As I understand it, yes, that's perfectly normal in wetware auctions, too. You don't want that priceless Van Gogh to go for whatever the clueless yokels who showed up at Sotheby's that particular day were willing to bid on it.
And when was the last time that eBay was good for _deals_? Idiots bidding over street price has been common for _years_.
From what I've seen the game inclusive bundles (versus the Value Pack bundle) are pretty much an internet-only phenomenon. There are a lot of places out in the Big Blue Room that'll sell it to you naked.
And on the value pack, the memory stick duo+cleaning cloth are _completely_ worth the $50 markup. The internet seems to have completely sold out of usefully-sized MSDuo media, and the cleaning cloth, maaaan. Once you have one and realize how incredibly sexy it looks, you'll be wiping fingerprints off of it mid-game. It's _weird_ like that.
When Sony released the HDD, one of the updates is a service patch that makes unofficial discs like everything that Datel uses take about six times longer to launch.
Legitimate games take 20 seconds. The AR MAX takes 120. Take out the drive, and the AR MAX takes around 20 again.
But if you ask Datel about this, they say "oh no, there's no problem, it works fine, you're obviously imagining things."
I wonder if this update does anything for that. Lord knows you can't conveniently remove the HDD every time you don't want to use it, and a 2 minute boot is obscene, especially since the codes are kinda still crashy. Bleah. Hopefully there's an update program.:)
If I had to guess from the video, you could make very servicable control surfaces out of the V pylons connecting the nacelles to the engineering section. It'd help with the balance to throw servos back there, anyway.
Yeah, after I put massive compilations onto my iPod, I go through and change the artist/album to something simple like "DDR Album" and "DDR Artist". Yeah, I can't tell who did any particular track, but I'm not really caring.
Except Next Generation had, as I remember, _laminated_ covers. I remember accidentally knocking a drink onto one and being pissed that I wrecked it, when it just needed to be wiped off. They had plans, I know they did.;)
I wish I hadn't thrown away my issues, that was a fun point in time, gaming-wise.
For whatever reason, Nintendo decided not to implement the standard wired communications protocol through the wireless adaptor, so only games that are _designed_ for wireless will work. Brilliant, I know. I mean, the wired link is a nasty little interrupt based hodgepodge and not very friendly at all, but *supposedly* the same bright guys that brought you the Afterburner frontlight kit for the original GBA figured out how to make a functional wireless adaptor that actually works with existing linkable games. It just doesn't seem like it'll see the light of day.
So yeah, the new Pokemon games and a couple of the famicon mini games support the new wireless adaptor, but other than that, bupkis.
And FF:CC singleplayer actually does use the GBA. No, it's true! That's where your map goes. And lemme tell ya, those gorgeous levels aren't exactly obvious about what's a valid path or not.
Yeah, it's silly, but I guess they figured every SP player would meet the MP requirements. Where _are_ all you GCN owners without GBAs coming from?:)
The best place, bar none, to go is Build Your Own Arcade Controls. Hint: Happ is spendy. Consider Imperial/Betson. Google for them, and you can find TBs for $30-ish. Oscar Controls Sells a nice TB Harness->USB adaptor for around $12.
Now, can you use a circular saw without losing important bodily appendages? _that's_ the real trick, you bet.
I am kinda surprised that nobody has released an immersive HMD _yet_. I mean, I was always under the impression back inna day that the problem was pushing 2x the polygons, not the HMD. You can't tell me that modern video cards and computers can't push a reasonable frame rate at 800x600 times two. Or was that just that dude with dreadlocks' dream, and the HMD was equally distant? Or is it out there, hanging on to the fringe? (And I'm interested in tracking HMDs, not static or shuttered HMDs..)
I'm under the impression from the various 3rd party reviews I've seen that the only knockoffs that have the cheaper foam are the ebay 2-for-$35 semisofts and the cheaper levelsix models, but the L6 3.1 and the BNS DX-Ultra are both the relative equal of the RO.
And doesn't the RO hardpad still need ter's MMB fixes to keep it from croaking eventually?
Baby wipes. No, I'm not kidding. It's like a shower in a box. Get to work, wipe the grit off, apply more deodorant, and you're fine. Works like a charm for me on my 10 mile commute. I _think_ it's because in the morning, after your morning shower, you're already fresh and clean and by wiping off the sweat as soon as you can it doesn't have a chance to get stinky.
The biggest downside is having a tub labelled Huggies in your desk. They've started making non-baby themed wipes, but last I saw they were also more expensive.
The other big hitch is clothing if you work somewhere that's concerned about that sort of thing. There are various ways around this, too, if you're willing.
Yeah, I'm planning on putting the money aside for either a RO hardpad (and fixing it before it fails) or a CF, rather than pissing away $50 per shot on the softpads. But through a shipping fluke, I find myself in posession of 3 softpads, and I don't have enough space for doubles, so I should have the softpads for a while yet. I figure if 6 months from now I'm still dancing for 45-60 minutes per day, $299 is cheap for a CF.
($90 _was_ cheap for a pair of semisofts, considering I was in the middle of a MAME Cab upgrade orgy.)
