Ah, did you even bother reading half the posts in here? That's a complete fallacy-- there are a LOT of older people who CAN still hear it. Besides, at the range that thing has it could probably cross halfway into any neighbor's house depending on where you put it.
Maybe he used the shoot-two-pause trick. Shoot two metal blades, hit start to bring up the subscreen, and reselect Metal Blade. That resets the shot counter (on each third blade it would drop one weapon power bar) and allows you effectively infinite blades.
It seems like Microsoft considered VMWare enough of a threat to try to use the "Free" weapon against them (Virtual Server), and VMWare retaliated in kind without even flinching (VMWare Server). This caused Microsoft to one-up them again by releasing the Virtual PC 2004 (desktop line) version and all future versions of the standard desktop VPC for free.
Funny thing is.. it looks like the licensing and featureset for the free version of VMWare makes it pretty much unattractive for a large corp to use anything but the high-end pay edition; I'm not sure how Microsoft's setup compares. I haven't had a chance to look yet.
Origin solved this once about 13 years ago in a game called Strike Commander. It's not quite the same, but the solution would work all the same.
Strike Commander generated its maps using a terrain generation program after install. It took ~45 minutes on the machines of the day, but saved the amount of space the game actually needed on install media significantly. This was very important in terms of floppy space back then.
So, what you do is to include a pregenerated set of meshes, textures, and so forth for a modern machine as of the time of launch, but ALSO include the generation tool so that as time goes on, you can regenerate things to match your machine.
Note that the program was on beta 5-- the previous four test versions bricked PSPs, period. They were outputting a whole lot of debug data about each stage of the flash, it seems, since there are some complex steps to get things to the right point. It's not just writing bytes-- this downgrader apparently actually borrows chunks from the official PSP updater and does some interesting tricks to bypass various protection mechanisms.
The logs were there purely to figure out where things went wrong; nobody expected this version to work.
Not really. DEVHOOK makes it almost trivial to use the 2.0/2.5 firmware features from 1.5, and only adds maybe 10 seconds to the time it takes to get things up and going.
Going back to 1.5 doesn't mean you lose all those features anymore.
Also, if you dig into the SNES code with a hexeditor, you'll find the internal name for R&F is actually "Rockman 8.5" since it's basically a sidestory using a ported MM8 engine.
Exactly my impression. I was expecting something a bit less *LIMITED* on the control. I'd expect to be able to pull off certain aerial maneuvers and the controls would just.. well.. up and decide I couldn't do it at the critical point.
Thank heavens it was a Gamefly rental. I sent it back the next day. It really wasn't any good.
Just one problem with this.. it seems like using it with the Microsoft client will pretty much restrict you to MS-CHAP v2, which is horrendously broken (as described on the poptop website: wildly insecure. It looks more easily broken than WEP, and WEP is pretty damn easy (apples and oranges, but still..)
OpenVPN looks to be about the only really good choice at the free level. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know about it, though.
...is that watching people play games isn't all that interesting to a non-gamer in general. There are only a few types of games that are fun to spectate: Prince of Persia-style games, for instance, can captivate an audience with slick stunts by skill.. but.. there are few games like that.
FPS type games aren't going to be interesting to an outsider, no matter how you dress it up.. unless, maybe it's something like Battlefield 2-- THAT could possibly work, being somewhat 'relevant' to even the common man.
I was thinking much the same thing. If he doesn't understand why adjusting the aspect ratio would change the game balance, he doesn't understand shooters PERIOD.
There's an artform to it, and Ikaruga is a unique shooter that is anything BUT overrated.
Yeah, I think the lineup is almost as bad as the Nintendo DS launch was and they seem to think it's the best thing since sliced cheese.
My immediate reaction was to say that the NES or SNES had better launch line-ups: I seem to remember U.N. Squadron, Super R-Type, Gradius 3, and Actraiser being in the launch, with Final Fantasy 4 maybe a month or two down the road for SNES. Hell, many of the best SNES titles were first-generation titles dating at launch or first year.
