Wow, that's a whole different perspective than over here (EU). Rather than infamous, Street Fighter 2 is legendary status. It was the fighting game that really kicked the whole genre into gear, and pretty much every fighting game followed in it's footsteps. Admittedly, there were a bunch of ropey cash-ins after Champion Edition but it picked back up with some of the Alpha series. It was also a massive hit in Japan, and led to an enormous rise in 2d fighting games and tournaments.
The Street Fighter 1 coin-op was just terrible, but the 8-bit home version was mildly entertaining for it's day.
I have Beryl running on an eight year old compaq presario, with 1 gig Athlon, 256MB noname ram and some old gforce card (think it's a 5-series, not sure). It runs absolutely perfect for everday stuff, but I'd have to turn Beryl off if I was doing anything graphically intensive (which is not really likely on that old machine).
FWIW, that same machine came preloaded with winME[1] back in the day and has gone through win2000, winXP, Gentoo and now Ubuntu. I think it runs better now on Ubuntu than it ever has.
[1]yes, I was one of those unfortunate bastards. But hey, at least I didn't buy Vista.
This kind of pretentious rubbish bugs the crap out of me. I wouldn't come back to you with anything, ever. I'd take any scientist who knows their stuff and can convey it any way they like over pretentious twats that feel the need to posture all day turning two minute explanations into ten minute 'look ma, I'm on a podium' crapfests.
Seriously, I've infinitely more respect for the type of guy who talks with a mouth full of gum, cussing and using slang terms to explain everything but has a solid understanding of what he is talking about than the pretentious twats that just like trying to sound or look good.
Maybe I'm missing something, I've never heard of any phones being crippled here so have no idea how it works, but couldn't you buy a phone (unlocked) with full mp3 support from overseas and put a sim card from your carrier into it?
I got a Nokia N71 from India last year that was network unlocked, put in a sim card from my carrier here (Ireland) and everything works perfect. It's played every mp3 or AAC (even mp4 video) I've put on it. 3G, bluetooth, etc. all work fine.
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Wow, that's a whole different perspective than over here (EU). Rather than infamous, Street Fighter 2 is legendary status. It was the fighting game that really kicked the whole genre into gear, and pretty much every fighting game followed in it's footsteps. Admittedly, there were a bunch of ropey cash-ins after Champion Edition but it picked back up with some of the Alpha series. It was also a massive hit in Japan, and led to an enormous rise in 2d fighting games and tournaments.
The Street Fighter 1 coin-op was just terrible, but the 8-bit home version was mildly entertaining for it's day.
I have Beryl running on an eight year old compaq presario, with 1 gig Athlon, 256MB noname ram and some old gforce card (think it's a 5-series, not sure). It runs absolutely perfect for everday stuff, but I'd have to turn Beryl off if I was doing anything graphically intensive (which is not really likely on that old machine).
FWIW, that same machine came preloaded with winME[1] back in the day and has gone through win2000, winXP, Gentoo and now Ubuntu. I think it runs better now on Ubuntu than it ever has.
[1]yes, I was one of those unfortunate bastards. But hey, at least I didn't buy Vista.
This kind of pretentious rubbish bugs the crap out of me. I wouldn't come back to you with anything, ever. I'd take any scientist who knows their stuff and can convey it any way they like over pretentious twats that feel the need to posture all day turning two minute explanations into ten minute 'look ma, I'm on a podium' crapfests.
Seriously, I've infinitely more respect for the type of guy who talks with a mouth full of gum, cussing and using slang terms to explain everything but has a solid understanding of what he is talking about than the pretentious twats that just like trying to sound or look good.
Maybe I'm missing something, I've never heard of any phones being crippled here so have no idea how it works, but couldn't you buy a phone (unlocked) with full mp3 support from overseas and put a sim card from your carrier into it?
I got a Nokia N71 from India last year that was network unlocked, put in a sim card from my carrier here (Ireland) and everything works perfect. It's played every mp3 or AAC (even mp4 video) I've put on it. 3G, bluetooth, etc. all work fine.