NEOGEO AES Japanese with 50/60HZ switch mod, actual benefits?!

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  1. Retroborg

    Retroborg Maha Guru

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    One thing I used to love in the AMIGA, was the PD Demo pirate intros, featured before each game started. Their music and graphics were just awesome and sometimes I would wait for minutes before starting the actual game and enjoy them!

    Some are true technical achievements, pushing the AMIGA hardware to its limits, featuring real time Scaling & Rotation effects years before Mode 7 on the SNES was even conceived on the sketch board.

    Here is a nice compilation with kick-ass Techno/Rave music!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3HUp7LH5ig

    And this was one of my favorites. I would listen to it every time before starting R-Type II
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfcrViBGn8
    The music is just so catchy on actual AMIGA hardware & 1084S monitor.

    These PD intros, made you feel that the developers were actually trying to be in contact with you, but in a much stronger sense than today's cold & faceless online Internet communication.

    But what was instant love at first sight and made me buy my 1st A500+ back in 1991, was this epic intro & game.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvha_2hAzq0
    Turrican II is one of my all time favorite games and I still play it to this day. Surprisingly the 1995 PC version by sunsoft was excellent and it even enhanced the graphics with 256 on-screen colours and even managed to pull off the original AMIGA TFMX sound track from a Sound Blaster Pro & 16!

    Turrican 1 theme is awesome & dramatic too!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxMDxGJXuo

    Master musician Chris Huelsbuck has made by far and away some of the best gaming tracks ever heard on any system! Hands down!

    And lets not forget the awesome Team 17, Psycnosis, Ocean & Psynioc System Team logos!

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    All these developers actually put their souls into their creations unlike today's story-driven super linear boring games.


    There is another compilation I have on 2 actual AMIGA disks called "May Bey" (or something like that), featuring various high resolution 16 colour images accompanied with awesome music and some cheats for various games, but I can't seem to find any video or pictures of them on youtube or any info else where.
     
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    Hi man.
    Yeah everything you have said is pretty much "spot on", ive heard of people on Guru3D like eclap and Darren Hodgson mention Turrican and Chris Huelsbeck.
    I do remember it myself for being a hard game even with infinite lives cheat.

    Skidrow are still going strong and so are Fairlight (when dreams come true) these are the only 2 that are still alive and kicking on the scene today.

    PD or Public Domain from what i remember there was literally 100,000's of PD software on the AMIGA. The Demos from Eric Schultz were especially good but thats one thing that youtube does not show is the PD scene. Only a few titles are on show like Budbrains but alot of stuff i cannot find on youtube but i have it all on my Hardisks.

    You can download Full TOSEC's from http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/
    This is one of the best places on the web for full TOSEC's for any machine apart from the very new stuff.

    You can get it all here and the community here is knowledgeable and very active.

    Yeah i remember all those brands aswell, OCEAN and Psygnosis being the most popular.

    You maybe interested in this, its called Bedroom to Billions and talks about were it came from to what it is today.

    From Braben, to Molyneux to Singleton to Crammond to Bracey to etc etc.

    There all here giving there factual based opinion which is great to listen to if you was playing games at the time as all this was happening. Its also great for historical aspects.

    Check out the film clips....
    http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/

    Here is also a thread i made on it a while back, i cant wait for this!
    http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379711

    Oh yeah Peter Molyneux was once an active poster on Guru3D, he used to play Bad Company 2 alot and was always in that thread a few years back.
    Here is his profile....
    http://89.188.28.128/member.php?u=194860
     

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