It's there, but they really didn't make much noise about it. I didn't even realize the tools were there until I found a webpage about it a few years back.
We're talking about a man with a long history of being a particularly nasty shark in the game industry-- do you think he's really going to take such an article lying down? Really nothing out of the ordinary that there's a reply.
Highlighting text? I've seen Acrobat stability issues and a good chunk of that is Acrobat itself, but I've never seen anything to make highlighting text seem "dangerous".
What exactly are you experiencing? I rarely get Firefox crashes, so this is a little surprising to me.
Eh, it's irritating, but it's not a HUGE problem. I'll just run MGS3 or something on the PS3 to get an idea what the save format looks like, then I'll use execftps to yank all my PS2 saves, then lastly hand-reformat them to the memory stick filr structure. Shouldn't be too hard-- chances are it'll use the same directory/file structure, so I probably won't have to do anything more than just move the files as-is.
Yeah, well, if you upgrade blindly you run into OTHER problems-- namely, it's YOUR ass on the line for not having properly tested the patch before putting it into production systems. A coworker of mine got nailed for a botched Adobe Acrobat upgrade that wasn't registering a plugin properly (even though he really didn't have any way to know it wasn't going to work, since it DID work on the test box) and "cost employees an entire day of work".
At launch, there was a definite lag problem on the official servers due to some problems with the ranking system. It took them a week or so to fix it and clear the backlog.
As for the anti-teamkill features, it's getting abused heavily right now. Players run into grenades without a care since they can smack whoever threw it. Punishes outnumber forgives on what seems like a 20-1 ratio in my experience, and just TODAY I saw players run right into called artillery strikes despite commander warnings of it coming in. Each and every one punished the commander based on the complaining on the team channel.
Of course, the recent patch and subsequent bugs are a nightmare. The server browser is still a buggy, slow piece of crap, for one thing. I've seen the incorrect targeting indicator bug several times and that really can ruin your day when a teammate shoots you in the back. Then there's the new server memory leak issue-- probably a good thing they backpedaled on the patch, but that puts you right back on the *worse* server browser..
Oh, and then there's the Gamespy Arcade screwup. The game comes with a copy of Gamespy Arcade and claims you can use it to get onto a server. It even advertises it ALL OVER the install and bundled copy of GA. Well, surprise! The launch revision of BF2 doesn't support external server browsers at all.
This game should have been in the cooker for another month or two. It is EXCEEDINGLY obvious the launch was mismanaged and hurried to get the game out on shelves.
I used to work for an unnamed service provider that I'm still under assorted NDAs with (propreitary documents up the wazoo) and I can tell you one thing about how these guys have their policy.
It's not that the reps aren't listening, it's that they're not allowed to. If they deviate from the routine questions, they'll be back on the unemployment line in a week at most with a permanent 'unsatisfactory' on their record keeping them from being employable again.
Sure, there are incompetent techs, but you get that everywhere. It's just that the competent ones have to stick to the same rules.
There's a traditional argument against double jeopardy, and it goes like this:
"Alright, but what's to keep the government from filing charges repeatedly against a political enemy as harassment?"
Also, for that matter, it encourages sloppy work by the police. "Ah, don't worry about it. If we lose the case, we can just try again and again and again until we get them on it."
Unfortunately, to allow one trial lets many criminals go, but that's the sacrifice of the system designed to let the occasional criminal go rather than to convict innocent people. It's not perfect, and doesn't always work right (it's a mess these days), but it at least had its heart in the right place at inception.
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Ah, did you even bother reading half the posts in here? That's a complete fallacy-- there are a LOT of older people who CAN still hear it. Besides, at the range that thing has it could probably cross halfway into any neighbor's house depending on where you put it.
