And recently there are slot1 (DS slot) loaders, reducing the need for the slot2 (GBA slot) cart. It gives perfect compatibility for DS software, less cluttered and more power efficient compared to previous solutions. The only thing you lose here is the ability to run GBA software (I mean home brew of course, no piracy.. no not me!). This too can be solved, using a reverse pass-through device to allow GBA software to run from the slot1 cart:)
That said, rumors floated around for an official media player based on one of these carts...
A friend of mine just recently upgrade his P2 266mhz to a P3 667mhz and he's quite happy with it. Guess what? It runs WindowsXP quite well, he can surf the web no problems and play the awesome games that were released at that era and a great number of new small games you can get from the net, including his mmorpg of choise (runescape). I don't really understand it, but I guess he knows what he's doing. He does have PS2 and a couple of really cool board games tho.
Don't worry... Usually the undefeatable boss is one you have to defeat in battle but lose to in the cut scene following that battle, regardless of how well you actually fared.
So you'd rather see development in the exact opposite direction Bittorrent was originally intended for. BT was made to prevent the idea of flash-crowds downloading a big and popular file from a relatively small site. It is based on the premise of giving downloaders (i.e leechers) the best speed possible and trying to reduce the load from the publishing site, which has a fat pipe, but not fat enough. BT was not intended to be used as classic P2P program in which different clients try to push bits to one another but rather a big server pushing bits to many small clients.
Until lately, most games of the games got translated to English were really stupid as you refer to. But this a rather small set compared to the slews of games which are high on story and emotion and never got translated. Also, in many games the whole sex part is not integral to the game and in fact many of these games get PS2 versions in which the sex is cut out.
You'd probably be amazed by the amount of high quality anime (if you're a hater, then bleh on you!) which originated from H-games and are clean.
Circle - near the round part of the controller Triangle (pointing up) - the top button Square - near the straight part of the controller X - the one left, and it's near the diagonal part of the controller
L and R are good names for the triggers (better than "C and Z") I still think it sucks, but A,B,X,Y aren't any better.
Actually, they can revoke a key of a SINGLE player for a quite low cost.
It is done like this: There are keys on the nodes of a binary tree where the leaves are each individual player. Each player has all the keys on the route from the root node to itself. In the beginning, the movie encryption key is encrypted using the root node key -> everyone can decrypt it. When a player key is found and needs to be revoked they then stop encrypting using the root node but rather choosing to encrypt, multiple times, using the keys which are NOT on the route from the compromised player to root node. For example:
1
2/ \3
/ \ / \
4 5 6 7 / \/\/\/\ 8 9101112131415
User 9 knows the keys 9,4,2,1. Movies are originally encrypted with 1. Everyone can decrypt it because they know key 1. Lets say 9 is revoked. Next movies are encrypted in multiple copies with the keys: 3,5,8 That way, everyone except 9 can decrypt the movie key. 8 has 8 10 and 11 have 5 6,7,12,13,14,15 have 3
It's actually a pretty neat system. Surely, each single movie's key can be publicized, completely sidestepping the whole key-encryption system.......
Why can't they use something akin to T9 on mobile phones or an interface similar to Dasher? A virtual keyboard is easy to adapt to, but it's not the optimal input method considering the hardware.
It happened with the PS2. It's possible it will happen with the PS3 aswell.
Historically, the PS2 was the hardest console to program for in the last gen due to the non-standard vector units and what not. However, market forces made it worthwhile to try and squeeze the machine for all it's worth, keeping it competitive for a very long time and producing some amazing feats in the later crops of games.
Unless Sony will lose considerable of their market share / brand name, it will most likely happen again here. The first games will be OK while the later games mind blowing, at least technically.
The X360 is a far more streamlined machine much resembling a PC, making it much easier to program for and in result, the current level of games is probably close to what you will see near the end of its life cycle.
Same goes for the Wii, which is based on the Gamecube, meaning all the experience gained from programming the GC will stay when programming for the Wii, at least graphically. Therefore, the current graphics are probably and unfortunately also close to the machine's maximum output. Surely, with the Wii there's the very young area of control which will eventually mature and will be second nature for Wii games.
Lets make a class action lawsuit against bat and ball makers worldwide.
