Even if they don't allow it, homebrew setups will happen just like they did for the GBA. The first thing we'll see are flash cartridges, and then hopefully we'll start seeing PDA applications written for them. Unfortunately the PDA applications didn't happen for the GBA, but the GBA didn't have a sweet touch screen and stylus.
The DS is an ARM9 processor and the GBA was an ARM7. Actually the processor on the DS which controls the second screen is an ARM7, maybe it's even the same ARM7 which was used in the GBA. If that's the case, what is so hard? Just run the GBA cames on the second CPU.
Personally I find it much more impressive that the GBA, an ARM7 system, can run games from GBC, which was a modified Z80.
Wind Waker is a bad game, but Nintendo should have realized that the average gamer wants his franchises like they remember them and may not be willing to try something different right away.
Umm, call me crazy, but I remember the original Zelda as being cartoony. In fact I just played Link to the Past the other day and yep, it was cartoony.
So what did you mean by "something different"? Wouldn't the new, realistic one be "something different"?
Is it ugly? I find when it's well done, it looks quite good. And whereas I'll admit that many games have done it poorly, Wind Waker was not one of those.
I hope that when the video camera attachment comes out, that someone hacks with it enough to figure out how to drive it from homebrew software.
Then we can have an open source video phone application running on the Xbox which doesn't require a Live subscription, which would be fucking fantastic!
Has anyone done this yet? Surely with the current generation of graphics technologies this is possible. Take DOA3, remove some more clothes, and place the characters on top of each other in various poses. Then develop some animations which look right.
Sometimes I feel like I must be the only person perverted enough to think of this stuff... but surely it must exist already.
It's even cheaper if you just pay the $199 up front and don't subscribe.
The thing that interests me at the moment is that ATA controllers usually support two disks, so even though they're saying there will be no DVD-ROM drive in the computer, there will only be a master connected to the ATA controller. It might be possible to hack in an external DVD drive of some sort like it supposedly is for the Xbox. So the only limitation might go away.
Alternatively they might hack the unit so badly that you can't install a second drive on there.
Even without the DVD drive though I'm sure there will be an exploit within a month of release which uses the network to send malicious code down to flash the BIOS or overwrite the default install on the hard drive.:-)
$199 per machine and there is an Athlon XP 2500+ in each machine. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
No, seriously. Imagine it.
Surely the parts alone are worth far, far more than $199. I mean it's cheaper than the Xbox was at launch, except the specs on this are actually decent for a computer at the time of release, whereas the Xbox's Celeron was unimpressive.
Right... a stable platform. Do you mean stable like Xbox versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and the new 1.6? We can only hope Infinium Labs actually make the platform stable if this is going to go ahead.
I rather hope they either employ them or buy the code off them, as it will not only benefit all the fans, but it would make more money than any lawsuit could ever muster. Of course a downside to it all is the resulting game would more than likely end up being restricted to one platform.
There is no such thing as paranoia, it's just something the Government made up to control our lives.
SSL is a very good idea. Although, it does have the drawback of using more CPU power on their end, which will quickly add up if you get 1 million concurrent users.
GPG support via an applet (think Hushmail) would be better since they wouldn't have to do as much work on their end, but I don't see them caring about this as it would limit their ability to display relevant ads anyway.
Actually if you think about it, the word PGP will turn up in the email at least twice, so you will probably get ads about PGP. This will happen whether Gmail add explicit support (which will probably never happen), or if you do it via copy and paste, like people already do with Hotmail and the like.
Put your email into a text editor, select all, copy, select "Encrypt clipboard" from the system tray, paste into Gmail.
Because if you let Gmail itself do the PGP, then they have a copy of the plaintext while they're displaying it, and there is effectively no point in doing the copy.
So basically you want "Do you feel inadequate due to your small penis? [name withheld] are the penis enlargement _specialists_, and give the best deal on penis enlargement products!"
For those who are bad spellers, have no fear. After you type your message, you can click the Check Spelling link at the bottom of your message to have your spelling checked. Potentially misspelled words will appear as red text. Bad spellers are going to love this feature!
Why not just look in the text area for the red words, and when you see them, fix them? Call me crazy but that just seems easier to me.
If it really does show nothing but JavaScript, with no HTML other than that required to launch the JavaScript, then what you're looking at isn't a stylesheet, but some method of obfuscating the information on the page to guarantee that your browser doesn't cache your email in plain text. (Nevertheless Google _are_ the sort to use stylesheets, so they probably use those too.)
This is a cool idea which I have seen used at one of my previous employers, though in that case we used an applet on the client side to do "proper" decryption of the pages.
Any game which requires management of teammates is stupid anyway. If you're going to play a role you should play a role, not six roles. Any game where you have to roleplay six characters should be called a Schizophrenic Role Playing Game (SRPG.)
Honestly I don't see what the problem was with NWN's control system. And I don't see how this new game would be much different if it was made on the same engine (although there is the KotOR argument, since that game does play a little different and is allegedly done on the same engine.
Or alternatively, they might upgrade the firmware to support dual layer so you can burn some disks at high speed and dual layer disks at a lower speed.
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Even if they don't allow it, homebrew setups will happen just like they did for the GBA. The first thing we'll see are flash cartridges, and then hopefully we'll start seeing PDA applications written for them. Unfortunately the PDA applications didn't happen for the GBA, but the GBA didn't have a sweet touch screen and stylus.
