had been pretty happy with Gnome until they started turning it into WebTV.
As someone who has owned a WebTV and read/posted to Slashdot with it, I can say one thing. Gnome 3 looks nothing like WebTV, it looks more like a cell phone.
Assistant (that I named...Siri): Let me find directions for you. Popup prompt to open Maps pops up....hit maps...and it shows path of travel to Carnegie Hall.
FreeMCBoot is free. Give me a memory card, and I can make it magic for you too. Not problems. I did it for several friends. You can make one yourself if you have skillz disc swapping or have an action replay disc. If you don't, there is a community who will cook your card for you for free.
Wouldn't it be easiest to just create the memory card "saves" copy them over to USB storage, or SD/MMC/MS/CF card, put that in a PS3 and have the PS3 create the PS2 memory cards via the little PS2 memory card reader that plugs into a PS3? Once the the little boot thingy is created the PS2 just treats it as a "save", right? At least it did for LInux.
That's pretty much how RPG Maker users share their games now.
You'd be better off getting a PS3 and getting the SotC HD rerelease on disk or PSN hat'll run on hardware that can actually handle it! That release also includes ICO.
In fact, you might as well pick up a CECHA, CECHB, or CECHE model PS3 to begin with... then you can just play the PS2 games on that, with wireless controls.
I'm using component cable. Works great when I plug it directly into the TV, but then I don't get surround sound. Plug it into the receiver, and it jitters, but sound works.
Sound's like the receivers the problem, not the PS2
Plug the video into the TV and audio into the receiver: Possible, but I'd need to extend the cables, and it makes it more of a pain to switch over.
But that desktop PC is going to hook up to a modern TV set a lot more easily, too.
Modern TV's don't have Component, S-Video, Composite or as a last resort...RF inputs? I personally woudn't buy a TV with all of the above AND VGA and HDMI.
The PS2 section at walmart has stopped being in the glass case,
The Wal-Mart here still has PS2 games in the glass case.
and has stuff like cabela's classic huntd in it.
Wal-mart doesn't have a good selection...in some ways even K-Mart has a more diverse selection.
If game houses are still releasing titles for a console that by this time next year will be 2 genrations old, I wonder about their thought processes.
Their thinking is "Massive PS2 install base", not even taking into account the early CECHA/B/E model PS3's with backwards compatibility. I think in some ways the PS2 has become the "kids playrrom" system. Dad has a PS3/360 attached to the big screen in the living room/man cave for his manly brown shooters and Sports games, while the young kids have a PS2 in their bedroom/playroom for the Disney/Nick/platformer games.
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thanks for posting that, it is interesting..
I love old video about computers, even that "Manetti's get a MAC" one, which isn't bad either in a "Wonder years meets Apple commercial sort of way"
The Java-based games for feature phones were/are also mostly copycats of other games. Only the distribution differs. (Typically through shady SMS-based services that write in the small print that by buying a game you agree to a weekly expensive "subscription")
I've been a "feature-phone" user up till two weeks ago. In some ways I think the term "feature-phone" is a slur, since for many years feature-phones had "Apps", and "app stores" even before the iPhone existed. I know that Cingular/AT&T did/does, and has for years. Their "app store" for their feature phones predates the one on iOS or Android. My late mother bought a freakin bowling game from AT&T's "app store" for her feature phone in 2005! There was no need to deal with shady websites (like Jamster) at all, because app/game/ringtone;buying was built in via a Cingular/ATT store.
9 weeks of Redhat training at my college I was like hey, let's check out Linux.
Didn't your training include hands on experience on a RHEL box?
So I downloaded Ubuntu
If your training was on Red Hat, why didn't you use that or Fedora?
There is no root (aka Admin) login by default and no GUI ability to run things as root.
Sure there is. There's always a root account and it's always possible to run a GUI tool as root, though usually you don't need to. Ubuntu doesn't have you assign a root password by default, because you're supposed to use "sudo" on Ubuntu. If you had installed RH, you would have been asked to give root a password at install time.
