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-=N64=- Conker's Bad Fur Day (3D Action Platformer) F-Zero X (Racing) Star Fox 64 (3D Shmup) WipeOut 64 (Racing) -=Saturn=- Astal (Action Platformer) Battle Garegga (Shmup) * Darius Gaiden (Shmup) DonPachi (Shmup) * DoDonPachi (Shmup) * Dragon Force (Turn-Based Strategy RPG) Dungeons and Dragons Collection (Hack 'N Slash Compilation) * Duke Nukem (First Person Shooter) Fighters Megamix (Fighting) Galactic Attack (Shmup) Galaxy Force II (3D Shmup) * Gradius Deluxe Pack (Shmup Compilation) * Guardian Heroes (Action) Hyper Duel (Shmup) * The Legend of Oasis (Action RPG) Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter (Fighting) * Metal Black (Shmup) * NiGHTS (3D Flying/Platformer) Panzer Dragoon (3D Shmup) Panzer Dragoon II Zwei (3D Shmup) Panzer Dragoon Saga (RPG) Powerslave (First Person Shooter) Radiant Silvergun (Shmup) * Salamander Deluxe Pack (Shmup Compilation) * Sega Ages (Compilation) Shining Force III (Turn-Based Strategy RPG) Shining the Holy Ark (Dungeon Crawling RPG) Sokyugurentai (Shmup) * Sonic 3D Blast (Action) Thunder Force V (Shmup) * Thunder Force Gold Pack 2 (Shmup Compilation) * Vampire Savior (Fighting) * X-Men vs Street Fighter (Fighting) * *= Japanese import -=Playstation=- Castlevania: Chronicles (Action) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Action) Colony Wars (Space Combat) Colony Wars: Vengeance (Space Combat) Colony Wars: Red Sun (Space Combat) Darkstalkers (Fighting) Dragon Warrior VII (RPG) Einhander (Shmup) G-Darius (Shmup) Gradius Gaiden (Shmup) * In The Hunt (Shmup) Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete (RPG) Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (RPG) MegaMan X4 (Action Platformer) MegaMan X5 (Action Platformer) MegaMan X6 (Action Platformer) Raiden DX (Shmup) * The Raiden Project (Shmup Compilation) Raycrisis: Series Termination (Shmup) Raystorm (Shmup) R-Types (Shmup Compilation) R-Type Delta (Shmup) Strider 2 (Action Platformer Compilation) Warhawk (Flying) WipeOut (Combat Racing) WipeOut XL (Combat Racing) WipeOut 3 (Combat Racing) *= Japanese import -=GBA=- Astro Boy (Action/Shmup) Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Action Platformer) Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Action Platformer) Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (Action Platformer) Gradius Galaxies (Shmup) Gunstar Super Heroes (Run N' Gun) Metal Slug Advance (Run 'N Gun) Metroid Fusion (Action Platformer) Metroid: Zero Mission (Action Platformer) MegaMan Zero (Action Platformer) MegaMan Zero 2 (Action Platformer) MegaMan Zero 3 (Action Platformer) MegaMan Zero 4 (Action Platformer) MegaMan & Bass (Action Platformer) Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (Turn-Based Strategy RPG) Sonic Advance (Platformer) Sonic Advance 2 (Platformer) Sonic Advance 3 (Platformer) -=PC=- Doom (FPS) Doom 2 (FPS) Final Doom (FPS) Doom 3 (FPS) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Action RPG) Wing Commander (Flying) Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (Flying) Quake (FPS) MechWarrior 2 (Mech "Sim") IL-2 Sturmovik series (WWII Flight Sim) Return to Castle Wolfenstien (FPS) Wolfenstien 3D (FPS) Taito Legends (Compilation) Taito Legends 2 (Compilation) I'll think of more for the PC after I've gotten some sleep.

07-26-2007 according to your profile. Guess the memory really is the first thing to go Anyway, welcome new folk. There's some soda in the fridge and microwavable popcorn in the cupboards. djp hasn't gone to the store yet, so that's about it right now.

Time for a bump... Steel Panthers: World At War! Up for a little WWII turn-based strategy gaming? Well, this should keep you busy. It seems to be a remake of the first game in the series, using the Steel Panthers III graphics engine. It was made by Matrix Games, who owned the code to the series for a while. It's a big download at 425MB, but it's worth it if you enjoyed the original DOS games. Be sure to grab the patches that were released for it. BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank There's another game for the series, which has battles that take place between 1945 and 2000. With 90 nations in it, there's plenty to play with. Note: Be sure that once you've downloaded the 100MB main game, install all four patches in their proper order. It's been said that it's important to do this, so don't skip any patches. Steel Panthers: World War II Basically, this is pretty much all of WWII. A huge amount of scenarios, 500+ new and revised vehicles... it's gonna take you a while to get through this one. Note: As before, make sure you download and install all the patches in their proper order. From some of the things I've read, it sounded like "WWII" might have been a major upgrade to "MBT". I'm not sure though, so in case they are two completely different games, I listed them both.

