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Case: Fractal Design Define R5
PSU: Fractal Design Integra M 750W

Mobo: ASUS Z170-E
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K
CPUCooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ARMOR 2X
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 2400MHz 16GB (2x8)

OS: Win 10 64-bit

OS Harddrive: Samsung PM951 SSD 512GB PCIe
Dedicated Steam Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Peripherals and Such:

I'm happy to report this thing is stable and is crushing games for me currently. I still need to put a few more things in (listed below), but I'm very happy with the build.

I'm also thinking about picking up a good soundcard for the first time since like the 90s because I assume the Sennheisers are a bit overkill for the onboard stuff on the ASUS Z170-E?

Still missing:
Optical Drive: ASUS Blu-Ray Rewriter BW-16D1HT
Additional storage: WD Black 1TB

Would be nice if the live show was listed under "Coming up" on the front page.

I see some people are playing Phantasy Star. Cool. I'm currently making my way through Phantasy Star II, which is also my first Phantasy Star game. And... maaan. The dungeons are some of the worst I've ever seen. Multiple floors full of horrible mazes with dead ends and teleporters everywhere. And there's zero pay off at the end of dungeons. No boss fights, no good loot... nothing. I've only had one boss fight so far, which should give you an idea of where I'm at if you've played it I guess, and the writing is also kind of awful. And yet there's... something about it that makes me feel like I need to see it through to the end.

The stuff that's at the end of the archived video, was that in the live show as well? Where Dan walks out to his desk and the street and Jason's filming?

People should play this.

@starvinggamer: Thanks duder. The thing I was doing wrong was that I wasn't "canceling into super" but waiting for the HP to recover before doing the motion. I just hopped into regular training mode and tried only that last part of challenge and after a few tries managed to get it to 4 hits... So I see what I have to do now. The timing is pretty specific, so I'll need to practice it before I'll be able to pull it off, but man. Awesome.

Also the corner thing is a pretty good tip. Pushing Ryu into the left corner specifically changes the double backwards fireball motion into a double forwards fireball motion which is way easier for me at least.

Edit: Nailed it. Thanks again.

When I started off in challenge mode I wasn't able to do the first trial for any character except Cammy, which is the character I've been playing - and even with Cammy I couldn't get past Challenge 2. My tip for anyone who hits the same wall that I did (and understands the frustration of finding literally zero other people in the world when googling and trying to figure out what they're doing wrong) is to do the moves faster. Trust me. The combos will seem frame perfect in your brain until you get them down. If you think it's physically impossible for you to pull of the moves any faster, keep at it. It is possible. Your brain and hand/thumb just can't do it yet.

As soon as it clicked however, I burned through challenge 1-9 for Mika. Zero problems. No hitches. Until challenge 10.

I've now spent about 2 hours over two days trying to do Mika's 10th challenge. I can do the first few moves in my sleep at this point, but the final move just doesn't work. At first it was execution errors (my thumb can do a fireball at this point, but a double backwards fireball? gg.) but I finally got that down.

But now I'm in a position where I no longer understand what I'm doing wrong.

Basically: When I get to the last move, it will either whiff because the heavy punch puts me too far away from Ryu OR...I nail it but the move times out/grays out because I didn't do it fast enough. I'm at a loss. Save me, bomb-kun, you're my only hope!

Is Nintendo testing the waters and checking to see if there's any interest in this? Because even though it's not as well realized as I'd hoped (... doesn't hook up to the virtual console, can't play your old physical games, no way to get more games on it...) I'm still really excited about it. I'd put it on a shelf and hook it up when I want to play any of those games.

Hope it sells well for them. Wouldn't mind a mini SNES, mini N64 and mini gamecube, as I never owned any of those.

Hmm. The prisoner in a tree thing sounds like Dungeon Siege II? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpB3eyWU1g0
The same game also features an instructor that calls you a maggot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkm0AE4TX68&t=8m20s

Sweet. Haven't checked it in a while, those changes seem cool. Thanks for the heads up!