Introduce yourself !

[ASSEMbler]

Guidelines.

No HUGE pictures. Be kind to out primitive DSL and 56K friends.

State you name
Your country
Your approximate age
Your career / education
State how you found ASSEMbler


No: Pictures of you not fully clothed.
Yes: Your girlfriend not fully clothed. Pictures of Natalie portman covered in honey.

Let the fun begin. :smt023

[ASSEMbler]

ASSEMbler:

Name: Kevin O
Origin: United States

Gamer/collector.A bit burned out by now (like most older collectors)
but I still try to find a few minutes a day get my gaming on.
Own most of the items on the site. Working like a madman on become fithy rich as compared to normal rich.
Would move to Japan but refuse to do the normal crap/starvation work that is english teaching. So the plan is to have a company here and live there on the profits.

Age: Most would say I should be married by now, but to that I reply with the words of the esteemed scholar confucious: "Fuck Dat"

Place of residence: NYC/NJ area. New York is a great place to live when it's not burning / exploding. Born in the bronx.

Career: Retail Management. Ah, glorious retail slavery.That is until my Radiology degree is achieved. Then I'll live like a capitalist pig.
Wholesale buyout and usually shady pawnshop buyouts.
Currently need to get rid of 100 sega genesis units and 40 dreamcasts....

Recent History:
Founded assembler back in 1995 as a BSS running wildcat.

Run several game rooms @ anime conventions on east coast USA and head two companies involved in event promotion and games events.

Always happy to talk to gamers.

[A. Snow]

A. Snow

Name: ??????
Origin: United States
Age: Old enough to have to ask
Gamer: Old School
Career: At the moment a retail wage slave
Place of residence: Unknown
Found ASSEMbler: Long ago through the magic that is Google. One of the first (first five at least) original board posters.

[SilverBolt]

SilverBolt

State you name: Martijn Oosterhof
Your country : Holland / The netherlands
Your approximate age : 24
Gamer: mostly nintendo and sega, although i also have a ps2 and x-box for certain games like GTA and Halo

Your career / education: Finished my IT education (system manager / network manager ) and got my diploma march this year still haven't found any job though :smt009

Thankfully my boyfriend (yes for those who didn't know i'm gay ) has a good job which can support us both.

Not having a job makes collecting pretty hard, haven't made any big purchases since march and with all the new games comming from september on i'm screwed :smt009

State how you found ASSEMbler: I actually got the link from Antipasta who posted it on a ducth board about 1,5 years ago and have been a regular visitor ever since.

[the_steadster]

the_steadster

Name: Ed F
Location:Hampshire, UK
Gamer on nintendo systems particularly, But I've recently started getting into the Dreamcast afteryears of nintendo devotion/fanboyism
Age: 16
Career/education: Just finished school, starting college very soon
I found assembler through the magic of google...

[AntiPasta]

name: Anton H
location: Breukelen, Holland (home of the esteemed Nyenrode University :P). Actually got Dutch and US citizenship and Belgian roots so I'm not really Dutch :smt043
age: 19
education: 2nd year of Computer Science at Leiden University starts monday
career: self-employed computer serviceman
gamer: 95% oldschool, the focus of my collection got (semi-intentionally) drawn towards Sega Saturn collecting
how I found assembler: probably while looking for websites on assembly language, read the site for ages then noticed the "message board" button somewhere in September 2002 :-)

[cahaz]

Game/Internet Nick Name: Cahaz


name: Sébastien Q
Age: **

Location:Canada , Quebec
Career: Still at school


Favorite game style: FPS, RPG , RTS, Puzzle, Action/Adventure, Platform, Shooter
Favorite Gaming Era: 16-bit , but the NES is my favorite
console.



How do i've found assembler?: Google. i remember my
exacts seach words : ''unrelased'' and ''m2''. google found the
twat in a hat contest where gsl said that the first price pf the
contest wasn't a m2. :-D
i've visited the website before posting my first message as a
guest (2 weeks after finding that there was a forum here. ) it
was before e3 2004 .
i've posted alot as a guess when antipasta said me why don't i
register? an i've said to myself ''yeah, why not?'' i didn't
registered before because i never know if i would rest on a
forum (it always depend on the vibe) but i saw that this forum
was really great, with a really good vibe in it. :-)

[Paulo]

State you name : Paulo
Your country : Uk
Your approximate age : 19
Your career / education : Student going to uni this year doing COmputers and videp games.
State how you found ASSEMbler : google searching for something or other that poped up on the site. One day i guess i got a result from the forum.

[Tachikoma]

Name: Ashley (this is the masculine spelling of the name, Ashleigh is the feminine but is ignored largly in America before anyone pops up with "thats a girls name")
Country: Wales (No, it's not in or part of England)
Age: 24
Career: Computer technician, working on my MSCE... if they ever give me study leave... bastards...
How found: No idea at all, was years ago, I was reading the main site a year before I bothered with the forum, I didn't have much interest in forums at the time.

Picture (better than the one Retro posted of me...)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/nus-fucked.jpg

[PrOfUnD Darkness]

Name: Jair
Country: Brazil
Age: 24
Career / education: Finishing Computer Science university after 7 long years of study. Working in IT (Linux and Open Source software user since '96).
How you found ASSEMbler: Really don't know, it was a long time ago but I don't really remember anymore :( I just remember reading the forum for a long time before posting.

BTW, I know my nickname (Profund) is spelled wrong. I'm using it since 1996 (my english wasn't very good at that time and still isn't very good today :P) that's why I don't plan to change it. I took it from Phantasy Star IV.


PD

[Alien Workshop]

Alien Workshop

Name: David

Country: USA

Age: 19

Your career / education: Attending College


How did you find ASSEMbler?:

I found ASSEMbler while doing some major videogame research several years ago. I knew about ASSEMbler for quite some time and used it as a resource, but I had no idea the forums existed until one day I saw it up there. I checked it out, lurked for a bit, and decided to join.

Main interests / a little about myself:

Well, of course I am a gamer/collector. I'm mainly a console collector, and I've become somewhat of an A'can Enthusiast. My favorite game of all time has to be Terranigma on the SNES, and my favorite game series is the Metal Slug series. My interests include cute girls, mountain biking, hacky sack, skateboarding, and video games. Oh, and I live in Arkansas.

Well, that's pretty much it.

[TheDeathcoaster]

"TheDeathcoaster"

Name - James Strain

Country - Scotland

Gamer - NES all the way (Though I own 6 Megadrives)

Age -18 and 4 months (exactly as I post this, lol)

Current Status - Starting University at Dundee, studying Applied COmputing

In my own words - Mediocre artist and average Guitarist. I'm a nice enough guy and try not to irritate anyone else ^_^ Oh, and I hate how unfair things can be sometimes, so I try my hardest to be as fair as I can :)

Found ASSEMbler - Searching for Biohazard 1.5 and stumbling accross the BH2 beta thread on the old boards....

Pictures Below are old as hell. Like, I was 13 at the time. And yes, I am aware I look like a tool in the picture ^_^ I look about the same now, just fatter and with longer hair (at my ass these days :))

http://www.faceparty.com/public/18/images/thetragicprince_595965.jpg

Now the below photo is slighter newer, and I was slightly drunk at the time ^_^

http://www.meganj.co.uk/stars/j.gif

[dj898]

State you name: denni, friends call me dj (No i don't do DJ :p)
Your country: Down Under (Australia)
Your approximate age: old enough to have a daughter :p
Your career / education: work for big international company
State how you found ASSEMbler: stumbled across although now come to think of can't recall exactly... hmm...


No: Pictures of you not fully clothed.
don't have one except the one my parents took when I was 7-10 mths old :p

Yes: Your girlfriend not fully clothed. Pictures of Natalie portman covered in honey.
Umm.. no although I think I saw picture of Natalie Portman with her boobs hanging out in one of missus women's magazine... will have to dig up...

[Blur2040]

http://www.users.muohio.edu/burkebj1/pictures/brian.jpg

Name: Brian
Age: Fabulous 19
Education, Occupation: Sophomore in Collge, Worked at Home Depot for summer.
How I found ASSEMbler: Sometime, probably back in early 2003, I found myself looking for information on development consoles. I was mainly interested in seeing early hardware designs...or unreleased hardware like Neptune. I think I registered for the old Forum in August 2003, after lurking for a long time.

[turbocozmo]

http://cuddlygamers.com/uploads/av-135.gif
TurboCozmo (Turbo) for turbografx Cozmo (my nickname)
real name ~ casey
A ~ 20 S~ Male L~ California
Your career Right now I do some construction, website stuff for a music company, work at Target, and play with my band

trying to finish up school, majoring in computer/art but I'm not attending at the moment

State how you found ASSEMbler a few years back I lurk a lot, but really got interested when the community started to take form around the time of (PA) realease. I probably found it from a link from Sega fans either that or Google.

[madhatter256]

Madhatter256:

Name: Anthony O
Origin: PUERRRRTO RRRICO!!!!

Gamer/collector (SHORT BIO)/seller: I've been a gamer since.... 5years old. Well My first sytsem was an NES but the power cord was cut as punishment. 1994, I was given a Sega Genesis as an X-Mas present. That system got me back into the gaming scene but I was still to young for it and my parents used it as a tool for me to do things around the house lol. A few years later, I got a 32x, then an N64. 2000, I got my first PSOne. THIS is the system that got me into collecting games. I started to buy PSX games of all kinds. I own the very popular Squaresoft games and then Working Design games. Currently, my PSX game collection is the bigges out of all other systems I own. My first "collectible" game/console would have to be a Sega Saturn. I bought one for $50 and included 5 games, I now own about 7 Saturn games. If that isn't considered collectible, which probably isn't ;), then my M2 FZ-35s system is. Since then, I've been waiting for the perfect collectible that none of you guys have but I'll own and I got it cheap :), SNES Model 2 probably counts as that :).

Age: 19. and like Assembler, I probably won't get married because I really don't want to. I have many ambitions and a single woman can't fulfill most of them.

Place of residence: Orlando, FLorida. Home of Mickey Mouse, humidity, mosquitoes, rednecks, heat, rain, lightning, and dumbass drivers.
Career: Currently working at a Super Market chain, called Publix. I work at their Deli, slicing meats, make subs and cook chicken (not yet but will ugh). I make an ok $7.5/hour since my main career is a College Student. I used to work at Disney.

How I found out about Assembler: I found out about it through gamefaqs. At first I only visited and drooled by just looking at what Assembler has. It wasn't until last year was when I started to post on the forums and started to get involved. Thank you Assembler for giving me a new addiction.

Recent History:
Made my first online sale thru this website and I plan to sell even more things if my collection survives this hurricane.

Got my first car for free, so far I put about $2000 into it for repairs.

Goals:
Unlike Assembler, I have a good feeling I can strike it rich in the gaming industry since I know people in it and I have a good idea for a technology that will revolutionize the gaming industry for better or for worse, so as long as I get filthy rich, and the RIAA will help me get rich (hint). If that doesn't work out I'll open up my own videogame store/PC store/PC builder/ LAN game center as an all in one place. Make good money in that type of business I tell ya. If none that goes well, I'll go back to college and get a business degree or maybe degree in Accounting.

[madhatter256]

Wholesale buyout and usually shady pawnshop buyouts.
Be careful. According to my sources. Some pawnshops will be set up as decoy for something I can't tell you. Be smart and stay away from them.

[Yakumo]

State you name : Mark S

Your country : England (Great Britain)

Your approximate age : 28

Your career / education : Unemployed at the moment

Place of residence : Japan

Recent History : Set up my 2nd site "segagagadomain" in July 2003 which is still going quite well to this day.

State how you found ASSEMbler : Can't really remember now. I think it was on a crusade to find some black market game carts. Then I stumbled across assembler. Assembler was the first forum that I had ever joined way back in 2001 (as far as I can remember)

Picture : Completely drunk at my cousins wedding last month. The younger girl is my sister.
http://img81.exs.cx/img81/2705/SisBro.jpg

Yakumo

[Dbeau]

State you name: Ryan

Your country: Ontario Canada

Your approximate age: Late twenties..uggg 30 is nearing

Your career / education: Went to university for Technology Engenering. After that I started a computer / technology consulting company with two friends from high school. the two of us that still run the company bought out the 3rd 2 years ago due to lack of interest on his part so now i have 50% and still not rich yet ....yet i say ...yet.

State how you found ASSEMbler: Hmmmm lets see, i think is was while searching for rare or prototype consoles. I checked the board and still due every day for the past couple of years, but family and busness usally only alow me enough time to just stop by and check out the latest posts.

[Mr. Casual]

State you name--> Shane S

Your country--> US of A (arkansas)

Your approximate age--> 19 (not even close! five thousand!)

Your career / education-->student at CCCUA

State how you found ASSEMbler : Alien workshop told me about this place around june or july. i was on i-mockery but it got dumb and i was a target for everyone. :angry

uh, as you might have seen i dont have a lot of games (too much money+ i have no job.) i do have a lot of quality games because im careful with my precious money... i have a HUGE list made though for when i get a job. :-D
other than that i like to draw and sometimes write. i dont know what exactly i want to do though....

i might make my own site and forum board one day, too.

[Johnny]

Johnny:

Name: Rafael Coelho
Origin: Brazil

Gamer/Collector: Well, as far as i know, i'm a gamer since i was born. I have vague memories of playing an Pong clone, an Odyssey, and then the Atari 2600 when my older brother got one. I really become addicted to it, when i got my Master System (and my brother a MSX). I manage to have lots of Master System games, more than 50 if i'm not mistaken. I don't own it anymore, which is a shame, but i have a list with the games i used to have plus the accessories. Anyway, had a quick trip trought Mega Drive and Super Nintendo, then PS1 and the rest you already now.
Another good point. I really REALLY like arcades. I like them since i entered the first one, when i first played Pole Position. Too bad arcade business is slowly dying in US / Europe / Japan. In Brazil every mall has at least one big arcade, and there's one 5 minutes away from college. It's HotZone at BarraShopping. I go there at least once a week. Sometimes i don't even play (lack of time), but i just love the noise and the lights sparkling. By the way, can someone help me to use that MAME 3D Arcade frontend? It's easy to build an arcade as you wish?

Age: I'm 23. Actually i don't look like i have that age (that's a good thing). Not married yet. Me and my girlfriend are together for almost 2 years, but now she's freaking me about every thing, so we are kinda separated for some time.

Place of residence: Rio de Janeiro, RJ. It's a great place to live, although some places of the city are violent. Anyway, where i live is actually calm, and near the Nelson Piquet International Raceway (where i go to watch races and quarter mile competitions) and the beaches of Barra.

Education: I'm at the 6th semester of college (of 8 or 9, it will depend). My major is Informática (in english that would be Computer Science), but with enphasys on System Analysis.

