Straight from the horse's mouth as long as you can bypass the "PR handlers"; Ken Kutaragi only answered one of the four questions presented to him and that was with a distinct "maybe".
My favorite comment was from Phil Harrison:
"We started by calculating the price for the US and European territories by looking at what consumers considered the 'magic price points'. In these territories, the prices we announced were very well accepted."
I would really like to see these consumers who accepted the $500-$600 price points well. People that I've talked to, including staunch PlayStation supporters, have said that they don't plan on buying a PS3 because of the high price point.
I am right handed. I personally think that it shouldn't matter much about the character being left or right handed as much as the game being playable for left or right handed people. If the player is right handed, then the on screen avatar should be. If the player is left handed then a left handed avatar.
True, Link is an established left handed character but having the avatar match the player makes more sense. It's much better than making Link right handed and also forcing all the southpaws to "just deal".
I haven't been fishing for over 20 years, but I do use a right hand retrieve reel when fishing. This is where you reel with your right hand. This page even calls a right hand retrieve a "Classic" method but goes on to say that it's just preference. I will say that the Dreamcast's fishing controller is right hand retrieve but you can clearly see that videos show Twilight Princess' fishing as left hand retrieve.
Yes, I know what a pun is. Sinister just happens to be a better fit because if its evil connotations.
Thanks for the correction; It's appreciated. Here's my correction for you: I'm a woman. Yes, we exist. You are correct about me not knowing my right from my left sometimes... you must have been trying to give me driving directions.
Twilight Princess to have a right handed Link? That's so sinister.
I still don't understand why the game would be mirrored. Also, what happens if you have a lefty playing the game? I know from the fishing videos that it's backwards; I'm going to want to hold the fishing rod with my left hand and reel with the nunchuck in my right hand. I hope that this is allowed.
Our dev unit is huge, retail unit may not be. It runs cool, retail may not. We have prototype controlers in our hands but can't tell you how long the battery life is; we just wouldn't know how to test something like that.
Your link points out that IE7 is vulnerable but it will prompt you to run the ActiveX control before hosing your system. From the average user's point of view, they get a message asking to run something created and signed by Microsoft for the page to load. Tell me how many average users, even the relatively computer saavy, will allow the control to run?
Throwing a constant barrage of OS/browser security pop-ups on the screen does not make it secure. Making it so that at exploitable control can be completely removed and not just "effectively removed" from the system helps make the system more secure but this is just a workaround. If the control was designed to be able to grant system level privileges to a web page than it's time to go back to the proverbial drawing board.
If it wasn't designed that way, then patch it when you first hear about it over a month ago and stop complaining about people releasing it to the public. I would rather have everyone know about it than have just Microsoft, a few security people, and several black hats knowing.
They have a slide that talks about the Apple Remote but they don't actually show a picture of it.
They also don't mention the best part about the design: the fact that it magnetically sticks to the side of an iMac. It's always there when you want it and easily transforms the iMac from a computer to media center.
The Action Set was not a launch configuration as it came out three years later in 1988. This does not necessarily mean that there were not bundles containing both SMB and Duck Hunt before this date. Sadly, Nintendo altered the bundled games quite frequently without changing SKUs even. I personally own a set which was bundled with Gyromite, Duck Hunt, and Stack Up along with the accompanying accessories. As far as I am aware, this had the same SKU as the Deluxe Set.
Microsoft has several different ways of licensing software and each one can use a different key even though they may look the same.
The key sticker on the laptop is obviously an OEM key and would likely require the appropriate OEM install files (OEM pressed XP disc/OEM pressed repair disc/recovery partition) to match. Contact the vendor to get these files.
Anyone that has a Microsoft pressed disc which contains both XP Home and Pro should understand this as these are distributed with an MSDN subscription. Truthfully, I can't say for certain that MS doesn't ship discs like this to OEMs or to corporate "open" license customers but the point remains the same; anyone who would come into possesion of these discs should be aware of this fact.
There are ways around this install incompatibility but I will not help you with that. My advice would be to read your MSDN license agreement and check out the marginally helpful FAQ or to destroy the disc if you do not have the right to use it.
Yes, if you must use the Sysinternals BSoD screensaver, grab it now before MS makes it disappear. It's fun for a few laughs and looks genuine enough even with the SYSINTERNALS_GREAT_SITE messages.
