It's not the same bootleg, but I think it is a similar one. Mainly, someone cobbled together a menu interface in 6502 assembler and wrote some game patches [seeing how 9/10ths of the "games" on these are just trainers, or level cheats]. A friend of mine had one a few years ago called a 'Mega Joy' that he got on eBay. Thing was totally ass.
I think this is good for Nintendo, because the overall quality of the games is ass, and I'd like to not see some hackjob attributed to nintendo [as I'm sure most 'joe sixpack' buyers will assume it's a licensed product].
This is a completely different thing than ROMs really, since the secondary market for original NES games doesn't ever trickle any revenue towards Nintendo... and most people share the games for the simple love of them.
Do you know how hard it is to force yourself to pay the prices that some of these games are asking for on eBay? I do... because hell, I still buy NES carts.
Most of them... I'd rather play on an emulator... since the added feature of savestates makes the games less of a pain-in-the-ass, but... I still love to have the carts around.
The way we always did it, was to get a piece of 6" PVC, [the stiff-walled kind], two endcaps for it [one glue-on, one screw-on], one 36" long piece of 1" PVC, a can of ether-based starting fluid [generally, pyroil], and one of those little red lighters with the long tube igniter. You'd glue your glue-on cap on the "front" of your 6" piece of PVC [which should be between 8" and 12" long], and then drill a 1" whole in the end of it... in this hole, you jam your 1" piece of PVC [it should be kinda snug], and you glue this in place, and then seal it with silicon "goop" make sure it's good and dry, and well sealed before ever attempting to fire, or it will blow apart. then setup your screw-on cap on the back of your "chamber". and drill a tiny 1/4" hole in the cap and slide in your ignitor [be sure to "goop" it too].
Firing it gets to be the fun part... first thing you do is fill that chamber with a light layer of ether [spray it in, and roll the chamber until it's evenly coated, like buttering a frying pan], and then slide the cap on, and stick a chunk of "tater" [as we in the south call them "tater-guns"] in the end, and shove it back to the chamber using a broomstick. Then to actually fire it... pull the trigger on the lighter, and *BOOM* the "tater" will fire out the end with a hella blast, and a gout of flame... destroying itself on the nearest hard object.
I've spent hours on IRC in #linux on various networks, and it's usually considered a general discussion channel, and not a help forum. Mostly all we get is people coming in and _demanding_ we help them with some inane problem that we have no real reason to help with, because it _is_ a discussion channel, not a help forum.
Oftentimes, these are questions that could easily be answered by using man, or reading the relevant howto documentation. If you've never read the "Asking Smart Questions HOWTO", maybe you should... it's not meant as a howto guide on asking a question per se, more of a reference on how to not be annoying when asking for free help.
Those of us who do spend our time on IRC answering questions, or moderating forums, we don't do this because we get paid, we do it because we enjoy being around people of similar mindset. The only thing that most of us ask is a bit of common courtesy, don't come into channel, or onto a forum and start telling everyone how stupid they are because they don't want to tell you the proper syntax for some program when they're busy with more complex questions.
That is what RTFM is for... if you want to get help, arm yourself with a little info, and then when someone tells you to RTFM, you can say, "I already did, and I don't understand... how exactly does it work?", and someone's more likely to help, than if you just start talking about how you're not stupid, and all you want is help with this or that.
Don't ever _expect_ something for free... you won't get it.
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It's not the same bootleg, but I think it is a similar one. Mainly, someone cobbled together a menu interface in 6502 assembler and wrote some game patches [seeing how 9/10ths of the "games" on these are just trainers, or level cheats]. A friend of mine had one a few years ago called a 'Mega Joy' that he got on eBay. Thing was totally ass.
I think this is good for Nintendo, because the overall quality of the games is ass, and I'd like to not see some hackjob attributed to nintendo [as I'm sure most 'joe sixpack' buyers will assume it's a licensed product].
This is a completely different thing than ROMs really, since the secondary market for original NES games doesn't ever trickle any revenue towards Nintendo... and most people share the games for the simple love of them.
Do you know how hard it is to force yourself to pay the prices that some of these games are asking for on eBay? I do... because hell, I still buy NES carts.
Most of them... I'd rather play on an emulator... since the added feature of savestates makes the games less of a pain-in-the-ass, but... I still love to have the carts around.
I even have a powerglove ;)
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The way we always did it, was to get a piece of 6" PVC, [the stiff-walled kind], two endcaps for it [one glue-on, one screw-on], one 36" long piece of 1" PVC, a can of ether-based starting fluid [generally, pyroil], and one of those little red lighters with the long tube igniter. You'd glue your glue-on cap on the "front" of your 6" piece of PVC [which should be between 8" and 12" long], and then drill a 1" whole in the end of it... in this hole, you jam your 1" piece of PVC [it should be kinda snug], and you glue this in place, and then seal it with silicon "goop" make sure it's good and dry, and well sealed before ever attempting to fire, or it will blow apart. then setup your screw-on cap on the back of your "chamber". and drill a tiny 1/4" hole in the cap and slide in your ignitor [be sure to "goop" it too].
Firing it gets to be the fun part... first thing you do is fill that chamber with a light layer of ether [spray it in, and roll the chamber until it's evenly coated, like buttering a frying pan], and then slide the cap on, and stick a chunk of "tater" [as we in the south call them "tater-guns"] in the end, and shove it back to the chamber using a broomstick. Then to actually fire it... pull the trigger on the lighter, and *BOOM* the "tater" will fire out the end with a hella blast, and a gout of flame... destroying itself on the nearest hard object.
Beh, forgot to mention that it's umount, not unmount ;)
True, it is hard to strip if you fail the unzip ;) you should use && oh, and you need some more options to most of all them thar commands there son.
I've spent hours on IRC in #linux on various networks, and it's usually considered a general discussion channel, and not a help forum. Mostly all we get is people coming in and _demanding_ we help them with some inane problem that we have no real reason to help with, because it _is_ a discussion channel, not a help forum.
Oftentimes, these are questions that could easily be answered by using man, or reading the relevant howto documentation. If you've never read the "Asking Smart Questions HOWTO", maybe you should... it's not meant as a howto guide on asking a question per se, more of a reference on how to not be annoying when asking for free help.
Those of us who do spend our time on IRC answering questions, or moderating forums, we don't do this because we get paid, we do it because we enjoy being around people of similar mindset. The only thing that most of us ask is a bit of common courtesy, don't come into channel, or onto a forum and start telling everyone how stupid they are because they don't want to tell you the proper syntax for some program when they're busy with more complex questions.
That is what RTFM is for... if you want to get help, arm yourself with a little info, and then when someone tells you to RTFM, you can say, "I already did, and I don't understand... how exactly does it work?", and someone's more likely to help, than if you just start talking about how you're not stupid, and all you want is help with this or that.
Don't ever _expect_ something for free... you won't get it.