I fucked with the P.I. (Politically Incorrect) squad from N.Y. for a looooooooooong time. Sheer Terror (Rich) was actually pretty cool in the beginning, then he thought he was XBand’s martyr. Heh. They were garbage at MK2, and only marginally good at UMK3. Lol @ Magnus Zhor. I remember playing Fr00t L00p (Todd) in NBA Jam TE… speaking of which, NBA Jam comes out for 360 next month lol… boomshakalaka, bitches.
Hey man, did you ever talk to an XBander in Orlando named oL DoGG? I think his name was Phil. I’m not sure what games he used to play, but he was a cool guy back in the day. I might have met him playing NBA Jam TE or something.
lol I had a friend like that.
Even if he didn’t have xband/gamegenie… nothing would have changed. He would have still been playing the game all the time due to the “quick mod”. Studtroooper already explained the bypass was physical, so I’ll just quickly elaborate and explain what your friend could have done. (and what most people did lol)
Here are the bottom views of Super Famicom, and Super Nintendo (USA) cartridges. Top is jap, bottom is USA.
http://apecape.ewell.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/800px-SNES_Cartridge_Comparison_bottom1.jpg
See those grooves on the bottom of the USA cartridge? That’s where the USA console’s “lockout pins” went that Studtrooper mentioned. USA console “lockout pins” can be seen below:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/KuroMatsuri/tabs.jpg
As Studtrooper mentioned, Since Jap version cartridges didn’t have those grooves, they wouldn’t fit into the console slot properly. (They sat too high to be read by the USA console.)
People simply took a pair of pliers, gripped the plastic pins, one quick twist… and voila. Region lock bypassed. lol The pins were rather soft. Later, Nintendo made the pins with a stronger plastic, so people just simply heated the pliers to counter that. Cut through like they were butter.
Jive Out!
That brings me back when I used to work at a comic book shop. This guy had his Snes modded that way so he could play all the import jap games on it. Good times.
Lol, yup. I hung out with Phil for a lil’ bit after the Xband scene died down. That was my dude! I wonder what the fuck he’s up to nowadays? And yup, he was a TE player. I also hung out with a dude named Joe, who was awesome at KI, and his Xband tag was aL cOhoLic X
Good god…I spent a TON of time on XBand. I was ShadowCat on there, and only used Cammy on SSF2. Never knowing who you’d get matched up with was like high drama back then.
Rise from your grave!
Wow, yea this crap comes to haunt me every now and then. I was banging in NYC area on snes mk2 and KI as
Son Gokuo.
Skytel brings back mems. last i checked 3 years ago one of my boxes was still up. My greeting there but password was changed. TheWarlock was the one that started that shit with Tenryu. I still talk to them, Tenryu puts out prank calls as GuyFromBrooklyn now.
Wow Nation X News. I dont recall but if that was the one wit the occasional MK2 hack n what not, I was brought in later as page 4 or some crap.
And I had the keyboard. I heard they stopped making em when people would use Mario World just for chat. it took longer to type on a controller so they got more mins outta people.
Hey man, Phil (oL Dogg) showed up on the XBand Facebook group that we have. Drop by if you want to say “hi”.
I just received a DVD from a former Xbander named Nothingness that has tons of SSF2 footage from the Sega Genesis Xband. I just uploaded the first match, which is between him and The Master Jon:
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The game never changes, only the players.
But seriously, hardcore pictures and clips, thanks for sharing the memories :tup:
I was Mid-Knight Lover from Hoboken.
Real blast from the past…
I remember back in 2002 or so Ricky Ortiz was in Tips and Tricks, etc.
Random blast from the past here, but I have some footage from the Sega Genesis Xband of Nothingness vs Dream Theater. This was taken some time in 1995.
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