I wouldn't say many. Most were 1 block, some were 2, more than 2 was uncommon.
The worst one I have is PSone Diablo. 10 blocks for the actual game save, another block for saved options, and another block for saved characters you weren't currently playing. The second worst one I have is the PS1 Diablo-clone, Darkstone. 6 blocks for a save.
Eh, just the CSGO finals at Dreamhack this weekend had over 400k viewers just via officially counted streams, then there were a lot of viewers via GOTV. Some swedish media had their own streams from Dreamhack. Also, swedish and finnish TV channels broadcast some of the matches too... So, there are a lot of people watching.
But the question is, are they Europeans/Koreans.....or Americans. In America watching game tournaments isn't a mainstream thing. Kinf of like how it seems every UK village has it's own LUG that meets in a pub....but the few US LUG's are university based and DON'T meet at pubs. In fact, you pull a laptop out at a bar in the US and the owner would probalby kick you out.
In the "Live from Playstation" app it only shows PS4 streaming, but the PS4 does have a web browser, and you can watch non-PS4 streams in it. I just pulled up a DOTA2 stream on twitch in it to check.
If the PS4's web browser gives you a not enough memory error, close the window and restart it.
They're tiny little things too. They probably went with a Vita only format because you could take the Duo's out of your PSP's and mount them up in a memory card reader (since Sony used them in other devices). Or just hook the PSP itself up since it mounts USB storage. It's trivially easy to copy anything over to it.
However, nothing reads those Vita cards but Vita's and the playstation TV, and if you hook a Vita up to the PC, you only get limited access, because the transfers are controlled from the Vita end.
Another little tidbit is that at one time, Sony was planning on releasing a PS2 badged LCDTV/monitor. IIRC it was a 1080i model, 15" Think they were planning on selling it for $500. I think some of the SCEfoo people on the PS2 Linux forums had them and loved them.
They showed it off at a few events in 2001, alongside that PS2 running Netscape/AOL. That's the same keyboard/mouse they bundled with the PS2 Linux kits.
It's a competitor for what is currently the shitty part of streaming, It's simply lowers the bar to entry so you can share streams with a few clicks. Integrating it with steam is obvious because it gives you that social component you already use to organize multiplayer games and communicate with other PC gamers.
In other words, it essentially does what the PS4 does via the Share feature and makes streaming easy.
Steam gives the PC an edge over consoles too! No need to go out and buy a game, you can do it right from your desktop and the way it shares games between any PC you want to use, it really takes the pain out of DRM.
That's how PSN has worked for how many years now? 8? I have a PS4...do you want to know how many physical PS4 discs I own? Precisely zero.
The only model with built in ethernet is the PS2 slim.
If memory serves me correctly, a couple of the later "Fat" PS2 boxes included Network Adapters. That being just before the release of the Slim's
It's nearly impossible to use one on a modern TV without horrendously bad image quality
Component cables, set the thing for Pb/Cr/Cb output. While most games are 4:3 480i, there are some with 480p or 1080i and/or widescreen modes. Even at 480i, they'll still look nicer over component.
TVs had better speakers 20 years ago : in a LCD monitor or TV there's simply not enough physical room for decent speakers.
That is true, though modern TV speakers aren't too bad for the size of the things. They do tend to vary quite a bit in quality. I've been looking for a "sound bar" that has HDMI in.
But according to Slashdot users hairyfeet, nschubach, Pubstar, and others, as well as Anonymous Cowards, the situation has changed.
No, it hasn't changed, couch co-op is still uncommon. And the games that DO have it, tend to be cross-platform anyway.
even though it's dragging its feet on the actual Steam Machine hardware.
There will never be a steam machine. They were announced just to send a message to Microsoft...message has been received.
No upgrade will bring games to the PS4 that aren't already there
True, but you'll never see Gran Turismo, or LBP on PC, will you.
or let you install mods for those games that are on PS4.
