This is what I'm getting on my DP 2.5. I typed in "top -RF" as noted in the other post.
I once had a print job get stuck in a process, or something like that, anyways it was eating up almost 100% of just one of my procs. Once I figured it out, I killed it and haven't had that issues since then. Maybe your friends DP 2.0 had something running in the background like that?
The only area I could ever see Apple and Intel working together, would be a PDA type device, something that would benefit from a XScale.
OSX needs a PowerPC, an Intel version would break all software compatibility and require new development. Something that Apple would not do, not even for a low-cost option. This is why Apple's Mini uses a G4. If Apple wanted to commit suicie, they would siwtch to a X86 processor.
All of Apple's products are invested too heavily into Altivec, something that is not available with Intel's chips. This SIMD was co-developed by IBM, Motorola, and Apple. It's why Macs have such a huge performance advantage over PCs when it comes to things like encoding video. It's even used to assist in OSX's GUI acceleration along side the GPU. Even iTunes uses it.
Besides, Intel's desktop/workstation chips are not RISC, nor do the majority of their chips support 64-bit VM addressing, a feature that is available for the PowerPC, and is supported by Tiger. The only Intel option is an Itanium 2, an expensive pokey processor, that has been trumped by all other 64-bit options, including the G5 of course.
OK, that was weird, my page submited itself before I was finished.
Bleh.
Anyways, IBM, Motorolo and Apple all came together in the early ninties to develop a PowerPC for personal computers. Besides Apple's 6100 Dos compatible, which they realeased with a 486/66 daughter card, Apple hasn never used Intel as a central processor.
You can also use "command+option+esc." This is a force-quit, it's kind of like C.A.D.
You know one person with a Mac.:) Let me guess, he's using either a first rev G4, or Blue&White G3.:) What you have whitnessed is a rarity, unless his Mac is "old," or a lemon. The majority of Macs will maintain themsevles and will not crash when applying a simple patch. This is true for all modern OSX Macintoshes. My PCs run OK, I know my way around them and have used them way longer than Macs, but even with good components, they're still unreliable compared to a Mac and are too easy too break. But this is OS related of course. XP needs help.
Funny sig BTW, but I use a MX1000 on my G5 and a MX700 on my G4.:) I haven't used a one-button mouse since 1998, so I think I'll probably sprout another finger in the future.
I won't personally be trying this with my DS anytime soon. If I wanted to pee, besides in my pants while playing my DS, I'll just do it in the bathroom.
Give it enough time and marketing and soon the average peep will start to believe these lies that their fundemetnaly flawed OS "just works." And why not, since Intel conviced a whole slew of ignoramus into believing that Centrino would allow them to browse anywheres and that it was the "only" way to do so.
As long as peeps willfully stay ignorant, MS will probably succeed with this pathetic attempt at stating their vaper-OS is somehow better then the OSs that they're blatantly copying it from, and that it is something new.
Penn & Teller should do a segment about Longhorn in their show "Bullshit!"
First of all, I'm primarily a Mac user, I currently own a GameCube, N64, Nintendo DS, and have owned a PS1; I bought it the day it was released. So let me begin;:)
Define Poor? Apple has a 92% market share in the digital music arena, how is that poor? Their desktop share, although not on top, is greater than Sonys, even "world wide." Now even with a lower market share Apple rakes in billions and has made profit for years, now how is that poor? I guess when compared to Dell's shares it could be considered poor, but on the other hand when comparing innovation and qualiy to Apple, Dell can easily be construed as poor. So if Apple's share is poor, what does that make Sony who's share is even lower and is getting cremed at their own game? ( You know music playback devices.:) )
Now to ramble on; I don't know where you've been, but Nintendo still has the number one selling portable. Even the DS has "sold more" units then the PSP. Their GC although not on top is still doing well. And what's with this "Mario Paint" comment? Your whole comparison of Apple's lower desktop share with Nintendo and marketing doesn't seem to add up. Are you saying that marketing is not good for computer sells? If so, then look at Dell and than take a look at Intel, two marketing machines that sell very well. Sony also fits this category, as does any business that wants to, well stay in "business." I'm still a bit confused as to what you're trying to convey though with this Nintendo/Marketing/Apple jumbo mix???