Sex, drugs, and Rock N' Roll Racing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k6HjN-_-9g One of the best.

I just went to the Nice Work Archive that's been on thasauce for a while now, and it's still there on the original bookmark. Was it transferred, or is it simply a fluke of some kind that I can still access it at the moment on the old site?

If memory serves, nothing brought me here but sheer chance. I stumbled across this site, browsed it for a while, then eventually joined up.

Not to be an ass, but what's the point of writing a long post about how you basically like it? I'll tell you what the point is... to express your opinion. And the ability to do just that, is part of what this thread (and site) is about. The concept behind making comments and writing reviews on OCR, is to share what you felt was good and bad about a given track (or set of tracks). It's not about only allowing positive feedback here, it's about saying how you really feel towards what you just listened to... and Ace! did exactly that. Some will like this project, others won't. But regardless of where they stand, they're welcome to voice their thoughts

Well nibble me tit and shiver me testicles. How can ye be askin' a question like that? It's an age old tradition, me masturbatey. Arr...

I don't know how much of a pain this would be, but if the JamSpace room (whatever that is) is going to be staffed at all times, why not set up a kind of ticket system? Something that would make it so someone can drop off their instruments, and get a ticket so they can ID it when they pick it up later. I figure a ticket with two halves (each half having the same info and number) would be easy to design, and just as easy to have printed out in the quantities needed. Then the ticket could simply be halved when the instrument is dropped off, with the patron getting one half, and the other half going on the instrument they left there. This would probably mean renting extra enclosed space to provide such a service, unless this JamSpace room isn't the main concert area. But the costs for that could be made up with perhaps a small fee of $3-5 per instrument for the temp storage. Anyway, just a thought.

YEAH! Don't be makin' Darkesword post his rollin' eyes smiley... cause he'll do it. I seen 'em do it. And son, it ain't pretty.

The whole "June is End Boss Month" came about last year (possibly from Bummerdude). It was simply something to bring everyone together, make some sigs, and have some fun. It's sequel, "June is Boss Month", was done this year by Bummerdude. Instead of only having end-of-game bosses, it was expanded to include any boss from any game ever made. The reason being, that with each year seeing many new games (and bosses as a result), there's no way to run out of subject matter. DS's rolling-eyes smiley is a default smiley that comes with phpBB, and likely other forum software. It's not a special smiley that only he uses, or that was made just for him, as it's quite literally all over the Web. It just got attached to him because for a time, he used it when he was a mod... a lot. I'm talking damn near daily "JACK THOMPSON LOL" was in a thread in Gen Dis/Community that was all about the "lawyer" gamers love to hate. I don't remember exactly what he'd done to cause the thread's creation (I think it had to do with a case of his being thrown out of court, and him being admonished by the judge for wasting the court's time), but it was quickly filled with commentary about him, and the phrase "JACK THOMPSON LOL" caught on. I question whether this phrase was born on OCR, or if that thread maker saw it elsewhere and then brought it here, but that's when the phrase started getting used around here a lot.

Indeed. I was starting to think we were both nuts But yeah, that's from DOSBox and it's handy screenshot feature. If you have the DOS executables for your Final Doom game, give it a try. It's just like playing back in the old days. If you don't have those executables, and you only have the WAD files, then try out some programs like ZDoom, Doom Legacy or Doomsday. They work much better than Doom 95, and some even add new lighting effects and such.

Ahaaaaahhhhhhhh... and so it all becomes clear now. We were talking about different games, as if they were the same one. Let me show you... Doom/Ultimate Doom Doom II Final Doom: TNT-Evilution Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment Each game uses a different screen for the background when the percentages are being tallied up. I was talking about Doom/Ultimate Doom, you were talking about Final Doom: TNT-Evilution. That's where we got some wires got crossed *lol* Edit: Damned four image limit. I can't even post a smiley now?

Proof of what?