Besides, didn't you have any Ubuntu documention? websites, books?
. I gave up after trying to install Java.
What? openjdk wasn't installed by default? Did you install via CD? If so, THAT was your real problem. Never install from CD unless you absolutely have to, always use the DVD. Too many distros still make the CD the default download.
And even if openjdk isn't installed by default.... it should be easy to install on ubuntu with the software center GUI or whatever that thing is called.
Anyway IMHO console games are generations behind graphically
What? "Generations?" I don't think so, sure a PS3 or 360 probably can't match a GTfoo 680, but still....it's not that different.
and usually way more dumbed-down game play-wise compared to many PC games.
It's not 1986 anymore. It's not NES versus Flight Simulator or Phantasie, or whatever hex games the bearded ex-mil grognards played on their DOS machines.
PC games and Console games are often the EXACT SAME GAMES.
Here's a little anecdote:
There was this RPG reviewer guy for PC Gamer magazine called Desslock...back in 2001 or so he used to bash console games as being "mushroom man games" and "dumbed down"
Someone called him on that and he said that he said that because he didn't think there were "any" console RPG's or strategy games because he didn't see any in the stores he went to. So to him console meant "character based platform games"
Someone then listed titles for him, which he saw, but didn't realize what they were.
He still kept the mushroom man comments over the years, even did so in February 2011
CD Projekt seems unconcerned about alienating console gamers looking for happy mushroom men and irate mice.
But in april 2012 in one of his columns he mentioned that the RPG genre had some great modern games and listed 4 games:
3 of them were cross platform with at least one console if not both the 360 and PS3. One of the three was a CD Projekt game.
the 4th was a PS3 exclusive game.
Never got a Mea Culpa out of Desslock though.
There really arent many if any good strategy games on PS3 for example.
Define strategy, if you mean the 2D hex stuff from traditionally PC-only dev houses (like those in Eastern Europe tend to be)...then no. I do wonder why no one has tried to do such games for consoles, they're turn-based, controls aren't an issue (especially not with USB ports), they're not graphically intensive. But there are "some" strategy games Civ Revolutions, RUSE, C&C RA3, some others. More are what we call "rpg-strategy" like the Disgaea games (and similar games)
I also much prefer a mouse and kbd to a console controller.
Modern consoles have USB ports for a reason....the hard part is getting developers to put the support in.
The only use I have for Windows is as a games playing platform, because developers dont make Linux versions of premium games.
What games would those be. Because there are premium games made for a non-windows platform that don't involve Microsoft.
I'd much rather not have a dual boot box at all. I welcome the day I will be able to get rid of the bug-ridden, unfriendly, overpriced, locked-down security-hole and virus magnet that is Windows from my PC forever.
You could do it, right now. WINE and/or a PS3. You could also do OSX, though your game selection would be smaller.
If Gabe realized how much of a killing they could make with a steam-powered console that included kb/mouse/joystick, and a standardized set of hardware, they'd do it and become a HUGE competitive fore in the console market.
But consoles already have standardized hardware, and they have USB ports for a reason Why roll their own when they can just help OTHER developers get over the hump in doing games for the consoles already out there.
Steam could act as an intermediary for traditionally PC only dev houses to do console games.
I know you're probably a PC gamer, but I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
How would I use Skype to play with my friends?
There's this thing called in-game chat, perhaps you've heard of it.
Or FRAPS to record the footage for YouTube?
Why are you using FRAPS and not ffmpeg's X11grab? And it's also possible for the games themselves to include video capture and upload For example Peggle will upload video of the last moments of your level wins on the PS3.
Why would I want my email to stop being checked because I'm playing a game?
You know, you can always wait to read your e-mail when you're actually finished playing the game.
About auto-aim on consoles, it would be more accurate to call it "aim-assist" because that's what it does. And let me tell you, sometimes it assists too much, or too little. In Half-Life on the PS2, I had to turn it off because it made aiming HARDER for me, even if I used gamepad only instead of the usual hybrd dual shock + mouse controls I used. With Deus Ex, it didn't "assist" enough with gamepad...but again I played that with hybrid.
