After an unscheduled appearance yesterday telling you in plain English how to update your PS3's firmware for offline scum, here is a tedious round up of smaller stories. Incidentally the first was supposed to be up last week.
Dragon's Heaven Neo Geo.
There's been quite a buzz about this early alpha fighting game. Neo turfmasta managed to buy some early sram dev karts on Yahoo! auctions. Thanks to the battery still being viable in one of them he managed to extract most of what was there except for onscreen text, music and energy bars. Those were held on the other two ram carts and as the battery died so did the data with it. Further info surfaced (Japanese only) that it was being made by FACE and ex Techno's staff (as they had no real fighting game experience) based on the Gowcaizer engine. As I've said before its obviously an alpha, but the sprite work is actually quite good and there's an alignment mechanic going on reminiscent of D+D dependent on whether you are neutral, lawful and chaotic. There's a bit more info here on the Neo Geo forums.
Romancing SaGa 2 getting an English release.
Its only for mobiles at the moment, but they are translating one of the last untranslated SaGa games into English. Japan gets a Vita port as well, but so far its only for Android and iPhone which is cool. I really hope they do a good port of this I gave up on a free version of FF2 due to the crappy virtual pad they used and later Final Fantasy ports have been hamstrung with poor quality sprite work and rather substandard filtering added to that. Gideon Zhi of AGTP has been working on the original Super Famicom game for a while now and reckons its an absolute bastard to work with. So fingers crossed for a good port to phones.
Green screen PS3.
Half the problem with this I found out is using legacy bits and pieces, the TV I have is a large CRT which can support 60hz (America stuff works with it) and the SCART cable is from my old PS2 which fits but is hardly ideal. Remember running DVD's on PS2 where they would play in various shades of green, due to I guess, nonsense. Will see if I have any other leads that will do it, can remember I think it came with component failing that I will have to get a flat screen and a run it through HDMI.
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Sunday, 24 April 2016
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Romford Junk Tour
This is an odd trip out for a number or reasons, firstly due to network (de)rail works, I couldn't go my normal route out on the District Line to Elm Park, but had to go via Canning Town and its a long old trip It was also the MCM Comic con at Excel centre so at least half of the train was already in cosplay mode and as I don't bring my phone with me out and about I'll have to describe what I saw with my own two eyes.
Highlights include:
Fat Batman. Not overweight or strange like something from say a Lousy Pandah cartoon but just tubby, he was with some tattooed anime ladies and as my love of anime died sometime mid 2003 I couldn't place them.
Joker in a wheelchair. Not the rather suave Jack Nicholson Joker, but the full on Mental Heath Ledger Version. Basically its some special needs guy in whiteface and lipstick grin. If you are going to be anyone and are disabled then Professor X surely. Which leads us to.
X Men. Would you actually credit it I saw a disabled guy as Charles Xavier along with a big guy as Beast, there was a Mystique with her too. He looked completely cool as well.
Some Fat Ugly Cat Girls. If you have ever seen modern Anime you will know this is a thing along with maids. Now picture some Tumblr feminist types in full costumes with piercings and make up you'll see the revulsion creep in.
Old Mario and Luigi. Basically some old guys dressed up as Mario and Luigi from the SMB games, kinda what they would look like now.
A few jailbait types in short skirts god knows how old and what character they came as and to be fair it didn't really matter.
Moving on the Age UK shop at Canning Town actually has a pretty good line up of PS2 games for sale this for once does not include any Fifa games and I picked up Neo Geo Coliseum for £3 and passed on Okami and Crimson Sea 2 from Koei. I urge all East London Retro gamers to at least Check it out.
Romford was a bit of a disappointment, I did manage to pick up a book I've been wanting for ages but the centre was packed out with people queuing up to meet Joey Essex at a book signing (Yes he has a book out and you thought he couldn't write ;>) ).
Having a look at the phones in stock at Game and CEX I decided enough was enough and got the bus back to civilisation.
Highlights include:
Fat Batman. Not overweight or strange like something from say a Lousy Pandah cartoon but just tubby, he was with some tattooed anime ladies and as my love of anime died sometime mid 2003 I couldn't place them.
Joker in a wheelchair. Not the rather suave Jack Nicholson Joker, but the full on Mental Heath Ledger Version. Basically its some special needs guy in whiteface and lipstick grin. If you are going to be anyone and are disabled then Professor X surely. Which leads us to.
X Men. Would you actually credit it I saw a disabled guy as Charles Xavier along with a big guy as Beast, there was a Mystique with her too. He looked completely cool as well.
