As it is now on my laptop: http://i39.tinypic.com/xm04ty.png
(The round thing at the top corner is supposed to show the phases of the moon, so it looks best when it’s not a new moon XD)

As it used to be for a LONG time beforehand, on the family desktop: http://i41.tinypic.com/iz2m3p.png
Think this is the picture I posted for the LAST desktop thread on here.

Region encoding is just stupid. Surely opening up your market to THE WHOLE WORLD is a better idea than keeping it confined, no?

Happy 24th of November! :D

@larisajane: Yeah, I’ve heard about the clipping thing, but is there not some chip inside the machine that keeps it region locked? Doesn’t clipping those tabs just allow the cartridge to fit in the slot? Are there not some other modifications you need? Wonder if a Super Famicom could be modded to play British SNES games too :P

Always thought about buying a SNES (and an N64) but, while they’re *relatively* cheap, I still can’t really “afford” to spend that much on them, if you know what I mean. Got a lot of good memories of the N64 :) Basically, once I’m making the megabucks, I’ll set aside a room in my house/mansion for collecting lots of old consoles and games. Gonna be sweet B-)
Maybe have a “Zelda room” too…

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

Hmmm… It’s been so long since I did the wa/ga thing with TextFugu; looking back on it, it’s actually not that good an explanation now that I think about it. The best way to learn the difference between the two is to just go out there and see it for yourself. Obviously that’s a little much for a beginner, but just referring to は as the topic marker/particle and が as the subject marker/particle is probably sufficient in the mean time – it gives you the basic idea of the differences, but you wont get a grasp for the ideas behind it until you see it in lots of different situations. As long as you *get* that “topic” refers to “the topic of conversation” while “subject” refers to “the subject of a clause”, you should be ok.

Also, when it comes to *reading* は and が, read は as “as for X,…” and が as “X is” – I think that helps more than anything. It kind of fits in with the Japanese style of speaking: often where the sentence begins with は, they’ll kind of hold the あ sound and trail off (as if they’re saying “Uhhhhh….”), before coming back in the with the main part of the sentence (e.g. 「これ はぁぁ・・・ なんですか。」. As for が (or should I say「「が」はぁぁ・・・」), it’s just kinda said as part of the sentence (e.g. 「すし が 好きです。」).

@Mark: What’s あ-form?

@Mark: Well, you’re saying 食べたら (“if/when you eat”), but the sentences in the lesson say 食べたかったら (“If/when you WANT to eat”).
“If you eat meat, why not do it now?” as opposed to “If you WANT to eat meat, why not do it now?”

@Mark: Are you asking for missing’s help? You’ve already got several replies from natives XD I doubt he’d have much more to add.

Bear in mind, there can be more than one way to say things, so while 高すぎた should be fine, the commentors probably think there is a more natural way to say it, a way that just sounds better to the ear. And also that Koichi isn’t native Japanese; he’s not completely fluent, so he’ll still mess up from time to time.