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I Finally found it!

In The Hunt for the Sega Saturn, PSX and arcade
 
I've been trying to figure out what the title of this game was for a long time. Its the first game i ever played, i used to play it almost every day with my brother, must've completed it well over a hundred times, but it's only in the last few years that ive been getting the nostalgia pangs and remembered it. 
 
Of course, me being very young at the time, i couldn't remember the name of the game and have spent the last few years trying to find it and today, i finally did! 
 
So, the first thing i did was head on over to the developer's/publisher's site to see if there was any way to get it legitimately from them, but alas, while they share the name of the devs for In the Hunt, they no longer hold the rights for the game, in fact, after a lot of digging around it's pretty clear that the game has been lost to limbo. 
 
That made me feel better about my next step, getting an emulator and iso. Now im not the most tech savvy guy around, and all of the PSX and Saturn emu's that weren't still in alpha and buggy as hell, were crazy complicated, so that idea went right out the window fairly quickly. 
 
This is when my most brilliant idea of the day came to me, try to find an arcade cabinet of it! 
So i set myself a budget of £250 which is around what i expected it to cost as its not a popular title, but as i live in the UK, even the most common of cabinets are bloody hard to find so again, i was stumped. 
 
It was at this point that i realised how much of an idiot i was being, because i own a fucking PSOne and a Sega Saturn!! I could just buy a hard copy and be done with it. 
So that's exactly what i did, i bought the Playstation version of the game for £6 from Amazon, and i couldn't be happier. 
 
I'm pretty sure this feeling is on a par with the you get when you become a dad!.......probably.......but dont quote me on that.

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So my Tarantula molted...

My beautiful Chilean Rose named Danica :D 
 
Anyway, i realised she was preparing for a molt (when an immature arachnid sheds its exoskeleton to allow growth). Basically what they do is lay a web "molting mat" and stop eating for a period of time before it (the amount of time varies greatly, ive had some fast for a few week, others a few months). 
 
I woke up in the morning and noticed that she was pretty much flat on her back. Inexperienced arachnid owners could be fooled into thinking that they're dead as they look, well, dead. But if you look close enough you will see slight movement in their legs. 
 

Blurry image but you get the idea =] 
Blurry image but you get the idea =] 
 
She was like that for a good 1.5 to 2 hours before she managed to break through the carapace, and that's when things got a little gross because watching a tarantula pull itself out of itself is both amazing and disgusting! 
 
After another 40mins or so she finally started making some progress on getting those legs of hers free, which is also the most crucial and nail-biting part of a molt, because if the humidity in the vivarium had been too low during the tarantula's prep for it, her legs could quite easily have gotten stuck and the only option then would have been to 'put her out of her misery'. (for the record, she's perfectly fine and her legs didnt get stuck =]) 
 

 about 2.5 hours in
 about 2.5 hours in
 
After another 30mins her legs were pretty much free and all that was left was to rest and to get her bum free of the old exoskeleton. 
 

more blurry molting, she's curled up 
more blurry molting, she's curled up 
She was like that for a long-ass time, i'd say about 2 hours, but eventually she got some strength back and managed to get her bum free so i grabbed the 'old skin' so that i could study it. 
 
Here are some final pics showing her freshly molted and her old exoskeleton...
 

there she is, in her new 'skin' =] 
there she is, in her new 'skin' =] 
 

all in one piece! 
all in one piece! 
 
I can't help but be really amazed by being able to witness something like this, i've seen a lot of T's molt and still get stunned every time. 
just looking at the old 'shell' and how they just pull themselves out of it blows my mind. 
 
sorry if you're grossed out by arachnids :P
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