I am warning you however, don't put this on your work computer if you work in the IT department and especially if you like to keep unsaved work in running apps on your locked system as your well-intentioned co-workers will try to fix your system. Thanks guys!
Today no less, at the local Apple store I got a kernal panic "You need to restart your computer" message. All I did was put OmniDazzle on a new Mac Pro.
What surprised me was that I had only ever seen the kernal panic only once before after using OS X daily over two years... and that was when I was trying to crash it. (Hint: disabling network adapters and enabling others while connected to an SMB share can cause unpredictable results under 10.3)
While changing the crash message is interesting, it's not something that will make that much of a difference. I'm not going to say that OS X doesn't crash; after all, I managed to crash one by doing something rather safe. It's just not going to be a practical joke that has a quick payoff.
Crazy IGA is (possibly) making a new Castlevania game for the Wii? Pass.
Not that the recent handheld CV games haven't had some fun to them but I don't think that a Wii CV will be 2D. The last two 3D games have been annoying yawn-fests that have caused me to lose any hope of there ever being a good 3D CV. Heck, the N64 game(s) were flawed but at least they had some promise; the IGA produced ones are just pointless.
OK, I'm a little bitter. People associate Castlevania with Koji Igarashi (IGA) even though he hasn't really done anything to better the series for quite some time. Why don't people mention the music and art direction from Ayami Kojima and Michiru Yamane? IGA hasn't even fulfilled the promise of a modern port of Chi no Rondo although we did get a remake of the X68000 version as a consolation prize.
Just stick to the 2D games until you "perfect" your 3D games a little more.
Yep, I entirely agree; bundling an HDMI cable makes no sense as those with HDMI capable screens either already have the appropriate cable or will have no problem dropping extra cash for it. Your average Joe shouldn't be forced to pay the extra $5 (Sony cost) to include it in the box when they're going to hook it up to their crummy NTSC set.
Take that one step further though... Bundling Blu-ray with the PS3 makes no sense either. This is a game machine that we are talking about. Anyone who wants Blu-ray won't mind dropping extra cash for that either.
Blu-ray certainly isn't going to make the game experience better enough to justify the cost of including it in the system over a standard DVD player. I bet that it's a lot more than a $5. Some people speculate that it's closer to $150 being passed on to the consumer.
Now that makes me not even care about paying extra for a silly HDMI cable.
From the artice: Rather than having a trackpad the X60s uses a one of IBM's signature red pointing sticks. This choice may be a bit disappointing to some people, but I have to say that I very much prefer it to a trackpad.
I have used many different pointing devices on laptops over the years and I love the TrackPoint. Sadly the de facto standard is the touch pad due to sloppy TrackPoint implementations from companies like Toshiba and things like the UltraNav which sacrificed usability for a better sales feature.
The TrackPoint will remain a niche market until it finally fades away and most people won't even care. On the plus side, at least there have been new things like "two finger scrolling" that are making touch pads nicer to use... just make sure you turn off "tap to click".
Running Safari was able to download the song from MySpace but not from the e-card "Download this song" flash link because it insisted on playing the song instead of downloading it. Since it was flash based, there was no option for downloading linked file... so I couldn't download the song.
I really enjoyed the original Halo until I got inside to the Zork segments (a maze of twisty little passages all alike) and it became a more boring FPS than Robotica.
If it "feels" like the beach segments than I'm all for it 'cause that felt great. If it "feels" like the cheese grater on my kneecaps that was The Silent Cartographer and everything after, then it's good that I know this now so I can prepare for absolutely no anticipation for this game.
I mean that would be like having both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the same film!
My vote for a third party character would be Alex Kidd. He could start out the fight as being somewhat decent but as time goes on he would create a sucking vortex that no character could escape; just like his games!
On another note... Solid Snake is still allowed on a plane, right? What about his brother Liquid Snake?
For most people, the caps lock key is useless. Even for someone who uses it, you should at least agree that it certainly doesn't need to be right in home row. A lot of manufacturers will actually change the shape of it to prevent accidental pressings of it.
There are several useless keys that could be removed; print screen, and pause and the other two "lock" keys: scroll lock and num lock. I hate the num lock key as I usually use it immediately after keying in what I thought were numbers only to move the cursor around. I can't fathom why someone would chose to use the number keys as arrow keys when there are actual arrow keys sitting right there. Once those arrow keys were added back in the PC-XT days, they should've removed the num lock key.
