SOME genesis games come out sounding better than I remember. (Check out ANY of the Wolfteam/Telenet/Rennovation games, or Phantasy Star 2...4 sounds like it might be close as well)
But others...
Ever since Genecyst first came out, I've been using Thunderforce 3 to check how the sound emulation has progressed. No emulator has gotten that perfect yet. (Some can play the opening music right, and a few of the simpler pieces, but nothing has the G-lobster music down yet.)
Did the Genesis have any analog components that make it impossible to get it perfect (like beyond-the-ability-of-the-ear-to-ever-tell-perfect )?
I stopped listening after 7. Basically because I realized how dumb the games were.
Regarding originality, all the games had one or two really good pieces...out of what....40?
Megaman X, IMO has better sound quality (of COURSE), but the music itself isn't as interesting. Check out some of the megaman 1 and 2 remixes. (3 is inexplicably less popular...IMO it's better than 1, almost as good as 2).
If you like music that mostly sound like every other final fantasy game, and resembles 90+ percent of other RPGs (but admittedly is better than most other RPGs)
If you want more than a handful of distinctive tracks per game, there are better places to find it, and Megaman (including X) is one of the best places to find it.
But IMO, the last 2 Darius games beat all comers. Bwaahaha.
Shatterhand, Contra, Castlevania (series), Megaman (well, everyone knows those three). I also kind of like the first TMNT game. Of course, there's Super Mario Bros 2 and 3. 3 is remarkable in that it actually sounded BETTER on the NES than on the SNES, particularly the end music.
The Minibosses are a really cool band that's been doing video game covers for a couple years. They have an awesome CD. (Probably technically illegal, I dunno). Contra, Castlevania, Wizards and Warriors, and the GI Joe theme song, among others, all in sort of an instrumental punk-metal thing.
Also, search for the Rabbit Joint and try and find their "Legend of Zelda" song. You will laugh your ass off. "Link...he come to town...come to save...the princess zelda!" It used to be on MP3.com, but it's gone now. Probably lawyers didn't like it.
Megaman had a lot of good music. That's why you'll find more Megaman remixes out there than anything save MAYBE Final Fantasy.
Jeez...anyone remember looking for game music on napster and finding dozens of people with nothing but final fantasy music? God...how boring and repetetive.
IMO, nothing tops Darius Gaiden and G-Darius. I recorded a clip from G-darius as my cell phone ring tone, which someone described as "scary." Wonder if anyone will ever redo some of that?
They also have some remixes. Mostly it's ripped stuff, though.
Also, if you're willing to wade through tons of "inspired by" shit, MP3.com's electronic section has lots of good remixes...many are also on other sites like remix.overclocked.org, though.
Remix.overclocked.org has been doing this for a while. Almost all of it is listenable, some of it is phenomenally good. (Check out anything by DJpretzel, Jaxx, or McVaffe)
One: Most people aren't getting free internet. They're paying for it, and if they think of it like cable TV, they're expecting there to be some content. I realize that isn't how it works, but I'm sure there are many out there who don't. Regardless, the fact that people are paying 10 to 50 or more dollars per month just for the connection reduces the leftover pool of money people are willing to spend on internet content.
Second: Most sites that are doing this free service/premium service thing, or just switching to pay-only don't seem to realize that there is a HUGE gap between zero dollars and 5 (or more) dollars per month. If I was perfectly happy with my free 6 meg Yahoo mailbox, what makes you think I wanna pay 60 dollars a year to make it 20? (Especially since POP access is also free?) Maybe if they offered incrementally better service at smaller increases in price...say, 10 dollars a YEAR for double the space or a few extra features, more people would bite.
I mean, no joke it would add up. Just the sites I visit everyday would be at least 40 dollars a month if it was 5 bucks a month. Content providers can't expect that people will think it's worth that to their viewers, unless they are providing information which has either extreme entertainment value (like porn), or stuff which has practical, valuable use to the customer, which does NOT have a comparably useful free alternative.
Umm....intel is trying to sell software companies on Hyperthreading, so they go and sell lots of P4s with it disabled. Makes sense. Crack the eggs, kill the chicken.