Don't need them. Mods are for cheap-ass Eurogamers who just want to buy one game and then play it for 10 years...because they spent too much money on PC and don't have any money for games. Really...haven't you wondered why the PC mod communities are so Euro-centric?
PC, by contrast, has a wide selection of previous-generation games
I have a wide selection of previous generation games, I've got working NES, N64, SNES, PS2, PS3 (CECHE Model mind you) hardware.
and community-made mods if you tire of the top 40.
You know there's more than the top 40 on consoles. Boy you sure seem to have turned into one of the PC Master Race guys recently. Still upset Sony or Nintendo won't hand out dev kits willy nilly to every "one man developer" with a dream?
Use a 1080p 27" or 28" PC 1080p PC display as a "TV"it's better than a TV and "small' like a big CRT used to be..
No, it's not better. TV's make better monitors than monitors make TV's, because:
1. Mutliple inputs, with a monitor you're usually limited to HDMI, DVI, or Display-port. TV's, have RF, composite, component, sometimes s-video, HDMI, VGA.
2. TV's have speakers, it's a rare monitor that does. Which means if you do use a monitor as a TV you will require a receiver for sound. Meaning more wires and whatnot.
But you yourself are constantly going on about how there aren't very many couch co-op games for the PC! If he wants to play in the living room he'd be better off with a PS4. It's less noisy than a "Big gaming rig".
What does it use for H.264 given that x264 is GPL? And how does it satisfy the "scripts used to control [...] installation" requirement of the LGPLv2.1?
Or perhaps you're referring to balance changes to make the game playable without the optional accessory.
More the fact that the Dreamcast mouse wasn't a common easily available accessory, just like with the Genesis, SNES and PSone mice. I may have owned SNES and PSone mice but they were rare.
With the Sony machines, they just use USB, you can use any old mouse and/or keyboard you have handy.
He's right when it comes to games. Artists, musicians, voice talent, engine licensing, middleware licenses...it costs money.
Sure there's always a few guys basically donating time to thinks like Wesnoth or Nethack, but they can do that because they have full time jobs doing something else. The people who want to actually make a living making games are different.
I'm surprised you didn't ask: "What's the best practices for contacting Alexey Pajitnov to discuss his opinions on playing same-screen multiplayer tetris, after school with kids, with infinite spin, on an SDTV."
If I want a console to play my old Nintendo games on, I need an old Nintendo console.
What, you don't keep your old consoles around?;-) I've got an NES within 10 feet of me.
Even backwards compatibility for a PS1 or PS2 on a PS3 was shoddy at best.
The only PS1 games that won't work on a PS3 are those that won't work properly in a PS2 either, because they break the TRC's. I have only one such game, the X-Files 5 disk graphical adventure game which doesn't work properly in a PS2 or PS3. It runs, but suffers graphical corruption so it's unplayable.
As for PS2 titles, I haven't found a PS2 title that doesn't work on my CECHE model. There are a few that have issues. For some strange reason, Tekken Tag Tournabment runs at half speed. Snowblind Engine games tend to have some graphical glitching and their network play doesn't work, but they're not totally unplayable.
Everything else was fine.
Also remember that Sony removed the PS2 emulator from the PS3 (ostensibly to save money).
From the slim models yes, older models that had it, still have it. The release of PS2 remasters on PSN is a bit of a consolation.
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No, but it does run on BSD.
Many games required more than one block
I wouldn't say many. Most were 1 block, some were 2, more than 2 was uncommon.
The worst one I have is PSone Diablo. 10 blocks for the actual game save, another block for saved options, and another block for saved characters you weren't currently playing. The second worst one I have is the PS1 Diablo-clone, Darkstone. 6 blocks for a save.
I switched to keyboard and mouse on the PC to play Doom.
Must have been Doom95. Classic 1993 DOOM doesn't have mouse support.
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Eh, just the CSGO finals at Dreamhack this weekend had over 400k viewers just via officially counted streams, then there were a lot of viewers via GOTV. Some swedish media had their own streams from Dreamhack. Also, swedish and finnish TV channels broadcast some of the matches too... So, there are a lot of people watching.
