Blowing isn't the answer; cleaning the contacts is. Nintendo once sold a Cleaning Kit that could be used for NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance Game Paks. Nowadays, you can just buy a small bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol and a box of cotton swabs. Wet one end and move it back and forth across both sides of the Game Pak's edge connector. Notice how much dust you picked up. Then do the same with the dry side of the swab.
You can even tell which part of the connector is dirty by how the NES misbehaves:
Blinking: CIC (Checking Integrated Circuit), far left
Blank screen: PRG (program), right half
Scrambled graphics: CHR (character textures), left half
To clean GameCube, Wii, and Wii U Game Discs, wet a washcloth and wipe in and out between the center and edge, never around.
It was once believed that renames would work. This changed in 2012. Instead, you have to change the game's rules too, and that's what Nintendo did by including Dr. Mario in this collection.
A google search shows that there's an absurd number of choices available now.
Which is part of the problem. If these apps don't federate, I could in the worst case end up needing to install a different app for each contact with whom I wish to communicate.
The Zapper relies on the 15.7 kHz horizontal scan rate of a CRT SDTV to detect light. The vast majority of HDMI displays are LCD, not CRT, and thus lack anything remotely similar for the Zapper to pick up. To work on an HDTV, the system would need to use a system similar to the Wii Remote and Sensor Bar to determine where the barrel is pointed.
You'll have to ask Blue Planet Software about that. When Nintendo first introduced Virtual Console on the original Wii, it mentioned GoldenEye and Tetris as games that would be unlikely to show up because of licensing difficulties.
Introducing fewer products at once allows a company to gauge customer interest and not have to waste as much R&D and marketing money on products that customers are likely to reject. It also shortens the time to negotiate with third-party game publishers for permission to include the game. Finally, including Mortal Kombat would cause the whole collection to be rated M by ESRB, which shuts out the market of high school underclassmen.
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is also a much more complicated game to emulate because it uses the MMC5 mapper to expand the NES's graphical capability. (I'll admit that CV3 underuses the MMC5 compared to some other games though. It was originally designed for the somewhat less complex VRC6 mapper, but Konami probably found it cheaper to use the MMC5 than to get the VRC6 certified.)
It's not quite the same, but if you have a Wii or Wii U, you can connect one of these controllers to a Wii Remote and use it with Virtual Console games or other games that support the Classic Controller and don't need X, Y, or the shoulder buttons.
Even tiny computers these days are powerful enough that they could run these games in an emulator running inside another emulator.
I can confirm that that's possible on any system capable of emulating Game Boy Advance, all the way back to an 866 MHz Pentium III PC running PocketNES in VisualBoyAdvance (VBA). But I haven't had a chance to confirm PocketNES in VBA GX in Dolphin.
I see no cognitive dissonance. "Open Media Alliance" is for amateur video and ad-supported video, and "Enhanced Content Protection" is for subscription video.
Security for who? Not for the people actually making content
It's for the studios that pay the wages* of "the people actually making content". If a studio wanted to allow Netflix to stream one of its films or TV series in 1080p without needing Edge, it could choose not to include a Protected Media Path requirement in its license of the film to Netflix. Reportedly some Netflix original series are this way.
* An hourly rate is harder to depress with "Hollywood accounting" than a percentage.
The PlayReady DRM system is documented. It's also documented that any entity implementing it must pay beaucoup bucks for certification to get a player key.
My point was that smartphones & mobile data are so cheap that it's a non-issue.
Cellular data might not be "so cheap that it's a non-issue" if your work involves making changes to files several megabytes in size. How many GB per month are you talking? And even then, you still have to issue smartphones to employees and manage them or, if you rely on BYOD, include a phone and plan stipend in their pay.
Coincidentally I pay about the same (when converted to USD 'cause our currency is weak atm) on my prepaid smartphone for 75 voice minutes + 750MB data per month
The North American cellular market is notorious for being far more cartel-like than that of, say, mainland Europe. Is there a solution, short of firing all your U.S. employees and moving your headquarters to Europe?
If your intention is to force content providers to assume infringement unless proven otherwise, you've probably just killed YouTube
Unless the big labels and TV networks want to kill YouTube and drive those bored by its absence to video sites operated by record labels and TV networks, such as VEVO, Hulu, and CBS All Access.
For you to own the copyright on your own creative works, you are required to do literally nothing.
This is true except in one case: "protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully." (17 USC 103(a)) When George Harrison wrote the song "My Sweet Lord", he unwittingly "used unlawfully" a portion of the song "He's So Fine" written by Ronald Mack and lost a million dollar lawsuit over it. Another way in which a work can be accidentally "used unlawfully" is a claim of fair use pursuant to section 107 that a copyright owner disputes, such as the Harry Potter Lexicon case.
Haunted: Halloween '85 is a video game published by Retrotainment Games in October 2015. It didn't need a time machine any more than Capcom needed one for the shoot-em-up 1942 (1984) or that DICE needed one to produce Battlefield 1942 (2002).
If your business model is such that you can't monitor everything, then YOU NEED TO FIX your business model.
Just to be absolutely clear: Are you referring to requirements under current copyright law, or are you suggesting changing the law? If the former, then what invalidates YouTube's defense under OCILLA (17 USC 512)? Citation please.
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Blowing isn't the answer; cleaning the contacts is. Nintendo once sold a Cleaning Kit that could be used for NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance Game Paks. Nowadays, you can just buy a small bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol and a box of cotton swabs. Wet one end and move it back and forth across both sides of the Game Pak's edge connector. Notice how much dust you picked up. Then do the same with the dry side of the swab.
You can even tell which part of the connector is dirty by how the NES misbehaves:
To clean GameCube, Wii, and Wii U Game Discs, wet a washcloth and wipe in and out between the center and edge, never around.
