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Jan 27 2004

Floppy Disk Art Gallery

A lot of old computer software had more bonuses for the consumer than modern games do. Many X68000 games (And I assume games for other platforms) had ilustrations and comical tips for safe handling of your floppies. I’ve put up a gallery.

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Jan 26 2004

Soldier Blade Time Attack Guide

SiK and I, along with some of the #shmups denizens, have put together a preliminary guide to the Caravan stages of Soldier Blade for the PC Engine. Have a look if you’re into that.

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Jan 23 2004

New link banner…

Every now and then someone asks me for a linking banner, and I’ve always said “I don’t have one”, partially because it’s true and partially because all the banners I’ve tried to make have sucked. But no longer!! Here’s the new official 140×35 pixel link banner/button for nfggames:

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Jan 21 2004

So, how about that Nintendo DS, eh?

So Nintendo has announced their new amaze-o-tron product, the DS. According to the official press release (seen here on GameSpy) it’s a dual-screen portable system. The press release is phenomenally light on details – there’s no information about titles, developer support, design, features, resolution, processor… Just a vague comment about ‘semiconductor memory up to one […]

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Jan 20 2004

New graphics…

Some of you may have noticed the new NEC consoles gracing the background of this page instead of the screenshots that used to be here. Please rest assured they’ll be back after I tire of my own vektorgraphik magnificence. I whipped up a CoreGrafx, PCE and TurboGrafx so far, and as you can see here […]

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Jan 7 2004

Vodaphone 256k Appli Gallery

J-Phone is now Vodafone in Japan. And that’s all the pre-amble you get, here’s a new gallery of only 256k games (roughly five times larger than the norm) which are really quite impressive.

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Jan 3 2004

EDY Cash Card for Arcade Use

Something I noticed at the AOU show last week but only recently put together with actual facts was the EDY contactless cash-card from Bitwallet. Launched in Japan in 2002 it’s a prepaid cashcard that users can fuel up at over 1,400 AM/PM stores in Japan, among other places. Based on technology from Sony the EDY […]

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Dec 24 2003

Tweaks + fixes etc

I’ve tweaked the video primers I put up two days ago, and added a whole ‘nother page, bringing the total to six pages. Please enjoy!

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Dec 24 2003

X68000 PSU Repair Guide

I’ve put up a detailed guide on repairing those flaky X68000 power suppies, have a look.

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Dec 23 2003

New Video Primer: Complete!

I’ve been working on this for more than three months, but finally figured out how to put it all together coherently tonight. This is a layman’s introduction to a number of different things, starting with different video formats and how they stack up in terms of quality and resolution. There’s also a series of supplemental […]

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