Considering that some (all?) RPG systems punish you for not staying true to your role I'd say complete freedom of choice shouldn't be part of an RPG either.
And the others you mention involve add-on modules, which isn't really system backwards compatibility.
The XC requires the harddrive for playing XB titles...
That adapter for the Mega Drive could be ommitted if you casemodded the system instead, AFAIK the MD itself provided the backwards compatibility but the cart slot was not compatible.
Not just that. The MHz numbers make no sense either, I don't think going for an integer multiple of the GC's specs there would have cost much and it'd make cycle-perfect execution of GC games easier. The DS's ARM7 CPU that plays the GBA games has exactly 2x the clock frequency of the GBA.
1. Get a beer 2. Drink 3. Get another beer 4. Drink 5. Drink a few more beers 6. Try playing Everquest drunk 7. Piss your guildmates off until you have no friends left in the game 8. Accidentally trade your entire high-level gear for two healing items 9. Get angry at computer and break it 10. File class action lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment to get your items and computer replaced 11. ??? 12. Profit
You seem to be missing the point. A leech doesn't write new works. If I want to see a new movie, I'm going to give my money to someone who can produce a new movie; I'm not going to buy an old movie at the burned DVD shop down the road and expect it to magically become new.
No but most people will see that a new movie is released and head down to the burned DVD shop and grab their cheap copy there.
It's simple: Consumers want to see new works written and are willing to spend money to further that goal.
I don't think the vast majority gives a fuck about who gets their money and what that means for the future. Hell, even corporations have trouble thinking that far ahead! Consumers don't care about what buying from Walmart instead of Mom&Pop stores means for the retail market, why should they care here?
Remember, "leeches" can only make copies of something that's been written. They can't compete with an artist who actually produces new works, unless that artist chooses to enter the copying market himself. If, however, he stays in the business of writing new works, and charges for his effort and time rather than for files or plastic discs, he only has to worry about competing with other artists who can write better works or charge less for their effort.
Well, if that artist is content working for months on a piece and selling only one of it, so be it. I hear that works for painters. Question is of course if people are going to pay 10000$ for a music CD or a book (which of course the leeches wouldn't have copied yet since the only copy of it exists in the writer's property). If only one copy is sold it's easier for that copy to get lost or damaged before it can be duplicated (e.g. because the new owner wants to keep it his status symbol). If you start making copies after the original sold, who'd pay the price for the original if the copy costs less than one thousandth of the original's pricetag?
And one would assume that the industry would generally follow the lead of the publisher... generally.
MS tried the same, first party games as 50 and we know how it ended. OTOH Nintendo is a much stronger competitor for anyone who would dare to release a game a 60$, in fact they pretty much destroy all other games published on their platform, no matter what the pricepoint is.
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Considering that some (all?) RPG systems punish you for not staying true to your role I'd say complete freedom of choice shouldn't be part of an RPG either.
They still don't work in Opera but show up when I throw them at Photoshop...
Yes but outside of Oblivion there haven't been many newsworthy XC games lately.
And the others you mention involve add-on modules, which isn't really system backwards compatibility.
The XC requires the harddrive for playing XB titles...
That adapter for the Mega Drive could be ommitted if you casemodded the system instead, AFAIK the MD itself provided the backwards compatibility but the cart slot was not compatible.
So you get that number by counting all titles for each region they were released in?
Not just that. The MHz numbers make no sense either, I don't think going for an integer multiple of the GC's specs there would have cost much and it'd make cycle-perfect execution of GC games easier. The DS's ARM7 CPU that plays the GBA games has exactly 2x the clock frequency of the GBA.
They're a japanese company, I wouldn't be so sure about that.
I don't want to know what they'd call a brothel...
Wouldn't that be "liberal zealot mode"? Well, okay, that's pretty close to right-wing but anyway.
Sounds good but can the average citizen get his hands on anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry?
Yep. He's confusing that with the StaSi. The guys that made sure that in Soviet Germany, the party comes to YOU.
Cool. Now can you verify what happens with a hamster in the microwave?
It's easy to tell: If they think it's helicopters they're loonies, if they think it's planes they're sane :p.
Those aren't any fun until you mention the second part: laser-guided missiles.
1. Get a beer
2. Drink
3. Get another beer
4. Drink
5. Drink a few more beers
6. Try playing Everquest drunk
7. Piss your guildmates off until you have no friends left in the game
8. Accidentally trade your entire high-level gear for two healing items
9. Get angry at computer and break it
10. File class action lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment to get your items and computer replaced
11. ???
12. Profit
The screenshots aren't showing (says "0 bits per pixel") for the games :(.
Usually all licensees are under NDAs, leaking information would be breach of contract and releasing trade secrets.
Hudson is responsible for Mario Party. Is there anything they don't milk?
The Gameboy was smaller than the Gamegear so calling it "brick" in a comparison doesn't make sense.
Nintendo thinks that an adult can play any game, they think only kids can't play all games because they shouldn't play violent games.
We're not expecting you to subscribe, just to get an account. Subscribing costs money, an account doesn't.
and my mates and I had some imagination that we could relive our childhoods via internet play of goldeneye.
I've heard that Timesplitters is a suitable substitute.
You seem to be missing the point. A leech doesn't write new works. If I want to see a new movie, I'm going to give my money to someone who can produce a new movie; I'm not going to buy an old movie at the burned DVD shop down the road and expect it to magically become new.
No but most people will see that a new movie is released and head down to the burned DVD shop and grab their cheap copy there.
It's simple: Consumers want to see new works written and are willing to spend money to further that goal.
I don't think the vast majority gives a fuck about who gets their money and what that means for the future. Hell, even corporations have trouble thinking that far ahead! Consumers don't care about what buying from Walmart instead of Mom&Pop stores means for the retail market, why should they care here?
Remember, "leeches" can only make copies of something that's been written. They can't compete with an artist who actually produces new works, unless that artist chooses to enter the copying market himself. If, however, he stays in the business of writing new works, and charges for his effort and time rather than for files or plastic discs, he only has to worry about competing with other artists who can write better works or charge less for their effort.
Well, if that artist is content working for months on a piece and selling only one of it, so be it. I hear that works for painters. Question is of course if people are going to pay 10000$ for a music CD or a book (which of course the leeches wouldn't have copied yet since the only copy of it exists in the writer's property). If only one copy is sold it's easier for that copy to get lost or damaged before it can be duplicated (e.g. because the new owner wants to keep it his status symbol). If you start making copies after the original sold, who'd pay the price for the original if the copy costs less than one thousandth of the original's pricetag?
And one would assume that the industry would generally follow the lead of the publisher... generally.
MS tried the same, first party games as 50 and we know how it ended. OTOH Nintendo is a much stronger competitor for anyone who would dare to release a game a 60$, in fact they pretty much destroy all other games published on their platform, no matter what the pricepoint is.
He was talking about the children.