I know this is off topic, but I find it interesting that Slashdot used a Google referer url in it's story. I mean, it's obvious Slashdot isn't Google, and while I'm happy to use the link, I wonder if the NYT will be happy about it, and/or do something about it.. this'll be an interesting one to watch, I guess.
I completely agree - finding out there's a prequel/sequel to a game you played that's only available in Japanese sucks - but you're wrong about Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Origins (PSX): FF I + II Final Fantasy Chronicles (PSX): FF IV+ Chrono Trigger Final Fantasy Anthology (PSX): FF V + VI
So as you can see, after Sony's E3 FF XI announcement, the only game in the (main) series not published in north america is FF III.
Was using the NES/SNES roms "right" before the games were published on the PSX? Did it become wrong afterwards? what about FF III? How about if you play that, then it's published in your region? Do you have a moral obligation to buy it then?
My personal situation is, I like playing the EXACT game as intended. You can argue translating them ruins that, but for an RPG you don't really have much of a choice.
I also like seeing differences between games that are localized for the USA and not.. different graphics, different story, etc. I guess I already made that point with Bionic Commando, though..
Getting back to your comment, however, if I enjoy a rom that I've downloaded and don't already own in it's original form, and a rerelease happens for modern hardware, I'll buy the original. Sega's Sonic collection for GameCube might look like shit on my big tv, but it was worth supporting Sega's effort of emulating the games that I enjoyed.
I realize this is semantics to some, but not to others.
I read comic books; I don't give a shit what they're worth, or what they'll be worth in the future.
People collect roms to give themselves a buzz, "gotta catch them all" type shit. I play roms, old things that cannot be purchased anywhere but ebay for outrageous prices due to insane cart collectors. I don't emulate n64; that system is still just about new, for God's sake.
NES games is a different matter, especially famicom games that never made it over. It's fun to play them and see what we missed in the USA, and it's more fun to play a game that is slightly different, like the Japanese Bionic Command, complete with nazi references intact. Master D indeed.
Lastly, translated Japanese roms are awsome. We may not have gotten most of the original Final Fantasy games here to the USA, but now I can play most of them thanks to fan translations.
Legal? No. Perhaps the owners of older games could look at their property and decide if perhaps it might not be beneficial to them to release their old games as roms, aka, let them be freely downloaded.. ah, blah blah, ramble.
fceu, you want the yaya.tar.bz2 in the 6/18 update.
os x documentation is kind of scarce; i let the developer compile and troubleshoot on my powerbook when he needs to, so i'm fuzzy on what the requirements for the os x package is. you will need developer tools and sdl via fink installed for sure.
i'm pretty sure what you are describing is nintendo's fds, which is different than the 'console' that allowed you to pirate snes games to real 3.5" floppy disks. the fds was released in japan only, but many gamers and collectors have them in the usa today.
i find fce ultra is updated more often and less crappy than rocknes, not to mention more "free". no paying for blitter libraries here, no sir, no ma'am.
it's also for os x, though command line only.. but it works great for me.
sonic was originally a console game, though an arcade game was eventually made with the same perspective as sonic 3d. mame has only recently gotten it emulated, and it still has some graphical glitches.
when you start seeing referers from http://slashdot.org/, start blocking access. since it'll be coming from a relative trickle of users, it won't be difficult to start the block.
then again, i'm sure it would work fine already, without having to read the posts from the future, but, still..
i think the question here is, if the government can seize your domains from you, does that mean that you then OWN the domains?
verisign and other registrars have argued that you are just paying them for their services; some other registrars (gandi.net?) have written in the contract that YOU own the domain, and they merely provide services for you. (why anyone stays with verisign after their years of shitty service and support, i'll never understand.)
the way AOL counts users has always bugged me. if i'm not mistaken, the number includes everyone to *ever* sign up with aol. users who cancel and then re-signup are counted twice, etc.
i hope i'm wrong here, but i remember reading this a long, long time ago.
sure, a company in the usa might not want to risk being sued, but im sure Spamhaus Corp in Asia won't mind paying five grand for addresses that surely work.
uh.. does the portable market mean anything to you? it does to them. the gameboy advance the ONLY portable game in town, it's sales are still going strong, and including gameboy, gameboy color, and gba games, not to mention nes emulation, there are SEVERAL THOUSAND available games.
the portable market won't be drying up for nintendo any time soon.