Nintendo probably doesn't want to cannibalize sales of its current console that uses the pointing technolgy (Wii U). And the controller itself isn't necessarily cheap. Nintendo charges in the neighborhood of $35 for a Wii Remote Plus, plus whatever two clusters of IR LEDs on a stick would cost.
It was once believed that renames would work. This changed in 2012. Instead, you have to change the game's rules too, and that's what Nintendo did by including Dr. Mario in this collection.
A google search shows that there's an absurd number of choices available now.
Which is part of the problem. If these apps don't federate, I could in the worst case end up needing to install a different app for each contact with whom I wish to communicate.
There are $20 smartphones now. They won't be fast, but they'll run WhatsApp just fine.
Thank you. I was afraid that cheap phones would be stuck on an Android version too old for WhatsApp.
The Zapper relies on the 15.7 kHz horizontal scan rate of a CRT SDTV to detect light. The vast majority of HDMI displays are LCD, not CRT, and thus lack anything remotely similar for the Zapper to pick up. To work on an HDTV, the system would need to use a system similar to the Wii Remote and Sensor Bar to determine where the barrel is pointed.
You'll have to ask Blue Planet Software about that. When Nintendo first introduced Virtual Console on the original Wii, it mentioned GoldenEye and Tetris as games that would be unlikely to show up because of licensing difficulties.
Introducing fewer products at once allows a company to gauge customer interest and not have to waste as much R&D and marketing money on products that customers are likely to reject. It also shortens the time to negotiate with third-party game publishers for permission to include the game. Finally, including Mortal Kombat would cause the whole collection to be rated M by ESRB, which shuts out the market of high school underclassmen.
The connector is the same as that of a Wii Classic Controller (RVL-005), which is shaped somewhat similarly to the NES-039.
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is also a much more complicated game to emulate because it uses the MMC5 mapper to expand the NES's graphical capability. (I'll admit that CV3 underuses the MMC5 compared to some other games though. It was originally designed for the somewhat less complex VRC6 mapper, but Konami probably found it cheaper to use the MMC5 than to get the VRC6 certified.)
It's not quite the same, but if you have a Wii or Wii U, you can connect one of these controllers to a Wii Remote and use it with Virtual Console games or other games that support the Classic Controller and don't need X, Y, or the shoulder buttons.
Even tiny computers these days are powerful enough that they could run these games in an emulator running inside another emulator.
I can confirm that that's possible on any system capable of emulating Game Boy Advance, all the way back to an 866 MHz Pentium III PC running PocketNES in VisualBoyAdvance (VBA). But I haven't had a chance to confirm PocketNES in VBA GX in Dolphin.
Is it available on DVD from a local DVD rental shop?
Then obtain it from one of Netflix's competitors that operates in your region.
Both Edge and the Netflix UWP app are qualifying for a particular security level of PlayReady DRM, and other browsers aren't.
I see no cognitive dissonance. "Open Media Alliance" is for amateur video and ad-supported video, and "Enhanced Content Protection" is for subscription video.
Security for who? Not for the people actually making content
It's for the studios that pay the wages* of "the people actually making content". If a studio wanted to allow Netflix to stream one of its films or TV series in 1080p without needing Edge, it could choose not to include a Protected Media Path requirement in its license of the film to Netflix. Reportedly some Netflix original series are this way.
* An hourly rate is harder to depress with "Hollywood accounting" than a percentage.
So where is the link to download and install Edge for my Android device? Or my friends iPhone?
I assume the Netflix app for these platforms uses the platforms's native DRM.
My customer's Mac?
Edge for Mac
or my neckbeard brother's Linux box?
Edge for Linux
The PlayReady DRM system is documented. It's also documented that any entity implementing it must pay beaucoup bucks for certification to get a player key.
Then try this movie: Coming to America
My point was that smartphones & mobile data are so cheap that it's a non-issue.
Cellular data might not be "so cheap that it's a non-issue" if your work involves making changes to files several megabytes in size. How many GB per month are you talking? And even then, you still have to issue smartphones to employees and manage them or, if you rely on BYOD, include a phone and plan stipend in their pay.
Coincidentally I pay about the same (when converted to USD 'cause our currency is weak atm) on my prepaid smartphone for 75 voice minutes + 750MB data per month
The North American cellular market is notorious for being far more cartel-like than that of, say, mainland Europe. Is there a solution, short of firing all your U.S. employees and moving your headquarters to Europe?
receiving calls & SMS is always free
True of Europe, false of North America.
If your intention is to force content providers to assume infringement unless proven otherwise, you've probably just killed YouTube
Unless the big labels and TV networks want to kill YouTube and drive those bored by its absence to video sites operated by record labels and TV networks, such as VEVO, Hulu, and CBS All Access.
For you to own the copyright on your own creative works, you are required to do literally nothing.
This is true except in one case: "protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully." (17 USC 103(a)) When George Harrison wrote the song "My Sweet Lord", he unwittingly "used unlawfully" a portion of the song "He's So Fine" written by Ronald Mack and lost a million dollar lawsuit over it. Another way in which a work can be accidentally "used unlawfully" is a claim of fair use pursuant to section 107 that a copyright owner disputes, such as the Harry Potter Lexicon case.
Haunted: Halloween '85 is a video game published by Retrotainment Games in October 2015. It didn't need a time machine any more than Capcom needed one for the shoot-em-up 1942 (1984) or that DICE needed one to produce Battlefield 1942 (2002).
If your business model is such that you can't monitor everything, then YOU NEED TO FIX your business model.
Just to be absolutely clear: Are you referring to requirements under current copyright law, or are you suggesting changing the law? If the former, then what invalidates YouTube's defense under OCILLA (17 USC 512)? Citation please.