2) They are almost the same in size, the PSP is a little wider but the DS is much heigher then "flipped out", and probably "fatter" than closed.
3) That is more or less a fanboy comment, the PSP batterylife isn't that bad, I think they say around 6 hours, 3 with intensive games, for the DS it's 5 with light on the screen and 10 without, not that big of a difference. Also remember the PSP got two 222 (up to 333) mhz cpu cores + very good graphics where's the NDS just got 33+66 mhz cpu cores and much worse graphics. Also the PSP display is larger and brighter. So the PSP power managment seems quite good.
4) Yeah, as MP3-player it sucks and I guess you won't use it that much as a movie player. And there are movie player addons for the GBA and NDS aswell (which also let you play homebrew and old roms emulated.) Also the movie playback from memorystick is crippled on the PSP and you don't get full resolution because they want you to buy the movies on UMD aswell instead.
5) With the correct firmware you can use emulators on the PSP aswell, the sad fact is that new games will require a newer firmware and you might run out of luck. We'll see how that ends, with the NDS you are probably safe from all worries, atleast if you get/have an "old" modell (guess they can't change the hardware that much now afterwards either.)
6) Yup, again;D However to run homebrew on the NDS you need a movie player and cf/sd-cards, on the PSP you might just need a memory stick.
I'm in the same position as you. Just a short while ago it looked like the DS would have better games, but I would like to get into adventure/RPGs and there seems to come a bunch of those to the PSP aswell. Games which are the same on both (racing, snowboarding, so on..) will of course look better on the PSP and probably play better with the analoge stick so that's a reason to get that.
Also the hardware is much better, the screen is brighter and it got a better viewing angle. The DS on the other hand got that touch screen, but there are a bunch of stupid boring games for that like WarioWare, I don't want those, use it there it makes sense instead. Also I don't care for Nintendogs.
On the other hand you can share games with the DS, it's cheaper, and it got mario, zelda, metroid and I would like to say megaman but that title comes to the PSP instead.
Anyway, I can't decide really, and I've got no money anyway. I would like to get a gamecube aswell but I guess it's better to wait for the next generation. But I want to be able to chip the console aswell...
New Super Mario Bros and Mario & Luigi aren't ports, they are new games. The first one are a 2D-scroller much like SMB I-III, the second one looks a little like SMW, althought it doesn't seem to play like that one. There are also a Zelda-game similair to Four Swords in the works.
I think it's quite cool and innovative aswell, and you can stick it into a shell to get a more normal controller aswell (but with gyros...).
Anyway, here we are, people just see a controller which looks like a remote, and start laughing without knowing what it is.
But imagine Apple showing that demo video, loads of people whould think that would be so cool and innovative. It's hard beeing "the Big N which just makes games for kids", heck, this console definitly does NOT look like a kids toy, it looks awesome. Best wishes Nintendo:)
I think a stuck pixel is a pixel that for some reason keeps its current color, but might/can be fixed by flashing the display in different colors real fast.
With a dead pixel it's dead, that is, the procedure above failed to fix it.
Ok, MacOS X server performance is crap, not news. G5 is an ok to good CPU, not news either.
The question is, is it possible to get a non-apple G5 system since Apple will go the (W)intel route?
I know about Genesis/Pegasos PPC systems but the current ones uses G4s and the not-in-a-distant-future will use the PPC7448(?). But what about PPC970, can we expect them from Genesis aswell or does IBM or someone else make machines with them?
Allthought not usable for all kinds of data I guess, but do you expect to find a format which can handle them all? I guess that atleast as long as you stay with free software you can find out HOW the format worked. With a proprietarian(spelling..) fileformat you might be screwed.
As I've understood it there are plans for new modells, among those Freescales new PPC7448 (something like dual-core G4 with 64-bit instructions, altivec, and 10watt at 1.5GHz or so. That might be incorrect.) I don't remember chipset names and so on.
Imagine how many people will run MacOS X x86 in say 2 months, imagine how many it would be if it was the final version, imagine how much larger the Mac market just got and the opportunities for whatever software you want to bring out for the Mac people.
Well, if you use the equalizer to begin with you can't care much about sound quality anyway. 64kbps oggs sounds better than mp3s, that's the use for it I suppose.
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Would, if not I'm not intrested.
Oh, and it has to be of the good kind aswell.
Ouch, DRM make you pay twice? It's said you are willing to accept that.
2) They are almost the same in size, the PSP is a little wider but the DS is much heigher then "flipped out", and probably "fatter" than closed.
;D
3) That is more or less a fanboy comment, the PSP batterylife isn't that bad, I think they say around 6 hours, 3 with intensive games, for the DS it's 5 with light on the screen and 10 without, not that big of a difference. Also remember the PSP got two 222 (up to 333) mhz cpu cores + very good graphics where's the NDS just got 33+66 mhz cpu cores and much worse graphics. Also the PSP display is larger and brighter. So the PSP power managment seems quite good.
