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That doesn't mean it can't have an armor-piercing warhead at the tip. Say, a shaped-charge explosive(though the size needed to pierce battleship armor may prove... inconvenient).

I've just started watching that series. I remember now why I love super robots.

I say super. The assymetry just doesn't do it for me.

I thought Kawamori pretty m,uch stepped back and let other people do the Escaflowne movie.

Depends on the detonation point. If the nuke detonates close to the skin, which is the logical behavior for a space-borne explosive device, conventional or not, that armor WILL be severely damaged. It's just too close to the center of the flash, which is going to have an energy level on the order of a star's surface. I don't think the Zentradi vessels are built for stellar landings. Don't forget, there's a lot of EM radiation, most of it VERY high energy. You're familiar with laser weaponry, so think of this as a less focused but far more intense laser. Sure we lose a fair bit of energy because it's on the wrong side of the blast(best-case scenario is half the energy is delivered), but that's still a lot. If it lands in a "chink", such as a gun port, we've got some very big messes to clean up, as the blast will blow through the weaker part of the armor, probably damaging some internal systems. Of course, the most effective would be a "Daedalus missile". Make a 2-stage warhead, so that the missile pierces the armor with conventional armor-piercing techniques, throws the nuke through the hole, THEN initiates the fusion process. A little Valkyrie-carried Daedalus Attack that gets around all the shortcomings of nukes in space. We're inside the armor, and therefore inside the radiation shielding, which is intended to protect from outside sources of radiation. EMP is fun, and we have ALL of the EMP inside the system. And not near weakpoints where theyre's likely to be circuit breakers to dampen things. This alone will wreak havoc with a vessel. But we ALSO have the ship's atmopshere to carry the shockwave and heat wave. AND a spaceship hull and corridors to contain it, taking the blast straight down the ship to the vital areas. ... Unless the zentradi are smart and have regular breaks in the corridors where they hook out at right angles to prevent this kind of thing. Which they don't seem to, based on the Daedalus attack animation. Those missiles seem to get some good travel. That indicates long, straight corridors right down the length of the vessel. Which are just what we want. Essentially, we have an atmospheric nuke with the vessel acting as a lens to focus the effects.

XB-70 Valkyrie. And the Orguss Valkyrie appears many places. It was in a stock cell that got moved around a lot, sometimes flipped so it looked diffrent.

Japan is very like America electronically. Same AC, with the same plug. Same TV standard(though the channels are at diffrent frequencies). A japanese system will work with no alterations in America, with the sole exception of systems using a japanese RF modulator(translation: original-style FamiCom).

Heh. I just called them jetplanes, or robot jets, or some other similar generic term. ... Not that I didn't accuse the Transformers of "ripping off Robotech" when I saw Jetfire, but...

Ditto. Man, the fun I had with that thing... Flying it through the air, spinning in circles, taking the armor off, putting the amror on, landing it on the table... Darn it! Now I miss it.

Nah, just M$ stole the logo from there Or else Macross is prophesizing a world owned by Microsoft, where car windshields blue-screen and billboards flash "powered by Microsoft". Because it couldn't POSSIBLY be that the logo design is so simplistic that it was developed independently by both parties.

Suuuure you were... ... I vaguely remember that show. Got PART of the first episode on an old VHS tape. It's in really bad shape. Why it hasn't been written over is anyone's guess. I think it's for the kick-ass Toys R Us ad. Ummm, yeah, that's it. It's the Toys R Us ad I saved it for.

Well... The odds of one ever having an official stateside release are slightly less than 0. But the GBA has no region lockouts, so those are easily imported.

In DYRL the "trim" color changes with pilot. When Focker's flying, it's yellow. Hikaru gets red, and Max gets blue.

Kinm and Vanessa need to watch Excel Saga. You don't kill the creator.

Doubtless accidental(the product hadn't been invented yet), but in episode 13, one of the buildings has a large DirectX logo on it's sign.

Heh. 'S amazing how much more an older game can cost than a new one. ... Even more amazing is how much a BAD game can cost. It boggles the mind what Atari collectors will pay for crap like Chase the Chuck Wagon, just because it's somewhat rare.

ROM, Rip, yadda yadda.. That's become my all-purpose term for any backup form of a game. Yes it is a Cd-rip, at least as near as I can tell. I didn't have to do anything to it to get it to run on Magic Engine. GAH! STOP ABUSING TERMS! IT'S NOT A BACKUP EITHER! ... Well, I suppose it's remotely possible you DO actually own the game... Yah. SotN isn't very old, honestly. Anyways, I figure let the rumors run. Ain't hurtin' nothing.

Macross is in some of hte Super Robot Wars games. SRWAlpha, Alpha Gaiden, and some of the GBA ones.

/me sighs. No one has a Rondo of Blood ROM. Or even a ROM image. It's a CD game. You have a CD image. Or mroe likely a rip. Yah. Rumors have been floating around off and on for a while. Konami asked someone to pull Rondo of Blood off their site a while back, which seemed odd since Konami has a tendancy to pretend they don't see piuracy of dead software. Then there was the Castlevania Chronicles interview, which bumped the rumor back up after it had died back down. As it stands now though, Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo has made no commercial re-appearances aside from rumors and eBay auctions.

I guess you are right. It would only fit a Macross parody or something. This ship... it is... a booby... trap!

But how big would the war be anyways? Wouldn't culture shock put at least 75% of the fleets out of comission? And how much of a threat would the rest be? The UN Spacy fleet would be quite large by then, and the New Macross class ships couldn't easily wipe out the remaining Zentradi fleets. Maybe. I got the impression that blowing the crap out of planets and contaminated ships had worked pretty well for them in the past. We humans got lucky. And I somehow suspect that UN Spacey doesn't have as big a fleet as a zentradi one. Humans tend to funnel resources into other stuff, especially when there's no immediate threat. ... OOOHHH!!! What if there's a whole fleet built up of people that went the way of Kamjin, and embraced some aspects of culture but kept their zentradi roots alive and still run around engaging in rampant killing sprees.

A straight port would be REALLY good if they included the "wrong system card" level. ... Many PCEngine CD games had a error screen that came up if you were using too old a system card. Rondo of Blood on the PCEngine was unique in that it had a mini-game, consisting of one Castlevania/Akumajo Dracula level done in SD style, with the error coming at the end of the level.

Aren't their other Zentradi fleets out there anyways? It's always possible we could run into one of them and accidentally start another war.

How about those jets that turn into robots? What's up with THAT?

This sort of heavy armament would seem to logically deployed only in a 0-G environment. Weight would interfere little in 0-G, only affecting the speed in which the fighter can accellerate. It will likely make little affect on the way it operates in space. As long as the weight is evenly distributed, it probably won't make an ounce of difference, certainly not to the point of impracticality. Weight isn't the problem. Mass is. And mass is constant, regardless of gravity. The only things you aren't dealing with in space are drag and gravity pulling stuff down. You're still going to have lots of inertia interfering with everything.