Career: I'm working at TELEMAR for quite some time now. I started as Junior System Analist, but nowadays i'm more like a Systems Builder (if that's how you call in English). I work with more 20 people (no, i'm not their manager), making telecomunications projects to newer facilities and buildings (fiber optics and stuff like that). Planning the costs, how they would be implemented, if it's viable,... You know, projects...
Still my boss makes me go to check the dev. people. Some guys already hate me because i always end up spotting their programming mistakes. I'm not a good programmer at all, but some mistakes are really bizarre.

I just wish i had a better salary. It pays my bills (college, car,...), and some of it goes to long time investiments. The rest i use to go out (pubs, cinema,...) and when it's enough, for games.
Sometimes i do some free-lance jobs for friends, like setting up their network and basic things like that.

How you found ASSEMbler: I really don't remember, but i'm glad i did. All people i met here are great friends that i usually talk daily. I've been posting since the first time i came across the site. I still remember reading all info of the rare systems for the first time.


PS: Hey Kevin, if you need to get rid of a Dreamcast, send me one for free. Working, with cables and one controller. I'll be forever thankful :smt023 Just joking

[Taemos]

Name: Eric
Origin: South Carolina, USA (currently in North Carolina)

Gamer/Collector: I bought my first console (PSOne) two years ago for $25. I've been into videogames since I was five, but my parents never wanted a console in the house (now I have at least six :smt045 ). I'm more into the older systems (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, up through Playstation, Dreamcast, and the Saturn), although I do own an Xbox (thanks to Sony for shitty PS2 lasers [I sold my PS2 to buy an Xbox]) and am planning on buying a Gamecube soon.

Age: 17

Residency: North Carolina, USA

Education: Sleeping through high school (not literally, but it IS boring)

Job: I work as a tech support guy (don't know the exact name) for a company here

How I found ASSEMbler: I believe I was looking for information on the Sega Neptune when I ran across this site. I lurked on the board for about half a year, and then started guest posting in late 2002. I finally registered about a month before the forums moved :smt067 .

http://img174.exs.cx/img174/4755/eric0pz.jpg

update: A very shitty picture of me.

[LeGIt]

LeGIt

Name: Adrian Jonathan Royston David Lawrence (No, I'm not joking ...)

Origin: Rochdale, England, UK

Age: 20 (21 in December YAY!)

Career / Education: Not very employable for multiple reasons. Could have got A*'s in all my exams but had an operation at the time. Went to a University when I was 16 but it sucked ass so I never went back. I was allways gifted & creative but nothing ever challenged me - I spent the last 2 years at school working out of a store room because I would do all my work fast then boredom would set in, I started talking + general schoolboy messing about etc hence I ended up in there :S .

I found assembler through a link on Yakumo's site on Segagagadomain.com about a year ago. I spent about 3 -4 months stalking before I bothered to register/post

:smt023

Put on a bit of weight in this pic - too much sitting on my ass and not enough riding my bike :smt022

http://faceparty.com/public/916/images/legit_8323684.jpg

[Funk Buddy]

Name: Jeff Adams

Country: US

Approx age: 35

Your career / education: Work for parents company.. make shit wages and work more hours than when I was at another job. Lets just say, even with a months salary as a bonus I made $2000 less last year than my old job. Repeat for the last three years. :angry

My education is a joke... some CC and that's it.

State how you found ASSEMbler: Some dude name Paulo was whoring the site on Usenet so I checked it out. Just kidding about the whoring part. :smt023 Found there to be some people knowledgeable in areas I have no clue about and a few I recognize from elsewhere. I really like the import side of gaming so that's one reason I stayed. Plus, I like the buy and sell portion of most gaming sites. :smt033

[sayin999]

Name: Chris Guera
Origin: United States

Gamer/Collector: My brother use to be the one who would always get the latest from nintendo, I continued the tradition when i got the 64, since then i've been even more of a gamer. Proud owner of 8 consoles (six if you count two saturns as one and a sega cd only as an add on). Still collect for old systems, and slowly building on collections for each system including imports(what can i say i really like the classic 16 bit systems and segas last two consoles);

Age: 17(18 in dec)
Place of residence:San Diego, California

Education: Currently in Jr. year of high school

Career: None at moment, but if hired after a second interview will be working very shortly.

How you found ASSEMbler:I forgot exactly how, i think i was on a site about prototypes or something like that and there was a link for assembler or possibly another way (its been a long time since then) however mostly got into the site for its amazing pages on rare things and protos, however only joined the board when updates on assembler began to slow down(checked it out as it seemed the site was not to be updated again at that point) which was when assembler was still on ezboard.

[abionic]

State you name--> ben adam x

Your country--> San Furaanshisuko, CA

Your approximate age--> 29

Your career / education--> studied anthropology in college; now a system engineer / software engineer / one-man IT department, musician and collector in my offtime (check out my band, www.boysthrowstars.com)

State how you found ASSEMbler : found it in spring of 2001, lookin for info on famiclones.. had real bad insomnia, read thru the entire site one night.

[Calpis]

Edit: I edit my posts a lot

[madhatter256]

That was intended as sarcasm guys but screw it I'll delete it just to be respectful. On top of that, I'm as heavy as him. Who needs a "six pack" when you have a "keg" ;-).

[ShadowofBob]

Name: Robert
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Age: 17
Career: Senior in High School
How You Found Assembler: I was looking into Dreamcast rarites and this site came up. I eventually began following the forums and became a member.

[AntiPasta]

Who needs a "six pack" when you have a "keg" ;-).

:smt042 :smt043 :smt033

I just got a new personal motto :smt023

[ASSEMbler]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

[WolverineDK]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

sir do you weigh more than me ? ;-)

[cahaz]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

Uh, excuse me , those who live in the unitd-state are huge. :smt023

[Alien Workshop]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

Uh, excuse me , those who live in the unitd-state are huge. :smt023

Oh.... really. So 6ft 150lbs is huge. Cool! I'm huge. :-D

[Importaku]

Ok me next

Name: Importaku

Real Name: Jason Muir

Age: 28 (god i feel so old) :-D

Location: Mushroom Kingdom (Oh, ok then Leeds, UK)

Job: Laboratory technician (if it comes out of a human body we test it), just recently moved hospitals so i now work in a place that looks scarily like the umbrella mansion off resident evil :smt100

Gamer/Collector: My 1st love is Nintendo games, but i also collect interesting nintendo toys and game related stuff too. I mainly play gamecube & N64 nowdays but i also dabble in GB & GBA stuff too. Also partial to some old gaming on the pc and sinclair spectrum from time to time.

Found out about assembler: Hmm thats a hard one i can't remember exactly but i think it was through another site. Been around ever since i found it. :smt045

[cahaz]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

Uh, excuse me , those who live in the unitd-state are huge. :smt023

Oh.... really. So 6ft 150lbs is huge. Cool! I'm huge. :-D


Err.... could you plz stop all this and laugh one day? that would be cool . :smt045

whe can't have yellow margarine here, its illegal! :smt082

''police! stop that margarine!!''
:smt082

voila! that's easy and fun!

the world isn't perfect , and there's no one like the other... that's sure ... but...heh...
:smt045

[Alien Workshop]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

Uh, excuse me , those who live in the unitd-state are huge. :smt023

Oh.... really. So 6ft 150lbs is huge. Cool! I'm huge. :-D


Err.... could you plz stop all this and laugh one day? that would be cool . :smt045


:smt042 I was laughing when I read your initial post, I was laughing when I made my response, and I am laughing right now. What do you want me to stop? Being sarcastic? Sorry, but that is just the way I am. :smt042

[cahaz]

You guys have nothing on americans. They (we...) are HUGE..

Uh, excuse me , those who live in the unitd-state are huge. :smt023

Oh.... really. So 6ft 150lbs is huge. Cool! I'm huge. :-D


Err.... could you plz stop all this and laugh one day? that would be cool . :smt045


:smt042 I was laughing when I read your initial post, I was laughing when I made my response, and I am laughing right now. What do you want me to stop? Being sarcastic? Sorry, but that is just the way I am. :smt042

feew! you're saved! :smt042

[Greatsaintlouis]

GreatSaintLouis :smtassho:

Name: Chris St.Louis

Location: Ashland, Oregon, United States

Age: ALMOST 21

Gamer: Old skool roots , but I won't turn up my nose at newer games unless they are all flash and flair and no substance (see also 97% of XBox games). Have a weakness for strategy RPGs, shmups, fighters, and anything weird and distinctly Japanese (Ore No Ryouri, Samba De Amigo, etc.)

Career: Hotel bellhop for one more week, then back to full time student, Art Major with emphasis on Digital Media/Animation, Printmaking Minor. Thinking of going for business loans and trying to open a used gamestore in this town that could sadly use one.

Found ASSEMbler: About three years back, looking for information on development/debug PSX units. Found the forums about 2 years ago, lurked for a bit, and then decided to join. This has been my most-used (and only) message board for the whole duration of the time.

Languages: (As it seems many others do two or more) English, 2 years of Japanese and counting, a smattering of Spanish learned from the housekeeping staff at work :smt043

Expertise: Well, I'd like to think I'm getting reasonably knowledgeable about the N64, but probably not.

And yet another goofy picture:
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/7458/WTF.jpg

[Tachikoma]

Expertise: "illegal backup devices" although I apariently know more than most about hardware/history too

:smt042

[bigsexyolli]

Name: Oliver P.

Country: Germany (Hamburg)

Age: Will turn 23 on the 17th of September :-)

Career: Working in daddy's business + studying "computer economics" at the university of Hamburg

Found Assembler with google. Was searching for Dev-Stuff for the DC. I was on the old board as well, been around for alomst 2 years.

I love gaming in general, but especially the development part of it. My all-time favoritve is still punch-out on the nes, but my small but nice DC collection is my reael beauty.

Here's a pic from me with some hot ladies from the Games Convention in Leipzig.

http://www.peymann.com/me/1.jpg
http://www.peymann.com/me/2.jpg

And yes, the shirt says booty hunter!


peace

[MasterChief]

State you name: Jim

Your country: The Peoples Republic of Oak Park, IL, USA

Your approximate age: 24

Your career / education: Health care / working on batchers in history, western civ, to be precise.

State how you found ASSEMbler: looking at an ebay auction for a dc dev unit, it gave 'assembler' as credit for the pictures. so i checked the site out and was floored buy the collection. looked in on the boards for close to a year and finally joined recently.

mini gaming blog: didnt really get into gaming until after highschool, i had a SMS, then an SNES (skipped genesis, what a mistake that was). bought a psx shortly after launch, but only owned the gran turisimos and doom. bought my first pc at 20, but only used it for AIM and porn.
that all changed 3 years ago, when my buddy introduced me to halo. i immediately bought an xbox. after building a small collection, i noticed my favorites were sega games (Jet set radio future, sega gt, panzer dragoon orta, shenmue ii) so seeing used dcs advertised at 20 bucks, i went to pick one up. and of coarse i needed some games to play, and saw most were running at 10 dollars or less! i spent the $50 i had in my pocket, and must have walked out with 7 games! at that point i knew this was the system for the tightwad, like myself!
i soon after conned a friend out of his saturn. such is the beginning of a sega whore.

and heres my collection, in print form.
http://users.ign.com/collection/MasterChief78

[SovietStriker]

Name: Rui Miguel Santos

Age: 17 (18 in october)

Country: Born in Portugal came to USA, New Jersey when I was 9

Job/Carrer: Senior in High School

Game Bio: My first system was a PAL Sega Master System that I got when I was 8, then moved to States found out it didn't work. Got a NES from some family friend here and that's when the addiction really, began then in 96 I had a chance if getting a Snes of N64 I choose Snes because all my friends had and I wanted to trade borrow, then in 97 sold the snes for an N64,then sold the N64 for a PSX, then again a PSX for a N64, then I got a black sega sports dreamcast (without AV ) for some Porn magazines I traded to my friend(will never froget that lol). From there I got a Saturn which I fucked up trying to install a mod switch (I had SOME sodering expirience), got another saturn and everything was well. Sold the black dreamcast, got a white normal one. Then bought a 64DD thur this guy I met on ebay. Bought back a snes recently and just sold my xbox. And have bought loads of Imports for saturn on ebay.

Systems I now own: Saturn, Dreamcast, Snes, N64 (w/64DD), Nes.

Found assembler: when I was looking for 64DD dev info.

[GaijinPunch]

Name: Paul (last name is the same as a country -- former super power)

Country: From Texas, lived in Japan since early 1998. Moving to Hawaii in mere weeks. I can practically taste the sand.

Age: 29

Career & Education: Was a double major (Japanese and Business) until I actually had to get into the UT Business School to say that. Reasons such as switching schools, and at one point my grades, saw to it that businses school wasn't going to happen. I stuckwith the Japanese major, and got an Asian Studies minor (required). Japanese, is basically the only thing I can say I'm good at, although I could be better. I quit studying about 5 years ago, and just started reading magazines and shit.

Game-wise, I'm old school. Although I didn't play much from high school 'til my last 2 years of college, which I played some PC and Sega Saturn. Stopped playing altogether at that ponit. Moved to Japan, and had a bad habit of spending all my money in clubs and in record stores (yes, vinyl). DJing, while good fun, locks you into a world of partying and materialism. Some people can seperate the hobby from the rather young subculture that accompanies it -- I cannot.

I quickly realized that most people are retarded when it comes to computers, bought a book on NT-Server, read it, and got an IT job. Was still short on cash as my job was definitely entry-level, so became one of (if not THE) guy that popularized selling games from Japan. The only other guy on Ebay at the time with a direct connect was selling from the states. So, I guess I'm a pioneer in some ways. At this point, I made my re-entry into the gaming world, in a rather large way. Started www.classicgaming.com/japangaming as a way to give people an idea of what they were buying. After I quit selling games, JG became a romping ground for me to play w/ CGI programming, and is now, just a pretty cool site.


State how you found ASSEMbler: I think it was pointed out to me by someone I used to sell games to or something. I saw it ages ago (not long after Japanese Gaming got off the ground). I didn't stumble into the forums until about a year or so ago though, if even that long.

[Alien Workshop]

Name: Paul (last name is the same as a country -- former super power)


Russia?

[madhatter256]

Name: Paul (last name is the same as a country -- former super power)


Russia?

Definitely can't be France (just kidding lol). Britian? America? Israel? Germany? Italy? Rome? Greece? Egypt? Spain?

[GaijinPunch]

Definitely can't be France (just kidding lol). Britian? America? Israel? Germany? Italy? Rome? Greece? Egypt? Spain?

Close, but no cigar.

