Ah, but would you want your display wearing out after about half of your gba's lifetime? OLED pigments (red ones I think) currently have a half-life of about 1000 hours. OLED is a technology that's not ready for prime time; those really nice displays that they show not only cost thousands of dollars but wear out in a few weeks. Maybe for Game Boy 64 the technology will be ready...
The installed base of psx1's worldwide is way too far to ignore, about 50 million at last count. Though people are more likely to buy games for the new system and be more "casual" about the old one, there is still quite a bit more sales potential at this point for old psx stuff than for ps2, which has about a million units sold at this point. Much psx development these days is tending towards value-line stuff- witness all those games coming out for about $30 nowadays, and a lot of older stuff for $20. In japan, one of the biggest sellers right now is the Simple 1500 series, which gets its name from its 1500 yen price (about $15). The games are not super-original or high-quality, but they seem to manage to recreate a whole bunch of genres effectively, enough so that a whole bunch have made it to the top ten sellers in Japan. They're up to the thirties in the series these days. PSX1 is also getting to the price-point that makes it attractive to people in 1.5th world countries such as brazil, which are usually a generation behind in the consoles marketed there. The horsepower of the new one is quite sexy, but until there are enough out there the PSX will probably paying the bills for most developers.
Apparently you don't appear to be getting the idea that the $99 price of the box is a loss leader. The netpliance box contains at least $200-300 of parts, making it very similar to the other "cheapest possible" computers out there. Even selling them a $300, netpliance probably wouldn't be making a profit. But ideally, that would be ok. Netpliance doesn't want to sell computers- they want to sell internet services, and they want to sell them to a relatively untapped market segment- non-computer owners. By practically giving away the computers, netpliance intended to create a large subscriber base that previously would have been driven away by the cost of a computer, but still is willing to pay for the net service. Which seems to have worked very well, or would have if they had counted on someone getting handy with the screwdriver, and locked the box up accordingly. Instead all their draws are being snapped up by people who have no intention of getting near the profitable part of their business, which would be the subscription. Once they get the connectors sufficiently scrambled or covered with superglue, they may be able to recover enough to survive this. Still, probably was a good idea to dump your stock before it was too late.
Nope, nothing near. PSX2 is still a MIPS core, 5900 i believe, with all the fun vector stuff added on. "Frequency is not representative of performance" is kind of a stupid comparison, as every processor family has different performance at the same mhz.
demiforce.parodius.com has the translation patches for both ff2j and ff3j. Both are pretty good as far as the translation goes. You may have to come up with your own roms though.
the gameboy final fantasies really aren't; the final fantasy legend games are actually the first three Saga games, whose snes incarnation, romancing saga 1-3, was huge in japan but unreleased over here. we've gotten the saga frontier games, which at least superficially resemble the gameboy ones. Square changed the name no doubt to prosper off of the success of the final fantasies on the bigger consoles. Final Fantasy Adventure is really titled Seiken Densetsu- you might know its sequel named as Secret of Mana. The sequel to secret of mana, seiken densetsu 3, was also fan-translated, and very well at that- do a search for it.
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Ah, but would you want your display wearing out after about half of your gba's lifetime? OLED pigments (red ones I think) currently have a half-life of about 1000 hours. OLED is a technology that's not ready for prime time; those really nice displays that they show not only cost thousands of dollars but wear out in a few weeks. Maybe for Game Boy 64 the technology will be ready...
The installed base of psx1's worldwide is way too far to ignore, about 50 million at last count. Though people are more likely to buy games for the new system and be more "casual" about the old one, there is still quite a bit more sales potential at this point for old psx stuff than for ps2, which has about a million units sold at this point. Much psx development these days is tending towards value-line stuff- witness all those games coming out for about $30 nowadays, and a lot of older stuff for $20. In japan, one of the biggest sellers right now is the Simple 1500 series, which gets its name from its 1500 yen price (about $15). The games are not super-original or high-quality, but they seem to manage to recreate a whole bunch of genres effectively, enough so that a whole bunch have made it to the top ten sellers in Japan. They're up to the thirties in the series these days. PSX1 is also getting to the price-point that makes it attractive to people in 1.5th world countries such as brazil, which are usually a generation behind in the consoles marketed there. The horsepower of the new one is quite sexy, but until there are enough out there the PSX will probably paying the bills for most developers.
Apparently you don't appear to be getting the idea that the $99 price of the box is a loss leader. The netpliance box contains at least $200-300 of parts, making it very similar to the other "cheapest possible" computers out there. Even selling them a $300, netpliance probably wouldn't be making a profit. But ideally, that would be ok. Netpliance doesn't want to sell computers- they want to sell internet services, and they want to sell them to a relatively untapped market segment- non-computer owners. By practically giving away the computers, netpliance intended to create a large subscriber base that previously would have been driven away by the cost of a computer, but still is willing to pay for the net service. Which seems to have worked very well, or would have if they had counted on someone getting handy with the screwdriver, and locked the box up accordingly. Instead all their draws are being snapped up by people who have no intention of getting near the profitable part of their business, which would be the subscription. Once they get the connectors sufficiently scrambled or covered with superglue, they may be able to recover enough to survive this. Still, probably was a good idea to dump your stock before it was too late.
Nope, nothing near. PSX2 is still a MIPS core, 5900 i believe, with all the fun vector stuff added on. "Frequency is not representative of performance" is kind of a stupid comparison, as every processor family has different performance at the same mhz.
the gameboy final fantasies really aren't; the final fantasy legend games are actually the first three Saga games, whose snes incarnation, romancing saga 1-3, was huge in japan but unreleased over here. we've gotten the saga frontier games, which at least superficially resemble the gameboy ones. Square changed the name no doubt to prosper off of the success of the final fantasies on the bigger consoles. Final Fantasy Adventure is really titled Seiken Densetsu- you might know its sequel named as Secret of Mana. The sequel to secret of mana, seiken densetsu 3, was also fan-translated, and very well at that- do a search for it.