And about this design comment, are you saying Sony's doing well because of their design? If so I agree, but unfortunately it is all they merrit now days. Besides their pro-equipment most of their consumer quality is crap. There's only so many times you can wrap shite in candy and still expect return customers, who would rather not deal with the hidden shite that plagues so many Sony's products now days. Fortunately Apple has nice design, but also has a great software package to back it up. Sony's products lack big time in that area.
The Playstation was a joke!!! Are you kidding, it sold like crazy when it was first released. I worked for an unamed game company at that time and practially everyone that worked there bought one. I honestlly don't know anyone that considerd it a joke, nor did not own one from the beginning. But on the other hand, I'm probably the only one that does not own a PS2. I'm personally sick of all monotonous re-hashed 3D games that plague so many systems now days.
I look forward to Nintendo'as next offering. In some ways they're the same Nintendo that we grew up with, but in others they are trying to break the mold that has confined so many other game systems. As an example, I really respect the potential that the DS can offer. But anyways, kudos to Sony for its nice------ "design" on the PSP.:)
I agree. It seems that it was right after Apple released FCP that Adobe seemed to get irratated with them and then pulled out Premier and started to spread negative press. I'm assuming that if AE weren't selling better on the Mac than PC, Adobe would've pulled that also in protest of Motion and Shake. I'm sad to see Macromedia merge into Adobe. This just means I'll be forking out more money to Adobe every year. I generally try to skip a version before upgrading, but with Flash I can't afford to fall behind.
I personally haven't been happy wiith Illustrator. It seemed to perform better with earlier versions even on much slower comps. Adobe's products are gettin more and more bloated with each release and this is why I've personally stuck witih PS7 until now. But since CS2 supports 64-bit memory on the Mac according to Maccentral, I'm upgrading to it and Tiger, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to avoid the usual first releas bugs. (I'm keeping all my digits crossed.)
Well I hope this turns out like a MetaCreation acquisition of Fractal Painter. I had only nightmares of them destroying the app I've used for soooo long and love and they ended up releaseing the best update since its conception with version 6.(Probably one of the most significant, updates since it completely overhauled the brush engine.) Then of course Corel bought it and Painter 7 was a buggy piece of crap. It was the first and only upgrade I've purchased that I did not use. They did redeem themselves with 9 though,(Simply amazing. ), so I hope things continue on this path and that Adobe also will only enhance Macromedia's products for the better.
I must add that AEPro 6.5 is an awesome app from Adobe though, it has never done me wrong.:) I'm guessing that there are completely different departments for each app and this is why Illustrator is alwasy soo buggy IMO compared to Photoshop or AE which work great.
I hope not. But when Apple puts their minds to something, like "Digital Video" Adobe suffers.:) And AE's biggest market is on the Macintosh, so not supporting a major part of their market share would be a very poor, if not disastrous decision on their part.
Besides the game industry, I've never met an artist that used Photoshop on a PC. And there's also the InDesign/Quark battle going on and I've "never" met a print artis that used a PC, especially for critical color work. They would be insane, since all the printers use Macintoshes. From my experience, it seems that it's alwasys the programers, 3D artist and peeps who'm "pirated" a copy that have Adobe products on their PCs.
I hope Adobe doesn't f* up Flash, that would tick me off big time.
I'm not trolling, but most peeps I encounter don't know that AMD's flag ship the Opteron can only address 40-bit physical and 48-bit vitural memory. That's 1TB of RAM, which is of course is a crapload, but it's not even close to what 64-bit memory can address; 16 Exabytes. I'm just being anal, since no single system that I know of can hold that much ram. =P
The 2G sticks have been out for about a year now. 4G sticks are what's new.
Apple doesn't list higher then 8G, because that is what they tested. 4G sticks will most likely also work. There is really no reason why they wouldn't.