[Hawanja]

Name: M. Rivers

Age: 28

Country: USA

City: Los Angeles, the greatest city in the world... unless you live here.

Carrer/ Education/acheivements: Yale graduate, started the Monkey P. Chucky pizza chain, Fomer ambassador to the United Nations under the Carter Administration, wanted for war crimes in Argentina, In 1979 trusted my DOS operating system to a young man named Bill Gates who ripped me off and became the richest man in the world, One time I drank 37 beers without barfing, avid dog breeder, butterfly collector, and horse tamer, invented the toaster oven, I tought myself how to juggle, Former president and grand Poobah of the United Funny-moose hat society of America (I'd tell you more but I'd have to kill you,) Champion midget bullfighter, Freed the slaves by writig the emancipation proclaimation but Lincon got all the credit, invented the cotton gin, the steam engine, and the Pentium 4 processor, won the 1996 world cup, seventeen gold medals in the 1984 olympics for Hungry Hungry Hippos, one time I beat up Mr. T, Rocky, Arnold Swartzeneggggear, Bruce Lee, Mike Tyson, Neo from the Matrix, Agent Smith, Captian America, Dhalism, Robocop, ED209, Brave Fencer Musashi, Eddy Gordo, Shang Tsung, The terminator, Gumby, Batman, Godzilla, AND Rambo with one hand tied behind my back blindfolded strapped to a chair with a rabid chicken stapled to my leg (damn I'm bad,) invented time machine, went back in time, took a piss on Hitler when he was a baby, and while I was at it I built the pyrimids, the great wall of China, the Hanging gardens of Babylon, Atlantis, Stonehenge, Mexico City, and also discovered fire, the wheel, the plow, painted the hall of bulls at Lascaux, France, introduced mankind to the Bronze age, single handedly saved the human race from extinction during the last ice age by delivering 470000 cans of Spam and instant noodles to our caveman ancestors, Invented the flyswatter, I was the first guy to say "Suck my balls!" (really I was,) Invented the batter dipped Corn Dog in 1932, in 1965 I gave a young George Lucas the inspiration for a movie that would later be known as Starwars, wrote the declaration of independence, the Magna Carta, as well as the Code of Hammurabi, the Unted States Consitution, the UN charter, English Maritime common law, and first six chapters of Genesis, Also I discovered America in 1491 (one year before Columbus did but he got all the credit becasue Queen Isabella liked him better,) I circumvebted the Earth ten years before Magellen, built the first Airplane six years before the Wright Brothers, and walked on the Moon a full TWENTY YEARS before Armstrong (with a rocket ship I made out of my ol' 62 Beetle, what a hunk of shit that was,) I can read minds, I can make a farting noise with my armpits, I can speed read, I have an IQ of 846575895857585985696967678689698696906969696969, I can make the "12:00" on a VCR stop blinking, I can solve a Rubick's cube in under ten seconds, I am the only person in the history of the universe to compute PI to it's termination, I can do that thing Bishop does with the knife and the fingers in Aliens, but faster, Ten billion years ago God created me then I gave him the Idea to create the Universe, I often go to McDonalds and get a Six piece Chicken McNuggets Happy meal and a large Orange drink, I invented Rock and Roll, I personally captured Saddam Hussien, I invented toe nail clippers, I am responsible for life developing on the earth 3.5 billion years ago, I can eat 47 pounds of cheese and a package of Ding Dongs in one setting and still have room for Jello, I invented the first computer to break Nazi Naval codes in WWII, I am single handedly responsible for the collaspe of the Soviet Union, I invented toothpaste, the flush toilet, sanitary napkins, ******, as well as the first cuniform writing in ancient Sumeria, shoelaces, cellphones, the automatic hammer (damn you Edison!) as well as the nuclear reactor, the Tesla Coil, those little prong thingys you stick on the end of corn on the cob so you don't get butter on your hands (my greatest invention in my humble opinon,) as well as the seat belt, the CD rom, the flashlight, the printing press with moveable type, and also agriculture and the rise of civilization.

I . currently work at the most awsome job on Earth. I am a game tester.

How did I hear about Assembler: That was like four years ago, What am I supposed to remember everything? Damn.

Gaming history: My dad alway had a computer, so I grew up on atari 8-bit, apple, and IBM games. Got an NES when I was 13, and now have like 43 different systems. There is no more room under my TV.

I run the Ultimate Console Database ( http://hawanja.com ) which was inspired by Assembler.

[GaijinPunch]

Having a hard time finding a smiley to fit the occasion after reading that.

[Paulo]

:smt1062

[A. Snow]

There is no smiley known to man (at least till Hawanja creates it that is) to describe how funny that is.

By the way GaijinPunch is the last name England or Rome?

[GaijinPunch]

The former --
I owe you one sheckle.

[Codeman1]

Name: Tiago
Country: Portugal
Age: 20
Education: ...Next question please!!
How I found ASSEMbler: I wish I could remember when, but I remember coming to this site for a long time.
My first reactions when I found the site were something like: "What system is this?" "Oohh I never heard about that one" "WTF is that?"
I was a regular lurker of the old forums, lots of cool people here!
I ended up registering and altough I check the forums on a daily basis I dont really post much.


Its getting pretty hard to get anything game related in these parts let alone protos and stuff like that so thats why I dont really post much I guess....
Ill try to get some nice pics of my humble colletion once i get my bedroom a bit more 'presentable', it looks more like a storage/junkyard with a bed then a bedroom atm.

Gaming history: My father and my cousins all had Sinclair Spectrum computers so the first videogames I played were on the Spectrum along with some other games I played at the few arcades I was allowed in!
However I only started to really enjoy videogames when I got to play Moonwalker at an arcade, I fell in love with the game the first time I played it, and thats how it all began, I have been an addict ever since!
Shortly after discovering Moonwalker my parents got me a Megadrive, and I eventually bought all the other Sega consoles that were released here. I never really liked Nintendo , there was just something magic about SEGA!!
At some point I started collecting all the consoles and games that I could get my hands on here in Portugal, I also have a small colection of computers (Sinclair Spectrums, Timex, Atari ST, Amiga, lots of PC's)

To complete the circle all that I was missing was the game that started it all for me, so I got a Moonwalker PCB, and now im an acomplished gamer!!

[ASSEMbler]

We should create a conspiracy! On 11/11/2011 we will all go and fondle large breasts at exactly 11:11 pm.

[AntiPasta]

We should create a conspiracy! On 11/11/2011 we will all go and fondle large breasts at exactly 11:11 pm.

Of course we should, but what's that doing in this topic? :smt043

[id-republix]

We should create a conspiracy! On 11/11/2011 we will all go and fondle large breasts at exactly 11:11 pm.

Of course we should, but what's that doing in this topic? :smt043

Who cares? It should, and must be done!

(but pretty pelase no man-breasts oh please oh please oh please)

[LeGIt]

or maybe on 20/05 2005? :-D

[id-republix]

NO!!!

9 / 9 / 9999!!!

[Alien Workshop]

Carrer/ Education/acheivements: Yale graduate, started the Monkey P. Chucky pizza chain, Fomer ambassador to the United Nations under the Carter Administration, wanted for war crimes in Argentina, In 1979 trusted my DOS operating system to a young man named Bill Gates who ripped me off and became the richest man in the world, One time I drank 37 beers without barfing, avid dog breeder, butterfly collector, and horse tamer, invented the toaster oven, I tought myself how to juggle, Former president and grand Poobah of the United Funny-moose hat society of America (I'd tell you more but I'd have to kill you,) Champion midget bullfighter, Freed the slaves by writig the emancipation proclaimation but Lincon got all the credit, invented the cotton gin, the steam engine, and the Pentium 4 processor, won the 1996 world cup, seventeen gold medals in the 1984 olympics for Hungry Hungry Hippos, one time I beat up Mr. T, Rocky, Arnold Swartzeneggggear, Bruce Lee, Mike Tyson, Neo from the Matrix, Agent Smith, Captian America, Dhalism, Robocop, ED209, Brave Fencer Musashi, Eddy Gordo, Shang Tsung, The terminator, Gumby, Batman, Godzilla, AND Rambo with one hand tied behind my back blindfolded strapped to a chair with a rabid chicken stapled to my leg (damn I'm bad,) invented time machine, went back in time, took a piss on Hitler when he was a baby, and while I was at it I built the pyrimids, the great wall of China, the Hanging gardens of Babylon, Atlantis, Stonehenge, Mexico City, and also discovered fire, the wheel, the plow, painted the hall of bulls at Lascaux, France, introduced mankind to the Bronze age, single handedly saved the human race from extinction during the last ice age by delivering 470000 cans of Spam and instant noodles to our caveman ancestors, Invented the flyswatter, I was the first guy to say "Suck my balls!" (really I was,) Invented the batter dipped Corn Dog in 1932, in 1965 I gave a young George Lucas the inspiration for a movie that would later be known as Starwars, wrote the declaration of independence, the Magna Carta, as well as the Code of Hammurabi, the Unted States Consitution, the UN charter, English Maritime common law, and first six chapters of Genesis, Also I discovered America in 1491 (one year before Columbus did but he got all the credit becasue Queen Isabella liked him better,) I circumvebted the Earth ten years before Magellen, built the first Airplane six years before the Wright Brothers, and walked on the Moon a full TWENTY YEARS before Armstrong (with a rocket ship I made out of my ol' 62 Beetle, what a hunk of shit that was,) I can read minds, I can make a farting noise with my armpits, I can speed read, I have an IQ of 846575895857585985696967678689698696906969696969, I can make the "12:00" on a VCR stop blinking, I can solve a Rubick's cube in under ten seconds, I am the only person in the history of the universe to compute PI to it's termination, I can do that thing Bishop does with the knife and the fingers in Aliens, but faster, Ten billion years ago God created me then I gave him the Idea to create the Universe, I often go to McDonalds and get a Six piece Chicken McNuggets Happy meal and a large Orange drink, I invented Rock and Roll, I personally captured Saddam Hussien, I invented toe nail clippers, I am responsible for life developing on the earth 3.5 billion years ago, I can eat 47 pounds of cheese and a package of Ding Dongs in one setting and still have room for Jello, I invented the first computer to break Nazi Naval codes in WWII, I am single handedly responsible for the collaspe of the Soviet Union, I invented toothpaste, the flush toilet, sanitary napkins, ******, as well as the first cuniform writing in ancient Sumeria, shoelaces, cellphones, the automatic hammer (damn you Edison!) as well as the nuclear reactor, the Tesla Coil, those little prong thingys you stick on the end of corn on the cob so you don't get butter on your hands (my greatest invention in my humble opinon,) as well as the seat belt, the CD rom, the flashlight, the printing press with moveable type, and also agriculture and the rise of civilization.



o_O That's quite a list of accomplishments...

[Mr. Casual]

i create rare gifs and nauseating sigs. :-D

[Rich]

Rich M

State your name : Richiro Moriyama

Your country : Dunno, living nomadenly HK, Thailand, occasionally Spore, I guess Im in the Pacific Rim to be exact.

Your approximate age : turned 30 last year

Your career / education : Doing small export import family run business / Finish my Postgrad soon and when got the cash hope straight to go for Phd (major in finance and e-commerce) UCL london thru distance learning programme.

Place of residence : Currently in Bangkok

Recent History : Just made me fam happy, finally could upgrade the family car.

State how you found ASSEMbler : I think it was in 1998 thru someone over at AGSCC site, the asian game hacker's ring

Game history: Playing games since the days of Sinclair, MSX, BBC model B, Acorn, Oric machines.

Picture : at an off line gathering (me standing far left white shirt)

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/2201/asiacafe.jpg

[id-republix]

http://img52.exs.cx/img52/2201/asiacafe.jpg

[Paulo]

Your kinda mean calling the girl Purple PIG... :smt043

[Rich]

Id... lol that time I tried hard to win over this chic poozie, we did date few times tho, that was like 8 years ago ;-) one dude behind her wasnt her boyfriend i think.

[Juul]

Hello all you people at assembler, let me introduce myself...

Full name: Juul Coolen
Country: The Netherlands
Age: 19 already :smt033
Career / eduction: At the moment doing a IT study at the university and in the weekends working in my parents' shop

Short personal history of computer gaming:
On my 7th birthday I got a gameboy with tetris from my aunt. 2 years later (again on my birthday) my parents gave me a megadrive with Sonic 2 included (that game was so great, especially the 'tunnel' bonus level!). In the same period my cousin (SEGA fan also) bought himself a Saturn (lucky bastard he was :smt009 ), but fortunately I could borrow it once a while. Later I bought a Playstation, but never a Saturn. I never regretted, because of the simple fact the Playstation was much more popular at that time and the Saturn was nor dead nor alive. The same goes for the Dreamcast, which was overshadowed by the Playstation 2. Nonetheless the Saturn and Dreamcast became of nostalgic value, that's why I am collecting them now :smt043

Favorite systems: Saturn (of great nostalgic value for me) and Dreamcast (of course ;-) ) but I also like the Playstation (2), because of the huge amount / variety of games.

Favorite games: Final Fantasy VII and X, Pro Evo aka Winning Eleven (playing the series non-stop for years now) and Sega games in general, especially Sega Rally (played the desert track for weeks, but wasn't able to break my cousin's record :smt022 ), Pete Sampras Tennis (old skool genesis / megadrive stuff indeed!), Virtua Tennis and last but not least Shenmue.

How I found ASSEMbler: through the Dutch Sega community / message board segaforum.nl, where someone mentioned it. However I visited assembler once, by accident, over a year ago, I registered not until yesterday.

That's it in a nutshell...
Just ask me if you wanna know something more

Juul

[AntiPasta]

That's it in a nutshell...
Just ask me if you wanna know something more
Juul

Yeah, where in the Netherlands do you live? :-)

[Juul]

I have a room in Nijmegen, that's where the university is also, but my parents' house, where I am during most of the weekends, is in Ell (yeah, I know, a dull name :-D ), a small village near Weert, Limburg

[crissybwoy]

State you name: Crissybwoy - Even my kids call me it occasionally - all started when a friend wrote it in a birthday card!

Your country: UK Manchester (at the moment, soon moving back to Leeds)

Your approximate age: 27

Your career / education: Career, I work with homeless people - Help with life skills, find them permanant housing, education & stuff to do.

Education: I'm a former drug addict & school/college drop out. Now clean from the drugs (except the odd drink & bong) full time dad to 2 little awsome girls who love the 'Pink Game' (Space Channel 5) and the 'Monkey Game' (Samba De Amigo) who are 3 & 2 years old.

State how you found ASSEMbler: Whilst looking for info on my Mega PC. Was Plenty of time ago, maybe 3 years. Was into PStation at the time & copying games galore, left all that behind now, not pirated since. Only noticed the message board here after about a year!

