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Originally posted by: Zion
There are mods online if you really want to do it. But I'm pretty sure you need to do some soldering. One of these days, I'm going to do mods to my Genesis, SNES, and N64 to add component video connectors.

but, SNES came with A/V... didn't it?

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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No. The SNES and the N64 both had the same special single plug on the back of them. After it pluged into the back of the system it split off into the three composite ends. The Gamecube that I have has the same thing, but I have heard that the older ones have A/V connectors on the back.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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nevermind, I think I found it.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Can't say I've ever heard of it. Tell me more!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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You use PGen and SNEStation? I use SNEStation on my PS2, I love it. I have a slim PS2 and I use Swap Magic to boot SNEStation. Only a few SNES games it can't handle, most of them play perfectly.

With this independance exploit, are you able to play DVD-Rs and imports? Or only small homebrew apps like PGen and SNEStation? Also what model of PS2s does it work on. Only the old 1st gen bulky ones right? Swap Magic is really worth dishing out twenty bucks for, you don't have to worry about hurting your system and it is not that much of a pain to use. It is nice being able to keep my SNES and all my games packed away and yet still be able to play all my old games. Saves room under the TV.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Woo. Finally got Super Mario Galaxy. Now at twelve stars and counting.

This game is fun, and a good deal harder than the reviews I saw made it out to be. My only real complaint at the moment is the copious amounts of jaggies.

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Jaggies? You mean jagged edges in the graphics? Hmm, I'm aware of them, but they never really bothered me. But you have an HDTV, right?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Yeah. It's just the price of running my Wii on such a large HD screen.

It still looks great when I take my mind off the visuals and just play, though. And it's really not that much worse than the aliasing in Assassin's Creed in 1080i.

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Remember that SSBB I bought at Wal-mart for $20 and later got denied? Well I sent a semi-threatening letter to them and they gave me a $10 gift certificate! What is the lesson here?
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In that case, I guess the lesson is "If you see that Wal-Mart has screwed up, exploit it."

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That is really dumb they made the mistake of putting it for $20 then cancelled your order. It would have been more decent of them to take a loss. That is usually what they would do had the mistake been an in store mistake. I guess they take advantage of the difficulty of communicating across the internet and hope for the best. Even with the using the free $10 gift card you still aren't going to get a copy of brawl for $20. Dirty evil blue empire.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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I don't shop at Wal-mart one because they are evil but mostly because the nearest one is too far to be my regular store. MEIJERS FTW!!!! I work their too and get paid better than the people at Wal-mart.

I bought a Ninja Turtles action figure since it was the only thing I could buy and I had to use it online as well.
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So I was at Target the other day and I saw a Player's Guide for Super Mario Galaxy among many other player's guides caping the ends of the videogame aisles, and I realized something. People who still buy player's guides are idiots. Now, I didn't check the price on them, I guess if they are only two bucks or something they might not be such a bad buy, but in this day and age who doesn't have a computer with the internet? Chances are if you have an Xbox 360, a PlayStation, or a Wii, then you are not the type who doesn't have a computer or the internet. IGN.com among other places have fantastic high quality guides with pictures absolutely free. Does anyone actually buy a player's guide and constantly refer to it? I would think you would only bother messing with it when you are stuck, or perhaps if you are trying to collect all the stars, challenge points, skatulla tokens, dog tags, or whatever it is in that particular game that they have for you to collect inorder to add some minimal replay value to the game. Why bother with the guide when you could just check the internet for hints or help when you are stuck, or get a nice printer friendly list of hidden items to be collected with a description of where to find them from an online FAQ. Once you beat the game chances are you will never refer to the guide again anyway. I swear, some people just have too much money on their hands.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Well, I'll try not to take that personally, C3PX, as I have a history of buying guides for most of my games, particularly RPGs. It's just nice to have it in an official book for some reason, be it for the artwork, or simply the ease of not having to constantly go to the computer. And since I am pretty anal about finding every little piece of nothing in a game, it is nice to have an official source.

That said, I haven't actually bought one since Final Fantasy XII over a year ago. I did Galaxy completely on my own, only checking the internet for a single star that I couldn't find.

But speaking of which, the only strategy guide that was completely useless was the one for Final Fantasy IX seven years ago. Pretty much half the book told you to go online to find the answers to all of your questions. It was supposed to be this amazing new high tech way of integrating paper strategy guides with online connectivity, but all it did was piss off everybody who'd bought the book only to find that it basically told you nothing except to go to the computer.

