Graham

I completely agree. As I've said before, to play the game properly, especially in Battroid and Gerwalk modes, you really need three hands Graham

Yep, you can go up and down in gerwalk. You need to use both analog sticks to control gerwalk mode. IIRC, One stick rotates you, the other moves you up, down, left, right. As for the mission inside Macross, IIRC you have to find three bbattlepod which have been abandoned by Zentradi defectors. There shouuld be an on screen arrow which guides you. Graham

No and No. When I'm in fighter mode, I usually always keep the decelerate (triangle) button depressed. It makes it far easier to out turn the regults and fighter pods. The only time I accelerate is to evade missiles. Graham

Thank you. Graham

It's pink... For some reason it reminds me of prune juice! Graham

End of November. Graham

Heh, for me US games are the import games. Graham

Hmm....that's a bit bad. I guess it would have been too much work for the programmers to add the twin beam guns. Oh well, we can just pretend that it is supposed to be an earlier prototype version of the VF-4, with conventional guns instead of high powered beam weapons. Graham

The game has a playable tutorial, which is the best way to learn the controls. Graham

A question for those of you that have already unlocked the VF-4. Does it have the two beam guns on the forearms and actually fire twin beams, or do the incorrectly have it firing a gunpod or gunpod ammo from the arms? Graham

Just wondering has anybody been able to get into the BBS on the official game site.? I've had no luck at all. I was just thinking that perhaps the Japanese players may have uncovered more secrets and may know more about the situation with the Mac Zero & Mac Plus VFs. Graham

Eh.....what 13th TV mission? I thought there are only 12 TV missions, at least I only get 12 when I play. Graham

Nope, never heard anything previously about this game having an online aspect. Graham

Here's the rest of the page from the new December 2003 issue of Dengeki Hobby magazine. Note also the unpainted Yamato 1/60 VF-1J with GBP-1S at the bottom of the page. Graham

Here's a pic of the pilot and cockpit. Graham

Heh, I want one of those wheelchairs for when I'm old. Perhaps I can ask Yamato to make it. Wonder if the would consider a FAST pack or full armored GBP version! Graham

Will try my best to get it scanned tonight, but as I mentioned, I have a business dinner so will probably get home sometime between 11pm and midnight and may be more than a little drunk Graham

Be sure to let us all know how the subs are Keith. I gave up on the series around episode 24 and gave all my individual discs away. However, I've been hearing that the ending is pretty good, so if the subs on the box set are an improvement I may just buy it. Graham

No it's not! Graham

Thought it was 10 turrets per ship. I like that stage. Graham

Nah, probably takes about 30 minutes from start-up to shut-down. My home PC is old, worn and tired. But still, that's 30 minutes I could be playing the PS2 game, hah! Plus it takes time to wake up the hamster that runs the treadmill which powers my PC. He's old and fat and doesn't run very fast these days. You think I'm joking, don't you? Graham

Hmm.....despite them being shown in that downloadable movie, it seems like the chances of the YF-19, YF-21, SV-51 & VF-0 actually being in the game now are pretty slim. Perhaps they were pulled at the last minute. I'm guessing that if the Macross game sells well, then hopefully Bandai/Sega-AM2 will release a second game, perhaps being based on Macross Plus and/or macross Zero. Graham

Heh, heh, ended up playing the Macross PS2 game until midnight last night, was too tired to scan pic, went to bed and watched some of the Animego Macross DVDs, fell asleep. Will try to scan it tonight (Tuesday), but I have a business dinner so might get home late and drunk. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) is my birthday and my wife is taking me out for dinner, so won't be able to scan it then. Thursday night, I have my Arnis class and usually don't get home until mdnight, so will be too tired then. Worst case, I will scan the pic Friday night. Graham

Started playing through the TV missions for the second time last night. Must be getting a bit better, cus at least now I'm getting a 'B' grade all the time instead of the 'D' grade I got the first time I played through. Also, have to say initially I was very disappointed with the performance of the GBP-1S Armored Valk. However, last night I tried it in free mode on the Mars Sara Base mission and it rocks. I absolutely wiped out Kamjin, the other two Glaugs and all the Regults in a very short time and got an 'S' grade (my first one), which gave me the card for Hikaru's VF-1J! Graham

Guys, the new December 2003 issue of Dengeki Hobby magazine has some good pics of the upcoming 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru Super Valk, including a pic with the canopy open. It looks like the cockpit interior has received at least a partial resculpt. The seat headrest seems to have been resculpted and Hikaru now has a joystick between his legs (no lewd coments please)! However, the rest of the cockpit interior seems to be identical to the DYRL Valks. I'm a bit disappointed that they did not add the TV version HUD The TV Hikaru pilot looks like nicely sculpted. His right hand is on the central joystick and his left fist hand positioned horizontally as if holding the throttle on the left side of the cockpit. I can't tell from the photos if he is made of ABS plastic or the rubber-like material like the Low Vis pilot. I'll try to scan the pics tonight , but don't count on it, as tearing myself away from the new Macross PS2 game will be very difficult Graham