I was more of a SOCOM player, I stopped playing with III because it started catering more to the run, gun and respawn crowd. SOCOM II was the pinnacle of the series IMHO, but thanks for the heads up on ARMA.
Yea well that is because of all of us FF fans wanting to relive our youth.
The youth in which you never played Final Fantasy III? The III he's referring to is Japan III not US3 which was actually VI. FFIII was never released in the US.
The debate here is weather the mouse is more accurate/effective than a single-thumb analog joystick. I, like most PC gamers, would argue that a mouse is more effective for a variety of reasons.
Having played several console shooters that offer both methods of control, I can say this:
The mouse makes aiming easier...but in some ways that's less realistic. That might not be a good thing, depending on what the game aspires to. Personally I think a game like UT should support mouse, even on consoles (which it does)...but something like SOCOM which aspires to realism...slow aiming isn't necessarily a bad thing.
The keyboard is designed for text input. Sure you can use it for game control, and in fact in the old days often HAD to, because late 70's-80's PC game developers couldn't be sure their users had joysticks, so they had to support keyboard input in action games. WASD is a relic of that.
But when it comes to movement, analog control is better. But as you said, mouse has precision aiming. So what can we do...oh I know... We can use them together. Analog controller in one hand, other hand controlling a mouse.
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You do know that there are M rated games on the Wii, right?
had been pretty happy with Gnome until they started turning it into WebTV.
As someone who has owned a WebTV and read/posted to Slashdot with it, I can say one thing. Gnome 3 looks nothing like WebTV, it looks more like a cell phone.
With Android Assistant:
Me: How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Assistant (that I named...Siri): Let me find directions for you. Popup prompt to open Maps pops up....hit maps...and it shows path of travel to Carnegie Hall.
FreeMCBoot is free. Give me a memory card, and I can make it magic for you too. Not problems. I did it for several friends. You can make one yourself if you have skillz disc swapping or have an action replay disc. If you don't, there is a community who will cook your card for you for free.
Wouldn't it be easiest to just create the memory card "saves" copy them over to USB storage, or SD/MMC/MS/CF card, put that in a PS3 and have the PS3 create the PS2 memory cards via the little PS2 memory card reader that plugs into a PS3? Once the the little boot thingy is created the PS2 just treats it as a "save", right? At least it did for LInux.
That's pretty much how RPG Maker users share their games now.
You'd be better off getting a PS3 and getting the SotC HD rerelease on disk or PSN hat'll run on hardware that can actually handle it! That release also includes ICO.
In fact, you might as well pick up a CECHA, CECHB, or CECHE model PS3 to begin with... then you can just play the PS2 games on that, with wireless controls.
crash bandicoot,
Not the PS2 releases! You're thinking of the PSone games, which play just fine on a real PS2 of course.
The PS2 platformers of choice were the Ratchet & Clank, Jax & Daxter, and Sly Cooper series.
As for Shooters, I'd recommend SOCOM, Half-Life and Deus Ex over any others.
I'm using component cable. Works great when I plug it directly into the TV, but then I don't get surround sound. Plug it into the receiver, and it jitters, but sound works.
Sound's like the receivers the problem, not the PS2
Plug the video into the TV and audio into the receiver: Possible, but I'd need to extend the cables, and it makes it more of a pain to switch over.
Are you using optical out on the PS2?
Because not everyone can get a working PS2 Fat.
You mean you don't have one already? A nice FAT 50001 model, that are built like tanks? (50001's are FAR more reliable than 30001's)
But that desktop PC is going to hook up to a modern TV set a lot more easily, too.
Modern TV's don't have Component, S-Video, Composite or as a last resort...RF inputs? I personally woudn't buy a TV with all of the above AND VGA and HDMI.
The PS2 section at walmart has stopped being in the glass case,
The Wal-Mart here still has PS2 games in the glass case.
and has stuff like cabela's classic huntd in it.
Wal-mart doesn't have a good selection...in some ways even K-Mart has a more diverse selection.
