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Am I the only one avoiding watching the episode until the second part is released? I'm bad at cliffhangers. 
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Gutcruncher posted:Back when the show was mostly interviews and stuff with Arinos Challenge as a small segment, it was called Game Center [CX]. After one season they realized that the challenges were the best part and made it the main focus of the show, rebranding it as Game Center CX. And for several seasons, the opening credits still read 'Game Center 「CX」', only to have the Japanese bracket things fly off in an animation. I don't know what season they finally ditched them entirely.
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Sep 8, 2012 06:15
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Gutcruncher posted:Tajiri really makes some great faces. Is it just me, or has he not aged well? I mean, here he kind of looks like a Japanese Wil Wheaton, but now...  EDIT: and it's not just the glasses: 
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Sep 8, 2012 18:37
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zari-gani posted:That's Tsunekazu Ishihara, CEO of the Pokemon Company. Well, someone should tell this Pokemon wiki, then. I did wonder if I'd gotten the wrong photo, but... ah well!
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Sep 8, 2012 21:43
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Something I've noticed in a number of the most recent episodes is nasty interlacing. Unfortunately, it looks like the video has been resized at some point, which means the interlacing can't be removed. Is this a problem up the pipe from the translating team?
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Sep 9, 2012 21:43
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TapamN posted:Be thankful that Arino will never challenge the arcade Battletoads game. I'm amused that the closeups on their faces were clearly photoshopped out of the full-body shots. Draw one than more picture? That would require effort. 
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Sep 9, 2012 22:51
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Obeast posted:It's too bad the JP version didn't have multiplayer, because it would've been amazing if they did that for the end Given that it took him 13 hours just to clear the game, I imagine they weren't terribly interested in sticking around for some multiplayer.
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Sep 10, 2012 08:22
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Cemetry Gator posted:Hey man, commas are important. It's the difference between "Let's eat grandma," and "let's, eat grandma!"  I think you meant "let's eat, grandma".
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Sep 29, 2012 03:08
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Random Stranger posted:
Some folks find it painful to watch Arino fail at a game over and over and over again. Me? I find it painful to watch Arino put money into a game that isn't working over and over and over again. Call an attendant! Gripe about the start button being broken! Don't feed eight coins into it in hopes that'll magically solve the problem! 
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Oct 3, 2012 01:07
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Just for reference, DVDs can do overlays. I have a copy of 'Ghostbusters' on DVD that has a director's commentary mode with MST3K-style heads of the people commenting. I don't know the technical details, though, except that the subtitles are image overlays instead of text. (In AVISynth, you'd overlay them with VobSub instead of TextSub.) Not that I expect this to diminish my enjoyment of the DVDs when I get them! (My shipment was slightly delayed because they tried to pull the money out of my account a day before it was actually there.)
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Oct 3, 2012 19:56
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An issue I've noticed with the subtitles, aside from the 'a little italics italicizes the whole line' issue, is that on widescreen episodes, the subtitles are stretched horizontally. It's an easy mistake to make, I think: the video's encoded at 720x480 and then resized either to 640x480 or to 853x480 depending on the desired aspect ratio. So the people making the subtitles probably didn't realize they needed to make the font skinnier or something for the widescreen episodes. Compare these two screenshots:  There's also a problem with the pixelated font used for some subtitles; it's not properly sized to avoid clunky pixel sizes. For example:  Note the weird proportions of the letters. I don't know if this is because a poorly-formatted graphic overlay is being used or because text subtitling didn't use the right point size; if the latter, folks doing hardsubbing probably want to point-resize the video up to 4x or something, add the subtitles, then bilinear-resize it back down. And presumably people are hardsubbing for their own use and not to hand out to a bunch of people instead of having them buy the DVDs, riiiiight? I encourage everyone who wants this to buy it, and it is worth buying—but if our demand gets a volume 2 put out, hopefully these issues will be addressed!
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Oct 5, 2012 01:52
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As I work on my own hardsubbing project, I note two more pieces of info about the DVD:
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Oct 5, 2012 05:30
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Given the little issues with the subtitles on the DVD, I'm considering making new, text-style subtitles for my personal copy. What fonts do you use for the GCCXSA releases? I'd like to be able to seamlessly integrate the non-challenge scenes, so I want to be able to match it up.
