'lo everyone

[Blue ESPer]

Hey, new here, haven't looked at the site much, just love the idea of a forum catering to one of my 3 all time favourite consoles (ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500+ and Saturn). I mostly joined up for helped and guidance towards a series of video projects I plan to do, but I'm only going to kick it off with one video.

If anyone's interested, I've had 'Firefly' (my first Saturn) since 1996, with Virtua Fighter 2, SEGA Rally and Panzer Dragoon Zwei. And to this day, I still play on it every now and then even though I have a multitude of other machines at my disposal. It is also the only machine I own I have actively collected every peripheral I can obtain under my strict budget, from 2 Virtua Sticks to 2 Arcade Racing wheels. During the time I've owned my first Saturn, it has gone through numerous modifications, such as region switches and 50/60Hz switches. Due to this, I quickly picked up a second unit to keep vanilla, called 'Rhea'.

For anyone curious, I'll be working on a series of 'Hyper Analysis' videos initially based around SEGA Saturn titles, the first beginning with one of my all time favourite games 'Dark Savior'. I have already started to plan the next series of videos I may work on, but initially I'm only going to work on the first video and see how it's accepted. In time, I'll probably set up some polls concerning the subject of an upcoming video, but I have already decided what the second video will cover, and I believe every Saturn fan will be very happy with the choice.

Anyway, I hope to have some fun here and help out where I can, but for the time being...toodles!

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[mick_aka]

Welcome to the forums ESPer

[MIK]

Greetings and enjoy.

[Blue ESPer]

Thank you very much for the warm greetings. Been looking around the site and seen a lot of material I like. I hope to contribute more than I take, so I'll try to help as best I can around the site. However, I am a busy person so I wont be available all the time.

As a note, I hope to have my first 'Hyper Analysis' video completed before August, as long as I can get my video recording equipment all set up right. In the mean time I'm working on the script and researching everything I'm going to be covering. My video's are neither walkthroughs or reviews (though they will have a review component and may tackle awkward elements of the game), but a full look at the title or franchise.

Anyway, I'll stop boring everyone and get back to it. Toodles!

[NeoGeoNinja]

HI BLUE ESPER...
and welcome to SS:UK.

I will keep an eye out for this 'Hyper Analysis'. Sounds intriguing...

[Blue ESPer]

Not much, just approximately 1 hour long videos delving deep into a game or franchise. The only problem I'll have, really, is trying to make them entertaining. But that's what scripts are for. I just hope people wont have a problem with my accent.

[captainkael]

welcome to the site and sounds like a cool idea hope to see one soon

[Sidney]

Interesting and Hi!

[infernalcombustion]

Sounds to me like you have a ready baked audience for your stuff here ESPer!!

Welcome to the forums - your love of your consoles is obvious and pretty much echo's a lot of peoples sentiment here.

I look forward to your 'Hyper Analysis' of Dark Saviour - I LOVE that game (even though it's deeply flawed). I'd be very interested to hear your opinions.

[Blue ESPer]

Right, update for the video. I've gotten some stuff ready for editing it all together, just still having problems with recording the footage... I'm almost ready to just set up my camera and record it of the TV, problem with that...my TV sucks (Toshiba Regza HD 1080p from 2005, backlighting is causing banding over the screen).

As a treat to you guys, if this ends up coming to a stop because I've ran out of money (6 Capture cards, only 2 I was able to return, each one a different model by different companies), I'll just upload a segment of the video I was able to make that doesn't require gameplay footage, it's a 'HD' remake of the intro bit at the start of Parallel 2. I was planning on launching the video with this segment, that would show of bits of the video you're going to watch, including chapter buttons to jump to a specific segment.

[Blue ESPer]

Right, great news, I can finally record footage from my Saturn (PAL original, not PAL 50/60Hz modded, sadly). Full colour, full sound and decent video quality. It should be high quality, as it'll be recording from SCART - to DVD-R - Component Out, keeping as much colour information as possible. I'll say this, Daytona, SEGA Rally and Fighting Vipers looked great. All I need to do now, is find the time to sit down and play DS for an extended period of time (and free up ALOT of HDD space for the recordings).

Anyway, till my next update, toodles!

[Deleted]

Seems like a neat idea, but if you run a few minutes short, you won't add in random crap filler will you? That really bugs me in some videos.

[bogard07]

Welcome to the forums!

I like the idea behind your videos and hope to check them out when the time comes.

[Blue ESPer]

No, everything in the video will be to do with the video. The only really original content will be a custom intro trying to replicate a part of the game in higher quality 3D (My honours project at Uni was creating levels within game engines). Though those bits will also feature an overview of the videos total contents. I'm not going to add stupid things like sketches, dance numbers or cameos.

[rossi46]

Welcome home