Some Fat Ugly Cat Girls. If you have ever seen modern Anime you will know this is a thing along with maids. Now picture some Tumblr feminist types in full costumes with piercings and make up you'll see the revulsion creep in.
Old Mario and Luigi. Basically some old guys dressed up as Mario and Luigi from the SMB games, kinda what they would look like now.
A few jailbait types in short skirts god knows how old and what character they came as and to be fair it didn't really matter.
Moving on the Age UK shop at Canning Town actually has a pretty good line up of PS2 games for sale this for once does not include any Fifa games and I picked up Neo Geo Coliseum for £3 and passed on Okami and Crimson Sea 2 from Koei. I urge all East London Retro gamers to at least Check it out.
Romford was a bit of a disappointment, I did manage to pick up a book I've been wanting for ages but the centre was packed out with people queuing up to meet Joey Essex at a book signing (Yes he has a book out and you thought he couldn't write ;>) ).
Having a look at the phones in stock at Game and CEX I decided enough was enough and got the bus back to civilisation.
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Printer and round up
Here is a brief round up of stuff that I've found useful this week before I'll drop a brand new hardware review on you.
I didn't actually get Pacman or E.T for the VCS back in the day so the worst I ever played was their dull conversion of Space Invaders, though not actually bad enough to bury in the desert like ET was. I heard the tales that they were buried and thought oh well, we'll never see those again. 30 years later and it looks like some of those rubbish E T carts came to light thanks to a new documentary and a dig at the tip.
As someone who has pissed around with trackers for ages now I'm always amazed how they always seem to crop up for the weirdest of systems. This is a combined tracker that will let you compose music for the Sega Megadrive and NeoGeo consoles. Its PC only at the moment but hasn't really been updated in 8 years, so if you're holding out for a port then you're out of luck. Its not a bad thing to be honest but if you are serious about wanting that Megadrive sound and use a daw that can handle VST instruments then VOPM is a pretty good replacement (if a little quiet I find).
Printer Epson SX215
Found this chucked out at work and couldn't quite work out why it was junked. For starters, I had to replace some inks in it and for once didn't have to spend an arm and a leg to do so. My realization came when all inks was firmly in and it was time to print something. All the test pages I printed (two) where horribly chewed up. I'm pretty sure that's why it was thrown out as the scanner works perfectly.
Its a nice printer with an LCD screen and a few slots to take memory cards, so you can print from camera cards to photo paper if you have it. You'll also need to know that to perform any type of maintenance on it you'll need to press Index sheet and scan together. Knowing that and that the inks aren't that badly priced (£12 for black and around £!0 for colours with recons going for slightly less), I can recommend this, (so long as I can find out whats causing it to jam).
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Android Days.
This I swear, will be the final bit on virtualbox for a while, and I believe I mentioned Android (or phone linux as its never known as) last time. So here goes, I had about 3 different ISO.s of this before I finally found a copy that worked. My first got stuck in some sort of command line hell even after rebooting, the second installed fine but when it came to boot proper it got stuck at the loading screen (Ironies I'm emulating a bricked tablet) the final version I found works well and I've come to if not like Android then on a level abide it.
You'll need to disable the mouse to actually do anything with it, and I've browsed the Google play store and even watched some porn online (even though flash doesn't work with it so watching any video is pointless). Also as its basically running in a box you could essentially click on all those ads on the side and not suffer any consequences doing so, (We've not installed adblock so the screen area looks massively cluttered and untidy.) On the plus side I get the joy of playing android games except what I've installed so far requires an update or my virtual box is not considered a proper phone for downloading through google play.
So far I have Disgaea Netherworld (either not supported or not let us download) and PPSSPP which doesn't run for me either on android or computer.
NEO GEO Gold SNK step in.
Didn't expect to find this via Dr. A's twitter feed. SNK have publically disowned TOMMO distributors of the NEO GEO gold X handheld console, which we translated the specs of way back when. The console itself wasn't that great and was basically a system on a chip running a version of FBA so maybe its for the best.
You'll need to disable the mouse to actually do anything with it, and I've browsed the Google play store and even watched some porn online (even though flash doesn't work with it so watching any video is pointless). Also as its basically running in a box you could essentially click on all those ads on the side and not suffer any consequences doing so, (We've not installed adblock so the screen area looks massively cluttered and untidy.) On the plus side I get the joy of playing android games except what I've installed so far requires an update or my virtual box is not considered a proper phone for downloading through google play.
