Sega already made a PC adapter! It's called the VGA Box. Go to EB or whatever and pick up a third party VGA box (Sega's is overpriced) and hook your DC up to your VGA monitor and your PC's speakers, viola!
Makes a lot more sense than making a PCI card and a GD-ROM for PC. And of course if Sega made a PC GD-ROM DC warez would be even more common than they already are.
I think my enjoyment of MGS had a lot to do with the nostalgia factor; the original Metal Gear on the NES was one of my favorite games.
Granted, MGS is definitely overrated. The gameplay really was only a small advancement over MG and MG2, and the cinematics were frequently corny.
But you can't deny that MGS's impact on gaming has been huge, it has set the standard for style and cinematics in a video game. And MGS2 seems to be pushing harder in the area of gameplay, so I have no reason to not look forward to MGS2.
I love when a console-related news post comes up on Slashdot. A community of normally intelligent people suddenly reverts to little 14 year old advocacy zealots.
I find myself wanting to buy a PS2 simply because of the 'new' factor. Seems like there's pleanty of decent games, but really the only games I want badly on PS2 is Metal Gear Solid 2 and Klonoa 2. I can wait until then.
And I never could figure out how people could only play PC games. PC games always seem to get boring real fast. Makes them great for warez I guess.
How is this amazon's fault? It would be irresponsible of them to let someone other than the account owner modify that account's settings. He simply should not have let his wife use his email address, is hotmail.com so difficult?
Are any of these stupid 'recoverly only' pre-installs effective at all at curbing piracy? It might stop Joe Bloe from copying his CD for a friend, but it punishes the legitimate uesrs of Windows without any real pay off. In fact, it encourages piracy; why deal with this bullshit when you can just warez a copy and do what you like? Maybe the idea is to get the end users mad at pirates, but I think the only people they're getting mad at is Microsoft.
Hahaha, hardly. Otherwise how would I play my Japanese LEON DVD? I'm sure defeating territorial lockout is even easier in Asia where demand for cheaper foreign movies is greater. On another note, maybe this is all a response to Central Park Media _NOT_ region coding Grave of the Fireflies DVD.
Buena Vista handles distribution of Ghibli's films in Japan and North America. It was BV Japan that requested BVHV to not include the Japanese track. While the logical answer is to release a DVD in Japan as well, they'd still be worried because DVDs are so expensive in Japan that it would be cheaper to import it. (I hear the PS2 is the cheapest DVD player in Japan!)
I think it should be noted that the person who submitted the story is getting paid per-hit for that article he wrote. What better way to make some quick cash than by getting his story slashdotted?
A better URL would've been nausicaa.net's story at http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i nd0006d&L=nausicaa&P=11579
If only this article had been posted in time to submit the mini 'petition' to BVHV, 1000 is nice, but just think how many Slashdot could've provided.:)
Nintendo has had their "Nintendo Power" system in Japan for years. You'd take a blank SNES/SFC cartridge to a kiosk and download a game of your choice to the cart. The only new thing here is that you can do it from home with the DC's modem. Plus this particularly announcement was made quite awhile ago.:P
I'd have to agree. There's no way a monitor will ever replace the paper. I think all books should be available in electronic form, but only so they can be searchable--it would certainly make college student's lives easier! But I don't think the traiditonal book will change any time soon as the primary method of reading fiction.
Why would Sega put bad programmers on a port of an important arcade conversion? While it's true that Virtua Fighter 3tb is disapointing without WinCE, but the fact that SR2 has MANY additional tracks and cars leads me to believe it was not a result of lack of effort on the programers. This, plus the fact that no other WinCE games are even remotely taxing on the DC lead me to believe that WinCE is a poor choice if developers want to get the most out of the Dreamcast.
That's FUD and bullshit. Sega spun off SegaSoft, and what happened to them? You don't seriously think any of the AM divisions, Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka, or Sonic Team will ever touch non-Sega hardware, do you?
I hate to stomp on the/. idealogy, but what the fuck is wrong with closed standards? Whats wrong with innovation? 'Open' isn't always the best. An open console platform would be disaterous. The market would be flooded by look-a-like hardware.
I wondered the same thing. I heard in Japan Sony was only making about $15 off of the PS2. Consoles are prices as low as humanly possible, which is why you never see prices vary from store to store. The companies rely on software licenses (and 1st party game publishing) to make money. So I wonder if MS is going to require a license to publish...
Don't get too carried away with the Windows name. You're not likely to see a Windows desktop on the xbox. It will just Microsoft's development libraries with the Windows name.
