Setting aside the already-pointed-out fact that all those events you mention are post-biblical (since the Bible cuts out at sometime before 100 AD), I have a question: Does this mean that for the final 150 years or so of the game that you would turn into a non-aggressor who merely has unpopular opinions? Or are you going to argue that your game avatar would spend that time bombing abortion clinics and the like?
(sarcasm)'Cause we all know how the Church supports that.(/sarcasm)
The poster is referring to It Might Be NES, a fullspeed NES emulator which runs on the PSX (and therefore, also the PS2). It was coded in 100% assembly.
Just a quick point of curiousity: Why is my usage of "Final Fantasy Origins" considered "[sic]"? I didn't misspell anything. That's the American title of the collection.
Now, as for the ROM offsets being the same, you'll have to be a lot more specific. Especially with respect to "the programming files." SNES emulation on the PS1 is, quite simply, not feasable. It is possible, in the sense that any Turing Machine can emulate the functionality of any other Turing Machine, but speed is a consideration with respect to games, and the PS1 lacks both the speed and memory capacity to accurately emulate the SNES in real time.
Why isn't there a moderation option for "blatantly false?"
No, The PS1 re-releases in Final Fantasy Origins and Chronicles were not emulations of the SNES originals. Yes, Chrono Trigger (and possibly some of the FF series) included the SNES original on the disc. However, this was used only for retrieving sprite graphics. This was demonstrated by the fact that, back before Square announced that they were going to release the re-issues in English speaking parts of the world, many rom-hackers tried inserting English-translated snes roms into the disc image. This resulted in nothing noticably different occuring. All text was still in Japanese.
Simply put, at 2 megabytes, the PS1 didn't have enough RAM to successfully emulate the SNES. True, the SNES didn't have all that much RAM itself, but the contents of the cartridges themselves were locations in memory. Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger both exceed this limitation.
And no, you couldn't stream the data. Not without putting your framerate in the toilet.
With the exception of Megaman 7, all these titles were released on the PS1 in Japan. In fact, on each of the Rockman remakes for the PS1, Capcom included little Pocketstation games.
If, as another poster mused, this collection is emulated, that means an interesting step in emulation for the PS2: SNES emulation has been slow and glitchy in most cases, and it would be nice to see it done accurately. It would be even nicer to see, one week later, someone rip the emulation code out and make a standalone emulator.
How about digital archives of long-past magazines? A full run of Computer Gaming World for instance, or archives of Nintendo Power by year?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would pay for such a product. Of course, for virtually any product, there are probably at least 10,000 people willing to pay any price.
There's an awful lot of extraordinary games being mentioned, but also some surprising omissions:
El Grade, an easy to learn game which ostensibly centers around players vying for political dominance in 16th centruy Spain. This one will be coming back in print later this year, supposedly, but most gaming stores still have or can get it. While you're at it, get the Expansions, although King and Intrigue is the only one you'll be using with any regularity. Cost hovers around $45 retail.
Babel is an out of print gem from Uwe Rosenburg, creator of the popular Bohnanza series. The game is in Kosmos's Spiele für zwei (Games for two) series. In this game, players command groups of middle-Eastern peoples trying to build towers, but the beauty of the game lies in the simplicity of the design and the strategic possibilities. Cost is about $22.00 retail.
El Caballero is the brain-burning sequel to El Grande, but shares very little gameplay-wise. The idea in this game is that players now control groups of explorers who are trying to claim land masses in the "New World." This game resembles the already mentioned Carcassonne in some superficial ways, but it is to Carcassonne what Axis and Allies is to Risk. Cost is usually $20.00 retail.
I would say "Mod parent up!" if it weren't for the fact that a processor small enough to fit in there and fast enough to emulate all these systems would cause the little paper cabinets to burst into flames.
Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do. They're the ones who believe that there is literally a tiny little wheel which contains a model of the universe and which is located in their abdomen. Many Falun Gong followers have injured and/or killed themselves trying to perform exploratory surgery to see this wheel. This sort of thing is cause for concern, to be sure.
What's more, it becomes clear upon reading any significant amount of literature relating to the group (be it for or against) that the leader, Li Hongzhi is either a habitual user of some really trippy drugs, a charlatan, or about as sane as a sackful of wet squirrels.
However, the level of reaction on the Chinese government's part is foaming-at-the-mouth barbaric. The best way to keep people from revolting is to not let them know they're being opressed, and the Chinese government seems to be going out of their way to let the people know "We're doing this to demoralize you."