So far I have Disgaea Netherworld (either not supported or not let us download) and PPSSPP which doesn't run for me either on android or computer.
NEO GEO Gold SNK step in.
Didn't expect to find this via Dr. A's twitter feed. SNK have publically disowned TOMMO distributors of the NEO GEO gold X handheld console, which we translated the specs of way back when. The console itself wasn't that great and was basically a system on a chip running a version of FBA so maybe its for the best.
Sunday, 10 March 2013
The Asocial network games.
Before we start Sundays sermon, Dr A has a review of Blazes NEO GEO X and it is as disappointing as it sounds.
You can continue now.
This is a follow on from this, on notorious shillfest Real Racing 3, a game that requires you to spend to tune up after every race and freemium gaming where your only real cause is to pay to win.
We play a few games on facebook namely Farmville2 and Candy Crush Saga. The first needs no introduction, its a farming game from Zynga, kinda like a dumbed down Harvest moon but with pay to play items, the other is a rather insidious Bejewelled clone that relies on lives and levels, and pretty harsh unlocks.
Zynga of course are well known for this stunt, want some extra fripperies or in my case a Yucca tree and they'll happily sell it to you (we didn't buy of course) cheap, so long as you have enough rupees (or farmbucks). None of these things they sell are essential by the way these extra cows and ornaments are not needed to progress just to give variety and make the place look nice, and a few more XP to level up.
Candy crush saga on the other hand is evil, a Bejewelled clone that is not only very good but also a complete shill, requiring either pay to use unlocked items or real cash to progress past a certain point. I've always hated that either paying for freemium content or social networking stuff that penalises the friendless (and lets face it I'm a loner and proud). There are of course people who will pay up for stuff as well as those with massive rosters of friends to call on to help unlock certain stuff, I'm lucky relying on Farmville community members to grab stuff for me and my cousin to help out with the posting stuff (occasionally). But it still comes down to this, if you're a loner, you really aren't going to like freemium social networking stuff.
Even worse is that freemium relies on In App Purchasing (why is nothing a program anymore) to play to win. That leaderboard top spot should be earned by skill not by how rich you are(n't).
I would love to see a game where pay to play is penalised, if this is truly the new arcade then you should play by arcade rules. Old Capcom games used to add a number in the unit columns of your score to show how many times you continued (SNES Streetfighter 2 is a prime example) maybe a separate hi score table for those who pay and a proper one with unlockable in game currency for those who play normally and get above a certain score (maybe beating the initial in game Hi score or top spot).
I would also love to see a game where all the IAP purchasing was either unnecessary or rigged in some way. Take for instance an RPG where a sword bought in game will leech your XP to use or in exteme cases not allow you to level up for at least 2 months after purchase (they love the timer unlocks freemium so lets at least have some fun with it). Or in candy crush's case those special items that work but do not record your score and use up a life to trigger.
Or to put it another way If you pay to play you're a sucker.
We're saying our market is suckers — we're going to cast a net that catches as many mentally ill people as we can!"
Nik Davidson Amazon.
You can continue now.
This is a follow on from this, on notorious shillfest Real Racing 3, a game that requires you to spend to tune up after every race and freemium gaming where your only real cause is to pay to win.
We play a few games on facebook namely Farmville2 and Candy Crush Saga. The first needs no introduction, its a farming game from Zynga, kinda like a dumbed down Harvest moon but with pay to play items, the other is a rather insidious Bejewelled clone that relies on lives and levels, and pretty harsh unlocks.
Zynga of course are well known for this stunt, want some extra fripperies or in my case a Yucca tree and they'll happily sell it to you (we didn't buy of course) cheap, so long as you have enough rupees (or farmbucks). None of these things they sell are essential by the way these extra cows and ornaments are not needed to progress just to give variety and make the place look nice, and a few more XP to level up.
Candy crush saga on the other hand is evil, a Bejewelled clone that is not only very good but also a complete shill, requiring either pay to use unlocked items or real cash to progress past a certain point. I've always hated that either paying for freemium content or social networking stuff that penalises the friendless (and lets face it I'm a loner and proud). There are of course people who will pay up for stuff as well as those with massive rosters of friends to call on to help unlock certain stuff, I'm lucky relying on Farmville community members to grab stuff for me and my cousin to help out with the posting stuff (occasionally). But it still comes down to this, if you're a loner, you really aren't going to like freemium social networking stuff.
Even worse is that freemium relies on In App Purchasing (why is nothing a program anymore) to play to win. That leaderboard top spot should be earned by skill not by how rich you are(n't).