The idea that the Japanese have a problem with American games is wrong. American games being unsuccessful in Japan is more a matter of style than anything else. First, US console games have a tendancy to...well, suck. All of the American game talent is in the PC industry. Still, games like Crash Bandicoot do well over there (one of the PSXs many million sellers in Japan). And Activision, of all companies, created the Shanghai craze over there. And as I recall the 3DO had one of the best versions of Street Fighter II Turbo up until it was re-released on PSX and Saturn.
I think this is one of the great downfalls of the xbox. MS is taking a "if you build it, they will come" additude with the xbox, just grabbing misc. parts from where ever. I wonder how long it will be until we see 3rd party xboxes. The Dreamcast is as close to off-the-shelf components you'll get. Hitachi SH4 CPU, NEC PowerVR graphics, Yamaha sound, etc. If the console market was just who can jam the best stuff for the cheapest price, it would be a mess. You'd have several new consoles a year, and everything would be very homoginized and generic--there'd be no innovation. Nintendo would never have (re) introduced analog controllers, Sega would have never attempted at making a 1GB CD-ROM.
A lot of people feared the same thing with the Dreamcasts support of DirectX (aka WindowsCE). But even low-quality deveopers are passing on Microsoft's SDK and using Sega's own. Maybe this is part of the reason MS decided to make a full fledged console. Also, I greatly disagree about PC games making a large part of the console market. The console's attractiveness comes from the Japanese games, which differ greatly from PC games in style and gameplay.
Don't think the xbox is the shit just because it has a 600MHz processor. First, it's major flaw is that it's x86--consoles usually have specially developed CPUs, such as the Dreacmasts Hitachi SH4 (running at 200MHz). The SNES only ran at about 3MHz, and it pulled off graphics no 3MHz PC could hope to do.
This would only create problems. That PS2 game wont run smoothly on a Dreamcast, and the analog triggers on a Dreamcast pad wont work on a dolphin. The 'multiple manufactuers' thing has been done before, with CD-i and 3DO, and those were failures.
"Open source" console gaming wouldn't make any sense. Part of the reason I don't like xbox is because MS is just throwing some random PC parts in a box and calling it a console. If games could run on any hardware it'd just be a PC, which would completely nullify the point of console games.
Slashdot Mirror
Sega already made a PC adapter! It's called the VGA Box. Go to EB or whatever and pick up a third party VGA box (Sega's is overpriced) and hook your DC up to your VGA monitor and your PC's speakers, viola!
Makes a lot more sense than making a PCI card and a GD-ROM for PC. And of course if Sega made a PC GD-ROM DC warez would be even more common than they already are.
I think my enjoyment of MGS had a lot to do with the nostalgia factor; the original Metal Gear on the NES was one of my favorite games.
Granted, MGS is definitely overrated. The gameplay really was only a small advancement over MG and MG2, and the cinematics were frequently corny.
But you can't deny that MGS's impact on gaming has been huge, it has set the standard for style and cinematics in a video game. And MGS2 seems to be pushing harder in the area of gameplay, so I have no reason to not look forward to MGS2.
I love when a console-related news post comes up on Slashdot. A community of normally intelligent people suddenly reverts to little 14 year old advocacy zealots.
I find myself wanting to buy a PS2 simply because of the 'new' factor. Seems like there's pleanty of decent games, but really the only games I want badly on PS2 is Metal Gear Solid 2 and Klonoa 2. I can wait until then.
And I never could figure out how people could only play PC games. PC games always seem to get boring real fast. Makes them great for warez I guess.
Okay, so I'm a 14 year old zealot too...
How is this amazon's fault? It would be irresponsible of them to let someone other than the account owner modify that account's settings. He simply should not have let his wife use his email address, is hotmail.com so difficult?
Are any of these stupid 'recoverly only' pre-installs effective at all at curbing piracy? It might stop Joe Bloe from copying his CD for a friend, but it punishes the legitimate uesrs of Windows without any real pay off. In fact, it encourages piracy; why deal with this bullshit when you can just warez a copy and do what you like? Maybe the idea is to get the end users mad at pirates, but I think the only people they're getting mad at is Microsoft.
My apologies then.
Hahaha, hardly. Otherwise how would I play my Japanese LEON DVD? I'm sure defeating territorial lockout is even easier in Asia where demand for cheaper foreign movies is greater. On another note, maybe this is all a response to Central Park Media _NOT_ region coding Grave of the Fireflies DVD.
Well, I can assure you that the three times I saw it in the theater many heads and arms were lost, much to the AMUSEMENT of the audience. :P
Buena Vista handles distribution of Ghibli's films in Japan and North America. It was BV Japan that requested BVHV to not include the Japanese track. While the logical answer is to release a DVD in Japan as well, they'd still be worried because DVDs are so expensive in Japan that it would be cheaper to import it. (I hear the PS2 is the cheapest DVD player in Japan!)
