Nawww. They just want to sell more copies of those endless "Artwork of Middle Earth" books and are sick of us freeloaders getting our fill from the covers.
This edition, which comes with the Hobbit, as well, has some semi-groovy, non-movie cover art too. It's the copy I picked up last year at my local B&N.
Perhaps the next revision of Slashcode should allow users to mark their posts as "from the blah blah blah dept." so that everyone could immediately determine the intended tone.
Oh wait. Then that would negate the whole "subtle humo(u)r" thing.
It would open up a whole new world of ironic possibilities though, like ACs annotating their own posts as coming from the "Interesting/Informative dept.".
I don't know. I must have missed the part where J.R.R. described Tom Bombadill as a jumpy, hairy ex-cokehead with rainbow suspenders. Although he did have those groovy boots...*grin*
I actually never even considered who would make a good Tom Bombadill, as it was leaked fairly early on in production that Tom was getting cut for "cinematic constraints" reasons. Hmmmm.
You better add a couple of VHS editions if you're going the Lucas route.
On a side note, when the heck are Lucas and Spielberg going to release an Indiana Jones DVD box set? I've got the VHS edition, but my VCR isn't hooked up and I do so hate turning those coax nuts with my bare fingers... *sigh*
Yeah. A friend of mine described it as thus: "Well, they were in Hobbiton and then *BAM* they were in Bree." No trashing Frodo's new digs (and Fatty running like a little wuss...).
Plus, no Evil Bill from Bree in the movie... And I so wanted to see Sean Astin whip an apple at somebody.
X-Men (the recent one w/Patrick Stewart) had something similar. It's just that the editing and film quality of the added scenes was so poor that playing the movie with the "continuous" option on was jarring and not very entertaining.
If all the added scenes keep the production values of the rest of the movie, then I say, have at it, Peter Jackson. If not, well, leave 'em in a separate "Deleted Scenes" menu.
I can see a bit of Jackson's reasoning for not wanting to introduce another character (many of the non-readers that I've talked to have complained about the sheer volume of characters in the film). I am still pissed, though, that they made the ford scene one of Liv Tyler playing the Elven Amazon warrior, instead of letting Frodo take what he thought was going to be his last stand.
Yeah, he was on horseback, but Glofindel wasn't with him. It was him going face-to-face with the Nazgul.
That was my biggest gripe with the movie: the way the hobbits were portrayed as wide-eyed, bumbling know-nothings who couldn't fend for themselves if their lives depended on it.
Most people would place Frodo as the "hero" of the books, but I've always been of the opinion that Sam ends up being the truest, most noble hero in the book... Ahhh well.
Expanded "interaction between the fellowship" and apparently John Rhys-Davies is going to "fall" for Cate Blanchett, errrm, Gimli is going to "fall" for Galadriel, like in the book.
So no Tom Bombadill and no Glorfindel. Fie! Curse Peter Jackson!
I'll grant you BloodWake. Looks spiffy. UC does too. Most of the rest of those games are either 1) already on the PS2 or 2) coming out in parallell/on a slight delay with the XBox release on PS2.
JSRF is coming to PS2, as is Blood Omen2, Tapout, Rayman, and Spiderman, as well as Transworld Surf.
Xbox has about all the games the PS2 does. Hell, even an enhance FFX,untrue MGS2"X",completely unconfirmed GTA3in severe doubt right now, no release date and Rockstar has pulled all mention of it from its website and all the ea sports titles and everything else is coming over..
XBox doesn't have Gran Turismo. It doesn't have Devil May Cry. It doesn't have Jak & Daxter.
Not to mention Xenosaga, GrandiaX and a whole host of RPGs coming out first half of next year for PS2...
Hardly. I actually rented this one and played it at night when the wifey had gone to bed (she gives me dirty looks whenever I so much as suggest we get the game). I found myself trying (unsuccessfully) not to burst out in laughter repeatedly. Every 20 minutes or so, I would think to myself "I've seen car chases like this on TV!" Or "Wow, that one would have made 'Cops' or 'America's Most Deadly Police Chases Part IX'.
