Why is the parent modded up so highly? The distance between Spain and Morocco is only nine miles (14 kilometers) at the narrowest point. The Chunnel between England and France is 31 miles long, 23 of which are underwater. This doesn't seem so impractical.
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles requires a GBA for each player unless you are in 1 player mode (which I've heard sucks).
The reason that FF:CC requires a GBA for each player is that due to the four-person cooperative play, each player needs his or her own screen to view the map, use items, equip armor, etc. without disrupting the entire game. If it were all done without GBAs, then in the middle of an intense battle when one person needs to change weaponry, the whole team would have to wait as that person flips through menus on the TV screen. That's why it's necessary to have a GBA for each player.
Of course, Nintendo will benefit from this as there may be some people who buy a GBA to play FF:CC with friends. However, I don't think that's why they set up connectivity this way. Game Boy Advances have been selling in record numbers since their release date. Nintendo is not worried about pushing more GBAs.
Another Swedish group, Covox makes some fun tunes with a Gameboy. The appropriately simple site, Covox.net, has a few full MP3s to download - worth checking out.
Sure, like Nintendo's current console, Gamecube. Yep, that was hacked in about five days. It's so easy to pirate games and run them on your Gamecube...so easy that I've already done it twice today!
These claims go together because both confuse artistic expression with the medium. Are movies art? The question is, "Is the Godfather art?" or "Is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective art?" It's like asking whether painting is art. If you are painting the Mona Lisa sure, it's art. If you are painting your house, maybe not.
There are some good reasons to blur the line between media and art. It helps raise the credibility of the entire medium. But in more precise terms, media covey expression and emotion, ideas and information. What is commuinicated may, or may not, be artistic.
This is an interesting statement, and I think it makes sense. However, it brings up the question of whether video games (or movies) can be considered art and protected as such. I think if all 'art', be it the Sistine Chapel or The Last Supper painted with human feces, is protected under that broad category, then the same should apply to movies and video games. Just my two cents.
I remember playing The 7th Guest when I was in the fourth grade. I had been taking piano lessons, and figured out how to play just one part of that haunting music ont he piano.
I've long since forgotten how to play the piano, and haven't played that game in nearly a decade, but I know how to play that tune:
F U H U J U F U and repeat. If you don't have a piano/keyboard in your house, try playing it in this Java piano.
Wrong, you can get an official frontlit GP32 or a kit to turn your regular GP32 into a frontlit version. They're available from GBAX.com, Lik-Sang, and several other import sites.
It gets longer battery life with things like official games and software...homebrew applications tend to suck up more juice. However, that IS the main draw of the GP32...amateur stuff.
High decibel noise can cause a concussive force powerful enough to damage tissue - possibly enough to kill.
How high of a decibel does it have to be to cause damage? Furthermore, animals with ears are more susceptible to this type of sonar. I didn't mean to say that animals without ears are necessarily immune to it.
Well first of all, I should probably mention to everyone that I've never done debate before. I'm in high school and still learning the ropes. But SURTASS has a range of 300 miles. The Navy claims that at one kilometer away, the impact of SURTASS on marine life is negligible. However this is assuming that they'll see any whales/dolphins/etc. from 1km away and be cautious with their sonar.
The U.S. Navy is testing a new high-powered sonar system. Perhaps it is killing ocean animals whose existence we are (previously) unaware of?
Do invertebrates have ears? I don't know the answer, but I do know quite a good deal about the U.S. Navy's sonar program (called SURTASS or sometimes SURTASS LFA) as I just spent the past week researching it for a debate tournament.
SURTASS LFA (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System, Low Frequency Active) sends out sonar pings to search for mines, submarines, and the like at around 180 dB, though it can get louder or quieter than that. It does indeed cause severe damage to marine life, particularly whales and dolphins, who communicate with sonar and therefore are susceptible to this type of sonar. It causes severe acoustic trauma and sometimes bleeding around the ears and even death. It is also known to cause strandings of whales...
The reason I bring this up is that if any sea creature doesn't have ears/can't hear sound/whatever, they are immune to this type of sonar. However, if they do have ears, they can be quite vulnerable to it. Do any invertebrates have ears? Do squid? This could be related.
Specifically, the Games section is quite nice. It fits your desired description, has a great selection, and you can sort it by various things such as operating system, license, file size, popularity, user rating, etc.
According to this, Mother 3 is planned to be released on the Game Boy Advance. I think that would indicate that it would be a direct sequel to Earthbound, rather than an entirely new Mother game, due to the graphics of GBA.
Mother 3, when it was being developed for N64, was to be a 3D title. You can see screenshots of it here. It was to be a new entry in the Mother series, quite different from Earthbound (Mother 2).
