#OB2 Machine

[oreca-iroha]

Robot Type III

OBS00-024 (Chapter Prologue)

Earth | ★★★ | Machine

"Although it is very kind and devoted, its one flaw is that it is a worrywart. It always carries a lot of bag with it wherever it goes."

[kyomu-kyomu-translations]

15 cards...

as you can see, my older sibling didn't play that much. this all started because of the Stego bonus tear-out card from Bessatsu Corocoro issue 8 2015. they also got our auntie to buy normal Corocoro that month, which came with a dark blue dragon egg with rainbow bits (i can't be bothered to find the actual name but it probably was called Abyss or something) but i don't know where that went. the Bessatsu issue also came with Ankylo and a drilling robot (dont remember the name either) and i cant find them too. maybe these three just got left in Japan with our relatives?

for some reason i didnt like watching my older sibling play Oreca Battle as much as watching them play Pokemon Tretta, even though they both have turn-based gameplay with roulettes. i did think that Hayate had really nice hair.

[n41r]

Just letting overseas OB fans know that Oreca Battle 2 cost 100 yen to play and another 100 yen to print the card

(Which is 200 yen if you print the card too after battle, this is to avoid running out of card materials after 10 years later or so)

Lastly, what's your thoughts in this new features being implemented into OB2?

Honestly? I like this system- It is a bit pricier, but I think this is a new good system to adapt Especially remembering how you can lose an item from combining right away after battle as well-

Like, if you just fought against Empress Medusa and use the drop right away, not knowing it could change the card illust later- Or finally winning against Sage Solon and getting his item, combining it with Cliff's book right away, only to realize you'll need it again for Hughes's book as well-

Those are not fun moments-

And also, if none of your team members get a good command, you can just not print! I think that one is huge, you can focus on getting the commands you like for your monsters without needing to sacrifice someone else's command reel after you finish a battle

It is pricier, but it also comes with benefits like one you mentioned as well, which is preventing the machines from running out of printing paper too quickly

So yea, interesting system to implement overall!

[at-mercatino]

France Télécom phone cards (appearance and layout)

After the introduction and classification of French phone cards, I look at the appearance and layout of France Télécom phone cards, which includes, in spite of the title, even French chip phone cards before France Télécom assumed that name. Graphic layout of the cards has remained much the same over the years. Describing them, I remind the time when I cataloged and filed French phone cards, when phone cards were my biggest amusement, and the thick French chip cards in PVC were, and are, my favorites.

As proof of my words, I use The Collector's Bible, that is the subtitle of Phonecote catalog, mine is Phonecote 2002,[^] and by the images in Colnect. As any good collector of phone cards does, I look at the pictured side of a phone card, where the image of a French phone card covers the entire space, and they find chip and cartouche, and then at the back side of the phone card.

La puce

In the figurative side of the card, to the left, there is la puce, that is the chip in French, and an arrow suggest how to insert the card into the reader of the payphone. In phone card issued before 07/93 la puce is at the top,[^] that is in Afnor position,[^] and then slightly lower,[^] in ISO position. Still today I excite to look at the incisions in the chip. The chip of some card has a contour (in French, avec entourages), other has not (sans entourages).

Types of puces are (the manufacturing number is progressive):

Bull: BULL 1, BULL 2.

Gemplus: GEM0 0, GEM 1[^] (T2G), GEM 2.

Landis & Gyr: LG 1.

Oberthur: OB1,[^] OB2, OB3.

Orga: OR1.

Schlumberger: SC0, SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4 white gold, SC4 black gold, SC4 white silver,[^] SC4 black silver, SC5 white gold, SC5 black gold, SC5 white silver, SC5 black silver, SC5, SC7,[^] SC7 gold, SC8. SC4 chip has thin bars, SC5 thick ones.

Solaic: S01, S02, S03,[^] S04, S05, S06 (T2G), S07.

Cartouche

The cartouche of units number is in one of the three corners of the figurative side of a French card, the corner closest to the chip is excluded. From the date 07/93, in any cards is in vertical position, in the right side, with direction bottom to top.[^] Following the chronology of the Public France Télécom phone cards, which are only two values, 50 unités and 120 unités:

until 1989, cartouche is on two lines. In a rectangle, in block, Telecarte and, under, a number (50 or 120) followed by unités. Alongside, on the two lines, a handset with keys.[^] In Phonecote, the list of cartouches is in the tab of the last page, inside, this is cartouche 1.

Since 1989, second cartouche, cartouche 2. In a rectangle, in block, Telecarte, followed by a number.[^] From 07/93 date, lowercase, there is Télécarte and a number.[^]

From 02/00, the sixth cartouche, where, in a new design, the two shorter sides of the rectangle are curved and become pointed, inside Télécarte® and a number, which is the number of units, 50 or 120.[^]

Cartouche 3, cartouche 4 and cartouche 5 are: Télécarte cinq for Five units,[^] Télécarte vingt-cinq for Twenty-five units[^] and there is also Télécarte cinquante.

Back side of a French chip phone cards

Turning a card, from the part that first attracts, the side figured, to the other, what is commonly called the back, for about 2/3 of its length both figure and text, that pick up the main theme of the Télécarte. In the remaining space, on the right, in a white space, information about la carte itself. Reading from top to bottom:

from the second cartouche, Telecarte follows the nomenclature of its cartouche. Under it is the value in unites.

Any pastil or hole of the chip (in French, pastilles ou trou de puce). There are 5 different sizes: 6 mm, 7 mm, 7 mm. with a evident crown on the hole, 9 mm., 11 mm.[^]

A text: En cas d'incident appellez le 13 ou adressez-vous à votre Agence de France Telecom Cette carte ne peut être vendue que sous emballage scellè.[^] From 09/91 date, it remains only the written beginning with Cette carte, and is added ou par distributeur automatique[^]. In English: In case of accident call 13 or contact the France Telecom agency This card can be sold only sealed or by vending machine.