"All that RAM." "far More data than you have resources to process." *LOL* It's safe to say that you don't work with video, nor as an artist. Are you working on a 386SX.:D *Kidding* I could be wrong though.:)
I have over a Terabyte of HD and my system handles it just fine. My 7 to 8 minute video jobs export single video files that average about 12Gigs. If I had 16GB of RAM and AEPro supported it, even with that Much RAM I would still need to "purge it all" every so often. I also generally run most of my pro apps at the same time since I need to jump between them. When they support 64-bit memory, my 5 G of RAM will not be enough. I'm upgrading to Tiger since it allows 64-bit memory support for apps now and CS2 will take advantage of that, at least on the Mac. I'll be allocating 4 gigs of RAM into it, since some of the poster illustrations I work on have exceeded over 3.5G in RAM (And since PS could only see 2G, it had to rely on scratch disk(s) to make up the difference.). That would only leave 1G for everything else, so needless to say I'll also be upgrading my RAM when I buy Tiger to more then 8G.
What I work with is peanuts compared to what a friend of mine does. He works with satellite imagery and a small plot of land can easily exceed over a Terabyte for one image.
Anyways, 16G of RAM is nothing with current comps and I bet that in about 4 years you'll probably have at least 6Gs in your system. Go back just a few years and 1G of RAM was considered more then most peeps would ever need or use.
I recall this from the other year, tis why Sony took so long to release a HD player. But Sony also needs to do more then offer basic MP3 playback on their devices.
I can Play MP3's on my 2 year old Clié also, but like the PSP Sony didn't give me anyways to manage my non-A3 music. I can't even change the order or rename my MP3 music once it's on the memory stick. If I do, then the internal audio app tells me it's corrupt until I change it back to the way it was.
Needles to say, I moved to an iPod which doesn't care if I'm using AAC or WAV. It is everything I had expected my $600 Sony to be and much more. I found out the naive way that Sony had only mislead me about MP3 playback and had intentionally crippled my music options. They wanted to control every aspect of my digital audio, even though I owned it on CD. Sony actually expected me to check-in and check-out my songs from the Clié. I and many of my friends encountered this and dumped Sony for audio. They just don't get it. Sonic Stage also didn't help, this software definately does not carry Sony's great design. It can only be described as a steaming pile of shite.
Sony needs to make a device that has the same level of hardware/software integration that is found with an iPod, along with fixing their internal disputes. Until this happens their audio products only merit nice design, but nothing else. They could've owned this market, but instead they made it quite easy for Apple, which does understand our needs to come in and even out-sell the Walkman big time. I doubt Sony will ever get it, so I'm sticking with my iPod and CDs.
I can't argue about the PSPs screen.:) But the option is already here for emulating the SNES on a game portable and that's with a DS through a GBA cart. I've commented on this before, but with the DS you get the "exact" same button configuration and "design" of a SNES's controller.
With the DS there are 2 ways right now to get SNES games onto it, one is with a GBA flash rom, the other with a GBA/SD cart.
Here's a Nintendo DS emulator. This is always the first step to home-brew games and emulators. http://www.ndsemu.com/
Another thing, the games you mention are available for the GBA and some are even being updated for the DS, so I ask why don't you just buy a GBA or DS to go along side your PSP, since they can play these games "right" now? Wouldn't you rather play "Mario Kart DS" this year with network play?
http://ds.ign.com/objects/682/682877.html?ui=cb_ up _03
I wouldn't buy a Nintendo DS to play GT4 or PSOne games, so why go with a PSP to play Zelda or other Nintendo games? I've already played both "Zelda Link to the Past" and "Zelda The Minnish Cap" all the way through on my DS. I didn't need to wait for someone to make an emulator and then for its bugs to be worked out. And that's a "big ify" until it happens.
And you can get Darkstalker's Chronicle for your PSP and I'm sure a new Street Fighter will be released aslo. These games are always much better when they're designed exclusively for your game system.
Cool when a SNES emulator does happens for the PSP, but until then you do have a "real choice" available from Nintendo for these types of games. Tis why I bought a DS, just imagine how great Zelda DS will be with the additional touch-screen.:)
Nintendo Licensed Palm OS, so expect this to a viable option in the future. Plus the same GBA dev peeps are now focusing on the DS. There's a large communtiy behind this, it's just that the PSP has all the glamor press right now because it's newer.
