They probably used open-source emulators I wasn't aware anyone had written an open-source emulator for those consoles that runs on the Wii. It's far more likely that Nintendo simply used the emulators they already had on hand for dev/testing.
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The word is derived of the Greek word sophumer, which in turn comes from sophom "dialectic exercise"; or from the words sophos, meaning "wise", and moros, meaning "fool"
I heard a story on NPR about therapists doing VR recreations of traumatic events in combat to help the soldiers cope with them that seemed to being showing promise. As far as actual commercial games that people play, I haven't a clue.
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice those too much, partly because I'm too busy not getting obliterated every time I go through a door on that map, and partly because I'm used to playing on TV's with terrible contrast. None of the sets I've played the beta on have been HD, and one of the TV's that I played most of my Halo 2 on, the contrast was so bad, in split screen, if one person looked at snow, and the other person looked at something darkish, he couldn't see anything. I probably just assumed the snow blindness was something like that. My comment was not meant to be disparaging of the graphics in the beta. Like I said, looking at it, I could immediately see that it looked better than Halo 2, and if that's as good as the final release looked, I would be quite happy. I was just saying we probably won't see most of the real awesomeness like enormous sprawling city levels or something until we see the final release and campaign mode.
Yeah, it does seem kind of silly. The only difference I can see (and this is pretty quibbly) is that a pipe has some kind of flow of a resource; water, oil, gas, what-have-you, whereas a tube is simply just a empty cylinder. I guess.
Yeah, Avernum I played for a couple days, then grew bored of it. Geneforge I played quite a bit one Christmas break when I was at home on my parents computer that had no games on it. Mostly it was the puzzler that I really got a kick out of.
Wow. I didn't even check to see where he worked. I played the heck out of a lot of those Spiderweb shareware games. The gem mining puzzle game was awesome, and really hard at times.
Not sure about the GP post, it hardly addresses the question of graphics at all, so I'll try and be a little more specific. It is not a huge graphical leap from Halo 2. That being said, I looked at it and immediately could tell the difference. Textures are cleaner, everything looks a little sharper. The particle effects, particularly on the carbine are improved. Invis looks pretty much like it always did, but the hexagonally tiled distortion field of the bubble shield is neat. The water effects look pretty good, although I haven't spent too much time looking at them (not to mention Spartan corpses float, which they most definitely should not do.)
So, I guess the final verdict is that yeah, it looks better, but don't expect something that will blow your mind from the beta. I mean, it still has to look like Halo. They should be able to tweak quite a bit, because they have plenty of time to swap in higher res textures and stuff. I doubt much will change by way of actual art .
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The first Halo book, which read almost exactly like the game played, was kind of good (in a cheap sci-fi rip off of Roman history way;)) I'm confused, do you mean the first book as in Fall of Reach? or the one that read almost exactly like the game played, as in The Flood. Because Fall of Reach was good, whereas The Flood was terrible, for the specific reason that it read almost exactly like the game played.
I'd say that all three games have many tracks that have instrumentation and melodic styles that when I hear them instantly make me think Mitsuda. I never finished CC or Xenosaga, but I liked most of both soundtracks. I never played Xenogears, but I don't particularly like the soundtrack. I have a copy of the Creid celtic arrangement of it, which is hit or miss. But on Xenosaga, the Prologue, Ormus, Resurrection, and Zarathustra are some of my favorites.
As for the collaboration on CT, I knew Mitsuda did a lot more than Uematsu on it, but I didn't realize it was quite that unbalanced. Do you happen to know the other tracks Uematsu did? I love battle musics. I mean, how many battle musics have awesome xylophone parts?
When I was taking my OS class we did a little kernel module programming in Linux. We were each provided our own low-grade linux box (and only the box) assembled from spare parts at the college where we took the class as a co-op. When I tried to do my first excercise, I found that it would not boot without a PS2 keyboard present. It wouldn't read my USB keyboard, and apparently my keyboard couldn't fake the appropriate responses when plugged in with a PS2 adapter. None of my friends had a PS2 keyboard, so I went to the tech department. All of theirs where in use and I was about to become really frustrated. As I was leaving, the guy I was talking to asked me why I needed one. When I told him, he said, "So you don't actually need to type with it? Just boot?" Turns out they had a whole stack of PS2 keyboards that had a bunch of broken keys, but the controller chips still worked fine. So I take one back to my dorm, and put it on the shelf above my lab box. I plugged it when I booted it, and as soon as it finished POSTing, would swap in my USB keyboard.
