You can do what you want with it. It's not Sony's problem if you don't know how. My microwave didn't come with instructions on how to convert it into a raygun, should I complain that I can't make a raygun out of my own hardware?
The 40 Euro pricetag looks even worse when you place the game next to Castlevania DoS, which costs 35 Euros and is probably the best game available on the system.
I played it for a few hours, only made it out of the starting dungeon and cleared the circus but I stopped playing for some reason or another. I played that starting dungeon at least ten times because i couldn't decide on a class to use.
Guess buying it for the promised "200 hours of gameplay!" is rather pointless if you don't have the willpower to finish a game once it becomes open-ended. Fallout, too. Dabbled a bit with it but never got anywhere.
I still think that if the firmware can tell it where the framebuffer* is, it can just as well tell it where the A and B buttons are. It may be hard to make it do that NOW but it would certainly have been possible when the device was designed.
*=Framebuffer? I thought these things were line buffered?
I've played four player games on one PC, it just requires two gamepads (usually two people can use the keyboard though I think we played Clonk 4 wih three people on the KB and one on the gamepad). Sure, having two gamepads is rare but is it really any less common than a modified console that'll run homebrew stuff?
I don't have any sales numbers but the japanese indy scene keeps producting four-player-one-PC games (usually inspired by SSBM...) so there seems to be at least some demand for that.
The other theory is that Link is supposed to be the mirror image of the player. Personally I consider the Link==Miyamoto equation more likely. Miyamoto went on the record saying that if Link were to talk in a Zelda game, he'd do the voice work for him.
That's all fine and dandy except that falls within the 5% (and I think that's highly generous) of homebrew users. Most people will just download isos from some 0-day warez site and play them on their system, completely ignoring all the homebrew software out there. And the few people enjoying homebrew don't make up for the much larger number of people warezing commercial games. Sure, the PSP didn't run pirated PSP games yet AFAIK but it runs emulated games, some of which (GBA, for example) are still being made and sold so "it's abandonware, noone cares" isn't a valid argument.
Sony probably doesn't care about people playing illegal roms but they know that it competes with their licensees and makes the platform less attractive to potential developers. And less licensees == less profit.
Releasing public devtools means additional work. Lazyness is already an argument against that. It means that commercial devs no longer need official SDKs and licenses which means no more revenue from there. It means that any idiot can circumvent the anti-copy system which means the profits for the games companies drop.
The company has nothing to gain and something to lose from releasing a public SDK, why should they do that? Their goals aren't altruistic, they want to make money and releasing a free public SDK isn't profitable.
If you want to make games for an open platform with good performance, go develop for the PC or Mac, there's no real reason to make a game for a console when 99% of its userbase cannot use your software and would prefer having it on the PC.
The emulation writes to one buffer, the firmware decides which buffer that ends up in. Why can't the firmware take the button presses and hand the emulation a separate memory address that contains the state of the virtual button? It's not like the DS has too little memory to add a few bytes to the GBA emulation.
Justifying it by saying it is an individuals choice to participate/purchase it is like arguing that you can get away with murder because the person you killed asked you to shoot them.
Nope, there's a huge difference here. There's an inalienable* right to life. You cannot waive that right, no matter what. However, there is no inalienable right to not be shit on or not be fucked, if you agree to waive your right to not be fucked, the law lets you do that. If you're acting like you're being raped it's still all fine, you can pretend you're a kangaroo if you wish.
You can waive some rights, what do you think you do when you click "I accept" when some installer shows you the EULA?
*= I think the right to life is alienable in the US but unwaivable, only the law can take that right away.
Iwata said they're going down with the ship if it sinks. I'm not sure he'll actually do that should it come that far but since it'd take quite something to sink Nintendo (first they'd have to start making regular losses, then they'd need to burn up their cash reserves and THEN they might still be able to loan money) I doubt we'll find that out anytime soon. But until they start bleeding money like mad you won't see them go third party and Nintendo bleeding dry is very unlikely.
Sure, rolling from direction to direction on the PlayStation D-pad is worse than say the N64 D-pad if you use the tip of your thumb, but I tend to use the flat part of my thumb.
I get blisters using the flat as well. Apparently third party controllers are beginning to put proper dpads on PS2 controllers, now if they just fixed that left analog stick position on a third party controller...
(Germany defines itself as a republic, too. The term means only "there are elections")
With dissenters I meant people who can actively block a proposal. You could call any of the third parties in the US dissenters but what they say doesn't matter because only the Republicans and Democrats are represented. And I really don't care whether the democrats did the same thing the Republicans did, the more both party policies overlap the less of a choice the people have. I mean, what would have gone different if Kerry was elected? That guy was just as much of a dimwit.