Case in point: I made the mistake of jacking a cargo van in the plain view of a police cruiser. As I fled in my (not-so-quick) new wheels, the cruiser gave chase. Attempting to pull me over, the cruiser rammed me up onto the sidewalk, where I promptly ran over a patrolman on foot. Instant second star rating. More cruisers joined the chase and, as I whipped around a corner (the doors in the rear ajar from the repeated rammings), a cruiser screeched to a halt in front of me, causing my van to ramp up over its hood and complete a barrel roll. Hood now aflame, I ditched the van and fled on foot. The four cruisers behind me disgorged their officers, who began to fire at me. However, they failed to flee the scene of my flaming wreck, which exploded, killing around 10 officers. *BAM* Three star rating.
After that, well, it's a bit hard to flee the cops' helicopter on foot...
Re: open-endedness. Why not ban the Sims too? I mean, I can wall people in in my bathroom and chuckle gleefully over their cries for help as they slowly starve to death.
Or pause the game when a Sim is swimming, remove the ladder from the pool and then watch as they tire and drown.
Seems to me that this sort of mayhem is much more within the reach of the average consumer (vs. obtaining rocket-propelled grenades and high-powered sniper rifles).
Where did you get this rumor re: GTA3 in America being "toned down"? It hasn't. "Family friendly" stores such as Wal Mart, K Mart, Target, Toys Backwards R Us briefly flirted with the idea of pulling the game from shelves. When confronted with sales figures, most of the stores changed their tune.
My local Wal Mart and Toys Backwards R Us both have considerable stocks of GTA3. My Best Buy can hardly keep the bloody game in stock.
...what if Chairface Chippendale gets ahold of this? Will he still try to write his name on the moon? Or will he use the moon to write his name on Earth?
NES Software consists of a PRG-ROM (Program ROM) which is the code area and a CHR-RAM (Character RAM) which is the pattern table.
Most games load themselves into the Lower PRG-ROM ($8000), using 32kb of
PRG-ROM space. The first game to use the entire PRG-ROM space is Super Mario
Brothers. However, all games with more than one (1) 16K bank of PRG-ROM load
themselves into $8000 as well. These games use MMCs (see section 2.5) to
address PRG-ROM past the 32K boundary, and to access more than 8K of CHR-RAM
simultaneously.
2.3 UNROM GAMES
Unrom games come with a built-in PRG ROM chip as well as a RAM chip for
memory storage. Such things as background and moving object characters for
the current area are stored in the RAM chip until needed. The Unrom also
was the first chip to expand the memory size of the NES games and were the
first to carry a feature known as bank switching for the games.
This effect allowed for many pages of information and to have serveral
programs on one chip. Back switching allowed for automatic switching between
multiple programs on one chip. Also, the maximum game page size was 8x16kb,
just like the MMC1 chip.
2.4 MEMORY MANAGEMENT CHIPS
MMC1 - The first and most used chip of all five. Many games like the Legend
of Zelda and Metroid use this chip because otherwise they would not
be possible. The MMC1 allows NES games to have the ability to scroll
vertically and horizontally at the same time on teh screen. The chip
also expanded the NES memory to allow for more, and larger game
worlds. The maximum game page size is 8x16kb.
MMC2 - This chip is only found in the US and European Mike Tyson's Punch-Out,
the Japanese version used a MMC4 chip. It was entirely used for the
purpose af allowing large characters to move on the screen. The chip
also allowed for you to see expression on an oponents face. This could
be a dropped jaw, blinking, shock, a wince, twitching, as well as hand
and feet movements. The game, because of all its different variations,
required a big memory boost which this chip allowed for. The maximum
game page size of this chip is 32x16kb. But why were they able to use
a MMC4 for the Japanese version then?, I dont know.