I think there was a 3rd party NES/SNES controller that had a L/R switch and you could rotate it or flip it over or something and it would work the other way. It was pretty neat.
Oh wow! They make bigger GC controllers? I wish I'd known that a long time ago. The GC controller is pretty comfy to me, but just a tad too small, and thus I tend to get pain in the base knuckles of my middle fingers because of the way I have to hold it get my long fingers on the buttons.
Actually, I think he and Mitsuda collaborated on Chrono Trigger. I think Mitsuda did the bulk of the work, because it is very similar in style to Chrono Cross and Xenogears/Saga, but if I recall correctly, a few of the tracks are Uematsu. Maybe that collaboration is why that is such an excellent soundtrack.
It's that sort of programming, and if they convince laypeople that more money needs to be spent on researching this than is really necessary it only does damage. No amount of funding is too much for the issue of finding black holes. I still have 17 socks and a car key unaccounted for.
Did it say on the website or article that this website is reserved merely for drug snitches? If so, please point me to it. I don't believe that doing drugs is evil. I believe it is stupid. Is dealing drugs evil? That's not for me to decide. Is looking up the name of a snitch so you can kill him for telling the police you were doing something illegal, evil? That I would say yes to.
Was that meant to imply that is somehow shocking to us that Republicans do not have a monopoly on stupidity? It is a free market and every side has their fair share of morons. I was simply pointing out that recent history has shown exposing agents is A Bad Thing. I find the very idea of this website reprehensible. If you want to help lawyers, make it a private software product licensable to a firm. Don't put it up for anyone with other, more evil motives (than lawyers?) to see.
Didn't some guy write an article something along the lines of "Who's a Government Agent Whose Husband Disagrees With the Policies of the Current Administration?"
There was a bit of a kerfuffle over that if I recall.
Yeah, I guess I never actually gave any kind of opinion or commentary there. Those are both good things to have happen. Another that would help is to have patent submitters write clear and easy to prove/disprove patents (or quite filing frivolous patents) thus making the job of the existing examiners easier. I know that isn't improving the patent office itself, but a guy can dream can't he?
Ok, granted. However, once it gets down to that I'd argue that we'd be looking at something less like "HDDs using holographic technology" and more like wacky-ass nanoscale EMPhotonic thingy storage medium. That's a very silly way of saying that it wouldn't be as much one or the other, but something different and better altogether. We can only hope anyway.
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And one thing the film left out is that Mitchell's score had been broken in 2002 and that is the score that Wiebe actually broke.
I heard a story on NPR about therapists doing VR recreations of traumatic events in combat to help the soldiers cope with them that seemed to being showing promise. As far as actual commercial games that people play, I haven't a clue.
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice those too much, partly because I'm too busy not getting obliterated every time I go through a door on that map, and partly because I'm used to playing on TV's with terrible contrast. None of the sets I've played the beta on have been HD, and one of the TV's that I played most of my Halo 2 on, the contrast was so bad, in split screen, if one person looked at snow, and the other person looked at something darkish, he couldn't see anything. I probably just assumed the snow blindness was something like that. My comment was not meant to be disparaging of the graphics in the beta. Like I said, looking at it, I could immediately see that it looked better than Halo 2, and if that's as good as the final release looked, I would be quite happy. I was just saying we probably won't see most of the real awesomeness like enormous sprawling city levels or something until we see the final release and campaign mode.
Yeah, it does seem kind of silly. The only difference I can see (and this is pretty quibbly) is that a pipe has some kind of flow of a resource; water, oil, gas, what-have-you, whereas a tube is simply just a empty cylinder. I guess.
Yeah, Avernum I played for a couple days, then grew bored of it. Geneforge I played quite a bit one Christmas break when I was at home on my parents computer that had no games on it. Mostly it was the puzzler that I really got a kick out of.
Wow. I didn't even check to see where he worked. I played the heck out of a lot of those Spiderweb shareware games. The gem mining puzzle game was awesome, and really hard at times.
