As someone else mentioned earlier, there have been many such patches for years now, and as far as I know anyone stupid enough to distribute a complete patched rom has been shut down while there's nothing Nintendo legal ppl can do if it's JUST a patch the author is distributing.
Most notable of these patches are the video game equivalent to 'fan-subbing', that is people who painstakingly create patches for roms to games that were only released in japan that translates in-game text to usually english.
On a side note, there's a project over at http://www.zeldaclassic.com/ which the author has painstakingly recreated the original Zelda from scratch. If memory serves me correctly it's for Windows only, closed source freeware, and annoyingly the server seems to be down at the moment:' but they did it without using anything from Nintendo so the only thing they could get dinged for woud be trademark infringement for use of the term 'Zelda'. What's more you can create your own quests in it. When I played around with it a few months back I found it really quite nifty. Try looking in google for 'zelda classic' and you should be able to find a site with it, probably along with scads of user created quests as there are quite a few of em out there.
yes, it IS Canadian, in that the game was invented by a Canadian who was teaching at a US university at the time, so it could be looked at either way really.
Come North and East I say! Halifax is a beautiful city with centuries of history plus plenty of bandwidth kickin around.;`) Competing multi-megabit Cable and ASDL providers, both costing about $40/mo. Cdn (somewhere around $25-30 USD), is a Good Thing(TM). Plus, we've got a couple iMax screens round here, can't knock iMax. You KNOW I'm gonna catch Fantasia 2000 next week.;`)
I can see Network Solutions shutting domains down when explicitly order to do so by a court,
Which is exactly what happened. They just happened to step a little further in their actions than neccesary, shutting down the whole domain as opposed to only the http serving capabilities. They decided to err on the side of caution instead of risking legal action for possibly defying a court order. Sure they went too far, but I don't blame NS, they were just covering their own butt. It was the courts and ultimately eToys that started this whole debacle.
Over here in Nova Scotia we got it OK. If you're in the metro-Halifax area than in the vast majority of areas you've got cable access available. If you're stuck in an area without cable, you can always go to the competitors AT&T and pick up some ADSL lovin. Then if you're stuck outside metro-Halifax there's always that satellite provider... whom I can't remember the name of right now... and it's only good for fast downloads but that's better than nothing I suppose.
So what if he got American citizenship, the point I was getting at was he never truly integrated into the American 'melting pot' as it were. He probably got Canadian citizenship. He probably never lost his Scottish citizenship. Citizenship itself just gives you added rights within a country, it doesn't mean shit for where your pride goes.
Alexander Graham Bell was not born in the US, he was born in Scotland. He did not die in the US, he died at his home-for-half-a-year-every-year-he-lived-this-side -of-the-atlantic in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is not buried in the US, his bones lie on Canadian soil, in a place where Scottish culture holds strong (French culture also has a hold, it's all just boiled together over time). I'll grant that his invertions found there way to the US patent office 'technically' making them US inventions, but the MAN would have to be called a Scottsman more than anything.
It'd be really neat if there was a page where you could look at what your own Karma was.
Yeah! With big ol flashing pink neon numbers with funky squigly line radiating out on a puke-green background!
And we could have some funky Caribean kettledrum music playing in the background! How about Copacabana like on the Super Dave show!
Then we could do the ANSI version! You'd telnet to a server somewhere and login with your/. account! Don't forget the ANSI music and annoying flashing!
Wait! We could write an open-source program who's sole purpose would be to login, get your Karma total, and show it to you in lots of funky ways! Whatever you want it to do, just write a plugin or skin or something!
Think about it! Have your Karma appear as a mysterious sighting in the middle of a hirricane! (ala Satan accoring to some tabloid several years ago) Or a massive etching on the side of a cliff face! Or a Magic-Eye picture!
Have it discovered as the answer to life, the universe, and everything!(provided you've gotten it up to 42)
Have it Discovered as a hidden message revealed when playing *insert Beatles tune of choice here* backwards!
being a mac fan, I'll stay a mac fan for now. Are there ANY complete hardware system that I can buy RIGHT NOW that tops Apple's G4? with respect to popular OSes like Mac, Win,BeOS, or unixes.
I'm just guessing here, but maybe some of those top-o-the-line Sparq stations;`)
Wow, this is JUST the kind of cheese that might bring a few ppl I know to get accounts despite their not readin/. all that often;`)
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Did you READ the post I was replying to?
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What if they just had one engineer read the linuxppc kernel source, write down everything you have to do to work on a G3 chipset, pass that information to another couple of engineers and have them put that into Be?
What you just described was clean-room reverse engineering TO-THE-LETTER.
