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You're most welcome Josh would payday be this Friday? If so then I'll see if I can check the status of the PS2 slim consoles I have tomorrow at some point - right now I'm writing up a certain article which will go live in an hour or two with any luck - as I'm sure I can find you a replacement, if it's just the console you need with no leads - as presumably the ones you have work fine - then it won't cost that much at all, I'll be cheaper than eBay at any rate plus you know, N-E staff member discount and all that. :p We'll have you playing Klonoa and Parappa again before you know it!

Is it a faulty PS2 slim or do they all do it over time? I ask because I have PS2 slim consoles, though I haven't used it that much apart from the odd hour or so here and there. If it turns out to be the fault of your PS2 slim then let me know and I can send you one of mine as a replacement if it turns out that you need one. : peace: Indeed I just did a quick search and it seems that it's down to the ribbon connector catching on the actual disc as it spins round! You can gently push it out of the way but apparently you need to be careful not to break it according to video guides... well I learned something today. Anyway my offer stands either way but I hope you manage to get it sorted one way or another, can't have your PS2 wrecking your games or leaving you not able to play them!

All this talk of Lex Luthor reminds me of the times when NGC magazine was around... :p

By all means, I hope that all of you who are adopting the hardware on day one enjoy it, I just don't quite feel like it's worth investing in for me personally at this point in time. : peace:

N-Europe Presents VC Weekly #371 Mega Man Battle Network 6 The final chapter in the enjoyable yet completely superfluous Mega Man Battle Network series! Check inside for the verdict. Enjoy! : peace:

Closer to £700 all in.

Personally I'm still not convinced by any of it. I'll wait and see but at this point, nothing will make me want to part with that amount of money on what could quite likely be the next gimmick rather than the future. There's nothing wrong with being cautious towards unproven technology, just as there's nothing wrong with being excited about the possibilities it might bring with it. : peace:

More than the cost of the console is too much, I'll stick with playing games on my HDTV for a while longer.

Forget cartridge-blowing and its pseudo-effects or otherwise... what about certain Sega disc-based consoles? (just kidding, to an extent but mostly aside from the NES I've very rarely had cartridges fail) I swear some Dreamcast discs only need a few small scratches in the wrong places and they become near impossible for the console to read... I'm talking about even when you have a "good" machine as well with a stronger than usual laser. Already I'm a couple of rare(ish) titles down - merely doubles thankfully - as some games just stopped reading and seemingly no amount of cleaning would help... I think this can happen with Sega Saturn games as well but to a lesser extent thankfully as the machine is definitely of sturdier construction that the Dreamcast I think personally... though I might just be slightly biased or annoyed at my DC not readin certain discs currently. :p There was a moment where a copy of Cannon Spike just stopped working... thankfully after some very careful cleaning it is now working flawlessly again - as in I tested the game for the whole evening just to be sure - which is just as well; it's a tough road in trying to get several collectable Dreamcast - and Saturn - games to be complete, in decent condition and reliably working, but it's worth it. Does anyone have any other disc/cartridge cleaning techniques they wish to share? Let's keep the Retro dream alive! : peace:

No chance, I'm working today sadly! Another time though perhaps? - I have a week off next week - I hope you all have fun though. : peace:

Well I'd best get downloading then! Today is a good day, thank you NOE! I now retract all that was said earlier... ...until the next time. Anyway, yay! e-Reader levels get!

I'll make every effort to tone down the arbitrary alliteration. Starting... now!

I guess there is a certain amount of pre-empting going on here... I really hope it isn't the case, but when it isn't mentioned in the press release or even shown in the video, it's hard not to get that uncertain feeling. :p Ah well, I'm off to work soon but even if no one here is downloading it without knowing I'm sure you'll only have to wait until... 2:05PM until somebody, somewhere downloads it and checks the main menu; I'm assuming this is how it can be confirmed? Unless you need to get to a certain point in the game to unlock them. Either way I'll be downloading these later when I return - unless we get codes for them - as three for two is still too good a deal to pass up. In the meantime if anyone hasn't got anything to do, why not check out VCW 370 - above - which has a review of Drill Dozer by Dean and I - if you haven't already - it contains pictures of the original game as well.

Me obviously! If the European release of Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 doesn't have the e-reader stages then it just goes to show how lazy NOE can be at times, this will be mentioned in VC Weekly... more than mentioned, there will be a significant section which will take up most of the review. I really hope it isn't the case though, that somehow all the stages are in there and it just hasn't been mentioned, either way it's buy two titles get one free so... I'm going to go for it, purely because I planned to download them because I need to and we never actually know whether or not NOE is going to bother even sending us codes for VC games on a weekly basis as always, they gave us codes for all the Pokémon VC releases seemingly as a goodwill gesture which is obviously appreciated but still they could do a lot better for VC releases by their fans and by the places which review their games in the first place... surely it doesn't take that much effort? Regardless these will be reviewed, I don't suppose the games are even up yet either... usually they seem to be in the afternoon on a Thursday I gather, so if anyone wants to find out and isn't going to buy the games then they will need to wait until this evening as I work until just gone 5PM... if the releases were already up on the eShop then I'd have already downloaded then but they aren't so nevermind. It often feels like one massive leap forward with NOE every now and then, followed by several stumbling steps back sometimes, I really hope we haven't been screwed over here but only time will tell.

