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Use SkypeOut or whatever to make cheap calls to France and use the "support phone number" he has offered. I have called Fonzie a couple of times myself and everytime he did answer the phone.

I would be careful with hopes towards other people you don't know. It's nasty. And whether people pre-order it or not will not change reality for you or any other backers of any other retro releases....

Use the phone number, he answered each time I tried (used SkypeOut as it's a French mobile phone number, it was quite affordable to call this way)
Consider the time zone differences between France...

That's awesome, I have been waiting for that! Thanks bunches! :)

Why so? I thought it all went down when they got troublws with PayPal for the first time. I wasn't around and didn't know Watermelon when that was announced, I only heard about it and preordered it...

Well, Watermelon used to have a community around them and their own message board, in the above linked interview it was said, that it is because of how the internet turned and how much people started...

Here in Germany, customs can take up to 8 weeks.

well, I see your point regarding firmware updates, however it largely depends on how it is implemented. I had a HP notebook where the bios update failed, but it would do a bunch of verified before...

From what I read online, people expect it to be able to update it with further content aka DLCs. Then some others said they would hate that if DLCs were possible as it would too much remind them of...

Finally I can post now, thanks for the help guys! :)