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man this thing is going to be amazing. I’m so glad sega brought this in-house to manage.

I expected nothing and we end up getting a fuckton from it.

As for the talk of impeachment, I still feel it’s something that should be done. What good are laws when you can just pull shit for 4 years then bail and nobody does shit about it.

What a *king mess. $250 US ~ $330 Cad. I can buy an Xbox S bundle right now for $299 Cad at EBGames.

This thing needed to be $200 USD so it could drop to $150 or less at Christmas.

Well I guess that is one way for the dems to have a shot at keeping the seat. 

26 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Great for Canada!

Just in time for UCP to take credit for it when things improve in Alberta and ford to run even more with the carbon tax destroying Ontario residents pocket books. -.-

If anybody brought up lines of code as a measuring stick I would verbally back hand them on the spot. Such useless measures are the work of a shoty or jr dev.

On the women in stem front, i’ve had the pleasure of working at two companies where gender diversity was in their dna and it lead to us having some amazing women devs. They’re pretty much on the top of my hiring list if I jump start a new company.

He looks like what you would expect of a troll pulled from under a bridge. 

If only there wasn’t a part of government to act as a check on the balance of power.

20 minutes ago, SilentWorld said:

It’ll be entertaining to watch what Trump would do. 

We already know, he’ll say they (Palestinians) had it coming and Israel has every right to stop future rocket attacks.

Fuck that man, if he does then we should not lift a finger to help if other nations take this as a reason to attack them. Actually we should be pulling all support out of there if they do.

10 hours ago, Littleronin said:

No, at some point I will track it down.  

I don't have a physical copy but I have a digital copy from JPSN. It's great. =)

Minor Updates.

1) Tekken arrived. I think this board has been sitting around for years (covered in dust).

2) I had a little free time yesterday so I thought I would try out the LCD panel plugged into my Namco System 246 via vga (Running Gundam Zaft 2). The game looks fantastic on it (display has a lot of settings including 16:9/4:3 options) and it's wicked bright.

Firemen!!! Do you have the ps1 sequel yet?

5 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/acute-flaccid-myelitis-requires-galvanized-research-response

You’re spending too much time over thinking my poor mock on the rise of diseases (old/new/mutations) and the ignorance in the needs for proper vaccines.

So i'm building a bartop (n64 cart for scale). It took a while to convince the wife on this one but I finally got the go a head a few weeks back and the wood kit arrived on monday. It will probably take me a few weeks/month to ultimately build this thing out but I thought it would be fun to post progress reports here as I go since I know a few have asked from time to time how to build a SuperGun (and in a way this will be pretty damn close to one).  So to kick things off, going to do a bit of Q & A.

Q: What kit did you buy?

A: It's the JAMMArCADE 2P wood kit sold by http://www.retrobuiltgames.com/ best known for the Porta-Pi arcade.

Q: What will it look like?

A: Subject to change but i'm considering it being a Capcom Impress style theme. So the shape of the image on the left with the theme/color/style of the right.

Q: Why not a real arcade cabinet?

A: I have one, it's a capcom impress, it's getting old (needs a full restoration) and my wife doesn't like it sitting around so it sits in my storage locker. =(

Q: Why so small?
A: About as big as I could get away with, even the wife found this too bulky. =|

Q: Why not the 1P version?

A: He no longer sells that kit and the porta kits are too small  (The Jamma ones are slightly larger inside).

Q: Will it be powered by a raspberry pi?

A: Oh god no. The plan is to wire this up with interchangeable harnesses for Jamma & JVS. I bought this kit over the smaller units as it will have just barely enough space to internally house a small arcade PCB (Namco 11/12 or Capcom CPS3) inside but due to a cutout in the back I can pull the harness out the back and plug in a larger board outside the kit (like a  Naomi/CPS2).

Q: What games will you put in it?
A: Undecided and it will change around. I recently picked up a Tekken 1 & Street Fighter EX board since they'll be smaller to put inside. I also think I could possibly gut down a System 256 so I could run Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 2 or Gundam Vs (I own all 3 and bunch others for that system).

Q: Why?

A: I'm a huge arcade fan and I get sad I can't easily play my cabinet anymore. So I want a smaller unit sitting around at home. 

Q: Why only 1 button or what are you missing?
A: Before I buy all stick/button parts, I wanted to wait for the kit to arrive first and check sizing. The kit is kind of built for Happs buttons and the one I have is a Sanwa which is about 1.5mm bigger but now that I have the kit I can see that slightly enlarging the button holes should be just fine. I also still need to pick a color theme for the buttons. Capcom Impress doesn't have a consistent theme for colors and will mostly use a mix of standard Sanwa button colors which is less than the color options for Happs & Seimitsu offer. As for what i'm missing, connectors (I want to keep the wiring clean), 2nd player stick and remaining buttons, 2 speakers and amp (RBG didn't have these for sell outside a full kit) some nuts & bolts. The two boxes in the picture are the LCD and a Power PCB that will keep the power wiring cleaner.

Now to slowly take my time to build this. =/

I  know how to fix this, stop vaccinating all children, it will just magically go away. 

Well that clearly got under her skin, I hope she’s looking forward to the follow up sketch.

No photo but I picked up a JPN copy of snowboard kids on n64 for $10. So i’m quite happy with that one.

On 3/29/2019 at 3:45 PM, crispy4000 said:

I view the Stadia comparison as more of a metric to know what the next consoles are targeting.  Stadia could potentially do more, of course, but this does look good on paper for the consoles.

Jason Schreier is the one doing the telling here.  It's more than likely he's correct.

As you stated, it's a point of targeting but even this far out specs are subject to change. It doesn't matter who is reporting it and if they are leaking sdk docs. It all will change in many ways up until near launch (I've worked with pre release hardware for multiple systems in the past). 

21 hours ago, mikechorney said:

4)  Do people really think that Stadia can run in the equivalence of a SLI/Crossfire setup?  That would really surprise me

It was stated at GDC that a game can allocate additional servers/hardware. Scalability in both directions is built into its design.

Specifically the emulation is done by M2, the team who does the Sega Ages games for 3DS/Switch. They are the best team out there when it comes to porting genesis games.

I so want one of these (probably will end up with both a USA & JPN version, lol).

Uhh Stadia can allocate multiple GPUs so this is a silly thing to make a point on (ignoring that usually these rumors are usually wrong).

Do it, i’m ready to watch this shit show tank the economy before the election.

Review embargo ends tomorrow. Expect a bunch of reviews. Also it seems some people are already getting their units in. Going to be exciting seeing people’s opinions on this.

14 hours ago, Rodimus said:

Looks like they are releasing them early. Anyone order one?

Not yet on my end, gonna wait a bit because I bought something else that I will make a topic about today (i’m building a bartop :D)

Ooo powerslave, I still need to grab that one day.