MMC3 - Second most used chip for NES carts allowed for many new game
innovations. The additions are; expanded memory and the use of split
screen scrolling in games. Games like Super Mario Bros 3 use this
chip. In SMB3 its used as a split screen between the playing field and
the status screen at the bottom of the screen. These games also has a
maximum game page size of 32x16kb, just as the MMC2.
MMC4 - ?
MMC5 - The newest of the MMC chips for the NES. The first game it was used
for was Castlevania 3: Draculas Curse. This chip has many nw and
expanded features that accompanied it. The MMC5 improved the battery
backup feature so you wouldent have to push reset when you turn off
the NES to prevent data loss. The chip also allows greater color
deffinition and partial screen scrolling (not locked like SMB3). It
is also a customized mathematics module that took much strain off the
CPU and took care of many tasks like the internal clock, and other
repetitive functions.
The MMC5 also aloowed a vertical split screen scroll which means you
can have a side bar of information while the scrolling action of
the game continues. The chip has a memory capacity of 8 Megs
(1,048,576 bits). Another MMC5 game, and probably the only one, is
Kirby's Adventure. A few games which this chip had a maximum game
page size of 64x16kb."
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I hear they still use Betamax.
And I bet Gondor uses PAL instead of NTSC.
I hear tell that Rosen and Valenti have enlisted Saruman to breed them uruk-hai lawyers capable of litigating and tracing pirates by IP...
Nawww. They just want to sell more copies of those endless "Artwork of Middle Earth" books and are sick of us freeloaders getting our fill from the covers.
This edition, which comes with the Hobbit, as well, has some semi-groovy, non-movie cover art too. It's the copy I picked up last year at my local B&N.
It's a joke. Laugh.
Perhaps the next revision of Slashcode should allow users to mark their posts as "from the blah blah blah dept." so that everyone could immediately determine the intended tone.
Oh wait. Then that would negate the whole "subtle humo(u)r" thing.
It would open up a whole new world of ironic possibilities though, like ACs annotating their own posts as coming from the "Interesting/Informative dept.".
I don't know. I must have missed the part where J.R.R. described Tom Bombadill as a jumpy, hairy ex-cokehead with rainbow suspenders. Although he did have those groovy boots...*grin*
I actually never even considered who would make a good Tom Bombadill, as it was leaked fairly early on in production that Tom was getting cut for "cinematic constraints" reasons. Hmmmm.
You better add a couple of VHS editions if you're going the Lucas route.
On a side note, when the heck are Lucas and Spielberg going to release an Indiana Jones DVD box set? I've got the VHS edition, but my VCR isn't hooked up and I do so hate turning those coax nuts with my bare fingers... *sigh*
I wouldn't mix my elves. It's rather like mixing your alcohol: leaves you feeling rather strange and, more often than not, with a terrible headache.
Plus, they're pretty good shots, so you just might end up with an arrow in the eye.
Just ask the Yrch.
Okay, I'll bite:
"Irony Nazi's Butt: what did you think of the new Apocalypse Now With Added T &A?"
Yeah. A friend of mine described it as thus: "Well, they were in Hobbiton and then *BAM* they were in Bree." No trashing Frodo's new digs (and Fatty running like a little wuss...).
Plus, no Evil Bill from Bree in the movie... And I so wanted to see Sean Astin whip an apple at somebody.
X-Men (the recent one w/Patrick Stewart) had something similar. It's just that the editing and film quality of the added scenes was so poor that playing the movie with the "continuous" option on was jarring and not very entertaining.
If all the added scenes keep the production values of the rest of the movie, then I say, have at it, Peter Jackson. If not, well, leave 'em in a separate "Deleted Scenes" menu.
I can see a bit of Jackson's reasoning for not wanting to introduce another character (many of the non-readers that I've talked to have complained about the sheer volume of characters in the film). I am still pissed, though, that they made the ford scene one of Liv Tyler playing the Elven Amazon warrior, instead of letting Frodo take what he thought was going to be his last stand.
