Maybe I'm ill informed since I've only run "Redhatty" distros (SCEfoos wacky Kondara-ized RH6 on the PS2, YDL, and now Fedora) but isn't bash the standard shell for Linux? So wouldn't bash tricks be more useful?
Why not keep them in MPEG2/4 containers if you're keeping them MPEG2/4 codec, that way commercially available consumer electronics media devices can play them as well.
plus, you HELP sony each time you buy that stuff via license fees. I DO NOT WANT TO EVER HELP SONY. EVER.
Blu-Ray is a jointly developed consortium format, not Sony only Perhaps you are assuming that Sony's strong support of Blu-Ray and using it in the PS3 meant it was Sony owned.
Sony is also a member of the DVD Forum and jointly developed the CD format...do you refuse to buy DVD's and CD's as well? Apparently not, from your mention of DVD rips, that makes you a hypocrite doesn't it.
Far better graphics (1080p at 6x anti-aliasing on my machine without a hitch)
That's not "really" better graphics, just upscaling and "smoothing", you can get the same effect from a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE model PS3. Besides, most PS2 games are 4:3 and wouldn't really be 1080p anyway, unless you stretched the image to fit your widescreen.
Besides, no emulator can play the vast number of PS2 games perfectly, the beast is difficult to properly emulate. I still think you'd be better off getting that PS2, hooking it up with component cables and letting your TV handle the upscaling.
No, 15Mbps cable, with a recent bandwidth cap, but even I don't want to take the time to download a formerly disc based title from PSN, when I can have the disc version faster. Heck if I could get Fedora DVD's faster from a local store than I could get a download I'd get the physical disks and NOT download from the Fedora site.
Inferior, perhaps, but not by much. The real problem was that the two biggest countries in video game development are the US, and Japan, both NTSC.
Think of it this way, North America was basically one HUGE market, English speakers, NTSC. They could do one version of the game for 300 million people and it's basically one region for marketing as well.
yes, I saw that, but your viewpoint is well....silly, because you can't have it both ways.
If you want to play games on PC's that means Windows and in some cases means having that Windows machine connected to the Internet., if you are not willing to put up with windows/Steam, then you either play on consoles or just simply not play games, it's that simple. You want to play HL2 but you are not willing to do what you have to do to play it.
We've reached one of those points of diminishing returns some might call "good enough" and most people simply aren't willing to pay more money for a PC even if they have it, because all they do is Facebook and Angry Birds so you see a lot of boxes with Nvidia 6150SE's and the like.
Oh some of us do, since inverted Y was standard with some of the Atari 2600's space shooters ages ago. I always invert Y (and many console games invert Y by default, thank goodness)
and (probably accidentally) Sony went for slower-burn strategies.
No accident, Sony actually said so.early on how they believed this console generation would last longer, just like how they said the PS2 would have a 10 year shelf life...which it did. (Damn thing just won't DIE)
Current consoles are cheap and only around the level of performance of a gaming PC from 10 years ago.
10 years ago was 2001, that's Geforce 3 era and both the PS3 and Xbox 360 can easily overmatch a GeForce 3! Can't play Skyrim on a GeForce 3 can you? Heck as far as I know Skyrim won't even run on the default Nvidia 6150SE this thing has.
And CPU wise that was about 1-2GHz era, single core, no match for the PS3 or 360 MIPS wise.
Hwre's a question I have, why buy the game from Steam rather than an actual store? You have two options:
1. Go to store, buy game, be playing almost immediately. 2. Download game from Steam, It's a BIG game, in the time that would take you could do #1 easy.
What? You never got a PSone for all the PSone JRPG's? Jeebus, everyone knows that for JRPG's you also want a PSone/PS2 and PSP, because all the newer games are one those (plus a few PS3 titles), and that those releases seriously outnumber the pitiful few JRPG's that were brought over for the NES/SNES. Remember, it was a PSone game, Final Fantasy VII, that truly popularized JPRG's in the West.If you were smart you'd have picked up a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE model PS3 (those models include PS2 compatibility) ages ago.
Why would you emulate a PS2 when you can just buy one new at your local enormo-mart that plays ALL PS2 games and PSone games absolutely perfectly (not just some), and comes with a built in network adapter.
You do know that Half-Life 2 is available on platforms that don't use Windows or Steam, meaning the PS3 and Xbox360. I run LInux on the PC and game on my PS3 myself.
I have never seen a non special edition of a game go for more than 59.99 US$, I don't know where you're getting that $80 number. And still, 59.99 is actually CHEAPER than games used to cost. Game prices haven't kept pace with inflation, we're actually getting more game for less money.
You people need to fight that cutlure, very strongly, because otherwise your people will start getting the reputation as a bunch of freeloading content thieves. If you want the good stuff, meaning games and content made by competent American, Japanese and Western European developers, pay for them.
Heck, in Second Life, people already disparage Brazilians as a whole as copybotters and content thieves unwilling to pay even a tiny amount for content.
Aussies screwed themselves by being an english speaking country with a tiny population nowhere near the two biggest english speaking countries. And worse, deciding to go PAL rather than NTSC when such things mattered.
I work in social services with persons with disabilities, the only thing in my job that is tech related is the fact that I'm on the "Tech Committee". And I'm on that because everyone knows I'm an amateur computer nerd. In other words, I run Linux, personally, but I'm not a sysadmin, and I can't program my way out of a paper bag.
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Maybe I'm ill informed since I've only run "Redhatty" distros (SCEfoos wacky Kondara-ized RH6 on the PS2, YDL, and now Fedora) but isn't bash the standard shell for Linux? So wouldn't bash tricks be more useful?
