If you like 2D Amiga games so much, why not just keep playing them instead of getting upset that modern games aren't like that?
If basic 2D action games were popular enough to be profitable, they would still be being made for today's consoles. IMO, though, they're totally played-out.
I think that Crystal is the perfect company to broaden the horizons of the TR series. They've done just about every kind of game out there, and each one that I've played has something noticeably unique about it.
They will also probably be able to make use of the excellent-looking game engine from the upcoming Legacy of Kain: Defiance, rather than using Core's. One of the biggest complaints I've heard about AoD is that the game still controls like the original TR, whereas Defiance is geared towards fast combat and cinematic camera styles.
This was modded funny, but the first part is true in many areas. Apparently in Vancouver, BC, there is even a fairly brisk business done in stolen Mach 3 blades at the flea market.
I thought the format was proprietary, but perhaps they are more open than I thought.
Yeah, they're just regular DVDs and CDs. It's handy if you like to rip soundtracks to listen to them outside the game, or you want to get into Action Replay hacking.
The only odd one I've come across is Primal. I put it in my DVD-ROM drive, and I just see a handful of files. I assume it has the rest on another data track.
What I'd like to see again is the equivalent of the Colecovision 2600 adapter.
You can pretty much make your own. Just find an XBox case, and put a PS2 inside it. Hook the real XBox and your "adapter" up to one of those multi-system video cables, and you're set.
The Colecovision 2600 adapter was just a 2600 clone that used the video output of the Colecovision. IIRC, you even had to connect the controllers to it instead of the main console. It also cost as much ($50) as the real deal.
Modding them to play the games is relatively easy (I have a chipped PS2 so I can play European games). Unfortunately, as another poster mentioned, the PAL signal can't be displayed on North American TVs without a converter or patching the game.
If you've got an svideo or composite input on your PC's video card though, you can view it that way. I use iuVCR in full-screen preview mode because it's cheaper.
Would it kill them to show Doctor Who? They could run episodes for at least a decade, if they started with the old black and white ones.
Space, the Canadian equivalent of Sci-Fi, made that mistake while I was going to school up there. The ratings ended up being so poor that they never got to the colour ones.
IMO only the most hardcore Dr. Who fans are interested in watching the early episodes. They're *so* drawn-out and tedious, like a soap opera set in space.
as far as the law is conserned you can take all the pictures you want in public in america you want. If you go into a store, it's considered rude to try to make a copy of something that way like it's rude to stand there and read the magazine in the store without buying it.
Uh, no. Copyright infringement isn't legal just because it's done in public. Even if it were, inside a store is private property. That's why store owners can kick you out if you stand around and don't buy the magazines.
Yeah, like how this message has replaced the one that Slashdot linked to?
"Somehow our website completely reset itself to yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. I'm attempting to get this sorted out. We may or may not be able to get that day of data back. It seems the SWG servers aren't the only ones having problems.:\"
It told me that "derivative works" copyright enforcement is out of hand. Time-Warner is shutting down any publication about a boy wizard with a four sylable name who's authors admit to using Hary Potter as a model. That's what does not work for me. Killing original storries is bogus.
How is that out of hand?
The article's author compares the Potter knock-offs to Wendy's and Burger King in competition with McDonalds. I think a more accurate one would be to the "McDowells" restaurant in Coming to America.
If an author (or a fast food franchise creator) has any originality at all, they can take the basic idea behind a successful concept (e.g. a child who uses magic, or a burger-based restaurant), and make something new based on it.
Using what are essentially the same characters but with different names (or - like in the film - having a Big Mick instead of a Big Mac) is a clear indication that there is nothing original being added to the formula.
Originality is the key element that IP laws are designed to protect. If someone can't even muster *that* up, they don't deserve protection from rabid multinational corporations, much less to be making money off of their bogus creation.
I was hoping they'd port Alien Trilogy to the Cube myself. It was so awesome how there were like 500,000 dialogue clips on the CD, but all Ripley ever said was "burn baby burn!"
"As we've seen from the recent furore over driver cheats it seems likely that they don't plan to let their own inferior hardware come between them and first place."
I kept expecting him to rip into Nvidia's momma at some point.
Back in the mid-90s, I had a website with a low hitcount too. It stayed low because I didn't have much that people were after. Now I run a niche site for fans of the deleted bits from the Legacy of Kain series, and I'm up to 659906 total page requests (11865510 total requests) and 73435 distinct hosts served since October.
I don't post the link here because I don't need the excess casual traffic - I'm already close to my bandwidth limit for this month.
I modded my XBox so I could access files on the hard drive, and replace the included drive with a bigger one. I am also interested in copying games (which I own) to the drive to hack them and extract the audiovisual files for viewing/listening on my PC.
