Many of the Xbox Live games are actually not region-restricted - you can play a US copy of MotoGP 2 on a UK machine, and vice versa, for instance.
Even if this wasn't the case, the games will still play against each other. I have a basic unmodded PAL Xbox, and for my first Live game (only last weekend, coincidentally) I was playing Midtown Madness 3 against a Canadian, an American, a Begian, a Dutchman and a fellow Brit. Lag wasn't even a killer, and voice was still working fine. Its really cool, actually.
Frankly, you've got more chance of seeing a portable Jaguar as the next big thing than the hilariously poor N-Gage. Its just completely, monumentally rubbish. Really.
And thats before we get to the part where the head person trying to persuade customers to buy such a poorly designed piece of plastic basically said "If you play computer games in public then you're a sad weirdo with no life." Great move, there. Way to make your thing trendy.
Cleese was wasted? If you want to talk about wasted, you can't not mention the fact that they didn't give ol' George McFly (ok, Crispin Glover) enough to do. He stole the first film by a mile, and did well with what they gave him this time around. He kicked more ass in the couple of scenes he got than the Angels did across both movies combined.
And as much as I like explosions and daft wire work as much as the next guy, that ending was too far.
(spoilers, obvously) - Why would a few singed eyebrows from a gas explosion stop her when a headlong crash without seatbelts at over 100mph right through a wall didn't? And I know she researched how flying squirrels are able to glide, but the flying Demi Moore was just dumb. She's not Batman. The Angels aren't Spiderman. And Bats would kick Spidey's arse every day of the week and still have time for a Sunday matinee performance.
Yeah, apparently producer Guber (fuckwit to the stars, and the man responsible for the amount of neon in the last two Batman films) really wanys Kutcher, having failed to get him into the Superman job.
Nolan, rightly, thinks this is a fecking horrible idea, and wants his Memento star Guy Pearce for the role. Personally, I think Pearce would make a great Batman - he's got the chin for the suit, while at the same time being able to play a convincing Wayne when out of it. Getting both right at the same time has been a problem with all of the films so far, to some degree.
'What was really getting me when I read headline is "How do you supe up your database?".'
Surely you've tuned a database for maximum throughput performance before?:-)
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As the other poster kind of implied, this isn't really the genre of music so much as the fact that you can get a synth to create you a much lower frequency at a much higher volume than a basic Fender Jazz will give off.
Leftfield are great for that sort of thing, though - Phat Planet (theme to the greatest advert of all time, for those that don't remember their Leftfield tracks) is right up there with LFO's LFO for insane bass quantities.
"The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters."
So nothing at all like Reboot, then. Totally different idea.
Get yourself to Lik-Sang or an equivalent sharpish, if thats why you're interested. Lots of online places do PS2 to USB converters; there are even ones that will allow you to use up to four PS2 pads as four joysticks on the PC.
The enhancement this brings to playing the likes of Gauntlet are pretty immense, obviously.
Seriously, seriously, you really ought to treat yourself to a Dreamcast arcade stick and a DC>USB converter. Its much nicer than a pad, and since the controls are pretty much identical to what you'd find in a Naomi Net City setup make the MAME thing an awful lot more authentic.
The other way to go is to get a PS2 stick from Hori (their new Soul Calibur 2 sticks are lovely) and a converter for that; not cheap, but more readily available than a DC one might be.
Finally, watch it with the converters - some only convert pads and not sticks.
As I said earlier, Sidewinders just aren't in the same league as the best console pads, and even they are nowhere near as good for MAME as a proper stick.
"It's a shame, however, that they didn't put the same skill in to the design of the original XBox pads that they did with the Sidewinder range. Maybe then we wouldn't have ended up with the uncomfortably placed buttons and stiff triggers."
Really? I found the Xbox control pads (particularly the S controller) to be remarkably similiar to a Sidewinder, only better.
I'd still rather use something like the PS2 or Gamecube pad through a USB converter than a Sidewinder in any case, though.
