... to steal Nintendo's thunder. The fact that it is a good idea doesn't take away from the fact that Sony stole the idea because they are creatively bankrupt.
Well this game nerd thought Sony's presentation was rubbish, just a bunch of sequels with prettier(?) graphics and a really lame attempt at stealing some of Nintendo's thunder.
Actually, during the lifespan of the PS1 a slightly faster and better graphics chip was put into the PS1, also featuring better gouraud shading. For some reason this isn't common knoweledge, I can only assume it's because Sony didn't hype this feature for fear of annoying existing PS1 owners and potentially making people think they would have to upgrade.
The trouble with things like the Power Glove and the octogon thing were that they were just add ons for existing games, and the games weren't designed to accommodate them. Mike Tyson's Punchout or Streets of Rage had all digital controls so any movement would just register as "on" in the game rather than reading the speed or size of your movement. A small twitch was the same as a huge swing of your arm to the game.
I remember playing Rad Racer with the Power Glove and two things were a problem. One is that you had to move your arm forward to accelerate and I would instinctively lean farther and farther forward to try and go faster even though it made no difference. The other problem was if you wanted to make a small steering adjustment or perform a sudden, big swerve around something the game just wouldn't do that, even though the glove gave the instinctive feeling that you should be able to do that (or maybe it's because The Wizard made it look like it worked like that...) In the end it was just unusuable becase of the lack of analogue movement.
I'm hopeful that games designed from the ground up to use the Revmote will be much more intuitive and take the speed and size of your movements into account.
Yeah I agree on the Virtuality thing, it worked pretty well when I played on it in the Trocadero. The only thing lacking were the graphics, but given the Quad-SLi systems you can build these days I don't see any reason why you couldn't hook one of those Virtuality headsets up to a powerful recent PC and achieve a pretty immersive experience.
I reckon holding a Revmote in each hand and then punching in the air with them would work pretty well for a boxing type game. It might not be super fast like Super Street Fighter II Turbo Hyperfighting Championship Rainbow Blackbelt Edition, but I think it would be a fun game.
I think that answers a question I've had for some time about the Dual Shock, namely: why do the Dual Shock pads have such a large dead zone?
I find the sticks don't tend to respond until they've been moved over 25% from the center which is annoying when you want to make small adjustments. But if the sticks never read a stable resting position then it would seem the dead zone is there to stop all that jittering from translating into the game and making Solid Snake having some sort of epileptic fit on screen!
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You too eh? I assume they chose red, yellow, blue and black because they are all colours that sound different, but for some reason it just doesn't understand blue very well for me.
Are you in/from the US? I'm in the UK, so I assumed it was just an accent thing, but maybe the recognition needs tweaking.
How about I just download everything off the internet and then I don't have to put up with being forced to watch your adverts? You won't be making any money at all then. Try making a device consumers will want rather than exploiting your position in the market to try and force this type of device on everyone.
Presumably Philips wouldn't charge much (if anything) for other manufacturers to license this "idea", as otherwise they will be the only people selling systems with enforced adverts and the market will avoid their products like the plague.
So people who make root kits share their source, how should that reflect at all on the open source community?
This is like complaining about education in prison. Because inmates pass on the knowledge of how to hot wire cars or pick locks to other prisoners does that mean legitimate education in prisons is also bad. Typical FUD.
Having played plenty of N64 games on emulators in 1600x1200 I can say that the games do look quite nice in that resolution, despite the low res textures. Of course, if you want high res textures in N64 games the place to visit is here.:)
I thought Emperor Blair announced these new measures to protect our freedoms from terrorists last week? I'm sure he wasn't lying because naturally he never lies, and I would report anyone who says he does to my nearest Blair Re-education Facility.
Yeah, I agree. I think the introduction of the DS lite will help to shift even more consoles as well, as it will allow the DS to compete in the "sexy gadget" area of the market. And with Brain Training, New Mario Bros, Zelda DS all coming this year as well it should be another great year for the DS.
I'm particularly interested to see if Nintendo can recreate the sales frenzy Brain Training caused in Japan. Normally I'd be sceptical but Nintendo's success at turning Tetris and Pokemon into global phenomenons makes me wonder if they can do it again.
