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See! Even yellowlightman agrees with me! Shenmue is NO GOOD!!!

Holy cow... discrepency? I was watching the DYRL game intro and noticed something goofy... after the carrier is hit, they show everyone reacting (Hikaru's shocked, Kakizaki's freaked, Roy's ticked and Max is aloof). Anyhow, they then show Hikaru in his cockpit with (presumably) Max and then Kakizaki to his right. Example: Hikaru Wingman 1 Wingman 2 Anyhow, In one scene, you see that the furthest VF (wingman 2) has blue accents. So I guessed it was Max. But then in the next shot when they peel off, the closest VF (wingman 1) also has blue accents! So do both Max and Kakizaki have blue accents in the game? Given, my footage is bad, but I watched it sveral times and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Anyone else want to take a shot at it and see if I just crazy?

Elitist!!! What about us Mac users?

Although M3 blows, it would be worth getting for the cutscenes. Personally I thought Shenmue was incredibly dull and boring. The engine was great and the environments were amazingly well done... But it was still boring as hell. Jet Grind Radio is neat, but a little frustrating. What's great about the Dreamcast is that everything's so cheap for it now, any game is worthwhile!!!

Hmm... they looked the same to me. They also seem to have the same helmet color in the DYRL game intro, as well. I terribly wish I had opted for the DVD player on my Mac, so I could do screengrabs of this stuff.

I doubt it. The light source throughout that whole scene is fairly constant, and physically cannot vary that much in such a small space as well as stay constant (ie-shadows from a cloud on Kakizaki but not on Max). The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced it is intentional that Max has a new shade of blue, and that it is not an effect of lighting or an animation mistake.

Then how come Kakizaki's helmet, in the same lighting, is still a dark blue? Someone's got to take a screen shot right before this part where Kakizaki gets hit. You'll see a VERY noticeable difference in the helmet colors between Max and Kakizaki, a difference that simple lighting cannot account for.

I actually first noticed from my monitors (19" crt and lcd). Video-cards are ati, nvidia and matrox. Then I checked it on my tv's (sony and toshiba). Same purplish stuff instead of the prominent blue of the Max-1A. borrowing a pic from here: That looks like blue to me. Like I said, watch the same scene before Kakizaki is killed off. His blue* is much darker than Max's, although in the begining, their blue's are the same. * although it's interesting that, in the movie, Kakizaki is the only one who's helmet (blue) doesn't match his VF (green). Hmmm...

Aha- but as I noted above, on the Earth, Kakazaki's helmet still retains the same dark blue that both he and Max share in the begining, during those outer-space scenes.

Yeah. It's light-blue/purplish. Watch the Kakazaki death scene again. It's a much different shade than what we originally see him in his VF-1A. Also it seems that Max and Kakazaki's helmet's are both the same shade of blue in the beginning. As to whether or not it's a mistake? I'm not sure. it could simply be an intended effect due to the low-lighting in the scene, but who knows. I think it's safe to assume that it's possible Max got a slightly different shade when he took over Skull.

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I like it alot. Great work. Personally, I'm not to fond of the gorilla head. I think it throws the one bit of cheesiness into a great design. May I ask your medium?

StarshipModeler's very own John Lester (the admin) does a review of the Hasegawa SV-51. Not only that, but he links back to us on MW when mentioning the landing gears. Anyhow, here's the link.

It's the same concept utilized for the Stampeed Valkyrie. Graham- You're right. The ones shown equipped on the VF-19 do have some type of vectoring flaps! The plot thickens... edit- You can't see from the pics I've posted, but the flaps open upwards just as it fires up the engines.

Here's a good photo that will give you a size comparison to the ground crew: http://www103.sakura.ne.jp/~key/aircraft/photo2/2_xb70.jpg

its a cold war design for the USAF ironically its nickname is valkyrie. Ummm.... yeah, I know that. I was simply commenting on how it looked more like a doodle than an intentionally crafted drawing. IIRC- The XB-70 is one of Kawamori's favorite planes, and is the direct inspiration for the VF-1's name "Valkyrie".

I thought it looked reaaaaaalllllly familiar. Wasn't there one of these in one of the Gundam series? Yes, it shows up somewhere in Gundam, as well. The surviving XB-70 is on display at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. It's monstrous, especially when your 10 years old.

I wonder whom in Nue drew that? It looks more like a sketch than anything.

I did some minor alterations to the pilot's faces, including re-doing the helmets. I also made a few changes to their facial features to make Kai Rood's stand out a bit more. p.s.- Roycommi, could you give me a few pointers on how to do that .gif with transparent background thing? I'm not doing a good job finding out for myself...

Here's a good shot of the FASTpacks. Some design work obviously went into these, whether canon or not. I think, overall, they're much better looking, design-wise, than the ones we know and (haha) love. I'm just surprised that there hasn't been any mention of them before.

Aha! The game is afoot! No problem, mon Capitan.

Hum-dee-doo

This is what babelfish says: I'm guessing it's for excellence in sound, as well as blending cel-shaded animation and 3D animtation.

What's with the guy in the suit standing in front of the letterbox?

Plus, IIRC, the Chunky-Monkey design was legitimately licensed by Hasbro. That's also part of the reason RT never released it themselves back then.