[AntiPasta]

I have a room in Nijmegen, that's where the university is also, but my parents' house, where I am during most of the weekends, is in Ell (yeah, I know, a dull name :-D ), a small village near Weert, Limburg

Ah, not exactly in the thick of things then ;-)
How's your area for retro-shopping? Found anything worthwile?

[Juul]

Unfortunately not many shops with retro stuff around. There is a "Replay" gameshop in Weert and in Nijmegen, but they don't have that much. A couple of regular dreamcast games, but the shop in Weert also has some second hand saturn, megadrive and N64 games, but again nothing special.

I get most of my stuff from eBay, some online shops (those that are left) and these kind of boards.

[Roi]

Name: Roï Shiratski

Your country: Netherland, Hillegom (nearby Amsterdam.) I am borned in Tel-Aviv,Israel.

Your approximate age: 15 years young.

Your career / education: I'm still on the Highschool learning VMBO-T . Dont know if it's saying something to the foreigners here :-)

State how you found ASSEMbler: I found it on a forum where someone was looking for a Dreamcast dev.kit. I visited this site and was verry amazed by some great collectors! Butt I was forgotten to bookmark this page and couldn't find it untill someone on the Segaforum.nl mention it. (Thank god.)

Short personal history of computer gaming:
When I was a little child my father had bought a NES, that was my first gaming experience ! Then later my mother bought a Snes for me and my sister. Then I got from my birthday a N64 and my gaming addiction begon :). Since a year now I got my first Sega console.

Favorite systems: The Super Nintendo (great nostalgic value), some great games are launched on that great console! My GameboySP is also a great console becuase I play a lot of old orginal Gameboy games on it!

Favorite games: Samba da Amigo, The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time, Super Mario World.

[XerdoPwerko]

Will register myself, the way AlienWorkshop has instructed me to.
Hello all.

Name: Héctor Ortiz - Born in Veracruz, México some 23 years ago.
Early college graduate (from Monterrey Institute of Technology, ITESM). Studied Communication Science (humanities) degree.
works as freelance multimedia designer, humanities professor in college and high school level, Writer.
Current place of residence: Guadalajara, Mexico.
Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese.

Found Assembler while looking for japanese videogames, a while back in college. I think I was looking for data on either PCE-CD or Satellaview (I had gotten a dirt-cheap PCE CoreGrafX II in the time, I think, and wanted more data about it)

Personal history of computer gaming: Practically was born with a controller in my hand: my older brother and sister were 15 and 11 when I was born , and, of course, they had a 2600, which I promptly learned how to play. Then I moved on to my own C64, then the NES, Snes, and so on.

[Joen]

Name: Jeroen J.

Your country: Netherland, Leiden(between The Hague and Amsterdam.)

Your approximate age: 23 years.

Your career / education: I'm currently running my own little design agency, but I'm thinking about working at Mexx as an Interaction Designer.

State how you found ASSEMbler: I was googleing and just surfed by. That was a while ago, when the old board was still up

Short personal history of computer gaming:
My dad was a programmer for the Amsterdam Stock Exchange when I was (very) little, so we always had a pc around. I used to play games on it, on those greenish monitors. When I grew up my parents got me a Atari 2600 and that was the start of my gaming-carreer :-)

Favorite systems: Megadrive, Dreamcast

Favorite games: Sonic Adventure, PES series, Outrun, Shenmue

[cahaz]

We should create a conspiracy! On 11/11/2011 we will all go and fondle large breasts at exactly 11:11 pm.

you don't talk much , but have great ideas! :smt043
just not at the good place. ;-)

:smt043 :smt043 :smt043

[SovietStriker]

Update Pictures of me on bottom

Name: Rui Miguel Santos

Age: 17 (18 in october)

Country: Born in Portugal came to USA, New Jersey when I was 9

Job/Carrer: Senior in High School

Game Bio: My first system was a PAL Sega Master System that I got when I was 8, then moved to States found out it didn't work. Got a NES from some family friend here and that's when the addiction really, began then in 96 I had a chance if getting a Snes of N64 I choose Snes because all my friends had and I wanted to trade borrow, then in 97 sold the snes for an N64,then sold the N64 for a PSX, then again a PSX for a N64, then I got a black sega sports dreamcast (without AV ) for some Porn magazines I traded to my friend(will never froget that lol). From there I got a Saturn which I fucked up trying to install a mod switch (I had SOME sodering expirience), got another saturn and everything was well. Sold the black dreamcast, got a white normal one. Then bought a 64DD thur this guy I met on ebay. Bought back a snes recently and just sold my xbox. And have bought loads of Imports for saturn on ebay.

Systems I now own: Saturn, Dreamcast, Snes, N64 (w/64DD), Nes.

Found assembler: when I was looking for 64DD dev info.

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/407/pic171.jpg
Me (In the middle) and my cousin and cousin's friend. Taken in Portugal after Portugal beat England in the Euro Cup.

http://img8.exs.cx/img8/5417/pic325.jpg
Me (to the right) with 2 guys from Checz Republic I met there. Taken in Portugal after Portugal beat England in the Euro Cup.

[BruneiGamer]

Name: Gerry Sastro S

Age: 31

Country: Brunei Darussalaam

Occupation: In an Oil Refinery Line Of Work

Game History:
Own pieces of gaming history since the days of british home micro, like Oric, BBC, sinclair, amstrad up to present game hardware. Recently I have been into retro Arcade machine collection, although it is a very time consuming since need to wait some weeks importing heavy arcade cabinets from overseas.

Found assembler: Thru a website, that times I was looking for a PS2 DTLT unit

[Yakumo]

Name: Gerry Sastro S

Age: 31

Country: Brunei Darussalaam

Occupation: In an Oil Refinery Line Of Work

Welcome to ASSEMbler Gerry :smt023 It's always nice to see an older gamer join the boards. I think that makes about 15 of us now in our late 20's early 30's.

Yakumo

[zilpha]

State you name : Jonathan

Your country : England (Great Britain)

Your approximate age : 25

Your career / education : IT and Uni

Place of residence : UK

Recent History : Working on my very first site www.zilpha.tk under construction :smt045

State how you found ASSEMbler : I was looking for unreleased titles on the DC and stumbled across ASSEMbler :smt023 I'm hooked already, I’ve learnt loads and probably be askin lots of questions so be ready with those answers ;-)

Game History: It all started with a C64 then onto an Amiga 600 before I saw the light and moved to consoles :-D I purchased a NES to start with (which I still have totally MIB!) but soon upgraded to the mighty SNES :smt083 I had this for a number of years and amassed a HUGE collection of games BUT like a fool sold them to get a N64 and PS1. (Which again I still have MIB ) The next was a Dreamcast which is still my favourite console today, well apart from the controller lol Anyway after that came a very short meeting with a :smt067 PS2, sorry but I don't like them, not as good as the DC imo! Then I decided to get an NTSC SNES which I then sold due to it being two tone yellow, so then I bought another slightly better but with the same problem, so this is now sold, so I’m currently on the lookout for a MIB SNES (at the right price).

Oh and I just bought a new crystal Xbox with the hope that Shenmue 3 will get a release LOL LOL :smt043

I’m not a hardcore collector as I can't afford to be, but I do spend what I can on some of the more obscure games and perphiarls, unfortunatly I usually end up selling them again due to lack of cash ;-)

I think thats about it..........

I forgot to ad Im a huge SEGA fan :smt023

[cos2k3]

State you name -Cos2k3

Your country- England

Your approximate age -20

Your career / education - IT/ Uni (same as zilpha above, lol!)

State how you found ASSEMbler - DreamcastHistory Forums

Hi people of the assembler forum, after pondering on this forum a few times, iv finally decided to join!
I recognise a few user name from the DCH forum, theres a nice diversity of gamers on here!

Im a Dreamcast PAL collector, still got a few to go yet, i have alot of the rare games, but as im a student and money is tight! As i have to spend money on other things rather than games!

Dreamcast all the way! i do have a cube and an xbox, but i dont really play that many games on them apart from sega ones! lol

[einbebop44]

Name--Nick
Country--US
Age-15
Career: Student, for now
How I found this webpage: DCH Forums (same as cos2k3!)

Well, I like games of all types, on all platforms. Got into gaming around the SNES time; haven't really stopped since. Don't have a big collection at all, as I sold much of it (it wasn't that big anyway), but I hope to slowly grow it out a bit. Just got interested in modding, which has yet so far proved to be interesting. ;-)

Anywho, these forums looked pretty cool, so I decided to join up and participate in some gaming discussions. Don't know that much about dev gear/protos, but I'd love to learn.

And if anyone has a proto cart of Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 or 3, I'd be interested. :-)

[geelw]

name: greg

country: u.s. of a. (born in the bronx, lived in 3 of the 5 boroughs here, back in the bronx now)

approximate age: 40 (ouch, but hell, it's only a number)

Your career / education: currently unemployed, but freelancing for a couple of game sites. a brief history of (my) time: i went to school, dropped out, got a number of crazy jobs over the years (remind me to tell you guys the de niro story and the other one about having to kick sigourney weaver out of a circus tent... then again, i can't tell the de niro story because i'll be killed dead, :smt067 :smt071 )

State how you found ASSEMbler: a few years ago he outbid me on a M2 dev kit, :smt042

then i heard from someone about how much stuff he already had and the vastness of his knowledge and went to this site :prayer: yeesh. this makes me want to get absolutely filthy steenking reech and expand my own collecting horizons out of its dark age. well, 3000+ games isn't exactly a "small" collection, but there's always room for one more i guess...

g.

[underexposed+]

Name:

Origin: Canada

Age:

Place of residence: Canada

Career: University student

State how you found ASSEMbler: I was given a link to the site by ServiceGames back when I was a lurker at another board, I didn't decide to sign up until September though.


I look forward to talking part and reading the discussions here. :smt023

[virtual alan]

NAME : Alan Brown (next in line after John Smith) :smt043

AGE : 01/01/65 (work it out) :smt023

RESIDENT : Wimbledon - UK

CAREER : Started in Airlines
People Express
British Caledonian
British Airways

Now Corporate Travel Managment
Heinz
Linklaters

GAME HISTORY : Started with a NES umpteen years ago and have now just gone OTT with stuff....even having to move house recently to accomodate.

FOUND ASSEMbler : After purchasing a pair of Virtual Boys years ago and checking out

www.virtual-boy.org
(Ferry keeps this going)
I found another contact (Chaz)
www.dudefactory.com (little side line)

It was he who paid "$1500" :smt009 for Virtual Bowling a few years ago.

He was into Debugs/Dev Kits etc....so I started collecting....and WWW surfing and found ASSEMbler as the font of all knowledge :smt023

I am a HUGE Nintendo Fanboy...especially Mario....as per my "sig"......I collect all things Mario related. The only things is some of the KEWL Mario items are only in the USA, Large displays, Mario figures etc.

I used to use the newsgroups on Blueyonder when that was my ISP but they were mostly a bunch of complete Richard Soles!!! To much back stabbing, bitching, complaning of trolls and top posting.....for FUK`s sakle get a life :smt043

Here everyone is much more civilized....and knowledgeable.

They don`t mind the odd bit of fun poking as well it is all taken in the spirit it is meant.

So now this is the only site I use :smt023

http://kamikaze.ebid.co.uk/upload_big/6/1099564912-21572-0.jpg

[Purge]

Don't know how I missed this...

State your name : Chris P.

Your country : USA
Your age : 19

Your career / education : Want to be a fiction author but I'm no good at it, so I will probably pursue a job involving computers.

Place of residence : Chicago Suburb

Recent History : Making plans to goto Full Sail

State how you found ASSEMbler : Friends kept giving me links and when I finally posted, the environment was very friendly, I even spoke to kevin. Everyone was so kind to me I stayed around.

Game history : I went from an Atari (it was so long ago I dont remember which one) to the NES and progressed to (in order) SNES, N64, Gameboy Color, Dreamcast, Sega Genesis +CD, Gamecube, Saturn, CDI.

A little about me : I have always been a Nintendo Fanboy but just recently got hooked on Sega items. I am a gay fox (yes... furry) and have numerous Tails memoribelia (sp?) along with an arctic fox tail for myself and matching ears ^^. I specialize in Gameboy Color things but want to expand that into dreamcast. I do Fan translations of video games and speak English, German and Japanese (in order of fluency). Current projects involve Tales of Phantasia Dub (For the SNES, yes dubbing BRR samples whoo!), Star Ocean dub and getting it to fit in 64MBITs without the SDD-1 chip, Space Channel 5 Part 2 Translation, and Pokemon Trading Card Game 2. I LOVE BEMANI (especially Para para) and and big into techno/trance.

Picture : Me when I woke up:
http://home.comcast.net/~ruralclass/chris.jpg

[WolverineDK]

State how you found ASSEMbler : Friends kept giving me links and when I finally posted, the environment was very friendly, I even spoke to kevin. Everyone was so kind to me I stayed around.


yeaah i remember my topic about the simple human rights
(btw fuck the prisoner he is not that innocent anyway)

and it turned around where you in some ways jumped out of the closet(i think it takes a lot of balls to do that :smt023 :-) )

and yes the enviroment is great

[AntiPasta]

'Ey Virtual Alan, we can't see pics from your intranet :-p

[virtual alan]

'Ey Virtual Alan, we can't see pics from your intranet :-p

Aha

I can see them from my work PC...........don`t know if that means anything?

I will try and upload one when at home and see what happens!

Just put me up for auction and used the picture from there.

Any better?

[cahaz]

yup, i see it anyway. :smt023

[virtual alan]

yup, i see it anyway. :smt023

Ugly mother hey :smt043

[RPA]

State you name: Justin

Your country: USA

Your approximate age: 21

Your career / education: Auto Tech/ College graduate

State how you found ASSEMbler: Searching for M2 information

[joeseff]

State you name: Joe

Your country: USA

Your approximate age: 23

Your career / education: Right now Im cooking at a chain restaraunt, nothing to exciting but the money is pretty decent. i shall return to school in febuary to finish up my degree, take some business courses and open up a store of my own

State how you found ASSEMbler: I found the origional site quite a while ago, I forgot exactly how now. But I remember looking at all the pics of ASSEMbler's systems and how he had little buttons made for every single one, guess I was just looking for rare system pics mostly.

http://joeseff.homestead.com/files/uhhhhhhh.jpg
the eyes aren't bloodshot so i can't explain the expression, ive since just about quit that anyways

[Topic Archive]

State you name:
-old engineer

Your country:
-I don't have a country, although I'm always looking for spare countries.

Your approximate age:
-Born in the year of the 'original' summer of love. Trust me it's a long time ago!

Your career:
...I'm an Engineer, always have been, probably always will be.