After all, they need something to use as an ackward "video-game-in-the-middle-of-the-movie" segué. You know, like podracing and the droid-manufacturing sequence in Episode 2.
In all honesty, the only things keeping me from getting an xBox were A) Total lack of Japanese developer support, and B) Clunky form factor. I would not be surprised in the slightest if B was a major cause of A.
This leads me to think that xBox Next (or whatever combination of capital and lower case letters they're using, possibly even some numbers) probably has a sleeker design and is likely a bit smaller, if prominant Japanese developers are considering developing for it.
Didn't anyone else notice that Sony was touting the new discs to be used in the PSP as a new end-user storage media (meaning not exclusive to games)? How they went on and on about how the PSP was going to be the new Walkman? How they talked about watching movies and listening to music on it?
I thought the whole point of having ePaper in the first place was to have an inexpensive alternative to LCD which could be used in places LCD couldn't (like on product labels). At nearly $400, I don't see the ePaper providing a noticable savings over a comparable B&W LCD display, which could easily be used in a similar device. "So, 10 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking, okay?"
It's difficult to directly infer meaning from this section, owing to the lack of quotation marks in the language. The excluded section (your "...") is verse 16, which reads:
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the council of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord." (KJV, pronounciation symbols omitted)
Without a graduate course on what role the council of Balaam had in these matters, or who Peor was and how it related to the issue at hand, this seems a little disjoint. At any rate, including verse 16 makes the speaker of 17-18 unclear.
Even if Moses is the speaker in this instance, Moses is not the Lord, and as is demonstrated in Numbers 20:8-11, is quite capable of misinterpreting or falling outside the will of God.
Genesis 19:8 - The speaker in question is Lot, not God. In this situation, he is reacting as a citizen of Sodom would be likely to do. There is no pretense that he is performing a noble act by offering his daughters to the people of Sodom.
Judges 5:30 - It is not clear whether the speaker is Sisera's mother or her "wise ladies," but it is clear that the phrase is pure speculation, and does not demonstrate a general approval of rape.
Judges 19:25 - Like the instance of Lot offering his daughter, this is merely a reflection of the normal behavior at the time. It is not depicted as noble, and was not done at the command of God.
2 Samuel (12:11 for those who were wondering) - The speaker here is not directly God, but Nathan speaking to David regarding his (David's) injustice, having indirectly killed Uriah to marry his wife, Bathsheba. Whether Nathan is taking liberties with his communication with the Lord is debatable, as is the literal or figurative nature of the warning. It could just as easily mean, "I will take all that you hold dear, and ensure that you will never have it again."
At any rate, the issue at hand was whether God commanded/approved rape in some circumstances, not whether rape occurs in the Bible.
While I understand the futility of speaking in spiritual terms to someone who does not relate to spirituality (much like trying to talk math with an Art professor), I have to ask for clarification on at least one of your points:
After reading the text in question, I see no reference to rape. In fact, not even the Skeptic's Annotated Bible entry on Joshua has a reference. Could you perhaps give a more succinct citation?
It seems to me that it would be trivial to rig a small microphone and speaker to the CPU and play a phase-inverted version of the sound.
For those who may not have run across the concept before, the basic concept is this: For any soundwave, there is an inverse soundwave. This inverse sounds identical by itself, but when played at the same time as the original, the result is silence.
At any rate, there's probably a terribly good reason I've not heard about this concept being applied to PC-muffling, and if so, I'd love to hear it.
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Am I alone in finding Disney's conflicting practices downright befuddling?
"We're a multi-billion dollar conglomerate buying up controlling interest in virtually every market."
"Watch 'Home on the Range,' a movie about small time businessmen getting ground under by the heel of evil corporations."
"We oppose the flow of information and ideas through copyrights expiring. 75 years isn't long enough!"
"We just made some revolutionary technology. Here, have it for free."
What corporate schizophrenia is going on here?
Setting aside the already-pointed-out fact that all those events you mention are post-biblical (since the Bible cuts out at sometime before 100 AD), I have a question: Does this mean that for the final 150 years or so of the game that you would turn into a non-aggressor who merely has unpopular opinions? Or are you going to argue that your game avatar would spend that time bombing abortion clinics and the like?
(sarcasm)'Cause we all know how the Church supports that.(/sarcasm)
The poster is referring to It Might Be NES, a fullspeed NES emulator which runs on the PSX (and therefore, also the PS2). It was coded in 100% assembly.
Just a quick point of curiousity: Why is my usage of "Final Fantasy Origins" considered "[sic]"? I didn't misspell anything. That's the American title of the collection.
