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General Chat / Spirited Away CD Covers...help?

« on: June 17, 2003, 05:34:25 AM »

yes, go to amazon.com and they will send you the cover for the low price of $15.  And they'll even throw in a legit copy of the CD for free in addition to the CD cover.

Come on, Spirited Away has a legitimate american released OST, just buy that.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Final Fantasy

« on: June 03, 2003, 11:41:10 AM »

Square doesn't care about the gamecube, FFCC is jsu tbeing made so they can get to the GBA, that's all Square wants from Nintendo.

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General Chat / Your favorite Simpsons episode...NOW!

« on: June 02, 2003, 09:02:52 PM »

have 4 of them....


The Prohibition Episode, where homer is the Beer Barron

One where Homer works for Hank Scorpio

One where Homer goes on the vision quest after eating Guatamallan insanity peppers.

Simpsons go to Japan

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General Chat / Anime - Japanese vs English

« on: May 25, 2003, 07:09:22 PM »

Disney has done a great job with the english releases of the ghibli films.  The dubs are fantastic.

before anyone downs them for not having more out...

keep in mind the contract states disney can't put out the DVD release in the USA till they do in Japan.  DIsney went toe-to-toe with Ghibli with princess mononoke to get the japanese language track on the DVD, because it was against the origional contract.

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General Chat / Anime - Japanese vs English

« on: May 25, 2003, 05:37:27 AM »

most anime DVD have a subtitle track more specific to the Japanese dialouge, rather than a caption track for the dub.

Some recent DVD's have 2 subtitle tracks, a literal translation track, and the subtitle track to go along with the dub.

you are in australia, so I don't know much about the industry over there and how they do it, but this is how they do it in north america

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General Chat / The Horror....The Horror.....soon to be on DVD

« on: May 23, 2003, 07:58:05 PM »

Super Mario Brothers:  The Movie.   On DVD June 3

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008979N/qid=1053751508/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-7921591-7455925?v=glance&s=dvd

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General Chat / ADV + Gainax + WETA Visual Effects + $$$$ = Live Action Evangelion Film

« on: May 21, 2003, 06:43:52 PM »

overall, i am not too fearful of this project.

Gainax is involved (which means Anno is probably involved) as well as ADV, they didn't contract or sell the rights to someone, the creators and other people with intimate knowledge of the series are involved, and I have no doubt weta can pull off the Eva units.

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General Chat / CD Japan?

« on: May 21, 2003, 11:00:32 AM »

none that i've ever had.  Shipping is about 4-5 days for CDjapan, and 2-3 days for Amazon.

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General Chat / ADV + Gainax + WETA Visual Effects + $$$$ = Live Action Evangelion Film

« on: May 21, 2003, 10:59:26 AM »

This Is NOT a joke.

http://www.advfilms.com/news/index.asp?c=&p=920&i=921

Ginax (The creators of Evangelion), ADV films (Released Evangelion TV in North America), and WETA visual Effects (Lord of the Rings) have anoucned plans to create a live action film based off Neon Genisis Evangelion, arguably the most influential and still most talked abotu anime series ever created. While no date has been set, it was anoucned that production woudl be agressive, but they are still only in the most early of production.

Few big questions remained unanswered that hopefully will be answered soon.

Will they use a Japanese or American cast?

Will the story be a remake of the current story? Alternate presentation? Remake of End of Eva?  Sequel to End of Eva?

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General Chat / CD Japan?

« on: May 21, 2003, 10:45:59 AM »

Cdjapan is a great site, though you can probably get a better price, and faster shipping from amazon japan (It's in japanese, but just search for the zelda CD by the catalog number you found on cdjapan).  And amazon japan has an english check out.

either way, i'd recommend pickign up one or two more CD's shipping won't go up by to much so you might as well make use of it.

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General Gaming / Snake Eater???

« on: May 11, 2003, 05:17:04 AM »

i would bet konami intentionaly "leaked" this trailor.

This has generated a huge amount of hype, and will probably lead to MGS3 raking in yet another game of show award for Konami.

Also, let's no forget that this is Konami.  The company that kept the main character of Metal Gear Solid 2 a secret until the games release date.  They know how to keep thing secret.

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General Gaming / Ragnarok Online

« on: May 10, 2003, 01:13:33 PM »

It very likely WILL be pay for play.


What everyone is playing now is the open beta test they are doing.

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General Gaming / Xenosaga for $26.99!!!

« on: May 09, 2003, 03:27:09 PM »

onyl bad things i ever heard abotu Xenosaga were references to the cut scenes.  But in the end, they are no more than the amount of text scenes in Xenogears.  It's pretty equal to what you saw in xenogears.

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General Gaming / Xenosaga for $26.99!!!

