It was only slightly early. Nintendo must have known that it would be in Game Informer magazine, just the scans of the magazine were released a few days earlier than expected (The scans were released Friday). Someone on another forum claimed they had it on good authority that all 3rd party NDAs expire on April 20th. If that's true, we can expect a lot more info soon.
So I guess that nerds (who can't get a girlfriend as easily as everybody else) deviate their attention to two things: Videogames, tech stuff, and porn.
I count three, but maybe you were just referring the article and discounting videogames.:)
But the smokers intending who don't to quit view smoking as negative. You seem to be implying that playing video games is a bad thing, and that teenagers intend to do something productive instead. The way I take the data is that teenagers are intending to play less video games in favor of other forms of entertainment.
I doubt that would be in Red Steel because it looks like it is going for realism. On the other hand, I have a feeling there will be no shortage of similar games for the Revolution because it is the most obvious use of the controller.
Uh, the binaries still have to be compiled for a specific platform. The only binaries that will work on any platform are bytecode like Java or.NET stuff.
Again, I must call BS. Game compatibility? I believe the PS2 was the first console to have backwards compatibility. (Or maybe the GB->GBA did it first, I don't know).
I think the GB series had it before the PS2, but Atari had it long before either of them.
Hopefully, Nintendo is smart enough to make the two completely separate, but it probably will make the Revolution easier to mod. (Modchips exist for the GameCube that allow attaching a DVD drive and playing games off of it.) I would also like to note that the Panasonic Q was a GameCube with a DVD player, but it was not widely released (I know it was only in Asia, not sure exactly where).
Neverwinter Nights seems to fit your requirements. NWN is 3rd edition based and has an online mode which includes support for one or more DMs in the game. (You can also just have maps which are fully scripted like the one-player mode which comes with the game.)
Uh, what? I know plenty of people who use iPod/iTunes (and others who use iPod/WinAMP) on Windows with no difficulties. Could you please explain that comment?
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight? BritneySpears14: Aight. bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah. BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja. bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up. bloodninja: Me too baby. BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest. bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman. BritneySpears14: Hey... bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite. BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it. bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness. BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous. bloodninja: Don't f*ck with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands. bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid. BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of ****. bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal. bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him. bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now. bloodninja: Baby? -------------- BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready? eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready. BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee. eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies. BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you. BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique. eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again. eminemBNJA: Oh **** BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you f*ck up. eminemBNJA: Oh **** eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something
Actually, that type of scaling looks beautiful on ZSNES on a regular CRT or LCD screen. (I say that type because while ZSNES supports scale2x, it supports some similiar algos that I find look better.) The scaling makes some assumptions that make it only look good with 2D video game graphics or similiarly simple graphics (like diagrams). Enlarging a photo with scale2x would just look awful. The problem is more that on a regular television, NES and SNES games do not really look pixelated, so the positives of this type of scaling are questionable.
Maybe the scaling problem will occur to Nintendo and they will use a fancy scaling algorithm like you can in most NES and SNES emulators. Or maybe not.
Well, I guess that made a pretty good point against IRC: not much is really standard. On DynastyNet, setting a channel mode +R means that only registered users can join the channel. I assume that other networks have a similiar feature.
The cell phone user is still paying for those minutes, just the minutes on the plan are pre-paid. If you somehow managed to use up all of the minutes on your plan, then you would be paying for additional minutes, incoming or outgoing. (At least, you would on most US cell phone plans.)
Yeah, I think the idea is to make the games cheap enough to be impulse buys. After all, the virtual console games are almost pure profit for Nintendo (they have to pay for bandwidth). There have also been comments by Nintendo that they would also allow some new (low budget, small) games to be downloaded, although the specifics on that have not been made clear.
A downloaded GC game would be huge. Even downloading onto a SD card that would pretty much fill an SD card. Also, that would take a while/be a lot of bandwidth -- at least by today's standards. Maybe in a few years when SD cards are bigger and internet connections are faster they will consider it.
You can run NES and SNES emulators with little difficulty on an original XBox if you hack it. I doubt that any company would sell an emulator, especially after Bleem got sued out of existence over their PSX emulator for DreamCast. (I think Bleem won the law suit but went out of business fighting.)