Now, as for the ROM offsets being the same, you'll have to be a lot more specific. Especially with respect to "the programming files." SNES emulation on the PS1 is, quite simply, not feasable. It is possible, in the sense that any Turing Machine can emulate the functionality of any other Turing Machine, but speed is a consideration with respect to games, and the PS1 lacks both the speed and memory capacity to accurately emulate the SNES in real time.
Why isn't there a moderation option for "blatantly false?"
No, The PS1 re-releases in Final Fantasy Origins and Chronicles were not emulations of the SNES originals. Yes, Chrono Trigger (and possibly some of the FF series) included the SNES original on the disc. However, this was used only for retrieving sprite graphics. This was demonstrated by the fact that, back before Square announced that they were going to release the re-issues in English speaking parts of the world, many rom-hackers tried inserting English-translated snes roms into the disc image. This resulted in nothing noticably different occuring. All text was still in Japanese.
Simply put, at 2 megabytes, the PS1 didn't have enough RAM to successfully emulate the SNES. True, the SNES didn't have all that much RAM itself, but the contents of the cartridges themselves were locations in memory. Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger both exceed this limitation.
And no, you couldn't stream the data. Not without putting your framerate in the toilet.
With the exception of Megaman 7, all these titles were released on the PS1 in Japan. In fact, on each of the Rockman remakes for the PS1, Capcom included little Pocketstation games.
If, as another poster mused, this collection is emulated, that means an interesting step in emulation for the PS2: SNES emulation has been slow and glitchy in most cases, and it would be nice to see it done accurately. It would be even nicer to see, one week later, someone rip the emulation code out and make a standalone emulator.
How about digital archives of long-past magazines? A full run of Computer Gaming World for instance, or archives of Nintendo Power by year?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would pay for such a product. Of course, for virtually any product, there are probably at least 10,000 people willing to pay any price.
There's an awful lot of extraordinary games being mentioned, but also some surprising omissions:
El Grade, an easy to learn game which ostensibly centers around players vying for political dominance in 16th centruy Spain. This one will be coming back in print later this year, supposedly, but most gaming stores still have or can get it. While you're at it, get the Expansions, although King and Intrigue is the only one you'll be using with any regularity. Cost hovers around $45 retail.
Babel is an out of print gem from Uwe Rosenburg, creator of the popular Bohnanza series. The game is in Kosmos's Spiele für zwei (Games for two) series. In this game, players command groups of middle-Eastern peoples trying to build towers, but the beauty of the game lies in the simplicity of the design and the strategic possibilities. Cost is about $22.00 retail.
El Caballero is the brain-burning sequel to El Grande, but shares very little gameplay-wise. The idea in this game is that players now control groups of explorers who are trying to claim land masses in the "New World." This game resembles the already mentioned Carcassonne in some superficial ways, but it is to Carcassonne what Axis and Allies is to Risk. Cost is usually $20.00 retail.
I would say "Mod parent up!" if it weren't for the fact that a processor small enough to fit in there and fast enough to emulate all these systems would cause the little paper cabinets to burst into flames.
Remember Falun Gong?
Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do. They're the ones who believe that there is literally a tiny little wheel which contains a model of the universe and which is located in their abdomen. Many Falun Gong followers have injured and/or killed themselves trying to perform exploratory surgery to see this wheel. This sort of thing is cause for concern, to be sure.
What's more, it becomes clear upon reading any significant amount of literature relating to the group (be it for or against) that the leader, Li Hongzhi is either a habitual user of some really trippy drugs, a charlatan, or about as sane as a sackful of wet squirrels.
However, the level of reaction on the Chinese government's part is foaming-at-the-mouth barbaric. The best way to keep people from revolting is to not let them know they're being opressed, and the Chinese government seems to be going out of their way to let the people know "We're doing this to demoralize you."
Being in a gang, crew, or mafia can get you killed WAY too easily.
...And they make you healthier!
But then you are magically resurrected a few seconds later.
If you break the law, and the cops don't get you, and the FBI doesn't get you, the military will bring in tanks and run over you.
And you'll wake up just fine outside of the hospital. Sure, you'll be missing some money, but you'll be there.
Never play with grenades in an enclosed space.
See above.
Molotov cocktails may be fun, but if you're not careful you can catch on fire.
And again.
Hookers take your money.
Doing a double backflip with a barrel roll off a cliff is cool... until the end.
Which is also cool, with all the explosions. Waking up outside the hospital is less so.
25 rounds of ammunition seems like alot of ammo until you have 26 opponents.
At which point jumping in a car and running them over is usually a viable option.