Funny, I started doing the same thing just recently after I found out how much it made my pasty overweight geek ass sweat while playing it at a friend's house. Too soon to tell if I'll lose any weight, but eh, it's fun, it's relatively easy, and it does get the heart rate up, if nothing else. If the $99 RedOctane DDR pads are too spendy for you, Buy N Shop or Level Six both sell knockoffs for half the price, and they're identical, from reviews.
More information at Stepmania - even more if they ever get their board back from ddrmaniax.
I actually have the PSX one, it's kinda hit and miss. The balance isn't quite right so you always feel like you're fighting with it. They have _also_ made an analog one for the PS2. Lik-Sang should have it.
And what always gets me, and I mean _always_ gets me is that I'm more than willing to pop the $20-ish on a DVD that I'll watch maybe twice, but spending $15 on a CD that I'll listen to a million times seems spendy. This isn't a flame at you - it's actually something that I've noticed about myself, and I can't explain it.
Mainly by spinning up as little as absolutely possible. There's some inconsequential padding which is more to prevent rattles than anything else. I suspect, but I do not know (not being a total geek) that portable-sized drives have some kind of accelerometer like device that judges if a shock will cause a head crash, and parks the heads before it can, but that might just be totally wishful thinking.
Wait, I think this has been totally missed - what PDA has a user replacable battery? Like that I could just go down to the local PDA Hut at the mall and pick up a spare or two or three for the next time I go off into BFE for a month or four. I'll admit to being slightly out of this loop, but I've never particularly _noticed_ 'em floating around.
Cellphones I'll grant. But what sorta consumer numbers are there for cellphones versus iPods? As ubiquitous as iPods are, I don't think they even dent cellphone numbers.
pssssst - it doesn't matter. If you can't nick the batteries out of your portable pocket joy rocket when your music device finally winds down, it's simply NOT WORTH HAVING. Who cares if user replacable batteries inevitably make a device unusually shaped and generally larger than it would otherwise be - you will need to change batteries when you're in Southern Mongolia looking at the colorful natives while totally rocking out to the latest Crystal Method album! PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT! WAYNES WORLD WAYNES WORLD!
I hope you don't call yourself a geek. The average lifestyle burden includes getting home at night and taking your cellphone, GBA SP, iPod, laptop, and PDA out to charge overnight. It's like a little religious ritual with a shrine and everything.
Most places I go on vacation have this thing called e-lec-tric-ity. So does your office. If you're planning on hiking Everest, no, the iPod probably isn't for you. If you're like 95+% of vacationers though, this is a BS argument.
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As I understand it, yes, that's perfectly normal in wetware auctions, too. You don't want that priceless Van Gogh to go for whatever the clueless yokels who showed up at Sotheby's that particular day were willing to bid on it.
And when was the last time that eBay was good for _deals_? Idiots bidding over street price has been common for _years_.
From what I've seen the game inclusive bundles (versus the Value Pack bundle) are pretty much an internet-only phenomenon. There are a lot of places out in the Big Blue Room that'll sell it to you naked.
And on the value pack, the memory stick duo+cleaning cloth are _completely_ worth the $50 markup. The internet seems to have completely sold out of usefully-sized MSDuo media, and the cleaning cloth, maaaan. Once you have one and realize how incredibly sexy it looks, you'll be wiping fingerprints off of it mid-game. It's _weird_ like that.
When Sony released the HDD, one of the updates is a service patch that makes unofficial discs like everything that Datel uses take about six times longer to launch.
:)
Legitimate games take 20 seconds. The AR MAX takes 120. Take out the drive, and the AR MAX takes around 20 again.
But if you ask Datel about this, they say "oh no, there's no problem, it works fine, you're obviously imagining things."
I wonder if this update does anything for that. Lord knows you can't conveniently remove the HDD every time you don't want to use it, and a 2 minute boot is obscene, especially since the codes are kinda still crashy. Bleah. Hopefully there's an update program.
If I had to guess from the video, you could make very servicable control surfaces out of the V pylons connecting the nacelles to the engineering section. It'd help with the balance to throw servos back there, anyway.
Yeah, after I put massive compilations onto my iPod, I go through and change the artist/album to something simple like "DDR Album" and "DDR Artist". Yeah, I can't tell who did any particular track, but I'm not really caring.
Canadian social disease?
That's a hefty looking chopper - any word on how big it is? Or is it just a perspective thing because of the ginormous landing skids?
Except Next Generation had, as I remember, _laminated_ covers. I remember accidentally knocking a drink onto one and being pissed that I wrecked it, when it just needed to be wiped off. They had plans, I know they did. ;)
I wish I hadn't thrown away my issues, that was a fun point in time, gaming-wise.
For whatever reason, Nintendo decided not to implement the standard wired communications protocol through the wireless adaptor, so only games that are _designed_ for wireless will work. Brilliant, I know. I mean, the wired link is a nasty little interrupt based hodgepodge and not very friendly at all, but *supposedly* the same bright guys that brought you the Afterburner frontlight kit for the original GBA figured out how to make a functional wireless adaptor that actually works with existing linkable games. It just doesn't seem like it'll see the light of day.
