Ghadrack

I grabbed that a couple hours ago really handy, and free!, I have put my favoraite music videos, an album's worth of songs and a dozen pictures and cool Jpegs on my PSP to show the thing off to friends. I am totally entralled with this thing There is a really nice walkthrough for converting DVD's to PSP right from downloading the programs to actually burning the discs over at 1up.com It took me all of ten minutes from DLing the software to copying my first videos onto my memory stick

My box was sealed with clear transparent tape, not easy to remove without marring the box, so it should be obvious if someone took the tape off. If there was no tape and no mark I suspect it was just not sealed at the factory. The Battery came with a short charge, enough to set up the system and watch the Demo disc before I plugged it in. There was no plastic film over the screen, but the way the thing is configured they almost would have had to put protective film over the entire unit to keep it from getting fingerprints. That sort of leads back to yrou fear of tampering. When you pulled it out of the box, it shoudl have been instantly apparent to you if it had been tampered with, because unless they wore latex gloves there would be fingerprints all over it I went and showed mine to my brother and a few friends after work, Wipeout Pure and Spiderman just sold three more PSP's This thing is so rad!

I just picked mine up an hour ago at EB here in Chattanooga, and I have to say that is it bar none the neatest piece of handheld electronic gadgetry I have ever had the pleasure of touching. Wipeout Pure is crisp and beautiful, I have a meeting, but I will throw in Twisted Metal, Ridge Racer and MG after lunch.

All time favoraite band, without question, doubt or a second thought: Tool Damn close second would be Alice in Chains I am a metal head with some bizzaro leanings. Lately I am listening to a lot of Mastodon, High on Fire, Isis, The Melvins, Alexisonfire, Testament, Metallica, Moby, Chemical Brothers, Faith No More, Converge, Nine Ince Nails, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Prong, Slayer, Brujeria, Therapy?, Rage Against the Machine, older Prodigy records. So metal and techno, I am a mess

Sony has finally updated their U.S. Site with PSP data: Official Sony PSP data It looks like some games will offer a "Share" feature that lates more than one person play a game using a single Copy of the game, I didn't see a list of titles posted though. Man, I am dying to get my hands on mine I went ahead and bought Wipeout (I have loved them all so far, by far my favoraite racing games, Twisted Metal (I was the king of TM2, mmmm destructive goodness, Metal Gear Acid (Figured I would give it a try even though card games aren't my thing normally. I will probably snag a copy of ridge racer, Hot Shots is a few months off still I think, but I have a copy reserved anyhow. Can't.....Wait.......Till.......Thursday....

I would absolutely spend the extra 30 dollars for the larger size kit that would look good next to any of my Valks, 1/72 through 1/48 Bring it on is my vote!

My personal opinion on the matter is that scale variance minutia isn't really that important to me. It seems to me that the scale varied in the show due to animation errors, and artistic interperetation for battle scenes, likewise, as shown in the varous scale diagrams posted there are some minor inconsistencies between the size of the pods and the pilotspace within them. If the Cap'n wants to make the model to a scale he thinks is right for a potential future pilot figure, by God, I am more than happy to have a slightly larger battle pod. I don't think the rationale behind the size variance is off the wall, going off average pilot size, seems perfectly reasonable to me. Hell, for purists and mathematicians who like the charts better than certain frames of the animation you can call it 1/72, 1/60, 1/48 or 1/63 and 2.1341248763% scale for all I care Tangent rambling aside, I am excited about this kit!

Well EB had Gran Tourismo PSP listed as shipping on March 29 on their website last week, now it has vanished. As far as teh street dates thing goes, EBgames may have it listed as a ship date of the 15th, but in store release dates, as I am sure you know, are almost universally on Tuesday so... Anyhow, the EB clerk should have been up to speed on the release at least having some clue what they were shipping and when, seeing as how it is going to way-lay them next week, I figured they would be trying to get as many transactions done early as possible to spread out some of the rush. At any rate, no biggie, just sharing the fact that EB in my neighborhood didn't have the games for distribution and have no idea what the actual release date for Gran Tourismo PSP is Not like it matters, I can't play em for a week anyhow.

