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RADIO!


Welcome to Radio PSI's Sunday Night Edition with the wonderful DJ-Carp! Tune in at 8:00 CST to hear all the l33t beats and such, and join #radiopsi on DynastyNet!

http://icecast.starmen.net:80/radiopsicp.ogg.m3u

I'll be connecting soon for the PRE-SHOW. TUNE IN!

E-mail Carpainter Posted by Carpainter 2/27/2005 at 20:34:50


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Mother 3 Rounds Out the Top 5!


In this week's Famitsu, Mother 3 makes it to number 5!

05. (07/09) - Mother 3 - GBA - Nintendo - 1,012 votes

Visit the forum for the complete list of games in Famitsu's Top 20 list of Most Wanted video games in Japan. Nintendo is slowly crawling up the chart with multiple titles.

E-mail KingDarian Posted by KingDarian 2/27/2005 at 19:58:27


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The Robotic Armed Radio


Radio tonight will be hosted by the charismatic and informative Radio Robotic Arm, because I have a show tonight (WORLD TOUR REPRESENT!!!!#*&). However, since I do this all too much, you can enjoy the radio stylings of RoboArmRadio, by tuning into:

http://icecast.starmen.net:80/radiopsisg.ogg.m3u

This will most likely run all night, so enjoy the EarthBound beats intertwined in with the best records in my CD collection. Ready to rock, RoboArm?

"Yes, master Sephy. Let us drop a hot rhythm on my TCP/IP connected peers."

Ehehe... er... it's best if you don't talk, RoboArm.

E-mail Sephy Posted by Sephy 2/26/2005 at 16:58:23


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No Meeting, Site Downtime


Hey folks, no meeting this weekend. Also, I'm switching domain registrars, so Starmen.Net might be down for a little while this weekend. Maybe not. Hard telling. Either way, there will be a meeting next week. Whether it will be sweet or not has yet to be seen.
E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/26/2005 at 0:33:20


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Reserved Membership Program Starts Today!



Interested in joining the few, the elite, the reserved members of the Starmen.Net CS:S server? All you have to do is sign up on the reserved membership page! What do reserved members get? Our donators get the ability to:
  • Kick players.
  • Talk to all players via adminsay.
  • Ability to talk to other donators privately.
  • Blind a troublemaker.
  • Slap a troublemaker.
  • Add a maximum of 5 bots to the server if the server is empty.
  • Join when the server is full.
In addition, your payments still count as donations towards Starmen.Net, so you still get the benefits of donating otherwise, such as avatars and ranks when you have donated that much!

Not interested in the Counter-Strike: Source server, but still want to support Starmen.Net? We have a general donation button on the upper-right of the screen.

E-mail ROFISH Posted by ROFISH 2/25/2005 at 17:44:30


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EB For Sale


Looking for that game EarthBound? You know, the one the kids are talking about?

Auctions has what you are looking for.

Remember to always look over all of them before bidding. Best of luck.

E-mail ShadowX Posted by ShadowX 2/24/2005 at 23:29:53


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Meeting is OVER


Fishsticks, as always, is there with a log in hand.
E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/20/2005 at 19:37:06


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Lucky Number 7!


Hey, it's up a few points this week, but still not more anticipated than Rumble Roses.

:P

These are the latest results from Famitsu as of the 20th of February, 2005.

Position...Title....................................
1. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XII
2. (2 / 2) Shin Sangoku Musou 4
3. (3 / 4) Kingdom Hearts 2
4. (4 / 3) Devil May Cry 3
5. (6 / 6) Biohazard 4
6. (7 / 7) Rumble Roses
7. (9 / 8) Mother 3
8. (8 /11) Tekken 5
9. (12/10) Wanda and the Colossus
10. (10/ 9) Sakura Taisen V
11. (11/12) Romancing SaGa:MS
12. (15/13) Final Fantasy III
13. (13/14) Tengai Makyou III
14. (14/15) Killer 7
15. (21/25) Tales of Eternia
16. (17/16) The Legend of Zelda
17. (16/18) Wild Arms: 4th
18. (19/17) Doubutsu no Mori DS
19. (18/19) Fire Emblem: SK
20. (23/23) Killer 7
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System..Publisher..Votes
PS2 Square Enix 4.335
PS2 Koei 2.666
PS2 Square Enix 2.099
PS2 Capcom 1.786
PS2 Capcom 1.442
PS2 Konami 1.028
GBA Nintendo 928
PS2 Namco 875
PS2 Sony 795
PS2 Sega 668
PS2 Square Enix 652
NDS Square Enix 623
PS2 Hudson 620
PS2 Capcom 615
PSP Namco 588
GCN Nintendo 551
PS2 Sony 530
NDS Nintendo 519
GCN Nintendo 509
GCN Capcom 461
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Discuss if you wish

E-mail KingDarian Posted by KingDarian 2/20/2005 at 14:13:47


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RADIO TIEM


Radio will be on at 9 PM EST tonight!