I would love to see a game where pay to play is penalised, if this is truly the new arcade then you should play by arcade rules. Old Capcom games used to add a number in the unit columns of your score to show how many times you continued (SNES Streetfighter 2 is a prime example) maybe a separate hi score table for those who pay and a proper one with unlockable in game currency for those who play normally and get above a certain score (maybe beating the initial in game Hi score or top spot).
I would also love to see a game where all the IAP purchasing was either unnecessary or rigged in some way. Take for instance an RPG where a sword bought in game will leech your XP to use or in exteme cases not allow you to level up for at least 2 months after purchase (they love the timer unlocks freemium so lets at least have some fun with it). Or in candy crush's case those special items that work but do not record your score and use up a life to trigger.
Or to put it another way If you pay to play you're a sucker.
We're saying our market is suckers — we're going to cast a net that catches as many mentally ill people as we can!"
Nik Davidson Amazon.
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. We got some good presents this year, mainly jumpers and a neat little usb vacuum for cleaning out your keyboard and that. This is only a brief update so the main review of the year will go up tomorrow.
Neo Geo X update.
For those following the mini handhelds fortunes HG101 have a pretty impressive write up here.
Bubble Bobble The lost cave. Revues, chips and teats.
We actually got this patched and playable in MameUIFX a fork off of the main mame project, we spent most of Xmas eve trying and failing to configure it for most other emulators and decided to cut out the middleman and put it in UIFX. It works and can be found under bootlegs on the main menu screen.
In fact we don't remember any of the layouts except Level 9 (NES) a big brilliant red Maitta that is harder than the level was. Most of the other levels are not the best and are actually quite hard (definitely later levels it seems), but its quite nice and best of all it has NES style lives progression. Because I'm a massive Bubble Bobble nerd I know these to be granted at 30,000, 100,000 200,000 and 400,000 along with any you'd get from extend bubbles. Our top score is about 400,000 odd or level 17.
Here are some more findings and a brief list of bonuses encountered.
End of level bonuses.
You seem to get these on every fifth stage, these are standard bonuses and not the sort you get for matching the last few digits of your score or player 2's score.
1. Gameboy
5. Popcorn
10. Lollipop (round shape)
15. Bananas
Neat regular score bonuses.
As well as a few musical bonuses such as tubas and ocarinas we've found some nice bonuses to increase your score.
Ptolemy from Fairyland Story. Worth 4000 points. (don't believe wiki here she doesn't show up in the original game.)
Purple PC. Looks like a purple version of one of the highscore bonus items. worth 4000
5.25 floppy disk. Don't know how much its worth.
Bonus round Drug score bonuses.
In the NES version these would show up around level 45. But I've actually got a few of these in the arcade version. They give you a bouns round and the chance for an extra life if you catch em all.
Red Drug. Tuliips
Purple Drug. Sunflowers.
We also got a fire bubble, the kind that actually shows up once in every 4096 games. It gives you the ability to spit fire (red cross powers) untill you die. Its rather nice and is worth 10,000 points.
We got a few other stuff including most of the wizard canes, a bell that highlights rare stuff and a Chack'n pop invincible heart. We haven't found any secrets yet but so far I am enjoying this immensly even though its much tougher than the original.
Neo Geo X update.
For those following the mini handhelds fortunes HG101 have a pretty impressive write up here.
Bubble Bobble The lost cave. Revues, chips and teats.
We actually got this patched and playable in MameUIFX a fork off of the main mame project, we spent most of Xmas eve trying and failing to configure it for most other emulators and decided to cut out the middleman and put it in UIFX. It works and can be found under bootlegs on the main menu screen.
In fact we don't remember any of the layouts except Level 9 (NES) a big brilliant red Maitta that is harder than the level was. Most of the other levels are not the best and are actually quite hard (definitely later levels it seems), but its quite nice and best of all it has NES style lives progression. Because I'm a massive Bubble Bobble nerd I know these to be granted at 30,000, 100,000 200,000 and 400,000 along with any you'd get from extend bubbles. Our top score is about 400,000 odd or level 17.
Here are some more findings and a brief list of bonuses encountered.
End of level bonuses.
You seem to get these on every fifth stage, these are standard bonuses and not the sort you get for matching the last few digits of your score or player 2's score.
1. Gameboy
5. Popcorn
10. Lollipop (round shape)
15. Bananas
Neat regular score bonuses.
As well as a few musical bonuses such as tubas and ocarinas we've found some nice bonuses to increase your score.
Ptolemy from Fairyland Story. Worth 4000 points. (don't believe wiki here she doesn't show up in the original game.)
