I am really hoping that MS will make the Xbox backwards compatible. I don't see why they wouldn't. I know there has been continuing speculation over wether or not the Xbox 2 will include a Hard Drive or not, and I think it will, specifically for backwards compatibility reasons. All of the XB1 games are made with a hard drive in mind. Although they could limit the storage to bigger memory cards I suppose, but I doubt they will.
I also agree with the point about PS2 selling so well because of its backwards compatibility with PS1, and I am almost certain that Sony will make the PS3 play all PS games.
I will check that out for sure. I have had all consoles since NES besides an SNES and a PS2, and a few other obscure ones like 3D0, Jaguar, etc. But I unfortunately did not get ot play The Lost Levels of Mario 1. I played the original relentlessly, like almost everyone of that time did I am sure, so I will enjoy the lost levels. Thanks a lot for the suggestion and the info about Mario 2. I am sure I could have googled for the info, but I knew that there would be a knowledgable/.'er out there. lol.
That is a really good point. A lot of great games have probably fallen through the cracks over the years.
One particular game that comes to mind when I think of games being scrapped or reworked and released later is Super Mario Brothers 2 for the NES console. If you notice, it doesn't look (graphics) like Super Mario Bros. 1 or 3. I read somewhere that there was a game developer/designer working on a game for Nintendo that was scrapped half way through, and they ended up using it as Super Mario Bros. 2. None of the enemies were the same, no Gumbas, etc.
I would like to think that with all of the effort and work they put into the game, they will not let it completely go to waste, maybe they will tweak it and make it a different game over time, or archive it and release it in the future.
I feel bad for the people ad artists that worked so hard to create it. Reminds me of the actors whose parts get completely cut out of movies.
I disagree, because none of those issues would matter if a huge asteroid destroyed the entire planet. All of the art, and technology, and literature, would be gone forever, our accomplishments would mean nothing.
I think that the most important thing to the world community as a whole should the same thing that is most important to human beings by nature.....survival.
Right now, we do not have the technology to inhabit another planet, so we need to make sure that we can protect ours to the best of our ability.
The social and economic issues that you presented are also very imoprtant, but in the end, the main priority should be the survival of all of us, that way we can continue to chip away at the issues that make up the small details of our existence.
I think people have a right to complain even though Hotmail is "free." It isn't actually free though, you pay for it by viewing advertisements, etc. And getting a ton of junkmail. I know you can set the junkmail filter to high, but then I only get mail from people on my list, so if someone sends from an alternate email or one I have not gotten mail from before I don't get it. And the setting for medium it says "most junkmail is caught" is kind of wrong, you still get a ton.
But I guess my point is that just because you do not pay any money for something doesn't mean it is "free."
It is a tricky situation. Although I do nt agree with the laws on the whole, if someone is doing something wrong, exploiting the laws of a certain country, they should be able to be somehow held accountable. I am not sure which countries around the world you can be extradited from. Does anyone know this? Does the US have the right to goand get people from Australia, do we have the approval of the Au govn't to get him?
I read something else about a method of encryption that uses photons that get shot from one point to another, and filtered in some manner, so that the receiver can tell if someone else has filtered them because they will not look the same. Have you heard about that?
Then ours is a sham, think about CLearchannel, who owns almost all of the radio stations, and the one r two companies who control cmost of the media, and the executives from them that golf with our president.....you only hear what they want heard. Howard Stern was taken off of the air in 6 cities and fined because of some caller that said a racial slur on the air, which was not Howards fault but the editor's fault for not catching it in the buffer between real time and the time when it hits peoples radio's. But due to his ati-Bush attitude, believe he was hassled and removed temporarily, and is now organizing a "Do not vote for Bush" type thing.
128 Bit encyption is nearly impossible to break. I think I read in a cryptography book that it would take all of the current computers longer than the universe has existed to crack it.
As some of you know the RSA encryption is done using prime number factoring, somethingt for which there is no pattern. Prime numbers follow no pattern. So if you use 128 to the 1000'th power and then try to figure out what two Prime numbers were multiplied to get that, a computer has no way of figuring it out quickly, it has to actually check each possible combination of numbers until it gets it, which is an insanely long amount of time, even with the combined powers of all of the worlds machines.