Maybe he used the shoot-two-pause trick. Shoot two metal blades, hit start to bring up the subscreen, and reselect Metal Blade. That resets the shot counter (on each third blade it would drop one weapon power bar) and allows you effectively infinite blades.
It seems like Microsoft considered VMWare enough of a threat to try to use the "Free" weapon against them (Virtual Server), and VMWare retaliated in kind without even flinching (VMWare Server). This caused Microsoft to one-up them again by releasing the Virtual PC 2004 (desktop line) version and all future versions of the standard desktop VPC for free.
Funny thing is.. it looks like the licensing and featureset for the free version of VMWare makes it pretty much unattractive for a large corp to use anything but the high-end pay edition; I'm not sure how Microsoft's setup compares. I haven't had a chance to look yet.
Late reply, but yes. I use it with Mega Man Powered Up, Maverick Hunter X, and Gradius Collection all the time.
Origin solved this once about 13 years ago in a game called Strike Commander. It's not quite the same, but the solution would work all the same.
Strike Commander generated its maps using a terrain generation program after install. It took ~45 minutes on the machines of the day, but saved the amount of space the game actually needed on install media significantly. This was very important in terms of floppy space back then.
So, what you do is to include a pregenerated set of meshes, textures, and so forth for a modern machine as of the time of launch, but ALSO include the generation tool so that as time goes on, you can regenerate things to match your machine.
Note that the program was on beta 5-- the previous four test versions bricked PSPs, period. They were outputting a whole lot of debug data about each stage of the flash, it seems, since there are some complex steps to get things to the right point. It's not just writing bytes-- this downgrader apparently actually borrows chunks from the official PSP updater and does some interesting tricks to bypass various protection mechanisms.
The logs were there purely to figure out where things went wrong; nobody expected this version to work.
Not really. DEVHOOK makes it almost trivial to use the 2.0/2.5 firmware features from 1.5, and only adds maybe 10 seconds to the time it takes to get things up and going.
Going back to 1.5 doesn't mean you lose all those features anymore.
Also, if you dig into the SNES code with a hexeditor, you'll find the internal name for R&F is actually "Rockman 8.5" since it's basically a sidestory using a ported MM8 engine.
If he were using it to copy porn, shouldn't it be XXXCopy?
Exactly my impression. I was expecting something a bit less *LIMITED* on the control. I'd expect to be able to pull off certain aerial maneuvers and the controls would just.. well.. up and decide I couldn't do it at the critical point.
Thank heavens it was a Gamefly rental. I sent it back the next day. It really wasn't any good.
Just one problem with this.. it seems like using it with the Microsoft client will pretty much restrict you to MS-CHAP v2, which is horrendously broken (as described on the poptop website: wildly insecure. It looks more easily broken than WEP, and WEP is pretty damn easy (apples and oranges, but still..)
OpenVPN looks to be about the only really good choice at the free level. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know about it, though.
How about Gamefly mailers? I've yet to see one of those get to me with damage, but I'm curious from the perspective of someone from the inside.
...is that watching people play games isn't all that interesting to a non-gamer in general. There are only a few types of games that are fun to spectate: Prince of Persia-style games, for instance, can captivate an audience with slick stunts by skill.. but.. there are few games like that.
FPS type games aren't going to be interesting to an outsider, no matter how you dress it up.. unless, maybe it's something like Battlefield 2-- THAT could possibly work, being somewhat 'relevant' to even the common man.
No battle mode over the internet, but there's still battle mode for local adhoc connections.
I was thinking much the same thing. If he doesn't understand why adjusting the aspect ratio would change the game balance, he doesn't understand shooters PERIOD.
There's an artform to it, and Ikaruga is a unique shooter that is anything BUT overrated.
Yeah, I think the lineup is almost as bad as the Nintendo DS launch was and they seem to think it's the best thing since sliced cheese.