Purple PC. Looks like a purple version of one of the highscore bonus items. worth 4000
5.25 floppy disk. Don't know how much its worth.
Bonus round Drug score bonuses.
In the NES version these would show up around level 45. But I've actually got a few of these in the arcade version. They give you a bouns round and the chance for an extra life if you catch em all.
Red Drug. Tuliips
Purple Drug. Sunflowers.
We also got a fire bubble, the kind that actually shows up once in every 4096 games. It gives you the ability to spit fire (red cross powers) untill you die. Its rather nice and is worth 10,000 points.
We got a few other stuff including most of the wizard canes, a bell that highlights rare stuff and a Chack'n pop invincible heart. We haven't found any secrets yet but so far I am enjoying this immensly even though its much tougher than the original.
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Round up.
Did you enjoy our Fantasy phone thing we did back in May, well Samsung have sort of made my fantasy phone here. Called the Samsung Galaxy Fraulein Advance Turbo Edtion Sweet Roy its a Cameraphone minus the phone, and looks like the best thing evar. Best of all its antisocial as fuck no phone no texting and only what Droid Programs you can download from google.
Did you also enjoy the Neo Geo stats we translated back in September. Well there are some hitches with the distributor Blaze so its been delayed till further notice. However their site does look awesome so if you have interest then go here for it.
Finally we have sad news, that Patrick Moore has died. For most of the gaming generation we think of him as part of Channel 4s Gamesmaster slot dispensing wisdom and laying down a challenge for cocky teens on such games as Virtua Cop and Streetfighter II, while Dominik Diamond made cheap knob gags.
He also did The Sky at Night for almost forever, and definitely sparked off many peoples love of space.
We give you our tribute to Patrick Moore right here.
Did you also enjoy the Neo Geo stats we translated back in September. Well there are some hitches with the distributor Blaze so its been delayed till further notice. However their site does look awesome so if you have interest then go here for it.
Finally we have sad news, that Patrick Moore has died. For most of the gaming generation we think of him as part of Channel 4s Gamesmaster slot dispensing wisdom and laying down a challenge for cocky teens on such games as Virtua Cop and Streetfighter II, while Dominik Diamond made cheap knob gags.
He also did The Sky at Night for almost forever, and definitely sparked off many peoples love of space.
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Neo Geo X Stats
Finally done and hand translated from an article over at Inside games we bring you NEOGEOX stats. If your Nihongo is up to it then thats a link to the original article above and please feel free to correct in the comments below, we are nowhere near fluent.
They'll be some comment on certain things too just check for the (*) K.
Lets begin.
NEO-GEO nears Completion [NEOGEOX] on sale from the 6th Dec.
OK Japan LLC (*1) announces the planned worldwide sale of the NeoGeoX entertainment System and
says that it should be on sale from the 6/12/2012 in Japan.
A few days ago our connections found out the release date of the NeoGeoX Entertainment System. The Handheld NeoGeo (Neo GeoX) has the same case design as originally shown and could come with a possible HDMI out cable (Neo GeoX Station) and Joystick (Neo GeoX Joystick). It also includes 3 types of cables and an AC adaptor in the same pack. Also noted here for the first time is a preorder bonus, (Ninja Master's game card). It'll cost 19,900YEN from 6/12/2012.
Package Outline
NEO GEO X
NEO GEO X STATION
NEO GEO X JOYSTICK
HDMI Cable
Stereo AV Cable
Preorder bonus. Ninja Master's Game card enclosed program.
Collected titles (2*)
3 Count Bout / Fire Suplex
League Bowling
Art Of Fighting / Fists of The Dragon Tiger
Magician Lord
ASO II Last Guardian
Metal Slug
Baseball Stars 2
Mutation Nation
Cyber Lip
Nam 1975
Fatal Fury / Garou Densetsu (Hungry Wolf Legend and Special,
Fatal Fury Special / Garou Densetsu Special
Puzzled
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
The King Of Fighters 95
Samurai Showdown II
King Of The Monsters
Super Sidekicks
Last Resort
World Heroes Perfect.
Official Homepage here in English collecting all software and peripherals in one place (*3)
We feel inclined here to make clear here all (NeoGeoX) internal stats. According to rumours, seeing as there is an SD card slot it would take extra programs too, though looking through the stats it cannot connect to the internet to do so. Possibly it will allow you to add more with external SD cards.