Yeah but Yamato still has a section on their website with pictures of the VF-0S ty on it, I think there is a much higher probability of the VF-0S materializing than some of our other hopefuls.

I think it is a pretty cool idea. It would be a great day out for the kids, taking some out of town relatives out for a day, good family fun for all It would have to be a pretty expansive thing though, I would want to see toys from history, from around the world, aside from just the collectors toys that we all know and love there is a ton of interesting stuff out there. Civil war dolls, dice made from lead bullets that soldiers used to play with. In fact, there is such a wide array of things from throughout history youcould have tons of exhibits, areas for kids to play with ancient toys that bronze age kids would have played with, right up to modern stuff. Every country could have their own historic sections It sounds like a pretty darn good idea to me.

I absolutely have my hate on for 99% of third party accessories from memory cards to controllers, companies like Mad Catz and Pelican have been selling defective trash that isn't worth the plastic it is pressed out of for too long. Save your money and buy another game, put your PSP or DS or whatver in a backpack. Most of these carrying cases and custom boxes are overpriced, uneccessary fluff. Just my opinion on accessories. I went down to my EB at lunch, they didn't have their 15th releases in stock and the girl at the counter was utterly confused when I asked about release dates. Furthermore, she said that EB doesn't have Gran Tourismo for PSP in their pre-sell database so she couldn't accept my game reservation. What a depressing trip, thank goodness the best milkshakes in Chattanooga were on my way back to the office.

I have a PS and five games paid for. I wonder if they are going to have me come down to EB tomorrow to pick up my games to be released on the 15th with the system still not due for another week. That will be a long week of instruction manual and small disc size admiration

I can't remember where I read the article yesterday, if I find it I will post a link, but Nintendo is doing a special offer, if you put down a ten dollar deposit on the new zelda game you will get a free disk that is the entire Windwaker game with the new upgraded cool looking Link in place of cartoony Link. Kinda neat special offer I think. - Edit Well wait a minute, I just got PwnxxoredBBQ by the EGM April fools joke for 2005 I think. Oh well It seemed so plausible, oh well, color me naive ;p

You already got me down for one, but I think I need to go ahead and commit to a second Regult kit before they get pre-sold out So, please make that 2 for Ghadrack And if you get around on the Launch Vehicle I am still in for one of those! You guys are a true asset to the Macross fan community, keep up the good work.

Not fair Ngage is a bunch of crap thrown on a cell phone. The PSP is a pretty high resolution handheld video game system/multimedia device that could have some of these mundane functions added in to make it an all in one device that actually looks good.

Absolutely, that is why I am kind of frustrated with them. I love the MD format by the way, I would jump on the new Hi-MD if I didn't know they will make it patently difficult to utilize to it's full potential. If they would just allow people to use the damn machines they make to their full capability we would have some spectacular stuff, but Sony and their different divisions spend so much time trying to limit the functions of their stuff so as not to interfere with the sales arms of their other wings, riht now they could be selling a handheld device in the form of the PSP that is your Cell phone, Digital Camera, Walkman, PDA, Portable Game System, Portable movie player (With miniRCA jacks so you could use it for your home or travel theatre) and psuedo-laptop. blehhhhh

I am in. Regult! Regult! Regult! Once things get a little closer to reality I will more than likely want 2 of these. Go Go Captain America!

Well, I am simply thinking of economy up front, in a year or two, the price of memory sticks may be so low that it is convenient to have a couple, but the price of discs should be just a dollar or two each, more than CD's, but far, far less than memory sticks. Anyhow, this is all just blabbering on my part because Sony will probably have hard-wired the PSP to self destruct if you find a way to make it more useful than they want it to be because they are trying very hard to take marketshare in the MP3 player market right now