When I look at the PSP, I see is a great portable PS2 with a nice screen. But if I look at it for web browsing, IRC or whatever, all I see is a "glorified cellphone." I own a Clié, Axim and soon a Treo650 to replace those two items. Anyways, unlike a PSP my PDAs have "touch-screens," even a built-in keyboard and are better suited for this type of thing then a PSP. And with the Treo, I won't be limited to a wi-fi connection to get my e-mail or chat. I'll be able to do it prety much anywheres. (Yes, I'll be paying for that.).
But why would you want to use your PSP for this type of thing? It's not exactly small (It's Larger then my Clié which has a higher-rez touch-screen, longer battery life and keyboard.). The keyboard attatchments that I've seen for the PSP can not be used while holding the device and if you're going to carry that around, you might as well carry around a PDA. The PSPs only real input for portability is the control pad or analstick and that's even worse then a cell phone which is a tedious way of doing so. At least the phone has 12 main buttons that each contain a segment of the alphabet.
All I can think of is that this is more of a novelty then a useful function.
With my DS I can run Linux now, GBA games and SNES, Genisis game to name a few. Nintendo has already licensed the PalmOS and they have have "market dominance." BTW, the DS has sold about a million more units then the PSP. Were you saying something about "even playing fields." The PSP is still the underdog, it's just a pretty one.
And just admit it, you really don't give a rats arse about the DS? You just wanted to call attention to the PSP... This is a "Look at me post!!!":p
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This is what I'm getting on my DP 2.5. I typed in "top -RF" as noted in the other post.
I once had a print job get stuck in a process, or something like that, anyways it was eating up almost 100% of just one of my procs. Once I figured it out, I killed it and haven't had that issues since then. Maybe your friends DP 2.0 had something running in the background like that?
Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with this app???
So the title should be "Japanese PSP version 1.0 Emulation Madness."
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lucky Japanese PSP owners.
The only area I could ever see Apple and Intel working together, would be a PDA type device, something that would benefit from a XScale.
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OSX needs a PowerPC, an Intel version would break all software compatibility and require new development. Something that Apple would not do, not even for a low-cost option. This is why Apple's Mini uses a G4. If Apple wanted to commit suicie, they would siwtch to a X86 processor.
All of Apple's products are invested too heavily into Altivec, something that is not available with Intel's chips. This SIMD was co-developed by IBM, Motorola, and Apple. It's why Macs have such a huge performance advantage over PCs when it comes to things like encoding video. It's even used to assist in OSX's GUI acceleration along side the GPU. Even iTunes uses it.
Besides, Intel's desktop/workstation chips are not RISC, nor do the majority of their chips support 64-bit VM addressing, a feature that is available for the PowerPC, and is supported by Tiger. The only Intel option is an Itanium 2, an expensive pokey processor, that has been trumped by all other 64-bit options, including the G5 of course.
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog
Why can't they just heat their peas in the microwave like the rest of us.. :(
OK, that was weird, my page submited itself before I was finished. Bleh. Anyways, IBM, Motorolo and Apple all came together in the early ninties to develop a PowerPC for personal computers. Besides Apple's 6100 Dos compatible, which they realeased with a 486/66 daughter card, Apple hasn never used Intel as a central processor.
You mean "IBM" and Motorola; not Intel. :)
You can also use "command+option+esc." This is a force-quit, it's kind of like C.A.D.
:) Let me guess, he's using either a first rev G4, or Blue&White G3. :) What you have whitnessed is a rarity, unless his Mac is "old," or a lemon. The majority of Macs will maintain themsevles and will not crash when applying a simple patch. This is true for all modern OSX Macintoshes. My PCs run OK, I know my way around them and have used them way longer than Macs, but even with good components, they're still unreliable compared to a Mac and are too easy too break. But this is OS related of course. XP needs help.
:) I haven't used a one-button mouse since 1998, so I think I'll probably sprout another finger in the future.
You know one person with a Mac.
Funny sig BTW, but I use a MX1000 on my G5 and a MX700 on my G4.
That's odd. Mail will quit on me about once every other week if I'm unlucky. I'm still on 10.3, but will be jumping to Tiger this weekend.
