That was a very profound statement on yer part Jedah, kudos, shame that you are arguing against it. If every technology was “un-flawed” when it came out, there would be no room for improvement or advancement. Maybe you really liked those giant, brick cellphones of the 80’s, but I kinda prefer one that can fit in my pocket and won’t give me brain cancer.

Anyhow, The concept behind the Nomad (playing console quality games on a handheld device) is good and worth improving on. But the Nomad itself is crap. Modding one is akin to putting spinners on a Yugo. Regardless of what you do, yer STILL DRIVING A YUGO.

Nowadays I’ll just use Gamefaqs or Google to find my answer, does a much better job and is a lot easier, but I will respect my classic guides such as FF7, Pokemon Red and Blue, etc.

Guide books, for the most part, are wastes of money at this point. Any information about a particular section of a game or finding a specific item can be found online now. The amount of detailed information is staggering.

I also want to point out that Jedah is correct about the size between the two console. Of course the Nomad was bigger, the carts that it was designed to play are obscenely large when compared to the gameboy, Lynx or Gamegear carts of the day. Tenno’s shoe comparison is stupid as it is retarded. Even with modern tech, having a hypothetical “Nomad micro”, the handheld will still be as big as the cart, which by today’s standard is too thick and bulky.

*Side note: The TG express is a great handheld it just that NEC released the system a little too soon and it was way ahead of the curve in terms of tech. The display resolution is too low and light bulbs that lit up the display sucked up battery light like crazy They had to go the cheap route and use cheap capacitors which after 20 years, have dried up.

I fixed my old TG Express that had a display failure and after replacing the video cap, the screen looked bright as day. Now I wish someone would do a screen upgrade on that handheld.

http://tinyurl.com/my-first-guide

I use guides of all sorts mainly when Im most the way to earning an achievement and can’t find the last few of something for said achievement or in occasional instances where the game does a piss poor job of letting you know where to go to proceed.

Also I guess Im sort of marketing sucker because whenever I get a new game I feel compelled to get the guide regardless of said guide is actually any good…if anything they tend to be a good read as far as the back story for the weapons, enemies and various other goings on in the game.

While it may be small, it had problems the Nomad did not suffer from. Due to a problem with cheap capacitors, sound failure was a frequent problem with the TurboExpress. The screen used in the TurboExpress was another source of problems; though it was state of the art when it was released, the LCD technology used was still fairly new and the rate of pixel failure was very high. Text was also difficult or impossible to read in certain circumstances, as many times fonts were written to be seen on a television screen, not on a small LCD screen. As a result, certain RPGs and adventure games could be difficult to play on the unit.

It also suffered from poor battery life (about 2-3 hours the same as the Nomad).

While it was 5 years earlier, it was also $120 more expensive ($300 compared to the Nomad’s $180 price tag). Yea, sounds amazing. Pay $120 more for a poorly constructed portable TG-16 riddled with technical issues.

I do approve of some guides. Personally I think MMO and fighting game guides act as a suppliment tool to the game. I use alot of the fighting game guides on GameFAQs, SRK, Dustloop and other forums sites since they go beyond move lists and combos and cover character match ups, frame data, and what not. They will usually have good videos displaying top level play or examples of tricks. The new Joo MvC2 guide videos are a great example of this.

Yes every system will be modded, and that’s cool as hell…. still doesn’t help the multitudes of people that were stuck with the shitty ass original Nomad back in the day. Case in point: people who justify their purposes with modded shit they don’t even own.

So have you bought one of these better than normal Nomads? Yes? No?

If so justify your purpose sir? I am currently playing Bad Company 2 on HARDCORE mode and have little to no time for simpering bitches, laden with woe and justifying for portable systems that serve no more purpose than nostalgia for those that could never ever afford the original, nor even the decade late modified version.

PS: It’s still bigger than a shoe. Deal.

OBJECTION!

So you admit to your own laziness and apathy!

*SHAKES HEAD THEN CROSSES ARMS*

I submit to you the jury Mr. Proto’s own words as proof of my client’s innocence. I then ask the court that Mr. Proto’s libel testimony be stricken from the record. Furthermore, I request the court drop any and all current or future charges against Mr. Doma.

*SLAMS BOTH HANDS ON THE PODIUM*

Finally, I charge Mr. Proto with slander and defamation of my client’s good name and demand swift, expedient, and just punishment for his verbal infractions!

*PROTO IS STRICKEN WITH A DEMORALIZING FEAR*

Again, more solid logic. That’s what I love most about you Tenno, you paint yourself into a corner. You do all the work for me. All I do is just come in and clean up. Thanks!

BTW: And yes, it’s a decent sized device. It was created for manly men with manly men hands. I imagine the GBA Micro is a behemoth compared to your tiny shiny moisturized girl hands.

And I do own a ‘Bag of the Nomad’.

I’ll say that was about a month ago, but I never looked into the archives at the time to check out the GotM.

Gotta play me some Star Fox though so I can feel included when I listen in on the round table for that one, unless I can find my way into the discussion itself haha.

Also, much kudos for honking out #^%@#@$@-Blade.

Okay…… Okay i think I’ve gotten just about every possible Internet meme quote over with so we won’t see any more. Anyway….. WOOO!!! STAR FOX 64!!!!

EDIT: SON-OF-A! You bleeped out Muramasa: The Demon’s Blade. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!