But the question is, are they Europeans/Koreans.....or Americans. In America watching game tournaments isn't a mainstream thing. Kinf of like how it seems every UK village has it's own LUG that meets in a pub....but the few US LUG's are university based and DON'T meet at pubs. In fact, you pull a laptop out at a bar in the US and the owner would probalby kick you out.
In the "Live from Playstation" app it only shows PS4 streaming, but the PS4 does have a web browser, and you can watch non-PS4 streams in it. I just pulled up a DOTA2 stream on twitch in it to check.
If the PS4's web browser gives you a not enough memory error, close the window and restart it.
They're tiny little things too. They probably went with a Vita only format because you could take the Duo's out of your PSP's and mount them up in a memory card reader (since Sony used them in other devices). Or just hook the PSP itself up since it mounts USB storage. It's trivially easy to copy anything over to it.
However, nothing reads those Vita cards but Vita's and the playstation TV, and if you hook a Vita up to the PC, you only get limited access, because the transfers are controlled from the Vita end.
Another little tidbit is that at one time, Sony was planning on releasing a PS2 badged LCDTV/monitor. IIRC it was a 1080i model, 15" Think they were planning on selling it for $500. I think some of the SCEfoo people on the PS2 Linux forums had them and loved them.
You can see the thing here: http://www.psu.com/forums/show...
They showed it off at a few events in 2001, alongside that PS2 running Netscape/AOL. That's the same keyboard/mouse they bundled with the PS2 Linux kits.
How recent and which ones? from quick googling it seems you need a GT6xx series on up for Nvidia?
Geez dude, you probably need a card that can do CUDA for hardware accelerated encoding.
It's a competitor for what is currently the shitty part of streaming, It's simply lowers the bar to entry so you can share streams with a few clicks. Integrating it with steam is obvious because it gives you that social component you already use to organize multiplayer games and communicate with other PC gamers.
In other words, it essentially does what the PS4 does via the Share feature and makes streaming easy.
Steam gives the PC an edge over consoles too! No need to go out and buy a game, you can do it right from your desktop and the way it shares games between any PC you want to use, it really takes the pain out of DRM.
That's how PSN has worked for how many years now? 8? I have a PS4...do you want to know how many physical PS4 discs I own? Precisely zero.
The only model with built in ethernet is the PS2 slim.
If memory serves me correctly, a couple of the later "Fat" PS2 boxes included Network Adapters. That being just before the release of the Slim's
It's nearly impossible to use one on a modern TV without horrendously bad image quality
Component cables, set the thing for Pb/Cr/Cb output. While most games are 4:3 480i, there are some with 480p or 1080i and/or widescreen modes. Even at 480i, they'll still look nicer over component.
TVs had better speakers 20 years ago : in a LCD monitor or TV there's simply not enough physical room for decent speakers.
That is true, though modern TV speakers aren't too bad for the size of the things. They do tend to vary quite a bit in quality. I've been looking for a "sound bar" that has HDMI in.
From "unheard of" to "uncommon" is still an improvement.
True, but if I wanted to play couch co-op (which I do rarely)... i'd be focusing my attention on the consoles, not the PC.
it takes three people with a prototype, and things have started to change in my life to make that happen.
Woo Hoo! Good for you. Let me know when you've got it for sale/demo.
But according to Slashdot users hairyfeet, nschubach, Pubstar, and others, as well as Anonymous Cowards, the situation has changed.
No, it hasn't changed, couch co-op is still uncommon. And the games that DO have it, tend to be cross-platform anyway.
even though it's dragging its feet on the actual Steam Machine hardware.
There will never be a steam machine. They were announced just to send a message to Microsoft...message has been received.
No upgrade will bring games to the PS4 that aren't already there
True, but you'll never see Gran Turismo, or LBP on PC, will you.
or let you install mods for those games that are on PS4.