4) Yeah, as MP3-player it sucks and I guess you won't use it that much as a movie player. And there are movie player addons for the GBA and NDS aswell (which also let you play homebrew and old roms emulated.)
Also the movie playback from memorystick is crippled on the PSP and you don't get full resolution because they want you to buy the movies on UMD aswell instead.
5) With the correct firmware you can use emulators on the PSP aswell, the sad fact is that new games will require a newer firmware and you might run out of luck. We'll see how that ends, with the NDS you are probably safe from all worries, atleast if you get/have an "old" modell (guess they can't change the hardware that much now afterwards either.)
6) Yup, again
However to run homebrew on the NDS you need a movie player and cf/sd-cards, on the PSP you might just need a memory stick.
I'm in the same position as you. Just a short while ago it looked like the DS would have better games, but I would like to get into adventure/RPGs and there seems to come a bunch of those to the PSP aswell. Games which are the same on both (racing, snowboarding, so on..) will of course look better on the PSP and probably play better with the analoge stick so that's a reason to get that.
Also the hardware is much better, the screen is brighter and it got a better viewing angle. The DS on the other hand got that touch screen, but there are a bunch of stupid boring games for that like WarioWare, I don't want those, use it there it makes sense instead. Also I don't care for Nintendogs.
On the other hand you can share games with the DS, it's cheaper, and it got mario, zelda, metroid and I would like to say megaman but that title comes to the PSP instead.
Anyway, I can't decide really, and I've got no money anyway. I would like to get a gamecube aswell but I guess it's better to wait for the next generation. But I want to be able to chip the console aswell...
So in reality you just bought yourself a very expensive GBA?
New Super Mario Bros and Mario & Luigi aren't ports, they are new games. The first one are a 2D-scroller much like SMB I-III, the second one looks a little like SMW, althought it doesn't seem to play like that one.
There are also a Zelda-game similair to Four Swords in the works.
I think it's quite cool and innovative aswell, and you can stick it into a shell to get a more normal controller aswell (but with gyros...).
:)
Anyway, here we are, people just see a controller which looks like a remote, and start laughing without knowing what it is.
But imagine Apple showing that demo video, loads of people whould think that would be so cool and innovative. It's hard beeing "the Big N which just makes games for kids", heck, this console definitly does NOT look like a kids toy, it looks awesome. Best wishes Nintendo
Uhm, search google for m3-adapter :)
I think a stuck pixel is a pixel that for some reason keeps its current color, but might/can be fixed by flashing the display in different colors real fast.
With a dead pixel it's dead, that is, the procedure above failed to fix it.
I'm quite sure ONE dead pixel would be enough for Nintendo to replace it, but does anyone actually know?
Ok, MacOS X server performance is crap, not news. G5 is an ok to good CPU, not news either.
The question is, is it possible to get a non-apple G5 system since Apple will go the (W)intel route?
I know about Genesis/Pegasos PPC systems but the current ones uses G4s and the not-in-a-distant-future will use the PPC7448(?). But what about PPC970, can we expect them from Genesis aswell or does IBM or someone else make machines with them?
Yeah, because you can't play it for free ;)
Come on, why you need bnetd if not to play an "illegal copy" anyway?
Allthought not usable for all kinds of data I guess, but do you expect to find a format which can handle them all? I guess that atleast as long as you stay with free software you can find out HOW the format worked. With a proprietarian(spelling..) fileformat you might be screwed.
Easy as that. I guess PDF/PS is common enough too stay for long, and it's possible too make all prints become PDFs.
I guess the resolution is to small for starcraft, who knows, maybe the next gameboy?
UFO would be great.
Anyway, there is ScummVM for the NDS I think, so atleast you can play things like Monkey Island II.
As I've understood it there are plans for new modells, among those Freescales new PPC7448 (something like dual-core G4 with 64-bit instructions, altivec, and 10watt at 1.5GHz or so. That might be incorrect.)
I don't remember chipset names and so on.
Pegasos PPC
More importantly, where shall we put any animals at all so they are in no danger of the humans?
Yeah, what a flaw, how could they have missed that one ..
Try it? Probably depends on the user anyway.
... which in the ends brings more software too the current users.
Imagine how many people will run MacOS X x86 in say 2 months, imagine how many it would be if it was the final version, imagine how much larger the Mac market just got and the opportunities for whatever software you want to bring out for the Mac people.
and to make things worse all of the drives except the seagate 7200.8 are "very" old ones.
Well, if you use the equalizer to begin with you can't care much about sound quality anyway.
64kbps oggs sounds better than mp3s, that's the use for it I suppose.
Or just use dc or ftps, DC seems to be pretty clean here in Sweden.