No, the reason we still have useless keys is that something will break if we remove them. Scroll lock hasn't had a use that pertained to scrolling in years but some people still use the key for changing displays on a KVM. Your UniQuery work would be torture without that precious caps lock. It's called legacy.
We have shloads of function keys that people rarely use. We have recent additions like the "Windows" keys and the application key because we apparently need more modifier keys. Eventually these become useless legacy keys that continue to propagate to the next generation of computer keyboards.
Sure, get rid of the caps lock key but why stop there? Get rid of the other useless keys too. Change the letter layout to something that makes a bit more sense like Dvorak. People will complain because it does not have legacy support.
Best of luck to you though, you'll be heading down a long and painful road.
DirectX 10.1 will be a free upgrade from DirectX10.0 but starting with DirectX 10.2 (codenamed "Jaguar") you will have to pay $129 for the upgrade.
Later releases of DirectX will include GUI window tiling effects (set to debut in DirectX10.3 "Panther") and a "widget" layer complete with water ripple effects (curently scheduled to appear in DirectX 10.4 "Tiger").
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I just turned 33 today. Way to remind me that I am old.:P
I have a nice nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra in my system that I paid a pretty hefty penny for which I cannot use for doing any sort of 3D under Linux because nVidia hasn't released binary blobs for my system. Why? Because it's a PowerPC based Macintosh.
If the current x86 drivers were open source then there would at least be a chance that get PPC drivers. As for now, I am at the whim of nVidia and they don't seem to be in that big of a hurry.
You know what, I remember 20 years ago where there would be pirate swap meets and BBS's just for the purpose of pirating Commodore 64 games. Shouldn't that have killed PC gaming? Ten years ago there were 0-day web sites that had new games often before your local software store had them. Shouldn't that have killed PC gaming?
The big thing to do with piracy is to make sure that most of the potential buyers either can't or don't want to pirate your software while not impacting the ones that do purchase it by forcing them to jump through CD-key/registration hoops or cramming system disabling copy protection down their throats.
If you want to know what could actually be killing PC gaming, look around. Hmm, besides the aforementioned copy protection issues (starforce) how about:
1. Current games either are just more of the same (sequelitis) or just plain suck.
2. PC hardware is far too expensive to simply play games. Contrast the price of a new video card vs. a game console.
3. World of Warcraft has gobbled too much of the market. Sad but true. The only time some gamers are not playing WoW is on Tuesday mornings... This doesn't leave enough time to play your new releases.
4. This one is my favorite. Some of the market has migrated away from Windows. If your product requires Windows, then I can't run it. Try launching your game with Windows, OS X, and Linux simultaneously. Or, simply focus on a Linux only release; it's not as if you couldn't just bundle it on the same frickin disc.
There are many more but these are the ones that I think the industry should focus on. Some they can do something about, some they can't. Just stop making piracy the catch all scape goat.
OK, I grabbed the first pressing NTSC-U/C (SLUS-00067) disc and poked around. It's all pretty organized and chances are that they would just use the resources and recreate/modify the code for a re-release. Here are the major groups sizes:
BIN+VAB (characters, weapons, monsters, and other stuff) - 8.9MB BOSS (all the boss data) - 9.8MB SERVANT (your familiar's data) - 922kB ST (the stage data) - 24.5MB
Total ~ 45MB
Now for the data that could be changed a bit. Misc system data - 2.4MB (unless they are using a PS emulator, likely this will change) STA files (FMV for intro, ending, and logos) - 46.2MB (remember, these are already compressed) SD/XA (audio spooled from disc during gameplay) - 391MB (this could be compressed much more)
There you go, let's assume that the compressed down to ~50MB using 64kbps WMA (ulp!) and the FMV was thrown out or at completely redone using simple 3D. One could assume that the resulting total could be kept under 100MB which is pretty manageable. Sorry that this post contains so many assumptions.
I would much rather see the prequel to SotN converted (Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo) as not only would that be much smaller (28MB data exlcuding audio IIRC) but less people have had a chance to play it.
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So studios that sell movies through iTunes get boycotted by the 500lb Retailer but studios that sell movies through Amazon's Unbox are fine.
Either they aren't particularly worried about Amazon being a threat or they have it in for Apple.
Straight from the horse's mouth as long as you can bypass the "PR handlers"; Ken Kutaragi only answered one of the four questions presented to him and that was with a distinct "maybe".
My favorite comment was from Phil Harrison:
"We started by calculating the price for the US and European territories by looking at what consumers considered the 'magic price points'. In these territories, the prices we announced were very well accepted."