Uh, only if you want to buy all of your old games again... and if you do not care about your old save files. I do like the virtual console idea, but my oldest console is a Nintendo 64, so there are plenty of older games that I do not own.
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I thought it might, but I wasn't sure. I bought my cube at launch, so I do not exactly keep up with the latest prices. :)
It was only slightly early. Nintendo must have known that it would be in Game Informer magazine, just the scans of the magazine were released a few days earlier than expected (The scans were released Friday). Someone on another forum claimed they had it on good authority that all 3rd party NDAs expire on April 20th. If that's true, we can expect a lot more info soon.
Red Steel does use the nunchuku attachment, which you hold in your other hand. The analog stick on it is used for strafing.
But the smokers intending who don't to quit view smoking as negative. You seem to be implying that playing video games is a bad thing, and that teenagers intend to do something productive instead. The way I take the data is that teenagers are intending to play less video games in favor of other forms of entertainment.
Used? It costs less than that new (at least, if we are talking US$). $100 for GCN + 1 game + 3 * $25/wired controller = $175 + tax.
Uh, the binaries still have to be compiled for a specific platform. The only binaries that will work on any platform are bytecode like Java or .NET stuff.
Maybe if all of those got together, that could be effective, but if it was just Google, then everyone would just switch to MSN or Yahoo.
Yes, but unlike the GBA, I am pretty sure that it cannot play GB/GBC games.
Hopefully, Nintendo is smart enough to make the two completely separate, but it probably will make the Revolution easier to mod. (Modchips exist for the GameCube that allow attaching a DVD drive and playing games off of it.) I would also like to note that the Panasonic Q was a GameCube with a DVD player, but it was not widely released (I know it was only in Asia, not sure exactly where).
Or we could have a Senate/House rule forbidding Omnibus bills and actually enforce it.
Hahaha, good one, huh?
Seriously, that would be a good idea, but, as another poster pointed out, the US government does not seem to be big on transparency or accountability.
Neverwinter Nights seems to fit your requirements. NWN is 3rd edition based and has an online mode which includes support for one or more DMs in the game. (You can also just have maps which are fully scripted like the one-player mode which comes with the game.)
Actually, that type of scaling looks beautiful on ZSNES on a regular CRT or LCD screen. (I say that type because while ZSNES supports scale2x, it supports some similiar algos that I find look better.) The scaling makes some assumptions that make it only look good with 2D video game graphics or similiarly simple graphics (like diagrams). Enlarging a photo with scale2x would just look awful. The problem is more that on a regular television, NES and SNES games do not really look pixelated, so the positives of this type of scaling are questionable.
I meant something like scale2x, but I suppose I have never checked to see what it looks like on a TV.
Maybe the scaling problem will occur to Nintendo and they will use a fancy scaling algorithm like you can in most NES and SNES emulators. Or maybe not.
Well, I guess that made a pretty good point against IRC: not much is really standard. On DynastyNet, setting a channel mode +R means that only registered users can join the channel. I assume that other networks have a similiar feature.
The cell phone user is still paying for those minutes, just the minutes on the plan are pre-paid. If you somehow managed to use up all of the minutes on your plan, then you would be paying for additional minutes, incoming or outgoing. (At least, you would on most US cell phone plans.)
As you were saying... ?
Yeah, I think the idea is to make the games cheap enough to be impulse buys. After all, the virtual console games are almost pure profit for Nintendo (they have to pay for bandwidth). There have also been comments by Nintendo that they would also allow some new (low budget, small) games to be downloaded, although the specifics on that have not been made clear. A downloaded GC game would be huge. Even downloading onto a SD card that would pretty much fill an SD card. Also, that would take a while/be a lot of bandwidth -- at least by today's standards. Maybe in a few years when SD cards are bigger and internet connections are faster they will consider it.
You can run NES and SNES emulators with little difficulty on an original XBox if you hack it. I doubt that any company would sell an emulator, especially after Bleem got sued out of existence over their PSX emulator for DreamCast. (I think Bleem won the law suit but went out of business fighting.)
Uh, only if you want to buy all of your old games again... and if you do not care about your old save files. I do like the virtual console idea, but my oldest console is a Nintendo 64, so there are plenty of older games that I do not own.