I don't pirate games, but I also don't like manufacturers telling me what I can't do with a console I own. I bought a chipped PS2 for the same reasons, and I've done similar extraction work with tools like Dreamrip on the Dreamcast.
A lot of the time, I just want to get at the music files. Majesco never released a soundtrack CD for BloodRayne, so I pulled out the tracks and listen to them that way.
Here's a Java animation that will show you a 2D projection of a 4D hypercube:
http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyprcube.html
It's really tough to wrap your head around another spatial dimension. Books like Flatland and Realware make the comparison to a 2D person's world being interrupted by one of us.
For example, if you were 2D, living on your flat plane, and a 3D person passed an orange through the plane, you would perceive it as a round shape which grew out of nothingness, got bigger and changed shape for awhile, then shrank and disappeared.
A 3D person could also see into your house, because a 2D person would just build four walls and no ceiling or floor. Similarly, a 4D creature could see through all of us and our buildings, because we only build in three dimensions.
I am now firmly convinced that there are a ton of people with mod points who can't figure out what "flamebait" means, so they use it on any post that they don't understand.
I believe most of these sites get permission from the original creators of any games they put up.
No, they don't. And they won't take games down even if it's easily possible to still buy them used, or as a budget re-release.
Abandonware is (for the most part) just another in the long line of piracy rationalizations.
System Shock 2 could even be had *new* as recently as a year ago, because that's when I bought it shrinkwrapped at EB on Electronic Arts' Classics label.
"error '80020009' Exception occurred./boards/genmessage.asp, line 49"
calmed me down. =)
IMO one of the best things CNet could do for GameFAQs is to redesign the layout. Even the foul Ain't It Cool News is slightly easier on the eyes, and just about every website on the planet is easier to navigate.
Slashdot Mirror
If you like 2D Amiga games so much, why not just keep playing them instead of getting upset that modern games aren't like that?
If basic 2D action games were popular enough to be profitable, they would still be being made for today's consoles. IMO, though, they're totally played-out.
I think that Crystal is the perfect company to broaden the horizons of the TR series. They've done just about every kind of game out there, and each one that I've played has something noticeably unique about it.
They will also probably be able to make use of the excellent-looking game engine from the upcoming Legacy of Kain: Defiance, rather than using Core's. One of the biggest complaints I've heard about AoD is that the game still controls like the original TR, whereas Defiance is geared towards fast combat and cinematic camera styles.
This was modded funny, but the first part is true in many areas. Apparently in Vancouver, BC, there is even a fairly brisk business done in stolen Mach 3 blades at the flea market.
I thought the format was proprietary, but perhaps they are more open than I thought.
Yeah, they're just regular DVDs and CDs. It's handy if you like to rip soundtracks to listen to them outside the game, or you want to get into Action Replay hacking.
The only odd one I've come across is Primal. I put it in my DVD-ROM drive, and I just see a handful of files. I assume it has the rest on another data track.
What I'd like to see again is the equivalent of the Colecovision 2600 adapter.
You can pretty much make your own. Just find an XBox case, and put a PS2 inside it. Hook the real XBox and your "adapter" up to one of those multi-system video cables, and you're set.
The Colecovision 2600 adapter was just a 2600 clone that used the video output of the Colecovision. IIRC, you even had to connect the controllers to it instead of the main console. It also cost as much ($50) as the real deal.
Modding them to play the games is relatively easy (I have a chipped PS2 so I can play European games). Unfortunately, as another poster mentioned, the PAL signal can't be displayed on North American TVs without a converter or patching the game.
If you've got an svideo or composite input on your PC's video card though, you can view it that way. I use iuVCR in full-screen preview mode because it's cheaper.
I've seen people do that when selling bootleg CDs.
eBay will end that kind of auction too, if people notify their rules department about it. Giving away a bootleg is still illegal.
Would it kill them to show Doctor Who? They could run episodes for at least a decade, if they started with the old black and white ones.
Space, the Canadian equivalent of Sci-Fi, made that mistake while I was going to school up there. The ratings ended up being so poor that they never got to the colour ones.
IMO only the most hardcore Dr. Who fans are interested in watching the early episodes. They're *so* drawn-out and tedious, like a soap opera set in space.
as far as the law is conserned you can take all the pictures you want in public in america you want. If you go into a store, it's considered rude to try to make a copy of something that way like it's rude to stand there and read the magazine in the store without buying it.
Uh, no. Copyright infringement isn't legal just because it's done in public. Even if it were, inside a store is private property. That's why store owners can kick you out if you stand around and don't buy the magazines.
I would have modded that post up in a P2P discussion. It's totally applicable to that too.
