Before buying a mobo with Soundstorm I was using a Creative Audigy Gamer (version I). I had used Creative cards in the past and never had any problems. I bought the Audigy because the box said prominently "Compatible with Windows XP" and I had had problems with unsigned drivers before.
When I got home the card wouldn't install, and after a few hours scanning message boards I found out that Creative had neglected to make an XP driver, and recommended that I use the Win98 driver until they released one. So, for a year I had no driver, then I found the kX Project, a win32 port of the emu10k linux driver. It worked better than the driver Creative eventually released, but it didn't support true 5.1 audio (the reason I bought the Audigy to begin with).
I just got my new mobo a month ago, and I'm already more impressed by the job nVidia did with onboard audio than the job Creative did with an expensive PCI card.
I think the point is that currently (the only time that matters in terms of technology) we are locked into older technology and Europe/Asia are serving their citizens with much higher speed connections than America.
Japan will have G4 cellphones with streaming high quality media soon, but by your logic when they finished their G3 network you would have been saying "Well, now they have a G3 network, but America will leave them behind soon, cause they're stuck with it." America is right now transitioning to a G2 network, which is just like our Internet service.
We are one step ahead of dial-up while the rest of the developed world is on fiber, and we're paying costs of double what they are all paying for less than half the service quality. The point is to always improve technology and that people will emerge who will be willing to pay for good connections at a reasonable price. Even the article says that Comcast only recently improved their connection speeds because DSL lines got cheaper. And what did Comcast do? They ran ads all day long on their TV networks hyping their "blazing fast download speeds" and "we just doubled the speed of our network". Companies like Comcast only respond to pressures that could take a huge percentage out of their user-base, and even when they do, it's only with a stop-gap solution. My download speeds aren't any better, but they doubled my upload rate from a blazing fast 15kbp/s to 30kbp/s.
If I remember correctly the Supreme Court recently ruled against libraries using filtering software to censor the sites that the public can access at their terminals. Government institutions have to play by the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution and all sites are technically free speech unless they present clear and present danger to incite violence or criminal activity.
well, I understand that concerning doujinshi many artists make hentai and non hentai doujins to establish a name for themselves in the manga market, and then move on to bigger projects from their previous material. I always thought it was funny to think that all the really crazy hentai is actually produced by some large publishing houses and that someplace old Japanese men are regarding the sales figures for "Tentacle Sex Commando Girl Ayaka! vol 6". Also, I guess most of the artists that make the original anime/manga turn a blind eye to doujin writers because any publicity is good publicity.
I don't know exactly what you mean by the attitude from Lost in Translation...
On your third note, being a nerd myself I know what its like to sit at home and work on some obscure project and not get the girls. But friends who have homestayed in Japan tell me you are correct on the foreigner angle, because Japanese girls seem to know that marrying outside the country's own will net them a man who isn't so male centric as the Japanese man. It's a tough balance, because I am all for women's equality like here in the US, but if women get a bigger stake in Japan, then I don't get as much fan service in anime....
1) Gameboy or (Toaster-boy cause its the size of a toaster)
2)Gameboy Pocket
3)Gameboy Color
4)Gameboy Pocket Color (Japan only, but a very nice unit)
5)Gameboy Advance
6)Gameboy Advance SP
Sorry to be anal, but no one knows about the pocket color, and that thing was great.
For some mediums, mainly cd or online distribution, I can understand doing it all in-house, but how should people who are developing for closed systems distribute? In the case of the GBA or GameCube the only way to get released is to get a publisher to burn your game to a bunch of blank carts or mini-cds and release it nationwide because the cost is too prohibitive. The only solution for GBA is to sell flashable carts, and they end up costing around $100/cart.
Why is it that this virus can infect all Microsoft operating systemy? As far as I know there are significant differences between how Windows XP(NT) and Windows 95 operate. Is there some common factor that I'm failing to understand here?
Marathon introduced a lot of features that were completely overlooked in favor of Doom. One was mouselook. As far as I know Marathon 1 was the first FPS to feature mouselook. Also, customizable physics and a level editor while everyone else was playing Doom shareware made Marathon the way to go if it weren' Mac only at the time.
actually the kanji that is on the game's box can be read as either "oo' or "dai" for the first one and "katana" for the second. But it would not sound correct to use "oo" as a pronunciation. Much like the "daibutsu", the largest statue of Buddha in Japan, is not called the "oobutsu".
You are right on that point, GTA will be released on the GC and I was wrong to say that it wouldn't.
Also, yes there are some excellent "mature" games for the GC as well, I just beat Eternal Darkness and it was great. But I am trying to say that the GC is the only system in my opinion that is breaking new ground in the areas of gameplay, and not re-releasing the same style of game over and over again.
Games like Fear, which was just announced, where you are a young boy and you have to face his fears, and Wario-ware (yes its for GBA but its still 1st party Nintendo) where the game is basically a tapestry of mini games; these games are the ones that are actually doing something different in the world, and they don't need to carry a mature rating to be fun for adults.