Yeah that would be good, I could also see some games being unlockable extras like the way the original Metroid was unlockable in Metroid Prime or the NES games in Animal Crossing.
Sadly Nintendo have been keeping quiet on the pricing of the game downloads. I would hope that they will be quite cheap but given how Nintendo were quite happy to charge full price for classic NES games on the GBA I have an uneasy feeling about the pricing. Obviously there's no cartridge, packaging or shipping costs with an electronic download so that should bring the price down a fair bit.
But I still reckon we might see pricing along the lines of $5 for NES games, $10 for SNES and $15 for N64. Which is too much IMHO. Something like $1 for NES, $2-$3 for SNES and $4-$5 for N64 would probably be OK.
It doesn't "peeve" me, it amuses me. Western culture is denounced by extremeists as decadent, corrupt and deserving of destruction, and yet this hacker calls himself 007, who is hardly a role model for Islamic freedom fighters. I don't see any irony behind the name either.
It actually reminds me of a satirical cartoon called "Monkey Dust" we have here in the UK. The show has a recurring sketch with a couple of British Muslims who plan the destruction of the Western world and then settle down to watch Manchester United play football on the TV whilst having Fish and Chips for tea.
And no-one here believed Blair's claims that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Yep, the Mujahadeen (apologies if that isn't the correct spelling). That was back when they were being funded and armed by the Americans of course. Things changed somewhat once they won and didn't need any help from the US...
You've got to be impressed how these Islamic extremists denounce the western world and then take the codename of a celebrated western hero who fights terrorists...
Given how cold and uncaring I've seen imported labour to be in UK nursing homes I personally would rather be looked after by the robot. Plus it's less embarrassing to get a robot to wipe your arse than ask some nurse to do it.
Blair follows Bush like a dog follows its master, the rest of the country has no such allegience to either of those war mongering simpletons thank you very much.
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Given the large number of games shown at E3 that require the nunchaku I think it's very likely that it will be included with the console.
How long till we get headlines like "Microsoft's Malware Software Deletes Windows after identifying it as a security risk"?
... to steal Nintendo's thunder. The fact that it is a good idea doesn't take away from the fact that Sony stole the idea because they are creatively bankrupt.
Well this game nerd thought Sony's presentation was rubbish, just a bunch of sequels with prettier(?) graphics and a really lame attempt at stealing some of Nintendo's thunder.
Actually, during the lifespan of the PS1 a slightly faster and better graphics chip was put into the PS1, also featuring better gouraud shading. For some reason this isn't common knoweledge, I can only assume it's because Sony didn't hype this feature for fear of annoying existing PS1 owners and potentially making people think they would have to upgrade.
The trouble with things like the Power Glove and the octogon thing were that they were just add ons for existing games, and the games weren't designed to accommodate them. Mike Tyson's Punchout or Streets of Rage had all digital controls so any movement would just register as "on" in the game rather than reading the speed or size of your movement. A small twitch was the same as a huge swing of your arm to the game.
I remember playing Rad Racer with the Power Glove and two things were a problem. One is that you had to move your arm forward to accelerate and I would instinctively lean farther and farther forward to try and go faster even though it made no difference. The other problem was if you wanted to make a small steering adjustment or perform a sudden, big swerve around something the game just wouldn't do that, even though the glove gave the instinctive feeling that you should be able to do that (or maybe it's because The Wizard made it look like it worked like that...) In the end it was just unusuable becase of the lack of analogue movement.
I'm hopeful that games designed from the ground up to use the Revmote will be much more intuitive and take the speed and size of your movements into account.
Yeah I agree on the Virtuality thing, it worked pretty well when I played on it in the Trocadero. The only thing lacking were the graphics, but given the Quad-SLi systems you can build these days I don't see any reason why you couldn't hook one of those Virtuality headsets up to a powerful recent PC and achieve a pretty immersive experience.
I reckon holding a Revmote in each hand and then punching in the air with them would work pretty well for a boxing type game. It might not be super fast like Super Street Fighter II Turbo Hyperfighting Championship Rainbow Blackbelt Edition, but I think it would be a fun game.