If game houses are still releasing titles for a console that by this time next year will be 2 genrations old, I wonder about their thought processes.
Their thinking is "Massive PS2 install base", not even taking into account the early CECHA/B/E model PS3's with backwards compatibility. I think in some ways the PS2 has become the "kids playrrom" system. Dad has a PS3/360 attached to the big screen in the living room/man cave for his manly brown shooters and Sports games, while the young kids have a PS2 in their bedroom/playroom for the Disney/Nick/platformer games.
thanks for posting that, it is interesting..
I love old video about computers, even that "Manetti's get a MAC" one, which isn't bad either in a "Wonder years meets Apple commercial sort of way"
The Java-based games for feature phones were/are also mostly copycats of other games. Only the distribution differs. (Typically through shady SMS-based services that write in the small print that by buying a game you agree to a weekly expensive "subscription")
I've been a "feature-phone" user up till two weeks ago. In some ways I think the term "feature-phone" is a slur, since for many years feature-phones had "Apps", and "app stores" even before the iPhone existed. I know that Cingular/AT&T did/does, and has for years. Their "app store" for their feature phones predates the one on iOS or Android. My late mother bought a freakin bowling game from AT&T's "app store" for her feature phone in 2005! There was no need to deal with shady websites (like Jamster) at all, because app/game/ringtone ;buying was built in via a Cingular/ATT store.
9 weeks of Redhat training at my college I was like hey, let's check out Linux.
Didn't your training include hands on experience on a RHEL box?
So I downloaded Ubuntu
If your training was on Red Hat, why didn't you use that or Fedora?
There is no root (aka Admin) login by default and no GUI ability to run things as root.
Sure there is. There's always a root account and it's always possible to run a GUI tool as root, though usually you don't need to. Ubuntu doesn't have you assign a root password by default, because you're supposed to use "sudo" on Ubuntu. If you had installed RH, you would have been asked to give root a password at install time.
Besides, didn't you have any Ubuntu documention? websites, books?
. I gave up after trying to install Java.
What? openjdk wasn't installed by default? Did you install via CD? If so, THAT was your real problem. Never install from CD unless you absolutely have to, always use the DVD. Too many distros still make the CD the default download.
And even if openjdk isn't installed by default.... it should be easy to install on ubuntu with the software center GUI or whatever that thing is called.
Anyway IMHO console games are generations behind graphically
What? "Generations?" I don't think so, sure a PS3 or 360 probably can't match a GTfoo 680, but still....it's not that different.
and usually way more dumbed-down game play-wise compared to many PC games.
It's not 1986 anymore. It's not NES versus Flight Simulator or Phantasie, or whatever hex games the bearded ex-mil grognards played on their DOS machines.
PC games and Console games are often the EXACT SAME GAMES.
Here's a little anecdote:
There was this RPG reviewer guy for PC Gamer magazine called Desslock...back in 2001 or so he used to bash console games as being "mushroom man games" and "dumbed down"
Someone called him on that and he said that he said that because he didn't think there were "any" console RPG's or strategy games because he didn't see any in the stores he went to. So to him console meant "character based platform games"
Someone then listed titles for him, which he saw, but didn't realize what they were.
He still kept the mushroom man comments over the years, even did so in February 2011
CD Projekt seems unconcerned about alienating console gamers looking for happy mushroom men and irate mice.
But in april 2012 in one of his columns he mentioned that the RPG genre had some great modern games and listed 4 games:
3 of them were cross platform with at least one console if not both the 360 and PS3. One of the three was a CD Projekt game.
the 4th was a PS3 exclusive game.
Never got a Mea Culpa out of Desslock though.
There really arent many if any good strategy games on PS3 for example.
Define strategy, if you mean the 2D hex stuff from traditionally PC-only dev houses (like those in Eastern Europe tend to be)...then no. I do wonder why no one has tried to do such games for consoles, they're turn-based, controls aren't an issue (especially not with USB ports), they're not graphically intensive. But there are "some" strategy games Civ Revolutions, RUSE, C&C RA3, some others. More are what we call "rpg-strategy" like the Disgaea games (and similar games)
I also much prefer a mouse and kbd to a console controller.
