001 NPs, and possibly obscure mags and guides like cube uk unofficial mag and a pokemon gold unofficial guide w/COMPLETE walkthrough of ENTIRE game, as well as 1 of pokemon hey u pikachu and team rocket card game (it was a VERY short-lived pokemon mag from back in the day by a now defunct publisher))

if phillyman reads my thread about bandwidth saving, ANYONE could use the downloads section... read it and see how this can be achieved...

sry, again, didn't mean to post again, but had to clarify... to get a site on coral... for example, i have a (sucky) sonic site at (don't go here) http://www.geocities.com/jbbdude@sbcglobal...page/index.html. However, since my Yahoo! Geocities bandwidth runs away quick (I'm on free... i am ALWAYS on the cheap), I mirror it at (go HERE) http://www.geocities.com.NYUD.NET:8080...page/index.html. (the link might be wrong, might actually be at .htm... w/e, u get the point) i give the second link out so noone gets an error message saying that my bandwidth has been exceeded. Although it won't happen to the forum NOW... u could add more to the site if you could mirror using Coral servers, like another seeder on a torrent or DOWNLOADABLE content rather than torrents... that way, no software is needed on the user end other than decompress/view...

I have a great idea... has anyone heard of Coral CDN? It is a massively expansive cache of pages that contains nearly every file, page and site on the web. To access the cache of a page, you just add ".nyud.net:8080" to the domain... while this would NOT work for things like attack system, boards, arcade, etc., we COULD simply put all image bandwidth onto that project, as well as adding more DOWNLOADABLE scans to the site and using that project and SEEDING the torrents on it... i donno. just an idea. any comments as to plausibility, if it will be done, etc, etc. This way, Phillyman saves money and less premium subscriptions need to be bought... PLUS if ha wanted, he probably COULD store his flash FILES there and have them be loaded by the forum... w/e. JUST IDEAS!!! Also, if this site added to it more than a forum, lilke adding a wiki to the site... that could be sweet... and pretty easily re-programmable w/php to work with the forum login system... Basically, this is an idea thread. I start off w/these. I COULD put them in separate threads, but i figure it wouldn't be fair cuz i'd get more posat count and gil... which i do want, but that's besides the point, it might be unethical...

yeh... i said this before.... but if someone actually like tacked this to the homepage nxt sunday where the contest thing would have been (the contest will've ended by next sat)... anyhow, just thought it might be a good idea... any thoughts???

ummm... i guess i missed the "old" logo from april.. could someone post it on like a history section... that section could also talk about the old retromags site/forum, which i also missed :( .... could talk about why founded, etc. etc...........

anyone have small heatsinks/water coolings? as i posted in another thread, i will be adding 700 gb in 3 hds to a dell case... pray for me... found some things on tigerdirect.com that can cool the hard drives, attach to them... don't think anything else will fit into dell case... any other ideas??? (these things are 10 bucks apiece, not THAT expensive, so for 3 hds... like 30 bucks +ship... but with tiger direct discounts only being used on 1x of the item... prob like 5$ off... maybe 40 buck... w/e)

like rangerxxx said awhile back, lik-sang.com has great 1s... i have a gc 2 usb adapter, haven't gotten to open yet but reviews are great...

I have a Dell... Anyway, i have 3 new hds, and want to hook them up. other than heat, which i will solve with fans that attach to the backs of the hd (i know, dell cases suck... better than using the old ibm netvista case), and ram, which i'll get 2 gigs (i work on the cheap), i have 1 more prob... hooking 3 hds to 1 controller. I think i found a few 4-connection ides, but is this possible? plausible, no... but can a dell controller handle it? I just get old tech by the barrelful, and am working on updating ALL OF IT!!! it's a gift... and a curse. where i live, a 700 gig pc is massive... i don't want to hear about your terrabyte machines, i don't got that kinda $$$. anyhow, i have a dell dimension 4550. a new case is out o the question. i know dell cases suck, but i have it so DEAL WITH IT!!! (the machine has a 3rd hd-size slot designed for a floppy drive, so it has a 2nd floppy connector... if that can be connected somehow for less than like 1 billion $s.....)

(when i said better, I meant power/specs-wise)

that is funny... considering the low power of the wii. nintendo is not a specs kinda company... they're more after, i dunno, QUALITY!!! INNOVATION!!! microsoft and sony talk about specs and graphics WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much, and yet the xbox isn't as good as wii... even the old xbox SHOULD be better than wii... wii not for computing like xbox, but gaming like ANYTHING GOOD!!!

Just curious as to the affiliations of the members here. is everyone all, get outta iraq now!!! or the more logical, try to get it at least somewhat stable and get the hell out... for example. Anyone live in swing states for the 08 presidential campaign...? like that old thread, just discussing religion and politics...