Isn't this essentially a dupe of:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/17/1540235/working-on-man-made-lightning
Why not keep them in MPEG2/4 containers if you're keeping them MPEG2/4 codec, that way commercially available consumer electronics media devices can play them as well.
plus, you HELP sony each time you buy that stuff via license fees. I DO NOT WANT TO EVER HELP SONY. EVER.
Blu-Ray is a jointly developed consortium format, not Sony only Perhaps you are assuming that Sony's strong support of Blu-Ray and using it in the PS3 meant it was Sony owned.
Sony is also a member of the DVD Forum and jointly developed the CD format...do you refuse to buy DVD's and CD's as well? Apparently not, from your mention of DVD rips, that makes you a hypocrite doesn't it.
Far better graphics (1080p at 6x anti-aliasing on my machine without a hitch)
That's not "really" better graphics, just upscaling and "smoothing", you can get the same effect from a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE model PS3. Besides, most PS2 games are 4:3 and wouldn't really be 1080p anyway, unless you stretched the image to fit your widescreen.
Besides, no emulator can play the vast number of PS2 games perfectly, the beast is difficult to properly emulate. I still think you'd be better off getting that PS2, hooking it up with component cables and letting your TV handle the upscaling.
No, 15Mbps cable, with a recent bandwidth cap, but even I don't want to take the time to download a formerly disc based title from PSN, when I can have the disc version faster. Heck if I could get Fedora DVD's faster from a local store than I could get a download I'd get the physical disks and NOT download from the Fedora site.
I didn't say second hand did I, because you can still buy them NEW at many retailers.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/PlayStation-2-Black/10250554
Inferior, perhaps, but not by much. The real problem was that the two biggest countries in video game development are the US, and Japan, both NTSC.
Think of it this way, North America was basically one HUGE market, English speakers, NTSC. They could do one version of the game for 300 million people and it's basically one region for marketing as well.
yes, I saw that, but your viewpoint is well....silly, because you can't have it both ways.
If you want to play games on PC's that means Windows and in some cases means having that Windows machine connected to the Internet., if you are not willing to put up with windows/Steam, then you either play on consoles or just simply not play games, it's that simple. You want to play HL2 but you are not willing to do what you have to do to play it.
We've reached one of those points of diminishing returns some might call "good enough" and most people simply aren't willing to pay more money for a PC even if they have it, because all they do is Facebook and Angry Birds so you see a lot of boxes with Nvidia 6150SE's and the like.
Gamepad gamers might not fully understand this,
Oh some of us do, since inverted Y was standard with some of the Atari 2600's space shooters ages ago. I always invert Y (and many console games invert Y by default, thank goodness)
Hey, thanks for the headsup on Far Ctry 2, didn't know it had an editor. (though I must admit I haven't even made any LBP levels)
and (probably accidentally) Sony went for slower-burn strategies.
No accident, Sony actually said so.early on how they believed this console generation would last longer, just like how they said the PS2 would have a 10 year shelf life...which it did. (Damn thing just won't DIE)
Current consoles are cheap and only around the level of performance of a gaming PC from 10 years ago.
10 years ago was 2001, that's Geforce 3 era and both the PS3 and Xbox 360 can easily overmatch a GeForce 3! Can't play Skyrim on a GeForce 3 can you? Heck as far as I know Skyrim won't even run on the default Nvidia 6150SE this thing has.
And CPU wise that was about 1-2GHz era, single core, no match for the PS3 or 360 MIPS wise.
Hwre's a question I have, why buy the game from Steam rather than an actual store? You have two options:
1. Go to store, buy game, be playing almost immediately.
2. Download game from Steam, It's a BIG game, in the time that would take you could do #1 easy.
What? You never got a PSone for all the PSone JRPG's? Jeebus, everyone knows that for JRPG's you also want a PSone/PS2 and PSP, because all the newer games are one those (plus a few PS3 titles), and that those releases seriously outnumber the pitiful few JRPG's that were brought over for the NES/SNES. Remember, it was a PSone game, Final Fantasy VII, that truly popularized JPRG's in the West.If you were smart you'd have picked up a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE model PS3 (those models include PS2 compatibility) ages ago.
Why would you emulate a PS2 when you can just buy one new at your local enormo-mart that plays ALL PS2 games and PSone games absolutely perfectly (not just some), and comes with a built in network adapter.
You do know that Half-Life 2 is available on platforms that don't use Windows or Steam, meaning the PS3 and Xbox360. I run LInux on the PC and game on my PS3 myself.
I have never seen a non special edition of a game go for more than 59.99 US$, I don't know where you're getting that $80 number. And still, 59.99 is actually CHEAPER than games used to cost. Game prices haven't kept pace with inflation, we're actually getting more game for less money.
Buy the PS3 version, PS3's (and PSP) games are region free.
Yeah, the import duties are there to protect their home grown movie/software industries from masses of Euro and American high quality media/games.
You people need to fight that cutlure, very strongly, because otherwise your people will start getting the reputation as a bunch of freeloading content thieves. If you want the good stuff, meaning games and content made by competent American, Japanese and Western European developers, pay for them.
Heck, in Second Life, people already disparage Brazilians as a whole as copybotters and content thieves unwilling to pay even a tiny amount for content.
Aussies screwed themselves by being an english speaking country with a tiny population nowhere near the two biggest english speaking countries. And worse, deciding to go PAL rather than NTSC when such things mattered.
I work in social services with persons with disabilities, the only thing in my job that is tech related is the fact that I'm on the "Tech Committee". And I'm on that because everyone knows I'm an amateur computer nerd. In other words, I run Linux, personally, but I'm not a sysadmin, and I can't program my way out of a paper bag.
Was it a station SOE account?, IIRC they weren't certain those were affected so they sent those accounts information later, after the PSN users