What IS it with Photoshop's crappy PNG compression? I'm using v7.0.1 (which, I must say, is way, WAY buggy.). *shrug*
imagemagick seems to have the same crappy png compression, unless i need to do something other than "convert image.gif image.png", using -dither or not..
actually, i don't know which came out first, but the sms had better hardware under the hood. nintendo just happened to snap up more and better companies to develop for the NES, and of course had that clause that said if you developed for nintendo, you couldn't deliver the same game to any other competing platform for something like two years.
that eventually changed, but by that time, the sms was pretty much toast.
I've been using Mozilla for OS X since i bought my powerbook a couple months ago and have had no problems whatsoever, besdies the occasional crash. Even java works properly - still can't get games.yahoo.com to properly work on any of my lunix mozilla installations.
you know, my gameboy tetris record for lines was 227. that's 27 lines at level 20, which was basically the devil.. and youre claiming you averaged 250, and your mother 300-500.
i'm not saying you're a liar, but i really, really doubt anyone can maintain level 20 on gameboy tetris for 200+ lines. maybe you're remembering something wrong, but.. no. it hurts just to think about.
funny you mention trying to port the legend of zelda; someone ported a little tiny bit of sonic the hedgehog to flash. it's pretty choppy, and not many moving sprites on the screen at once, but not TOO too bad.
not sure how possible it would be to make something nice out of it, though.
"That makes Warby nervous. "Microsoft is definitely not known for their internal security," he says, citing undocumented macros in some Microsoft programs, which can be accessed by those who know the right combination of keystrokes. "The idea of Microsoft coming into a server, creates a potentially huge security risk," he says."
has anyone got any examples of this anywhere? i'd be curious to see some of these macros..
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i kind of doubt irc is next, as microsoft has had irc servers in the past and shut them all down. the future of ms chatting is sure to be messenger.
does ms even develop comic chat any more?
I know this is off topic, but I find it interesting that Slashdot used a Google referer url in it's story. I mean, it's obvious Slashdot isn't Google, and while I'm happy to use the link, I wonder if the NYT will be happy about it, and/or do something about it.. this'll be an interesting one to watch, I guess.
(Maybe Slashdot can become an NYT partner..)
stupid question. i've seen sony vcr's with firewire inputs, do they have some sort of limitation that cripples the input?
I completely agree - finding out there's a prequel/sequel to a game you played that's only available in Japanese sucks - but you're wrong about Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Origins (PSX): FF I + II
Final Fantasy Chronicles (PSX): FF IV+ Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy Anthology (PSX): FF V + VI
So as you can see, after Sony's E3 FF XI announcement, the only game in the (main) series not published in north america is FF III.
Was using the NES/SNES roms "right" before the games were published on the PSX? Did it become wrong afterwards? what about FF III? How about if you play that, then it's published in your region? Do you have a moral obligation to buy it then?
My personal situation is, I like playing the EXACT game as intended. You can argue translating them ruins that, but for an RPG you don't really have much of a choice.
I also like seeing differences between games that are localized for the USA and not.. different graphics, different story, etc. I guess I already made that point with Bionic Commando, though..
Getting back to your comment, however, if I enjoy a rom that I've downloaded and don't already own in it's original form, and a rerelease happens for modern hardware, I'll buy the original. Sega's Sonic collection for GameCube might look like shit on my big tv, but it was worth supporting Sega's effort of emulating the games that I enjoyed.
I realize this is semantics to some, but not to others.
I read comic books; I don't give a shit what they're worth, or what they'll be worth in the future.
People collect roms to give themselves a buzz, "gotta catch them all" type shit. I play roms, old things that cannot be purchased anywhere but ebay for outrageous prices due to insane cart collectors. I don't emulate n64; that system is still just about new, for God's sake.
NES games is a different matter, especially famicom games that never made it over. It's fun to play them and see what we missed in the USA, and it's more fun to play a game that is slightly different, like the Japanese Bionic Command, complete with nazi references intact. Master D indeed.
Lastly, translated Japanese roms are awsome. We may not have gotten most of the original Final Fantasy games here to the USA, but now I can play most of them thanks to fan translations.
