I really wish they would release a remastered version of FFVIII. The story makes absolutely no sense but I still love the overall feel of the game. I read that apparently it isn't so much reluctance as the fact the original code was somehow lost, making a conversion very difficult and time consuming. The original game is still perfectly playable (especially if you use an emulator) but I'd love to have it on the PS4.

I also only realised in a recent playthrough how heavily the WEAPON monsters are influenced by the Godzilla franchise. When the first WEAPON emerges from the crater on Disc 2 it even does a Godzilla cry. As a kid I didn't really know anything about Japan and Godzilla, but now it's like, yeah, it's Japan... of course there are giant lizard monsters in there Another thing that amazes me is how in almost every playthrough I find something I never noticed before. I've played through the game dozens of times over the years and only on my most recent run did I realise there's a computer in one of the houses in the Icicle town which has various cut-scenes with Professor Gast and Ilfana. There's also stuff like BugenHagen's final scene and the Cloud/Zack flashbacks in Nibelheim on Disc 3 which I hadn't caught on previous playthroughs. The amount of content across the game is truly incredible, especially considering the era the game was released in.

Part of me wishes there was an option to turn off the R3 option when you start a game, just so the temptation isn't there! It's usually Cloud/Barrett/Tifa for me as well. Barrett pretty much always take number two slot - he's just hilarious as a character, and his limit breaks are awesome in terms of dealing damage. I'll sometimes go Red XIII or Cid in third slot too. I don't tend to use Yuffie, Vincent or Cait Sith much. As you say, Vincent's uncontrollable limit break can be pretty irritating. I just don't find the other two very interesting - Reeve as a character is cool, Cait Sith not so much. Feels like Cait Sith should maybe have been a non-playable character - I don't mind him being around but I never feel any need to select him to be in the party. It's a bit of a shame Aeris isn't around longer, as she's the only "white mage" type character. Nobody else really has the same impact, especially in the healer role.

Haha, yeah, it basically breaks the game. On the other hand, if you saved a while back and don't really want to repeat the area all over again by dying in a battle... sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. It's amazing how some of the FMV's still hold up well even by today's standards. The opening FMV still gives me chills, and there are others throughout the game which still look great. Obviously some parts look really dated, but there's enough nostalgia there for me that I can pretty much ignore that.

I assume it's the same as the PS4 version, which is a port of the Steam version of the game. It's well worth the purchase, the x3 speed in particular makes parts of the game much easier to get through. Also being able to turn off random battles is a welcome relief when you just want to get through an area without stopping every five seconds to fight.

Williams will be at Rovers longer than Shearer was

2021and 2020 respectively.

The problem is even if this kind of money was made available, I still wouldn't be very confident in TM spending it wisely. His transfer record is chequered at best.

Unless your name is Chris Brown. 37 apps and no goals... could have played 370 and never scored. Bennett is way down on the list of players we need to ship out. He's contributed more in terms of assists/goals than the vast majority of the team, including 0 goals 0 assists Corry Evans - who hasn't actually scored a single goal for us since the 15/16 season. 3 assists in the last four seasons too. Now granted he's largely a defensive midfielder, but even Smallwood has a couple of goals and 4 assists in the last two seasons.

Also I recently purchased a PSP, with my first purchases being Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, and the FF Dissida games. I think it can be hacked to be a pretty nice emulation system too.

I really can't recommend the SNES mini enough - NES mini is very good too, although the controller wire is for some reason incredibly short. I also went Master System/Mega Drive (plus an Amiga 500 somewhere in the middle), before switching to PlayStation/PlayStation 2. The only Nintendo console I had growing up was a Gameboy Colour, and that was basically just a Pokémon machine as I only bought it for that game (what a game, though). I only learned to appreciate the NES/SNES in the early 00s when emulation for those systems became practically perfect and I could play games like Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Link to the Past, Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Street Fighter II Turbo and some random DBZ games through Snes9X on my PC. N64 was a console I just never got into - although I've played the Zelda games through a GameCube Zelda compilation which has the first two Zelda games + Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time on it. That's a cool little item.

