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Haha. So, you a fan of Hot Ones? I've found several of their interviews enjoyable, but I kind of hate how they present this hot sauce. It's one of my favorites or, at least, one of my most used. Da Bomb is not a sauce you use to make hot sauce. I mean, you can add a few drops to your Buffalo Sauce if you want to kick it up, but if you want something for the flavor, this is not it. Instead, I've found that it packs a really strong punch, with little flavor, when you add it to soups, stews or chilis. So, if I have something and I want to add some heat without much additional flavor from the sauce, I reach for Da Bomb and add a drop or two. My son likes it too. But would I coat this on a hot wing and eat it. Well, I did it once just because but I'll never do that again. Also, this is not the hottest hot sauce I've ever tried by a long shot. Still, it's hotter than I enjoy on it's own. I can't speak for the can, obviously, but the bag was really good and better than I expected for a processed item. @FireHazard51, if this stuff should have cheese, what do you recommend? Is it basically a brick of cheddar, which I'd assume? Less sharp or more mild? I could see it going either way.
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Oh, I'm actually subbed to his channel and I found it a few years ago. I never saw this post in his back catalog though. I've seen all of his LaserDisc videos. He's pretty thorough on this tech research and, IMHO, his video explaining how a CRT works is one of the best on the internet.
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I thought the wobble was a Saturn thing, and not a PS1 thing?
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Yeah, I might. I tend to pick up a guide at over world exploration times when I have an airship, or whatever. I do not want to 100% this game but I do want to be sure I get key abilities and items as they are available. I tend to skim the guides and look for items in each section like accessories. I'll skim the abilities they recommend acquiring and if I don't feel they are that useful, I skip going for them. The other times I use a guide is when I feel a bit stuck in a maze of a dungeon. I have a feeling I partly know what's going to happen. It's a minor trope of Squaresoft to make the #2 bad guy, surprise!, the #1 bad guy! I'm guessing that Gestahl is about to be thrown off the raised island section, or something like that because Kefka is obviously magic-hungry and insane. In fact, if I had one complaint about the story so far, I'd say this is my #1 complaint. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've heard enough to know that Kefka is the antagonist for this whole game. But, even knowing that going in, Kefke is so heavy-handed cruel and magic-hungry, Gestahl is a complete and obvious idiot for trusting Kefka as he absorbs every Esper within a 20 mile radius. What do you think will happen?! Well, I don't know for sure, but it's definitely not hard to guess!
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That was always a mis-assumption that the black discs were part of the security protection. That's actually not true. It might have been early on to try to prevent people from making PS1 ROMs (but keep in mind, that was 1996, so SONY knew they had time before people had HD and server space to hold several games due to their size) but I've never had a CD-ROM drive that wouldn't allow you to read and browse a PS1 disc, so that definitely didn't prevent any laser for CD-reading from reading the discs. IMHO, SONY thought it just looked cool. Even later on, several late-release titles were silver and worked just fine. I know you could buy a few Square Enix titles, like Final Fantasy IX, off of their web site up to 2015. Those discs were standard silver discs. I think the only real copy-protection on the discs is the region data in a sector that standard drives can burn too. I'd like to read a rather in-depth on the layout of it. I doubt we'll ever see PS1 discs be remanufactured. Making the discs would be the easy part but having a proper bootleg burner would be expensive to engineer and produce, probably even by China-standards. But who knows. Maybe it will happen one day. They only way bootlegs might appear is if someone found one of those old SONY professional burners and then found a way to make or acquire discs. But really, that doesn't sound feasible. SONY might have kept one of those devices for "who knows?" reasons, but I'd be sure they probably ordered every disc making and burning device to be destroyed when they reached EOL.
