4700MB is actually 4700 million bytes. You're supposed to use MiB for 2^20 bytes and MB for 10^6 bytes. Not that anyone cares though because it seems the storage manufacturers are the only ones who use it (gee, I wonder why.)
Who gives a fuck? If you were the sort of paranoid user who really cared about that sort of thing, then you wouldn't be using Windows in the first place due to everything it does like phoning home to Billy. Personally I'm loving this latest patch because with a firewall on every computer, I might stand a chance of using a normal router on my network instead of using a Linux box with a heavily configured iptables setup.
Right now, Nintendo has a problem with people downloading rom files for the Game Boy Advance, and playing them with a growing number of emulators for platforms from the PC, OS X, Linux, GP32, and maybe even Palm Pilots.
Don't forget the GBA itself, via flash cartridges. That is the ultimate midding finger as far as Nintendo are concerned, just look how hard they have tried to bring down everyone who sells those things (they have succeeded every time too, which sucks because these carts are awesome for homebrew experiments.)
It's their own fault, after all, for putting the game cartridge in a place which was impossible to replace. They fixed it in the next release but it's too late now, suckers!
That depends. If there is a relatively cheap way to pirate games on Sony's system like there is on Nintendo's, the price of the handheld itself is irrelevant.
So explain that, smartarse. There is a total of one game worth playing on Xbox which isn't available elsewhere and that is Kung Fu Chaos. $250 seems like a hell of an investment just to play one game.:-)
That "cool-as-shit NES themed GBA" has been available in Asia as the "Gameboy Advance SP Famicom Color" for quite a while now. It's not nearly as pretty as the red/black and silver/black models, either.
Don't forget GBA and GameCube. Even if the FF games on GBA and GameCube are different than most and don't have roman numerals on the end, they are far more fun.
Honestly I would prefer flash media to disks for storage on a portable unit. It has no moving parts, should use less power, and would encourage homebrew (something which always makes a system more popular... just think where Xbox would be without it.)
And the strategy games... Advance Wars and its sequel were awesome even if I can't !@$! get through the green levels of the sequel.
And the best thing is, all these games seem to be borrowing from each other. Onimusha Tactics has a game engine which looks almost, but not quite, exactly like FFTA. And it plays about as well even if it doesn't have the FF license attached.
(And as for Zelda... that's not an RPG. Well, none of the others are either really, but Zelda, certainly not.)
Indeed. Well, one of the design decisions of the Dolphin processor was supposed to be that it could be used in portables just like in normal consoles. And when you look at the GameCube, a lot of space is wasted on the disk area up the top (you don't _really_ need a huge disk for games, if anything it's just made people try to pad it with cinematics,) and the empty space for expansions down the bottom. And you obviously don't need all the controller ports, and jacks for video out.
It might just work.
I was really upset to hear that their next system was going to be another 2D model, given all the potential of their existing components. Put a lower power version of the processor in the GameCube, and blow every potential competitor out of the market.;-)
Yeah, but PS2's game quality is seriously crappy already, without reducing yourself to playing even crappier quality PSX games.
I can only think of a single game I would get on PS2 that doesn't have an equal or better equivalent somewhere else, and that would be Rez. Xbox has the exact same problem but since it's a homebrew software paradise it will always succeed in that arena. And GameCube, with all the best games... doesn't seem to be doing so well. Go figure.
So if access to those recognisable games is an important factor in success, then why is the GameCube selling so poorly in the western world?
My theory will remain as always... the system those software is easier to pirate will get a greater following. I swear Nintendo shot themselves in the foot by making a bulletproof console.
They could easily have meant the lifetime of the CD. That would be just like lifetime warranty... for the lifetime of the device. It's happened before.
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So if all drives work with both types, why don't they just stop making writers which support -R and -RW? Wouldn't that clear up the confusion?
4700MB is actually 4700 million bytes. You're supposed to use MiB for 2^20 bytes and MB for 10^6 bytes. Not that anyone cares though because it seems the storage manufacturers are the only ones who use it (gee, I wonder why.)
But Windows already is the crotch of the Internet.