It is known balls and bats, especially together, are extremely dangerous. Who hasn't heard about balls breaking windows, TVs and hitting poor little kids on the head?
Join with me and lets sue their asses!
It has the same probability of success as this stupid lawsuit.
I remember reading stories about Wavebirds that flew a couple of rooms away and into a wall, leaving more scratches on the wall than on the controller.... and still working from there!
That's why i'm actually quite surprised, negatively, about the DS-lite hinge problem. It just cracked wide open on mine! Luckily, it's not that important.
I have a cheap ass optical mouse from some Chinese company and it completely suits my needs, even as a gamer. It's ambidextrous (I hate assymetric mice, they don't feel right) with 2 buttons and a WIDE wheel. The wheel is wide enough so that my finger lays comfy on it and very easy to middle click while keeping steady and not moving the wheel by mistake. About wheels, I usually use it as a simply 2 more buttons (up for rocket launcher, down for railgun) or when there's use for analog input (zoom-in/out).
Maybe it's just cause I never used one of these "gaming mice" or the high-end logitechs, but really does it matter that much?
More to your point. When Doom was just released, it was the top of the line fun. Everyone played it and said it's great. Pick it up now in the form of jDoom, it's still great and ages well due to the added high res and mouse look.
The only things that really make newer games better is technical things like unlimited save points (instead of checkpoints), more customization of UI/tweaks, increased resolution or good scaling, and generally more refined controls. For example, I really can't think of playing an FPS with anything other than WASD+mouse right now except maybe a Wii-mote. Or playing a 3d platform game without an analog stick. And yes, I don't think it's reasonable playing a 320x200 game right now unless it's a portable game or upscaled gracefully like most emulators support.
Playing PS1, N64 and DC games in 1280x960 is pretty damn cool. I've recently finished Ocarina Of Time on an emulator and in all honesty, it looked great! Certainly better than on a real N64. Soul Calibur also scales well to high res. Even tho the emulation is far from perfect, the gameplay itself is still awesome.
I know you meant this as a joke, but if you have complex some regex in your code which you can't easily explain, a comment above it explaining it would serve you well.
It is also most likely they will find a copy of Microsoft Windows. So lets jail everyone who uses it. It is also most likely, over 50% that the offender is a male. Lets just lock up all males. Moreover, 100% of all offender breathe air. Lets just lock up everyone who breathes.
Correlation does not equal causality. Citing that in most cases of X, Y is also present doesn't mean that Y is a sign of X.
A large portion of people have porn on their PCs. Does that mean they are more likely to go out and rape women? A portion of people has cartoon "child" porn (in perens because it is not REAL). Does that mean they are more likely to go out and rape children? A large portion of people plays violent games all the time. Does that mean they are more likely to go out and shoot people?
And on the other side: Do Christian priests watch porn in their pastime? Probably not. Were there cases of child abuse? Yup. Did they have porn in the biblical age? Not really... Were there cases of rape and sodomy? Yes.
Maybe i'm the only one, but I pretty much feel the monsters in Doom1/2 look scarier than Doom3 monsters. FFS, a super low res imp actually looks more artistically "nasty" than a fully bump mapped 3d model. Not to mention death animations which in D1/2 were nice bloody gratifying animations instead of stupid ragdolls and a bit of red particles...
So you'd might be instead interested in the DS port which is in glorious 2d and on a handheld with a touch screen. I can only assume it will have 4 player nifi and internet play.
If you could find the Gamespot E3 feature with the game devs, you MUST watch it. These guys are totally mad;)
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My case is a "leet" one in gray with a window and cool blue LEDs. Guess what? I chose it cause it was cheapest for the basic features I wanted (side fan and uncluttered for easy handling). It was around the equivalent of 50$, and my country is pricey compared to the US.
The window/LEDs were for me an added bonus. It could have been completely bland for all I care.
Also, when I browsed some online shops, I couldn't even find a beige box. They are all either shiny white or in crazy colors.
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And recently there are slot1 (DS slot) loaders, reducing the need for the slot2 (GBA slot) cart. :)
It gives perfect compatibility for DS software, less cluttered and more power efficient compared to previous solutions.
The only thing you lose here is the ability to run GBA software (I mean home brew of course, no piracy.. no not me!). This too can be solved, using a reverse pass-through device to allow GBA software to run from the slot1 cart
That said, rumors floated around for an official media player based on one of these carts...