With either a Dreamcast or Hori arcade stick through a console to USB adaptor you get a far better feel on things than a crummy cursor layout for games. Spindizzy Worlds is just the absolute Don with one.
What, you mean there are games other than through emulators?
I thought exactly the same thing when I heard the report last night, funnily enough. Zondas (the car kind) are quite remarkably cool. I have to say I prefer the Koenigsegg that was on last week's Top Gear, though. That thing has a mighty sound on it.
Well, Ebay are currently showing 3 coctail versions in current auctions, and another 3 upright ones, for a start.
But this is kind of by-the-by. They are more interested in the fact that you aren't purchasing any of the perfectly fine currently available versions for your home machines.
"Please George Lucas, in the name of Howard The Duck, make Spielberg shoot the movie digitally. The stone age is over."
Please Steven Spielberg, in the name of Jaws, don't listen to anything that hack Lucas says about digital filmmaking.
What's that? You already think he's sorely mistaken on the CCD vs 35mm argument, and have sailed as close to calling your best mate an idiot about it as you could? Good. Film looks like film. Digital looks completely different.
While I'll agree that its bloomin' expensive, I just thought it was worth mentioning that Stephen Fry's readings of the books (and not in an edited form, either) are absolutely marvellous, and highly recommended, if you'd rather have 27 hours worth of CDs to listen to than have to kludge a pirate copy onto a braille machine.
"Matter of fact; most people who read Harry Potter don't read much else. If they did, they might've discovered that there is more to this thing called literature than the tripe that is hyped on low brow tv."
Thats a pity. I've spent about £50 on books in the last week, and my wife has grabbed a few as well. I feel a bit stupid now I realise that I'm not going to be reading them.
There is some truth in your statement. Many people who buy Potter won't be buying many other books this year; the fact that JK Rowling was the author of 44% of all books sold in the UK last week is an indication of that. But don't infer that this means that the people who do buy books won't be buying it as well.
If memory serves (I've not modded my Box at home, as I've got a perfectly wonderful DVD player just above it anyway), the latest version will accept the remote should you want it to.
Its just that many would rather not bother, and save themselves the £20.
Just went for a browse on the Ideo website, to get a clue who he is. They did the Sega Saturn pad! Big kudos to them, its a thing of beauty. Their steering wheel designs for Logitech are darned comfy too.
OK, you might want to try explaining this again, in simpler terms.
To violate a license agreement, even a click through one, you have to have agreed to it in some way, shape or form.
Surely only licensed publishers will have signed the the publishing license, and so everyone who is actually beholden to the license terms is then incapable of breaking those terms anyway?
Aaah, I'd forgotten about the microphone on the controller for Live. It plugs in the memory card slot on the controller; presumably this kareoke device will also go in the controller ports when its released.
Meanwhile, in other news, Narcolumbia want to be recognised as the official supplier of cocaine to the music and film industries. This decision will have to wait, however, as they are all deciding on whether or not Mr. Cranky should be given the job of head of MPAA ratings.
Just because using Kazaa to break the law is a popular thing to do, hardly means its going to get given warm and fuzzy titles like "official". The only chance of that is "Official demonstration of who can buy the most Senators" when it gets destroyed in a particularly nasty way by Hatch and co.
Clever, but a frankly painful way of doing it. There are already dedicated media player programs for the Xbox that use the built-in DVD decoding hardware to give you multi-region DVD playback without the need for the remote.
OK, so turning my XBox into a Tivo with the aid of a modchip, a larger hard-drive and this bootcd would be great, but for one obvious thing. Where on earth is the video-in they plan to use this with?
Similiarly, there is no audio-in for the sound recorders.
And Blender is a nightmare of a gui in the first place, even when you've got a keyboard and mouse...
At the end of the day, an Xbox version of KnoppixMAME would probably be more useful, I feel. Still, its an interesting experiment.
As the other person replied has sort of described, the PS2 currently uses a "PS1 on a chip" as its I/O controller when in PS2 mode. As I understand it, then, its not actually really practical to have a PS2 compatibility mode without having PSOne for "free".