However, due to the fact that GBA can't do true 3D (yet) but rather tends to imitate the graphical style of SNES-era games, I think Mother 3 might be a more direct sequel to Earthbound, as was hinted in Earthbound itself.
...Yeah, kind of off-topic, but I thought I'd supply some information.
Out of curiosity, what server are you playing on? I've been playing on Loki and I can honestly say that my time with Ragnarok has been really positive; that's why I'm recommending it. There were some idiots, but idiots are present in any online community. For the most part, though, the people I encountered were friendly and experienced, though often hilariously illiterate.
"How do I get to Izlude?" "u go down sum ten turn kthxnbai"
...how much RAM does the Nomad Zen have? The iPod has 32MB of RAM, which is a very good amount. You need a big chunk of RAM with something like this to prevent messing up the hard drive while you're walking, jogging, etc.
The registration does not submit any kind of demographics and cannot track you. You submit the unique ID that is printed on your GP32 and they send you GP32 software (the program is called FreeLoader) that allows you to run homebrew software. There is plenty of freeware for the device that doesn't require the FreeLoader; however, most amateur software does need it.
My point is, it's very unobtrusive. Just fire off an email to Gamepark containing the ID, and they send you the software back. You put the software on your GP32, not your PC, so there's no monitoring or anything.
Some emulators for GP32 are near-perfect. Not all of them, of course, but take the Gameboy Color emulator for example. Full speed, sound, and saving; what more could you want?
GBA emus are just barely playable on an 800mhz P3.
Are you kidding? Using my 400mhz P2 with a Voodoo3, I can emulate GBA games perfectly. Why don't you try out VisualBoy Advance (emulator) before you make statements like that?
If you want an obscure handheld, try the defunct Wonderswan color.
There is a pretty good WonderSwan Color emulator available for GP32, plus, since GP32's WSC emulator uses ROMs instead of carts, the games can be patched to English.
When it was developed, there was not a single emulator for it. You seem to be missing this point. Amateur developers ported emulators to GP32; the company that manufactures GP32s (Gamepark) had nothing to do with that. Therefore, "this" (GP32) was clearly not invented specifically do do illegal things.
I've had mine for quite a while and I like it. Just how many people do you know have bought a GP32? It's not exactly common to find people with them. Mine doesn't feel cheaply made...and what do you mean, "total piracy"; there are commercial games from Gamepark and various third parties available. You can buy a GP32 and use it solely to play commercial games, without ever downloading and installing an emulator.
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SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT WILL COLLAPSE!!!! I have to get bottled water and batteries ready! This will be a complete disaster--just like Y2K!
Why is the parent modded up so highly? The distance between Spain and Morocco is only nine miles (14 kilometers) at the narrowest point. The Chunnel between England and France is 31 miles long, 23 of which are underwater. This doesn't seem so impractical.
Apparently "we" can't spell vandal.
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles requires a GBA for each player unless you are in 1 player mode (which I've heard sucks).
The reason that FF:CC requires a GBA for each player is that due to the four-person cooperative play, each player needs his or her own screen to view the map, use items, equip armor, etc. without disrupting the entire game. If it were all done without GBAs, then in the middle of an intense battle when one person needs to change weaponry, the whole team would have to wait as that person flips through menus on the TV screen. That's why it's necessary to have a GBA for each player.
Of course, Nintendo will benefit from this as there may be some people who buy a GBA to play FF:CC with friends. However, I don't think that's why they set up connectivity this way. Game Boy Advances have been selling in record numbers since their release date. Nintendo is not worried about pushing more GBAs.
Another Swedish group, Covox makes some fun tunes with a Gameboy. The appropriately simple site, Covox.net, has a few full MP3s to download - worth checking out.
Sure, like Nintendo's current console, Gamecube. Yep, that was hacked in about five days. It's so easy to pirate games and run them on your Gamecube...so easy that I've already done it twice today!
I remember playing The 7th Guest when I was in the fourth grade. I had been taking piano lessons, and figured out how to play just one part of that haunting music ont he piano.
I've long since forgotten how to play the piano, and haven't played that game in nearly a decade, but I know how to play that tune:
F U H U J U F U and repeat. If you don't have a piano/keyboard in your house, try playing it in this Java piano.
100,000 years ago totally ruled, man.
Wrong, you can get an official frontlit GP32 or a kit to turn your regular GP32 into a frontlit version. They're available from GBAX.com, Lik-Sang, and several other import sites.
It gets longer battery life with things like official games and software...homebrew applications tend to suck up more juice. However, that IS the main draw of the GP32...amateur stuff.
High decibel noise can cause a concussive force powerful enough to damage tissue - possibly enough to kill.
