go ahead and try to dd it and come back and tell us about how you only got.. what is it, I think 7 megs? Xbox DVD game disks cannot be read on a computer, they need a dvdrom with special firmware to read it because their TOC is damaged.
I had a PSP for about a month. I had Tony Hawk. And I had a headache. Certainly the next evolutionary step was to get 3d acceleration on a portable, but I think the problem is.. handheld gaming should not just be an evolutionary step behind consoles/PCs. They are a platform of their own and should be treated as such.
As I played Tony Hawk I found myself bringing the screen closer and closer to my face. Why? The character is small, but even worse are the little benches and blocks in the background that I'm trying to align myself with in order to execute my move properly. It sucked. I was trying to determine which 2 pixel color blob was the right one. Not fun.
Now I just play NES games on my Casio BE-300 $50 PDA, and have about a billion times more fun at a fraction the cost.
New Linux Tactics throws Slashdot Moderation into Chaos
(AP, Teh Intarnet) Before today moderation was simple: "-1 Against OSS/Linux", "+1 For Linux". "-1 Anti Free Software", "+1 Pro Free Software". But after a quick turnaround trademark infringement score in the late quarter, slashdot moderation is thrown into chaos. "I just don't get it" states TripMaster Monkey, a slashdot regular. "It's definitely +1 for Linux.. I mean, they're getting money and ensuring a quality product.. but.. It's definitely anti-free-software." The common moderation tactic during events such as these is to use "0 I do not know what the crowd is telling me to do" to ensure no one gets hurt. More on this as it develops..
Certainly he broke the in-game rules by beating up and robbing people.
But.. it's a game. They didn't get mugged, their characters did. I can see how the company could, say, return the items to the original owners.. but charged?
If I had the points, I would. Precisely what I thought when I read the GP's comments.
Until you see xbox media center play media off a remote samba share, or you sit down and enjoy playing all your old console games in similiar environment (tv/couch).. you would say things like the GP. Afterwards you would shut your mouth and learn to mod your xbox.
I think it was pretty unfair to use this game as an example of unneccessary bullet time usage. The game is about time travel. Plus, the creators were very inventive with the concept - you have sand tanks that, when broken, reverse time temporarily. Considering much of the game consists of hard combinations of "run on wall, jump to pole, swing off pole, duck under spikes, roll to edge, jump to cloth, leap across doorway", it was a needed feature to not have every misstep result in "game over" and start and the beginning of the level again.
Checkout SDLRoads. It's a relatively true recreation. Otherwise we've had pretty good success playing the game through dosbox (even on our modded xbox, we played most of thet game via dosxbox.. it played sweet.)
After growing up losing countless hours of sleep playing SkyRoads, last fall a friend and myself decided to extract the level data from the game and port it to SDLRoads, a rather faithful recreation of the game.
We ended up running the game via dosxbox in gdb, dumping the entire memory region, and searching the heap for the levels. It didn't take all too long before we had the raw data converted to the SDLRoads native format.
We passed the levels off to the SDLRoads guys, and they got permission to use the original levels in their port. Thanks BlueMoon!
You say that, but you know what? kiddie games sell. Like hotcakes. You want your console to have the whine factor (mom mom mom i need pokemon mom mom mom), and nintendo, marketed to kids, has that more than the xbox or playstation. Parents are also more likely to buy the gamecube for young kids because it is cheaper and has a wide selection of nonviolent games.
I agree with you, I'll never buy a gamecube for myself because I'm not the target market. But just because we're not the target market doesn't mean they're making a mistake.
The update is encrypted and signed. You can't modify it.//yeah, yeah, "break the encryption" but it's most likely signed by PKI and we don't have the private half.
I agree with you that there should be some overlap, but, truly, if I wanted to, I could submit fark's headlines as slashdot's 0day news.
Personally I think the problem is there is about a million sites that solely post links to other sites that post links to sites that post links to articles. It makes sense to have news sites, and to have a news repository of sorts, but I think the thing is in order to be relevent a news repository (such has slashdot) has to:
- be quick in reporting news
- post links to good articles
when you're days behind your peers I think it's fair that your quality becomes the butt of jokes.
oh and when you want intelligent discussion it doesn't hurt to be logged in/not AC.
1. Read other news sites (fark especially), and remember the best comments for each story.
2. Wait until the same story comes up on slashdot (2-3 days)
3....? 4. Profit!
I too have had articles in 2600, and I have to agree 100% with parent. It seems that since 9/11 their articles are less risque and not usually more stunning than "intro to installing linux from your windows desktop" combined with re-written manuals from paging systems or phone networks and some highschool-esque level of rant about the state of the government.
Slashdot Mirror
So, uhh.. Awesomo.. are you a.. pleasure model?
...
DOES NOT COMPUTE
hey did that robot just fart?
Brilliant. They decided to register a *four letter TLD* specifically for applications with a stupidly slow data entry rate...
hah!
go ahead and try to dd it and come back and tell us about how you only got.. what is it, I think 7 megs? Xbox DVD game disks cannot be read on a computer, they need a dvdrom with special firmware to read it because their TOC is damaged.
2.1 is definitely a non-functional requirement, I'm going to dock you points for putting it in your use case...
