Recent content by Dai

New month, new tech problem. It's hardware this time though, so I've mentioned that in the appropriate thread.

Sigh, here we go again. I was getting near the end of a replay of Resident Evil: Code Veronica on PS3 when the console abruptly shut off. It didn't go through a shutdown sequence, the fan speed didn't ramp up beforehand, and the power light went off too. It did boot up again after toggling it...

@Hanners Can you please let us know how the Macross Frontier and Delta projects are coming along? I'm curious if they're at the point where you can say what form factors they will be released in (ultimate, deluxe, or collector's) and if the 2026 release window is still looking likely. Also, I...

Definitely. The remake of UY has quite a different look and feel compared to the 80s version, and both are great shows with a lot to offer. The remake sticks closer to the manga and benefits from keeping most stories to half an episode, which matches the frantic pace of the source material. The...

It's good to see Das Finale part 4 announced already. The US release was only a couple of months ago.

Some recent arrivals. Original 1986 release of the Project A-ko soundtrack via Mandarake. Not in the best condition, but the disc plays fine, which is the most important thing. Hard Boiled finally gets the release it deserves. Still one of the best action movies of all time. It's a chunky...

Ironically, as someone who owns a VCR but not a 4K TV or a record player, this would have been one of the few recent AL releases I could have bought! Hopefully they will be following up the joke with a real newswire soon. It's been three months since the last one.

I wouldn't be massively surprised if Sony start manufacturing the PS4 again instead of releasing PS6.

I was surprised when I saw just how bad HDR discs look on an SDR TV. I tested it with the Falcon and the Winter Soldier UHD a while ago. Half the background vanishes into a sea of black for indoor scenes, shadows swallow up large parts of people's faces, etc.

Blue Reflection lives (sort of)! In the vein of the DX versions of Atelier games that are included in the combined trilogy sets, the Blue Reflection series is getting current gen versions in the form of Blue Reflection Quartet. As you would expect, the original game and Second Light are...

It's still worth changing passwords once in a while, regardless. Also I've never been so glad that it's easier to buy stuff on the US Crunchyroll Store using Paypal; looks like I haven't used my credit card on their site.

In practical terms, there's no difference at all. I think the reason there's been more widespread anger about game key cards comes down to the transparency of how they're marketed. The negatives are being made a lot more apparent to people because Nintendo has been so up-front about what they...

It's all rather confusing. If it was the cases, I would have assumed to see the opposite, that the cloudiness would be all over the case interior rather than confined to under the disc (the case surface is just cloudy rather than the stickiness on the disc itself). On the other hand, these are...

I've been watching this story unfold all week, and it's deeply troubling. Some of the results are technically impressive, especially in making Starfield's janky "I <3 2006" character models look like they belong in a modern game, but there are so many other things to be concerned about that it...

This is easily the worst case I've seen so far. In the Thundercats DVD set I bought back in 2009, which has 24 discs, eight of them have out-gassed a sticky residue all over the data side. You may ask, "But how sticky can it be?" Also, it's not just an even layer; there's an outer ring of...