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Panasonic 'Q' First Look
austinij writes "National Console Support has purchased and taken apart the Panasonic 'Q', a Nintendo Gamecube/DVD player device in one. Pictures and brief descriptions are included. Lets hope for a review soon! " That just
looks so nifty. I've heard of DVD players including PS1 support
in the not so distant future too. Apparently its fairly inexpensive
to do it now.
El mensaje primero.
a beowolf cluster....
For those of you who don't hablo espanol, El Nino is Spanish for....The Nino!
Well....MALDA, if you insist that hiring a design team and firmware programmers to make something PS1 compatible is "fairly inexpensive", you should fuck off and die.
Your sig 0wnz and it's the funniest one I've read ever....
:(
sorry
Get your Unix fortune now!
perhaps /. should use geolocation to limit the visibility of stories like this one, at certain times, so the damned links don't get slashdotted...
Start in the east, and slowly move west...
Redundant? It was the 3rd post of the article (first two were trolls)!!
Jesus, at least be a pansy and use "Overrated". Redundant moderation should require proof...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Its quite fun to trick people to goatse.cx! If you havent
visited it yet, visit it and see why it's so funny
to post links there
Go on, do it for the trolls
wow somebody is on their period, easy tiger...
This has been nothing but headaches for arcade goers. I'm a college student and I can't tell how irritating it was to get carded at an arcade. The way most arcades were doing it (the ones who use cards not tokens) they'd put out two sets of cards, one programmed to play any game, and one that won't play the over-16 games. Alot of the time I'd just end up trading with some poor under-16 smchuck, take his card and go back up to the counter and complain that I was given a under-16 card. I liked to think of it as "freedom-fighting". :)
Its called a PC. :)
:(
:) ) and any MAME game that wasn't newer then 1995 or so.
. mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=VC (no idea if they are good or not, but they were the first result on my google search. :) )
Seriously though, for about the price of the latest greatest consol + some games + controlers + memory cards you can get yourself a decent 1ghz PC. (~$500)
Hell at that price I bought two.
Grab a TV out card from someplace if you must (eew) though there are other better ways to go about it, heh. Those other ways tend to be more expensive though.
Anyways, plug it in and run. Heh.
Actualy for MAME as long as you don't want to run the newer, uh, less moraly justifiable games, a 266mhz machine or so is more then enough. Defintly go with Intel for the FPU (AMD's floating point capibilities sucked back then) but shoot, my PII266mhz w/64megs of RAM could run most NeoGeo games at all speed (using NeoRageX for that feat of course.
A PII266mhz will cost you what in the papers now? $250 or so?
Ah, here is a video card with S-VIDEO out
MX400 Pro-TC64S
Geforce2MX, so you can play some games at 800x600 as well.
Only $75
Heres one up
PowerColor PowerGene Ti GeForce2 (TV Out) 64MB DDR AGP
Only $105.00
The PowerColor nVidia TNT2 Sniper2 (TV Out) 32MB AGP is only $54 but I don't know if it has S-Video or not.
(nor am I sure about the rest of them, but they are newer and therefore much more likely to have it)
All prices from http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant
So, hmm.
~$250 for a computer that can run MAME. Add $20 for a LiteON DVD drive. $270.
+ $100 for a Video Card that can do what you want it too. Add $5 for a splitter cable to get the sound from your computer to your computer, though some TV-OUT products come with one, and you have a grand total of $355 for a TV-OUT MAME machine.
w00t.
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