EDIT: I have to admit, though, that I had a similar experience in GameStop yesterday when I encountered a hardcover strategy guide for Super Mario Galaxy. I'd previously seen one (imitation leather-bound) for Phantom Hourglass. Now say what you will about strategy guides in general, but that is certainly a waste of money. Or for people who mistake gaming guides for actual literature.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I have a similar opinion to C3PX, I guess. I've not bought a game guide since... Geez, probably Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, back in 2000*. They're just too expensive when the internet is there for free. I understand if you're trying to find everything in a big complex RPG it's nice to have the book there so you don't have to run back and forth to the computer, but otherwise, it's not worth the money.

*Well, I also have the Starcraft guides, but those came with the BattleChest--both games and both guides for ten bucks.

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I have owned just two player's guides in my day, one was the official Mario Kart 64 guide which I bought used for next to nothing and had excellent maps with details on how to do secrets like jumping the wall in that Wario level, which I became quite good at. The other guide I had was the Star Fox 64 guide, which I bought because it had some neat pull out diagrams of the various ships found in the games and detailed background information on each of the characters. This was back when I had dial up internet, and again I only spent a couple of bucks on it. Both guides were purchased well after beating the game numerous times. I concede that for RPGs where the guides have useful details on the various items a guide might be a nice companion. For my part though, I still think they are a horrible waste of money and have nothing that a nice IGN guide doesn't offer for free. They had their time back before the days of internet, but I am surprised there is still a market for them today. One other thing I realize though, is that I have a laptop with wireless internet, which means I can have my coputer sitting on the couch next to me when I play my games. Someone who is bound to a desktop in another room of their home I can see being more partial to a nice full color printed and bound guide.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Heh, yeah, again, that would be me. I have no wireless Internet access. At my apartment at school, though, my Wii is only a few feet from the computer, so it's pretty easy to get there. The communal PS2 is a bit farther away, though. And at my parents' house, the computer is on the opposite side of the house. I also have the SF64 guide. It does give a lot of details on characters and plot that weren't in the game.

Oh, and I just thought of another purpose they served. Especially when I was younger, say in middle school or high school, I'd usually take a game guide with me to pass the time when the class got boring, or we had some free time. Since they are walkthroughs, it is something like reliving the game in narrative form, especially in games that are more story-based, again, like RPGs. I remember I used to take my Super Mario RPG strategy guide with me everywhere when I was in 5th grade. I even took it to water parks for some inane reason. I'm amazed it hasn't disintegrated.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I can imagine the Super Mario RPG guide being a really cool one, considering that the instruction manual was as cool as it was. I used to keep the manual for that game in the magazine basket in the bathroom along with issues of Nintendo Power and The Reader's Digest, that instruction manual was just that interesting.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Yeah, it was great. It had a character profile for every major character you'd meet scattered through the walkthrough accompanied by the CG rendered picture. Sadly, Luigi does not narrate the guide like he does the instruction booklet. Yeah, I loved that instruction booklet so much that I tried to order a copy of it before I even got the game (my first introduction to the game was playing a friend's copy).

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Sadly, Luigi does not narrate the guide like he does the instruction booklet.


I forgot about Luigi narrarating. I think it is funny his only inclusion in the game was as a small series of 2D drawings with word balloons in the instruction book. I also remember he used the term "kick some tail" somewhere within his word balloons. I remember that because one of my friends who stumbled across the instruction manual while using the can came across that line and thought that it was pretty lame. I wish Super Mario RPG worked on SNEStation, otherwise I might play it from time to time, but it just doesn't feel worth digging it out SNES and hooking it up, adding yet another system to the stack of them under my TV just for the sake of playing one game.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Aw, that's sad, because it's well worth playing. I keep pretty much all my consoles close by for easy playing for just that reason. Oh, and by the way, Luigi's only appearance wasn't in the instruction manual. He had a wish at Star Hill: "I wish I could be a famous plumber like my brother Mario." And a very tiny Luigi sprite leads the parade at the end of the game. It took me years to figure it out. I always assumed it was Mario not thinking about the fact that he appears at the end. Plus, I'm color-blind, so, you know...

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Lucario has been confirmed for Brawl what else can I say but FUCKING AWESOME!