So a re-worked console from a generation ago released in a country known for it's rampant piracy of video games (both in physical and digital form) gets not only the ability to play both N64 and SNES games, but also has it so that some of those games can play online, all while the current next-gen system in more 'moral' countries has something like 5 games internet ready? Hell, the Gamecube doesn't even come with a browser for online use (does the broadband/modem adapter come with one?)
I call shenanigans.
If Nintendo released a more portable N64 in the U.S., I would buy it up in a second. Even better would be an add-on to the Gamecube that would allow you to play N64 games on the Gamecube. Why haven't they done this yet? They could claim backwards compatability. They could re-release some of the better N64 games in a smaller (but still cartridge-bsed) format, and people wouild buy them if they were something likie $30.
I recall a few years ago some company had liscensed the Game Gear, and was going to start limited production on that, as well as on the more popular games.
I don't have the time as it is to play a lot of the big names games. So why would I pay top price for them?
I didn't get my Dreamcast until after they officially killed it off. I bought mine at Sears for $100, and it came with an extra controller, memory card, and two games. All the good games are $20 new, and the moderate games are $10 used.
I bought my N64 two years after it was released, and only because KBToys had a deal I appreciated. I only had four games until they released the Gamecube. Now I have something like 20. Problem with the N64 is that the cartridges don't allow for good prices. For instance, Harvest Moon was $35, used, everywhere. (though I eventually bought a copy that was $25)
I got my Gamecube two months ago, and that was because they had the Metroid Prime bundle. I only have five games, and I probably won't get any more for quite a while.
I'll probably get a PS2 (PSTwo?) once they drop the price again, mainly because I want to be able to play DDR. I'll probably get an XBox about the time XBox2 comes out, and with it, Halo.
Hell, I'm playing HaloPC on my laptop. Aside from the fact that I have to turn resolution way down, I love it.
Moral is, you can shell out $50 for a game that may be good, or wait a few years and pay $20 if you KNOW it's good.
And here I thought it was because someone in a chat room decided that 'phish' was cooler than 'fish', in the same regards that you have words now like 'phuck'.
I got a phishing e-mail (should it be called 'bate'?) a week or so ago, but there were two key things that let me know it was a scam (aside from general common sense):
1) I don't have an account at the bank listed (Citibank, in this case.)
2) The e-mail itself was a giant GIF. (It did have the 'fail-to-get-around-spamblocker' words in text at the bottom, though.)
Instead of getting rid of phishing scams, we should get rid of low-common sense/stupid people on the net. Then we wouldn't have this problem. Or many others.
He's saving to buy an XBox2 (with the metal rack to hold it) and PSP.
At this point, he might have enough left over to treat himself to a couple of tacos once those are purchased. Common, someone bid up so he can afford Arby's instead!
I have a Tracphone. I pay for minutes as I go. I can choose from about 15 ringtones (not expandable), store addresses and numbers, check voice mail, and it looks sexy. Oh, and I can play video poker. Aside from the calling area (half an hour north or west and I'm screwed,) it's perfect.
I hate these people with their flashy "LOOK AT ME BEING AN ATTENTION WHORE" phones who play P-diddy in the middle of class while I'm trying to learn cross product for an upcoming test.
Or the phones that act as walky-talkies. You're walking along, and suddenly this annoying-loud beeping comes from behind you, and you think you've tripped something. Instead, you hear some garbled speech coming through the phone, and the person behind you trying to shout into it so the other one can hear what they are saying.
In class this week, someone was doing... I dunno what he was doing on his phone, but it was hard for me to keep from making a crack about him trying to send an S.O.S.
I'd much rather have a simple phone and pay less for my phone plan.
They need to merge all of the IM services in the future, anyway. Having to hastle with 4 different messengers is a pain, regardless if you use the clients or not.
Imagine if you had to have four different telephones, one for each telephone system. No one would put up with that. No one at all, but everyone finds it the norm with messengers.
I go to Kettering (about a year now,) and I never knew we had an amateur rocket club. Of course, most clubs don't advertise properly (that, and the main method of advertising is putting posters on public boards, which no one ever reads.)
I need to RTFP. I apparently missed a paragraph, negating somewhat my previous post.:/
I don't know if we'd be able to modify the human body to fit Martian life without actually being on Mars itself. And, if we wait for the terraforming, what's the point in modification/adaptation?