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Oct 5, 2012 22:32
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I just finished watching the Mighty Bomb Jack episode on the DVDs, and I find it interesting that they either didn't know or didn't dare say in front of a crowd of hundreds that Arino didn't get the best ending, which requires collecting very specific powerups in obscure locations of specific levels. This Youtube video points out what I mean (warning: Massive spoilers if you haven't seen the end of the live Mighty Bomb Jack challenge!) Mind you, I'm glad things went the way they did. He had enough of a hard time clearing the game without having to fulfill those requirements, and to call him out on it only at the end would be cruel.
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Oct 8, 2012 10:52
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I'm watching the Wing of Madoola episode right now, and... stage 12. Just... stage 12. I've felt that pain. Not with that game, but with another game from my youth. You slip off a ledge, but it's not a big ledge, you can jump up from the one below--only you're still pushing to try to avoid falling off the ledge, so you slip off the next one down. So you push the other way and slip off the one after that. And down and down you go, erasing all your hard work in a spasm of reflexes lagging behind the action.
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Oct 9, 2012 09:43
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I know Shiren the Wanderer has gotten some bad press as far as an episode goes, and the first bit of the episode (where I was saying 'they're seriously making him play a Roguelike?') was cringe-inducing. But two things, maybe three, saved the episode for me. One is that Shiren isn't a hardcore Roguelike; sure it's hard, but it is possible to carry things through after death, so it's possible for Arino to get a bit farther each time, as is his talent. The other is Emoto. The moment when Arino is expecting Emoto to scream at him, only to be given nothing but kindness, coupled with the beautiful music... well, it makes me want to cry happily, just a little. (The third thing is: has the footage been expanded at all from its original form for the DVD? I never saw the original.)
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Oct 10, 2012 05:45
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zari-gani posted:I have those files, and indeed it came censored like that. The Star of David is still plastered all over the floors in Ninja Gaiden though. Where did it appear pre-censoring? Was it just listed as one of the powerups, or...?
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Oct 16, 2012 04:01
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zari-gani posted:ETA: vvv The game's opening screen. It's blurred out. Ah! I didn't notice because the subtitles cover it. Interesting.
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Oct 16, 2012 07:19
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Random Stranger posted:(And to head off the comments; yes, we know what it's called in the comic and show. That's actually an error in the original game.) Well, as someone unfamiliar with the comic or the show: what did the game screw up?
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Oct 21, 2012 23:11
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orochi posted:They could probably get someone to mod them a video out for the virtual boy. They seem averse to modding in general. I mean, they've gone how many seasons recording composite video off ancient Famicoms? I'm sure at least three people in this thread would hook them up with some gadget that plays original cartridges and outputs crisp digital video, and one of them would do it for free. But it's probably part of the show's legal wrangling that they don't even get close to that sort of thing.
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Oct 30, 2012 23:30
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Corridor posted:Is this not how you are supposed to say cubicle? Maybe the issue was that he was putting the accent on the wrong syllable? I'd pronounce the word "CUbicle", but it sounds like his friend said "cuBIcle".
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Nov 1, 2012 23:05
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Something I noticed watching the episode is that they used the color blue for the 'loss' and red for the 'win' in Arino's stats. This is a Japanese convention I've seen before, in Pokemon (showing stats being lowered or raised, respectively, by a pokemon's nature), and in both cases I was momentarily confused. Just a little moment of  .
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Nov 4, 2012 22:10
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FireCar posted:(I don't mean to sound creepy, but I associate people with their avatars.) *raises finger, opens mouth* *pauses* *lowers finger, closes mouth, walks away*
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Nov 13, 2012 23:07
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zari-gani posted:Jazaaboo: "Hello from America! http://thespeedgamers.com/oild-rally-kings-snow-mountain" Okay, this is pretty awesome:  And is this your art, zari-gani? Comments he made on the page suggest yes. 
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Dec 10, 2012 07:18
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In case anyone else is going 'wait, how do you play this?': after you click 'insert coin', use left arrow to advance and right arrow to retreat.
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Dec 24, 2012 22:14
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Watching the New Year's 'Special', I'm curious: why does the sound quality go to hell in the last couple minutes? Anyone know?
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Jan 1, 2013 02:41
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They mention in the Ninja Spirit episode that there have been previous instances where Arino's commented that he can go home before lunch. Does anyone know which episodes he's said something to that effect? I know Bonanza Bros. had him say that, and I think he said he could go home early in Quest of Ki...