*ducks*
Who gives a fuck? If you were the sort of paranoid user who really cared about that sort of thing, then you wouldn't be using Windows in the first place due to everything it does like phoning home to Billy. Personally I'm loving this latest patch because with a firewall on every computer, I might stand a chance of using a normal router on my network instead of using a Linux box with a heavily configured iptables setup.
Hey what the fuck? I have a legitimate key that starts with "FCKGW"! Now I'll have to change it to a key that starts with "FCKMS".
as Lindows is to Windows.
And didn't Microsoft make Lindows change their name? Couldn't Segway make Megway change its name?
I have a Kegway, but for some reason I keep swerving while riding the damn thing, and the cops keep pulling me over.
single chip voice record/playback chips are realy cheep and simple,
Yeah, but what if he wants to play sounds other than bird noises?
It's funny how the most informative posts usually have the worst spelling.
Right now, Nintendo has a problem with people downloading rom files for the Game Boy Advance, and playing them with a growing number of emulators for platforms from the PC, OS X, Linux, GP32, and maybe even Palm Pilots.
Don't forget the GBA itself, via flash cartridges. That is the ultimate midding finger as far as Nintendo are concerned, just look how hard they have tried to bring down everyone who sells those things (they have succeeded every time too, which sucks because these carts are awesome for homebrew experiments.)
It's their own fault, after all, for putting the game cartridge in a place which was impossible to replace. They fixed it in the next release but it's too late now, suckers!
That depends. If there is a relatively cheap way to pirate games on Sony's system like there is on Nintendo's, the price of the handheld itself is irrelevant.
So explain that, smartarse. There is a total of one game worth playing on Xbox which isn't available elsewhere and that is Kung Fu Chaos. $250 seems like a hell of an investment just to play one game. :-)
That "cool-as-shit NES themed GBA" has been available in Asia as the "Gameboy Advance SP Famicom Color" for quite a while now. It's not nearly as pretty as the red/black and silver/black models, either.
Don't forget GBA and GameCube. Even if the FF games on GBA and GameCube are different than most and don't have roman numerals on the end, they are far more fun.
Honestly I would prefer flash media to disks for storage on a portable unit. It has no moving parts, should use less power, and would encourage homebrew (something which always makes a system more popular... just think where Xbox would be without it.)
And the strategy games... Advance Wars and its sequel were awesome even if I can't !@$! get through the green levels of the sequel.
And the best thing is, all these games seem to be borrowing from each other. Onimusha Tactics has a game engine which looks almost, but not quite, exactly like FFTA. And it plays about as well even if it doesn't have the FF license attached.
(And as for Zelda... that's not an RPG. Well, none of the others are either really, but Zelda, certainly not.)
What's been done, exactly? Making a portable game console?
Indeed. Well, one of the design decisions of the Dolphin processor was supposed to be that it could be used in portables just like in normal consoles. And when you look at the GameCube, a lot of space is wasted on the disk area up the top (you don't _really_ need a huge disk for games, if anything it's just made people try to pad it with cinematics,) and the empty space for expansions down the bottom. And you obviously don't need all the controller ports, and jacks for video out.
It might just work.
I was really upset to hear that their next system was going to be another 2D model, given all the potential of their existing components. Put a lower power version of the processor in the GameCube, and blow every potential competitor out of the market. ;-)
Yeah, but PS2's game quality is seriously crappy already, without reducing yourself to playing even crappier quality PSX games.
I can only think of a single game I would get on PS2 that doesn't have an equal or better equivalent somewhere else, and that would be Rez. Xbox has the exact same problem but since it's a homebrew software paradise it will always succeed in that arena. And GameCube, with all the best games... doesn't seem to be doing so well. Go figure.
So if access to those recognisable games is an important factor in success, then why is the GameCube selling so poorly in the western world?
My theory will remain as always... the system those software is easier to pirate will get a greater following. I swear Nintendo shot themselves in the foot by making a bulletproof console.
But who can afford an arcade machine? And did anyone ever actually buy the NG Pocket? (I know exactly zero people who did.)
My GameCube too.
I think it's more like "the system with the most games that cater to the intellectually inept, and/or with the greater ability for piracy, will win."
Hot damn! Gimme gimme gimme!!
They could easily have meant the lifetime of the CD. That would be just like lifetime warranty... for the lifetime of the device. It's happened before.