I'm not using SSL though, so I don't have any experience in how it may effect my stability.
Sorry, I'm not a millionaire, so you can't have my DP 2.5 and 30". =P :)
I won't personally be trying this with my DS anytime soon. If I wanted to pee, besides in my pants while playing my DS, I'll just do it in the bathroom.
Give it enough time and marketing and soon the average peep will start to believe these lies that their fundemetnaly flawed OS "just works." And why not, since Intel conviced a whole slew of ignoramus into believing that Centrino would allow them to browse anywheres and that it was the "only" way to do so.
As long as peeps willfully stay ignorant, MS will probably succeed with this pathetic attempt at stating their vaper-OS is somehow better then the OSs that they're blatantly copying it from, and that it is something new.
Penn & Teller should do a segment about Longhorn in their show "Bullshit!"
Is this real enough for you?
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First of all, I'm primarily a Mac user, I currently own a GameCube, N64, Nintendo DS, and have owned a PS1; I bought it the day it was released. So let me begin; :)
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Define Poor? Apple has a 92% market share in the digital music arena, how is that poor? Their desktop share, although not on top, is greater than Sonys, even "world wide." Now even with a lower market share Apple rakes in billions and has made profit for years, now how is that poor? I guess when compared to Dell's shares it could be considered poor, but on the other hand when comparing innovation and qualiy to Apple, Dell can easily be construed as poor. So if Apple's share is poor, what does that make Sony who's share is even lower and is getting cremed at their own game? ( You know music playback devices.
Now to ramble on; I don't know where you've been, but Nintendo still has the number one selling portable. Even the DS has "sold more" units then the PSP. Their GC although not on top is still doing well. And what's with this "Mario Paint" comment? Your whole comparison of Apple's lower desktop share with Nintendo and marketing doesn't seem to add up. Are you saying that marketing is not good for computer sells? If so, then look at Dell and than take a look at Intel, two marketing machines that sell very well. Sony also fits this category, as does any business that wants to, well stay in "business." I'm still a bit confused as to what you're trying to convey though with this Nintendo/Marketing/Apple jumbo mix???
And about this design comment, are you saying Sony's doing well because of their design? If so I agree, but unfortunately it is all they merrit now days. Besides their pro-equipment most of their consumer quality is crap. There's only so many times you can wrap shite in candy and still expect return customers, who would rather not deal with the hidden shite that plagues so many Sony's products now days. Fortunately Apple has nice design, but also has a great software package to back it up. Sony's products lack big time in that area.
The Playstation was a joke!!! Are you kidding, it sold like crazy when it was first released. I worked for an unamed game company at that time and practially everyone that worked there bought one. I honestlly don't know anyone that considerd it a joke, nor did not own one from the beginning. But on the other hand, I'm probably the only one that does not own a PS2. I'm personally sick of all monotonous re-hashed 3D games that plague so many systems now days.
I look forward to Nintendo'as next offering. In some ways they're the same Nintendo that we grew up with, but in others they are trying to break the mold that has confined so many other game systems. As an example, I really respect the potential that the DS can offer. But anyways, kudos to Sony for its nice------ "design" on the PSP.
I agree. It seems that it was right after Apple released FCP that Adobe seemed to get irratated with them and then pulled out Premier and started to spread negative press. I'm assuming that if AE weren't selling better on the Mac than PC, Adobe would've pulled that also in protest of Motion and Shake. I'm sad to see Macromedia merge into Adobe. This just means I'll be forking out more money to Adobe every year. I generally try to skip a version before upgrading, but with Flash I can't afford to fall behind.
:) I'm guessing that there are completely different departments for each app and this is why Illustrator is alwasy soo buggy IMO compared to Photoshop or AE which work great.
I personally haven't been happy wiith Illustrator. It seemed to perform better with earlier versions even on much slower comps. Adobe's products are gettin more and more bloated with each release and this is why I've personally stuck witih PS7 until now. But since CS2 supports 64-bit memory on the Mac according to Maccentral, I'm upgrading to it and Tiger, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to avoid the usual first releas bugs. (I'm keeping all my digits crossed.)