So yeah, the new Pokemon games and a couple of the famicon mini games support the new wireless adaptor, but other than that, bupkis.
And FF:CC singleplayer actually does use the GBA. No, it's true! That's where your map goes. And lemme tell ya, those gorgeous levels aren't exactly obvious about what's a valid path or not.
:)
Yeah, it's silly, but I guess they figured every SP player would meet the MP requirements. Where _are_ all you GCN owners without GBAs coming from?
The best place, bar none, to go is Build Your Own Arcade Controls. Hint: Happ is spendy. Consider Imperial/Betson. Google for them, and you can find TBs for $30-ish. Oscar Controls Sells a nice TB Harness->USB adaptor for around $12.
Now, can you use a circular saw without losing important bodily appendages? _that's_ the real trick, you bet.
I am kinda surprised that nobody has released an immersive HMD _yet_. I mean, I was always under the impression back inna day that the problem was pushing 2x the polygons, not the HMD. You can't tell me that modern video cards and computers can't push a reasonable frame rate at 800x600 times two. Or was that just that dude with dreadlocks' dream, and the HMD was equally distant? Or is it out there, hanging on to the fringe? (And I'm interested in tracking HMDs, not static or shuttered HMDs..)
I'm under the impression from the various 3rd party reviews I've seen that the only knockoffs that have the cheaper foam are the ebay 2-for-$35 semisofts and the cheaper levelsix models, but the L6 3.1 and the BNS DX-Ultra are both the relative equal of the RO.
And doesn't the RO hardpad still need ter's MMB fixes to keep it from croaking eventually?
Baby wipes. No, I'm not kidding. It's like a shower in a box. Get to work, wipe the grit off, apply more deodorant, and you're fine. Works like a charm for me on my 10 mile commute. I _think_ it's because in the morning, after your morning shower, you're already fresh and clean and by wiping off the sweat as soon as you can it doesn't have a chance to get stinky.
The biggest downside is having a tub labelled Huggies in your desk. They've started making non-baby themed wipes, but last I saw they were also more expensive.
The other big hitch is clothing if you work somewhere that's concerned about that sort of thing. There are various ways around this, too, if you're willing.
Yeah, I'm planning on putting the money aside for either a RO hardpad (and fixing it before it fails) or a CF, rather than pissing away $50 per shot on the softpads. But through a shipping fluke, I find myself in posession of 3 softpads, and I don't have enough space for doubles, so I should have the softpads for a while yet. I figure if 6 months from now I'm still dancing for 45-60 minutes per day, $299 is cheap for a CF.
($90 _was_ cheap for a pair of semisofts, considering I was in the middle of a MAME Cab upgrade orgy.)
The most expensive home equipment is the CobaltFlux hard pad, cheap at only $299 per, or $580 for 2!
(And I'm actually considering one. *sigh*)
More information at Stepmania - even more if they ever get their board back from ddrmaniax.
I actually have the PSX one, it's kinda hit and miss. The balance isn't quite right so you always feel like you're fighting with it. They have _also_ made an analog one for the PS2. Lik-Sang should have it.
And what always gets me, and I mean _always_ gets me is that I'm more than willing to pop the $20-ish on a DVD that I'll watch maybe twice, but spending $15 on a CD that I'll listen to a million times seems spendy. This isn't a flame at you - it's actually something that I've noticed about myself, and I can't explain it.
Mainly by spinning up as little as absolutely possible. There's some inconsequential padding which is more to prevent rattles than anything else. I suspect, but I do not know (not being a total geek) that portable-sized drives have some kind of accelerometer like device that judges if a shock will cause a head crash, and parks the heads before it can, but that might just be totally wishful thinking.
Wait, I think this has been totally missed - what PDA has a user replacable battery? Like that I could just go down to the local PDA Hut at the mall and pick up a spare or two or three for the next time I go off into BFE for a month or four. I'll admit to being slightly out of this loop, but I've never particularly _noticed_ 'em floating around.
Cellphones I'll grant. But what sorta consumer numbers are there for cellphones versus iPods? As ubiquitous as iPods are, I don't think they even dent cellphone numbers.
Um. So you know about ipodbattery.com. So you know that they, like, _are_ user replacable, right? WARNING DOES NOT COMPUTE!
pssssst - it doesn't matter. If you can't nick the batteries out of your portable pocket joy rocket when your music device finally winds down, it's simply NOT WORTH HAVING. Who cares if user replacable batteries inevitably make a device unusually shaped and generally larger than it would otherwise be - you will need to change batteries when you're in Southern Mongolia looking at the colorful natives while totally rocking out to the latest Crystal Method album! PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT! WAYNES WORLD WAYNES WORLD!
I hope you don't call yourself a geek. The average lifestyle burden includes getting home at night and taking your cellphone, GBA SP, iPod, laptop, and PDA out to charge overnight. It's like a little religious ritual with a shrine and everything.
Most places I go on vacation have this thing called e-lec-tric-ity. So does your office. If you're planning on hiking Everest, no, the iPod probably isn't for you. If you're like 95+% of vacationers though, this is a BS argument.