Plus, you'd then also have to adapt/modify loads of animals and trees, because shipping meat etc. from earth to Mars would cost a pretty penny.
First, you have to believe in evolution. Failing that, adaptation might actually be more accurate in this case.
Secondly, adaptation/evolution takes some time to do. It isn't instantaneous. If people are going to live on Mars, they need to be able to go right down and start living, not live in some half-way house for a year, being fed increasing amounts of the Martian air/environment until they fully adapt (if they even can.)
Even if people went there and adapted, you'd still have people who come and have to wear suits to survive.
Plus, I have some blubber, but I'd find it hard to adapt to temperatures that cold.
They can take it up with whatever we use to start terraforming it.
Or, we can give them a giant diamond to appease them. And then ranch their bug-cattle things.
I'm all for terraforming Mars. I think we'd need to have space domes on the moon, first.
Also, it's only unethical if we're actually killing/destroying things on Mars. Sure, the ground will change a lot, but, except for bacteria, there's been no life on Mars. If there is, I'm sure Terraforming will bring it out, and then we pause and take it from there.
It's actually not mine, but someone from the place I work. They have a laptop that gets to connect through a regular modem, and for some reason, they weren't a restricted user...
What I'm wondering is this: who's fault is this? Is this incompatability the fault of Nintendo or the game coders?
I don't know the mechanics of the memory card, but here we just have the same memory card, but with more memory. So I can't think that the problem arises from Nintendo's side, unless the card requires something else different because of the increased memory.
It looks like it could be the fault of the game coders. Given, they really couldn't test the 1019 card, but I would think that proper programming would have prevented the problem with Sonic Adventure 2.
On a side note, if you RTA, you'll see that, according to the article, the Mary Kate and Ashley game (as well as NHL Hitz 20-03) have compatibility issues with the 59 and 251 Memory Cards, so these are nothing new.
Good thing I won't be buying those two games when I finally get my own Gamecube. [grumble]
..Are for true Linux users to stop telling us to RTFM.
I have a Linux zealot living at my fraternity house with me (we're mostly a geek fraternity,) and he will go on and on about how great *nix is. Since I went to a public school with the bare minimum in extra-curricular, I've grown up with Windows my entire life. I'm 19, and the most experience I've gotten with any kind of *nix is the command prompt on a solaris box and some basic SSH (which I'm not sure even counts.)
We have a router at the house running OpenBSD (that this Linux zealot designed,) and the current section (I go to Kettering U, if anyone knows what that means) has messed it up a bit. I was trying to fix it on my own, and I was thinking that I could e-mail this guy (who lives an hour away or so right now) to help me on it. He gives me the SSH info, and then keeps saying, you guessed it:
RTFM!
Which would be great. Except, being a linux n00b, I don't have a damn clue what M to F R! If I knew the commands I needed, but didn't know how to use them, RTFM would be expected. But I don't even know the commands to start out with (yes, I know about man man, but that doesn't help me a lot with editing the file that controls the router, or even where to find it.)
I guess the basic answer would be: Support from those without egos the size of Texas, and little to no conceit. That would be nice...
Reminds me of a Bash quote that states that, to get a real answer, you have to troll Linux forums/newsgroups. I haven't tried that, but I expect I may have to.
Has no-one thought of the possibility that Goldman Sachs might be wrong? I don't know how trusted they are (I'd assume at least a bit, as they're used as a reference,) but even the most trusted firms/whatever can be wrong.
I'm not saying the Labor Department is right, but there's a chance that Goldman Sachs is wrong. I mean, they are estimates. I could do some quick researching, round to the nearest hundereds places, and report that as an estimate.
You're all pessimists.
/prefers to be an optimistic pessimist: Plan for the worst, try/hope for the best.
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Wow, even with no comments it's gone splat. I guess a semi-work around will have to suffice.
So I can expect Pokemon Miller and Pokemon Budweiser some time soon?
So a re-worked console from a generation ago released in a country known for it's rampant piracy of video games (both in physical and digital form) gets not only the ability to play both N64 and SNES games, but also has it so that some of those games can play online, all while the current next-gen system in more 'moral' countries has something like 5 games internet ready? Hell, the Gamecube doesn't even come with a browser for online use (does the broadband/modem adapter come with one?)
I call shenanigans.