Product Resources
CPU: 1GZ
OS: Linux (type not stated)
Display LCD Panel:
Size: 4.3inch
Screen Image Size. 480x272
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Memory
System Memory 256MB
Memory Type DDR II
Memory Frequency (Possibly clock speed) 250MHz
Flash Memory 2GB
Flash Memory Type Trans Flash
Memory Card Standard
Supported Memory Cards: SD Card / MMC
Card Capacity: 1 - 8 GB
Function
Internal Speaker Output: 0.5W x2
Earphone jack: 3.5mm
USB Port Micro USB x1
OTG Standard Equipment
TV Out: HDMI, Composite Video
Battery
Battery Capacity: 3.7/2200mAh
Battery Usage (Time) / 6hr Gaming
Charge current 900mA
Charge Time 3 Hours
NeoGeoX Gold Entertainment System on sale from 6/12/2012 priced 19,900 Yen pre tax.
(*1) I've gone with LLC although i'm not sure if they are.
(*2) I've gone to the liberty to translate these into English, and provide a horrible clunky translation from the original Japanese.
(*3) Currently showing bugger all.
They'll be some comment on certain things too just check for the (*) K.
Lets begin.
NEO-GEO nears Completion [NEOGEOX] on sale from the 6th Dec.
OK Japan LLC (*1) announces the planned worldwide sale of the NeoGeoX entertainment System and
says that it should be on sale from the 6/12/2012 in Japan.
A few days ago our connections found out the release date of the NeoGeoX Entertainment System. The Handheld NeoGeo (Neo GeoX) has the same case design as originally shown and could come with a possible HDMI out cable (Neo GeoX Station) and Joystick (Neo GeoX Joystick). It also includes 3 types of cables and an AC adaptor in the same pack. Also noted here for the first time is a preorder bonus, (Ninja Master's game card). It'll cost 19,900YEN from 6/12/2012.
Package Outline
NEO GEO X
NEO GEO X STATION
NEO GEO X JOYSTICK
HDMI Cable
Stereo AV Cable
Preorder bonus. Ninja Master's Game card enclosed program.
Collected titles (2*)
3 Count Bout / Fire Suplex
League Bowling
Art Of Fighting / Fists of The Dragon Tiger
Magician Lord
ASO II Last Guardian
Metal Slug
Baseball Stars 2
Mutation Nation
Cyber Lip
Nam 1975
Fatal Fury / Garou Densetsu (Hungry Wolf Legend and Special,
Fatal Fury Special / Garou Densetsu Special
Puzzled
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
The King Of Fighters 95
Samurai Showdown II
King Of The Monsters
Super Sidekicks
Last Resort
World Heroes Perfect.
Official Homepage here in English collecting all software and peripherals in one place (*3)
We feel inclined here to make clear here all (NeoGeoX) internal stats. According to rumours, seeing as there is an SD card slot it would take extra programs too, though looking through the stats it cannot connect to the internet to do so. Possibly it will allow you to add more with external SD cards.
Product Resources
CPU: 1GZ
OS: Linux (type not stated)
Display LCD Panel:
Size: 4.3inch
Screen Image Size. 480x272
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Memory
System Memory 256MB
Memory Type DDR II
Memory Frequency (Possibly clock speed) 250MHz
Flash Memory 2GB
Flash Memory Type Trans Flash
Memory Card Standard
Supported Memory Cards: SD Card / MMC
Card Capacity: 1 - 8 GB
Function
Internal Speaker Output: 0.5W x2
Earphone jack: 3.5mm
USB Port Micro USB x1
OTG Standard Equipment
TV Out: HDMI, Composite Video
Battery
Battery Capacity: 3.7/2200mAh
Battery Usage (Time) / 6hr Gaming
Charge current 900mA
Charge Time 3 Hours
NeoGeoX Gold Entertainment System on sale from 6/12/2012 priced 19,900 Yen pre tax.
(*1) I've gone with LLC although i'm not sure if they are.
(*2) I've gone to the liberty to translate these into English, and provide a horrible clunky translation from the original Japanese.
(*3) Currently showing bugger all.
Sunday, 16 September 2012
The ballad of Kates Tits.
Heres a round up of stuff, including a bit more from the Wisdom Tree, some more info on that handheld Neo Geo and some deeply topical stuff with IM Baciel partys Prophet Muhammad (Caustic Window) film. Oh and the tits of Kate Middleton.
Wisdom Tree bits.
