David Hingtgen

I personally really like the Challenger's rear end, mainly because of the taillight design.

Depends. Both on the game, your TV, how the TV's set up, and how much you notice it. Also---every "game mode" out there does far more than simply "reduce lag"--it will usually turn brightness and contrast to max, go "super-ultra-cool-blue" for color temp, and otherwise make it eye-searingly bright. IMHO, simply turning every image procession option "off" will accomplish much of the same thing, but leave the colors alone. All those nifty "black compensation" and "dynamic contrast" "noise reduction" etc add to the TV's processing of each frame--if you turn them off, it has less work to do, thus faster display of the signal.

Eh, due to the merge being "backwards" the first post isn't the one intended----everyone ignored Graham's original "rules" for posting about 4 years ago... Keep posting like people have been doing this week, just ignore Graham's "number per scale only".

I only pre-ordered my Roy from LAFtoys last week, and it shipped today. Cost me $151 including shipping. I expect to get it pretty quick, since it's only 3 states away. Would have been a bit cheaper if I went for parcel post instead of priority. Personally, I've had good luck with SAL from HLJ, but I haven't ordered anything for a while. I do plan to get my 1/72 VF-25 kit from them that way though.

Sorry, but yes they'll look pretty bad. For some reason, SD video games look much worse than other SD stuff on HD screens, IMHO. Even the few non-HD games that offer 16:9 progressive scan still look bad. (some Xbox and PS2 games offer that). As to whether they're still at least "playable"---game by game, and you can rarely predict what they'll look like. I'm keeping my 20in CRT forever for this reason--to always have a "good TV for old games".

I've sold off far more than I currently own. Current: 1/60 Sv-51 Nora 1/60 YF-19 1/48 VF-1J Milia (to be sold soon) Past: 1/72 YF-19 1/72 YF-21 1/72 YF-21 FP 1/72 VF-11B 1/72 VF-11B FP 1/60 VF-1S Strike Roy 1/60 VF-1J Milia On order: 1/60 VF-1S Strike Roy 1/60 YF-21

This thread's REALLY close to getting closed. (Honestly I'm surprised it's lasted this long without becoming truly stupid/trollish)

That is so not fair. Now he has TWO pics to use for his avatar. I'm still waiting for someone to make a Miang one... (which is unlikely to ever happen)

Gah, layers and layers of quoting...

Hey, stop spoiling! 1 ep ahead is bad enough, but FOUR?

Please don't reply to stuff FOUR YEARS after it was posted.

Seconded. Not NEARLY enough VF-25 in the new opening. I like the song itself a lot more than the first though.

Scroll down to June 2002: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...odelgraphix.htm The white with orange one. And the white with blue one that matches the orange one.

Sergorn--are you able to extract Kei's subs? Those don't work using MKVextract for me. (They *seem* to extract ok---but Xvid4PSP can't use them, gives an error---all other extracted subs work fine) Getting Kei's .ass files directly works, so I don't think it's Xvid4PSP's issue----MKVextract just doesn't seem to be able to extract Kei's properly for some reason. PS--on my PC at least, encoding via "turbo" is WAY faster than "ultra" and I don't see a quality difference (it's on like the 3rd compression by then if you're working from the MKV, there's no way you're going to get a really good picture after this much encoding etc---if I could get non-torrent raws of the right specs I could do better). For ep 14, turbo took ~20 mins to encode, and was 472mb in size. Ultra made ep 14 only 328mb in size, but took over an hour. Unless you really need the end file as small as possible, go with turbo.

I believe the original Sv-52 was thought to be a two-seat variant. (though actually, that's more like a two-cockpit variant)

Technically, Isamu's is a demonstrator. But they probably mean the blue or orange project supernova schemes. (I'd post a link/pic, but can't find any with a quick search----they're both overall while, with large amounts of either blue or orange accents/striping)

I've seen factory Mustangs worse than that.

Russia says they lost a Su-25 and Tu-22 (presumably a Tu-22M), and is using Flankers to secure the airspace.

I can't get encode360 to work, but it does extract the .ass files nicely, right before it gives me an error code. MKVtool can "mostly" extract the .ass file----everything's fine except the font isn't quite what's specified. And, you can always just get .ass files separately, from the people who make them. GG's are possibly the easiest to get. Yes, it may be redundant, but combining a subtitle file with a "subbed" MKV file is one of the better ways to make a hard-coded file. ::edit:: Problem. I can't extract Kei's subs from MKV's---which is a good chunk of my MF stuff, and I can't find anywhere that has Kei's .ass files by themselves for many eps. I've got 13 and 14, but that's about it. Ironically, GG's extract fine, but they can be found alone easily...

I just watched an M7 fold, and it's the "double vision" thing. Anyways, I liked this ep a lot better than most of the last couple. Plus the OP has Battle 25 (though now they seem to call it Battle Frontier) transforming.

OK, that's twice in the thread, so I have to comment. THE VF-4 COULD ALWAYS TRANSFORM. IT IS NOT A RETCON. See here: http://macross.anime.net/fallacies/index.html

I was going to say if anything, Chow Yun Fat's a Ken Watanabe look-alike. Ken Watanabe=awesome.

It's not often you see the Su-25 in action, but, well, just watch the news. ::edit:: Dang, Su-24's as well, thought I saw one earlier but now I'm sure.

Ah---despite the name, xvid4PSP works perfect for what I need. It also seems that it can do "almost anything". It'll take Divx, AVI, MKV, OGG, Xvid etc, and convert it so that a PS3/360/Ipod can read it. It's by far the fastest way to hard encode subs onto a file. Frontier on an Ipod... Now to convert more episodes.

Similar question---anyone know of a way to convert MKV's so they can be played on a 360, with subs? I've found several options that'll get audio and video (usually by making it an MP4, sometimes just putting the h.264 into an .avi without re-encoding) but I don't think any have working subs after that. I'm frankly amazed no one's made a quick one-click "convert h.264 mkv's into a 360-playable format", based on how popular "certain download formats for anime" are.