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Jonny 290 posted:i bet you remember your social security number too because it's "17" OHHHH poo poo lol I actually still keep my paper social security card in my wallet like an old fart
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I'm still amazed that the dreamcast was bold enough to include an f'in modem as standard with their consoles, and you could replace it with an ethernet adapter. And you could get vga output. So crisp! linux on dreamcast was interesting but slow as heck because everything had to be pulled from the cd. Ran glxgears pretty well though.
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beyond compare why would anyone pay for a diff tool?
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qsvui posted:beyond compare it runs like poo poo on macos but it's super comprehensive, i swear by it
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Ritz On Toppa Ritz posted:lol I actually still keep my paper social security card in my wallet like an old fart One time I found someone's passport jammed mostly under a street lamp where the mortar goes under the base plate, by the anchors. I got it back to the guy!
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:That's a really bad practice and if you ever lose it you could be in for a bad time getting your identity straightened out. way to gently caress up his dead drop
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qsvui posted:beyond compare It is a very good diff tool, HTH
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personal ISP-hosted websites in the '90s that would all load different versions of XFILES.MID that sounded real bad on my FM synth card
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The concept of geocities "neighborhoods"
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Volmarias posted:The concept of geocities
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Sweevo posted:any tv made after about 1990 will display both 50hz and 60hz just fine, but PAL vs NTSC isn't just about the refresh rate - it's two completely different ways of encoding the colour info, so even if your TV can handle the different refresh rate you will still get a b&w image. I'm pretty sure this only applies in PAL regions, at least as far as tube TVs were concerned. Unless you went out of your way to get a multi-region set in the US it was not likely that any given set would be able to sync to a 50 Hz signal, let alone decode the color. I actually just tested this on a circa-2005 CRT TV I have (one that's new enough to have component input and an ATSC tuner, but cheap enough that it only does SD video) and it definitely was not happy when I switched the HDMI to composite converter I have hooked up to it to PAL mode (vertical rolling, off-center horizontal, no color).
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That's just what PAL looks like
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:My gf in high school actually bought me a Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure on launch day for my birthday drat, you two meet at the country club?
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eschaton posted:drat, you two meet at the country club? She was a waitress at a diner (yes while we were in high school) making literally double what I made as a pharmacy stock boy lol She once got Rudy Giuliani as a customer (while he was still mayor) and he tipped her something like 300%.
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Yo that girl had the hookup. Dreamcast was sold day and date to the announcement because someone though that was good marketing. Only true console heads knew to keep an eye out for the new Sega.
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The diner she worked at was literally across the street from a huge mall and across the street from not one but two Nobody Beats the Wiz stores. The mall had a Babbage's, Software Etc, and Electronics Boutique so she was always getting me awesome stuff the day it came out. Once it was Majora's Mask on launch day. She lived alone with her single mom in a one bedroom apartment in the projects which made me appreciate that stuff so much more too. I actually still have the Dreamcast. The only other thing I remember about the PAL issue was when I got my replacement Sonic Adventure disc, the color on the disc itself was way darker or lighter (I forget which had which) that makes me think they legit just accidentally placed PAL games in NTSC cases, rather than it being some sort of gently caress up at the factory during the recording process (or whatever they call disc printing). This entire thing isn't even mentioned on Wikipedia. How weird.
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other people posted:That's just what PAL looks like the horrors of communism in europe power stone was fun as gently caress tho
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thinking of PAL reminded me of SCART connectors. I dunno if they were any good but it always looked pretty silly and I laughed at my cousins for it
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scart is great because you can plug things together and it Just Works, and it supports RGB. the connector is bad though
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Scart is also what people (at least used to before Analogue’s various retro consoles and HDMI mods) used to pull out a much cleaner RGB signal from the SNES and other old consoles. Then you could either connect that to a high end/reference CRT (maybe using some BNC cables) or plug it into the MiniFrameMesiter to get HDMI output with <1 frame latency. (Emulation is probably a better, easier, stress free solution. Don’t chase the retro gaming dragon. It’s too expensive and too much of a hassle at this point).
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And for literally no reason Japanese scart wiring is completely different than European scart wiring even though the connector itself is identical So apparently they agreed on a connector but not on what wires go to what pins?
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i mean that's not uncommon. remember when ethernet cards couldn't do automatic crossover? or the approx. 100 million different technologies using mini-DIN variants and who the gently caress knew what was on what pin
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Yeah but those connections were on the system itself. That's way different than a connection on the back of a TV
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KirbyKhan posted:Yo that girl had the hookup. Dreamcast was sold day and date to the announcement because someone though that was good marketing. Only true console heads knew to keep an eye out for the new Sega. I don't think that's true, dreamcast had a very slick marketing campaign and a memorable launch date (9/9/99). The sega saturn however, was like "surprise assholes, you can buy it today!"
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DamnGlitch posted:I don't think that's true, dreamcast had a very slick marketing campaign and a memorable launch date (9/9/99). drat, yeah you right.
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Ritz On Toppa Ritz posted:I remember seeing rips of launch Dreamcast games being sold by bootleggers when the Dreamcast came out. i don't think i every played a dreamcast game that wasn't burned on a cheap cd i wonder why the console failed
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ps2 had dvd, which was the killer app, and coasted on the popularity of the playstation. Dreamcast had a couple amazing hits like jet grind radio, pso, and skies of arcadia, but having a real dvd player really killed the market for a dreamcast.
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also, if you played on a burned disc, you probably had poo poo seek times so it's worth getting the real game
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Dreamcast also had shenmu I still don’t really get the affection for it tho
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sb hermit posted:ps2 had dvd, which was the killer app, and coasted on the popularity of the playstation. don’t forget sea man, you could talk to the sea man. 
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Kitfox88 posted:Dreamcast also had shenmu you can feed and pet a kitten and also open capsule toys
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:don’t forget sea man, you could talk to the sea man. 
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sea man is the most dreamcast game, sorry. it used the little poofy mic on the controller.
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Never forget that the little beep you hear on a dreamcast controller is not for letting you know that the VMU is turning on. It's to tell you that the VMU has no batteries. Also, the VMU was a gimmick that never had quite enough traction to be seriously useful besides things like selecting plays in football in secret. I remember putting a battery into it to try out the tamagotchi aspect of sonic adventure and realized very quickly that it was a waste of time. I still don't know anyone that actually enjoyed raising chao.
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dreamcast had sould calibur and mr driller. that alone makes it one of my favorite consoles of all time
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Kitfox88 posted:Dreamcast also had shenmu watched my friend play a lot of shenmue. i'm still not sure what the game even is except for buying capsule toys and a lovely forklift minigame
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Moo Cowabunga posted:holds mealworms good too
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