I would really like to see these consumers who accepted the $500-$600 price points well. People that I've talked to, including staunch PlayStation supporters, have said that they don't plan on buying a PS3 because of the high price point.
I am right handed. I personally think that it shouldn't matter much about the character being left or right handed as much as the game being playable for left or right handed people. If the player is right handed, then the on screen avatar should be. If the player is left handed then a left handed avatar.
True, Link is an established left handed character but having the avatar match the player makes more sense. It's much better than making Link right handed and also forcing all the southpaws to "just deal".
I haven't been fishing for over 20 years, but I do use a right hand retrieve reel when fishing. This is where you reel with your right hand. This page even calls a right hand retrieve a "Classic" method but goes on to say that it's just preference. I will say that the Dreamcast's fishing controller is right hand retrieve but you can clearly see that videos show Twilight Princess' fishing as left hand retrieve.
Yes, I know what a pun is. Sinister just happens to be a better fit because if its evil connotations.
Thanks for the correction; It's appreciated. Here's my correction for you: I'm a woman. Yes, we exist. You are correct about me not knowing my right from my left sometimes... you must have been trying to give me driving directions.
Twilight Princess to have a right handed Link? That's so sinister.
I still don't understand why the game would be mirrored. Also, what happens if you have a lefty playing the game? I know from the fishing videos that it's backwards; I'm going to want to hold the fishing rod with my left hand and reel with the nunchuck in my right hand. I hope that this is allowed.
Our dev unit is huge, retail unit may not be. It runs cool, retail may not. We have prototype controlers in our hands but can't tell you how long the battery life is; we just wouldn't know how to test something like that.
"" sums up the article rather well.
Zis Deevize eez comink ZUNE. Eet ist ze future ov portable meedia.
/.ers, I learned my German from signs in the CIS lab.
Eet ist nein vaporware! I tell you eet ist comink zune. ZUNE!
Sorry about that. Like most
Your link points out that IE7 is vulnerable but it will prompt you to run the ActiveX control before hosing your system. From the average user's point of view, they get a message asking to run something created and signed by Microsoft for the page to load. Tell me how many average users, even the relatively computer saavy, will allow the control to run?
Throwing a constant barrage of OS/browser security pop-ups on the screen does not make it secure. Making it so that at exploitable control can be completely removed and not just "effectively removed" from the system helps make the system more secure but this is just a workaround. If the control was designed to be able to grant system level privileges to a web page than it's time to go back to the proverbial drawing board.
If it wasn't designed that way, then patch it when you first hear about it over a month ago and stop complaining about people releasing it to the public. I would rather have everyone know about it than have just Microsoft, a few security people, and several black hats knowing.
They have a slide that talks about the Apple Remote but they don't actually show a picture of it.
They also don't mention the best part about the design: the fact that it magnetically sticks to the side of an iMac. It's always there when you want it and easily transforms the iMac from a computer to media center.
The NES western launch had two configurations both included the NES, two controllers, RF adapter and PSU:
1. The Deluxe Set which contained R.O.B., a Zapper, and two games: Gyromite and Duck Hunt
2. The Control Deck which came with Super Mario Bros.
Wikipedia has more info here.
The Action Set was not a launch configuration as it came out three years later in 1988. This does not necessarily mean that there were not bundles containing both SMB and Duck Hunt before this date. Sadly, Nintendo altered the bundled games quite frequently without changing SKUs even. I personally own a set which was bundled with Gyromite, Duck Hunt, and Stack Up along with the accompanying accessories. As far as I am aware, this had the same SKU as the Deluxe Set.
Microsoft has several different ways of licensing software and each one can use a different key even though they may look the same.
The key sticker on the laptop is obviously an OEM key and would likely require the appropriate OEM install files (OEM pressed XP disc/OEM pressed repair disc/recovery partition) to match. Contact the vendor to get these files.
Anyone that has a Microsoft pressed disc which contains both XP Home and Pro should understand this as these are distributed with an MSDN subscription. Truthfully, I can't say for certain that MS doesn't ship discs like this to OEMs or to corporate "open" license customers but the point remains the same; anyone who would come into possesion of these discs should be aware of this fact.
There are ways around this install incompatibility but I will not help you with that. My advice would be to read your MSDN license agreement and check out the marginally helpful FAQ or to destroy the disc if you do not have the right to use it.
