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Really June 2013 pickups already!
JDavis:
HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!
YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO
DESTRUCTION.
larryinc64:
What You Say?
JDavis:
Just read through Zero Wing's manual. It's actually in decent English. Here's the story bit:
Space Piracy
The year is 2101 A.D. The Milky Way Federation, the galaxy's governing body, has made public its plans to construct strategic defense bases in eight different locations. The purpose of the bases is protection against intergalactic crime. The Federation's prime concern is a band of space pirates led by Cats, the flamboyant cosmic freebooter who is secretly plotting his biggest performance.
Two years later, the bases were completed and operational. Despite the new defense network, tragedy struck. Ten Strike Force attack craft docked aboard the Federation 1011 Star Cruiser were destroyed by a bomb that had been planted aboard the mother ship!
Shortly after the explosion, the ship's operator received an odd signal. The Captain ordered the viewer turned on, and who should appear but Cats himself! "Nice to see you all. I've taken control of each and every one of your bases. Today will go down in history as the day the Milky Way Federation was destroyed by one man--me! Ha ha ha ha..."
One attack craft remained undamaged. The Captain, without hesitation, ordered the ZIG-01 "Zero Wing" into battle. You must fly the attack ship to each friendly base and drive Cats' forces out. The fate of an entire galaxy rests on your shoulders!
s3gaf4n:
So I decided to get up and stop and a few yard sales today. Only found stuff at one but was pleasantly surprised at what I found. First, the boring stuff. Found a TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator. People only wanted a $1 and they flip so easy, so that's always and easy purchase for me.
The big find however was this.
I have never seen one in the wild and it unfortunately was the console only. I paid $5 for it and it does turn on however it does seem to have some cd-rom issues. First, it had 2 cds jammed in it and now it doesn't seem to spin the discs so I am probably gonna have to tear it apart. Nevertheless I have never seen one in the wild so it was a nice find whether or not I get it working.
sheep2001:
If you can't get the drive working, but the unit works ok, you could always try and get hold of one of these:
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/panasonic-3do-ide-adapter-allows-loading-isos-from-an-internal-hard-drive.html