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New member from Glendale, CA
« on: December 16, 2007, 03:59:20 AM »
which is roughly 10 miles north of LA. Hello all !
a lil about me : 

 Im Ara , 25 ,  used to have  10 consoles at one point  before I sold some off ( NES, SNES, master system, genesis,  TG-16 , PS1, atari 2600, turbo duo , saturn, PS2)

I have a BMW E30 M3 which im getting ready for the track , im a student at Pasadena City College in the automotive technology program with 2 more semesters to go.

I got an open ear for music and my library consists of punk, electro, drum n bass, trance, hardcore, classic rock, experimental, alternative, doo wop, jazz, soul, reggae and underground hip hop.

I have a system 2 japanese saturn and just downloaded BitTorrent and Nero on top of donating my $5 to the site which looks great by the way.

awaiting my modchip from racketboy's site so things should be exciting in a  few days =)


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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 05:00:16 AM »
You have a BMW E30 M3??  You HAVE to post pictures of that, it's like my favorite car of all time!

Welcome to Segahub, you seem like a nice addition to the group :).

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 06:03:52 AM »
You have a BMW E30 M3??  You HAVE to post pictures of that, it's like my favorite car of all time!

Welcome to Segahub, you seem like a nice addition to the group :).

Thanks =)   Ill post some pics now.

check out s14.net  its a  site dedicated to the " REAL " M3 ;)

oh and theres also   s14power.com  << mostly euro guys on there tho

- Ara

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2007, 06:11:23 AM »
heres a few:








and my 76 2002 i sold off in August :





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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2007, 06:16:39 AM »
oh, lastly,  looks like you'll be  able to play one on Forza 2 ;)

http://forzamotorsport.net/news/pitpassreports/pitpass72.htm

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2007, 06:41:25 AM »
Danggg, that's a nice one you got there.  How many miles on it?  Any mods?

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2007, 02:22:44 PM »
welcome dude


19/246 Dreamcast games and counting

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 02:44:34 PM »
The old beemer looks to be in great shape too. :D

Welcome.
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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2007, 09:40:45 PM »
hey thanks you guys !

darkNiGHTS : Its sitting on a Eibach springs and Bilsteins, stock brakes, rebuilt engine with a very mild cam upgrade, 2nd oversized pistons, I ported and polished the manifold a bit for smoother air channeling  and a custom exhaust setup

Im going to Megasquirt the car which is a standalone unit that takes over your factory ECU and allows you to control fuel and spark timing ;)   should be exciting



oh and one more thing guys.....so Im good right? I just download games using my bitorrent, burn with nero and play it with the modchip'd saturn ?  anything else im missing?  im a noob at this  :P


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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2007, 12:01:51 PM »
Welcome. Not many torrent links here!! All direct download or through P2M. If you need any help, just ask!

Ya Yooooooose!!

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2007, 07:40:21 PM »
Welcome. Not many torrent links here!! All direct download or through P2M. If you need any help, just ask!

thanks dewd,  oh and  yeah I  do have a question, on Nero is there any way to slow down the burn rate to 8x ?  sega world's tutorial called for that mentioning the saturn will have a hard time reading the disk??   or will I be fine just using the default setttings on Nero

thanks  in advance

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2007, 07:43:02 PM »
Any disc image should be burned as slow as possible.  I would recommend using Alcohol 120% for burning images as it will read just about any type and it is easier to configure.

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2007, 08:59:28 PM »
Thanks, Ill download  that now....any settings I should look out for....for optimum results ? 


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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2007, 12:26:14 AM »
Sorry, I don't own a Saturn so I don't know, but for Dreamcast games you can just burn them using the default settings.  If you want someone who knows about the saturn, you can drop by our IRC room, neozeed is in there quite often and he knows a lot about the Saturn.

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2007, 12:50:36 AM »
thanks, ill play around with it and if i get stuck, Ill take your advice   :)

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2007, 11:41:23 PM »
Welcome to the hub, and thanks for donating!

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2007, 11:51:21 PM »
thank you " sir" lol   

-ok i stumbled upon a problem:
well I downloaded Alcohol 120% and I when I go to  image burning wizard I cant see the RAR files I downloaded from this site  :/  ugh i  suck at computers.

any push in the right direction would be cool....called my buddy and he mentioned  opening the RAR files as ISO and advised I use TOAST to make things easier?  ugh   :-* ??? :-\   


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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 12:55:46 AM »
You have to extract the RAR files using WinRAR. Find that in our Tools Download section.  You can find it from the forum index near the bottom under the category General Tools.

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2007, 01:23:46 AM »
You have to extract the RAR files using WinRAR. Find that in our Tools Download section.  You can find it from the forum index near the bottom under the category General Tools.

thanks for the advice darknights, ill do  that today

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Re: New member from Glendale, CA
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2007, 01:31:18 AM »
I'm an old hand at burning Saturn games.

Get yourself a program called SRP (saturn region patcher).  Alot of times you'll have to patch the region to match your Saturn's, before you burn the game. 

And you got it right about 8x burning.  For the longest time, I couldn't get them to work, but burning at 8x fixed all of them.
Nero let's you burn at 8x if you don't have a blank disc in when you go to burn it.  Wait till it auto-ejects and asks you to insert the disc.

And welcome!  :D