Late Night Consoling

Dear Late Night Consoling,
I've already posted this on First Post! (because LNC was so far away ~_~*sniffles), but I can't recommend this enough for GBA owners:

Tritonlab's AfterBurner is teh best GBA investment EVAR!!

After seeing the results, $35 is truly a steal (I've had a friend actually spend just about that much from light to light to magnifier/light combos, etc to find that perfect light)!! If you have that and a couple of hours to spare (and well, an xacto knife, mini-screwdrivers, a can of compressed air, and a soldering iron, too), look no further. The quality of the AB is leagues better than anything out there-- there's just no alternative; it's only 2nd to... uhhh... an actually backlit screen?

Ugh. I wish I had a better digital cam (you can find better pics on the tritonlabs forums), but heres some snaps of mine:

In the dark:
http://emilyemily.com/img/galleria/gba/ab_pokemon.jpg
http://emilyemily.com/img/galleria/gba/ab_mgs.jpg
http://emilyemily.com/img/galleria/gba/ab_klonoa.jpg

Bulleta approved!
http://emilyemily.com/img/galleria/gba/ab_bulleta_approved.jpg
http://emilyemily.com/img/galleria/gba/ab_bulleta_approved2.jpg

xoxo,
K. Sympathy

ya know what
those gt concept pics are a bit iffy
what pics are from replay shots, and which ones are acctually in game?
because we all know that the gt3 in game graphics werent all that, but the replay graphics were much better

plus 6 tracks??? 6 fucking tracks?? thats pretty fucking shitty

Probably replay, but the replay graphics weren't all that much better anyway, only difference was that you could apply some filters and motion blurring..ooooh. These are just really cheap expansion sets anyway, they're just made for companies to showcase their cars and let people drive them, more of a promo type deal. I think the games retail for $25 or $30 or something.

Those Gran Turismo Concept shots look insane.

Eat it! (to those XBOX fanboys that say the ps2 can't deliver graphically)

XBox bits:

Moto GP Review
http://www.teamxbox.com/view_reviews.php?id=356

Bruce Lee Preview (warning: it's probably not as good as previewed here)
http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/xbox/brucelee/

XBox Demo Discs for stores (Round 11)
Playable include: GunMetal, Crazy Taxy 3, Street Hoops, Outlaw Golf, NCAA Football
Videos include: Blinx, Buffy, Kakuto Chojin, Madden NFL 2003, MechAssault, Morrowind, Quantum Redshift, Shenmue II, Sneakers, Tekki:Steel Battalion, Vexx, and Whacked!
EB and Gamestop extras:
Playable include: Hunter
Videos include: Brute Force, Dead to Rights, Turok Evolution

Wooooo... hopefully Sega makes the Sakura Wars games for the american market. I would SO buy a console just to play those games...

what the hell is 5 billion yen worth in US$ anyway?

Sega is gonna break down and annouce vf3-evo for the xbox. Who want to bet?

Double Dragon for the 2600-- hah hah!

So Sony lost $41,717,573.16 according to xe.com. Does anybody have the numbers for Nintendo or MS? I guess that's also the entire company of Sony thoough as well, the SCE's are probably doing quite well, the report only really mentions Aiwa.

whats this sonic mega collection?
i'm intrigued...

So when are we going to get GT Concept 2001/2002: Detroit or something along the lines?

Although I would prefer those wacky japanese cars.....maybe we could get a pack of all three over here?

what's 5 bilion yen .. like thirteen dollars?

Jason, How about a screenshot or two of these "Console Game of The Evening"s? While the idea of Double Dragon (probably without Alyssa Milano's very nice ass) on the 2600 is akin to a road accident, I'd still like to see just how bad it was.

I think it would add value to this section of The Shack.

Man I loved Sonic Advanced so much ;) I'm glad they're maknig a new one.

Double Dragon ... Atari 2600 ... admirable attempt

Uhhhh no. No it wasn't. It looked like utter utter poop. Imagine a yellow square and a blue square. Imagine those two fighting. When you beat the square, the whole screen changes to the next scene. Not scrolling, just page flip. Then there's another yellow square to beat up.

Just seeing the words Super Mario Sunshine makes me all tingly inside.

I haven't played a fun Sonic game since Sonic CD, the Sonic Adventure series just doesn't do it for me at all. The controls always felt way too loose compared to most 3D platformers and the 'blast processing' didn't translate very well into 3D.

Jason:

According to planetps2's news page, the estimated 5 billion yen loss is not accurate...

http://www.planetps2.com/news/#PQN375951

Although admittedly they don;t provide a link for it and all, it does kinda go head to head with what is being reported with the loss...

Heh, from Red Herring:

Microsoft can absorb the Xbox losses. The company has an estimated $42 billion in cash reserves and, for the year ending June 30, it is expected to report a net profit of about $10 billion and revenues of $28.25 billion.

damn i cant believe how i got started into gaming. atari 2600 w/defender. shit, and i complained about HL's grafix...

Hey Jason, Kudos on the LNC layout. It's Working good for me! :)

Nocturne wasn't very recent. I was on a p3 450/TNT2U running it. Great game though. Got an autographed boxed from the developers.