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Many of the Xbox Live games are actually not region-restricted - you can play a US copy of MotoGP 2 on a UK machine, and vice versa, for instance.
Even if this wasn't the case, the games will still play against each other. I have a basic unmodded PAL Xbox, and for my first Live game (only last weekend, coincidentally) I was playing Midtown Madness 3 against a Canadian, an American, a Begian, a Dutchman and a fellow Brit. Lag wasn't even a killer, and voice was still working fine. Its really cool, actually.
Haha - +1 funny, any day of the week.
Frankly, you've got more chance of seeing a portable Jaguar as the next big thing than the hilariously poor N-Gage. Its just completely, monumentally rubbish. Really.
And thats before we get to the part where the head person trying to persuade customers to buy such a poorly designed piece of plastic basically said "If you play computer games in public then you're a sad weirdo with no life." Great move, there. Way to make your thing trendy.
Cleese was wasted? If you want to talk about wasted, you can't not mention the fact that they didn't give ol' George McFly (ok, Crispin Glover) enough to do. He stole the first film by a mile, and did well with what they gave him this time around. He kicked more ass in the couple of scenes he got than the Angels did across both movies combined.
And as much as I like explosions and daft wire work as much as the next guy, that ending was too far.
(spoilers, obvously) - Why would a few singed eyebrows from a gas explosion stop her when a headlong crash without seatbelts at over 100mph right through a wall didn't? And I know she researched how flying squirrels are able to glide, but the flying Demi Moore was just dumb. She's not Batman. The Angels aren't Spiderman. And Bats would kick Spidey's arse every day of the week and still have time for a Sunday matinee performance.
Yeah, apparently producer Guber (fuckwit to the stars, and the man responsible for the amount of neon in the last two Batman films) really wanys Kutcher, having failed to get him into the Superman job.
Nolan, rightly, thinks this is a fecking horrible idea, and wants his Memento star Guy Pearce for the role. Personally, I think Pearce would make a great Batman - he's got the chin for the suit, while at the same time being able to play a convincing Wayne when out of it. Getting both right at the same time has been a problem with all of the films so far, to some degree.
'What was really getting me when I read headline is "How do you supe up your database?".'
:-)
Surely you've tuned a database for maximum throughput performance before?
As the other poster kind of implied, this isn't really the genre of music so much as the fact that you can get a synth to create you a much lower frequency at a much higher volume than a basic Fender Jazz will give off.
Leftfield are great for that sort of thing, though - Phat Planet (theme to the greatest advert of all time, for those that don't remember their Leftfield tracks) is right up there with LFO's LFO for insane bass quantities.
"The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters."
So nothing at all like Reboot, then. Totally different idea.
Get yourself to Lik-Sang or an equivalent sharpish, if thats why you're interested. Lots of online places do PS2 to USB converters; there are even ones that will allow you to use up to four PS2 pads as four joysticks on the PC.
The enhancement this brings to playing the likes of Gauntlet are pretty immense, obviously.
Seriously, seriously, you really ought to treat yourself to a Dreamcast arcade stick and a DC>USB converter. Its much nicer than a pad, and since the controls are pretty much identical to what you'd find in a Naomi Net City setup make the MAME thing an awful lot more authentic.
The other way to go is to get a PS2 stick from Hori (their new Soul Calibur 2 sticks are lovely) and a converter for that; not cheap, but more readily available than a DC one might be.
Finally, watch it with the converters - some only convert pads and not sticks.
As I said earlier, Sidewinders just aren't in the same league as the best console pads, and even they are nowhere near as good for MAME as a proper stick.
"It's a shame, however, that they didn't put the same skill in to the design of the original XBox pads that they did with the Sidewinder range. Maybe then we wouldn't have ended up with the uncomfortably placed buttons and stiff triggers."
Really? I found the Xbox control pads (particularly the S controller) to be remarkably similiar to a Sidewinder, only better.
I'd still rather use something like the PS2 or Gamecube pad through a USB converter than a Sidewinder in any case, though.
With either a Dreamcast or Hori arcade stick through a console to USB adaptor you get a far better feel on things than a crummy cursor layout for games. Spindizzy Worlds is just the absolute Don with one.