Yes, if you must use the Sysinternals BSoD screensaver, grab it now before MS makes it disappear. It's fun for a few laughs and looks genuine enough even with the SYSINTERNALS_GREAT_SITE messages.
I am warning you however, don't put this on your work computer if you work in the IT department and especially if you like to keep unsaved work in running apps on your locked system as your well-intentioned co-workers will try to fix your system. Thanks guys!
Today no less, at the local Apple store I got a kernal panic "You need to restart your computer" message. All I did was put OmniDazzle on a new Mac Pro.
What surprised me was that I had only ever seen the kernal panic only once before after using OS X daily over two years... and that was when I was trying to crash it. (Hint: disabling network adapters and enabling others while connected to an SMB share can cause unpredictable results under 10.3)
While changing the crash message is interesting, it's not something that will make that much of a difference. I'm not going to say that OS X doesn't crash; after all, I managed to crash one by doing something rather safe. It's just not going to be a practical joke that has a quick payoff.
Crazy IGA is (possibly) making a new Castlevania game for the Wii? Pass.
Not that the recent handheld CV games haven't had some fun to them but I don't think that a Wii CV will be 2D. The last two 3D games have been annoying yawn-fests that have caused me to lose any hope of there ever being a good 3D CV. Heck, the N64 game(s) were flawed but at least they had some promise; the IGA produced ones are just pointless.
OK, I'm a little bitter. People associate Castlevania with Koji Igarashi (IGA) even though he hasn't really done anything to better the series for quite some time. Why don't people mention the music and art direction from Ayami Kojima and Michiru Yamane? IGA hasn't even fulfilled the promise of a modern port of Chi no Rondo although we did get a remake of the X68000 version as a consolation prize.
Just stick to the 2D games until you "perfect" your 3D games a little more.
Bundling this cable makes no sense.
Yep, I entirely agree; bundling an HDMI cable makes no sense as those with HDMI capable screens either already have the appropriate cable or will have no problem dropping extra cash for it. Your average Joe shouldn't be forced to pay the extra $5 (Sony cost) to include it in the box when they're going to hook it up to their crummy NTSC set.
Take that one step further though... Bundling Blu-ray with the PS3 makes no sense either. This is a game machine that we are talking about. Anyone who wants Blu-ray won't mind dropping extra cash for that either.
Blu-ray certainly isn't going to make the game experience better enough to justify the cost of including it in the system over a standard DVD player. I bet that it's a lot more than a $5. Some people speculate that it's closer to $150 being passed on to the consumer.
Now that makes me not even care about paying extra for a silly HDMI cable.
From the artice: Rather than having a trackpad the X60s uses a one of IBM's signature red pointing sticks. This choice may be a bit disappointing to some people, but I have to say that I very much prefer it to a trackpad.
I have used many different pointing devices on laptops over the years and I love the TrackPoint. Sadly the de facto standard is the touch pad due to sloppy TrackPoint implementations from companies like Toshiba and things like the UltraNav which sacrificed usability for a better sales feature.
The TrackPoint will remain a niche market until it finally fades away and most people won't even care. On the plus side, at least there have been new things like "two finger scrolling" that are making touch pads nicer to use... just make sure you turn off "tap to click".
Running Safari was able to download the song from MySpace but not from the e-card "Download this song" flash link because it insisted on playing the song instead of downloading it. Since it was flash based, there was no option for downloading linked file... so I couldn't download the song.
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Here is the direct link by the way:
http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.m
Is this supposed to be parody or what? Should someone take this and make a "Don't Restrict Our Rights" version of this?
I really enjoyed the original Halo until I got inside to the Zork segments (a maze of twisty little passages all alike) and it became a more boring FPS than Robotica.
If it "feels" like the beach segments than I'm all for it 'cause that felt great. If it "feels" like the cheese grater on my kneecaps that was The Silent Cartographer and everything after, then it's good that I know this now so I can prepare for absolutely no anticipation for this game.
I mean that would be like having both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the same film!
My vote for a third party character would be Alex Kidd. He could start out the fight as being somewhat decent but as time goes on he would create a sucking vortex that no character could escape; just like his games!
On another note... Solid Snake is still allowed on a plane, right? What about his brother Liquid Snake?
For most people, the caps lock key is useless. Even for someone who uses it, you should at least agree that it certainly doesn't need to be right in home row. A lot of manufacturers will actually change the shape of it to prevent accidental pressings of it.