State how you found ASSEMbler
-I found the 'original' site years ago, often popped in for a 'look', only recently got round to joining, very glad that I did :)

Interests:
-Well of course I like all manner of Games Consoles, especially Dev Kit's and Rare Stuff, Xbox and GC being personal favourites. >>>www.oldengineer.info

...Also into music...Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, Biff Bang Pow, Meat Whiplash, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, The Smiths.........................

:smt023

[Zilog Jones]

"Zilog Jones"

Name: Aaron Smart

Residence: Limerick, Ireland - the city of rain, rain, Dell, Analog Devices, rain, wind, UL, and rain. Used to live in England, and lived in Saudi for 3 years around (but not during) the Gulf War.

Age: 19

Occupation: 2nd year doing a B.Sc. (a degree) in IT & Telecommunications. Basically it's programming stuck together with looking at the pretty lines on oscilloscopes and trying to blow up capacitors :smt023

How I found ASSEMbler: The site was shown in some UK games magazine a few years, but I can't remember which one! It used to be mentioned on the index page - anyone remember? Was it Arcade or Edge, or what? Anyway, I thought the site was pretty much dead... then I noticed the forums last week!

I first got into gaming when I was living in Saudi back in the early 90's, and my parents got a 386 PC (which was bitchin'... at the time). We got many many games (games were dirt cheap over there because EVERYTHING was pirated! I'm pretty sure I even had a bootleg Casio calculator!), like Monkey Island, Dungeon Master, Bomberman and so on. I also had friends there who had a Famicom (also brimming with pirated games), which I probably played *too* much.

Then I got a Game Gear in 1994 (but had no decent games), a Mega Drive in 1995, a PlayStation in '97, a ZX Spectrum and a BBC Micro in '98, a NES, a C64C, an SMS and a Pong clone in 1999, a GBA in 2000(?), and a PS2 in 2002. I'd like to be a proper collector, but that would mean I'd have to get a job -_-

For now, most the games I play - and you may want to kill me for saying this - are on emulators. I got to re-live the days of the FC (I nearly exploded with nostalgia when I heard the P.O.W. BGM again after about 10 years!) and MD, and got to discover so much stuff I may have never known about before, like the MSX, PC-Engine, most SNES games, the greatness of the likes of Treasure, Konami and Cave.

My secret shame is probably my track record with RPGs: I must have started playing about 20 of them by now, from Pokemon to Ys II, but I've only ever finished one - Final Fantasy VIII on the PS. I remember that VERY LONG Friday night I finally finished it after 2 years of pain. Let's just say my brother was getting up for work when I finally beat that whore.

I'm currently also the president of the University of Limerick Games Society, which originally was RPGs-only (the old-skool manual RPGs), but in more recent times (and through acquiring assets of other dead societies) has diversified into LAN Parties and paintball. And now me and my lackeys are trying to put an emphasis on "retro" gaming (because "retro" sounds cool). We have a website (www.gsoc.net), but it's mainly just us talking shite and being angry on the forums.

OK, this is too long so I'll stop now!

[AntiPasta]

Occupation: 2nd year doing a B.Sc. (a degree) in IT & Telecommunications. Basically it's programming stuck together with looking at the pretty lines on oscilloscopes and trying to blow up capacitors :smt023


Oh that sounds way nicer than what I'm doing - that's mostly looking at boring lectures about theoretical programmability of finite automata to recognize non-regular languages (or the impossibility thereof), with a little bit of programming thrown in :smt009

[Zilog Jones]

My course isn't that great either. I have some of the most boring lecturers IN THE WORLD, I have THREE YEARS of maths, for the first year, instead of doing a *real* programming language they made us do Turbo Pascal (the only possible situation I could find that useful is if I have to travel back in time to 1989) - only now am I doing C... but note the lack of a ++ after that.

There's also the problem that the college really want to give everyone 6 modules each semester, so to fill up the gaps they make us do generic crap (most of which we already did in secondary school Physics) like Engineering Science and General Physics - both pretty useless for my course. And now we're doing "Introduction to Industrial Engineering", which SOMEHOW translates to "Basic Economics and Making Charts in Excel".

Though I suppose I'm lucky we don't really have to do any theory crap - your course sounds a lot like Comp. Sys. here, where I've heard horror stories about Programming Logic Theory (I know at least 4 people who couldn't graduate this summer because of that!) and COBOL - eww!

[vanadium]

Name: Gary
Age: 27
Location: Atlanta, GA
Career: Graphic Designer/Software Engineer for a Securities Trading Company

Systems Owned: Too many to count. :) In my living room, though, I have the PS2, Jaguar/JagCD, JVC X'Eye [w/Tototek Flash & Super Mega Key], XBox, and Dreamcast. I probably have a couple dozen other systems in storage.

Favorites: NTSC-J Mega Drive/MegaCD, Atari Jaguar, Dreamcast

Interests: British Music [Smiths, Joy Division, New Order], Deep House Music, Design, Video Games [obviously], and most importantly, my Wife over a year and a half. I also have a knack for these Free[InsertProductNameHere] things that have popped up as of late.

First Game Console: Atari 2600, back in 1983/4.

How I found ASSEMbler: Spoke a few times way back in '98 over IM, then started coming to this site. Lurked forever, and here I am.

[WolverineDK]

vanadium:cool that you like synthpop :-)
i am a fan of Depeche Mode :-)

[kstyle25]

Jason Davis

27 yrs old
Nashville, TN USA
Work at Dell (at least for another couple of months)

Stumbled on ASSEMbler site in 1999 looking for SuperGRAfx info. Found the message boards about 3 years ago or so and started posting a couple of years ago.

Haven't found a system I cant find at least some enjoyment out of...yes that means the Jag too.

http://home.comcast.net/~kdavis25/kristyreunion.jpg

Kristy and I

[o_gamers]

Hi!



The name is Oliver



I am 25 years old and live in california. I am a student and a good friend of mine showed me this site!


I must say, a lot of nice info can be found here. I have been reading the forum quite some time and now finally registered. But a little too late I guess, after the 8 of Dec ;-)

Well I have been interested in video games all my life and recently got into the collecting scene. I am, as most collectors here, interested in the dev stuff.

Thats all for now, I will post some collection pics when I get my digicam


cheers !

[Mr. Casual]

You want my picture?
Its awesome!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/magicemperor2000/dscf0565.jpg

[WolverineDK]

http://img62.exs.cx/img62/8827/mkr3217kw.th.jpg (http://img62.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img62&image=mkr3217kw.jpg)

this is me and it is a damn shame that it is not bigger here because

it IS a big picture.(EDIT i just resized it so it is a bit small)

just click at it and you will see it in a bigger version

and yes i looked pised at that picture and i was pissed but it does not matter :-)

http://img86.exs.cx/img86/301/nyest9fz.th.jpg (http://img86.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img86ℑ=nyest9fz.jpg)

http://img86.exs.cx/img86/8387/nytbillede5iu.th.png (http://img86.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img86ℑ=nytbillede5iu.png)

[AntiPasta]

http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/hat.jpg

http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/intox/3.jpg
<--- Me on the left being stoned out of my mind :smt033

[Nespit]

State you name:
Real Name: Niels
Nick: Nespit, Nelis

Your country:
Netherlands!

Your approximate age:
28, born in the year of the Dragon, 1976

Your career:
I work for one of the biggest ISPs in europe, Tiscali. Responsible for the entire b2b support desk.

State how you found ASSEMbler
-I've always had an interest in the obscure Nintendo stuff, and visited assembler a million times before i finally started posting on this forum..

Interests:
-Collecting: I already have one of the biggest vintage starwars collections of europe, since 6 years collecting Nintendo. From handhelds to boardgames, from 8bit to GC. Only into the obscure stuff right now, dev stuff for N64 GC, prototypes for all systems, diagnostic stuff, test stuff, Demo's etc.. ONLY nintendo. If u have stuff u think that might be of interest, please mail me or pm me.
My website: www.nespit.com

Go out a lot, raves, parties, u name it. Also try to be a soccer hooligan. www.fcutrecht.nl

Me and my girlfriend at some rave about 2 years ago:
http://www.nespit.com/niels.jpg

[peekb]

Name: Brian
Country: USA (Upstate NY)
Age: 27
Career: Software developer
How I found Assembler: I've been lurking for years...not sure how I found it originally
Interests: Gamedev (see http://www.ganksoft.com/), dev kits, betas, protos (outside of gaming and 'puters, interests in electronics and I'm a standup comic)
Pic: http://www.brianpeek.com/images/brian_sm.jpg

Someday I will get off my ass, buy a digicam, and take some pics of my collection...

Anyway, trying to convert from lurker to poster...

[gamergary]

Name: Gary W
Country: New Jersey,USA
Age:15
Education:Currently a freshman in high school.
I found ASSEMbler through a link on OPCFG 3 years ago.

I mainly collect famicom/super famicom games, famicom/super famicom books or magazines and any kind of video game manga but if it is based off of famicom/super famicom games then it is bought.

[The Dreaming Eye]

Just realized that I never did this so...

State your name: Randall
Your country: United States, more specific: Wisconsin
Your approximate age: 20
Your career / education: I work in the circulation department of a newspaper, need more cash though :smt009
State how you found ASSEMbler: Googling for rare crap

What do I collect?

I've gotten a bit burned out over the past few years, so right now I'm focusing on betas and the hardware/software needed to play them. Unfortunately, the burn-out has gotten worse. Until around the middle of this year, I hadn't done much with games for a few years.
A picture might follow if I feel ambitious.

[sh3-rg]

...................................name :: kevin / kevd
.................................country :: england
.......................................age :: 31
......................................work :: reservoir god
state how you found ASSEMbler :: mikko h / pkp said it was a place i'd like some time ago... didn't bother with the boards except for some guest a while ago.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sh3-rg/peaman.jpg

[Biohazard]

State your name: Jeroen Post

Your country: Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Your approximate age: 22

Your career / education: IT Diploma, but I have a job as sales assistant in a toy store at the moment.

State how you found ASSEMbler: I found Assembler a few years back whilst looking for information on devkits, and I started using the forum a few weeks ago :)

What do I collect: I have about 20+ different systems in my collection, but Sega does have the largest share in the hard/software deparment. I have recently decided to collect Sega Saturn PAL mostly, but I still have a long way to go. I'd rather have a complete library than just a few games for different systems.

And, this is me a a few years back on the dutch Sega Event in Hilversum.

http://members.ams.chello.nl/rmpost01/ik2.jpg

[Zilog Jones]

Here's a picture of me:
http://www.skynet.ie/~zilog/pics/me.jpg
Camera with TV-Out + TV Card on my PC = FUN
Being tired + having to bend neck in weird way + lack of tripod = NOT FUN

[hazanda]

Name : Ivan

Your country : Barcelona (Spain)

Your approximate age : 24

Your career / education : currently study IT at the university

State how you found ASSEMbler : when i searching dev information on google

Games history: I play my first game in 1988 with a defender game watch, two years later I buy the NES and Metroid game. Since that moment I'm an addicted to videogames, specially in 16bits systems (Supernintendo, Megadrive, Turbografx).

[bigkahuna]

NAME: Jon (bigkahuna)

COUNTRY: USA

AGE: 32

CAREER: Tech Support

FOUND ASSEMbler: Google search

Hello all; glad to be here :smt023
I currently own a PS2, XBOX, and GC. Looking for various 3DO/M2 items on ebay....

[Mr. Casual]

Did you google search "Dhaos gif" by any chance? :-D

[retro]

Mr. Casual, did you play Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?

http://www.codehappy.net/mimage/wonka006.jpg

hehe, j/k dude ;-)

[Tomcat]

Missed this!!!!

State you name : Paul Gleave

Your country : The peoples Republic of Mancunia (Manchester)

Your approximate age : 24

Your career / education :Fully Trained Aircraft Engineer, currently doing freelance work at an airfield in Wales. MD of RF Engineering :prayer: :smt023

State how you found ASSEMbler Saw the old fourms dint like it waited till it got user friendly ;-)

Main interests :Sega and dev stuff. But my collection spans many consoles most of whish are still in the loft - including but not limited to SMS MD Gameboys Ps1 Ps2 Neogeo handheld Nes Snes SAturn Gamegear Last count was well in excess of 1000 games

Rarest Item Psy-Q Megadrive dev kit and docs

[retro]

Hmm odd, I remember posting in this thread! Oh well, for those who don't know me by now...

Name: Mark

Country: England (south east)

Age: 25 (gargh, some of you make me feel old!!)

Job: Was senior technician in a PC shop for nearly 3 years, but the company has just folded so currently unemployed!

Education: HND in Music Production, 8 GCSEs and a Diploma in Theatrical & Media Make-Up.

State how you found ASSEMbler: Browsed the site since the early days, prior to the board - surfed in after googling for dev gear or something else rare!! I believe Dreamcast had just come out. Found the forums more recently (old forums) after talking to Kev thanks to eBay!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/retroap/lads.jpg
I'm on the left here, then there's Legit, BobMcBob, half of Gleavepaul (back), Paulo (front), Tachikoma (back), Paulo's friend, and my friend.

[Xylene]

Anthony
New Jersey, USA
18 in two weeks
High School Senior
Um... I don't remember.

[WanganRunner]

I've been posting on here for a couple weeks now, thought I'd finally do the introduction thing.

Chris
United States (DC Metro Area)
23 yrs
Real Estate Acquisitions (undergrad in Finance)

Other interests: Cars, cars, cars. I've got a '98 S14 right now. Dorifto Dorifto. In front of my house is a '93 RX-7 Twin Turbo (no engine), a '91 RX-7 Turbo II (needs throttle position sensor), and two 1971 Datsun 510s in varying states of busted-ness.

State how you found ASSEMbler: Search for info on M2 hardware (apparently I'm not the only one)

What do I collect?:

Definitely not dev stuff, as I'm a dumb finance guy who doesn't know how to code or do anything. I'm really more of a hardware collector, so if you look at my collection it's like 80% hardware and 20% games, but that's not to say that I don't play games. Right now I'm on a kick to get every Mario title ever released in Japan and the assorted systems they play on (which will mean finally signing my soul over to Satan and allowing a Virtual Boy into my home).

I had sold a bunch of stuff last year to fund my assorted car parts purchases, and I now regret it. Among the lost were my CDX, AV Famicom, SFC Jr., Saturn, JP GBA, and seemingly a million precious Namco limited edition boxes (i.e. R4 w/Jogcon). Yes, I know, I'm a retard.

[AntiPasta]

Definitely not dev stuff, as I'm a dumb finance guy who doesn't know how to code or do anything.

Hey, the inability to code hasnt stopped most people here from collecting dev stuff... few people actually use it.