A friend of mine just recently upgrade his P2 266mhz to a P3 667mhz and he's quite happy with it.
Guess what? It runs WindowsXP quite well, he can surf the web no problems and play the awesome games that were released at that era and a great number of new small games you can get from the net, including his mmorpg of choise (runescape).
I don't really understand it, but I guess he knows what he's doing.
He does have PS2 and a couple of really cool board games tho.
Don't worry... Usually the undefeatable boss is one you have to defeat in battle but lose to in the cut scene following that battle, regardless of how well you actually fared.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
Kilobyte = 1000 bytes
Megabyte = 1000 kilobytes
Gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
Terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
Kibibyte = 1024 bytes
Mebibyte = 1024 kibibytes
Gibibyte = 1024 mebibytes
Tebibyte = 1024 gibibytes
So you'd rather see development in the exact opposite direction Bittorrent was originally intended for.
BT was made to prevent the idea of flash-crowds downloading a big and popular file from a relatively small site.
It is based on the premise of giving downloaders (i.e leechers) the best speed possible and trying to reduce the load from the publishing site, which has a fat pipe, but not fat enough.
BT was not intended to be used as classic P2P program in which different clients try to push bits to one another but rather a big server pushing bits to many small clients.
Until lately, most games of the games got translated to English were really stupid as you refer to.
But this a rather small set compared to the slews of games which are high on story and emotion and never got translated. Also, in many games the whole sex part is not integral to the game and in fact many of these games get PS2 versions in which the sex is cut out.
You'd probably be amazed by the amount of high quality anime (if you're a hater, then bleh on you!) which originated from H-games and are clean.
Circle - near the round part of the controller
Triangle (pointing up) - the top button
Square - near the straight part of the controller
X - the one left, and it's near the diagonal part of the controller
L and R are good names for the triggers (better than "C and Z")
I still think it sucks, but A,B,X,Y aren't any better.
You mean something like this or this?
Actually, they can revoke a key of a SINGLE player for a quite low cost.
/\ /\ /\
It is done like this:
There are keys on the nodes of a binary tree where the leaves are each individual player.
Each player has all the keys on the route from the root node to itself.
In the beginning, the movie encryption key is encrypted using the root node key -> everyone can decrypt it.
When a player key is found and needs to be revoked they then stop encrypting using the root node but rather choosing to encrypt, multiple times, using the keys which are NOT on the route from the compromised player to root node.
For example:
1
2/ \3
/ \ / \
4 5 6 7
/ \
8 9101112131415
User 9 knows the keys 9,4,2,1.
Movies are originally encrypted with 1.
Everyone can decrypt it because they know key 1.
Lets say 9 is revoked.
Next movies are encrypted in multiple copies with the keys: 3,5,8
That way, everyone except 9 can decrypt the movie key.
8 has 8
10 and 11 have 5
6,7,12,13,14,15 have 3
It's actually a pretty neat system.
Surely, each single movie's key can be publicized, completely sidestepping the whole key-encryption system.......
Why can't they use something akin to T9 on mobile phones or an interface similar to Dasher?
A virtual keyboard is easy to adapt to, but it's not the optimal input method considering the hardware.
In many countries (specifically Israel), the legal age for drinking is 18, which is also the legal age for driving.
When you enroll to the military, you are NOT allowed to die. That is considered damaging military property.
It happened with the PS2. It's possible it will happen with the PS3 aswell.
Historically, the PS2 was the hardest console to program for in the last gen due to the non-standard vector units and what not. However, market forces made it worthwhile to try and squeeze the machine for all it's worth, keeping it competitive for a very long time and producing some amazing feats in the later crops of games.
Unless Sony will lose considerable of their market share / brand name, it will most likely happen again here. The first games will be OK while the later games mind blowing, at least technically.
The X360 is a far more streamlined machine much resembling a PC, making it much easier to program for and in result, the current level of games is probably close to what you will see near the end of its life cycle.
Same goes for the Wii, which is based on the Gamecube, meaning all the experience gained from programming the GC will stay when programming for the Wii, at least graphically. Therefore, the current graphics are probably and unfortunately also close to the machine's maximum output. Surely, with the Wii there's the very young area of control which will eventually mature and will be second nature for Wii games.