Well, grayscale's a lot better than what I saw trying the print screen method with Doom 95. The end result was colorful to be sure, but it didn't look like what I'd been playing at all

Yeah, MS Paint isn't good for much beyond telling messed up stories Photoshop can open pcx files without any problems. You just have to save the image as a web-friendly file type. PCX is a weird image file type that I've seen a lot of with MUGEN when you save all of a character's animation frames into individual files using the MCM (MUGEN Character Maker) program. Not sure what the significance of the file type is, but...

You know, I'm starting to think someone doesn't want this stuff on OCR. Anyway, welcome to the fifth incarnation of the Quirks thread. In here, you can find out about things from OCR's past that still resonate through the site, and ask questions about oddball things you've read about happening in OCR's history. You can read up on what's currently available on these things here. And with this fifth thread, I have an invitation for those of you who've been around for a while. I've been thinking about adding a section to the Quirks site about the various sigs that have come to be very well known over the years. Not the "Hey I think that's cool" stuff, but rather the "This stuff is synonymous with that poster" type of sigs... the kind of sigs that it would seem unnatural to not have at the bottom of their posts (in one form or another). Some of the one's that come to mind are sigs like Wideruled's Vader helmet edit, Bishop112's "I am the Justice! Not you!" Voltage Fighter: Gowcaizer sig, Red Omen's red dot series, and even Merid's Rape Wagon from San Fransisco Rush. So all you old timers (and semi-old timers) help me out here. I may not agree with them all, and some may not get on the final page, but help me amass a list that I can whittle down. Or, if you think the idea's not "Quirk"-ish enough to fit with the rest of what's on the site, feel free to speak up and say so. I'm looking for feedback as well, as I'm still on the fence with the idea.

Oh, I never accused you of lying, but in the years I've been playing Doom in Doom95 (both the original version, and the one from Doom: The Collector's Edition), I've never once seen this end of level image you're talking about. It's always been a map of the episode. There is a way to enable screenshots in Doom 95. Make a shortcut to the Doom 95 executable, and in the "Target" line, add... -DEVPARM ... after the quotation marks. You then use F1 to take a screenshot, and open the pcx files in Photoshop (or a similar graphics program). It's not perfect, but it's better than the print screen method. Here's the screenshot I took in the original Doom 95 program. Now I'm all curious to see this thing Edit: Are you referring to this image, which is from Doom 95 when it initially starts up?

Yeah, everyone knows the title screen, so that reads better. You guys should go with that. But, just for the sake of proving I'm not talking out of my ass... Episode Select Thy Flesh Consumed Ending

I went back and played through a few levels of Doom using the "95" executable before I posted earlier, and it does the same thing as the DOS version... hit the switch to leave, go to a map screen for tallying, and then start the next level. There's no image of the Doom Guy there. The only image of him that I can think of, is with the ending of the episode, "Thy Flesh Consumed". It has the Doom Guy holding a severed rabbit's head. The final episode is "Thy Flesh Consumed". It's the fourth one that was made available for download in 1995. If you don't want to include that episode, and keep it as the game's original three episodes, then you can adjust the text appropriately to "three episodes". As for the questionable line, how about this... "They also know his iconic green suit, thanks to the many dead Space Marines that lie scattered about in the game's original three episodes, and the ending of the later released fourth episode, 'Thy Flesh Consumed'."

Hey guys. Long time no see. With the current discussion about the infamous Doom guy, I thought I'd try and offer a little possible help... - The Doom trooper appears in another game... Quake 3. He's a default character, along with a female version named Crash (supposedly his training instructor), and another Space Marine named Phobos. - I've played the hell out of the DOS and Windows versions of Doom, and I've never seen him appear at the end of a level. When a level ends, you go straight to a map of your current episode, and the percentages are tallied. After that, the next level starts. The only time I can recall ever seeing his green suit, is on the dead Space Marines that are scattered around the various levels. Maybe I missed something? - I tried that paragraph you guys were talking about... "Ironically, little is known about the Doom Trooper, the main character of one of the most widely known computer game series ever: Doom. Most know him by little things, such as the sound of his voice when he's injured, his many facial expressions, and the blood that gradually covers his face as he's wounded. They also know his familiar green suit, thanks to the many dead Space Marines that lay scattered about in the games four episodes." Thoughts?

It could be keeping the card from performing as well as it could, but it may not be. It depends on how much you have running in your PC (CD-Roms, Hard Drives, etc.), and whether they're drawing power at the same time your card is handling a game. If you haven't had any issues with it, then it sounds like you got a break up to this point. But when you upgrade to the new card, it's best to upgrade your PSU as well, since an 8500GT requires 20A on the 12v rail.