The DS is an ARM9 processor and the GBA was an ARM7. Actually the processor on the DS which controls the second screen is an ARM7, maybe it's even the same ARM7 which was used in the GBA. If that's the case, what is so hard? Just run the GBA cames on the second CPU.
Personally I find it much more impressive that the GBA, an ARM7 system, can run games from GBC, which was a modified Z80.
Wind Waker is a bad game, but Nintendo should have realized that the average gamer wants his franchises like they remember them and may not be willing to try something different right away.
Umm, call me crazy, but I remember the original Zelda as being cartoony. In fact I just played Link to the Past the other day and yep, it was cartoony.
So what did you mean by "something different"? Wouldn't the new, realistic one be "something different"?
Is it ugly? I find when it's well done, it looks quite good. And whereas I'll admit that many games have done it poorly, Wind Waker was not one of those.
I think you mean, "A requisite Linux client has also been in development alongside the Win32 version."
I hope that when the video camera attachment comes out, that someone hacks with it enough to figure out how to drive it from homebrew software.
Then we can have an open source video phone application running on the Xbox which doesn't require a Live subscription, which would be fucking fantastic!
Well I dunno about OpenGL but Direct3D has been done before, via acting in a game engine with voiceovers.
Has anyone done this yet? Surely with the current generation of graphics technologies this is possible. Take DOA3, remove some more clothes, and place the characters on top of each other in various poses. Then develop some animations which look right.
Sometimes I feel like I must be the only person perverted enough to think of this stuff... but surely it must exist already.
It's even cheaper if you just pay the $199 up front and don't subscribe.
The thing that interests me at the moment is that ATA controllers usually support two disks, so even though they're saying there will be no DVD-ROM drive in the computer, there will only be a master connected to the ATA controller. It might be possible to hack in an external DVD drive of some sort like it supposedly is for the Xbox. So the only limitation might go away.
Alternatively they might hack the unit so badly that you can't install a second drive on there.
Even without the DVD drive though I'm sure there will be an exploit within a month of release which uses the network to send malicious code down to flash the BIOS or overwrite the default install on the hard drive. :-)
$199 per machine and there is an Athlon XP 2500+ in each machine. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
No, seriously. Imagine it.
Surely the parts alone are worth far, far more than $199. I mean it's cheaper than the Xbox was at launch, except the specs on this are actually decent for a computer at the time of release, whereas the Xbox's Celeron was unimpressive.
Right... a stable platform. Do you mean stable like Xbox versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and the new 1.6? We can only hope Infinium Labs actually make the platform stable if this is going to go ahead.
I rather hope they either employ them or buy the code off them, as it will not only benefit all the fans, but it would make more money than any lawsuit could ever muster. Of course a downside to it all is the resulting game would more than likely end up being restricted to one platform.
Yeah, I'm hoping that Nintendo sit up and notice, and that instead of suing them, they employ the guys to clean it up for a real release.
Somebody who doesn't own a GameBoy Advance, or whose viewing habit hasn't adapted to cable yet.
Now you can play as a terrorist without alerting the authorities! Just don't stand up in the middle of the flight and shout "WOOT! TERRORISTS WIN!!!"
I agree.
There is no such thing as paranoia, it's just something the Government made up to control our lives.
SSL is a very good idea. Although, it does have the drawback of using more CPU power on their end, which will quickly add up if you get 1 million concurrent users.
GPG support via an applet (think Hushmail) would be better since they wouldn't have to do as much work on their end, but I don't see them caring about this as it would limit their ability to display relevant ads anyway.
Actually if you think about it, the word PGP will turn up in the email at least twice, so you will probably get ads about PGP. This will happen whether Gmail add explicit support (which will probably never happen), or if you do it via copy and paste, like people already do with Hotmail and the like.
Put your email into a text editor, select all, copy, select "Encrypt clipboard" from the system tray, paste into Gmail. Because if you let Gmail itself do the PGP, then they have a copy of the plaintext while they're displaying it, and there is effectively no point in doing the copy.
Naturally you can get around that, otherwise Usenet would never have started carrying whole DIVX movies.
If that's true, it is a particularly nasty thing to leave out, especially when you consider that Google itself has the feature.
So basically you want "Do you feel inadequate due to your small penis? [name withheld] are the penis enlargement _specialists_, and give the best deal on penis enlargement products!"
For those who are bad spellers, have no fear. After you type your message, you can click the Check Spelling link at the bottom of your message to have your spelling checked. Potentially misspelled words will appear as red text. Bad spellers are going to love this feature!
Why not just look in the text area for the red words, and when you see them, fix them? Call me crazy but that just seems easier to me.
If it really does show nothing but JavaScript, with no HTML other than that required to launch the JavaScript, then what you're looking at isn't a stylesheet, but some method of obfuscating the information on the page to guarantee that your browser doesn't cache your email in plain text. (Nevertheless Google _are_ the sort to use stylesheets, so they probably use those too.)
This is a cool idea which I have seen used at one of my previous employers, though in that case we used an applet on the client side to do "proper" decryption of the pages.
Any game which requires management of teammates is stupid anyway. If you're going to play a role you should play a role, not six roles. Any game where you have to roleplay six characters should be called a Schizophrenic Role Playing Game (SRPG.)
Honestly I don't see what the problem was with NWN's control system. And I don't see how this new game would be much different if it was made on the same engine (although there is the KotOR argument, since that game does play a little different and is allegedly done on the same engine.
Or alternatively, they might upgrade the firmware to support dual layer so you can burn some disks at high speed and dual layer disks at a lower speed.