BTW, disregarding it's lack of color, the GB Pocket was somewhere between the original and the GBC in terms of visibility. It was a little blurry, IIRC, but no where near the greenish smudge that was the original's screen.
Okay then...Not that I think the option to stretch the GBC games (haven't played GBC on a GBA myself, so I only THINK I know what you're talking about there) has anything at all to do with the screen's quality so much as it's aspect ratio.
I was wondering why you were bringing up the game boy color if you didn't mean to suggest it's screen was inferior. (IMO, it is slightly easier to see in low or glaring light, therefore better)
Oh, the biggest of these used-stuff store chains is "Book Off." They also run stores selling used electronics called "Hard Off." No american can see that sign and not laugh. ("Is that the opposite of a hard-on?")
No, if those laws actually exist in japan, it doesn't eliminate anything. You can't swing a dead cat in a japanese city without hitting a used book store, or a used game store, or used CD shop...actually these shops usually sell all three. Hell, there are even large chains of these which would be incredibly easy to sue or otherwise deal with.
I think this is another example, albeit a not terribly important one, of how journalists try to report on too many different things while only knowing anything about a pitifully few.
"Sony, which manufactures the top-selling Playstation games, said it had never received any feedback or complaints about hand-arm vibration syndrome after 61 million sales world-wide of Playstations I and II.
It stressed that there was occasional, but no constant vibration during either game."
Either game? Either british usage is a little different in this respect, or whoever was summarizing Sony's position doesn't own either one.
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SOME genesis games come out sounding better than I remember. (Check out ANY of the Wolfteam/Telenet/Rennovation games, or Phantasy Star 2...4 sounds like it might be close as well)
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But others...
Ever since Genecyst first came out, I've been using Thunderforce 3 to check how the sound emulation has progressed. No emulator has gotten that perfect yet. (Some can play the opening music right, and a few of the simpler pieces, but nothing has the G-lobster music down yet.)
Did the Genesis have any analog components that make it impossible to get it perfect (like beyond-the-ability-of-the-ear-to-ever-tell-perfec
I stopped listening after 7. Basically because I realized how dumb the games were.
Regarding originality, all the games had one or two really good pieces...out of what....40?
Megaman X, IMO has better sound quality (of COURSE), but the music itself isn't as interesting. Check out some of the megaman 1 and 2 remixes. (3 is inexplicably less popular...IMO it's better than 1, almost as good as 2).
If you like music that mostly sound like every other final fantasy game, and resembles 90+ percent of other RPGs (but admittedly is better than most other RPGs)
If you want more than a handful of distinctive tracks per game, there are better places to find it, and Megaman (including X) is one of the best places to find it.
But IMO, the last 2 Darius games beat all comers. Bwaahaha.
Shatterhand, Contra, Castlevania (series), Megaman (well, everyone knows those three). I also kind of like the first TMNT game. Of course, there's Super Mario Bros 2 and 3. 3 is remarkable in that it actually sounded BETTER on the NES than on the SNES, particularly the end music.
The Minibosses are a really cool band that's been doing video game covers for a couple years. They have an awesome CD. (Probably technically illegal, I dunno). Contra, Castlevania, Wizards and Warriors, and the GI Joe theme song, among others, all in sort of an instrumental punk-metal thing.
Also, search for the Rabbit Joint and try and find their "Legend of Zelda" song. You will laugh your ass off. "Link...he come to town...come to save...the princess zelda!"
It used to be on MP3.com, but it's gone now. Probably lawyers didn't like it.
Megaman had a lot of good music. That's why you'll find more Megaman remixes out there than anything save MAYBE Final Fantasy.
Jeez...anyone remember looking for game music on napster and finding dozens of people with nothing but final fantasy music? God...how boring and repetetive.
IMO, nothing tops Darius Gaiden and G-Darius. I recorded a clip from G-darius as my cell phone ring tone, which someone described as "scary." Wonder if anyone will ever redo some of that?
They also have some remixes. Mostly it's ripped stuff, though.
Also, if you're willing to wade through tons of "inspired by" shit, MP3.com's electronic section has lots of good remixes...many are also on other sites like remix.overclocked.org, though.
For mostly shitty midis. whoo boy.