What, you mean there are games other than through emulators?
I thought exactly the same thing when I heard the report last night, funnily enough. Zondas (the car kind) are quite remarkably cool. I have to say I prefer the Koenigsegg that was on last week's Top Gear, though. That thing has a mighty sound on it.
Well, Ebay are currently showing 3 coctail versions in current auctions, and another 3 upright ones, for a start.
But this is kind of by-the-by. They are more interested in the fact that you aren't purchasing any of the perfectly fine currently available versions for your home machines.
"Please George Lucas, in the name of Howard The Duck, make Spielberg shoot the movie digitally. The stone age is over."
Please Steven Spielberg, in the name of Jaws, don't listen to anything that hack Lucas says about digital filmmaking.
What's that? You already think he's sorely mistaken on the CCD vs 35mm argument, and have sailed as close to calling your best mate an idiot about it as you could? Good. Film looks like film. Digital looks completely different.
Ah. Oh well, so much for my cunning plans. Still, I'm sure its of use to someone.
While I'll agree that its bloomin' expensive, I just thought it was worth mentioning that Stephen Fry's readings of the books (and not in an edited form, either) are absolutely marvellous, and highly recommended, if you'd rather have 27 hours worth of CDs to listen to than have to kludge a pirate copy onto a braille machine.
"Matter of fact; most people who read Harry Potter don't read much else. If they did, they might've discovered that there is more to this thing called literature than the tripe that is hyped on low brow tv."
Thats a pity. I've spent about £50 on books in the last week, and my wife has grabbed a few as well. I feel a bit stupid now I realise that I'm not going to be reading them.
There is some truth in your statement. Many people who buy Potter won't be buying many other books this year; the fact that JK Rowling was the author of 44% of all books sold in the UK last week is an indication of that. But don't infer that this means that the people who do buy books won't be buying it as well.
If memory serves (I've not modded my Box at home, as I've got a perfectly wonderful DVD player just above it anyway), the latest version will accept the remote should you want it to.
Its just that many would rather not bother, and save themselves the £20.
Just went for a browse on the Ideo website, to get a clue who he is. They did the Sega Saturn pad! Big kudos to them, its a thing of beauty. Their steering wheel designs for Logitech are darned comfy too.
OK, you might want to try explaining this again, in simpler terms.
To violate a license agreement, even a click through one, you have to have agreed to it in some way, shape or form.
Surely only licensed publishers will have signed the the publishing license, and so everyone who is actually beholden to the license terms is then incapable of breaking those terms anyway?
Aaah, I'd forgotten about the microphone on the controller for Live. It plugs in the memory card slot on the controller; presumably this kareoke device will also go in the controller ports when its released.
Meanwhile, in other news, Narcolumbia want to be recognised as the official supplier of cocaine to the music and film industries. This decision will have to wait, however, as they are all deciding on whether or not Mr. Cranky should be given the job of head of MPAA ratings.
Just because using Kazaa to break the law is a popular thing to do, hardly means its going to get given warm and fuzzy titles like "official". The only chance of that is "Official demonstration of who can buy the most Senators" when it gets destroyed in a particularly nasty way by Hatch and co.
Clever, but a frankly painful way of doing it. There are already dedicated media player programs for the Xbox that use the built-in DVD decoding hardware to give you multi-region DVD playback without the need for the remote.
OK, so turning my XBox into a Tivo with the aid of a modchip, a larger hard-drive and this bootcd would be great, but for one obvious thing. Where on earth is the video-in they plan to use this with?
Similiarly, there is no audio-in for the sound recorders.
And Blender is a nightmare of a gui in the first place, even when you've got a keyboard and mouse...
At the end of the day, an Xbox version of KnoppixMAME would probably be more useful, I feel. Still, its an interesting experiment.
As the other person replied has sort of described, the PS2 currently uses a "PS1 on a chip" as its I/O controller when in PS2 mode. As I understand it, then, its not actually really practical to have a PS2 compatibility mode without having PSOne for "free".