The government is still able to act and in a timely fashion (we had desasters here and usually desasters don't cause a lot of disagreement between parties, what kind of sicko would say "no, DON'T send the rescue helicopters"?) even with more than two or three parties in the parliament, most party policies overlap to some degree so there won't be five different oppinions on most issues here. The liberals and the conservatives mostly agree, as do the greens and social democrats. More parties just means that the distribution of oppinions would differ more between questions, more than two oppinions rarely surface on any decision. And those oppinions are mostly on whether to protect the worker's rights or give corporations more power.
Natural desasters like a hurricane usually have very few decisions at parliament/congress level, most of the decisions are made by the acting organizations. I don't think the government could have done any more or less than what was done except maybe accept foreign help faster and don't cut the desaster-prevention budgets as much. But most of these decisions weren't made by congress in the blink of an eye or something. The only "we need to react fast" situations in congress I heard about were the Patriot Act and that gay marriage law.
Well, the textures are what make the graphics look believable, stylized, artistic, whathaveyou. But yeah, 200MB mods are annoying. Mods these days seem to be mostly concerned with adding "realism" and graphics than they are with original gameplay.
Most of that "our economy is crumbling" talk here looks like FUD the CDU loves to spout (you know, the "OMG! We need to surrender all our rights or all the jobs will be outsourced!" crap they use to scare you into taking lower wages and less freedoms). Oh, yeah, there's talk about consumers "holding back the money". What money?!? We don't have more than that, you've been cutting our wages and increasing prices all that time, what do you expect us to do?
But that aside, you seem to suggest that a totalitarian government is the most effective since there are no dissenters that will slow down your actions or muddle your decisions. Sure, giving more people a voice means there's a lower chance the government will act as one but it also means that more people are getting the representation they want. Unilateral decisions are faster but as a result has fewer checks and balances to prevent power abuse. I mean, Bush has been granted the right to go on a war without anyone being able to say "no, we don't". What if he (or any of his successors) abuses that right? By the time you'd get him out of there the damage will already be done. That's no longer democracy if that guy is basically an Emperor.
This is Epic we're talking about and the 6GB were without videos. I have no doubt that the 30GB they're talking about will be only game content as well. Lots of highly detailled game content.
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You can do what you want with it. It's not Sony's problem if you don't know how. My microwave didn't come with instructions on how to convert it into a raygun, should I complain that I can't make a raygun out of my own hardware?
Buy the games when they hit the bargain bin and come in a jewel case. Much smaller than a DVD case.
The 40 Euro pricetag looks even worse when you place the game next to Castlevania DoS, which costs 35 Euros and is probably the best game available on the system.
I played it for a few hours, only made it out of the starting dungeon and cleared the circus but I stopped playing for some reason or another. I played that starting dungeon at least ten times because i couldn't decide on a class to use.
Guess buying it for the promised "200 hours of gameplay!" is rather pointless if you don't have the willpower to finish a game once it becomes open-ended. Fallout, too. Dabbled a bit with it but never got anywhere.
I guess I'm just not fit for that type of game.
Should've said "Linux".
I still think that if the firmware can tell it where the framebuffer* is, it can just as well tell it where the A and B buttons are. It may be hard to make it do that NOW but it would certainly have been possible when the device was designed.
*=Framebuffer? I thought these things were line buffered?
I've played four player games on one PC, it just requires two gamepads (usually two people can use the keyboard though I think we played Clonk 4 wih three people on the KB and one on the gamepad). Sure, having two gamepads is rare but is it really any less common than a modified console that'll run homebrew stuff?
I don't have any sales numbers but the japanese indy scene keeps producting four-player-one-PC games (usually inspired by SSBM...) so there seems to be at least some demand for that.
The other theory is that Link is supposed to be the mirror image of the player. Personally I consider the Link==Miyamoto equation more likely. Miyamoto went on the record saying that if Link were to talk in a Zelda game, he'd do the voice work for him.
I thought "Republicans" was just the label for the party and "conservatives" is the actual term for the political position?
Existing buildings have a support structure that will protect and stabilize the elevators. The space elevator won't have this benefit.
If Wikipedia was a condensed version of the internet, 9 out of 10 entries would be porn.
That's all fine and dandy except that falls within the 5% (and I think that's highly generous) of homebrew users. Most people will just download isos from some 0-day warez site and play them on their system, completely ignoring all the homebrew software out there. And the few people enjoying homebrew don't make up for the much larger number of people warezing commercial games. Sure, the PSP didn't run pirated PSP games yet AFAIK but it runs emulated games, some of which (GBA, for example) are still being made and sold so "it's abandonware, noone cares" isn't a valid argument.
Sony probably doesn't care about people playing illegal roms but they know that it competes with their licensees and makes the platform less attractive to potential developers. And less licensees == less profit.
Releasing public devtools means additional work. Lazyness is already an argument against that.
It means that commercial devs no longer need official SDKs and licenses which means no more revenue from there.
It means that any idiot can circumvent the anti-copy system which means the profits for the games companies drop.
