I have an FZ-1 and I have to say it is a very solid console design. The tray might be more likely to break just because it is motorized, but it seems more solidly built to me than the Sega CD model 1 or the PS2's drive. I haven't heard the rumor about Genesis controllers frying the console. I tested...

Blu wrote:Shmups:
Time Soldiers - Feels similar to Rush'n Attack

Is this a test? It looks like a test. My answer is "No."

Time Soldiers is an overhead shooter like Ikari Warriors or Rambo on Master System.

My likes (in general): fighting games, Zelda, Front Mission 3, Civilization and Total War, RPGs with a lot of dialogue trees and Katamari Damacy Double Dragon and Black Belt ought to whet your whistle for Beat-em ups. The Master System versions of Golden Axe and Altered Beast are kind of framey but...

I picked one of these up in commemoration of the new year 2000 back in the day. I guess I must have ordered it from Lik Sang, I never considered whether it was released locally.

Going by collector prices, probably Panzer Dragoon Saga. Going by actual production numbers though, I think it would probably be my US Revenge of Shinobi with all of the unlicensed movie characters intact.

As I install all of my games to the hard drive to hopefully save my DVD drive, I always keep over 100GB on my hard drive. Each game is between 4 and 8 GB to install to the hard drive, so keep that in mind. I was able to back up all of my saves and XBLA games to a 4GB flash stick a couple of years ag...

I'll try to maintain an HD-DVD player or a combo HD-DVD Bluray player. This is mainly because I always preferred the HD-DVDs over the Bluray versions. Now it is because I have a lot more HD-DVDs and they are cheap and easy to find online.

Yeah, a lot of those early games were mono, some of the early Capcom ports sound so good I hardly notice though. Which Capcom ports? Ghouls n' Ghosts and Forgotten Worlds might be mostly mono, but both definitely have some stereo elements sprinkled about. I was thinking specifically of Strider and ...

You'll hear sound, but only the right channel. Listen to the first stage of Castle of Illusion in glorious stereo, one of the best platforming games of all time. Notice how fairly early on in the tune you hear a xylophone-like sound come from the left side (assuming you have everything hooked up co...

That's odd, even with an original Genesis 1 Mono Composite cable or RF? I remember trying a Stereo Composite cable on my Genesis 1 and the audio being screwed up, but I don't remember having that problem with RF (memory only) or Mono cables.