The only threat to this is Quantum Compuing, in which a computer would not view tasks in a line, but as a whole, like one big process. So it could check every possible combination at once, instead of running through them all. But that is very questionable and obscure stuff that may never even be possible, just theories.:) So yes, I do believe that 128 bit is safe.
I guess what I meant by original was not that I played video games since the very dawn of their creation, but all most of my childhood memories were spent gaming. Have always loved it. A,B,A,C,A,B,B. 4-Life
Sheesh. So I ranted a little bit. I do admit to having a biased opinion due to great experiences with the Xbox and the PC. I do own a Gamecube and a PS2. I will admit to not playing the gamecube hardly at all. I bought and tried Super Smash Brothers Melee, Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2, MP series, Resident Evil, etc. Just don't like it. Don't like the controller, or the games, or the lack of good Online with it. I am a hard core shooter junky, and my reviews of things tend to show my bias towards online shooters as being the "best" games to play. I know they don't suit every gamer and some people take great joy in the one player world.
I know every game is plagued with cheating, but after the absolutely horrid reports of the invisibility cheat for SOCOM I was kind of skeptical about the PS2's ability to deliver solid online performance. I also am huge into graphics, they are a HUGE part of a game for me. I crave graphics, and online play in shooters. So the Xbox and PC are obviously my platforms of choice. Sorry if my post seemed really biased, just the honest rant of a bored-at-work gamer.:)
Breaking your arm playing AIR hockey...lol. That's hilarious. I bet he feels about as bad ass as the guy who was put in prison today for secretly smuggling rare Orchids into the country from Mexico. (one prison inmate to the other...)"what are you in for man?" "I strangled 3 guys with my bare hands, what about you." "I was caught smuggling rare flowers into the country." lmao.
Yeah we will forever be making fun of my friend for breaking his wrist playing Golden Tee.
Exactly. I am an original gamer, raisen on the NES, I am 24 now. I will not be satisfied until games look "REAL", with no exceptions, plain and simple high resolution just like TV or a Movie real! In every aspect. I would also like ot see games that you strap into and make you think you are in a certain place or something kind of like "The Matrix" where you feel like you are walking/running, etc, but in reality you are just laying there. But those are long term achievments that I look forward to.
For now I would like ot see the gaming industry focus all of it's energy on Online play. I don't know about the rest of you hardcore gamers, but I have NO sense of accomplishment and no reward if I am not playing against another living human being. Even if I never won a single game of anything or fragged a single person I would rather be in the Online arena than playing with myself....lol, yes I know that sounds funny.
And there was just an article on cnn.com Found here that states that the ratings for prime time television are lacking because men from 20-30 are playing video games during the evening hours. They state various sources and studies to prove these statistics. And also I have read various articles about the Video game industry having record years lately and even out grossing the film industry.
With our lives getting more and more complex, we will all be seeking that escape from our McLives....gaming will never die.:)
I work for Sprint and the policy on number portability is this:
You can move to a different state and port your number over to Sprint and keep your same area code and number.....however.....you are limited to the services and plans that are available in the area that your number is from. That is the only glitch with it. So if you see a plan you like it may only be available in certain states, etc. And when you move you may not be able to have that exact promotion, you have to stick to the ones that are available in the area code of your phone.
Occasionally there is a number porting nightmare where it just doesn't get ported right for some reason and take hours of phone calls and bill after bill to get it straightened out, but most often customers leave the stores and the number ports in a matter of hours and everyone is happy. Hope this helps.
Hmmm.. that really was a bad example. But do they really need to make more money off of SMB 3? The game came out what, like 15 years ago? 12 to 15 years I think. And I bet they are charging $29.99 for it too, and they wonder why people want to download it if they can. But that is besides the point.
I don't know what exactly I think is right and or fair, but it just seems odd to sue someone over downloading a ROM of a super old game.
Well, the PC is the most customizable, upgradable, and has the most potential for online speeds, graphics, different controler options, customizable controls, faster patching of games, more games available, games stay around longer, more online players, more servers, faster servers, bigger online communities for each game, etc.
Consoles have their place, and I love and respect them, but they just cannot compete with the gaming power that a PC is capable of.
I don't understand the motivation behind all of that. Wouldn't the lawsuits and trying to prove someone was emulating games, etc, be way more money in legal hassles than it would save them. I have tons of friends who play downloaded ROM's of old arcade games, and nintendo and genesis, etc.