The company has nothing to gain and something to lose from releasing a public SDK, why should they do that? Their goals aren't altruistic, they want to make money and releasing a free public SDK isn't profitable.
If you want to make games for an open platform with good performance, go develop for the PC or Mac, there's no real reason to make a game for a console when 99% of its userbase cannot use your software and would prefer having it on the PC.
The emulation writes to one buffer, the firmware decides which buffer that ends up in. Why can't the firmware take the button presses and hand the emulation a separate memory address that contains the state of the virtual button? It's not like the DS has too little memory to add a few bytes to the GBA emulation.
Justifying it by saying it is an individuals choice to participate/purchase it is like arguing that you can get away with murder because the person you killed asked you to shoot them.
Nope, there's a huge difference here. There's an inalienable* right to life. You cannot waive that right, no matter what. However, there is no inalienable right to not be shit on or not be fucked, if you agree to waive your right to not be fucked, the law lets you do that. If you're acting like you're being raped it's still all fine, you can pretend you're a kangaroo if you wish.
You can waive some rights, what do you think you do when you click "I accept" when some installer shows you the EULA?
*= I think the right to life is alienable in the US but unwaivable, only the law can take that right away.
Oh, great. If addictions are reasons for outlawing stuff we should kiss Slashdot goodbye right now.
Of course, with instancing becoming more and more present in traditional MMOs, the line is kinda blurring.
Iwata said they're going down with the ship if it sinks. I'm not sure he'll actually do that should it come that far but since it'd take quite something to sink Nintendo (first they'd have to start making regular losses, then they'd need to burn up their cash reserves and THEN they might still be able to loan money) I doubt we'll find that out anytime soon. But until they start bleeding money like mad you won't see them go third party and Nintendo bleeding dry is very unlikely.
Sure, rolling from direction to direction on the PlayStation D-pad is worse than say the N64 D-pad if you use the tip of your thumb, but I tend to use the flat part of my thumb.
I get blisters using the flat as well. Apparently third party controllers are beginning to put proper dpads on PS2 controllers, now if they just fixed that left analog stick position on a third party controller...
Nintendo licensed the technology from Gyration so similarities are not surprising.
(Germany defines itself as a republic, too. The term means only "there are elections")
With dissenters I meant people who can actively block a proposal. You could call any of the third parties in the US dissenters but what they say doesn't matter because only the Republicans and Democrats are represented. And I really don't care whether the democrats did the same thing the Republicans did, the more both party policies overlap the less of a choice the people have. I mean, what would have gone different if Kerry was elected? That guy was just as much of a dimwit.
The government is still able to act and in a timely fashion (we had desasters here and usually desasters don't cause a lot of disagreement between parties, what kind of sicko would say "no, DON'T send the rescue helicopters"?) even with more than two or three parties in the parliament, most party policies overlap to some degree so there won't be five different oppinions on most issues here. The liberals and the conservatives mostly agree, as do the greens and social democrats. More parties just means that the distribution of oppinions would differ more between questions, more than two oppinions rarely surface on any decision. And those oppinions are mostly on whether to protect the worker's rights or give corporations more power.
Natural desasters like a hurricane usually have very few decisions at parliament/congress level, most of the decisions are made by the acting organizations. I don't think the government could have done any more or less than what was done except maybe accept foreign help faster and don't cut the desaster-prevention budgets as much. But most of these decisions weren't made by congress in the blink of an eye or something. The only "we need to react fast" situations in congress I heard about were the Patriot Act and that gay marriage law.
Well, the textures are what make the graphics look believable, stylized, artistic, whathaveyou. But yeah, 200MB mods are annoying. Mods these days seem to be mostly concerned with adding "realism" and graphics than they are with original gameplay.
Most of that "our economy is crumbling" talk here looks like FUD the CDU loves to spout (you know, the "OMG! We need to surrender all our rights or all the jobs will be outsourced!" crap they use to scare you into taking lower wages and less freedoms). Oh, yeah, there's talk about consumers "holding back the money". What money?!? We don't have more than that, you've been cutting our wages and increasing prices all that time, what do you expect us to do?
But that aside, you seem to suggest that a totalitarian government is the most effective since there are no dissenters that will slow down your actions or muddle your decisions. Sure, giving more people a voice means there's a lower chance the government will act as one but it also means that more people are getting the representation they want. Unilateral decisions are faster but as a result has fewer checks and balances to prevent power abuse. I mean, Bush has been granted the right to go on a war without anyone being able to say "no, we don't". What if he (or any of his successors) abuses that right? By the time you'd get him out of there the damage will already be done. That's no longer democracy if that guy is basically an Emperor.
When it's an online multiplayer game there's no way to tell where to start streaming.
This is Epic we're talking about and the 6GB were without videos. I have no doubt that the 30GB they're talking about will be only game content as well. Lots of highly detailled game content.