Legal? No. Perhaps the owners of older games could look at their property and decide if perhaps it might not be beneficial to them to release their old games as roms, aka, let them be freely downloaded.. ah, blah blah, ramble.
fceu, you want the yaya.tar.bz2 in the 6/18 update.
os x documentation is kind of scarce; i let the developer compile and troubleshoot on my powerbook when he needs to, so i'm fuzzy on what the requirements for the os x package is. you will need developer tools and sdl via fink installed for sure.
i'm pretty sure what you are describing is nintendo's fds, which is different than the 'console' that allowed you to pirate snes games to real 3.5" floppy disks. the fds was released in japan only, but many gamers and collectors have them in the usa today.
the snes copier is obviously much more illegal.
i find fce ultra is updated more often and less crappy than rocknes, not to mention more "free". no paying for blitter libraries here, no sir, no ma'am.
it's also for os x, though command line only.. but it works great for me.
sonic was originally a console game, though an arcade game was eventually made with the same perspective as sonic 3d. mame has only recently gotten it emulated, and it still has some graphical glitches.
when you start seeing referers from http://slashdot.org/, start blocking access. since it'll be coming from a relative trickle of users, it won't be difficult to start the block.
then again, i'm sure it would work fine already, without having to read the posts from the future, but, still..
i think the question here is, if the government can seize your domains from you, does that mean that you then OWN the domains?
verisign and other registrars have argued that you are just paying them for their services; some other registrars (gandi.net?) have written in the contract that YOU own the domain, and they merely provide services for you. (why anyone stays with verisign after their years of shitty service and support, i'll never understand.)
the way AOL counts users has always bugged me. if i'm not mistaken, the number includes everyone to *ever* sign up with aol. users who cancel and then re-signup are counted twice, etc.
i hope i'm wrong here, but i remember reading this a long, long time ago.
sure, a company in the usa might not want to risk being sued, but im sure Spamhaus Corp in Asia won't mind paying five grand for addresses that surely work.
uh.. does the portable market mean anything to you? it does to them. the gameboy advance the ONLY portable game in town, it's sales are still going strong, and including gameboy, gameboy color, and gba games, not to mention nes emulation, there are SEVERAL THOUSAND available games.
the portable market won't be drying up for nintendo any time soon.
What IS it with Photoshop's crappy PNG compression? I'm using v7.0.1 (which, I must say, is way, WAY buggy.). *shrug*
imagemagick seems to have the same crappy png compression, unless i need to do something other than "convert image.gif image.png", using -dither or not..
According to ImageMagick's file formats page, the LZW patent expires in June 2003.
actually, i don't know which came out first, but the sms had better hardware under the hood. nintendo just happened to snap up more and better companies to develop for the NES, and of course had that clause that said if you developed for nintendo, you couldn't deliver the same game to any other competing platform for something like two years.
that eventually changed, but by that time, the sms was pretty much toast.
it IS a genesis original title.. it was then released for the master system, then game gear. supposedly the sms version was pretty good, too.
I've been using Mozilla for OS X since i bought my powerbook a couple months ago and have had no problems whatsoever, besdies the occasional crash. Even java works properly - still can't get games.yahoo.com to properly work on any of my lunix mozilla installations.
you know, my gameboy tetris record for lines was 227. that's 27 lines at level 20, which was basically the devil.. and youre claiming you averaged 250, and your mother 300-500.
i'm not saying you're a liar, but i really, really doubt anyone can maintain level 20 on gameboy tetris for 200+ lines. maybe you're remembering something wrong, but.. no. it hurts just to think about.
funny you mention trying to port the legend of zelda; someone ported a little tiny bit of sonic the hedgehog to flash. it's pretty choppy, and not many moving sprites on the screen at once, but not TOO too bad.
not sure how possible it would be to make something nice out of it, though.
"That makes Warby nervous. "Microsoft is definitely not known for their internal security," he says, citing undocumented macros in some Microsoft programs, which can be accessed by those who know the right combination of keystrokes. "The idea of Microsoft coming into a server, creates a potentially huge security risk," he says."
has anyone got any examples of this anywhere? i'd be curious to see some of these macros..
"Now availble for Macintosh or Windows".
If i didn't just buy a powerbook, i would really want one. now that i own a powerbook.. well.. ok, i still really want one.
i wonder what the bastard will smell like.. if it isn't pleasant, might take a while to gain acceptance.
then again, if it smells like garbage, maybe it could attract flies, and maybe the flies could feed it.. ah, that would be funny.
i WISH i was getting 5-10. i'm still getting 50-70 a day, after peaking at ~100.