Six new Gameboy
cartridges have been released in Japan. Games that support the Color
Gameboy are highlighted in green. NCS will take delivery next Tuesday. Feel free to
place pre-orders today.
| Doraemon Deluxe 10 |
Epoch |
$39 |
| Ten mini
games featuring the blue cat |
| Gekitou Power Modeler |
Capcom |
$39 |
| 2-D
fighting game |
| Pocket Puyo Puyo Sun |
Compile |
$39 |
| Falling
"jellies" puzzle game |
| Sanrio Time Net Future |
Imagineer |
$39 |
| Pokemon
style RPG with Sanrio (Kitty, etc) characters |
| Sanrio Time Net Past |
Imagineer |
$39 |
| Pokemon
style RPG with Sanrio characters |
| Super Black Bass 3 |
Starfish |
$39 |
| Popular
fishing game frm the big consoles |
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| The Dreamcast
supply situation appears to be improving by the day. NCS is expecting better quantities of
the console next week along with prices that are more in line with reality. Sega is
ramping up production of the DC this week and shipments will begin to hit the market in
earnest by the middle of December. NCS will also begin importing the Dreamcast S-Video
cable and RGB convertor next week as prices for these accessories subside and return to
earth. |
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| Unconventional DC FYI |
| What does the DC boot-up screen look like? |
| An orange ball bounces from
the left of the screen and moves right. With each bounce, a letter of the
D-R-E-A-M-C-A-S-T name is spelled out. |
| The Saturn had a roving
spaceship in it's music playing screen, what does the DC have? |
| The lower portion of the DC
music screen looks like a slow, foaming eruption of thick smoke. A sky of clouds also
moves nigh imperceptibly in the background as your tunes are playing. All the while, a big
CD-Rom spins in the foreground as you listen to Alanis' thanks or Beethoven's fifth. |
| Is the fan in the DC loud? |
| No, it cannot be heard by
human ears. In other words, it's in constant whisper mode and will not disturb the audio
from your DC games. |
| Do you like it? |
| Yes, the DC is a well
designed unit and has incredible potential. It should have a lively and world beating run
as it lives out it's life in the console market. The compact size of the console will
surprise most people when they first see it. We only hate the tulip-mania that accompanied
the debut. |
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| Neo-Geo Pocket Baseball Stars is now in stock at US$39.
Pre-orders will ship today. |
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| NCS restocked the NCD Samurai
collection of games and Samurai 3 for the Neo today |
| Samurai Spirits |
NCD |
US$29 |
| Samurai Spirits 2 |
NCD |
US$29 |
| Samurai Spirits 3 |
NCD |
US$35 |
| Samurai Spirits 3 |
NEO GEO |
US$68 |
New orders are
welcome |
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NCS has repaired
our first Dreamcast console. The DC GD-Rom was the sole culprit and the symptoms were as
follows:
| Console will not
recognize a DC game or music disc. Drive activity is normal at boot-up but spins down and
halts after an eighth of a minute. Eerily similar to what a Playstation does when the
drive needs a fix. |
| CD lens scans
the boot track of disc normally but appears to either reject the disc or simply fail after
performing it's initial routine. |
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| The fix is fairly simple
though access to certain parts of the GD component is limited. Since NCS is only learning
about the internals of the machine at this stage, we will not repair DC consoles unless
they come from our company. As we begin to supply more resellers, we will divulge what
we're learning about the unit so that you can repair DCs at your own store. Hopefully, the
GD unit will not become as big a problem as the Playstation CD-Rom. We have yet to hear
about too many problems in Asia with the DC so the glitches with the drive unit may be an
isolated case. However, it's still early in the DC lifeline so we'll see what happens in
the next couple of days as more units are brought home and powered up. |
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| Five new
Dreamcast titles have been tentatively scheduled for December 19: Evolution,
Incoming, Seventh Cross, Sonic Adventure
and Tetris 4D are all expected to close out the month of December. There
are no further DC releases until January 12 when Blue Stinger, Sengoku,
and Sega Rally 2 join the DC brigade. |
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| A shipment of
new import magazines is expected tomorrow. The premiere issues of Dreamcast Fan and
Dreamcast Magazine are expected next week. NCS will bring these periodicals into the
country with air freight. Two other DC magazines, Dengeki Dreamcast and Dream Walker will
be shipped in by sea. |
| NCS did not want
to neglect the Candy Toys this week but with the chaos surrounding the Dreamcast earlier
in the week, Pokemon stickers and Hello Kitty paraphenalia were simply not at the
forefront. Never fear however, Candy Toys will make their triumphant return next week. |
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