Do they think that if I couldn't download a ROM of super mario brothers 3 I would go to my local Gamestop and buy an NES and get it? Please. Even if I did buy an old one they don't profit from it anyways. We built that company and gave them millions in the 1980's and 1990's. The least they can do is let our generation have some fun while we play the old games for memories once in a while on our PC's....
I should have recommended the belt sander idea to my crazy friend, who, while playing Golden Tee drunk and attempting to take a few steps back and really hit that white spinning ball as hard as he could, broke his wrist when he slammed it into the thing trying for a record drive.
The spam I hate is the ones who get things about your life right... Like if I really did email someone on my contact list called Bob H yesterday, and then I get a spam from Bob H with a subject that is called Re:. But still, as long as you don't mess with any attatchments it is alright.
Exactly, plus you can do all sorts of fun stuff. I usually charge about 2 dollars for umbrella's, and then when it starts to rain I bump it to about 15 dollars, etc. And you can drop and drag an individual fair-goer to any given point, and you can name the rides anything you want...which means endless fun. And it says the guests thoughts...... ie... "Guest 243 thought 'Mind Destryer' was too intense." lmao.
That would be a great title to let them play. Simulated theme parks which they can control and build new rides etc. Kind of like Sim City but on more of an 8th grade type level, they would love it. Click here to check it out.
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I also agree with the point about PS2 selling so well because of its backwards compatibility with PS1, and I am almost certain that Sony will make the PS3 play all PS games.
People who insist on using P2P should for sure use Kazaa Lite. :)
I will check that out for sure. I have had all consoles since NES besides an SNES and a PS2, and a few other obscure ones like 3D0, Jaguar, etc. But I unfortunately did not get ot play The Lost Levels of Mario 1. I played the original relentlessly, like almost everyone of that time did I am sure, so I will enjoy the lost levels. Thanks a lot for the suggestion and the info about Mario 2. I am sure I could have googled for the info, but I knew that there would be a knowledgable /.'er out there. lol.
One particular game that comes to mind when I think of games being scrapped or reworked and released later is Super Mario Brothers 2 for the NES console. If you notice, it doesn't look (graphics) like Super Mario Bros. 1 or 3. I read somewhere that there was a game developer/designer working on a game for Nintendo that was scrapped half way through, and they ended up using it as Super Mario Bros. 2. None of the enemies were the same, no Gumbas, etc.
I would like to think that with all of the effort and work they put into the game, they will not let it completely go to waste, maybe they will tweak it and make it a different game over time, or archive it and release it in the future.
I feel bad for the people ad artists that worked so hard to create it. Reminds me of the actors whose parts get completely cut out of movies.
I think that the most important thing to the world community as a whole should the same thing that is most important to human beings by nature.....survival.
Right now, we do not have the technology to inhabit another planet, so we need to make sure that we can protect ours to the best of our ability.
The social and economic issues that you presented are also very imoprtant, but in the end, the main priority should be the survival of all of us, that way we can continue to chip away at the issues that make up the small details of our existence.
But I guess my point is that just because you do not pay any money for something doesn't mean it is "free."
It is a tricky situation. Although I do nt agree with the laws on the whole, if someone is doing something wrong, exploiting the laws of a certain country, they should be able to be somehow held accountable. I am not sure which countries around the world you can be extradited from. Does anyone know this? Does the US have the right to goand get people from Australia, do we have the approval of the Au govn't to get him?
I say we put up a huge sign next to the Sun that says "You must be at least this big (insert huge red line) to ride this ride."
I read something else about a method of encryption that uses photons that get shot from one point to another, and filtered in some manner, so that the receiver can tell if someone else has filtered them because they will not look the same. Have you heard about that?
Then ours is a sham, think about CLearchannel, who owns almost all of the radio stations, and the one r two companies who control cmost of the media, and the executives from them that golf with our president.....you only hear what they want heard. Howard Stern was taken off of the air in 6 cities and fined because of some caller that said a racial slur on the air, which was not Howards fault but the editor's fault for not catching it in the buffer between real time and the time when it hits peoples radio's. But due to his ati-Bush attitude, believe he was hassled and removed temporarily, and is now organizing a "Do not vote for Bush" type thing.