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Lol, the title is a bit of a lie, or at least it's hyperbole. I am walking through a guide when I feel like I'm getting stuck, or I just want to plow on through parts, but I'm not trying to look ahead too much for spoilers. After my previous post, I was at the part in the game where I was going to open the Esper Gate. I was aware that the main world seemed to be about half the game and then there's some realm that is the second half, or at least a large part of it. I assumed I was about to enter that second-realm and start the second half of the game. Oh, the naivety! Opening the Esper Realm sent a bunch of Espers flying, they destroyed Vector and now the story had to progress a bit more in the main over world. I'm fine with that as a game mechanic but let's just say when I opened the Esper Realm and I wasn't given a new area to explore... Yeah, I walked away for a time and needed to take a break. I wasn't mad. I was just expecting something completely new and I was a tad disappointed and lost a little motivation. This of course meant that as the days ticked by, I got busy and found myself wanting to do other things and play other games. The week I'm posting this is also the first week of the NES Weekly Challenges and although I always suck at those, I really have fun participating in those. Am I going to remain loyal to this goal, or jump into the NES Challenge full steam ahead? Heck no, I'm not giving up! This is the year of Final Fantasy VI, baby! Unless something really, really life changing happens, I plan on fully finishing this game! In fact, I'm using that desire to play the NES Challenge or to participate in the N64 Completion thread to motivate me to make goals for each week before I participate. For the past two nights (Saturday and Sunday) my goal has been to try and get to the Ascended World (or whatever it's called.) I know I said I'm not looking ahead in the guide for spoilers, and I'm not really, but the wonderful Caves of Narshe site guide is what I've followed and when I paid attention to the headings of the guide chapters, I could see that I was more than a few away of finishing the main overworld because their guide is divided up into 3 sections and I think the third section is bonus material. Section two, I think, is into the Ascended World of Kefka... maybe. So this weekend I plowed through the story, picked up a couple of key items and Lores that I needed went back to the airship to go to the realm above the ground. Being that at this point I was still a few guide chapters away from Part II, I knew this wasn't yet the end and it was good to have that expectation. Man, these enemies up here are toooooough. On cheat-mode in the Pixel Remaster version (I have all battle rewards set to 4x so leveling and GP is easy to get now), that's not entirely true. My party is around levels 42-50 at this point and taking on most of this literal, and figurative, behemoths isn't that difficult. However, if my level was anything normal, I'd be toast up here! So far I've put about 20 hours into this game and I assume at least 10 more are left. I'm amazed that some people can complete this game in around 10 hours, even if they are speed runners! That's impressive as I feel like I really have tried to lightening-play my way through this game, which does require some grinding to become OP so you can breeze through bosses. The good news is the past two nights have really invigorated me to keep going! I'm about to enter the final battle with Kefka before Part II of this game begins. That has been my goal for this week so I can move onto some SMB3 playing for the weekly competition. Hopefully today I'll complete this goal and then it's time to go collect some coins in worlds 1-1 thought 1-4 of SMB3! Here-ah we gooooo!
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2024 VGS NES Weekly Contest - Super Mario 3
RH replied to BeaIank's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
I wasn’t able to experiment but this is what I thought happened and it’s what I was going to try to do. Trading time for coins seemed like a working strategy. If we didn’t have this new rule, it would make it more of a speed run challenge which, personally, I wouldn’t disapprove of. -
2024 VGS NES Weekly Contest - Super Mario 3
RH replied to BeaIank's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
If we collect 100+ coins in a stage, should we pause before we 1-up and take a photo? I’m not sure if this is possible, but just in case. -