Modern consoles have USB ports for a reason....the hard part is getting developers to put the support in.
I'm a dedicated Linux user
Me too, since 2002.
The only use I have for Windows is as a games playing platform, because developers dont make Linux versions of premium games.
What games would those be. Because there are premium games made for a non-windows platform that don't involve Microsoft.
I'd much rather not have a dual boot box at all. I welcome the day I will be able to get rid of the bug-ridden, unfriendly, overpriced, locked-down security-hole and virus magnet that is Windows from my PC forever.
You could do it, right now. WINE and/or a PS3. You could also do OSX, though your game selection would be smaller.
If Gabe realized how much of a killing they could make with a steam-powered console that included kb/mouse/joystick, and a standardized set of hardware, they'd do it and become a HUGE competitive fore in the console market.
But consoles already have standardized hardware, and they have USB ports for a reason Why roll their own when they can just help OTHER developers get over the hump in doing games for the consoles already out there.
Steam could act as an intermediary for traditionally PC only dev houses to do console games.
I know you're probably a PC gamer, but I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
How would I use Skype to play with my friends?
There's this thing called in-game chat, perhaps you've heard of it.
Or FRAPS to record the footage for YouTube?
Why are you using FRAPS and not ffmpeg's X11grab? And it's also possible for the games themselves to include video capture and upload For example Peggle will upload video of the last moments of your level wins on the PS3.
Why would I want my email to stop being checked because I'm playing a game?
You know, you can always wait to read your e-mail when you're actually finished playing the game.
What are you booting off of? DVD? No temporary storage space for you, then. No save games or swap files.
How do you like setting up your WIFI every time you play?
There's this stuff called Flash storage, which can hold settings, or save files....How do you think PSone's and PS2's did their thing.
About auto-aim on consoles, it would be more accurate to call it "aim-assist" because that's what it does. And let me tell you, sometimes it assists too much, or too little. In Half-Life on the PS2, I had to turn it off because it made aiming HARDER for me, even if I used gamepad only instead of the usual hybrd dual shock + mouse controls I used. With Deus Ex, it didn't "assist" enough with gamepad...but again I played that with hybrid.
I was more of a SOCOM player, I stopped playing with III because it started catering more to the run, gun and respawn crowd. SOCOM II was the pinnacle of the series IMHO, but thanks for the heads up on ARMA.
3. enjoy all the cheap games.
Are you saying there aren't cheap games on consoles, because there are. Or are you meaning all the 2nd and 3rd world PC gamer pirates out there.
4. prefer MMOs or casual games.
Are you saying you can't play Angry Birds on a console? or MMO's?
Wouldn't it be easier and smarter if they just rallied their game providers to support the PS3 which is already out there?
Yea well that is because of all of us FF fans wanting to relive our youth.
The youth in which you never played Final Fantasy III? The III he's referring to is Japan III not US3 which was actually VI. FFIII was never released in the US.
it gets even better if you install Linux on your game console and play text console games on your console....which I have done.
The debate here is weather the mouse is more accurate/effective than a single-thumb analog joystick. I, like most PC gamers, would argue that a mouse is more effective for a variety of reasons.
Having played several console shooters that offer both methods of control, I can say this:
The mouse makes aiming easier...but in some ways that's less realistic. That might not be a good thing, depending on what the game aspires to. Personally I think a game like UT should support mouse, even on consoles (which it does)...but something like SOCOM which aspires to realism...slow aiming isn't necessarily a bad thing.
And I'll say it again.
The keyboard is designed for text input. Sure you can use it for game control, and in fact in the old days often HAD to, because late 70's-80's PC game developers couldn't be sure their users had joysticks, so they had to support keyboard input in action games. WASD is a relic of that.
But when it comes to movement, analog control is better. But as you said, mouse has precision aiming. So what can we do...oh I know... We can use them together. Analog controller in one hand, other hand controlling a mouse.