Yeah, he was on horseback, but Glofindel wasn't with him. It was him going face-to-face with the Nazgul.
That was my biggest gripe with the movie: the way the hobbits were portrayed as wide-eyed, bumbling know-nothings who couldn't fend for themselves if their lives depended on it.
Most people would place Frodo as the "hero" of the books, but I've always been of the opinion that Sam ends up being the truest, most noble hero in the book... Ahhh well.
Read the article.
No Tom Bombadill, no Tom Bombadillo.
No Barrow Wights. *sigh*
Expanded "interaction between the fellowship" and apparently John Rhys-Davies is going to "fall" for Cate Blanchett, errrm, Gimli is going to "fall" for Galadriel, like in the book.
So no Tom Bombadill and no Glorfindel. Fie! Curse Peter Jackson!
Errrrm, Dreamcast sold around 8 million consoles in the US alone in its run, while the XBucks has sold at most 1.3 million consoles to date.
Just 'cause you're a politician doesn't mean you can make crap up to benefit Micro$oft. Oh wait...
Galeon, baby. Galeon. Latest version is mui, mui cool (and fast as all get out!)
I like it. Good theory.
Be watching the Redmond unemployment lines and see if you find an ex-Softie looking for a job because of "that freakin' email".
Just Brenner and Bronson? What about Steve Mc Friggin' Queen?
I'll grant you BloodWake. Looks spiffy. UC does too. Most of the rest of those games are either 1) already on the PS2 or 2) coming out in parallell/on a slight delay with the XBox release on PS2.
JSRF is coming to PS2, as is Blood Omen2, Tapout, Rayman, and Spiderman, as well as Transworld Surf.
Xbox has about all the games the PS2 does. Hell, even an enhance FFX, untrue MGS2"X", completely unconfirmed GTA3 in severe doubt right now, no release date and Rockstar has pulled all mention of it from its website and all the ea sports titles and everything else is coming over..
XBox doesn't have Gran Turismo. It doesn't have Devil May Cry. It doesn't have Jak & Daxter.
Not to mention Xenosaga, GrandiaX and a whole host of RPGs coming out first half of next year for PS2...
Free version is up today.
Just go to http://ps2.ign.com and click on the link on the front page.
Or, I could have watched one too many Brit-coms. There's your answer!
I actually meant "it's easier to acquire the tools to wall someone in than to obtain a PSG1".
And you can "pause" by going into "Buy Mode". I belive striking the 'p' key also results in a pause of the game in its entirety.
Hardly. I actually rented this one and played it at night when the wifey had gone to bed (she gives me dirty looks whenever I so much as suggest we get the game). I found myself trying (unsuccessfully) not to burst out in laughter repeatedly. Every 20 minutes or so, I would think to myself "I've seen car chases like this on TV!" Or "Wow, that one would have made 'Cops' or 'America's Most Deadly Police Chases Part IX'.
Case in point: I made the mistake of jacking a cargo van in the plain view of a police cruiser. As I fled in my (not-so-quick) new wheels, the cruiser gave chase. Attempting to pull me over, the cruiser rammed me up onto the sidewalk, where I promptly ran over a patrolman on foot. Instant second star rating. More cruisers joined the chase and, as I whipped around a corner (the doors in the rear ajar from the repeated rammings), a cruiser screeched to a halt in front of me, causing my van to ramp up over its hood and complete a barrel roll. Hood now aflame, I ditched the van and fled on foot. The four cruisers behind me disgorged their officers, who began to fire at me. However, they failed to flee the scene of my flaming wreck, which exploded, killing around 10 officers. *BAM* Three star rating.
After that, well, it's a bit hard to flee the cops' helicopter on foot...
It is to laugh.
Re: open-endedness. Why not ban the Sims too? I mean, I can wall people in in my bathroom and chuckle gleefully over their cries for help as they slowly starve to death.
Or pause the game when a Sim is swimming, remove the ladder from the pool and then watch as they tire and drown.