Lets make a class action lawsuit against bat and ball makers worldwide.
It is known balls and bats, especially together, are extremely dangerous.
Who hasn't heard about balls breaking windows, TVs and hitting poor little kids on the head?
Join with me and lets sue their asses!
It has the same probability of success as this stupid lawsuit.
I remember reading stories about Wavebirds that flew a couple of rooms away and into a wall, leaving more scratches on the wall than on the controller.... and still working from there!
That's why i'm actually quite surprised, negatively, about the DS-lite hinge problem. It just cracked wide open on mine! Luckily, it's not that important.
I have a cheap ass optical mouse from some Chinese company and it completely suits my needs, even as a gamer.
It's ambidextrous (I hate assymetric mice, they don't feel right) with 2 buttons and a WIDE wheel. The wheel is wide enough so that my finger lays comfy on it and very easy to middle click while keeping steady and not moving the wheel by mistake.
About wheels, I usually use it as a simply 2 more buttons (up for rocket launcher, down for railgun) or when there's use for analog input (zoom-in/out).
Maybe it's just cause I never used one of these "gaming mice" or the high-end logitechs, but really does it matter that much?
More to your point. When Doom was just released, it was the top of the line fun. Everyone played it and said it's great.
Pick it up now in the form of jDoom, it's still great and ages well due to the added high res and mouse look.
The only things that really make newer games better is technical things like unlimited save points (instead of checkpoints), more customization of UI/tweaks, increased resolution or good scaling, and generally more refined controls.
For example, I really can't think of playing an FPS with anything other than WASD+mouse right now except maybe a Wii-mote. Or playing a 3d platform game without an analog stick.
And yes, I don't think it's reasonable playing a 320x200 game right now unless it's a portable game or upscaled gracefully like most emulators support.
Playing PS1, N64 and DC games in 1280x960 is pretty damn cool.
I've recently finished Ocarina Of Time on an emulator and in all honesty, it looked great! Certainly better than on a real N64.
Soul Calibur also scales well to high res. Even tho the emulation is far from perfect, the gameplay itself is still awesome.
I know you meant this as a joke, but if you have complex some regex in your code which you can't easily explain, a comment above it explaining it would serve you well.
It is also most likely they will find a copy of Microsoft Windows. So lets jail everyone who uses it.
It is also most likely, over 50% that the offender is a male. Lets just lock up all males.
Moreover, 100% of all offender breathe air. Lets just lock up everyone who breathes.
Correlation does not equal causality.
Citing that in most cases of X, Y is also present doesn't mean that Y is a sign of X.
A large portion of people have porn on their PCs. Does that mean they are more likely to go out and rape women?
A portion of people has cartoon "child" porn (in perens because it is not REAL). Does that mean they are more likely to go out and rape children?
A large portion of people plays violent games all the time. Does that mean they are more likely to go out and shoot people?
And on the other side:
Do Christian priests watch porn in their pastime? Probably not. Were there cases of child abuse? Yup.
Did they have porn in the biblical age? Not really... Were there cases of rape and sodomy? Yes.
You mean you'd mirror my website for free? How kind of you.
Maybe i'm the only one, but I pretty much feel the monsters in Doom1/2 look scarier than Doom3 monsters.
FFS, a super low res imp actually looks more artistically "nasty" than a fully bump mapped 3d model. Not to mention death animations which in D1/2 were nice bloody gratifying animations instead of stupid ragdolls and a bit of red particles...
So you'd might be instead interested in the DS port which is in glorious 2d and on a handheld with a touch screen. I can only assume it will have 4 player nifi and internet play.
Heh... Found the GameSpot live video. :)
Now THIS is the most fucking hilarious video youve ever seen
here
;)
If you could find the Gamespot E3 feature with the game devs, you MUST watch it. These guys are totally mad
My case is a "leet" one in gray with a window and cool blue LEDs.
Guess what? I chose it cause it was cheapest for the basic features I wanted (side fan and uncluttered for easy handling). It was around the equivalent of 50$, and my country is pricey compared to the US.
The window/LEDs were for me an added bonus. It could have been completely bland for all I care.
Also, when I browsed some online shops, I couldn't even find a beige box. They are all either shiny white or in crazy colors.