By setting the rental rules of some video games to those of adult videos, you are saying the content of the two are equally bad. Although perhaps a little less prudish than the US (correct me if I'm wrong here, guys), I wouldn't think hardcore porn in British Colombia would be a completely socially acceptable thing. Yet no one (again, to my knowledge) feels like the have to go incognito to buy any videogame (Well, there is the Leisure Suit Larry series...). To summarize, a previously socially acceptable activity (i.e. buying video games), has been equated to a non-socially acceptible activity. What does this mean? Are they trying to make violent games as socially unacceptable as porn? or what?
Note: I have very little knowledge of British Colombia. Please feel free to flame me on any innacuracies I have added to above post.
Yes, there was a Black Playstation which was called the NetYaroze. It let you use a basic API on your PC to write games, which were d/l into your playstation via cable (Can't have people burning PSX cds, now can they?). However, there were a few things which limited it. First off, it is no longer being sold. Second, your programs had to be less than 2megs, since that was the size of the PSX's RAM. That two megs also included a 500KB API library included with it. And of course, you couldn't show your friends unless they also had a NetYaroze. So the Black playstation wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. You can find some more info, including some on how to make real PSX games at Hitmen or Napalm.
Perhaps the XBox could be emulated, but it would be exceedingly difficult to do with the PS2 or Dreamcast, since both use a sort of multi-processor setup, which is nearly impossible to emulate. You ever wonder why you never see any Sega Saturn emulators? That's why. Even if you were to have two processors on a motherboard, each emulating one of the processors, the simultaety still needs to be preserved, which is not a key part of emulators. Oh well. Save a life. Buy more cheese. - Naerbnic
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By setting the rental rules of some video games to those of adult videos, you are saying the content of the two are equally bad. Although perhaps a little less prudish than the US (correct me if I'm wrong here, guys), I wouldn't think hardcore porn in British Colombia would be a completely socially acceptable thing. Yet no one (again, to my knowledge) feels like the have to go incognito to buy any videogame (Well, there is the Leisure Suit Larry series...). To summarize, a previously socially acceptable activity (i.e. buying video games), has been equated to a non-socially acceptible activity. What does this mean? Are they trying to make violent games as socially unacceptable as porn? or what?
Note: I have very little knowledge of British Colombia. Please feel free to flame me on any innacuracies I have added to above post.
Save a life: Eat more cheese
- Naerbnic
Yes, there was a Black Playstation which was called the NetYaroze. It let you use a basic API on your PC to write games, which were d/l into your playstation via cable (Can't have people burning PSX cds, now can they?). However, there were a few things which limited it. First off, it is no longer being sold. Second, your programs had to be less than 2megs, since that was the size of the PSX's RAM. That two megs also included a 500KB API library included with it. And of course, you couldn't show your friends unless they also had a NetYaroze. So the Black playstation wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. You can find some more info, including some on how to make real PSX games at Hitmen or Napalm.
Save a life. Buy more cheese.
- Naerbnic
Perhaps the XBox could be emulated, but it would be exceedingly difficult to do with the PS2 or Dreamcast, since both use a sort of multi-processor setup, which is nearly impossible to emulate. You ever wonder why you never see any Sega Saturn emulators? That's why. Even if you were to have two processors on a motherboard, each emulating one of the processors, the simultaety still needs to be preserved, which is not a key part of emulators. Oh well. Save a life. Buy more cheese. - Naerbnic