Don't need them. Mods are for cheap-ass Eurogamers who just want to buy one game and then play it for 10 years...because they spent too much money on PC and don't have any money for games. Really...haven't you wondered why the PC mod communities are so Euro-centric?
PC, by contrast, has a wide selection of previous-generation games
I have a wide selection of previous generation games, I've got working NES, N64, SNES, PS2, PS3 (CECHE Model mind you) hardware.
and community-made mods if you tire of the top 40.
You know there's more than the top 40 on consoles. Boy you sure seem to have turned into one of the PC Master Race guys recently. Still upset Sony or Nintendo won't hand out dev kits willy nilly to every "one man developer" with a dream?
Use a 1080p 27" or 28" PC 1080p PC display as a "TV"it's better than a TV and "small' like a big CRT used to be..
No, it's not better. TV's make better monitors than monitors make TV's, because:
1. Mutliple inputs, with a monitor you're usually limited to HDMI, DVI, or Display-port. TV's, have RF, composite, component, sometimes s-video, HDMI, VGA.
2. TV's have speakers, it's a rare monitor that does. Which means if you do use a monitor as a TV you will require a receiver for sound. Meaning more wires and whatnot.
Say, you wouldn't happen to be an advocate for ethics in game journalism, would you?
He is.
But there are amble reasons why the next-gen consoles have been re-positioned as family friendly home media centers.
And ample reasons both the Wii-U and PS4 have Remote Play.
But you yourself are constantly going on about how there aren't very many couch co-op games for the PC! If he wants to play in the living room he'd be better off with a PS4. It's less noisy than a "Big gaming rig".
that the payment thing was only on files under 100MB
X-men-XVID-HQ-MKV-part1.rar
X-men-XVID-HQ-MKV-part2.rar
X-men-XVID-HQ-MKV-part3.rar
X-men-XVID-HQ-MKV-part4.rar
etc etc.
Will SCEA repair it in ten or even five years time? The answer is no
Actually, the answer is probably yes. They still service PS2's! And if they don't... there are other services that can repair/replace a blu-ray drive.
What does it use for H.264 given that x264 is GPL? And how does it satisfy the "scripts used to control [...] installation" requirement of the LGPLv2.1?
Probably bsd licensed openh264. http://www.openh264.org/
Or perhaps you're referring to balance changes to make the game playable without the optional accessory.
More the fact that the Dreamcast mouse wasn't a common easily available accessory, just like with the Genesis, SNES and PSone mice. I may have owned SNES and PSone mice but they were rare.
With the Sony machines, they just use USB, you can use any old mouse and/or keyboard you have handy.
He's right when it comes to games. Artists, musicians, voice talent, engine licensing, middleware licenses...it costs money.
Sure there's always a few guys basically donating time to thinks like Wesnoth or Nethack, but they can do that because they have full time jobs doing something else. The people who want to actually make a living making games are different.
I'm surprised you didn't ask: "What's the best practices for contacting Alexey Pajitnov to discuss his opinions on playing same-screen multiplayer tetris, after school with kids, with infinite spin, on an SDTV."
If I want a console to play my old Nintendo games on, I need an old Nintendo console.
What, you don't keep your old consoles around? ;-) I've got an NES within 10 feet of me.
Even backwards compatibility for a PS1 or PS2 on a PS3 was shoddy at best.
The only PS1 games that won't work on a PS3 are those that won't work properly in a PS2 either, because they break the TRC's. I have only one such game, the X-Files 5 disk graphical adventure game which doesn't work properly in a PS2 or PS3. It runs, but suffers graphical corruption so it's unplayable.
As for PS2 titles, I haven't found a PS2 title that doesn't work on my CECHE model. There are a few that have issues. For some strange reason, Tekken Tag Tournabment runs at half speed. Snowblind Engine games tend to have some graphical glitching and their network play doesn't work, but they're not totally unplayable.
Everything else was fine.
Also remember that Sony removed the PS2 emulator from the PS3 (ostensibly to save money).
From the slim models yes, older models that had it, still have it. The release of PS2 remasters on PSN is a bit of a consolation.