It would be a shame if, 10 years from now, no one has the chance to play great games like Mario Bros 3, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid.
Mario Bros. 3 will be re-released as Super Mario Advance 4, the Legend of Zelda is available on Animal Crossing, and Metroid is available on Metroid Prime.
Are we starting to understand why Nintendo doesn't like ROMs?
Of course we do. The question is whether we have so many ideas better than these remakes that everyone making a game can have one, and whether there is some way to get all these ideas to the people making games. That we don't have.
here are degrees of success, and while Nintendo probably didn't hurt too bad from the reduced sales, the takeup of the GBAsp (10 a minute, world wide, since release) indicates that they got the GBA right on their second go, not their first.
The GBA SP has sold over 1 million in 10 weeks. The original GBA sold 5 million from June 18th, 2001 to March 14th 2002, less than 40 weeks. A higher rate, for far longer. The GBA SP is a success, but the GBA is the biggest success in console history.
After Mayfair, it was put out by Hasbro. I believe their goal was to put out something close to the original game without the expansions - I know it didn't have that many powers, but I haven't played it so I don't know what other stuff they included.
What happens when the whole system breaks down. (When was the last time a complex system like the ones we have today didn't break down).
Yesterday.
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I find it a little weird that the first such bundle is a DVD/Tivo box. Presumably it won't include the ability to make disk copies of DVDs! Without this feature, what the point of buying these two devices together?
I'd really like a DVD player that uses the TiVo remote. I've become used to the skip back button, and not having it is irritating.
Probably not a significant enough feature to sell the unit though.
IMO, an amendment should prevent retroactive changing of copyright lengths. If the point of copyright is to give people an incentive to publish, lengthening the time period after it has been published has no benefit, and shortening it afterwards seems like going back on a promise. Neither should be allowed.
Anyway, if you think you know something about Amdahl's law, you need to google for "Gustafsons's law". Executive summary: Amdahl was wrong.
If you had actually tried using google for "Gustafson's law" you would have seen as the first link a paper claiming it and Amdahl's law are identical, not that Amdahl was wrong.
Yeah I meant their business plan from the beginning should have been to sell boxes and not get involved with listings feeds. Although I think I see the flaw now - where else do the listings come from? You'd think that TV channels would broadcast an EPG (electronic programme guide) alongside every one of their channels. It looks like this is unfortunately not yet the case in all of TiVo's markets.
It would have been nice if they had made the listings something that they didn't try to make a profit on and supported getting the data from another source if available. The DirecTV version at least should have been able to get data from their service.
I didn't know you could use the box without a subscription, I'll consider getting one in that case. (Although even the biggest hard disk cannot compete for storage capacity with a huge stack of VHS tapes; I sometimes backlog up to two months' TV viewing.)
Fortunately TiVos and VCRs are not mutually exclusive.:) Personally I have my VCR record shows I may want to watch again, like Buffy. TiVo makes it fairly easy to edit out the commercials when I do so, which is nice.
I wonder if it has PDC support (Programme Delivery Control; an signal sent by the broadcaster at the time programmes start and stop, since they may not run exactly to timetable).
Just sell the damn things like toasters, pocket the money, and stop making them when it becomes unprofitable. That's all there is to it.
If they stop providing the TV listings when they stop making the boxes because it became unprofitable they would piss off a lot of their former customers. When your providing a continual service a monthly fee makes a lot of sense.
If you don't want to pay the monthly fee, you don't have to. You can either use the box without it knowing when shows are on, and just set it to record things manually (which it's pretty good at - you can have recordings that repeat every week, or every weekday), or you can just pay a flat fee once to get a lifetime subscription to their service. I believe when we got the box it was $10 a month or $200 once.
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I watched the first episode of Outlaw Star, and decided not to watch the series more when I found out that the guys I thought were robots weren't, and they cut the part where they bleed and the main character comments that they're not robots, and changed "killed" to "destroyed". When something meaningful in the story changes, it's too big an edit for me. I'll try and watch the DVDs some day.
However, this is apparently because it was originally edited for the Toonami block rather than Adult Swim. I'm happily watching Cowboy Bebop as its edits seem generally fairly insignificant.
I think this is just intended to fail. "Look, we offered stuff over the net, but they've already pirated it and refuse to buy it."
I don't think it is. The price may look bad compared to rental or buying the DVD, but I think it's near pay-per-view movie prices, which seems reasonable.
Quite possibly they are more concerned about making sure it doesn't reduce the profit from other methods of distribution than maximizing the money they make from this method.
The speculation I've heard about Witchblade is that it was cancelled because this year they had to suspend production while Yancy Butler underwent alcohol rehab, and that cost them money and they didn't want to risk having it happen again.