Not sure about the GP post, it hardly addresses the question of graphics at all, so I'll try and be a little more specific. It is not a huge graphical leap from Halo 2. That being said, I looked at it and immediately could tell the difference. Textures are cleaner, everything looks a little sharper. The particle effects, particularly on the carbine are improved. Invis looks pretty much like it always did, but the hexagonally tiled distortion field of the bubble shield is neat. The water effects look pretty good, although I haven't spent too much time looking at them (not to mention Spartan corpses float, which they most definitely should not do.) So, I guess the final verdict is that yeah, it looks better, but don't expect something that will blow your mind from the beta. I mean, it still has to look like Halo. They should be able to tweak quite a bit, because they have plenty of time to swap in higher res textures and stuff. I doubt much will change by way of actual art .
I'd say that all three games have many tracks that have instrumentation and melodic styles that when I hear them instantly make me think Mitsuda. I never finished CC or Xenosaga, but I liked most of both soundtracks. I never played Xenogears, but I don't particularly like the soundtrack. I have a copy of the Creid celtic arrangement of it, which is hit or miss. But on Xenosaga, the Prologue, Ormus, Resurrection, and Zarathustra are some of my favorites. As for the collaboration on CT, I knew Mitsuda did a lot more than Uematsu on it, but I didn't realize it was quite that unbalanced. Do you happen to know the other tracks Uematsu did? I love battle musics. I mean, how many battle musics have awesome xylophone parts?
When I was taking my OS class we did a little kernel module programming in Linux. We were each provided our own low-grade linux box (and only the box) assembled from spare parts at the college where we took the class as a co-op. When I tried to do my first excercise, I found that it would not boot without a PS2 keyboard present. It wouldn't read my USB keyboard, and apparently my keyboard couldn't fake the appropriate responses when plugged in with a PS2 adapter. None of my friends had a PS2 keyboard, so I went to the tech department. All of theirs where in use and I was about to become really frustrated. As I was leaving, the guy I was talking to asked me why I needed one. When I told him, he said, "So you don't actually need to type with it? Just boot?" Turns out they had a whole stack of PS2 keyboards that had a bunch of broken keys, but the controller chips still worked fine. So I take one back to my dorm, and put it on the shelf above my lab box. I plugged it when I booted it, and as soon as it finished POSTing, would swap in my USB keyboard.
I think there was a 3rd party NES/SNES controller that had a L/R switch and you could rotate it or flip it over or something and it would work the other way. It was pretty neat.
Oh wow! They make bigger GC controllers? I wish I'd known that a long time ago. The GC controller is pretty comfy to me, but just a tad too small, and thus I tend to get pain in the base knuckles of my middle fingers because of the way I have to hold it get my long fingers on the buttons.
True, but bacteria have a much faster life cycle than us more complex organisms.
Actually, I think he and Mitsuda collaborated on Chrono Trigger. I think Mitsuda did the bulk of the work, because it is very similar in style to Chrono Cross and Xenogears/Saga, but if I recall correctly, a few of the tracks are Uematsu. Maybe that collaboration is why that is such an excellent soundtrack.
You mean something like the Pink Martini version of Que Sera Sera? That is an awesome and really friggin' eerie tune done that way.
Did it say on the website or article that this website is reserved merely for drug snitches? If so, please point me to it. I don't believe that doing drugs is evil. I believe it is stupid. Is dealing drugs evil? That's not for me to decide. Is looking up the name of a snitch so you can kill him for telling the police you were doing something illegal, evil? That I would say yes to.
Was that meant to imply that is somehow shocking to us that Republicans do not have a monopoly on stupidity? It is a free market and every side has their fair share of morons. I was simply pointing out that recent history has shown exposing agents is A Bad Thing. I find the very idea of this website reprehensible. If you want to help lawyers, make it a private software product licensable to a firm. Don't put it up for anyone with other, more evil motives (than lawyers?) to see.
Didn't some guy write an article something along the lines of "Who's a Government Agent Whose Husband Disagrees With the Policies of the Current Administration?"
There was a bit of a kerfuffle over that if I recall.
Yeah, I guess I never actually gave any kind of opinion or commentary there. Those are both good things to have happen. Another that would help is to have patent submitters write clear and easy to prove/disprove patents (or quite filing frivolous patents) thus making the job of the existing examiners easier. I know that isn't improving the patent office itself, but a guy can dream can't he?
Ok, granted. However, once it gets down to that I'd argue that we'd be looking at something less like "HDDs using holographic technology" and more like wacky-ass nanoscale EMPhotonic thingy storage medium.
That's a very silly way of saying that it wouldn't be as much one or the other, but something different and better altogether. We can only hope anyway.