Go to dynastynet IRC in channel #RadioPSI for more information!

You can check it out here at 9:

http://icecast.starmen.net:80/radiopsisg.ogg.m3u

E-mail Sephy Posted by Sephy 2/19/2005 at 20:53:35


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Staff / Site Meetings Tomorrow!


Our lovely Starmen.Net IRC Meetings resume this week, once again in #earthbound on Dynastynet IRC. On the agenda for this week's meeting:
  • Staff jobs
  • Q&A Session
  • Biggest, Stupidest, Nerdiest EarthBound Joke EVER Contest

Here are the times, for the time-zone impaired [me]:
  • Pacific - 5:00 PM
  • Mountain / Arizona - 6:00 PM
  • Central - 7:00 PM
  • Eastern / Indiana 窶 8:00 PM
  • Canadian Atlantic 窶 9:00 PM
The meeting is going to take place in #earthbound on Dynastynet (irc.dynastynet.net). If you've never used IRC for chatting before, check out the Chat section for more information.

E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/19/2005 at 14:17:49


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Radio PSIIIIIIIIIIIII


it's friday night again ladies and gents, and that means its time for Radio PSI. I will be broadcasting at 9pm EST TONIGHT (Friday) so be sure to tune in!

As always, I will be taking requests. Submit them to me via IRC in #radiopsi or to my email at jamie_m@rogers.com

E-mail Jamie_M Posted by Jamie_M 2/18/2005 at 19:25:14


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Happy Love Day


Flash by zushiba/Frieza

E-mail ShadowX Posted by ShadowX 2/14/2005 at 19:19:00


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No Meeting? Here's Something to Talk About!


This week Mother 3 falls back a position.

These are the latest results from Famitsu as of the 13th of February, 2005.

Position...Title....................................
01. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XII
02. (2 / 5) Shin Sangoku Musou 4
03. (4 / 2) Kingdom Hearts 2
04. (3 / 4) Devil May Cry 3
05. (5 / 7) Dragon Ball Z3
06. (6 / 9) Biohazard 4
07. (7 / 8) Rumble Roses
08. (11/12) Tekken 5
09. (8 /10) Mother 3
10. (9 /10) Sakura Taisen V: Saraba Aishiki Hito-yo
11. (12/16) Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song
12. (10/13) Wanda and the Colossus
13. (14/15) Tengai Makyou III: Namida
14. (15/18) Killer 7
15. (13/14) Final Fantasy III
16. (18/24) Wild Arms: The 4th Detonator
17. (16/21) The Legend of Zelda
18. (19/22) Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki
19. (17/19) Doubutsu no Mori DS
20. (20/26) Phantom Kingdom
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System..Publisher..Votes
PS2 Square Enix 4.251
PS2 Koei 2.496
PS2 Square Enix 2.014
PS2 Capcom 1.606
PS2 Bandai 1.468
PS2 Capcom 1.378
PS2 Konami 1.187
PS2 Namco 896
GBA Nintendo 864
PS2 Sega 763

PS2 Square Enix 738

PS2 Sony 731
PS2 Hudson 641
PS2 Capcom 606
NDS Square Enix 599
PS2 Sony 514

GCN Nintendo 498
GCN Nintendo 431

NDS Nintendo 424
PS2 Nippon Ichi 401
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Discuss if you wish

E-mail KingDarian Posted by KingDarian 2/13/2005 at 21:55:47


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Mo meeting tonight


Sorry folks, some stuff came up this week that took me away from home for a while, so I'm getting settled in. We'll be meeting next week at the normal time.
E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/13/2005 at 17:27:04


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Testing for Donors



This is just a little status report on the CS:S server. The new website for the server has been created. (Praise me! :D The MSIE hack for those alphaPNGs are pretty ugly. :/) Now we're ready to test out the reserved status. If you are a previous donator, check out the "First Hit is Free" topic and put your SteamID there. Don't know what your SteamID is? Check the how to get your SteamID topic!