I watched it earlier before going to work and I must admit that I did find it interesting... particularly as I'm an amiibo collector and yet like so many others on this forum it was never my original intention. Just three amiibo figures I said to myself, just Samus Link and Mario... oh but then I must have Kirby as well... Pikachu seems pretty well-made, also I can't leave out Donley Kong! Before I knew it, I had them all and I wanted more... Part of it was the unavailability of certain figures I'm sure but now that they are readily available I don't even have that excuse anymore! My name is Sam and I'm... an amiiboholic. I have been collecting things for many years though, especially game related merchandise so I see it as an extension of that, plus there are many amiibo figures of Nintendo characters which just haven't existed in physical form until now so I do enjoy owning them and playing with them in a game-enabled sense. Plus when I have the complete Super Smash Bros. set I will do a feature on them for the site as promised, because if I can't arrange ALL of them so that they fit in one large picture just like in the Photo Mode in the game then there simply is no point to me buying them all really, it has to be done! :awesome:

Nice, it's another fucking twin-stick shooter. In fairness this one does look different to other examples in the genre.

There's only one fari way to compare Star Fox Zero with previous entries... Play all the videos of each home console entry simultaneously! You might want to skip ahead some of the videos to the flying sections... In fairness, the original game makes everything else look slower. Each game has its plus points and weaknesses I'm sure Star Fox Zero will be no different in that respect. : peace:

N-Europe Presents VC Weekly #370 Drill Dozer Drill Dozer finally gets its long overdue European release thanks to the Wii U Virtual Console. Dean and I team up to tackle this title which is surely one of Game Freak's more original and underrated offerings. Check inside for the verdict. Enjoy! : peace:

Surely it's obvious that Playtonic are as close to having a new Rare as is ever likely? They have my full support - and my money - in any case. : peace: ------------------------------------------------------- As for Lionhead... I have respect for what the company has achieved over the years even if I don't agree with the overzealous praise the Fable franchise has received as the games after the first entry really weren't that revolutionary. It may be sad to see a studio go as suddenly as this but it all comes down to money so this is probably a good move for Microsoft who certainly aren't short of cash. Lionhead will be acquired by another bigger company, you can just see it happening... though serious reform would be required, perhaps some of the team will go their seperate ways though, who knows. But as far as the future of other studios owned by Microsoft... who can say what will happen now?

Ah fair enough, I'll still keep you in mind though, the Special Edition seems to be the only way to get the full game, so if you don't manage to secure one, I can still order the Special Edition and then sell you just the game for... £35 including postage if that sounds fair? (That seems to be the going rate for most brand new 3DS games) Seeing as it's just the game you really want, that might be a viable option, then I can just sell the box with all the extras, I'm sure I could make the money back easily so I wouldn't be losing out either way and you'd get the full game for a reasonable price without feeling forced to buy the extras you don't want. : peace: Anyway, keep it in mind for nearer the games release. Would buying it all digitally come to less than £35 though? --------------------------------------------------- I'll be pre-ordering this as soon as it's available as I love Fire Emblem games despite - rather embarrassingly - never finishing a single title in the series to completion... *hides* I still enjoy playing them though.

I tell you what, when Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition is announced as being available on the Nintendo Store, I'll pre-order two - assuming it's not one per customer, which shouldn't happen anyway with this - then if you want it I'll swap you it for your Amazon voucher - assuming it's for around the same amount as the game - then that way you get the game, I get the value of the game back which I'll then spend on Amazon and everyone's a winner. Anyway, let me know if you do manage to get it on Pre-order on Amazon but otherwise I'll go ahead with this unless there's a flaw in the plan I've overlooked, you and Flink have helped me out with game sales etc before so I'm always happy to return the favour. : peace:

A whole Year One of content planned out? That's both impressive and very presumptuous, this implies that Ubisoft expects people will be playing this for significantly longer than a year on a regular basis. While this may turn out to be the case, it could all still so easily flop could it not? Plus I think it all depends largely on how you spin in, is this just the latest case of a game being released ahead of schedule and then charging for some late content? Or is the Season Pass really to fund future content for the game? (Which just so happens to be already planned) Either way I hope that those who purchase it enjoy the experience enough to justify getting all this content but it just raises a lot of questions for me peronsally about the way games are being distributed these days. I'm not meaning to start any arguements, just making some observations from what I've seen of the game so far. : peace:

I'm still intruiged by this title, mostly for the visuals at this poiint though I must admit, I may go back and finish Sticker Star but the best thing about that for me was how that holographic sticker effect had been replicated on the 3DS screen. Though I must say, if a remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was created in HD with the same level of detail seen here, I'd buy it in an instant.

A good selection, surely NOE aren't going to screw us over by not including the e-Reader stages though? The three for two deal better not be just something to soften the blow because we're getting an inferior version. I also find it amusing that the New 3DS now has the original Super Mario World so now the Wii U VC gets the enhanced GBA port... though it does have both versions now, I must admit though there's something special about the original SNES version which I love.

I'm glad to see you're mostly enjoying the game again but, about this bit... I thought that you could get something called a Poe Lantern in this version of Twilight Princess which allows you to search for them during the day? Though I have no idea where you get it from, I still haven't really properly started the game as I was playing Drill Dozer yesterday but it has definitely been documented that this item is in the game. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-02-04-everything-thats-changed-in-zelda-twilight-princess-hd Someone else who has it in-game can confirm this perhaps?