How'd you find and why'd you join JunkerHQ?

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How'd you find and why'd you join JunkerHQ?

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I took part in the Metal Gear.Net wars a few years back with Osiris and Artemio where we were all regulars. Though I've always known about junker.hq, I didn't realize it had a forum until recently. I always used to visit the site for it's kojima scripts. After a long while, I quit being a drill instructor, so I moved out here for some peace and quiet. I'm in retirement just like Osiris. Though, once in a while he still helps train the Junkyard Scouts. So, how'd you end up here?
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Post by Marc »

Great first topic.

Me, I guess one day I was just doing a search on Snatcher or Policenauts or something and found this site with all this info in it. I couldn't believe how much of a treasure trove it was. Over the years I would check it every so often, occassionally e-mailing Artemio (who I now consider a good friend) about something, and now, many years later, here I am.
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Post by Artemio »

"You... still consider me a friend?"

It is great to see you around here Duo, welcome. You know what was weird? When I read your posts I thought you'd been around here for quite a while, until I checked that your account was just recently opened =P

I am glad to see you guys around here, this place wouldn't be the same otherwise.
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heh, perfect!
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Post by Marc »

Well? Let's hear your story, Snatcher. How'd you find this place?
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Post by Artemio »

hehehe..

Well, I always had a personal site.. (always being somewhere around 1996), but it wasn't something like Junker. At first it was hosted at College, then at a friend's server (he is a vide game magazine editor) and finally I moved to my own domain.

Junker started off because I wanted to translate Policenauts and Snatcher. I knew no Japanese at the time (and I have advanced just a little in that respect) and was simply attempting to dump the text. Before having the Junkerhq domain, I had already "dumped" the Snatcher text from the Sega CD version, but since I had worked in a fan translation after I did that, I decided to do a better dump. I found out that Takamichi had commented on the dump I made and had posted some differences between the MSX and sega CD versions, and this fired up my curiosity even more so.

I bought the domain, put the site up and started working. At first that was the only intention behind the site, but since I had been collecting Snatcher stuff and had bought some Policenauts and MG stuff as well...

I have always had this passion to search for little differences, and to find more about the stuff I like. So I wanted to present how different versions of Snatcher and Policenauts looked like, and what we were missing out. Since my friends would just look at me in a weird way when I showed them my different Snatcher versions, I posted the scans.. and hence the site grew in an unexpected direction.

The collaborations from Osiris, Takamichi, James and other good friends started flowing, and I wanted to concentrate all that. From that same context, one day I decided the guest book was trash, but wanted to replace it with something.. and hence these boards were born. At first I thought they'd die soon.. but I was gladly proved wrong by a great community that I respect and admire.

I believe that is about it =P
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MetalGear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2) [Japanese]
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MetalGear Solid 2: Substance + The Document of MGS2 (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (Xbox) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (PC) [European]
MetalGear AC!D (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PlayStation 2) [European]
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Post by 87th »

My story is a very boring case of searching Google for Hideo Kojima. I'd browsed the site a few times, and felt that the forums had the kind of userbase I could enjoy talking to, so I joined and I've been a member, since.
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Post by randomwab »

What are these wars that were mentioned? My story isn't that great, a google image search for MGS Kubricks led me to Shadow Moses, I got to talking with the site owner, James, who directed me here for more Kojima related info
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Post by OtakupunkX »

I was googling something Kojima-related for a school project and stumbled across here one day. I was extremely interested in all of the scans and stuff and spent a long time viewing everything and a few weeks later I somehow ended up in the forums and figured it'd be a good place to hang out online.

Come to find out, it's better than a good place to hang out online.
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Post by Junker_05 »

Well, the first time I played Snatcher was on my Mega CD when I was only three years old, back when I was a wee lad. I had some idea of what I was doing, because Dad had directed me through the game and told me what was going on. I was a better shot with the Justifier than progressing through the game, though. :grin: Sadly, my Justifier and Mega CD were sold when I was five years old. I was extremely cut.

Ten years pass and I'm a Metal Gear Solid and old school game enthusiast. I was searching for other games that Kojima had done in the past, and I came across Snatcher again. And all the memories came rushing back...

I got into a Snatcher frenzy and downloaded a copy from the 'net, but while searching for sites to download it from, I came across JunkerHQ and the forum boards, and thought "Cool, some fellow old-school gamers!" and joined.

Not exciting, but I'm home sick from school with nothing to do, so here we are. :grin:
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I had read and enjoyed Tim Rogers' exposition on the ending to MGS2 and wished to read it again at work... no dice, insertcredit.com is blocked here. I searched for a mirror. I found one here along with an ending analysis more detailed then I could have imagined. Started checking back for updates.

I really got active before MGS3 came out. This place seems a lot more quiet and intellectual then the other sites dedicated to the MGS series. I then bought a Sega CD for the soul purpose of playing Snatcher. Still haven't finished it though (I'm right at the start of Act III, I believe).

Anyways, yeah, that's how I got here.
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Post by Cyan Garamonde »

My story is quite similar to what has already been said. I googled on Hideo Kojima and MGS, and found the main site. The site is really a gem. Then I found the forum, and started reading some of the posts. Whenever I wanted some cool new info about, say, something new Konami had announced about MGS4, I found it here, way before any other site had written about it.
A good way to impress on friends in other words! :P

Anyway, after seeing how this forum always had interesting, intellectual discussions, as Painaxl said, I decided to join. These boards are a great contrast to a lot of other forums out there.
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Post by Omega579 »

I found the site from a link on Gamefaqs to the MGS2 ending analysis. The Gamefaqs message boards are full of kids perpetuating the latest forum fads. So to get away from it all I joined these ranks. I'm 31 years old and a lot of the members here have the same interests in movies and games so I feel very comfortable here.
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...I kinda ended up here a few years ago....im no good with stories....
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I found this forum though a link from (the now dead) Aumman website. I joined it because you guys where talking about Snatcher and Policenauts, and i wanted to know more about them (aand play them)
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Post by Solidé »

I have known this place like years now, so i can't really remember how i originally found this place.
Anyway, i decided to join this forum because i like every Hideo Kojima games, not just MGS. And since there isn't actually other forums like this, so i tought this is the right place for me :smile:
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Post by ratperson665 »

I found this site after Googleing Snatcher. After a long period of reading your discussions I decided to become a member. The reason I became a member is I am a HUGE Hideo Kojima fan and nobody I’ve ever talked to even knows who he is! So I thought it would be fun to discus his games with other fans. I was right. You guys are better conversationalists than most of the people I talk to in person!
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