Buffy is probaly going to end because the actors' contracts run out after this season.
Smallville getting cancelled seems unlikely to me, giving that they are advertising Birds of Prey as being from the same creators.
Trips to Israel for profit? Gee, a real holy guy. Remember in the bible something about it being harder to stuff a camel's ass through the eye of a needle than getting a rich man into heaven?
From the article: "I have led 31 tours to Israel, and all the proceeds have gone to Liberty University because there was profit factor built in to benefit our school." (emphasis added)
As someone else already pointed out, www.liquidmetal.com/technology/ has more info - it states that it is yield strength that is twice as high as conventional titanium alloys, and mentions fatigue resistance as one thing that an alloy can be tailored for.
Sure, they'll use a lot more of the stuff they get than just the finalists.
No they won't. Not legally anyway. They only ask for the rights to the work of the three finalists. I really don't think they have enough incentive to do it illegally.
Sure, they're saving a ton of development costs.
Actually, they're not. They are spending considerably more than would be normal. Just the twenty thousand is estimated at somewhere between five and ten times industry rates for something that size, and that's not even counting the additional hundred thousand for the winner.
Now that we have signed it we have given up our "birthright"? Are we talking Manifest Destiny here?
For "a mess of pottage"? No, we are not talking Manifest Destiny, we're talking Biblical allusion. The link from pottage should have made that clear. Just means it was a terrible deal, sacrificing something that will be very valuable in the future for something of little value that gives an immediate benefit. Birthright shouldn't be taken any more literally than pottage.
I wonder how long it will be before the console game world realizes that a good solid keyboard and a small, comfortable mouse are the best controllers available.
Right after everyone who play console games starts sitting in front of a table.
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Get an Action Replay for the GameCube (~$40). It's the only known method of unlocking Zelda right now.
www.animalxing.com/nesgames.php has a list of the NES games in Animal Crossing and some info on how to get them.
It would be a shame if, 10 years from now, no one has the chance to play great games like Mario Bros 3, The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid.
Mario Bros. 3 will be re-released as Super Mario Advance 4, the Legend of Zelda is available on Animal Crossing, and Metroid is available on Metroid Prime.
Are we starting to understand why Nintendo doesn't like ROMs?
My favorite example of "literally" misused:
"Barry Sanders is literally a workhorse".
If there really was one gram of creativity anywhere in the movie world, Jackson would write an original script instead of adapting an existing work.
So if there was any creativity in the movie world, Jackson would have it?
Do we really have no good new ideas?
Of course we do. The question is whether we have so many ideas better than these remakes that everyone making a game can have one, and whether there is some way to get all these ideas to the people making games. That we don't have.
here are degrees of success, and while Nintendo probably didn't hurt too bad from the reduced sales, the takeup of the GBAsp (10 a minute, world wide, since release) indicates that they got the GBA right on their second go, not their first.
The GBA SP has sold over 1 million in 10 weeks. The original GBA sold 5 million from June 18th, 2001 to March 14th 2002, less than 40 weeks. A higher rate, for far longer. The GBA SP is a success, but the GBA is the biggest success in console history.
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Not backlighting the first GBA.
Just being widely maligned by gamers isn't enough to make it stupid. It has to actually fail in the marketplace.
After Mayfair, it was put out by Hasbro. I believe their goal was to put out something close to the original game without the expansions - I know it didn't have that many powers, but I haven't played it so I don't know what other stuff they included.
What happens when the whole system breaks down. (When was the last time a complex system like the ones we have today didn't break down).
Yesterday.
I find it a little weird that the first such bundle is a DVD/Tivo box. Presumably it won't include the ability to make disk copies of DVDs! Without this feature, what the point of buying these two devices together?
I'd really like a DVD player that uses the TiVo remote. I've become used to the skip back button, and not having it is irritating.
Probably not a significant enough feature to sell the unit though.
There's an interview with a writer/producer for Toonami here that discusses the topic.
IMO, an amendment should prevent retroactive changing of copyright lengths. If the point of copyright is to give people an incentive to publish, lengthening the time period after it has been published has no benefit, and shortening it afterwards seems like going back on a promise. Neither should be allowed.
Second, bring the unit price more in line with the disposable income of the target market.
Isn't this the kind of thing they want region-locked discs for? If they did this now, wouldn't people start importing cheap CDs from Mexico?
Anyway, if you think you know something about Amdahl's law, you need to google for "Gustafsons's law". Executive summary: Amdahl was wrong.
If you had actually tried using google for "Gustafson's law" you would have seen as the first link a paper claiming it and Amdahl's law are identical, not that Amdahl was wrong.