[Tomcat]

indeed as i am one :smt023 expect im engineer and not in finance

[f_bohmann]

here we go...

name: felix or "yoda^farbrausch" for those involved in the demoscene
country: germany, hamburg to be precise
app. age: 26 or something
career/education: (early)drop out student in computer science. now i am working as tech wizzard and (online) programmer at a small games company.
found ASSEMbler: bought some "really expensive shit" from assembler on ebay... and more to come... :)

have fun,
f

[Mr. Casual]

Mr. Casual, did you play Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?

http://www.codehappy.net/mimage/wonka006.jpg

hehe, j/k dude ;-)
Man, I didnt see that pic for the longest time! I just saw it today.
WTF MF BAMF!!!!
:angry
Just kidding. That was a pretty good pic compared to mine. :smt043

[AntiPasta]

here we go...

name: felix or "yoda^farbrausch" for those involved in the demoscene


Farbrausch! :prayer: :prayer: :prayer:
It's an honour having you on the boards ;-)

[WolverineDK]

here we go...

name: felix or "yoda^farbrausch" for those involved in the demoscene


Farbrausch! :prayer: :prayer: :prayer:
It's an honour having you on the boards :-)

indeed it is an honour :-) :prayer: :prayer:

now we don´t need anyone because we have the musicians and the demoguys :-)

salute from Denmark where "The Party" is held

[Evangelion-01]

sorry if i am an idiot, but who is he?

[starslight]

Name: Matt Harper
Country: Canada
Age: 19
Education: A year of computer science under my belt, now taking animation

How I found ASSEMbler: hmmm... not really sure but I think it came up in a Google search for famicom pirates...

I am also a member of the Neo-Geo forums, Click Stick BBS, Shmups, TNL, and Digital Press... although I don't post often. I collect games from all eras but I'm mostly focused on the 8 and 16-bit days. Favorite genres are action and puzzle.

[WolverineDK]

sorry if i am an idiot, but who is he?

well the demoscene is maybe not so famous in USA (no offence sir)

but farbroush and others has made graphic demos and used mod music

an explanation of a graphic demo is here

http://www.theparty.dk/pages/scene/what_is_a_demo.html

what is a mod file ?

here is the best explanation to that

Tracker Formats

Tracker file formats contain both the musical score information as well as the actual instrument sound samples that are used to play a tracker song. This type of format originated with the MOD file format on the Amiga computer which had hardware that was capable of playing 4 channels of digital audio simultaneously. This capability was ahead of it's time and had a great influence on the original structure and four track limitation of the MOD format. At that time, the average PC's audio device, the PC speaker, couldn't produce quality audio output beyond simple tones and beeps. As PC audio technology advanced with the introduction of the first popular sound cards, this file format began getting used in the PC world which slowly became the most popular platform for this file format (also greatly due to the discontinued production of the Amiga computer). As technology on the PC advanced further, the MOD file format grew to accomidate higher sampling rates, increased sample sizes and more channels/tracks. Before some of it's earlier limitations were overcome, a huge number of "MOD-like" file formats were created to accomidate new programs that offered features beyond the scope of the MOD format. These include Scream Tracker's STM and S3M, Fast Tracker 2's IT and Composer 669's 669 formats, to mention a few popular ones. This explosion of new file formats created by this new class of music composition tools gave birth the Tracker Format category.

http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/musicfileformats.html

other links are

intros.c64.org - World of c64 crackintros

http://intros.c64.org/

(use a c64 emulator to watch the cracktros/intros or use The Star Commander,a DOS-based transfer and conversion software for Commodore files
The Joe Forster/STA homepage http://sta.c64.org/ )


pouet.net :: your online demoscene resource

http://www.pouet.net/

scene.org - news

http://www.scene.org/

farbroush is quite famous just for the record

A Corner of My Mind

http://www.algonet.se/~zyron/ (he is quite famous too in Depeche Mode circles too)

hope it helps a bit :-)

[retro]

Farbrausch was a name that I seem to remember came up with TheProdukkt. Were you involved with that?

That is an awesome demo! Amazing compression!!

[WolverineDK]

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15073

V2 Synthesizer System by farbrausch

[WolverineDK]

http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=322

farbraush productions

http://www.farbrausch.com/

[macwest]

Name: Scott

Country: USA (State of confusion) Bay Area CA

Age: old enough to remember building my own heathkit computer.

Career: Software Engineer.

State how you found ASSEMbler: I found Assembler a while ago, lost it, and was directed back by a friend. been lurking for a while.


My first video game as the Odyssey with colored screens yoiu had to tape to your B&W tv. After that I was hooked.

[Calpis]

Name: Scott

Country: USA (State of confusion) Bay Area CA

Age: old enough to remember building my own heathkit computer.

Career: Software Engineer.

State how you found ASSEMbler: I found Assembler a while ago, lost it, and was directed back by a friend. been lurking for a while.


My first video game as the Odyssey with colored screens yoiu had to tape to your B&W tv. After that I was hooked.
Where are ya from in the Bay Area?

[macwest]

Im out in Oakley. I work in Pleasanton

[Perkunas]

My first post here, registered a few days ago, but untill now all I've done is read some of the threads here, time to place a first post...

Let me properly introduce myself,

Nickname: Perkunas
State you name: Sam Mallems
Your country: Belgium/Europe, the promised land of chocolates, fine beers, french fries.
Your approximate age: Less than twenty days before I am 18 years old, go figure.
Your career / education: Last year High School student. I will probably be doing Japanology next year on university.
State how you found ASSEMbler: I was just browsing the internet looking for all sorts of rare footage for Dreamcast and Saturn, and so I stumbled upon this forum. Here I am! :)

[ASSEMbler]

Ah, welcome.

[einbebop44]

Here's a pic of me and my dog. I guess it's about six months ago, I dunno.

http://img39.exs.cx/img39/7223/picture0154it.jpg

[retro]

Welcome, Scott and Sam! Hope you enjoy your stay! :smt023

[asnozz]

dont think I ever did this :-D

nickname: asnozz (its a cross between my real name and a nickname)
Real name: Andy
Age: 19 :drinkers:
Location: Good old Blighty (britain), Plymouth (uni), Cambridge (home)
Education: I am currently studying Bsc. Earth Sciences at the university of Plymouth :smt023
Other: I lived in Canada for 3 years :smt033
Collection: My collection is growing rather rapidly these days, my highlight would be the panasonic Q, although i plan to pick up a dreamcast dev kit and a mark 1 Wondermega shortly :-D

[Lemmy_Kilmister]

Name- Michael

Country- US

Age- 21

Your career / education- construction worker/Stone mason.

State how you found ASSEMbler- Thru a thread assembler posted at Digitpress.

[retro]

Welcome, again! ;-)

Stone mason? Isn't that the people with the funny handshake? Oh wait, that's FREEmason, my bad!! hehe

[Shakey_Jake33]

State you name: Jake Baldwin.
Your country: Bristol, UK.
Your approximate age: 19.
Your career / education: Finished Sixth Form a few years ago... should probably get myself into universite, but got stuck earning money at a job and never really managed to put that aside.
State how you found ASSEMbler: Stumbled across the place a few times over the past few years looking for info on harder-to-find games, finally decided to sign up a week or so ago.

Gamer/Collector: Long time Sega fan since the SMS days, back when I was too young to really hold a control pad... format bias died over time like with most of us mind you.
I'm not as into games as I used to be, I must admit... I go in and out of it now and again, but I think with a lot of us, once we actually have the money to buy all the gaming shit we once dreamed of owning, it all tends to die down...
Still a huge Saturn fanatic mind you, and also enjoy collecting RPG's and anime games. So in a nutshell, anything old_school, anything Sega from any era, anime, RPG... and even anything Nintendo, though given their genius decision to package all their games in cardboard boxes, I never picked up the mammoth task of collecting Nintendo goods!
Oh, also interested in modchips and backup units somewhat.
I suppose my interests generally fall in line with the interests of you guys... I mainly registered because a lot of people here seemd to be on the same wavelength as me,

In terms of gaming collecting, I'm one of those people who dreams of having huge import Saturn and PCE collections full of random anime games and other shit which I'd probably never play anyway.
...which reminds me, yeah, into anime too.

[mau_rizio]

State you name: Maurizio
Your country: Italy, near Florence
Your approximate age: 32
Your career / education: Don't know the english term, here is the second level of education... Now i'm employed in a little software house.
State how you found ASSEMbler: googling for somewhat :)
Gamer/Collector:
Gamer: 1984/85 with an atari2600 and an msx, from 87 to 97 on variuos lowlowlow level pc, then on 97 christmas with n64 follwed by psx,dc,ps2,gc etc etc
Collector: On january 98 i bought a n64 magazine with a special on super mario world. bang! I started searching for it and then i started collecting every game i found, regardless of the system :)
Today i'm tryng to focus just on the console starting from nes and msx systems, but i also collect a little number of selected titles for the other systems (pc, amiga, vectrex, c64 etc.etc.)
Live Pics :-D : http://www.freemao.com/live

[yourTom]

ok , here i go ^^

name: Jan
country: Germany
age: 26
Your career / education: law student , mainly international trading law
Gamer/Collector: Collector for more than 10 years now .



see ya

http://www.neo-arcadia.de/notme.jpg

[AntiPasta]

Love the picture! :-D

[sh3-rg]

ok , here i go ^^
http://www.neo-arcadia.de/notme.jpg

That is fucking class! :)

[ryangassxx]

Name: Ryan

Country: USA, Chicago

Age: 20

Career: Student, part time customer service rep at a car dealership

State how you found ASSEMbler: I was shown a link to an image of the Nintendo Dolphin development console and subtracted the image extension to see the site.

Im a badass.

[seminal]

State you name : Richard
Your country : Northern Ireland, UK
Your approximate age : 23
Your career / education : Im currently working in tech support :(
State how you found ASSEMbler : I cant remeber really, Ive been reading the boards for a while and never registered until now, so Hello :smt023

[Fatalist]

Here we go :-D

Name: Francisco
Your country: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Your approximate age: 32
Your career / education: journalism, some formation in computer science.
State how you found ASSEMbler: I think it was while searching info about the DC Divers 2000.
Gamer/Collector: When I was little and after years away of the videogames I began again in 1998. I've always had Sega systems.

[youruglyclone]

State you name: Stan
Your country: US
Your approximate age: 23
Your career / education: Non-Profit Sector, Co-Owner of IT Consulting Firm/PC retailer.
State how you found ASSEMbler: Originally was looking for info on the Dreamcast Karaoke Machine (yeah I own one of these things...utterly useless since you had to get music from a server or something to that effect). Saw the site loved what was here and periodically dropped by. Didn't know there was forum until Assembler started showing up at the Digital Press Forums. Was in negotiations with him to buy a test ps2 (which sits in front of me as I write). So I tracked him here to see if I could get a response. and I decided to stay.

by the way I do see a lot of DP posters as well as NG.com posters here.

Collects: pretty much anything post NES

Goal: To be able to USE my DC Karaoke Machine ( I'm thinking along the lines of a homemade server...but so far no info).

man that was long... but hey I introduced myself didn't I?

[palese]

Hi everyone, I should have done this a long time ago

My name Don Palese
My home Long Beach, Ca. USA
My e-mail palese@spa.ucla.edu
My Job Wireless Admin / Network Support @ UCLA Campus in Westwood Ca.

My interest are RPG'S on any system and love anything Saturn.
My new interest is NeoGeo but my money says otherwise :smt042

[Silverhawk]

Name: Fire-WSP
country: Europe
approximate age: 25
Job: QA
State how you found ASSEMbler: mhm i forgot ...
Collects: Virtual Boy Stuff, strange Nintendo/Beta Stuff

[Polak]

Hello there video game fans!

Name: Mike
Country: Poland (central Europe)
Age: it doesn't matter
Career: Developing for Dreamcast and now for Xbox
Education: Developers School.
State how you found ASSEMbler: somewhere on ebay

I'm collecting and playing games mainly for Dreamcast, Xbox and PSX/PS2. I have many rare titles and hardware for these systems.

I also like portable consoles like Game Boys, but now I'm playing on Nintendo DS and waiting for a parcel with Sony PSP :) My phone is Nokia N-GAGE.
I am not a rich person, so I usually buy game stuff when they are bargain offers :smt033

[retro]

Welcome to jake, mau, tom, seminal, clone, fire, polak and anyone else I missed out! :smt023

*breathes out*

wow, lots joining this week! :-D

Hope you all enjoy your stay ;-)

[Mr. Sound-About]

I'm Mr. Sound-About, a boring person.

Real name: I'd rather not post that in a public forum
Country: USA
Gamer: Sega Genesis, various handhelds

I found the ASSEMbler website during an otherwise uninteresting search for development tools and hardware for game systems.

Hey, I've introduced myself. That should make the nosy admins happy. :smt030

[Aridyme]

Aridyme

Name: Tony
Country: Canada
Education: Currently in university, computing science
How I got here: Through DreamcastHistory

I've been gaming since I got my first computer around 11 years ago, but only got into console gaming when I bought my first console (Dreamcast) in April 2004.

[Valdeargos]

Valdeargos:

Name: You'd never guess

Age: Creeping up on 22

Origin: United States

Me: Chemistry drop-out. Leeching off of my loved-ones, at least until I can do something less despicable with myself. Haven't bought a new system since SNES, though I did get a GBA as a gift when it was first released. Instead, I usually get 2nd hand/pawned oned for $5 a couple months after the company support eats shit, thus I still don't have a PS2/XBOX/GameCube. I actually just bought my first and only Sony console for $30 (SCPH-101, complete, VG+ except for being boxless). Decided the ONEchip code shouldn't just be for those PAL turkeys, and fixed it accordingly. :smt042

Place of residence: The Temporal Nexus, my body lies North of St. Louis

Career: Anybody know where I can find a job?

State how you found ASSEMbler: Google; 3DO Development Station

Recent History: See above. Also, Went from some boring town in the middle of nowhere, to another one 1500 miles SW of it. Gave up 100Mb/s evenings for 1Mb/s around the clock. Lost that for 48Kb/s... when it works at all. :smt009 Pity me.

http://fs6.deviantart.com/i/2005/029/e/3/NHB_by_Valdeargos.jpg

[ASSEMbler]

Welcome to all, I am sure if you stick around you'll like the conversation here, it's top notch.

[AntiPasta]

Valdeargos:

Name: You'd never guess


Keyser Soze?

[Valdeargos]

Keyser Soze?