Well I'm sorry but the only money symbol I've got on this keyboard here has a single bar! You saying I should petition keyboard manufacturers of the world to change the key!?!
Since Netscape 4.04 and IE 4, PNG is natively supported (at least on Winblows). They still don't handle alpha channels correctly, but we can live without that.
Hello! The guy specifically stated he was using a Mac, so support under Windows don't mean shit to him!
OK, it says to the effect that it starts at $999 and goes up from there... but fails to say in which currency.
Since it's first coming out in Canada, does this mean it $999Cdn for the vanilla el-cheapo model?
If so then then you Yanks'd be lookin at a $6-700 box when it comes out down there.
If not then the $999 would be in USD, thus REALLY being a $14-1500 box for Canadians when it comes out up here first.
For some reason I don't think they'd bother doing all the icky monitary conversions to get things right, I'm think they're talking in Cdn$$$, thus making it slightly cheaper than it would first appear,forcing a reassesment of 'is it worth it'
How DARE you call Canada a Third World Country? Did you know that the US and Canada share norad facilities? Canada is as much of a first world country ad the US is. I am a dual citizen (Canada and the US)...... Harry (micros@azstarnet.com)
Just let it go, the ignorant twits who compromise a large percent of the US population do not concern us. The intelligent one's down there know better than these morons. Let the silly people parade around making themselves think they're so great while those with better things to do, will.
Maybe this will promote smuggling of blank CD-R's across the border, like during Prohibiton. I can see a modern-day Elliot Ness smashing boxes of CD-R's with a bulldozer.
Yeah, except not the flow would be heading North instead of South....
But hey, thats right, you Yanks DO still owe us (or at least our criminal underground) for doing that for you. What's more, considering Canadian beer is superior product to American swill... when do we see all those cheapo Gold-backed CD-Rs?
Next time vote for a real government. One which will do something other than raise taxes and reneg on promises. But such a thing does not exist in Canada! The clasest we could give you are the Natural Law Party.;`) Yes, when 50,000 yogit flyers are all bou -sorry- 'flying' at the same time all the wrolds probelms will go away!
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no, it doesn't right now, seems to be /.ed
It's not a hack of the rom, the guy wrote a game engine specifically to recreate the original Zelda with.
As someone else mentioned earlier, there have been many such patches for years now, and as far as I know anyone stupid enough to distribute a complete patched rom has been shut down while there's nothing Nintendo legal ppl can do if it's JUST a patch the author is distributing.
:' but they did it without using anything from Nintendo so the only thing they could get dinged for woud be trademark infringement for use of the term 'Zelda'. What's more you can create your own quests in it. When I played around with it a few months back I found it really quite nifty. Try looking in google for 'zelda classic' and you should be able to find a site with it, probably along with scads of user created quests as there are quite a few of em out there.
Most notable of these patches are the video game equivalent to 'fan-subbing', that is people who painstakingly create patches for roms to games that were only released in japan that translates in-game text to usually english.
On a side note, there's a project over at http://www.zeldaclassic.com/ which the author has painstakingly recreated the original Zelda from scratch. If memory serves me correctly it's for Windows only, closed source freeware, and annoyingly the server seems to be down at the moment
// //Basketball is Canadian
//Not.
yes, it IS Canadian, in that the game was invented by a Canadian who was teaching at a US university at the time, so it could be looked at either way really.
and why would that be?
// But with this type of thing, even if it is simple to learn, might people want not to use it because it is unfamiliar?
Isn't that the same excuse most people use not to use Linux in the first place?
I should know, I'm guilty as charged!
>Our box bit the dust a long time ago
Ha ha! My 2600 still works beautifully!
And no one's getting it!
Come North and East I say! ;`) Competing multi-megabit Cable and ASDL providers, both costing about $40/mo. Cdn (somewhere around $25-30 USD), is a Good Thing(TM). ;`)
Halifax is a beautiful city with centuries of history plus plenty of bandwidth kickin around.
Plus, we've got a couple iMax screens round here, can't knock iMax. You KNOW I'm gonna catch Fantasia 2000 next week.
Which is exactly what happened. They just happened to step a little further in their actions than neccesary, shutting down the whole domain as opposed to only the http serving capabilities. They decided to err on the side of caution instead of risking legal action for possibly defying a court order. Sure they went too far, but I don't blame NS, they were just covering their own butt. It was the courts and ultimately eToys that started this whole debacle.
And what happened to 902? (AKA anywhere in nova Scotia)
Over here in Nova Scotia we got it OK. If you're in the metro-Halifax area than in the vast majority of areas you've got cable access available. If you're stuck in an area without cable, you can always go to the competitors AT&T and pick up some ADSL lovin. Then if you're stuck outside metro-Halifax there's always that satellite provider... whom I can't remember the name of right now... and it's only good for fast downloads but that's better than nothing I suppose.