I think that answers a question I've had for some time about the Dual Shock, namely: why do the Dual Shock pads have such a large dead zone?
I find the sticks don't tend to respond until they've been moved over 25% from the center which is annoying when you want to make small adjustments. But if the sticks never read a stable resting position then it would seem the dead zone is there to stop all that jittering from translating into the game and making Solid Snake having some sort of epileptic fit on screen!
You too eh? I assume they chose red, yellow, blue and black because they are all colours that sound different, but for some reason it just doesn't understand blue very well for me.
Are you in/from the US? I'm in the UK, so I assumed it was just an accent thing, but maybe the recognition needs tweaking.
How about I just download everything off the internet and then I don't have to put up with being forced to watch your adverts? You won't be making any money at all then. Try making a device consumers will want rather than exploiting your position in the market to try and force this type of device on everyone.
Presumably Philips wouldn't charge much (if anything) for other manufacturers to license this "idea", as otherwise they will be the only people selling systems with enforced adverts and the market will avoid their products like the plague.
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So people who make root kits share their source, how should that reflect at all on the open source community?
This is like complaining about education in prison. Because inmates pass on the knowledge of how to hot wire cars or pick locks to other prisoners does that mean legitimate education in prisons is also bad. Typical FUD.
Having played plenty of N64 games on emulators in 1600x1200 I can say that the games do look quite nice in that resolution, despite the low res textures. Of course, if you want high res textures in N64 games the place to visit is here. :)
I thought Emperor Blair announced these new measures to protect our freedoms from terrorists last week? I'm sure he wasn't lying because naturally he never lies, and I would report anyone who says he does to my nearest Blair Re-education Facility.
That's a really good idea, hopefully one day someone will implement it into /.
Yeah, I agree. I think the introduction of the DS lite will help to shift even more consoles as well, as it will allow the DS to compete in the "sexy gadget" area of the market. And with Brain Training, New Mario Bros, Zelda DS all coming this year as well it should be another great year for the DS.
I'm particularly interested to see if Nintendo can recreate the sales frenzy Brain Training caused in Japan. Normally I'd be sceptical but Nintendo's success at turning Tetris and Pokemon into global phenomenons makes me wonder if they can do it again.
Yeah that would be good, I could also see some games being unlockable extras like the way the original Metroid was unlockable in Metroid Prime or the NES games in Animal Crossing.
Sadly Nintendo have been keeping quiet on the pricing of the game downloads. I would hope that they will be quite cheap but given how Nintendo were quite happy to charge full price for classic NES games on the GBA I have an uneasy feeling about the pricing. Obviously there's no cartridge, packaging or shipping costs with an electronic download so that should bring the price down a fair bit.
But I still reckon we might see pricing along the lines of $5 for NES games, $10 for SNES and $15 for N64. Which is too much IMHO. Something like $1 for NES, $2-$3 for SNES and $4-$5 for N64 would probably be OK.
It doesn't "peeve" me, it amuses me. Western culture is denounced by extremeists as decadent, corrupt and deserving of destruction, and yet this hacker calls himself 007, who is hardly a role model for Islamic freedom fighters. I don't see any irony behind the name either.
It actually reminds me of a satirical cartoon called "Monkey Dust" we have here in the UK. The show has a recurring sketch with a couple of British Muslims who plan the destruction of the Western world and then settle down to watch Manchester United play football on the TV whilst having Fish and Chips for tea.
And no-one here believed Blair's claims that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Yep, the Mujahadeen (apologies if that isn't the correct spelling). That was back when they were being funded and armed by the Americans of course. Things changed somewhat once they won and didn't need any help from the US...
I dunno, people seemed to buy Vice City in decent enough numbers, and that was very '80s...
You've got to be impressed how these Islamic extremists denounce the western world and then take the codename of a celebrated western hero who fights terrorists...
Given how cold and uncaring I've seen imported labour to be in UK nursing homes I personally would rather be looked after by the robot. Plus it's less embarrassing to get a robot to wipe your arse than ask some nurse to do it.
Blair follows Bush like a dog follows its master, the rest of the country has no such allegience to either of those war mongering simpletons thank you very much.