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We decided to not bother hacking anymore of King Of Kings, Spiritual Warfare or Bible Adventures as though I have a shed load of ideas I've got bugger all time to spend learning how to code. Sad I know, Quitters never win and all that but I have found a few more things that are relevant to the project. Both Bible Adventures and Spiritual Warfare have a small string of letters that are are used to load in bible quiz questions. (I did corrupt this by switching a W for an R and may actually do this for King Of Kings which uses the aforementioned huge table of words to build its questions with). We thought we had this when we found a script with FCEUXs PPU viewer but had our enthusiasm severly curbed when we found out it was just viewing what was in RAM (its RAM nothing stays in RAM).
On the upside we have found a corrupter that actually works. Its a custom job from Vinesauce and can be had from their forums, here. Used in most of their corruption videos and has provided me with a goodly amount of laughs.
NEOGEO Handheld.
Seems that NEO GEO hand held isn't a hoax after all. Blaze will be punting this out for the European Market so expect this to be in the same vein as their Megadrive Portable. There's full stats in Japanese here and we'll try and get this translated in full, (we know our kana and a few kanji so this won't be too difficult).
We of course will wait untill this is professionally reviewed before casting hard earned brass at this.
MST3K The innocence of the Muslims.
We only learned about this through the excellent Carl Craig facebook feed. Its a zero budget film adaptation of Muhammads (Mont Sant Michel and St Michaels Mount) life (though originally it was Bin Laden / nameless Egyptian Warlord). To be honest I would love to see the whole film as it was before it was changed. Because as it stands now, the film comes across as perfect fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000. Badly done chroma jobs and hilarious over dubbing make this a scream rather than anything sacreligious. Needless to say it caused outrage all over the middle east especially when it was subbed into Arabic, even in the UK with the usual crowd of Islamic Neckbeards protesting.
There is a pretty informed article up on wikipaedia for you to look, though I'd still love to hear a rifftrax version of it.
Kates Tits.
The other controversy inflaming the western world is some paparazzi shots of the Duchess of Cambridges Tits. Published in the French version of Closer (which judging by the content seems to have a more heterosexual male readership than its English couterpart) and the Irish Daily Star (still big brother and bugger all news I'd imagine) they are some of the grainiest pictures of royal jugs I have seen. Then we saw the actual distance on the news they were snapped from and I'm guessing they used the hubble telescope to get the shots. Like Britney Spears snatch though I warn you they are a little underwhelming and if you really want to see out of focus images of some tits you can look here instead.
Wisdom Tree bits.
We decided to not bother hacking anymore of King Of Kings, Spiritual Warfare or Bible Adventures as though I have a shed load of ideas I've got bugger all time to spend learning how to code. Sad I know, Quitters never win and all that but I have found a few more things that are relevant to the project. Both Bible Adventures and Spiritual Warfare have a small string of letters that are are used to load in bible quiz questions. (I did corrupt this by switching a W for an R and may actually do this for King Of Kings which uses the aforementioned huge table of words to build its questions with). We thought we had this when we found a script with FCEUXs PPU viewer but had our enthusiasm severly curbed when we found out it was just viewing what was in RAM (its RAM nothing stays in RAM).
On the upside we have found a corrupter that actually works. Its a custom job from Vinesauce and can be had from their forums, here. Used in most of their corruption videos and has provided me with a goodly amount of laughs.
NEOGEO Handheld.
Seems that NEO GEO hand held isn't a hoax after all. Blaze will be punting this out for the European Market so expect this to be in the same vein as their Megadrive Portable. There's full stats in Japanese here and we'll try and get this translated in full, (we know our kana and a few kanji so this won't be too difficult).
We of course will wait untill this is professionally reviewed before casting hard earned brass at this.
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| Predictable scenes from the Middle East. |
MST3K The innocence of the Muslims.
We only learned about this through the excellent Carl Craig facebook feed. Its a zero budget film adaptation of Muhammads (Mont Sant Michel and St Michaels Mount) life (though originally it was Bin Laden / nameless Egyptian Warlord). To be honest I would love to see the whole film as it was before it was changed. Because as it stands now, the film comes across as perfect fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000. Badly done chroma jobs and hilarious over dubbing make this a scream rather than anything sacreligious. Needless to say it caused outrage all over the middle east especially when it was subbed into Arabic, even in the UK with the usual crowd of Islamic Neckbeards protesting.
There is a pretty informed article up on wikipaedia for you to look, though I'd still love to hear a rifftrax version of it.
Kates Tits.