My immediate reaction was to say that the NES or SNES had better launch line-ups: I seem to remember U.N. Squadron, Super R-Type, Gradius 3, and Actraiser being in the launch, with Final Fantasy 4 maybe a month or two down the road for SNES. Hell, many of the best SNES titles were first-generation titles dating at launch or first year.
THIS should be all I need to say in terms of PSO.
It's there, but they really didn't make much noise about it. I didn't even realize the tools were there until I found a webpage about it a few years back.
is one place to start.
Still, it'll be very nice to have real symlinks instead of shortcuts. It's what the shortcuts should have been all along.
We're talking about a man with a long history of being a particularly nasty shark in the game industry-- do you think he's really going to take such an article lying down? Really nothing out of the ordinary that there's a reply.
Highlighting text? I've seen Acrobat stability issues and a good chunk of that is Acrobat itself, but I've never seen anything to make highlighting text seem "dangerous".
What exactly are you experiencing? I rarely get Firefox crashes, so this is a little surprising to me.
Eh, it's irritating, but it's not a HUGE problem. I'll just run MGS3 or something on the PS3 to get an idea what the save format looks like, then I'll use execftps to yank all my PS2 saves, then lastly hand-reformat them to the memory stick filr structure. Shouldn't be too hard-- chances are it'll use the same directory/file structure, so I probably won't have to do anything more than just move the files as-is.
Yeah, well, if you upgrade blindly you run into OTHER problems-- namely, it's YOUR ass on the line for not having properly tested the patch before putting it into production systems. A coworker of mine got nailed for a botched Adobe Acrobat upgrade that wasn't registering a plugin properly (even though he really didn't have any way to know it wasn't going to work, since it DID work on the test box) and "cost employees an entire day of work".
At launch, there was a definite lag problem on the official servers due to some problems with the ranking system. It took them a week or so to fix it and clear the backlog.
As for the anti-teamkill features, it's getting abused heavily right now. Players run into grenades without a care since they can smack whoever threw it. Punishes outnumber forgives on what seems like a 20-1 ratio in my experience, and just TODAY I saw players run right into called artillery strikes despite commander warnings of it coming in. Each and every one punished the commander based on the complaining on the team channel.
Of course, the recent patch and subsequent bugs are a nightmare. The server browser is still a buggy, slow piece of crap, for one thing. I've seen the incorrect targeting indicator bug several times and that really can ruin your day when a teammate shoots you in the back. Then there's the new server memory leak issue-- probably a good thing they backpedaled on the patch, but that puts you right back on the *worse* server browser..
Oh, and then there's the Gamespy Arcade screwup. The game comes with a copy of Gamespy Arcade and claims you can use it to get onto a server. It even advertises it ALL OVER the install and bundled copy of GA. Well, surprise! The launch revision of BF2 doesn't support external server browsers at all.
This game should have been in the cooker for another month or two. It is EXCEEDINGLY obvious the launch was mismanaged and hurried to get the game out on shelves.
I used to work for an unnamed service provider that I'm still under assorted NDAs with (propreitary documents up the wazoo) and I can tell you one thing about how these guys have their policy.
It's not that the reps aren't listening, it's that they're not allowed to. If they deviate from the routine questions, they'll be back on the unemployment line in a week at most with a permanent 'unsatisfactory' on their record keeping them from being employable again.
Sure, there are incompetent techs, but you get that everywhere. It's just that the competent ones have to stick to the same rules.
There's a traditional argument against double jeopardy, and it goes like this:
"Alright, but what's to keep the government from filing charges repeatedly against a political enemy as harassment?"
Also, for that matter, it encourages sloppy work by the police. "Ah, don't worry about it. If we lose the case, we can just try again and again and again until we get them on it."
Unfortunately, to allow one trial lets many criminals go, but that's the sacrifice of the system designed to let the occasional criminal go rather than to convict innocent people. It's not perfect, and doesn't always work right (it's a mess these days), but it at least had its heart in the right place at inception.