Well I hope this turns out like a MetaCreation acquisition of Fractal Painter. I had only nightmares of them destroying the app I've used for soooo long and love and they ended up releaseing the best update since its conception with version 6.(Probably one of the most significant, updates since it completely overhauled the brush engine.) Then of course Corel bought it and Painter 7 was a buggy piece of crap. It was the first and only upgrade I've purchased that I did not use. They did redeem themselves with 9 though,(Simply amazing. ), so I hope things continue on this path and that Adobe also will only enhance Macromedia's products for the better.
I must add that AEPro 6.5 is an awesome app from Adobe though, it has never done me wrong.
I hope not. But when Apple puts their minds to something, like "Digital Video" Adobe suffers. :) And AE's biggest market is on the Macintosh, so not supporting a major part of their market share would be a very poor, if not disastrous decision on their part.
Besides the game industry, I've never met an artist that used Photoshop on a PC. And there's also the InDesign/Quark battle going on and I've "never" met a print artis that used a PC, especially for critical color work. They would be insane, since all the printers use Macintoshes. From my experience, it seems that it's alwasys the programers, 3D artist and peeps who'm "pirated" a copy that have Adobe products on their PCs.
I hope Adobe doesn't f* up Flash, that would tick me off big time.
I'm not trolling, but most peeps I encounter don't know that AMD's flag ship the Opteron can only address 40-bit physical and 48-bit vitural memory. That's 1TB of RAM, which is of course is a crapload, but it's not even close to what 64-bit memory can address; 16 Exabytes. I'm just being anal, since no single system that I know of can hold that much ram. =P
The 2G sticks have been out for about a year now. 4G sticks are what's new.
:D *Kidding* I could be wrong though. :)
Apple doesn't list higher then 8G, because that is what they tested. 4G sticks will most likely also work. There is really no reason why they wouldn't.
"All that RAM." "far More data than you have resources to process." *LOL* It's safe to say that you don't work with video, nor as an artist. Are you working on a 386SX.
I have over a Terabyte of HD and my system handles it just fine. My 7 to 8 minute video jobs export single video files that average about 12Gigs. If I had 16GB of RAM and AEPro supported it, even with that Much RAM I would still need to "purge it all" every so often. I also generally run most of my pro apps at the same time since I need to jump between them. When they support 64-bit memory, my 5 G of RAM will not be enough. I'm upgrading to Tiger since it allows 64-bit memory support for apps now and CS2 will take advantage of that, at least on the Mac. I'll be allocating 4 gigs of RAM into it, since some of the poster illustrations I work on have exceeded over 3.5G in RAM (And since PS could only see 2G, it had to rely on scratch disk(s) to make up the difference.). That would only leave 1G for everything else, so needless to say I'll also be upgrading my RAM when I buy Tiger to more then 8G.
What I work with is peanuts compared to what a friend of mine does. He works with satellite imagery and a small plot of land can easily exceed over a Terabyte for one image.
Anyways, 16G of RAM is nothing with current comps and I bet that in about 4 years you'll probably have at least 6Gs in your system. Go back just a few years and 1G of RAM was considered more then most peeps would ever need or use.
I recall this from the other year, tis why Sony took so long to release a HD player. But Sony also needs to do more then offer basic MP3 playback on their devices.
I can Play MP3's on my 2 year old Clié also, but like the PSP Sony didn't give me anyways to manage my non-A3 music. I can't even change the order or rename my MP3 music once it's on the memory stick. If I do, then the internal audio app tells me it's corrupt until I change it back to the way it was.
Needles to say, I moved to an iPod which doesn't care if I'm using AAC or WAV. It is everything I had expected my $600 Sony to be and much more. I found out the naive way that Sony had only mislead me about MP3 playback and had intentionally crippled my music options. They wanted to control every aspect of my digital audio, even though I owned it on CD. Sony actually expected me to check-in and check-out my songs from the Clié. I and many of my friends encountered this and dumped Sony for audio. They just don't get it. Sonic Stage also didn't help, this software definately does not carry Sony's great design. It can only be described as a steaming pile of shite.