No, but that's a good enough guess to merit revealing it...

my empath goes out to Tachikoma, as since the age of 6 I have gone by my middle name... Lynn. This is mainly because I share my first name with entirely too many other people, several of which are in my own immediate family. Ironically, the only other males named Lynn that I've ever heard of (aside from the infamous Mr. Belveder of course) were both sports/news/weather casters, something that all the public figures I've ever shared a last name with seem to have in common too. And, I have virtually zero interest in any of those things, so I should probably just change my name to "The Person Formerly Know As An Unpronouncable Symbol" or Stinkblossom or something. :-D

[Valdeargos]

http://www.neo-arcadia.de/notme.jpg

I like that you put the chain guard on your left side, it really adds to the theme.

[ccovell]

Hi, folks, I figure I'll sign on...

Name: Chris Covell
Age: 27
Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
Education: 2 years CompSci, math sucked, so I switched and got a degree in English Lit, plus teaching ESL.
Occupation: Teaching English, same as any other poor westerner in Japan. Amateur programmer, website writer.
How I came across Assembler: It was mentioned on a Lost Levels forum during the Acclaim bankruptcy sale. Cool stuff (also Hawanja is funny.)

http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/images/j_skiing2.jpg

Game education: My friend had a 2600, but the NES became my life. In 1990, saw an article about Japanese games, and vowed to go there someday. Currently love oldskool games, but some 3-d stuff is great. Current game systems are uninteresting. Most recent portable system: Nintendo DS: Most recent console: N64.

Feel free to browse around my homepage for collection lists/pics and rare(?) stuff.

[Blur2040]

Glad to have you, ccovell...neat website, in fact, so neat that we've talked about some of the stuff on it and referred to it before. Welcome!

[retro]

Hehe, yeah I remember discussions about that page!! I always wondered how a westerner seemed to have such knowledge of Japanese - now I know!

Welcome, and welcome to all the others I haven't welcomed yet ;-)

[drummy]

I'm drummy, and I'm from DP, CAG (drummy404), and I've done a trade on AA. I've heard of this site from Assembler back at DP, and signed up. Great to be here, hope to do trades with you all.

[watcher]

Hi, I wasn't gonna post here but it seemed a bit rude no to, heh.

Age - latter half of 20s :smt022
I really am not enjoyning getting old, especially since it seems I have failed to amass the fortune I dreamed of as a kid.

How I found this place : Googling some systems a long while back, lurked here and there.

Gaming history - I don't collect dev gear like so many of you here (I'll grab my coat then) although the shit is extremely fascinating. Had a couple of mates who worked at one or 2 interesting places but sadly no dev gear for moi.

Got hooked on coin-ops real young, purchased Spectrum 48k+, loved it (although looking back I should've got the c64). Went through a lot of systems and games up to Dreamcast, the death of which pissed me off.

Best designed console in my eyes - original PC Engine - so nice.
Favourite gaming times - 1: Megadrive/Snes/Pc Engine Era. 2: Dreamcast. 3: All those arcades as a kid in local dodgy spots - yes let's travel to the worst part of town to play SF2 for 10p a credit, risking life threatening injuries whilst man in corner sells exotic powdered goods to zombie looking people.

Fave game music ever - Yuzo Koshiro's MD stuff and anything by Technosoft on MD.

[retro]

welcome, watcher!

Spectrum+ was my first home micro too. Good choice! Although the keyboard was a bit sticky - how the hell did I learn to touch type on that thing?!?

Commodore??? Pah! You made a good choice ;-)

[watcher]

Thanks for the welcome, I am impressed you learned to type with that crappy keyboard, although it was an improvement on the rubber key version. For a second I thought you meant the rubber key speccy and I was kind of shocked thinking you should get some kind of medal or something.

I think I must've spent a small fortune on Spectrum games, I know everybody was pirating it like mad but I was too young and innocent.

Hmm the c64 had the better sound chip (plus tv speaker output - not on speccy till later), and more colours but I suppose the UK was a Sinclair loving nation. Wish I'd spent more time on the typing tutor and sprite editor than on Feud :-D.

[WolverineDK]

watcher you are talking about the SID chip :smt023

[The Rickenbacker]

Hey,

Name: Derek Douglas

Age: 16

Occupation: Student
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Awwwwww im all the way back on page 7 :smt022

well i quess i should say a bit about myself...um, i live in scotland, im at college, i dont really consider myself a game colector but i LOVE playing games as much as anyone.

I heard about this forum from "The Deathcoaster"

Well thats all really...i think im gonna enjoy my stay here :-D

[Taemos]

Did your name happen to come from System Shock 2? :smt030

[The Rickenbacker]

Nope, it came from Furi Kuri (flcl)

Its the name of The Bass Guitar with a chainsaw motor attached to it :smt023

[TheDeathcoaster]

Nope, it came from Furi Kuri (flcl)

Its the name of The Bass Guitar with a chainsaw motor attached to it :smt023

Its actually just a type/make of guitar....not specifically the one in FLCL.

[Taemos]

I see. I'm not much of a guitar person, as you can tell :-).

[Yceman]

Which is the one Lemmy from Motorhead uses.
And here's his signature bass:
http://www.edromanguitars.com/guitar/rickenbacker/images/lemmy_550.jpg

[watcher]

watcher you are talking about the SID chip :smt023

Yup that would be the superior 8 bit sound chip (compared to my old humble speccy).

[Hortinstein]

I was told that I needed an intro, but I have been around for a few years, on the old boards with the same name, or some might remember me as OgreBattleNerd

Name: Alex Hortin

Your country: United States

Your approximate age: 19

Your career / education: Computer Eng major/Aerospace Studies

State how you found ASSEMbler I found this website a long time ago looking at dreamcast units I beleive, and was amazed at the selection of stuff they had and I learned a lot about VG history...

I posted some in the past, but mostely browse the forums, looking for cool stuff, and have found some pretty cool things, like DC Half-Life (thanks Yakumo for teh awesome FTP...not sure if u still have it)

I try to contribute some stuff I have, and I may have sent a few of you a Sin and Punishment ROM i came across. I dont really collect much hardware, but I am big into software stuff, and obscure games like Ogre Battle, Any strat RPGS, Phantasy Star Online, and any treasure games. Well i might add to this sometime, but i will end by saying my favorite games are:

Phantasy Star Online series, both Shenmue games, Ogre Battle, and Chrono Trigger, and basically every other underappreciated Dreamcast games (Bangai-O anyone?) :-)

I love dreamcast hardware, and I LOVE FACTORY SEALED stuff....

i also import cool stuff from japan (Ikaruga Apreciate DVD MMM)

I would say the rarest things in my collection are:

-Factory Sealed European Copy of Shenmue II
-Factory Sealed Copy of Bangai-O
-Ikaruga Appreciate DVD (Factory Sealed)


Not much compared to a lot of you, but I have certain little things...

I will try to share as many cool ebay auctions as I can find, so i hope you guys return the favor hehe have a good one

[The Rickenbacker]

Hey dude, im just new to but welcome :smt023

[Alchy]

That sword picture, nice as it is, is a bit big. Any chance you could reduce the size a touch?

[The Rickenbacker]

i cant change it for this post but it will be smaller for monday...promise :smt023

[Paulo]

NO u can change it and it will change everywhre...

[Mr. Casual]

i cant change it for this post but it will be smaller for monday...promise :smt023
Picture saved. :smt023
Quality stuff.

[The Rickenbacker]

sorry, thats not what i ment. the pc i am useing dosent have this pic on it so i cant change it.

but i will have it changed for monday :smt083

[Madroms]

Hi all!

Name: Madroms
Country: France
Age: 26
Career: no connection with computer science or games
Education: too many years of studying
State how you found ASSEMbler: don't remember, maybe on another forum

[Calpis]

Hi Madroms, I think I used to trade with you on IRC years ago (#psx-japan and #psx-sat-duo-anime-dc or whatever it was called ;)

[Madroms]

Hehe, maybe :)
I am always there (in diff chans)

[Calpis]

Im out in Oakley. I work in Pleasanton
When I come home to california for a visit you better lock up your stuff ;)

[TheDeathcoaster]

NO u can change it and it will change everywhre...

He only has internet access in college at teh moment so don't get irritated that he cant change his avatar whenever he wnats. It depends which machine he is on and what access rights are set on that machine.

[The Rickenbacker]

Yeah, sorry i didnt make that clear :-(

[retro]

I assume you've changed the pic now? Looks ok to me.

If not, just ask someone here to do it - anyone can right-click and save the image, then edit it and pop it somewhere for you :-)

[Paulo]

He only has internet access in college at teh moment so don't get irritated that he cant change his avatar whenever he wnats. It depends which machine he is on and what access rights are set on that machine.

No i was just telling him he can change it and it will change for everypost...

[AngelHedgie]

State you name
Your country
Your approximate age
Your career / education
State how you found ASSEMbler

Name: Corey
Country: United States
Age: (just turned) 25
Education: BS, Comp Sci

Found ASSEMbler: To be honest, I can't remember who linked to the site. But I did find it interesting, with all the old bits of gaming history, so I kept it in my bookmarks, even through the two years of no updating...the two long, cold years...

I've thought about collecting, but unfortunately, my current finances somewhat prohibit such activities. (I think the rarest things I have are an original pressing copy of FFT (don't ask how I got it) and a US copy of Faselei! (yes, they do exist, and may be on the shelf at your local game store as we speak.) )

:-D

[Rowny]

State you name : Ronny

Your country : Belgium, Limburg

Your approximate age : 20-07-1982

Your career / education : A2 data management & administration

State how you found ASSEMbler : using google, searching for info on consoles, came on this link :http://assembler.roarvgm.com/Dreamcast_Developer_Unit/dreamcast_developer_unit.html

[ASSEMbler]

Welcome to the boards

[Paulo]

WElcome!

[vegi-saurus]

State you name : Chris
Your country : Canada
Your approximate age : 26
Your career / education : Statistics and Actuarial Science, currently doing my Masters in Statistics

State how you found ASSEMbler : Knew about this place for awhile now but only signed up after DCH was hacked last month! :-D

[retro]

To you last few guys, welcome!

Hope you enjoyu your time here ;-)

[pyrosteve]

Name: Steve!

Country: England UK (Hampshire)

Age: 21

Career: Student - Computer Hardware Engineer

Education: All the normal, computer science etc doing degree in computer science and business managment right now..

State how you found ASSEMbler: While searching for info on a Gamecube NR Reader...now got one and some disks to play with :)

Interested in learning/collection new type development hardware (xbox/gc)..have a small collection so far but hopefully some friendly trades etc here will help it grow.

[djb1986]

Welcome to the boards.

[kammedo]

Name : KT or, if you like the sound: Kammedo, The tortoise doc
Country :
In the nowhere of somewhere - that's in the middle of nowhere straight on and the the first corner right.
Age : mentally or phisically?
Career :
First level Degree in Informatics engineering, studying for second level degree.
Actually employed part time as a SW programmer / developer (especially data migration).
How i got to ASSEMBLER
I was a 100% "professional" gamer up to the day i got my first beer in hand. My last console was one of those misundrerrated and misundrestooded N64. I still bear interests in emulation, tho (ynt.darkmazda.com), and for that reason i have been looking for ages for a valuable U64 dev kit, which finally made me stumble on ASSEMBlER.

Is that enough?
Kammedo

[buhbuhrae]

Hello everyone

Name: Kevin
Country: France, but originally from the US
Age: 31
Career/Education: Materials Scientist, I originally worked in semiconductors but now work in the polymer industry.
State how you found ASSEMbler: got a link from a person I was trading a development system with to the marketplace. My main interestes are collecting development systems and building/collecting arcades.

[djb1986]

Welsome to the boards!

[ASSEMbler]

In the right place for dev equipment for sure.

[Evangelion-01]

Here's a pic of me and my dog. I guess it's about six months ago, I dunno.

http://img39.exs.cx/img39/7223/picture0154it.jpgmmm so thats the pr0n addict?

[djb1986]

Him or the dog? :smt043

[subbie]

Name - Brian
Origin - Montreal, Canada. California rased then imported.
Age - 22 (in about a week). Yep a young wipper snaper.
Education - C book & GBA programmers manual.
Job - Coder monkey for Gba games you'll never buy (and some minor work on a decent ds project, f**k finaly something decent).
State how you found ASSEMbler - Ebay auction. Waiting for my Nr to ship. :D

[ASSEMbler]

Ha. Welcome.

[tsenzen]

State you name
tsenzen, zenzen, or tobal as some people know me by~
Your country
USA, out of the good ol bayarea
Your approximate age
24 but damn experienced
Your career / education
game industry / art student
State how you found ASSEMbler
some how assembler found me? seriously...

[cahaz]

Phew, funny to place a picture on your name, that's great!

haven't checked that thread since a while, but read everything i missed. Laughed at some part, and had some fun to discover new faces and old ones.

Would like to do my welcome message to every new members here
.... guess i already made it, but anyway :smt043:

welcome on the assembler's forums, hope you'll enjoy just like i do. :smt023

Ahhh....And GLS, i would love to see a successor to the mexican hat as your avatar again,. don't know why, but your face make me laugh everytime i see it (just like it did when i readed all this again). don't take it bad, you just look like an idiot with you banana and your pants on your head, and surprizingly, i like that! :smt043

:smt023;)
cahaz

[sportbettor]

State you name sportbettor
Your country USA
Your approximate age 40
Your career / education currently I play poker
State how you found ASSEMbler Gametz

HI everyone. Ive read these boards before but I just registered. I know Assembler and some of the other people here from Gametz.

[ASSEMbler]

Hey Sportbettor been a while. Welcome.

[einbebop44]

mmm so thats the pr0n addict?

I think you have me mixed up with koolkid13. ;-)

[Le Spank]

Hi everyone I thought I'd do a little introduction seen as though I have just registered. I've been playing games since I was about 8 and have always been die hard sega through and through. My fave genre is racing games. Sega Rally is the best game ever, the Saturn is the best console ever - there can be no arguments about that in my eyes ;)

Currently own about 100 games mainly across Saturn, Dreamcast and Xbox. Keep eyeing up Megadrives when I go past gamestation but I literally have no room for any more consoles.

State you name: Chris
Your country: England
Your approximate age: 21
Your career / education: I'm currently studying for a degree in Computer Aided Product Design at Bournemouth University
State how you found ASSEMbler: I've been looking at it for quite a while drooling over Navi-Saturns and the like! Curious as to what the community is like.

[Alchy]

the Saturn is the best console ever - there can be no arguments about that in my eyes ;)I doubt you'll get much argument about that here either - this is the most Saturn-friendly board I've ever seen ^_^

Welcome to the boards, anyway.