Remix.overclocked.org has been doing this for a while. Almost all of it is listenable, some of it is phenomenally good. (Check out anything by DJpretzel, Jaxx, or McVaffe)
I'm sure it varies from place to place, but a Brazilian friend of mine told me that that is only if you do not choose to bribe the examiner.
One: Most people aren't getting free internet. They're paying for it, and if they think of it like cable TV, they're expecting there to be some content. I realize that isn't how it works, but I'm sure there are many out there who don't. Regardless, the fact that people are paying 10 to 50 or more dollars per month just for the connection reduces the leftover pool of money people are willing to spend on internet content.
Second:
Most sites that are doing this free service/premium service thing, or just switching to pay-only don't seem to realize that there is a HUGE gap between zero dollars and 5 (or more) dollars per month. If I was perfectly happy with my free 6 meg Yahoo mailbox, what makes you think I wanna pay 60 dollars a year to make it 20? (Especially since POP access is also free?)
Maybe if they offered incrementally better service at smaller increases in price...say, 10 dollars a YEAR for double the space or a few extra features, more people would bite.
I mean, no joke it would add up. Just the sites I visit everyday would be at least 40 dollars a month if it was 5 bucks a month. Content providers can't expect that people will think it's worth that to their viewers, unless they are providing information which has either extreme entertainment value (like porn), or stuff which has practical, valuable use to the customer, which does NOT have a comparably useful free alternative.
Umm....intel is trying to sell software companies on Hyperthreading, so they go and sell lots of P4s with it disabled.
Makes sense. Crack the eggs, kill the chicken.
Really stylish. It'd probably look great next to a Cobalt.
Either that, or they've got books printed up already.
Re: greasy, nasty, grungy keyboard
One word: Windex.
BTW, disregarding it's lack of color, the GB Pocket was somewhere between the original and the GBC in terms of visibility. It was a little blurry, IIRC, but no where near the greenish smudge that was the original's screen.
Okay then...Not that I think the option to stretch the GBC games (haven't played GBC on a GBA myself, so I only THINK I know what you're talking about there) has anything at all to do with the screen's quality so much as it's aspect ratio.
I was wondering why you were bringing up the game boy color if you didn't mean to suggest it's screen was inferior. (IMO, it is slightly easier to see in low or glaring light, therefore better)
Too much videogame-playing has made the 23 year old joints in my hands resemble those of a 90 year old. I'm typing with my toes right now.
The game boy color is not blurry. I would say its screen is in every way superior to the GBA (well, besides being smaller).
But no doubt...short memory.
The Game Gear would be the worst COLOR portable system screen...were it not for THE BACKLIGHT.
Meesa Jar Jar Binks. Meesa be sellin' yousa light saber on Ebay.
No, you've got it all wrong. China is a part of Taiwan.
Wouldn't that make the resulting code a derivative work, thus the property of the suggester?
(Or would the suggestions be derivative works?)
Oh, the biggest of these used-stuff store chains is "Book Off." They also run stores selling used electronics called "Hard Off." No american can see that sign and not laugh. ("Is that the opposite of a hard-on?")
No, if those laws actually exist in japan, it doesn't eliminate anything. You can't swing a dead cat in a japanese city without hitting a used book store, or a used game store, or used CD shop...actually these shops usually sell all three. Hell, there are even large chains of these which would be incredibly easy to sue or otherwise deal with.
From the article
"For example, brain size has decreased over the past 10,000 years. "
Yup...thousands of years of what today would be Jerry Springer guests, outbreeding the rest. THAT IS OUR HERITAGE, EVERY ONE OF US.
I think this is another example, albeit a not terribly important one, of how journalists try to report on too many different things while only knowing anything about a pitifully few.
"Sony, which manufactures the top-selling Playstation games, said it had never received any feedback or complaints about hand-arm vibration syndrome after 61 million sales world-wide of Playstations I and II.
It stressed that there was occasional, but no constant vibration during either game."
Either game? Either british usage is a little different in this respect, or whoever was summarizing Sony's position doesn't own either one.
Oh, yeah, it vibrates...feels like I'm really in the game.
No, wait, no it doesn't. Not unless the game involves riding a bicycle over railroad ties, or jamming a vibrator in somewhere.
They were a dumb idea from the start.