24 photos of Konnie Huq at no less than 3MB per picture by 12:30pm or we’re cancelling our subscription.

This is Kirsty Gallagher. She’d do, but is NO KONNIE HUQ.

Ross and wife. We have some magazines that feature Mrs Ross, back in the very early 1990s when she was a writer for games mags. One day we will scan in the photos and write something vaguely abusive about her. Perhaps Jonathan Ross might then link to them on his Twitter page and we’ll be famous.

We’re starting to suspect Konnie pulled a sickie after realising what she’d agreed to do, leaving only the tired old usual attendees.

She was DEFINITELY SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

Hurry up, GamesPress! There’s nothing on the BAFTA web site yet.

How long can it take? It’s not like photos have to be developed any more. WE WANT TO SEE WHAT KONNIE WORE!

We also want to see men who don’t usually wear suits wearing suits and looking at Konnie while trying to appear relaxed.

“I’m sorry to inform you all at UK:R that Sonic was found earlier today having been killed by a Corsa in the North of England. It’s unlclear whether he was mown down by a disgruntled fan or if he was so appalled at how low he’d stooped in the gaming world that he decided suicide was the better option. Either way I’m sorry to inform you in such a graphic manner. This picture may disturb avid fans – It is after all a Corsa that killed your Hero. With sincerest condolences” – An avid UK:R fan.

Spotted by a “Thomas” who said he found it inside this week’s TV Choice, should you want one of your own to cut out and ironically stick up on the wall above where you sit.

Never speak of it and it’ll be like it never happened.

When someone from the council kicks in your door to wonder why you haven’t paid any council tax for three years, this will be why. Your partially decomposed corpse will be on the bed, with the SEGA Toys Kaleidoscope Projector Light still beaming joy onto the ceiling.

Which definitely makes sense. So…

The result is a bluer and greener background that mixes OutRun styling with the up-to-date (for us) Daytona USA palette. Hope you hate it a bit less. This isn’t today’s “main” update, by the way. We are not deluded enough to think that a new background is interesting news to anyone else. This update is mainly to stop Stefan complaining.

He had everything. Virtua Racing, Crazy Taxi, Dreamcasts, Mega Drive display pods, a Lara Croft statue that’s DEFINITELY been ejaculated over, pinball machines. Everything.

He even had a Saturn! $100 for a SEGA Saturn demo pod is a DEAL. The auctioneers will get a shock when this goes for $25k.

And he had Mega Touch Maxx Ruby Edition.

The Model 2 emulator is awesome. Very nice. It runs perfect, even on the cheap mass-produced computer that powers UKR.

The latest-generation UKR “Con” is powered by a Core 2 Duo E8200. There are three “gigs” of RAM in it, plus whatever Dell’s default cheapest graphics card was six months ago.

Adam Doree can’t get it to work though!

ADAM DOREE: “My PC is really precarious at the moment – I can’t afford any crashes or reboots as sometimes it decides to take FIVE CUNTING HOURS to successfully boot, so I have to wait till that’s sorted before revisiting the M2 emu which crashed me last time. Er, does this sound right though? The Daytona ROM I have is only 14.5MB? That can’t be right surely?”

Yes, Adam, it’s right.

It also runs SEGA Rally perfectly and anything else you can find the ROMs of.

There’s a bundle of Model 2 ROMs on the torrent sites.

We’ll probably have to explain to Adam Doree how to find those as well, if he ever gets a PC good enough to run it.

We never dreamed we’d be able to (a) play Daytona USA all day for free or (b) take screenshots and examine its glorious textures.

We only selected “Manual” for the purposes of taking this screenshot. In actual play, it was automatic all the way.

Offramp! What does that even mean? We’ve spent all morning reading the textures of the cars. Screenshot #5 up there shows a car sponsored by a record company called just “Records.”

That car is sponsored by SG8. AM2 was too busy making the world’s best-ever driving game to have meetings where it spent all morning thinking up clever names for things.

Driving up to Jeff is also a good way to spend an afternoon.

We’re not doing very well. It’s hard setting up the controller to work satisfactorily. That’s the only complaint.

Sliding, probably by accident.

Angular seagull!

Crash ahead!

Horses! When you’re playing for free, wasting a go by driving off the track to examine the surroundings is an OK thing to do.

SEGA was pioneering environmental power generation even in the early 1990s. That sky texture would make a lovely background for a blog about games, wouldn’t it?

Get it. Press F12 to take a screen grab. It dumps them in a folder automatically. Away you go.