Studio Ghibli only let Disney distribute their films on the condition that it be un-edited. Any cuts are imagined.
I think it should be noted that the person who submitted the story is getting paid per-hit for that article he wrote. What better way to make some quick cash than by getting his story slashdotted?
i nd0006d&L=nausicaa&P=11579
:)
A better URL would've been nausicaa.net's story at http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=
If only this article had been posted in time to submit the mini 'petition' to BVHV, 1000 is nice, but just think how many Slashdot could've provided.
Nintendo has had their "Nintendo Power" system in Japan for years. You'd take a blank SNES/SFC cartridge to a kiosk and download a game of your choice to the cart. The only new thing here is that you can do it from home with the DC's modem. Plus this particularly announcement was made quite awhile ago. :P
I just got moderator status, and I'm trying to figure out how to moderate JonKatz's editorial. :)
I'd have to agree. There's no way a monitor will ever replace the paper. I think all books should be available in electronic form, but only so they can be searchable--it would certainly make college student's lives easier! But I don't think the traiditonal book will change any time soon as the primary method of reading fiction.
Why would Sega put bad programmers on a port of an important arcade conversion? While it's true that Virtua Fighter 3tb is disapointing without WinCE, but the fact that SR2 has MANY additional tracks and cars leads me to believe it was not a result of lack of effort on the programers. This, plus the fact that no other WinCE games are even remotely taxing on the DC lead me to believe that WinCE is a poor choice if developers want to get the most out of the Dreamcast.
That's FUD and bullshit. Sega spun off SegaSoft, and what happened to them? You don't seriously think any of the AM divisions, Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka, or Sonic Team will ever touch non-Sega hardware, do you?
I hate to stomp on the /. idealogy, but what the fuck is wrong with closed standards? Whats wrong with innovation? 'Open' isn't always the best. An open console platform would be disaterous. The market would be flooded by look-a-like hardware.
:)
And btw, I own a Sharp MiniDisc player.
I wondered the same thing. I heard in Japan Sony was only making about $15 off of the PS2. Consoles are prices as low as humanly possible, which is why you never see prices vary from store to store. The companies rely on software licenses (and 1st party game publishing) to make money. So I wonder if MS is going to require a license to publish...
Don't get too carried away with the Windows name. You're not likely to see a Windows desktop on the xbox. It will just Microsoft's development libraries with the Windows name.
The idea that the Japanese have a problem with American games is wrong. American games being unsuccessful in Japan is more a matter of style than anything else. First, US console games have a tendancy to...well, suck. All of the American game talent is in the PC industry. Still, games like Crash Bandicoot do well over there (one of the PSXs many million sellers in Japan). And Activision, of all companies, created the Shanghai craze over there. And as I recall the 3DO had one of the best versions of Street Fighter II Turbo up until it was re-released on PSX and Saturn.
I think this is one of the great downfalls of the xbox. MS is taking a "if you build it, they will come" additude with the xbox, just grabbing misc. parts from where ever. I wonder how long it will be until we see 3rd party xboxes. The Dreamcast is as close to off-the-shelf components you'll get. Hitachi SH4 CPU, NEC PowerVR graphics, Yamaha sound, etc. If the console market was just who can jam the best stuff for the cheapest price, it would be a mess. You'd have several new consoles a year, and everything would be very homoginized and generic--there'd be no innovation. Nintendo would never have (re) introduced analog controllers, Sega would have never attempted at making a 1GB CD-ROM.
A lot of people feared the same thing with the Dreamcasts support of DirectX (aka WindowsCE). But even low-quality deveopers are passing on Microsoft's SDK and using Sega's own. Maybe this is part of the reason MS decided to make a full fledged console. Also, I greatly disagree about PC games making a large part of the console market. The console's attractiveness comes from the Japanese games, which differ greatly from PC games in style and gameplay.
Don't think the xbox is the shit just because it has a 600MHz processor. First, it's major flaw is that it's x86--consoles usually have specially developed CPUs, such as the Dreacmasts Hitachi SH4 (running at 200MHz). The SNES only ran at about 3MHz, and it pulled off graphics no 3MHz PC could hope to do.
How do you explain rampant console advocacy?
This would only create problems. That PS2 game wont run smoothly on a Dreamcast, and the analog triggers on a Dreamcast pad wont work on a dolphin. The 'multiple manufactuers' thing has been done before, with CD-i and 3DO, and those were failures.
"Open source" console gaming wouldn't make any sense. Part of the reason I don't like xbox is because MS is just throwing some random PC parts in a box and calling it a console. If games could run on any hardware it'd just be a PC, which would completely nullify the point of console games.