There are several useless keys that could be removed; print screen, and pause and the other two "lock" keys: scroll lock and num lock. I hate the num lock key as I usually use it immediately after keying in what I thought were numbers only to move the cursor around. I can't fathom why someone would chose to use the number keys as arrow keys when there are actual arrow keys sitting right there. Once those arrow keys were added back in the PC-XT days, they should've removed the num lock key.
No, the reason we still have useless keys is that something will break if we remove them. Scroll lock hasn't had a use that pertained to scrolling in years but some people still use the key for changing displays on a KVM. Your UniQuery work would be torture without that precious caps lock. It's called legacy.
We have shloads of function keys that people rarely use. We have recent additions like the "Windows" keys and the application key because we apparently need more modifier keys. Eventually these become useless legacy keys that continue to propagate to the next generation of computer keyboards.
Sure, get rid of the caps lock key but why stop there? Get rid of the other useless keys too. Change the letter layout to something that makes a bit more sense like Dvorak. People will complain because it does not have legacy support.
Best of luck to you though, you'll be heading down a long and painful road.
DirectX 10.1 will be a free upgrade from DirectX10.0 but starting with DirectX 10.2 (codenamed "Jaguar") you will have to pay $129 for the upgrade.
Later releases of DirectX will include GUI window tiling effects (set to debut in DirectX10.3 "Panther") and a "widget" layer complete with water ripple effects (curently scheduled to appear in DirectX 10.4 "Tiger").
I just turned 33 today. Way to remind me that I am old. :P
I have a nice nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra in my system that I paid a pretty hefty penny for which I cannot use for doing any sort of 3D under Linux because nVidia hasn't released binary blobs for my system. Why? Because it's a PowerPC based Macintosh.
If the current x86 drivers were open source then there would at least be a chance that get PPC drivers. As for now, I am at the whim of nVidia and they don't seem to be in that big of a hurry.
You know what, I remember 20 years ago where there would be pirate swap meets and BBS's just for the purpose of pirating Commodore 64 games. Shouldn't that have killed PC gaming? Ten years ago there were 0-day web sites that had new games often before your local software store had them. Shouldn't that have killed PC gaming?
The big thing to do with piracy is to make sure that most of the potential buyers either can't or don't want to pirate your software while not impacting the ones that do purchase it by forcing them to jump through CD-key/registration hoops or cramming system disabling copy protection down their throats.
If you want to know what could actually be killing PC gaming, look around. Hmm, besides the aforementioned copy protection issues (starforce) how about:
1. Current games either are just more of the same (sequelitis) or just plain suck.
2. PC hardware is far too expensive to simply play games. Contrast the price of a new video card vs. a game console.
3. World of Warcraft has gobbled too much of the market. Sad but true. The only time some gamers are not playing WoW is on Tuesday mornings... This doesn't leave enough time to play your new releases.
4. This one is my favorite. Some of the market has migrated away from Windows. If your product requires Windows, then I can't run it. Try launching your game with Windows, OS X, and Linux simultaneously. Or, simply focus on a Linux only release; it's not as if you couldn't just bundle it on the same frickin disc.
There are many more but these are the ones that I think the industry should focus on. Some they can do something about, some they can't. Just stop making piracy the catch all scape goat.
OK, I grabbed the first pressing NTSC-U/C (SLUS-00067) disc and poked around. It's all pretty organized and chances are that they would just use the resources and recreate/modify the code for a re-release. Here are the major groups sizes:
BIN+VAB (characters, weapons, monsters, and other stuff) - 8.9MB
BOSS (all the boss data) - 9.8MB
SERVANT (your familiar's data) - 922kB
ST (the stage data) - 24.5MB
Total ~ 45MB
Now for the data that could be changed a bit.
Misc system data - 2.4MB (unless they are using a PS emulator, likely this will change)
STA files (FMV for intro, ending, and logos) - 46.2MB (remember, these are already compressed)
SD/XA (audio spooled from disc during gameplay) - 391MB (this could be compressed much more)
There you go, let's assume that the compressed down to ~50MB using 64kbps WMA (ulp!) and the FMV was thrown out or at completely redone using simple 3D. One could assume that the resulting total could be kept under 100MB which is pretty manageable. Sorry that this post contains so many assumptions.
I would much rather see the prequel to SotN converted (Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo) as not only would that be much smaller (28MB data exlcuding audio IIRC) but less people have had a chance to play it.