The other controversy inflaming the western world is some paparazzi shots of the Duchess of Cambridges Tits. Published in the French version of Closer (which judging by the content seems to have a more heterosexual male readership than its English couterpart) and the Irish Daily Star (still big brother and bugger all news I'd imagine) they are some of the grainiest pictures of royal jugs I have seen. Then we saw the actual distance on the news they were snapped from and I'm guessing they used the hubble telescope to get the shots. Like Britney Spears snatch though I warn you they are a little underwhelming and if you really want to see out of focus images of some tits you can look here instead.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
NeoGeo Pocket Vapourware edition
I don't own a mobile, that means there will be no Android or Iphone evangelism here and the only blackberry I've ever owned is of the fruit variety, so when someone makes a device like this its pretty hard not to shout out genuine want.
Of course its not a phone, but if its real then this could be worth looking into. We'll regurgitate some stats from Andriasangs news story where it first emerged via the Famicom Plaza site.
Stats:
4.3 screen
2GB internal storage
20 internal games including
Magician Lord
Ultimate 11
Samurai Shodown
and pretty much every other launch game for the original Neo Geo line up including Cyberlip and no ones favourite League Bowling*.
oh and a slot for a SD Card.
Though often billed on sites as a return of the Neo Geo Pocket, if it really is (if it exists) its would best be termed as a Pocket NeoGeo. Its a nice idea and would certainly sell if there was any indication that SNK were behind this. However there is a massive elephant in the room about the whole thing, it doesn't seem the least bit official. The thread over at RHDN has been pretty anti about the whole thing, poking holes in everything to the font used to where the whole market for this would be (my guess China).
The worrying thing about it is this, the more I look at it, the more I see the type of shoddy products, so excellently made fun of over at Ashens.com. Though would secretly love to see this made, its a Neo Geo in your palm after all, I get the feeling its made of fail.
Even more dubious is the fact that the original link has vanished from Famicom Plaza, which never mentioned where they got it from, though andriasangs link is mirrored in a lot of places. Neo-geo.com seems to think along my lines that its a mock up or at least an unlicensed product.
The idea of a handheld NEO GEO and not just a pocket is an intriguing though, done right it could actually generate some money for SNK Playmore . In fact if they could only add an analogue stick and buttons to an Iphone / Android capable handset and you would have a pretty decent phone along with some kick ass games (we would love big tournament golf and Neo driftout 95) and more crucially above physical controls to play with.
Finally a brief bit of googling brings this up for Droid lovers though god knows if it works, (apple fans of course have Imame as a option too).
Edit. It looks like this is actually official. Blaze will be handling the distribution duties in Western Europe and Australia, so expect it to be more along the lines of their Handheld Megadrives and NES, kind of tech.
Of course its not a phone, but if its real then this could be worth looking into. We'll regurgitate some stats from Andriasangs news story where it first emerged via the Famicom Plaza site.
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| Pocket Neo Geo, vapourware or ripoff only you can decide?. |
Stats:
4.3 screen
2GB internal storage
20 internal games including
Magician Lord
Ultimate 11
Samurai Shodown
and pretty much every other launch game for the original Neo Geo line up including Cyberlip and no ones favourite League Bowling*.
oh and a slot for a SD Card.
Though often billed on sites as a return of the Neo Geo Pocket, if it really is (if it exists) its would best be termed as a Pocket NeoGeo. Its a nice idea and would certainly sell if there was any indication that SNK were behind this. However there is a massive elephant in the room about the whole thing, it doesn't seem the least bit official. The thread over at RHDN has been pretty anti about the whole thing, poking holes in everything to the font used to where the whole market for this would be (my guess China).
The worrying thing about it is this, the more I look at it, the more I see the type of shoddy products, so excellently made fun of over at Ashens.com. Though would secretly love to see this made, its a Neo Geo in your palm after all, I get the feeling its made of fail.
Even more dubious is the fact that the original link has vanished from Famicom Plaza, which never mentioned where they got it from, though andriasangs link is mirrored in a lot of places. Neo-geo.com seems to think along my lines that its a mock up or at least an unlicensed product.
The idea of a handheld NEO GEO and not just a pocket is an intriguing though, done right it could actually generate some money for SNK Playmore . In fact if they could only add an analogue stick and buttons to an Iphone / Android capable handset and you would have a pretty decent phone along with some kick ass games (we would love big tournament golf and Neo driftout 95) and more crucially above physical controls to play with.
Finally a brief bit of googling brings this up for Droid lovers though god knows if it works, (apple fans of course have Imame as a option too).
Edit. It looks like this is actually official. Blaze will be handling the distribution duties in Western Europe and Australia, so expect it to be more along the lines of their Handheld Megadrives and NES, kind of tech.
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