If Nintendo released a more portable N64 in the U.S., I would buy it up in a second. Even better would be an add-on to the Gamecube that would allow you to play N64 games on the Gamecube. Why haven't they done this yet? They could claim backwards compatability. They could re-release some of the better N64 games in a smaller (but still cartridge-bsed) format, and people wouild buy them if they were something likie $30.
I recall a few years ago some company had liscensed the Game Gear, and was going to start limited production on that, as well as on the more popular games.
I plead the fifth. :)
I don't have the time as it is to play a lot of the big names games. So why would I pay top price for them?
I didn't get my Dreamcast until after they officially killed it off. I bought mine at Sears for $100, and it came with an extra controller, memory card, and two games. All the good games are $20 new, and the moderate games are $10 used.
I bought my N64 two years after it was released, and only because KBToys had a deal I appreciated. I only had four games until they released the Gamecube. Now I have something like 20. Problem with the N64 is that the cartridges don't allow for good prices. For instance, Harvest Moon was $35, used, everywhere. (though I eventually bought a copy that was $25)
I got my Gamecube two months ago, and that was because they had the Metroid Prime bundle. I only have five games, and I probably won't get any more for quite a while.
I'll probably get a PS2 (PSTwo?) once they drop the price again, mainly because I want to be able to play DDR. I'll probably get an XBox about the time XBox2 comes out, and with it, Halo.
Hell, I'm playing HaloPC on my laptop. Aside from the fact that I have to turn resolution way down, I love it.
Moral is, you can shell out $50 for a game that may be good, or wait a few years and pay $20 if you KNOW it's good.
Way ahead of you mom! I want to finish counting the stars first, though.
And here I thought it was because someone in a chat room decided that 'phish' was cooler than 'fish', in the same regards that you have words now like 'phuck'.
I got a phishing e-mail (should it be called 'bate'?) a week or so ago, but there were two key things that let me know it was a scam (aside from general common sense):
1) I don't have an account at the bank listed (Citibank, in this case.)
2) The e-mail itself was a giant GIF. (It did have the 'fail-to-get-around-spamblocker' words in text at the bottom, though.)
Instead of getting rid of phishing scams, we should get rid of low-common sense/stupid people on the net. Then we wouldn't have this problem. Or many others.
A leader is only a leader when he has followers.
He's saving to buy an XBox2 (with the metal rack to hold it) and PSP.
At this point, he might have enough left over to treat himself to a couple of tacos once those are purchased. Common, someone bid up so he can afford Arby's instead!
I mean, if I'm running Kazaa, BitTorrent, and IRC, that should be it. If I open more file-sharing things, I might forget what file came from where!
I have a Tracphone. I pay for minutes as I go. I can choose from about 15 ringtones (not expandable), store addresses and numbers, check voice mail, and it looks sexy. Oh, and I can play video poker. Aside from the calling area (half an hour north or west and I'm screwed,) it's perfect.
I hate these people with their flashy "LOOK AT ME BEING AN ATTENTION WHORE" phones who play P-diddy in the middle of class while I'm trying to learn cross product for an upcoming test.
Or the phones that act as walky-talkies. You're walking along, and suddenly this annoying-loud beeping comes from behind you, and you think you've tripped something. Instead, you hear some garbled speech coming through the phone, and the person behind you trying to shout into it so the other one can hear what they are saying.
In class this week, someone was doing... I dunno what he was doing on his phone, but it was hard for me to keep from making a crack about him trying to send an S.O.S.
I'd much rather have a simple phone and pay less for my phone plan.
They need to merge all of the IM services in the future, anyway. Having to hastle with 4 different messengers is a pain, regardless if you use the clients or not.
Imagine if you had to have four different telephones, one for each telephone system. No one would put up with that. No one at all, but everyone finds it the norm with messengers.
Oh well. Trillian rules for the time being.
[in the cockpit of the mobitat]
[large thumps]
Jim: Um... crap, Dave? I think we just hit a... uh, a space cow.
Dave: A space... what?
Jim: Well, we hit something, and wheels #24563 and #4 are reporting problems.
[Dave turns on cameras and aims them at the wheels]
Dave: We ran over some metal sphere and... a flag? Also, wheel #4 is broken, we'll be here for four days.
[/simulation]
Japan game market
Kinda like a dating sim
A whole lot of curve
U.S game market
Kinda like an action game
Take a hit, move on
</haiku>
...we're getting a new version of Tetris?
/pastor's son
That would be why I don't know of it. I'd probably still stick to my Gaming club in any case...