Yeah, like how this message has replaced the one that Slashdot linked to?
:\"
"Somehow our website completely reset itself to yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. I'm attempting to get this sorted out. We may or may not be able to get that day of data back. It seems the SWG servers aren't the only ones having problems.
It told me that "derivative works" copyright enforcement is out of hand. Time-Warner is shutting down any publication about a boy wizard with a four sylable name who's authors admit to using Hary Potter as a model. That's what does not work for me. Killing original storries is bogus.
How is that out of hand?
The article's author compares the Potter knock-offs to Wendy's and Burger King in competition with McDonalds. I think a more accurate one would be to the "McDowells" restaurant in Coming to America.
If an author (or a fast food franchise creator) has any originality at all, they can take the basic idea behind a successful concept (e.g. a child who uses magic, or a burger-based restaurant), and make something new based on it.
Using what are essentially the same characters but with different names (or - like in the film - having a Big Mick instead of a Big Mac) is a clear indication that there is nothing original being added to the formula.
Originality is the key element that IP laws are designed to protect. If someone can't even muster *that* up, they don't deserve protection from rabid multinational corporations, much less to be making money off of their bogus creation.
I was hoping they'd port Alien Trilogy to the Cube myself. It was so awesome how there were like 500,000 dialogue clips on the CD, but all Ripley ever said was "burn baby burn!"
"As we've seen from the recent furore over driver cheats it seems likely that they don't plan to let their own inferior hardware come between them and first place."
I kept expecting him to rip into Nvidia's momma at some point.
You have to have a niche to play to.
Back in the mid-90s, I had a website with a low hitcount too. It stayed low because I didn't have much that people were after. Now I run a niche site for fans of the deleted bits from the Legacy of Kain series, and I'm up to 659906 total page requests (11865510 total requests) and 73435 distinct hosts served since October.
I don't post the link here because I don't need the excess casual traffic - I'm already close to my bandwidth limit for this month.
Underdogs only posts stuff that they have permission to post. Not all the game publishers are hoarding every bit of IP they can.
No, they post whatever they can get their hands on, and hope that publishers don't take legal action against them. Didn't you read their FAQ?
I modded my XBox so I could access files on the hard drive, and replace the included drive with a bigger one. I am also interested in copying games (which I own) to the drive to hack them and extract the audiovisual files for viewing/listening on my PC.
I don't pirate games, but I also don't like manufacturers telling me what I can't do with a console I own. I bought a chipped PS2 for the same reasons, and I've done similar extraction work with tools like Dreamrip on the Dreamcast.
A lot of the time, I just want to get at the music files. Majesco never released a soundtrack CD for BloodRayne, so I pulled out the tracks and listen to them that way.
How can you collect sales tax on a used item? The tax was already paid here by the original purchaser.
Sales tax applies to used and new items both. Do you think secondhand CD/DVD stores and thrift shops don't charge sales tax?
Here's a Java animation that will show you a 2D projection of a 4D hypercube:
http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyprcube.html
It's really tough to wrap your head around another spatial dimension. Books like Flatland and Realware make the comparison to a 2D person's world being interrupted by one of us.
For example, if you were 2D, living on your flat plane, and a 3D person passed an orange through the plane, you would perceive it as a round shape which grew out of nothingness, got bigger and changed shape for awhile, then shrank and disappeared.
A 3D person could also see into your house, because a 2D person would just build four walls and no ceiling or floor. Similarly, a 4D creature could see through all of us and our buildings, because we only build in three dimensions.
Realware, by Rudy Rucker, is a fun bit of sci-fi that involves things like that happening.
I am now firmly convinced that there are a ton of people with mod points who can't figure out what "flamebait" means, so they use it on any post that they don't understand.
I wish =(.
I've emailed them before about games that are easily available used, and gotten no response.
They've also had System Shock 2 up forever, including when I bought it brand new as I mentioned in my original post.
As far as I can tell, every DVD they offer is a bootleg. Witness the awesome power of the DMCA to do absolutely nothing useful.
I believe most of these sites get permission from the original creators of any games they put up.
No, they don't. And they won't take games down even if it's easily possible to still buy them used, or as a budget re-release.
Abandonware is (for the most part) just another in the long line of piracy rationalizations.
System Shock 2 could even be had *new* as recently as a year ago, because that's when I bought it shrinkwrapped at EB on Electronic Arts' Classics label.
Wow, I can't believe how much reading
/boards/genmessage.asp, line 49"
"error '80020009'
Exception occurred.
calmed me down. =)
IMO one of the best things CNet could do for GameFAQs is to redesign the layout. Even the foul Ain't It Cool News is slightly easier on the eyes, and just about every website on the planet is easier to navigate.