So what exactly do reserved members get? Well that's what this is to decide! They already have the following powers: reserved slot to get in anytime, the ability to turn friendly fire on or off, the ability to put out bots to fill the server to six players, the ability to talk to everyone in as an admin, and the ability to kick any cheaters, TKers, and other lamers. Like our good Uncle Ben has said, "With great power comes great responsibility," so don't abuse your reserved powers or I shall remove them with no refund.

E-mail ROFISH Posted by ROFISH 2/13/2005 at 12:10:47


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Original EarthBound Commercial


If you're in or around your 20's, you may remember seeing as a kid the game review stations Nintendo would have set up at places like Wal-Mart or Sears. You'd press a button and it would show you a preview of some of the new games that came out or were coming out. They had a video for EarthBound too, and for the longest time I've been wanting to find it again. Well now that Metacrawler.com has a new video search, I gave it a go and magically the video popped up! It's stuffed deep within the server of archive.org. So we aren't leeching off their bandwidth, I re-uploaded it to our server for fun viewing. Enjoy!

View it here (5.7 MB .asf)

Talk about it in the forum topic here

E-mail Plo Posted by Plo 2/12/2005 at 5:56:07


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AUCTIONS?!?!


Wow, sure has been awhile... Uh, lets fix that right now.

Auctions missed your wallet.

Enjoy bidding once again.

E-mail ShadowX Posted by ShadowX 2/11/2005 at 0:08:50


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Don't Freak Out. I'm Supposed to Be Here


Howdy Folks! I'm here to bring you the latest Mother 3 ranking in Famitsu's Top 20 Most Wanted Games in Japan chart. You might recognize it from this thread in the Mother 3 Forum. Reid asked me to start posting it on the front page so, enjoy! ^_^

These are the latest results from the 6th of February, 2005

Position...Title....................................
01. (1 / 1) Final Fantasy XII
02. (5 /12) Shin Sangoku Musou 4
03. (4 / 5) Devil May Cry 3
04. (2 / 2) Kingdom Hearts 2
05. (7 / 7) Dragon Ball Z 3
06. (9 / 6) Biohazard 4
07. (8 / 8) Rumble Roses
08. (10/ 8) Mother 3
09. (11/13) Sakura Taisen V
10. (13/10) Wanda and the Colossus
11. (12/18) Tekken 5
12. (16/14) Romancing SaGa: MS
13. (14/15) Final Fantasy III
14. (15/16) Tengai Makyou III
15. (18/22) Killer 7
16. (21/19) The Legend of Zelda
17. (19/21) Doubutsu no Mori DS
18. (24/24) Wild Arms:4th Detonator
19. (22/23) Fire Emblem: SK
20. (26/30) Phantom Kingdom
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System..Publisher..Votes
PS2 Square Enix 4,521
PS2 Koei 2,682
PS2 Capcom 2,109
PS2 Square Enix 2,062
PS2 Bandai 1,585
PS2 Capcom 1,288
PS2 Konami 1,267
GBA Nintendo 938
PS2 Sega 769
PS2 Sony 753
PS2 Namco 726
PS2 Square Enix 705
NDS Square Enix 657
PS2 Hudson 631
PS2 Capcom 557
GC Nintendo 510
NDS Nintendo 504
PS2 Sony 461
GC Nintendo 453
PS2 Nippon Ichi 445
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E-mail KingDarian Posted by KingDarian 2/9/2005 at 12:47:38


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A Look at Things to Come


As per reidman's request, here are all the new site design previews released at the last meeting.

The start of the top bar for the new site design. The top bar begins to take shape. Now the top bar has... Exploded?
The Latest Update box, Activities box, and Login are added. The main section bars have been added. Anyone know where I can find EB0? ^_^;; Random quotes are back!!!
You can now login on the main page. The EB Thing & Awesome Fan Thing of the Day are brand spankety spank new to the site. you grin ed
Sexy database sexyness! The final design. Go pick up your eyeballs. This was the original new site design. It looked pretty good, but the new one blows it out of the internet. 

Pretty amazing eh? The Dev-Team, Resubmitters, and an army of trained Patricks are all working behind the scenes to get this new site up as quickly as possible. So please excuse the lack of updates. Go play some CS:S while you wait, or talk about it in this forum topic.

E-mail ShadowX Posted by ShadowX 2/9/2005 at 0:20:27


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Wanna play some CS:S?