As some of you know the RSA encryption is done using prime number factoring, somethingt for which there is no pattern. Prime numbers follow no pattern. So if you use 128 to the 1000'th power and then try to figure out what two Prime numbers were multiplied to get that, a computer has no way of figuring it out quickly, it has to actually check each possible combination of numbers until it gets it, which is an insanely long amount of time, even with the combined powers of all of the worlds machines.
The only threat to this is Quantum Compuing, in which a computer would not view tasks in a line, but as a whole, like one big process. So it could check every possible combination at once, instead of running through them all. But that is very questionable and obscure stuff that may never even be possible, just theories. :) So yes, I do believe that 128 bit is safe.
I guess what I meant by original was not that I played video games since the very dawn of their creation, but all most of my childhood memories were spent gaming. Have always loved it. A,B,A,C,A,B,B. 4-Life
I know every game is plagued with cheating, but after the absolutely horrid reports of the invisibility cheat for SOCOM I was kind of skeptical about the PS2's ability to deliver solid online performance. I also am huge into graphics, they are a HUGE part of a game for me. I crave graphics, and online play in shooters. So the Xbox and PC are obviously my platforms of choice. Sorry if my post seemed really biased, just the honest rant of a bored-at-work gamer. :)
Yeah we will forever be making fun of my friend for breaking his wrist playing Golden Tee.
For now I would like ot see the gaming industry focus all of it's energy on Online play. I don't know about the rest of you hardcore gamers, but I have NO sense of accomplishment and no reward if I am not playing against another living human being. Even if I never won a single game of anything or fragged a single person I would rather be in the Online arena than playing with myself....lol, yes I know that sounds funny.
And there was just an article on cnn.com Found here that states that the ratings for prime time television are lacking because men from 20-30 are playing video games during the evening hours. They state various sources and studies to prove these statistics. And also I have read various articles about the Video game industry having record years lately and even out grossing the film industry.
With our lives getting more and more complex, we will all be seeking that escape from our McLives....gaming will never die. :)
You can move to a different state and port your number over to Sprint and keep your same area code and number.....however.....you are limited to the services and plans that are available in the area that your number is from. That is the only glitch with it. So if you see a plan you like it may only be available in certain states, etc. And when you move you may not be able to have that exact promotion, you have to stick to the ones that are available in the area code of your phone.
Occasionally there is a number porting nightmare where it just doesn't get ported right for some reason and take hours of phone calls and bill after bill to get it straightened out, but most often customers leave the stores and the number ports in a matter of hours and everyone is happy. Hope this helps.
I don't know what exactly I think is right and or fair, but it just seems odd to sue someone over downloading a ROM of a super old game.
But then when everyone moves to where the work is, the work will move because they will find it cheaper elsewhere......
Consoles have their place, and I love and respect them, but they just cannot compete with the gaming power that a PC is capable of.
Do they think that if I couldn't download a ROM of super mario brothers 3 I would go to my local Gamestop and buy an NES and get it? Please. Even if I did buy an old one they don't profit from it anyways. We built that company and gave them millions in the 1980's and 1990's. The least they can do is let our generation have some fun while we play the old games for memories once in a while on our PC's....
I should have recommended the belt sander idea to my crazy friend, who, while playing Golden Tee drunk and attempting to take a few steps back and really hit that white spinning ball as hard as he could, broke his wrist when he slammed it into the thing trying for a record drive.
Yeah, and a huge group of Awesome Aliens partying it up on a houseboat with ton's of Miller Light would have been cool too.
The spam I hate is the ones who get things about your life right... Like if I really did email someone on my contact list called Bob H yesterday, and then I get a spam from Bob H with a subject that is called Re:. But still, as long as you don't mess with any attatchments it is alright.
Exactly, plus you can do all sorts of fun stuff. I usually charge about 2 dollars for umbrella's, and then when it starts to rain I bump it to about 15 dollars, etc. And you can drop and drag an individual fair-goer to any given point, and you can name the rides anything you want...which means endless fun. And it says the guests thoughts...... ie... "Guest 243 thought 'Mind Destryer' was too intense." lmao.
That would be a great title to let them play. Simulated theme parks which they can control and build new rides etc. Kind of like Sim City but on more of an 8th grade type level, they would love it. Click here to check it out.