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Mar 9 2004

dog poo campaign

The Japanese people, as homogenous as they are, all share the same dream: Get a job, get married, get a house, get a dog. Putting aside for a moment the fact that they consider it a dog’s duty to bark incessantly and their apparent unwillingness to train them, everyone with a dog walks the dog […]

Mar 9 2004

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Mar 9 2004

Today’s tech fun!

Tonight I spent some time putting the finishing touches on an X68000 power supply repair. Once I got it all finished and put it together, it failed to function. Turns out the floppy drives were dead. Let this be a lesson unto you: If your power supply blows, and they often do with these awesome […]

Games

Mar 8 2004

Cellular Nectaris

Hudson, now a division of Konami and past purveyors of all things PC Engine, have released everyone’s favourite future military sim Nectaris for Vodafone cellular phones in Japan. Check it out. This is in addition to several NES and PC Engine releases like Adventure Island, Star Soldier, Lode Runner and Bomberman. NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode on […]

Games

Mar 7 2004

nfg.2y.net in the news again

Australia’s Official XBox Magazine has linked to the X68000 Sleeve Gallery in their latest issue. Click below to see what they said!

Hardware

Feb 20 2004

Strange Saturn Internals

Of interest only to the techy geeks, I found a strange new Saturn. It’s not especially rare, but it uses a Sanyo CD mechanism, which is sort of weird (the majority are JVC).

Games

Feb 16 2004

Interesting SNES Demo Cart

I bought a few EPROM boards from someone recently and some had chips on them. Turns out it’s a 1996 Tokyo Toy Show version of Nazo Puyo 2, with new special screens, but missing about one third of the content in the released game. It’s kind of neat.

Games

Feb 13 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

So the demo was released. I think it’s bloody fabulous, and you can read why.

Games

Feb 1 2004

101 Secrets of the PC Engine

A bit of a trivia collection for you: 101 Secrets of the PC Engine! Includes pics + diagrams!

Hardware

Jan 31 2004

IS Electronics Saturn Address Checker

I picked up a huge and rare Saturn Address Checker made by IS Electronics. No, this isn’t a repeat, this one’s a LOT different. About 8kg different in fact.