I had a PSP for about a month. I had Tony Hawk. And I had a headache. Certainly the next evolutionary step was to get 3d acceleration on a portable, but I think the problem is.. handheld gaming should not just be an evolutionary step behind consoles/PCs. They are a platform of their own and should be treated as such.
As I played Tony Hawk I found myself bringing the screen closer and closer to my face. Why? The character is small, but even worse are the little benches and blocks in the background that I'm trying to align myself with in order to execute my move properly. It sucked. I was trying to determine which 2 pixel color blob was the right one. Not fun.
Now I just play NES games on my Casio BE-300 $50 PDA, and have about a billion times more fun at a fraction the cost.
New Linux Tactics throws Slashdot Moderation into Chaos
(AP, Teh Intarnet) Before today moderation was simple: "-1 Against OSS/Linux", "+1 For Linux". "-1 Anti Free Software", "+1 Pro Free Software". But after a quick turnaround trademark infringement score in the late quarter, slashdot moderation is thrown into chaos. "I just don't get it" states TripMaster Monkey, a slashdot regular. "It's definitely +1 for Linux.. I mean, they're getting money and ensuring a quality product.. but.. It's definitely anti-free-software." The common moderation tactic during events such as these is to use "0 I do not know what the crowd is telling me to do" to ensure no one gets hurt. More on this as it develops..
How is this illegal?
Certainly he broke the EULA by using a bot.
Certainly he broke the in-game rules by beating up and robbing people.
But.. it's a game. They didn't get mugged, their characters did. I can see how the company could, say, return the items to the original owners.. but charged?
If I had the points, I would. Precisely what I thought when I read the GP's comments.
Until you see xbox media center play media off a remote samba share, or you sit down and enjoy playing all your old console games in similiar environment (tv/couch).. you would say things like the GP. Afterwards you would shut your mouth and learn to mod your xbox.
It can't be a fad. Geeks don't get fads.
WW also had the sand tanks.
My friends were large fans of the original Sands of Time for PS/2, and for the most part found WW to live up to it's predecessor...
until about 3/4 of the way through the game when it glitched out and we couldn't progress any further. It was fun while it lasted, though.
I think it was pretty unfair to use this game as an example of unneccessary bullet time usage. The game is about time travel. Plus, the creators were very inventive with the concept - you have sand tanks that, when broken, reverse time temporarily. Considering much of the game consists of hard combinations of "run on wall, jump to pole, swing off pole, duck under spikes, roll to edge, jump to cloth, leap across doorway", it was a needed feature to not have every misstep result in "game over" and start and the beginning of the level again.
Try second hand stores that sell some of everything. I bought a used playstation from one once that just so happened to end up to be modded.
Checkout SDLRoads. It's a relatively true recreation. Otherwise we've had pretty good success playing the game through dosbox (even on our modded xbox, we played most of thet game via dosxbox.. it played sweet.)
After growing up losing countless hours of sleep playing SkyRoads, last fall a friend and myself decided to extract the level data from the game and port it to SDLRoads, a rather faithful recreation of the game.
We ended up running the game via dosxbox in gdb, dumping the entire memory region, and searching the heap for the levels. It didn't take all too long before we had the raw data converted to the SDLRoads native format.
We passed the levels off to the SDLRoads guys, and they got permission to use the original levels in their port. Thanks BlueMoon!
you son of a whore, I was attempting to save the site from slashdotting. good fucking job.
that's cool, I missed that thread.
;) )
But they still can't decrypt the encrypted PRX files so I don't see how they're going to get too far.
(I also read ps2dev
You say that, but you know what? kiddie games sell. Like hotcakes. You want your console to have the whine factor (mom mom mom i need pokemon mom mom mom), and nintendo, marketed to kids, has that more than the xbox or playstation. Parents are also more likely to buy the gamecube for young kids because it is cheaper and has a wide selection of nonviolent games.
I agree with you, I'll never buy a gamecube for myself because I'm not the target market. But just because we're not the target market doesn't mean they're making a mistake.
Not really.
//yeah, yeah, "break the encryption" but it's most likely signed by PKI and we don't have the private half.
The update is encrypted and signed. You can't modify it.
your title should read "one question, with answer included." ;)
Alert! Alert!
Parent recommends use of microsoft product - mod down immediately!
*red lights flash on mod's wall*
maybe he should try to get the skill of "one target" hyperlinks first?
Amazing! Hackaday only posted this on Monday! Slashdot's speeding up!
There's a couple things here.
I agree with you that there should be some overlap, but, truly, if I wanted to, I could submit fark's headlines as slashdot's 0day news.
Personally I think the problem is there is about a million sites that solely post links to other sites that post links to sites that post links to articles. It makes sense to have news sites, and to have a news repository of sorts, but I think the thing is in order to be relevent a news repository (such has slashdot) has to:
- be quick in reporting news
- post links to good articles
when you're days behind your peers I think it's fair that your quality becomes the butt of jokes.
oh and when you want intelligent discussion it doesn't hurt to be logged in/not AC.
1. Read other news sites (fark especially), and remember the best comments for each story. ...?
2. Wait until the same story comes up on slashdot (2-3 days)
3.
4. Profit!
I too have had articles in 2600, and I have to agree 100% with parent. It seems that since 9/11 their articles are less risque and not usually more stunning than "intro to installing linux from your windows desktop" combined with re-written manuals from paging systems or phone networks and some highschool-esque level of rant about the state of the government.