« on: May 09, 2003, 05:32:34 AM »

It is a great game.  i remmeber seeign it at Sams Club at that price a few weeks ago.  It's insane how cheapthey are selling it for

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Nintendo Gaming / Official Metroid Prime And Metroid Fusion Soundtrack

« on: May 03, 2003, 05:54:48 PM »

It will be released as a 2 disk set on June 18.  

It's a Japanese only release.  Retail is 3,200 yen (about $27).


So far the onyl site i've seen it on is amazon japan.  here is a link (they will ship to USA).  I imagine cdjapan.co.jp will also have it listed soon.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009KMDS/ref=sr_aps_pm_/249-0705147-3740322

No word yet on any possible first-press bonus'    

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Nintendo Gaming / I this true or just a rumor?

« on: May 03, 2003, 02:47:19 PM »

IF (And thats a big if) nintendo ever made games for other systems, I think they'd go to Sony before they went to microsoft.  

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General Chat / X-2 : The SPOILER I've seen it topic

« on: May 02, 2003, 09:15:10 PM »

I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Much better than the first one.

only real disapointment was the opening scene with nightcrawler was never topped by any other scene.

Also, I wish they had shown Phoenix.

Like the better use of cameo's in the film.  They shouldn't have shown Colosus in the trailor though.  Jubalee cameo at the end was great.  Hope she sees screentime in X3.

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Nintendo Gaming / What do you think of IGN's Top 100 games ever?

« on: May 02, 2003, 07:11:39 PM »

i'm pissed becasue they'lll probably leave out Xenogears.

Goldeneye better be on the list.  Perfect Dark better not be.

ICO better be in the top 20...........

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Nintendo Gaming / Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu developer

« on: May 01, 2003, 07:21:05 AM »

brownie brown is made up of 3 people who used to work on the Mana series.  When sequare wanted to do a GBA game, they must've arranges for Brownie Brown to make it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Rockstar games hidden on Nintendo E3 website!

« on: April 25, 2003, 09:22:24 PM »

given that Sony bought exclusive console rights to the GTA series until the end of 2004, I doubt it.

Rockstar makes a lot more than just GTA.  I'd guess a port of State of Emergencey myself.

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Nintendo Gaming / gamecube mmorpg??

« on: April 14, 2003, 09:42:08 AM »

when it's all over, i'd love to see bandai make a MMORPG based on "The World" in the .hack series.

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General Gaming / Who's going to E3?

« on: April 08, 2003, 06:02:09 PM »

I've gone to E3 the past 2 years, and will be going again this year.

Someone asked abotu prices, so long as your over 18 they will pretty much le3t you in if you pay for the low price ticket, which is $300.  Just have to create some fake company name.

As for meeting the PGC people, just hang arround the Nintendo booth.  They are like flies.  They swarm arround everywhere, you'll run into them at some point.

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General Chat / Wind Waker Soundtrack

« on: March 30, 2003, 04:27:37 AM »

In that situation i'd just download the soundtrack.

If you aren't going to give money to the artist, at least don't give money to bootlegers.  

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General Chat / Wind Waker Soundtrack

« on: March 29, 2003, 09:04:13 PM »

Son May and Ever Anime are bootleg brands, don't try to convince yourself they are real.  They are just pirated bootlegs sold in Tiawian and by cheap import stores worldwide to make a quick buck, without any of it going back to the origional artist.  

Also, do not go to ebay and try to get CD's.  Just like trying to find a legit Japanese DVD for an anime, finding a legit game or anime soundtrack on EBAY is almost unheard of.

quick, basic and easy well to tell if your CD in a bootleg or not...

Somewhere on the package is the price of the item in Japanese yen.  If there is no price in Yen, it's very likely not a legit CD.


anyways.  here are the same links i posted in the main Gamecube forum.  These are to the amazon japan and cdjapan sites.  Both will give you the real thing, not a bootleg.  CDJapan is all in english.   Shipping is a bit slower, and more expensive (I usually get my stuff in about 3-4 days).  Amazon japan has a full check out in English, but the page I link to is in Japanese, shipping is cheaper and faster (Usually 2 days, but I did get a overnight shipping once).  I have had very good experiences with both these importers.  Both sell the soundtrack for
3200 yen (about $26.50 USD).

Amazon Japan

CD Japan




If importing isn't your thing.  www.animenation.com is a nice place to pick up LEGIT soundtracks in the USA.  It's imported, so the price is higher (37.95), but being domesitc (in the USA) the shipping will be cheaper.  They also list the OST as being out 4-19.  Might want to email them before purchase to see if that's a typo (Since real release date was 3-19).  I've ordered from them, they are very good.

anime nation    

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Nintendo Gaming / Wind Waker soundtrack

« on: March 27, 2003, 05:31:09 PM »

you can purcahse the soundtrack at import sites like www.cdjapan.co.jp or www.amazon.co.jp .  They will both deliver to the United States.

here are the links.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008DZ31/ref=sr_aps_pm_6/250-6771951-8999469

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=SCDC-250