Realism is something that Nintendo has gone away from in favor of gameplay (look at Zelda and the origional Smash bros look of Zelda GC) and I think that is a great tradeoff, instead of playing Max Payne on an Xbox, I can play something that has never been done before on my GC.
Btw, I'm only 20 but I can say that for the first time I saw someone playing a GBA SP at the movies last night before the Matrix and I was suprised to see that it was a 30-40 year old man. I don't think that this is going to happen with the other consoles. I think that this uniting force of gameplay is only evident here with Nintendo and that is the only system where games are not kiddie or adult (the 1st party games), they're just fun.
And, who wants to play Conker's Bad Fur Day 2 Multiplayer Killfest anyway? Microsoft can have Rare, I played Starfox Adventures, ewwwwww.
yes, im sorry, this is the old video. looks like i was duped into a quick fix sutiation, because i didnt want to subscribe to gamespy/fileplanet. sorry for the old post.
it was already said, but tetris attack is just a sprite swap of a 3rd party game called panel de pon.
it is easliy one of my favourite puzzle games and i am happy to see it re-released, esp with 4 player support. i hope itll be beter than THQ's tetris fiasco.
"People of tetrino, UNITE"
just btw, i don't really think you should consider buying a gamecube if you're looking for gta. Nintendo has repeatedly said that they do not support violence in their games with quotes like "mario will never beat up hookers" and the like. I think that nintendo is the place to go for exceptional gameplay, but you have to be willing to accept that the games are not going to be "mainstream" like pc games. dont look for something like doom III, think more in the direction of Earthbound/Mother instead.
check out http://www1.giga.de/download_von_news/0,2862,4579_ e32k2_orange,00.html
everyone loves german download sites that dont cost money by the month.
id watch out about that matrix reloaded. it was terrible. maybe doom III will look better than the "completely real" cg scene that i was promised that seemed like something that i should see right after Aqua Teen Hunger Force, not in the middle of a movie that was billed as something that would redefine what entertainment is. this smacks of ET with 4 million copies of Enter the Matrix aldready pressed, maybe i can colect Powerade bottles and fall into bad 3d holes now instead. just had to get my crappy anti-reloaded rant out. to me, there is no trilogy, just a good movie with an open ending called the Matrix. period
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Smash Bros Melee is $20 in the US. Maybe Nintendo only likes America and Japan?
i think madcatz makes a passable light gun taht can still be obtained at most gamestops. and usually cheaper than the japan only DC official.
Before buying a mobo with Soundstorm I was using a Creative Audigy Gamer (version I). I had used Creative cards in the past and never had any problems. I bought the Audigy because the box said prominently "Compatible with Windows XP" and I had had problems with unsigned drivers before.
When I got home the card wouldn't install, and after a few hours scanning message boards I found out that Creative had neglected to make an XP driver, and recommended that I use the Win98 driver until they released one. So, for a year I had no driver, then I found the kX Project, a win32 port of the emu10k linux driver. It worked better than the driver Creative eventually released, but it didn't support true 5.1 audio (the reason I bought the Audigy to begin with).
I just got my new mobo a month ago, and I'm already more impressed by the job nVidia did with onboard audio than the job Creative did with an expensive PCI card.
I think the point is that currently (the only time that matters in terms of technology) we are locked into older technology and Europe/Asia are serving their citizens with much higher speed connections than America.
Japan will have G4 cellphones with streaming high quality media soon, but by your logic when they finished their G3 network you would have been saying "Well, now they have a G3 network, but America will leave them behind soon, cause they're stuck with it." America is right now transitioning to a G2 network, which is just like our Internet service.
We are one step ahead of dial-up while the rest of the developed world is on fiber, and we're paying costs of double what they are all paying for less than half the service quality. The point is to always improve technology and that people will emerge who will be willing to pay for good connections at a reasonable price. Even the article says that Comcast only recently improved their connection speeds because DSL lines got cheaper. And what did Comcast do? They ran ads all day long on their TV networks hyping their "blazing fast download speeds" and "we just doubled the speed of our network". Companies like Comcast only respond to pressures that could take a huge percentage out of their user-base, and even when they do, it's only with a stop-gap solution.
My download speeds aren't any better, but they doubled my upload rate from a blazing fast 15kbp/s to 30kbp/s.
That would have been cool in 1994.
If I remember correctly the Supreme Court recently ruled against libraries using filtering software to censor the sites that the public can access at their terminals. Government institutions have to play by the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution and all sites are technically free speech unless they present clear and present danger to incite violence or criminal activity.
well, I understand that concerning doujinshi many artists make hentai and non hentai doujins to establish a name for themselves in the manga market, and then move on to bigger projects from their previous material. I always thought it was funny to think that all the really crazy hentai is actually produced by some large publishing houses and that someplace old Japanese men are regarding the sales figures for "Tentacle Sex Commando Girl Ayaka! vol 6". Also, I guess most of the artists that make the original anime/manga turn a blind eye to doujin writers because any publicity is good publicity. I don't know exactly what you mean by the attitude from Lost in Translation... On your third note, being a nerd myself I know what its like to sit at home and work on some obscure project and not get the girls. But friends who have homestayed in Japan tell me you are correct on the foreigner angle, because Japanese girls seem to know that marrying outside the country's own will net them a man who isn't so male centric as the Japanese man. It's a tough balance, because I am all for women's equality like here in the US, but if women get a bigger stake in Japan, then I don't get as much fan service in anime....