Don't try to snipe people while standing on the sidewalk. You'll never see the billy club coming.
I think "on the sidewalk" is the operative part of this lesson.
Busses are too slow to out run cop cars. Sports cars aren't heavy enough to run through cop cars.
Rhino tanks work wonderfully in both situations, and can be found by doing a magical dance.
You can't fly a plane without wings. At least not for very long.
Unless you're The One, in which case you can just plain fly.
After all, they need something to use as an ackward "video-game-in-the-middle-of-the-movie" segué. You know, like podracing and the droid-manufacturing sequence in Episode 2.
In all honesty, the only things keeping me from getting an xBox were A) Total lack of Japanese developer support, and B) Clunky form factor. I would not be surprised in the slightest if B was a major cause of A.
This leads me to think that xBox Next (or whatever combination of capital and lower case letters they're using, possibly even some numbers) probably has a sleeker design and is likely a bit smaller, if prominant Japanese developers are considering developing for it.
I don't care how much one of these things costs, handheld Metroid Prime and handheld Mario 64 guarantee that I will get one. WANT NOW!
The inevitable homebrew SNES emulators guarantee that I will enjoy it for a very long time.
Didn't anyone else notice that Sony was touting the new discs to be used in the PSP as a new end-user storage media (meaning not exclusive to games)? How they went on and on about how the PSP was going to be the new Walkman? How they talked about watching movies and listening to music on it?
You've completely missed the various emulators available for the Tapwave Zodiac, haven't you? Try checking this site and this one.
Didn't I see these in an episode of Charlie's Angels?
I thought the whole point of having ePaper in the first place was to have an inexpensive alternative to LCD which could be used in places LCD couldn't (like on product labels). At nearly $400, I don't see the ePaper providing a noticable savings over a comparable B&W LCD display, which could easily be used in a similar device. "So, 10 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking, okay?"
Now we might actually see some Game & Watch cards like Nintendo promised back when the E-Reader system was initially released.
Genetically engineered, aerodynamically sound, pigs with wings!
It's difficult to directly infer meaning from this section, owing to the lack of quotation marks in the language. The excluded section (your "...") is verse 16, which reads:
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the council of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord." (KJV, pronounciation symbols omitted)
Without a graduate course on what role the council of Balaam had in these matters, or who Peor was and how it related to the issue at hand, this seems a little disjoint. At any rate, including verse 16 makes the speaker of 17-18 unclear.
Even if Moses is the speaker in this instance, Moses is not the Lord, and as is demonstrated in Numbers 20:8-11, is quite capable of misinterpreting or falling outside the will of God.
Genesis 19:8 - The speaker in question is Lot, not God. In this situation, he is reacting as a citizen of Sodom would be likely to do. There is no pretense that he is performing a noble act by offering his daughters to the people of Sodom.
Judges 5:30 - It is not clear whether the speaker is Sisera's mother or her "wise ladies," but it is clear that the phrase is pure speculation, and does not demonstrate a general approval of rape.
Judges 19:25 - Like the instance of Lot offering his daughter, this is merely a reflection of the normal behavior at the time. It is not depicted as noble, and was not done at the command of God.
2 Samuel (12:11 for those who were wondering) - The speaker here is not directly God, but Nathan speaking to David regarding his (David's) injustice, having indirectly killed Uriah to marry his wife, Bathsheba. Whether Nathan is taking liberties with his communication with the Lord is debatable, as is the literal or figurative nature of the warning. It could just as easily mean, "I will take all that you hold dear, and ensure that you will never have it again."
At any rate, the issue at hand was whether God commanded/approved rape in some circumstances, not whether rape occurs in the Bible.
While I understand the futility of speaking in spiritual terms to someone who does not relate to spirituality (much like trying to talk math with an Art professor), I have to ask for clarification on at least one of your points:
After reading the text in question, I see no reference to rape. In fact, not even the Skeptic's Annotated Bible entry on Joshua has a reference. Could you perhaps give a more succinct citation?
Fine. One cult-following series sequel is probably getting published, but what developments on the Sam & Max: Freelance Police front?
Oh, wait, "off-topic" is a negative moderation point.
It seems to me that it would be trivial to rig a small microphone and speaker to the CPU and play a phase-inverted version of the sound.
For those who may not have run across the concept before, the basic concept is this: For any soundwave, there is an inverse soundwave. This inverse sounds identical by itself, but when played at the same time as the original, the result is silence.
At any rate, there's probably a terribly good reason I've not heard about this concept being applied to PC-muffling, and if so, I'd love to hear it.