Seems to me that this sort of mayhem is much more within the reach of the average consumer (vs. obtaining rocket-propelled grenades and high-powered sniper rifles).
Where did you get this rumor re: GTA3 in America being "toned down"? It hasn't. "Family friendly" stores such as Wal Mart, K Mart, Target, Toys Backwards R Us briefly flirted with the idea of pulling the game from shelves. When confronted with sales figures, most of the stores changed their tune.
My local Wal Mart and Toys Backwards R Us both have considerable stocks of GTA3. My Best Buy can hardly keep the bloody game in stock.
...what if Chairface Chippendale gets ahold of this? Will he still try to write his name on the moon? Or will he use the moon to write his name on Earth?
And here's a bit of the promised info:
f aq3a.txt.
"2.2 SOFTWARE
NES Software consists of a PRG-ROM (Program ROM) which is the code area and a CHR-RAM (Character RAM) which is the pattern table.
Most games load themselves into the Lower PRG-ROM ($8000), using 32kb of
PRG-ROM space. The first game to use the entire PRG-ROM space is Super Mario
Brothers. However, all games with more than one (1) 16K bank of PRG-ROM load
themselves into $8000 as well. These games use MMCs (see section 2.5) to
address PRG-ROM past the 32K boundary, and to access more than 8K of CHR-RAM
simultaneously.
2.3 UNROM GAMES
Unrom games come with a built-in PRG ROM chip as well as a RAM chip for
memory storage. Such things as background and moving object characters for
the current area are stored in the RAM chip until needed. The Unrom also
was the first chip to expand the memory size of the NES games and were the
first to carry a feature known as bank switching for the games.
This effect allowed for many pages of information and to have serveral
programs on one chip. Back switching allowed for automatic switching between
multiple programs on one chip. Also, the maximum game page size was 8x16kb,
just like the MMC1 chip.
2.4 MEMORY MANAGEMENT CHIPS
MMC1 - The first and most used chip of all five. Many games like the Legend
of Zelda and Metroid use this chip because otherwise they would not
be possible. The MMC1 allows NES games to have the ability to scroll
vertically and horizontally at the same time on teh screen. The chip
also expanded the NES memory to allow for more, and larger game
worlds. The maximum game page size is 8x16kb.
MMC2 - This chip is only found in the US and European Mike Tyson's Punch-Out,
the Japanese version used a MMC4 chip. It was entirely used for the
purpose af allowing large characters to move on the screen. The chip
also allowed for you to see expression on an oponents face. This could
be a dropped jaw, blinking, shock, a wince, twitching, as well as hand
and feet movements. The game, because of all its different variations,
required a big memory boost which this chip allowed for. The maximum
game page size of this chip is 32x16kb. But why were they able to use
a MMC4 for the Japanese version then?, I dont know.
MMC3 - Second most used chip for NES carts allowed for many new game
innovations. The additions are; expanded memory and the use of split
screen scrolling in games. Games like Super Mario Bros 3 use this
chip. In SMB3 its used as a split screen between the playing field and
the status screen at the bottom of the screen. These games also has a
maximum game page size of 32x16kb, just as the MMC2.
MMC4 - ?
MMC5 - The newest of the MMC chips for the NES. The first game it was used
for was Castlevania 3: Draculas Curse. This chip has many nw and
expanded features that accompanied it. The MMC5 improved the battery
backup feature so you wouldent have to push reset when you turn off
the NES to prevent data loss. The chip also allows greater color
deffinition and partial screen scrolling (not locked like SMB3). It
is also a customized mathematics module that took much strain off the
CPU and took care of many tasks like the internal clock, and other
repetitive functions.
The MMC5 also aloowed a vertical split screen scroll which means you
can have a side bar of information while the scrolling action of
the game continues. The chip has a memory capacity of 8 Megs
(1,048,576 bits). Another MMC5 game, and probably the only one, is
Kirby's Adventure. A few games which this chip had a maximum game
page size of 64x16kb."
Grabbed this from http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/nes