It's great to see that Japan isn't so far in economic trouble that its youth has given up on making free games for us all.
1) Gameboy or (Toaster-boy cause its the size of a toaster) 2)Gameboy Pocket 3)Gameboy Color 4)Gameboy Pocket Color (Japan only, but a very nice unit) 5)Gameboy Advance 6)Gameboy Advance SP Sorry to be anal, but no one knows about the pocket color, and that thing was great.
For some mediums, mainly cd or online distribution, I can understand doing it all in-house, but how should people who are developing for closed systems distribute? In the case of the GBA or GameCube the only way to get released is to get a publisher to burn your game to a bunch of blank carts or mini-cds and release it nationwide because the cost is too prohibitive. The only solution for GBA is to sell flashable carts, and they end up costing around $100/cart.
rock on troll, you win this round.
Why is it that this virus can infect all Microsoft operating systemy? As far as I know there are significant differences between how Windows XP(NT) and Windows 95 operate. Is there some common factor that I'm failing to understand here?
Marathon introduced a lot of features that were completely overlooked in favor of Doom. One was mouselook. As far as I know Marathon 1 was the first FPS to feature mouselook. Also, customizable physics and a level editor while everyone else was playing Doom shareware made Marathon the way to go if it weren' Mac only at the time.
actually the kanji that is on the game's box can be read as either "oo' or "dai" for the first one and "katana" for the second. But it would not sound correct to use "oo" as a pronunciation. Much like the "daibutsu", the largest statue of Buddha in Japan, is not called the "oobutsu".
wow, just wow. dont try to be helpful around here, the anonymous people might hate you.
You are right on that point, GTA will be released on the GC and I was wrong to say that it wouldn't.
Also, yes there are some excellent "mature" games for the GC as well, I just beat Eternal Darkness and it was great. But I am trying to say that the GC is the only system in my opinion that is breaking new ground in the areas of gameplay, and not re-releasing the same style of game over and over again.
Games like Fear, which was just announced, where you are a young boy and you have to face his fears, and Wario-ware (yes its for GBA but its still 1st party Nintendo) where the game is basically a tapestry of mini games; these games are the ones that are actually doing something different in the world, and they don't need to carry a mature rating to be fun for adults.
Realism is something that Nintendo has gone away from in favor of gameplay (look at Zelda and the origional Smash bros look of Zelda GC) and I think that is a great tradeoff, instead of playing Max Payne on an Xbox, I can play something that has never been done before on my GC.
Btw, I'm only 20 but I can say that for the first time I saw someone playing a GBA SP at the movies last night before the Matrix and I was suprised to see that it was a 30-40 year old man. I don't think that this is going to happen with the other consoles. I think that this uniting force of gameplay is only evident here with Nintendo and that is the only system where games are not kiddie or adult (the 1st party games), they're just fun.
And, who wants to play Conker's Bad Fur Day 2 Multiplayer Killfest anyway? Microsoft can have Rare, I played Starfox Adventures, ewwwwww.
yes, im sorry, this is the old video. looks like i was duped into a quick fix sutiation, because i didnt want to subscribe to gamespy/fileplanet. sorry for the old post.
it was already said, but tetris attack is just a sprite swap of a 3rd party game called panel de pon. it is easliy one of my favourite puzzle games and i am happy to see it re-released, esp with 4 player support. i hope itll be beter than THQ's tetris fiasco. "People of tetrino, UNITE"
just btw, i don't really think you should consider buying a gamecube if you're looking for gta. Nintendo has repeatedly said that they do not support violence in their games with quotes like "mario will never beat up hookers" and the like. I think that nintendo is the place to go for exceptional gameplay, but you have to be willing to accept that the games are not going to be "mainstream" like pc games. dont look for something like doom III, think more in the direction of Earthbound/Mother instead.
check out http://www1.giga.de/download_von_news/0,2862,4579_ e32k2_orange,00.html
everyone loves german download sites that dont cost money by the month.
id watch out about that matrix reloaded. it was terrible. maybe doom III will look better than the "completely real" cg scene that i was promised that seemed like something that i should see right after Aqua Teen Hunger Force, not in the middle of a movie that was billed as something that would redefine what entertainment is. this smacks of ET with 4 million copies of Enter the Matrix aldready pressed, maybe i can colect Powerade bottles and fall into bad 3d holes now instead. just had to get my crappy anti-reloaded rant out. to me, there is no trilogy, just a good movie with an open ending called the Matrix. period