[MikeAtari]

So, not new to the board, but maybe to some members :D

Name: Mike
Location: Pfaffenhofen/Roth, West Bavaria, Germany
Age: 22
Website: http://www.atari-computermuseum.de/
Career: Actually seller in a DIY-Store (machines, tools, car- and bike accessories), on September 05 department manager.
Game Platforms: Only Atari, but most of their released ;) actually: 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx and Jaguar, also much XL/XE/ST-Computers (incl. 400, 800, TT030) and nearly 350 Games :)

Mike

[samael64]

Sorry, I should have posted here a little sooner...
My name is Andrew
22
in CA, USA
I'm employed by a big box retailer
here is my website/blog: http://thetalesofthesamael.blogspot.com/
I own a N64, GC, DC, PSOne, Genesis, 32X, GameBoy...me and my brothers "co-own" (gifts to the three of us from our parents) a SNES and NES, but they're at home, so I guess they're basically my little brother's systems now.
I found ASSEMblergames.com while I was looking for information on the 3DO M2, I saw something on e-bay and had never heard of it before, and now I have a new "collecting obsession", development/prototype systems...
This is a great forum!

[AntiPasta]

Hi everyone I thought I'd do a little introduction seen as though I have just registered. I've been playing games since I was about 8 and have always been die hard sega through and through. My fave genre is racing games. Sega Rally is the best game ever, the Saturn is the best console ever - there can be no arguments about that in my eyes ;)


Ah, a man of taste!

[QfanatiQ]

State you name
Q Fanatiq. I always liek to keep my online name seperate fomr my real name, poeple often find the 007 after my name difficult to handle :-)

Your country
UK, Somerset to be a littlemore specific

Your approximate age
Old now, i feel anyway, a grand 28 soon to be 29

Your career / education
I am a CAD Manager, AutoCAD that is. Went through work and day release college as well as secret asignments!!

State how you found ASSEMbler
Well i found this place whiel trying to find out about Dev Kits, I think at the time i was looking for the Cube NR info or a PS2 Debugger/TesT machine.

Overall i can say i am well chuffed i found this place. I am not into this programming myself but liek to be able to go to places and see/read peoples info, manily poeple who know.

This seems like a good place to browse and see what kit if for sale. I would (who woudl not) liek to get a few peices of RARE kit in the front room, i am sure it will never happen.

Interests briefly are, Film, Games and Music.

Film wise i am very much into all cinema, forign and the types of films that push boundaries and challenge your thinking. I am not a great fan of hollywood mass production but liek most people sometimes liek some mindless film that hits the right spot. Films currenly springin to mind - Leon - being john malkovich - le haine (sorry if that is spealt wrong (french film)) - Hong Kong cinima in general, not just the block busters breaking through at the moment but some of the more unkown films as well. I am pleased i saw thee version of the Grudge (aka Ring) and another the name escapes me (must have been a good film then,,, oh yeah Ju-on, AMAZING.

Games wise, well i am a bit old skool, i used to work at a toy store, playing games for a living. Snes was the console that sticks in my mind. I liek odl style platform games. I remeber titles liek MS Pshyco Fox, MD was clearly Sonic ALL and Snes was MArio, cool spot, donkey country and the other titles in the series.

I did not go for the PSone for a long time until it came out, again with the PS2, XboX and Cube. I went and got them all one weekend, treating myself in a mega stylie. One console i never purchased (Well there were a few sega ones) that perhaps i shoudl was the Dreamcast. Ocasionally i still look on Ebay to see if there is a bargin that suits me.

I often get orn between, do i spend the money and build up a retro section in my front room or do i emu what i can? choices choices, oh yeah and money, emu it often is!

Music, well as a bedroom DJ i have some nice kit but never properly use it. Just spent some dosh ready to try and start making music and laying down some tracks. SHould be fun. I am an old RAVER, not happy hardcore but proper RAVE. Also into Urban (all the Rap R&B genres) Trance, Chill and some Rock.

Damn i have typed alot. I will sign off for the time being but knwo i will be back soon with some questions and looking gneerally for adivice.

Cheers.....Q

[esteban]

State you name: Esteban
Your country: Southern California, USA
Your approximate age: 30
Your career / education: grad school
State how you found ASSEMbler: Searching for PC-Engine sites several years ago... absolutely loved all the great stuff documented as ASSEMbler.

My current projects (not that you were interested, of course):

TurboPlay Magazine Archives (http://home.comcast.net/~turboplay-magazine-archives-tg16/) - an effort to document all TG-16 / DUO periodicals. 20 / 21 magazines fully scanned and currently available for your reading pleasure (650 page scans, I think). I still need copies of "TurboEdge" (NEC's official TG-16 newsletter)... so please contact me if you can help.

BASE NECTARIS (USA) (http://home.comcast.net/~base_nectaris_military_madness/) - Needs to be updated. REQUEST: If anyone has has ANY ADDITIONAL info on the totally enigmatic Gameboy modem from Hudson Soft -- aka GB KISS LINK (http://home.comcast.net/~base_nectaris_military_madness/GB-KISS-LINK-FAQ-hudson-gameboy-nectaris.html)-- please contact me ASAP. I don't own this modem (I've tried to get it for years, to no avail, unfortunately) and everything in my mini-faq need to be VERIFIED!!!! Please help :)

TurboGrafx-16 Preservation Society (http://home.comcast.net/~turbografx-preservation-society/) - will launch in the next month or so. I, along with many turbo fans, are working on an ongoing project that collects all tg-16 / pc engine coverage in English-language magazines (primarily North America / UK... though if there were any Canadian / Australian mags out there I'd love to hear about them).

If you can provide corrections / additions to the sites above... PLEASE contact me. I totally appreciate any assistance you can offer :)

peace.

[WolverineDK]

Q:

well the thing is why i joined (check my first post why i joined) and because i can´t program either yet but to read about people who can and learn from them is great, and when the community like assembler is good and they are great chaps :-)

film wise Leon rules (when we talk Luc Beson and his films) Le Grand Bleu is also a great film and the actor who plays in both of them are one of my favorite actors

anyway check the danish DVD series called Riget (Stephen King has an english version called Kingdom Hospital :-()

and check also the danish Films with Kim Bodnia

(Pusher 1 and the sequal where he is not in it also) and I Kina Spiser De Hunde and many others of the new era of danish films many of them are great (especially them that are like Pusher and Nordkraft and with Kim Bodnia who is a danish actor.)

[The VGM]

Brandon S.
U.S.A.
15
Still in High School (9th grade)
Mentioned on another forum

[asnozz]

^ oh dear god :) lol

welcome dude! good to see a dojo'er here ;) didnt you get banned there?

oh and I may have a PAL Dreamcast available if your still offering :D

[koolkid13]

Brandon S.
U.S.A.
15
Still in High School (9th grade)
Mentioned on another forum
Where in connecticut do you live? I live in west hartford

[einbebop44]

Brandon S.
U.S.A.
15
Still in High School (9th grade)
Mentioned on another forum

You have a lot of games for only being 15.

[chingi1]

I am Mario and I am in virginia, usa
Im in 10th (tenth) grade. Ill be 16 in 11 days. (THe 14th of April and wow there are a lot of old ppl here. J/K!!!)
I found this by clicking random things and such. One of them leaded me here.

[Bluehaze]

State you name: Logan
Your country: USA
Your approximate age: 19--I feel so old :' (
Your career / education: 3 Jobs, full-time student / Comp. Engineer Major, minor Comp. science. Duel, in mathematics/philosophy. Soon to be Junior.
State how you found ASSEMbler: A referenced link from RPGfan.com forums

I'll post collection stuff after I stop spending money on games, music, and insurance, and finally get a digital camera. One, two months? Maybe ; )

[asnozz]

welcome all :D
Your approximate age: 19--I feel so old :' (
^i know what you mean..... im 20 in less than 6 months :(

[Kyoto Temple Artist]

State you name: Kyoto Temple Artist(Male)
Your country: Kyoto,Japan
Your approximate age:　 in thirties
Current E-bay ID : caetano1967
Your career / education: a little knowledge of electronics,especially Semiconductor Memories
State how you found ASSEMbler: Senior Member Virtual Alan introduced me to this site.
I may be not the game addict myself,but the internet addict and like to watch 2-channel in Japan.So I am a little surprised that in this site many people even show their real-names and their pictures.Anyway,if you are interested in Japanse goods,please contact me.I may help you getting them.

[WolverineDK]

Kyoto Temple Artist:

sometimes when you post your real name it is because people are not so afraid of sayng their real name, since they have nothing to fear .

and they have there freedom and no goverment there is looking over there shoulder when they post but most of the members (me included) are males except a few of the members are female and i think they won´t post here in the introduction thread because of the minority of females at this forum/message board/"BBS"

but i think we also have some members who won´t show there real name because they are living in a country where the goverment (like in China Brunei and other dictator ships) are looking over there shoulders.

btw i am from Denmark in Scandinavia right next to Sweden and Norway.

[Alchy]

Heh, if the big bad government wanted to know who you were they'd do a check on your ip and go from there. You're not anonymous online you know :p

[WolverineDK]

Heh, if the big bad government wanted to know who you were they'd do a check on your ip and go from there. You're not anonymous online you know :p

offcourse i know that but still.... you can use a proxy server if you want some security.

[Kyoto Temple Artist]

>sometimes when you post your real name it is because people are not so afraid of sayng >their real name, since they have nothing to fear .

In Japan,many people don't want to show their real names even in the internet.
I myself don't want to show my real names,but the reason is not the government,in my opinion.

The cultural tradition in Japan affect Japanse mentality to become anonimous,I suppose.

So the most influential net-community in Japan is 2-channel where people seldom show their name,or even ID.

In Japan,the mojority of MassMedia(Magazine,Newspapers,TV program) were reported without signatures,although nowadays many signatures are found in these media.

[leukoplakia]

Yeah. Is this entirely necessary? Bah. Forums and your formalities.

Name: You can call my lynch if you can't figure out how to pronounce leukoplakia, or if you just prefer that.
Country: USA, Kentucky (Much to my dismay)
Age: 16
Ocupation: Jobless highschool student with a minimal collection of legal games. For now.

[Drazic]

Name: Siemen Greeuw
Country: Netherlands!
Age: 14
[img=http://img210.exs.cx/img210/6834/katmetds4pd.th.jpg] (http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=katmetds4pd.jpg)

[Roi]

Name: Siemen Greeuw
Country: Netherlands!
Age: 14
[img=http://img210.exs.cx/img210/6834/katmetds4pd.th.jpg] (http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=katmetds4pd.jpg)

Lol welcome :happyhap:!

[ASSEMbler]

Welcome. We seem to get more europeans than americans these days. How'd you find the page?

[Drazic]

Welcome. We seem to get more europeans than americans these days. How'd you find the page?
Roi :happyhap:

[AntiPasta]

So it is you from Segaforum :-) Welcome to another Dutchie here on the board :D

[AnalogWinter]

Late as usual, but here it goes:

Name: Steve U.

Country: USA

Age: 29

Edu/Career: 1 yr Community College, currently working as Network Admin for a world wide teleconferencing company

State how you found ASSEMbler: It has a lot to do with Nausicaa and yellow hair.....Hahahaha


^_^_^

[babu]

Name: johan
Country: sweden
Your approximate age: 20
Career/Education: studying game programming at a school here in sweden for now.
rest of the time I'm coding on lots of different projects on following platforms: PC, NES, SNES, XBOX (and soon NDS. I've also tried some PSX deving to).
State how you found ASSEMbler: I've tried to win some of the auctions regarding debug mahchines on ebay that assembler has sold out. but first time I found assembler got to be when I was hunting for info on the yaroze kit some years ago and found this red and black colored homepage with lots of infos on debug machines :D

[WolverineDK]

Johan velkommen til assembler forummet :-) (welcome to the assembler board) you are the second swede (i know off) who is now a member of assembler and yes i will stop writing danish (in this message) and have fun on this forum :-)

[babu]

thanks :)

[vespertillio]

Um, hey there. My name is Fred and you can usually find me over on Digital Press or Atari Age. I dig all vintage computers, video game systrems and arcade standups. I recently aquired a FZ-DR21 and have come here too see what it can do. I look forward to chatting with you all.

[AntiPasta]

Welcome!

[ezekiel]

hi all

from nj
23 y.o.
I load trucks see link --> http://www.mclaneco.com/locations/foodservice/burlington/burlington.asp


love them games :smt082

[The.Jugger]

Yeah I'm new to these parts. I'm over at DP most of the time. Starting to post over here cause I need a PS Debug unit.

Colt

[Purge]

got a new pic of me :P
http://pkgingo.no-ip.com/files/i2.jpg

[Szczepaniak]

Greets all!

Firstly, wow! Amazing website on all things obscure, and a rather nifty forum. I like it.

Name: John Szczepaniak

None of you may recognise me as the infamous designer of a homebrew DC title involving trampolines and guns. When I'm not wasting time on such frivolous (and unpaying activities), I am a hardworking freelance magazine writer. You may not have read my articles in GamesTM and Retro Gamer.

Hobbies: Videogames, as well as anything and everything obscure relating to them. Like I said, love the site, should fit right in. Though I admit fully to being something of a small time person with regards to these things. You won't find me showcasing anything exciting, though I do plan to watch everyone else do that. :)

The reasons for my importing and obscure tatses probably lies in the fact that being born in South Africa, I only had access to strange Famicom bootlegs, and import SFCs, NeoGeo's and Turbo Duos. Nothing officially sanctioned for us, thanks to some rather nice trades embargoes, hence my youth was spent playing cartridge hacks of FDS games on a PAL TV set. But that is a whole other story, worthy of a massive topic.

Age: Far too young. Seriously. I'd surprise you.

Country: Depends, I've lived in about 4 different countries in my lifetime, and travelled to over a dozen more. Take your pick.

How I found this place: a sneaky forumite at NTSC snuck into some links regarding some rarities at the main website. I then followed the biscuit trail to the forum.


erm... yeah. That's about it.

[WolverineDK]

got a new pic of me :P
http://pkgingo.no-ip.com/files/i2.jpg

damn that looks like me this morning , beaten bruised and felt like hell and unshaved.

sorry for writing this but that is the impression i get from the picture , hang in there Purge mate :-)

[WAMoore]

Hello.

My name is William Moore. I will be 18 next February, live in Victoria, Australia, and currently go to TAFE. I've been playing video games ever since I got my Master System and started collecting them around 1998. I found this site looking for information about the Famicom, then I read the rest of the site and loved all the information and the funny remarks. I might post some pictures of my (small) collection and then will probably never post here again. I'm more of a lurker. Meh.

[theCardinal]

Hello. I Zilog_Jones showed me this place. I like consoles. I have some. I'm not really into collectioneering but I might hang around the videogames forum sometimes. I am from Ireland and am a college student. Ehh.... thats about it...

[cahaz]

Welcome to every new members, hope you'll enjoy this friendly environment. :)