How high of a decibel does it have to be to cause damage? Furthermore, animals with ears are more susceptible to this type of sonar. I didn't mean to say that animals without ears are necessarily immune to it.
Well first of all, I should probably mention to everyone that I've never done debate before. I'm in high school and still learning the ropes. But SURTASS has a range of 300 miles. The Navy claims that at one kilometer away, the impact of SURTASS on marine life is negligible. However this is assuming that they'll see any whales/dolphins/etc. from 1km away and be cautious with their sonar.
The U.S. Navy is testing a new high-powered sonar system. Perhaps it is killing ocean animals whose existence we are (previously) unaware of?
Do invertebrates have ears? I don't know the answer, but I do know quite a good deal about the U.S. Navy's sonar program (called SURTASS or sometimes SURTASS LFA) as I just spent the past week researching it for a debate tournament.
SURTASS LFA (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System, Low Frequency Active) sends out sonar pings to search for mines, submarines, and the like at around 180 dB, though it can get louder or quieter than that. It does indeed cause severe damage to marine life, particularly whales and dolphins, who communicate with sonar and therefore are susceptible to this type of sonar. It causes severe acoustic trauma and sometimes bleeding around the ears and even death. It is also known to cause strandings of whales...
The reason I bring this up is that if any sea creature doesn't have ears/can't hear sound/whatever, they are immune to this type of sonar. However, if they do have ears, they can be quite vulnerable to it. Do any invertebrates have ears? Do squid? This could be related.
Specifically, the Games section is quite nice. It fits your desired description, has a great selection, and you can sort it by various things such as operating system, license, file size, popularity, user rating, etc.
According to this, Mother 3 is planned to be released on the Game Boy Advance. I think that would indicate that it would be a direct sequel to Earthbound, rather than an entirely new Mother game, due to the graphics of GBA.
Mother 3, when it was being developed for N64, was to be a 3D title. You can see screenshots of it here. It was to be a new entry in the Mother series, quite different from Earthbound (Mother 2).
However, due to the fact that GBA can't do true 3D (yet) but rather tends to imitate the graphical style of SNES-era games, I think Mother 3 might be a more direct sequel to Earthbound, as was hinted in Earthbound itself.
...Yeah, kind of off-topic, but I thought I'd supply some information.
must.... stop.... drooling....
Out of curiosity, what server are you playing on? I've been playing on Loki and I can honestly say that my time with Ragnarok has been really positive; that's why I'm recommending it. There were some idiots, but idiots are present in any online community. For the most part, though, the people I encountered were friendly and experienced, though often hilariously illiterate.
"How do I get to Izlude?"
"u go down sum ten turn kthxnbai"
...when Ragnarok Online is still free?
Anime-based MMORPG with players from all over the globe, free (for now at least). Grab Beta 2 while it's hot.
...how much RAM does the Nomad Zen have? The iPod has 32MB of RAM, which is a very good amount. You need a big chunk of RAM with something like this to prevent messing up the hard drive while you're walking, jogging, etc.
The registration does not submit any kind of demographics and cannot track you. You submit the unique ID that is printed on your GP32 and they send you GP32 software (the program is called FreeLoader) that allows you to run homebrew software. There is plenty of freeware for the device that doesn't require the FreeLoader; however, most amateur software does need it.
My point is, it's very unobtrusive. Just fire off an email to Gamepark containing the ID, and they send you the software back. You put the software on your GP32, not your PC, so there's no monitoring or anything.
Some emulators for GP32 are near-perfect. Not all of them, of course, but take the Gameboy Color emulator for example. Full speed, sound, and saving; what more could you want?
GBA emus are just barely playable on an 800mhz P3.
Are you kidding? Using my 400mhz P2 with a Voodoo3, I can emulate GBA games perfectly. Why don't you try out VisualBoy Advance (emulator) before you make statements like that?
If you want an obscure handheld, try the defunct Wonderswan color.
There is a pretty good WonderSwan Color emulator available for GP32, plus, since GP32's WSC emulator uses ROMs instead of carts, the games can be patched to English.
When it was developed, there was not a single emulator for it. You seem to be missing this point. Amateur developers ported emulators to GP32; the company that manufactures GP32s (Gamepark) had nothing to do with that. Therefore, "this" (GP32) was clearly not invented specifically do do illegal things.
I've had mine for quite a while and I like it. Just how many people do you know have bought a GP32? It's not exactly common to find people with them. Mine doesn't feel cheaply made...and what do you mean, "total piracy"; there are commercial games from Gamepark and various third parties available. You can buy a GP32 and use it solely to play commercial games, without ever downloading and installing an emulator.