Logo

Continuing the "reading" of the back of a French phone card, started in the previous paragraph, it comes across the logo. Over 20 years of télécartes' publication, which have been fun, and 'crazy', collectors of so many parts of the world, logo of French chip cards has rarely changed. In total they are only 5:

Logo "Moreno", a square and below a vertical line with an appendix at the top. It appears, in the bottom-right, in all French telecarte between 1991 and 1997,[^] on which is also printed the logo numbered by Phonecote as 3.

PTT Telecommunications logo. Les "Pyjamas" have this logo,[^] which was the logo of holographic French phone cards (Les Holographiques). For Phonecote is logo 1.

From 1990, logo is a rectangle and France Telecom in two-lines, France is high along the edge of the rectangle; a symbol is after the rectangle.[^] For Phonecote is logo 2.

From 04/93 issue date, logo is France Telecom on one line, preceded by a symbol in a circle.[^] For Phonecote is logo 3.

Since 03/00, on one line, logo & france telecom, where com is in another color. In many Télécartes & and com are orange,[^] which reflects France Telecom's corporate change with the acquisition of Orange.

The position of the logo, in the right space on the back of the card, may be different from the one in this list, since 02/00 is at top.

Serial number

Element that can not miss in a telephone card is serial number. From 1994, in télécarte, below serial number, is the number of puce, numbers and acronyms that always deserve the glance of a careful collector.

Types of serial numbers are more than a dozen, and include the type of print, color, and font size. I mention any: impression small, impression big and impression very big (in French, pétit embouti, grand embouti et trés grand embouti), 9 red numbers (9 Numéros rouges) and 9 blacks numbers (9 Numéros noirs), 9 numbers to impact (9 numerós per impact), simple number with A at the side[^].

The first character of the serial number is a capital letter, bound to the manufacturer of the card, then a number, which is the last digit of the year, the third character is for the month, a number from January (1) to September (9), a letter from October to December (A,B,C). The chip number printed on the card[^] matches the chip number readable with a proper tool.

Service text

The service text to the back of a French phone card is a very simple ad space, with the name of the company that manages advertising on telecarte, a message, and the address and phone number to call, or, since there is, a web site.

Text types are a dozen, the company is Régie T, which, then, becomes Régie T France. Under the name, a message like La Publicité sur la Télécarte[^] or La Communication sur la Télécarte[^]. The first Regie T's address was 7, rue de Monttessuy 75007 Paris, web site is www.macarte.com[^].

Print run and dates

From 10/90 onwards, France Télécom's telecarte have stamped the circulation and card's issue date, separated by a hyphen (-).

Print run is in the format Tirage, a number and ex. (ex. short of exemplaires), in vertical position from bottom to top. I mentioned to print runs in classification of French phone cards.

Date of issue is in the format Month (two digits) Separator Year (two digits). The date separator character is a slash (/),[^] or more rarely a dot (.)[^]. The order of print run and issue date can be in reverse. From the date 06/00, is added, at the end of the run and date line, Date limite de validité : and Month/Year,[^] which becomes, a few months later, Day/Month/Year[^]. The validity date is two years after the date of issue.

Conclusion

These two pages of France Télécom phone cards, with two pairs of names, the first, introduction and classification, and the second, appearance and layout, provide the reader with only a general flush, at most a reminder and an invitation to look again at your collection. They try to be, at least, as little as possible a brief summary. Reference should be made, therefore, to more complex publications than this blog: the use of the Collector's Bible, that is Phonecote, and the pages on the Internet, Orange website, where Orange is the current name of France Télécom, Wikipedia, Colnect and other websites. On the third page, after so many information and models of 20 years French phone cards, I focus, finally, on the images of the Public France Télécom phone cards, many impressed me when they came out.

A page is also for phone cards of the Principality of Monaco, almost equal to the French télécartes.

References

Chambre des négociants experts en télécartes. Phonecote 2002: Guide Annuel des Télécartes et mobicartes (13a ed.) (in French). Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Jazz - Billie Holiday". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

Chambre des négociants experts en télécartes. Les positions de la puce. L'histoire de la Télécarte. Phonecote 2002: Guide Annuel des Télécartes et mobicartes (13a ed.) (in French). p. 6. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Eurodisney 94". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Sillage". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Grandes Figures Telecom. n. 08 - Gustave Ferrie". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Academie Francaise". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Debarquement Juno Beach Courseulles". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Citroen Xm 06 Cannes". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Belin Nouveaux Crackers". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Kronenbourg Petite Fleche". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Bose Violoncelle Rouge". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Sida Info 95". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Virgin - Atomic Kitten". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Bmw 328 1940". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Michelin Progres". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Skieur 1". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Academie Francaise". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Peugeot 905 11 Dimanche 10h". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Ocb Papier A Rouler". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Pyjamas Bul1 50 unites. In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Aspirine Oberlin". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Peugeot Assistance". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Buraliste Plage". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Patineuse 2". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Sida Nice Mieux Vaut Rouler". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Van Gogh". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Roland Garros 95". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Wanadoo". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Quand Le Jour Baisse 30%". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Bose - Slalom Special". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Bolle Femme". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

"Street Culture 2 n. 3 - Hockey". In Phonecard catalog: Phonecard. Colnect. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

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[oreca-iroha]

Robot Type II

OBS00-023 (Chapter Prologue)

Earth | ★★ | Machine

"An unidentified machine lifeform. Its memory was corrupted and it forgot many things, but it never lost its kind heart."