So what if he got American citizenship, the point I was getting at was he never truly integrated into the American 'melting pot' as it were. He probably got Canadian citizenship. He probably never lost his Scottish citizenship. Citizenship itself just gives you added rights within a country, it doesn't mean shit for where your pride goes.
Alexander Graham Bell was not born in the US, he was born in Scotland. He did not die in the US, he died at his home-for-half-a-year-every-year-he-lived-this-side -of-the-atlantic in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is not buried in the US, his bones lie on Canadian soil, in a place where Scottish culture holds strong (French culture also has a hold, it's all just boiled together over time). I'll grant that his invertions found there way to the US patent office 'technically' making them US inventions, but the MAN would have to be called a Scottsman more than anything.
Yeah! With big ol flashing pink neon numbers with funky squigly line radiating out on a puke-green background!
And we could have some funky Caribean kettledrum music playing in the background! How about Copacabana like on the Super Dave show!
Then we could do the ANSI version! You'd telnet to a server somewhere and login with your /. account! Don't forget the ANSI music and annoying flashing!
Wait! We could write an open-source program who's sole purpose would be to login, get your Karma total, and show it to you in lots of funky ways! Whatever you want it to do, just write a plugin or skin or something!
Think about it! Have your Karma appear as a mysterious sighting in the middle of a hirricane! (ala Satan accoring to some tabloid several years ago) Or a massive etching on the side of a cliff face! Or a Magic-Eye picture!
Have it discovered as the answer to life, the universe, and everything!(provided you've gotten it up to 42)
Have it Discovered as a hidden message revealed when playing *insert Beatles tune of choice here* backwards!
The power! the POWER!
I'm just guessing here, but maybe some of those top-o-the-line Sparq stations ;`)
Wow, this is JUST the kind of cheese that might bring a few ppl I know to get accounts despite their not readin /. all that often ;`)
Did you READ the post I was replying to?
What if they just had one engineer read the linuxppc kernel source, write down everything you have to do to work on a G3 chipset, pass that information to another couple of engineers and have them put that into Be?
What you just described was clean-room reverse engineering TO-THE-LETTER.
Well I'm sorry but the only money symbol I've got on this keyboard here has a single bar! You saying I should petition keyboard manufacturers of the world to change the key!?!
Since Netscape 4.04 and IE 4, PNG is natively supported (at least on Winblows). They still don't handle alpha channels correctly, but we can live without that.
Hello! The guy specifically stated he was using a Mac, so support under Windows don't mean shit to him!
OK, it says to the effect that it starts at $999 and goes up from there... but fails to say in which currency.
Since it's first coming out in Canada, does this mean it $999Cdn for the vanilla el-cheapo model?
If so then then you Yanks'd be lookin at a $6-700 box when it comes out down there.
If not then the $999 would be in USD, thus REALLY being a $14-1500 box for Canadians when it comes out up here first.
For some reason I don't think they'd bother doing all the icky monitary conversions to get things right, I'm think they're talking in Cdn$$$, thus making it slightly cheaper than it would first appear,forcing a reassesment of 'is it worth it'
How DARE you call Canada a Third World Country? Did you know that the US and Canada share norad facilities? Canada is as much of a first world country ad the US is. I am a dual citizen (Canada and the US)...... Harry (micros@azstarnet.com)
Just let it go, the ignorant twits who compromise a large percent of the US population do not concern us. The intelligent one's down there know better than these morons. Let the silly people parade around making themselves think they're so great while those with better things to do, will.
Maybe this will promote smuggling of blank CD-R's across the border, like during Prohibiton. I can see a modern-day Elliot Ness smashing boxes of CD-R's with a bulldozer.
Yeah, except not the flow would be heading North instead of South....
But hey, thats right, you Yanks DO still owe us (or at least our criminal underground) for doing that for you. What's more, considering Canadian beer is superior product to American swill... when do we see all those cheapo Gold-backed CD-Rs?
Next time vote for a real government. One which will do something other than raise taxes and reneg on promises. But such a thing does not exist in Canada! The clasest we could give you are the Natural Law Party. ;`) Yes, when 50,000 yogit flyers are all bou -sorry- 'flying' at the same time all the wrolds probelms will go away!
How could you foget Bif?!?
Tak on
-Moist
-Concrete Blonde(they may have broken up, but Canadian they were)
-Joydrop
-Great Big Sea
-54-40
-Tragically Hip
etc