I have seen mention on a few of the various forums I visit that there is now a King of Fighters 2001 ROM available. It certainly didn't take them long to dump it. It's sad because Playmore really seems to be working hard to revitalize the Neo Geo brand. With the re-release of Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 on the DC and rumors of KoF 2000,2001 and Metal Slug 3 on the PS2 things are certainly looking bright. A KoF 2001 ROM can only hurt our chances of seeing those rumors become a reality. I never agreed with people who emulated Neo games but I could respect their point that they were not hurting anyone since SNK was so far in the crapper financially. However now that Playmore has taken over things have changed. I think it is important that we support their endeavors to breathe life back into the Neo Geo and it's games. If Playmore sees that there is an audience for these titles on new systems like the DC and the PS2 the possibilities are endless. A whole new generation of gamers will finally be exposed to great games like Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug, and King of Fighters. It's only through the financial success of these games that we can ever hope to see new titles in these series like Mark of the Wolves 2 and Samurai Showdown 5. Emmulation only serves to hurt the chances of these games ever becoming a reality.
Evidently we have entered into some kind of pissing match with Tribalwar. I took a peak at their forums this morning and they seem to be taking the whole thing quite seriously. Countless topics suggesting that bodily harm should be inflicted on Tycho and myself as well as more than one supposition that we are in fact perhaps homosexuals. Our wives will be quite surprised to hear that bit of news I'm sure. Evidently they have coordinated some kind of "forum invasion" in an attempt to destroy our server. This sounds rather nasty but as far as I can tell it simply involves them posting weird pictures in our forum with the word "owned" scrawled on them. I wish them the best of luck, the road ahead of them is not an easy one. I think if we can handle a permanent link on the front page of Slashdot we should be able to handle their little forum invasion. I'm not sure they understand that we are actually hosted by the same people and that there is one man responsible for the maintenance of both our forums. I guess these are all things they failed to take into consideration. I think they need to just relax a bit and forget about it. They should quit filling their "general Tribes" forum with anti-PA threads, and just go back to posting porn and complaining about homework.
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-Gabe out
