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Specineff
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 Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 8:03 am Post subject: Another sign the world is coming to an end... |
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Well.. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. This item wasn't even supposed to exist! See it with your own eyes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1393372504
What's next? A SECAM Saturn and a VGA-equipped Atari 2600? A gas-powered Game Boy? Panzer Dragoon Saga and Sapphire for the Master System??? 
We're all doomed! Soon the world will be ruled by intelligent monkeys and Charlton Heston will lead us in a revolution against them... NOOOOO!!
All your base are belong to us!! Die, monster! You don't belong in this world! I am from the line of the great dragon. I will put an end to your little adventure!
Thank you for Playing. Have a nice day, and may the force be with you.
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Kaminari
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 10:36 am Post subject: Re: Another sign the world is coming to an end... |
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Hehe 
Chances are it's a German imported TurboGrafx (modified to run in PAL 60 Hz). As odd as it may seem, Germans imported their NEC machines from USA, not from Japan like we in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and a few other European countries used to do.
So, I'd warn French and Benelux users against this bidding: this system is most probably only compatible with US TurboChips, NOT with Japanese HuCards. Unless of course that it's sold with a Kisado or whichever converter (doesn't seem, though). Certainly not worth the price asked by the seller (300+ euros for a cartridge system? *gasp*).
| Specineff wrote: | | What's next? A SECAM Saturn and a VGA-equipped Atari 2600? |
We had SECAM Saturns here in France 
| Quote: | | Panzer Dragoon Saga and Sapphire for the Master System??? |
Mmm, I'd prefer Ikaruga for the PC Engine  |
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Specineff
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Kaminari, I had heard that there was no SECAM Saturn whatsoever, but only PAL and NTSC. And that was from somebody at Sega. Seems they were wrong.
Ikaruga for the PCE? We could contact the guys who created Implode, hand them some bitmaps of rendered ships (like they did with Donkey Kong Country on SNES, or Sapphire on the PCE) Instruct them how the game should play, press the CD's and head for the Bahamas with all the money we'll make. LOL
I would love to see another homebrewn game on the PCE, like Implode.
And I would kill for the chance to develop it. Hey, I can dream, can't I? 
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Kaminari
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| Specineff wrote: | | Kaminari, I had heard that there was no SECAM Saturn whatsoever, but only PAL and NTSC. And that was from somebody at Sega. Seems they were wrong. |
They better should have been SECAM, or else they wouldn't have worked on our TV sets at all 
Most of the TVs sold in France nowadays are SECAM/PAL/NTSC compatible. But the standard is still SECAM and, back in those days, every game console officially distributed here was required to run in SECAM. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine Sega releasing a PAL Saturn with the risk that it wouldn't run on a fair number of displays  |
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