Yeah I meant their business plan from the beginning should have been to sell boxes and not get involved with listings feeds. Although I think I see the flaw now - where else do the listings come from? You'd think that TV channels would broadcast an EPG (electronic programme guide) alongside every one of their channels. It looks like this is unfortunately not yet the case in all of TiVo's markets.
:) Personally I have my VCR record shows I may want to watch again, like Buffy. TiVo makes it fairly easy to edit out the commercials when I do so, which is nice.
It would have been nice if they had made the listings something that they didn't try to make a profit on and supported getting the data from another source if available. The DirecTV version at least should have been able to get data from their service.
I didn't know you could use the box without a subscription, I'll consider getting one in that case. (Although even the biggest hard disk cannot compete for storage capacity with a huge stack of VHS tapes; I sometimes backlog up to two months' TV viewing.)
Fortunately TiVos and VCRs are not mutually exclusive.
I wonder if it has PDC support (Programme Delivery Control; an signal sent by the broadcaster at the time programmes start and stop, since they may not run exactly to timetable).
Not to my knowledge.
Just sell the damn things like toasters, pocket the money, and stop making them when it becomes unprofitable. That's all there is to it.
If they stop providing the TV listings when they stop making the boxes because it became unprofitable they would piss off a lot of their former customers. When your providing a continual service a monthly fee makes a lot of sense.
If you don't want to pay the monthly fee, you don't have to. You can either use the box without it knowing when shows are on, and just set it to record things manually (which it's pretty good at - you can have recordings that repeat every week, or every weekday), or you can just pay a flat fee once to get a lifetime subscription to their service. I believe when we got the box it was $10 a month or $200 once.
Their is an edit list at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/edit-list. php
I watched the first episode of Outlaw Star, and decided not to watch the series more when I found out that the guys I thought were robots weren't, and they cut the part where they bleed and the main character comments that they're not robots, and changed "killed" to "destroyed". When something meaningful in the story changes, it's too big an edit for me. I'll try and watch the DVDs some day.
However, this is apparently because it was originally edited for the Toonami block rather than Adult Swim. I'm happily watching Cowboy Bebop as its edits seem generally fairly insignificant.
I think this is just intended to fail. "Look, we offered stuff over the net, but they've already pirated it and refuse to buy it."
I don't think it is. The price may look bad compared to rental or buying the DVD, but I think it's near pay-per-view movie prices, which seems reasonable.
Quite possibly they are more concerned about making sure it doesn't reduce the profit from other methods of distribution than maximizing the money they make from this method.
The speculation I've heard about Witchblade is that it was cancelled because this year they had to suspend production while Yancy Butler underwent alcohol rehab, and that cost them money and they didn't want to risk having it happen again.
Buffy is probaly going to end because the actors' contracts run out after this season.
Smallville getting cancelled seems unlikely to me, giving that they are advertising Birds of Prey as being from the same creators.
Trips to Israel for profit? Gee, a real holy guy. Remember in the bible something about it being harder to stuff a camel's ass through the eye of a needle than getting a rich man into heaven?
From the article: "I have led 31 tours to Israel, and all the proceeds have gone to Liberty University because there was profit factor built in to benefit our school." (emphasis added)
As someone else already pointed out, www.liquidmetal.com/technology/ has more info - it states that it is yield strength that is twice as high as conventional titanium alloys, and mentions fatigue resistance as one thing that an alloy can be tailored for.
Sure, they'll use a lot more of the stuff they get than just the finalists.
No they won't. Not legally anyway. They only ask for the rights to the work of the three finalists. I really don't think they have enough incentive to do it illegally.
Sure, they're saving a ton of development costs.
Actually, they're not. They are spending considerably more than would be normal. Just the twenty thousand is estimated at somewhere between five and ten times industry rates for something that size, and that's not even counting the additional hundred thousand for the winner.
Now that we have signed it we have given up our "birthright"? Are we talking Manifest Destiny here?
For "a mess of pottage"? No, we are not talking Manifest Destiny, we're talking Biblical allusion. The link from pottage should have made that clear. Just means it was a terrible deal, sacrificing something that will be very valuable in the future for something of little value that gives an immediate benefit. Birthright shouldn't be taken any more literally than pottage.
I wonder how long it will be before the console game world realizes that a good solid keyboard and a small, comfortable mouse are the best controllers available.
Right after everyone who play console games starts sitting in front of a table.
It seems the only people who would be hit by the ID code requirement would be the legitimate manufacturers as the pirates simply wouldn't bother.
From the article:
"First, it would be easier to identify illegitimate products -- CDs that don't have a code would raise a red flag."