I hacked the system. I found it on iTunes and am already fifteen minutes in. WOO!

This always seems to come up on iTunes faster. Not that I'm complaining, enjoying the podcast so far, but what a monster?? Is this the longest yet??

the thing is the church cant have any other religious holiday during the week of easter so paddy's day was put on a Sunday.
However paddy's day is also a bank holiday in Ireland so most of the events happened today regardless.

So in short there was to two holiday's,
one religious and one official.

Ah, so some of you have discovered the secret! Yes, the iTunes store does get the show before the homepage. The reason for this is because iTunes needs to take its sweet time to update, so if I were to set both pages live at the same time (as I've done before), then the first ten comments on this page are of the "iTunes isn't working" variety. I usually set the other page live anywhere fro 15 minutes to an hour ahead of time.

Short story long, subscribing to the show via iTunes gets you the very first crack at the new episode.

Also, thanks to Samit for listening to us and putting a wonderful comment about us on there!

Double also, the show is long -- way too long, maybe. But, the longest show we ever did was the Zelda show, this might be a tie or close second. You may have to ask our archival coordinator Droobies about that, though ;)

Why Justice, WHY?

Dear Colette:

If humans were meant to fly, they'd have wings. Please come down to the ground...and back in my podcast <3

Also, awesome photo for the podcast. Reminds me of that sick SNES one you guys did awhile back.

@Dyson

How is this not the longest episode ever? It's 2 hours 19 minutes, Episode 20 aka "The Longest Zelda Episode Ever" was only 1 hour 57 minutes.

I don't mind though, I could listen to Retroforce all day.

Oh god..I bought that add-on to my Game Boy Color..and at that time I thought it was great..

XD Ok, so I just got to the part talking about wrapping the cords for your controllers, and I do the exact same thing that Topher does. Yay for twist ties!

MOAR Retroforce is always good

Oh my god, hearing you guys talk about how unconfortable the NES controller was reminded me of having these:



NES GRIPS!

I had a third party turbo NES controller and I swear I think it was wireless. Could that have been possible?!

Also turbo was the only way I could be the final boss in Zelda II the first time. I've beaten him normally since then but my little ten year old self didn't have the thumbs I have now.

(k back to listening)

Yeah Naia, it was totally possible:

If it's the same one D is talking about, i think i found a picture of it here.

Alas, my childhood isnt a lie! Thank you for mentioning the NES Max! I grew up with a Famicom that had a Turbo buttons for A and B built right into the pad. I always thought that I grew up with a Cheap chinese Famicom Knockoff. But this changes everything! GREEN MILKSHAKES FOR ALL!!!!

@Droobies

I couldn't find out who made it or where my neighbor got it from, i was so pissed off when it broke because i could never go back to play my N64 with a normal controller. Let me know if you stumble across the maker.

A picture of my setup. Why am I showing you this, look at the T.V.


[size=75]WOOD GRAIN!!![/size75]

I won?... SPLURGEGEGE. Email has been sent *salute*

Also, I think that the Wiimote dpad is crap for virtual console games. I played Star Tropics with it and nearly killed myself.

Oh sorry it was mad catz

2 hours 19 minutes?! Man, that is long! Oh, sorry ... Like, 2 hours 19 minutes? Like, man, that is, like, long!

@ Chad

2 hours 19 minutes, and not a single BAAANK!

Whats up with that? :(

Are you all going to talk about specialty controllers in another episode? Steel Battalion, Samba De Amigo, DDR, Rock Band, Zapper, and tons of other stuff to talk about.

Hey RFG, have you seen retrousb.com? They have usb adapters to connect NES and SNES controllers to a PC.

I seriously have to keep a notebook with me when I listen to you guys, because I come up with all these responses as I'm listening which I yell out, but of course you can't hear me. :P

I never had the pleasure of playing the dreamcast on account of my five game rule (there has to be at least five games on a system that I want to justify the purchase), but it sounds like the D-pad was pretty nice.

As for Microsoft's D-pad I also have to wonder if there are patents out there that prevent them from making a decent one. I mean why would they use the thing they have?

Although The GHost may be onto something with the focus groups.

Stupid kids.

Also I never knew of any game other than the Katamari games that ever used L3 and R3. What else is there?

Finally you guys are awesome. My monday feels complete.

NES Street Fighter
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By the way, I saw somewhere that there WAS A Fighting game that was released on the NES! It pre-dated Street Fighter and even played with similar button input commands.

I've been looking all over for the video or even what name was. I couldn't possibly have imagined it!


N64 Controller
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I like the C buttons, the fact that they were smaller then A and B really helped to identify them without looking. And I referred to the direction first and for the C buttons.


Smash Bros. Z Button
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For dualshock or other controllers with more then 2 shoulder buttons I use both my middle and index fingers so it's usually not a problem for me. But the fact is that in Smash Bros. the command for throw and grab is actually Block + Attack and the Z button just inputs both commands. So there are times when I pressed Z but blocked instead of grabbing someone. That was(is) HELL of annoying.


Gamecube D-pad
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Hold a original Gameboy Advance up to a Gamecube controller... yeah...


R3 and L3
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I'm not a fan of R3 for camera centering, I'd rather have that on a shoulder button.

Also in Devil May Cry 3 L3 cycled through targets to lock-on. It was really helpful but in DMC4 they removed it and that pissed me off. The game was still hell of fun but the times when I locked on to an enemy that I didn't want to and couldn't change as easily as in DMC3 took it down a big notch.


Crouching
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTJfCWLMIo


YOU MENTIONED HALO!
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RAWR


Nylon Ball in your Heart
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That's not good, your going to have to get that bypassed.