Yeah but releasing a burner doesn't violate the secure digital meduim act, since most recorders and players have built in coders that scramble signal (Try recording a DVD onto a video tape ) but people have to find their own way around it. I am saying if they released a UMD recording unit though that it would make the medium very attractive, and it might convinve people to buy a PSP and get in to the UMD format, all it takes is a small revolution to start major sales. The thing is, they have historically had access to major technological advances but they have shot themsleves in the nuts time after time (Betamax, Minidisc to name a few) by tyrying to horde the technology and be the universal owner and sole provider, when the market knows that this is a pitfall that it can not afford. Think about it, if sony sold a UMD recorder and you could rip your CD's onto a UMD and carry it around like an MP3player, (Without having to pay for 2 or 3 Duo cards) wouldn't that make the PSP a more handy and cool device? Imagine if you could rip a few of your favoraite movies on to UMD and have your whole CD collection, five or ten of your favoraite movies along with five or six good video games and a universal player all in a walkman sized sack? Cripes, that is a revolution in modern micro media, but the stingey, greedy screw balls, won't let that happen until some other company usurps their technology, but by then, too little too late as always.

Hola gents I posted a couple months ago, but I buried the most important question I had in a bunch of AWB sunset stuff and it got lost, but here goes... Do any of you guys have personal experience with the Armalite AR-10 family of rifles : Armalite Catalog I have been contemplating picking up an AR-10 model A4 carbine, I was hoping to hear from some people that have had a chance to fire one that aren't Armalite message board posters who are obviously biased. I am looking for a new .308 rifle the Armalites seem to have a pretty good reputation, although they are a bit pricey but I want a good serviceable rifle that will stand the test of time if maintained. Anyhow, thoughts on the Ar-10 series or any competitors would be appreciated while I am still doing my homework for the impending purchase. Thanks in advance.

Oh it is absolutely possible for Sony to produce and sell recordable UMD disks and recorders, but they are doing the same thing they did with Mini-discs. They have created a fantastic proprietary format and instead of selling the thing and getting the format out on the market they are trying to be stingey and keep the market cornered. Just like Mini-discs if they screw around for five years before they put recorders on the market and sell the rights to third party manufacturers to make players and recorders the format will be DoA. As it stands, there is no way in hell I am going to re-buy my movie collections on UMD, I have a portable DVD player with a screen two times the size of the PSP as it is, but, if they sold a UMD recorder so i could -Back up my DVD's and CD's on UMD then i would buy a recorder and a ton of discs just for the handiness of only having to carry one portable device for movies music and games..... Anyhow, I doubt it will happen, it would make too much sense

They should have called it Fox Force Four and then they could have cashed in on a quasi-Tarentino dialog rip off and the girl crime fighter team cliche. Damn I need to be involved in the marketting department of a sleazy movie studio...

Were I to guess, the new GBA model will be similar to the SP, it will have brighter screen illumination like the DS, a slightly larger screen and a slightly improved battery life. It will likely just offer minor improvements over the SP givne the price point they are aiming at and be out there purely for the purpose of stealing a little bit of the PSP's thunder. It sounds like a stopgap while they try to get a decent library of games out for the DS and establish it as a powerhouse handheld that it is going to have to be to combat the PSP. Nintendo isn't going anywhere in handheld land for a while, but sony really is going to put the thumbscrews to nintendo by stealing a significant amount of Handheld Marketshare by putting out more graphically pleasing titles on a handheld. Nintendo has a magnificent library of games for the Gameboy line, and games are what it is all about, but Sony is putting out a machine with better looking, flashier, more modern titles, it is going to be a problem for nintendo if they can't get some major developers to put out some high quality games for the DS. I think that the DS has hordes of potential, I don't know how many of you have played the Metroid demo for the DS, but in my book that little machine is second only to my PC for first person shooter feel. Using the stylus in place of mouse control for aiming and mouselook works so much better for me that a stupid D-pad or analog stick ever will. So far the games I have played and watched on the DS have been pretty nice but it is all about the developers, I hope nintendo can woo their fair share to make some good games for the DS.

Still been eyeballing this, anyone received a kit from him yet? I wanted to get one of these but with the delays and such I was hesitant to pre-order. Mostly I wanted to know if anyone had received one, or if anyone had any word from the creator in the past few weeks?

I'm in too if the release date is after May 1st. I will definitely want one to have the complete kit, just a littel strapped for toy/model money for a month or so.