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Thanks people for all the invaluable feedback. I'm definitely going to try this. Now, if only I could get hold of that friend of mine... must have gone on holiday.

What's the exact size (in bytes) of the data track file? Check that the file size is a multiple of 2048. CDRWin will report the cue as invalid if the file size for a track is not a multiple of the specified sector size. Alternatively, you might have an old burner that refuses to burn "cooked"...

It was one of the Atelier series.

Yeah, I did it!!! Admittedly, I sorta cheated. I used a technique I call "The Lorenz Attractor Method", which consists of shooting several Riki shots (the homing missiles) just before approaching the boss, so they start hovering around him, but not actually hitting him. After doing this, I...

I'm sorry, this is terribly OT. Does anybody else who uses Opera know how to enable JIS encoded pages to show as weird text, to be converted separately with programs like NJ-Star Communicator into proper Hira/Kata/Kanji? On my setup, I only see square-shaped chars instead, which don't convert...

The issue with the lightgun is probably due to the difference in video refresh frequency. Anyway, since the modem is PAL and the phone line I'm using is european, I suppose I won't have issues connecting the modem to the line. I was afraid though that the DC peripheral connector was subject to...

Phantasy Star Online's weird alphabet I'm having a great time playing PSO(ffline, unfortunately). I finished it at Normal and am now playing through it on the Hard setting. What I wanted to ask about is those strange writings you find in corridors in the cave world. Do they actually mean...

Thanks for your contributions to the cause.

I think Myname and AstroBlue are referring to Silpheed: The Lost Planet, the sequel of the SCD title for PS2 that was co-developed with Treasure, although it is not known how much of it they were responsible for. I have not played the original Silpheed but reviews I read gave me the impression...

Kanji is the name of the japanese ideographic alphabet, consisting of about 10,000 (is this correct?) ideograms borrowed from the chinese alphabet. Unlike hiragana and katakana, the two phonetic alphabets in the japanese language, kanjis do not usually have a unique pronunciation (on indeed a...

Well, since it's my buddy's 33.6k I'm about to connect, I sorta need to know for sure I'm not risking his hardware.

I searched the net but did not find a definite answer to my question, so I'll post it here. Is it possible to connect a PAL 33.6k modem - or for that matter any "foreign" peripheral - to a so-called "corean" Dreamcast (i.e. Japanese DC w/o modem)? Or do I risk smoking either? That is to say...

I would add to the above that it helps to apply a bit of "scratching" on the backup, to reduce the chance that the motor spindle suffers any friction. DJs or professional rappers have an obvious advantage here.

How the fguck did you manage do get rid of Black Riki on level 25? That is, the level (or boss?) labelled as "impossible" and "not permitted"? I've been stuck there for ages. What I do is first run around the sides of the level wreaking major havoc with all-round attacks. When I fill 5 "combo"...

This is getting a bit OT, but... What had always puzzled me about Argonaut Software's Croc was that I couldn't make up my mind whether it was a "kiddie" game or not. The story, colourful graphics, simplistic gameplay and cute sfx were all suggesting kiddie realm. The frustrating Lara-inspired...

Why no characters from Dark Savior were tossed in the soup? I mean, the Garian/Jack duo could have made a grand return for all aficionados of the multi-parallel, jail-dwelling, chocolate-trading epic extravaganza. Even some baddies could have had their chance. How Climax had the nerve not to...

If that was meant as a compliment, well, thank you. I'm glad if this info is actually useful to someone. And yes, I'm pretty bad at advertising... If it was meant as a complaint, I apologise. I am quite a verbose writer and this time round I got to about 90% of it before realising how...

Some 4 years ago I borrowed my friend's PSX to play Final Fantasy 7 and started playing right after lunch. At the time I did not have a memcard, so I asked my brother if he could buy one for me as he was going shopping. He came back at 7 that evening so I kept playing until he came back. That...

DBOY is correct when suggesting you should swap during the lens move-in instead of half a second after. During that 1/2 of a sec. the Saturn reads the "IP.BIN' off the CD, whose bootstrap code may not be "compatible" with that of the game you're trying to boot. In such a circumstance, the game...

Not quite related to the original question, but I remember when I first saw a Saturn in action at a friend's house running NiGHTS. Being used to rock-solid rates of 50fps on most 2D games of the time, I thought: "If this is how fluid 3D games can get, then this 3D stuff has no future". Of...