Sony needs to make a device that has the same level of hardware/software integration that is found with an iPod, along with fixing their internal disputes. Until this happens their audio products only merit nice design, but nothing else. They could've owned this market, but instead they made it quite easy for Apple, which does understand our needs to come in and even out-sell the Walkman big time. I doubt Sony will ever get it, so I'm sticking with my iPod and CDs.
I can't argue about the PSPs screen. :) But the option is already here for emulating the SNES on a game portable and that's with a DS through a GBA cart. I've commented on this before, but with the DS you get the "exact" same button configuration and "design" of a SNES's controller.
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http://www.snesadvance.org/index.html
http://www.gameboy-advance.net/emulated/snes_ro
With the DS there are 2 ways right now to get SNES games onto it, one is with a GBA flash rom, the other with a GBA/SD cart.
Here's a Nintendo DS emulator. This is always the first step to home-brew games and emulators.
http://www.ndsemu.com/
Another thing, the games you mention are available for the GBA and some are even being updated for the DS, so I ask why don't you just buy a GBA or DS to go along side your PSP, since they can play these games "right" now? Wouldn't you rather play "Mario Kart DS" this year with network play?
http://ds.ign.com/objects/682/682877.html?ui=cb
I wouldn't buy a Nintendo DS to play GT4 or PSOne games, so why go with a PSP to play Zelda or other Nintendo games? I've already played both "Zelda Link to the Past" and "Zelda The Minnish Cap" all the way through on my DS. I didn't need to wait for someone to make an emulator and then for its bugs to be worked out. And that's a "big ify" until it happens.
And you can get Darkstalker's Chronicle for your PSP and I'm sure a new Street Fighter will be released aslo. These games are always much better when they're designed exclusively for your game system.
Cool when a SNES emulator does happens for the PSP, but until then you do have a "real choice" available from Nintendo for these types of games. Tis why I bought a DS, just imagine how great Zelda DS will be with the additional touch-screen.
Nintendo Licensed Palm OS, so expect this to a viable option in the future. Plus the same GBA dev peeps are now focusing on the DS. There's a large communtiy behind this, it's just that the PSP has all the glamor press right now because it's newer.
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http://www.gameboy-advance.net/nintendo_ds/dreami
I wouldn't necessarily use either portable for browsing, but the DS is in a better position to do so, since I think it's kind of silly.
These are the same peeps that brought us the vomit known as Sonic Stage. Now they want to brain-fuck us. No thanks..
I'm not trolling, I just have an opinion.
When I look at the PSP, I see is a great portable PS2 with a nice screen. But if I look at it for web browsing, IRC or whatever, all I see is a "glorified cellphone." I own a Clié, Axim and soon a Treo650 to replace those two items. Anyways, unlike a PSP my PDAs have "touch-screens," even a built-in keyboard and are better suited for this type of thing then a PSP. And with the Treo, I won't be limited to a wi-fi connection to get my e-mail or chat. I'll be able to do it prety much anywheres. (Yes, I'll be paying for that.).
But why would you want to use your PSP for this type of thing? It's not exactly small (It's Larger then my Clié which has a higher-rez touch-screen, longer battery life and keyboard.). The keyboard attatchments that I've seen for the PSP can not be used while holding the device and if you're going to carry that around, you might as well carry around a PDA. The PSPs only real input for portability is the control pad or analstick and that's even worse then a cell phone which is a tedious way of doing so. At least the phone has 12 main buttons that each contain a segment of the alphabet.
All I can think of is that this is more of a novelty then a useful function.
The DS has a whole community of home-brew developers. Most of the peeps that were developing for the GBA have jumped to the DS.
:p
http://dsdev.org/
http://www.gbadev.org/
With my DS I can run Linux now, GBA games and SNES, Genisis game to name a few. Nintendo has already licensed the PalmOS and they have have "market dominance." BTW, the DS has sold about a million more units then the PSP. Were you saying something about "even playing fields." The PSP is still the underdog, it's just a pretty one.
And just admit it, you really don't give a rats arse about the DS? You just wanted to call attention to the PSP... This is a "Look at me post!!!"
Nintendo actually did license PalmOS just recently. :)