Well, I apologize it’s taken THIS long, but after a bit of a rant (what, two werewolf games ago!) against @FireHazard51, he was super kind enough to send me a care package of Cincinnati foods. He sent along a package of Skyline Chili and today was the day that I gave it a try. I’ve never had Skyline Chili but it’s one of those things I’ve heard about, even before I met all of the Cinncinatians (is that correct?) around here that have raved about their local foods. From what I’ve heard, even by locals who are fans of the stuff, technically, this stuff is not “chili”, or what is fully called chili-con-carne. I’m not really interested in debating that point, but I mention it because I wanted to give this stuff a fair shake, so I told myself this stuff wasn’t “chili” because that is one of my favorite, weekly meals. I didn’t want the comparison to color the experience. I turned the package over to read the ingredients and though it didn’t sound exactly like chili but it was close enough that calling it either way doesn’t bother me. I followed the instructions and heated the Skyline up in the bag. In the mean time, we had some leftover rice my wife had made with a bit of chicken broth. I didn’t have any pasta, which I don’t eat anyway, so I figured I’d put it on the rice. Hopefully, that’s not a faux pas. After it was all heated, I poured the chili on the rice. I wanted an unadulterated taste, so I tried it right away before mixing the rice in and… wow, this stuff is great! I didn’t think it wouldn’t be but you never know these things until you try. I mixed in the rice and since I enjoy making everything spicy, I added a few drops of Da Bomb hot sauce and perfection was achieved! I have to say, it’s interesting in a good way and I struggle with how to describe it. The tomato sauce isn’t as prounonced as, say, a hearty spaghetti sauce but it also doesn’t taste quite like chili either, but it is close. I can see why there are debates about it, as well as deep passions. There’s also an ingredient in there that is either cinnamon, or similar, and it’s just enough to taste, but not enough to over power. Rather than try to find something to compare it too, I’ll say it is its own thing. The meat, sauce and seasonings are all balanced well enough that the whole dish comes together as one unit without being overpowered by something specific. It’s definitely a very umami-centric dish and any sweetness is minimal, but just enough to brighten all of the savory flavors. So yeah, I’m a fan of Skyline Chili! I’ll leave the debate about what this stuff is, and what it should be called, to others. In my book, this stuff is awesome. If I ever make my way up North to the area, I’ll definitely make a stop at Skyline to try it in a restaurant. My only regret with the experience was that I didn’t have any cheese to try with it. Oh well, I had to substitute the cheese with next best thing. My son and I both agreed it was the perfect pairing.
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Looking at the eBay post again, and it sounds like it’s implying that you need a modded PS1 to play burnt CDs. Yeah, if someone cracked the security and/or made a CD burner and discs that could work with it, that’s be amazing. I can’t recall exactly how the security on it worked though. It might not be crackable.
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Completing Every North American Game Boy Game 100%
RH replied to GamerSmith548's topic in Guides, Analysis, and Reviews
Dude, don't worry about what other's think. Metroid 2 is a perfect 10 in my book. I didn't have a SNES as a kid. I can't objectively say if it's not better than Super Metroid, as it's an amazing game too, but M2 did so much, with so little. I love it. -
Y'all heard or seen the "Violin Scam"? Basically, if you see someone in a parking lot with a violin, panhandling, it's a scam. My wife and I have now seen this twice in the past year, and it's not just local to where we are. Basically, people find a cheap, old violin. They then not-so-subtly hide a speaker in something like a back pack and then "play" the violin. Of course, it's just a CD. I'm just curious if you guys have seen this. I'm not entire sure they've fooled anyone, but they do get sympathy cash.
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Game Boy versions that were more fun than NES/SNES/Arcade?
RH replied to cartman's topic in The Gauntlet
I always enjoyed DuckTales for the NES when I got to play it at a friends how, but I enjoyed my GB version better. I don't know, maybe it's because I owned that version. It's mostly the same but the level designs are simpler, no doubt due to cartridge size constraints. Neither game is truly shorter, but it does make the GB version some what shorter. Still, if I have an itch to play that game now, I tend to reach for the GB version over the NES one, both of which I now own. -
All these people trying to rewrite history—it’s the PSX. I don’t care if SONY released a PS2 branded a “PSX”, it doesn’t change the fact that for near 8 years before, the PlayStation was also called the PSX!
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This jacket is a personal, holy grail (or whatever you want to call it.) This is the third, maybe fourth, one I've seen in 8 years that I've seen come up for sale. I think the gentlemen that's posted it is correct and only 50 were made, but I can't recall if it was more like 100. Regardless, these things look amazing and I'd love to own one. Alas, I doubt this thing will go for less than $1,500 if history is any indication. Anyway, I know that others of you have mentioned wanting one of these. Bidding is still under $200, which is more than I have at the moment. I spoke with the seller and told him to let this one ride. I've seen other's sell, but they've all been BINs. If anything, this should be a fun one to watch. https://www.ebay.com/itm/364785670646
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