I go to Kettering (about a year now,) and I never knew we had an amateur rocket club. Of course, most clubs don't advertise properly (that, and the main method of advertising is putting posters on public boards, which no one ever reads.)
Maybe they shut down before I got here.
I need to RTFP. I apparently missed a paragraph, negating somewhat my previous post. :/
I don't know if we'd be able to modify the human body to fit Martian life without actually being on Mars itself. And, if we wait for the terraforming, what's the point in modification/adaptation?
Plus, you'd then also have to adapt/modify loads of animals and trees, because shipping meat etc. from earth to Mars would cost a pretty penny.
There are two problems with that:
First, you have to believe in evolution. Failing that, adaptation might actually be more accurate in this case.
Secondly, adaptation/evolution takes some time to do. It isn't instantaneous. If people are going to live on Mars, they need to be able to go right down and start living, not live in some half-way house for a year, being fed increasing amounts of the Martian air/environment until they fully adapt (if they even can.)
Even if people went there and adapted, you'd still have people who come and have to wear suits to survive.
Plus, I have some blubber, but I'd find it hard to adapt to temperatures that cold.
They can take it up with whatever we use to start terraforming it.
Or, we can give them a giant diamond to appease them. And then ranch their bug-cattle things.
I'm all for terraforming Mars. I think we'd need to have space domes on the moon, first.
Also, it's only unethical if we're actually killing/destroying things on Mars. Sure, the ground will change a lot, but, except for bacteria, there's been no life on Mars. If there is, I'm sure Terraforming will bring it out, and then we pause and take it from there.
/counts more than 40 *wares on a computer
It's actually not mine, but someone from the place I work. They have a laptop that gets to connect through a regular modem, and for some reason, they weren't a restricted user...
What I'm wondering is this: who's fault is this? Is this incompatability the fault of Nintendo or the game coders?
I don't know the mechanics of the memory card, but here we just have the same memory card, but with more memory. So I can't think that the problem arises from Nintendo's side, unless the card requires something else different because of the increased memory.
It looks like it could be the fault of the game coders. Given, they really couldn't test the 1019 card, but I would think that proper programming would have prevented the problem with Sonic Adventure 2.
On a side note, if you RTA, you'll see that, according to the article, the Mary Kate and Ashley game (as well as NHL Hitz 20-03) have compatibility issues with the 59 and 251 Memory Cards, so these are nothing new.
Good thing I won't be buying those two games when I finally get my own Gamecube. [grumble]
..Are for true Linux users to stop telling us to RTFM.
I have a Linux zealot living at my fraternity house with me (we're mostly a geek fraternity,) and he will go on and on about how great *nix is. Since I went to a public school with the bare minimum in extra-curricular, I've grown up with Windows my entire life. I'm 19, and the most experience I've gotten with any kind of *nix is the command prompt on a solaris box and some basic SSH (which I'm not sure even counts.)
We have a router at the house running OpenBSD (that this Linux zealot designed,) and the current section (I go to Kettering U, if anyone knows what that means) has messed it up a bit. I was trying to fix it on my own, and I was thinking that I could e-mail this guy (who lives an hour away or so right now) to help me on it. He gives me the SSH info, and then keeps saying, you guessed it:
RTFM!
Which would be great. Except, being a linux n00b, I don't have a damn clue what M to F R! If I knew the commands I needed, but didn't know how to use them, RTFM would be expected. But I don't even know the commands to start out with (yes, I know about man man, but that doesn't help me a lot with editing the file that controls the router, or even where to find it.)
I guess the basic answer would be: Support from those without egos the size of Texas, and little to no conceit. That would be nice...
Reminds me of a Bash quote that states that, to get a real answer, you have to troll Linux forums/newsgroups. I haven't tried that, but I expect I may have to.
Has no-one thought of the possibility that Goldman Sachs might be wrong ? I don't know how trusted they are (I'd assume at least a bit, as they're used as a reference,) but even the most trusted firms/whatever can be wrong.
/prefers to be an optimistic pessimist: Plan for the worst, try/hope for the best.
I'm not saying the Labor Department is right, but there's a chance that Goldman Sachs is wrong. I mean, they are estimates. I could do some quick researching, round to the nearest hundereds places, and report that as an estimate.
You're all pessimists.
...but only if you're 'thinking' about picking hookers and killing people while playing.