The CS:S donation server is up in testing right now. We have a full 16 player server, and everything's going fine. If you wanna join us, the IP address is "starmen.net". Pretty easy to remember.

If you have previously donated, check the "The First Hit is Free" in the new CS:S forum. I'll get you a free month of reserved goodness! Questions, comments, concerns? Post them there!

E-mail ROFISH Posted by ROFISH 2/7/2005 at 16:21:46


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It's Log, it's - wait I did that last week


New meeting log is up, also I think Coors Lite won the Super Bowl. Or New England. Whatever, they're both good teams. New Mailbag will be along sometime this week.
E-mail SimonBob Posted by SimonBob 2/7/2005 at 11:30:01


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Meeting in progress


The main thing that people are going to be interested in:

I will be releasing the preview of the new site design, and yes, it will be the final preview, full size. I know quite a few people have seen it already (it actually was pretty easy to find for a while), so I'd like to get it out of the bag and hopefully get people interested in the site's new look.

Hope to see you guys there. And, yes, I know I scheduled the meeting during the Superbowl. Its not like A) we don't all know who's going to win B) you won't be able to download the sex-sells-products-to-lonely-men commercials all over the internet anyway ;)

E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/6/2005 at 19:10:31


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Meeting tomorrow!


Meeting tomorrow at the usual time:

  • Pacific - 5:00 PM
  • Mountain / Arizona - 6:00 PM
  • Central - 7:00 PM
  • Eastern / Indiana 窶 8:00 PM
  • Canadian Atlantic 窶 9:00 PM
The meeting is going to take place in #earthbound on Dynastynet (irc.dynastynet.net). If you've never used IRC for chatting before, check out the Chat section for more information. If you're interested in the site and what we're working on, feel free to attend.

This one won't be as long as the last one since there's a bit less to talk about, but I still encourage you guys to let me know what you'd like to see.

E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/5/2005 at 20:14:19


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READ THIS.


the literature of the moment - a critique of mother 2

In what I can honestly say is, without concession, the greatest video game article I have ever read, Tim Rogers of large prime numbers and insert credit delves WAY beyond the trite-hype reviews which have been a contributing factor to the neglect EarthBound has received outside of Japan. Heck, he even addresses this in his article when he makes fun of the reviewers who could talk about nothing more than the game's "wacky wackiness" and "trippy backgrounds".

As Tim reveals, there is much more to Mother 2 than I suspect most of us could ever have realized. I have a feeling even Tomato, the one person on this site who probably understands the genius of Shigesato Itoi more than anyone, will learn a lot from this article.

"I can guarantee you that no fourteen-year-old gamer in 1994 was thinking about game-design-philosophy when he first entered that house. He was probably angry as hell. He'd just spent a few hours of his life -- hours he can never get back -- fighting monsters to earn money to buy a house that's missing a ****** wall.

Then you open the dresser."


There are only three things "wrong" with the article, and none of them are actually bad. Here's why.
  • First, as you can see, it's got a little language, and a little "adult" subject matter, but really only for that first paragraph of the article. I only need to say this because I know there are some younger kids that come to the site. The language is definitely not used needlessly, and it really actually helps the article out. Precisely like Itoi, the article is very genuine and doesn't hold back when it needs to be frank.
  • Second, there are some minor inaccuracies. But anyone who is caught complaining about these will be strung up by their toenails and shot.

    "Should the player possess extra ingenuity and a knack for exploring, he'll be rewarded only with things such as hearing his bicycle breaks squeal beneath the waters of a rainforest."

    Such sentences can only be written by a person who has played, enjoyed, and thoroughly understood every aspect of our beloved series.
  • Third, the article is very long. This is only bad if you suffer any combination of the following: 1) laziness 2) inability to read english 3) inability to appreciate good literature

This guy captured what Mother 2 is all about. Reading this article makes me want to play EarthBound again, and hopefully I will, for the good of this website. I think you guys should too.

Enjoy, and be inspired.

http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=mother2

E-mail reidman Posted by reidman 2/1/2005 at 14:54:33


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It's Log, it's Log, it's big it's heavy it's wood


If you're too lazy, scared, or bewildered to find it in the forums, here's the log of last Sunday's meeting, complete with joins, mode-setting, and wacky op commentary. Notice that I've been vindicated as the standard for hilarity against which all other jokes and commentary must be judged. Laugh.
E-mail SimonBob Posted by SimonBob 2/1/2005 at 11:08:08


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