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Jan 4, 2013 21:31
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Is anyone else having recurring video glitches in the Retro Game Challenge episode, or is it just me?
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Jan 10, 2013 18:06
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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:I kinda want to see him play Superman 64 now that I think about it. That game would be soul crushing to try to play through and beat. Well, if any game has 'unique gameplay'...
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Jan 17, 2013 05:02
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zari-gani posted:That was hands down the best DVD challenge ever. Refresh my memory: which challenge was that?
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Jan 28, 2013 02:58
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Random Stranger posted:So I was looking around for some videos they put on the mobile site and I found this video: I figured someone would want it, so...  I had to crop out his name because otherwise it was eeeever so slightly over the height limit, and the 'pon koron' overlapped another character so I took that out too. And while I'm at it, the various AD screens:  (Who's mister 'forever alone' in the lower left?)  (This is Inoue, right? Talking about him 'leveling up' to director?)  (Ah, treating Watanabe as classy as ever.)
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Jan 29, 2013 17:37
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TechnoSyndrome posted:The DVDs do get cluttered when there's multiple subtitles on screen correlating to multiple text boxes. It is a limitation of DVD subtitles I expressed confusion on this point myself, so I'll just point out that it is possible to do overlays in DVD subtitles. They're just images overlaid on the video. The palette is rather limited--I think you can have only three colors plus transparency per image, though I could be wrong on that point--but if you wanted to black out an area of the screen and put text on it, it'd be doable. I think zari-gani got told she couldn't do that sort of thing because someone at Discotek couldn't be arsed; that may also explain the whole 'one letter of italics turns the whole thing italic' and 'font is fatter on widescreen eps than 4:3 eps' issues. (To explain the latter: NTSC DVDs store images at 720x480 and either squash them to 640x480 (4:3) or stretch them to 853x480 (16.9). So if you don't make the font wider on the former and narrower on the latter to compensate, the difference is readily noticeable.)
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Feb 11, 2013 03:33
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Something the episode reminded me of is the show's tendency to announce that Arino's beaten the final boss (with appropriate fanfare) and is now going to see the ending, only wait there's a true final boss. Sometimes they do it more than once. Does anyone know which episode (or episodes) holds the record for most 'no, really, we swear this is the final boss' moments? I know they've gotten a bit silly with the TRUE FINAL REAL ULTIMATE LAST BOSS stuff...
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Mar 2, 2013 22:30
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I'm beginning to suspect that the staff is trolling Arino. First they cut him off right as he was about to do his favorite part of Ocarina of Time, then skipped over it while he was gone. Then they make him grovel through the transcripts of Mega Man IV to find the correct boss order. Now they make him play a bit of Tower of Babel right after Mega Man IV, then force him to wait a month before continuing, not only screwing up his memory of the game but denying him enough time to finish it. Stop taking away his fun, you guys! 
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Mar 4, 2013 18:54
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I found it amusing/confusing that in the Shiren the Wanderer challenge bits, there's a bit of a disconnect between what they say and what they actually show on screen: Either they used the wrong image, or they're saying something about how old Arino really is...
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Mar 6, 2013 18:47
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kirbysuperstar posted:Also Shere Khan was a boss for some reason. The Jungle Book version, or his urbane Talespin re-imagining?
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Mar 8, 2013 06:43
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At this point, I'm increasingly in favor of the OP locking the thread until there's an actual new release.
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Mar 18, 2013 18:38
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Katana Gomai posted:Why did you specify "for Japan"? Because when Americans make it, it's called porn?
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Apr 7, 2013 18:22
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joek0 posted:Thpoilerth! It would have been helpful to say that your spoiler was related to the results of the Magical Quest episode. 
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Apr 12, 2013 23:31
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gunstarheroes posted:And, actually the only time I've been shocked... I dunno as if I'd have voted that the worst segment, but it had some seriously wasted potential. Rather than just take some random line from some random strategy guide, it would have been more interesting, I think, if they'd chosen something that could be more sensibly be said to apply to life as well. Like, some RPG guide says you should be at least level 23 to fight a boss, you could talk about how if something's too difficult to accomplish now, you should go and get more experience, prepare yourself for the task. I mean, when at least one Arino's comment at the end is 'that doesn't relate at all to the strategy guide!', I think something's gone wrong.
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