I would 100% recommend getting a SNES mini. Nintendo did a great job with the quality and layout. There are 21 games included: Super Mario World Mario Kart Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past F-Zero Super Metroid Street Fighter II Turbo Super Punch Out Super Castlevania IV Donkey Kong Country Mega Man X Kirby Super Star Final Fantasy VI (or 3 outside of Japan) Kirby's Dream Course Star Fox Star Fox 2 (unreleased game!) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Super Mario RPG Contra III Secret of Mana Earthbound Super Ghouls and Ghosts So basically all the best SNES games in one package - some of those had outrageous prices on eBay before the SNES mini was released as well. Earthbound would sell for well over £100. It sells for significantly less now! The other great thing about the SNES mini is that it's very easy to hack, meaning you can add as many games as can fit on the memory I think I've got about 80 additional games on mine. The OG hardware will play 90% of games, and for the rest the main hacking tool (hakchi) installs retroarch alongside the main emulator, which means that if the stock emulator fails to run a game retroarch takes over and it'll play anyway.

A beautiful sight imo

Well, technically it's a Mini SNES (and a mini NES) but I do have an actual SNES & Super Famicom too. The minis are a lot easier to set up though, and the HDMI output looks great. Hoping that one day SEGA will put out a Master System & Mega Drive mini, but for the time being the original consoles will have to do.

Evans, Smallwood, Mulgrew and Graham were all recently given new contracts so yeah, you'd expect them to be around next season. There wasn't any interest in Evans even when we got relegated, Smallwood came to us on a free from Rotherham and Mulgrew/Graham are at the tail ends of their respective careers, probably on a very decent wage here. I'd expect Bennett to stay purely because of his versatility. Del Boy is somehow contracted to 2021 and I don't see many people coming in to take him from us. Conway is the only one I could see going as his contract expires in the summer and he hasn't played that much this season. Possible he could retire into a coaching role with us, but at 33 he might still feel he has a few years left in the tank north of the border.

They should be travelling to Akihabara instead.

Everyone remembers King for those performances in the FA Cup - mainly because he didn't do a whole lot for us outside of that. Now granted a lot of that was down to Bowyer's tactics/style and how we were using King (if Bowyer decided to select him at all), but there wasn't exactly uproar when he left. Some disappointment that we'd let his contract run down but that's about it. He's obviously done very well since then and in retrospect we weren't utilising him properly at all, but hindsight is what it is. Bowyer never liked using fast or skilful players so it was never going to work out for King here. Rhodes aside you had to be a grafter first and foremost to get anywhere near a GB starting eleven. Unfortunately as a result towards the end of GB's reign especially we ended up with eleven cloggers on the pitch who worked hard but were as entertaining as paint drying on the proverbial wall.

Chris Taylor sticking the boot in as well!

The beauty of an Everdrive cartridge is that I can do just that As an aside a store in Belgium is currently doing the PS1 Classic for £26.42 (including delivery): https://www.smartoys.be/catalog/ It has a lot of flaws but can be hacked pretty easily these days so probably worth buying at that price. Will just have to see how long it takes to get here!

Can't beat a bit of old school gaming

No, I've never really been big on the series. I played 7 but that's just because it was in VR!

All I remember about the early Resident Evil games is despising the control schemes. It might be better on the remakes, but I'm not sure I'm willing to take the risk... So instead I bought Horizon Zero Dawn. Have heard it's a good game.

Please confirm they removed those god awful tank controls - or at least made them optional?

This season in the league, four times: Stoke 2-3 Rovers Rovers 4-2 Sheff Weds Rovers 3-0 Hull Rovers 3-0 Wigan Not sure how that compares with other teams in the division.

Yep, another two weeks extentsion granted as Anderson has another mystery buyer lined up