That may be true in Canada, but here in the US games cost 50-60 dollars at release. That, to me at least, is not worth it. But guess what price I do find fair, 0$.
Face it, if someone is willing to download an iso of your game, and find a crack, and put up with not having patches or online play, would they REALY have bought it? I'll give you a hint, the answer is no.
Emulators will never be illegal, maybe the ROMs/ISOs but, not the emulators. It's only illegal to download/obtain a copy of a game you don't own or never owned.
...While there isn't any emulator out there today that can really do decent psx emulation...
PS1 emulation is right about where N64 emulation is, we have decent, playable emulation for both platforms right now, and it's always improving.ePSXe emulates the PSX almost perfectly for most games, with a decent video plugin. I recently finished FF7 on the emulator (I have the discs but no PS/PS2), and with my GCN to USB adapter it was was a nearly spot on reproduction of my experience playing it on the PS1.
LOL at Paragraph 30. These people must get high and sit in a circle thinking of all this bullshit with a tape recorder on and then make laws based on it.
Flash carts are great, I own a 256Mbit one myself. If you do plan on buying one, I would recommend Jandaman's.
That's where I bought mine. And I would suggest getting a 256 or bigger, some games wont fit on a 128Mbit card.
You think it's sluggish on 256? Then come to my house, I have an ancient POS Celeron 700 with 64 MB of RAM running windows XP. It runs like frozen syrup but it surfs porn, sends e-mail and plays music just fine.
foobar2000 puts iTunes and Winamp5 to shame in memory footprint. Foobar2000 uses a tiny 2MB or memory with a 400 song playlist and while playing music. It also comes with the Mass Tagger plugin for ID3 tag editing.
There is also an iPod plugin for Foobar in development that will give you all of iTunes iPod functionality. Currently it only can read the iPod DB, but it is in development.
Well maybe it's a problem for some people to sleep in the same room as a running computer, but show me someone who would be bothered by a couple fans with a movie playing on surround sound, and I'll show you a safe cracker.
You think Far Cry can rape a high end machine? Then wait until you see Doom3. Beta testers report that the "realistic" minimum specs are close to a 3.0 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 9800 Pro/FX 5900 class card to get acceptable performance. I don't know about you, but that counts me out, at least for a while.
If I could just get a PC that's quiet enough for the living room
I never understood this. I have a computer in the same room that I sleep and I leave it on at night (running p2p, encoding video, BURNING A DVD) and I can still easily sleep.
If I am actually using the computer then sound becomes even less of a problem because I am either a) using speakers B) using headphones so I can't hear the fans/drives anyway. If you're using the computer with a TV then the TV's speakers will drown out the quiet hum of the fans.
...which invalidates most of your opinions of OS's off the bat.
I could say the same thing about YOUR choice of OS. I use windows because it's widely supported, works with all my hardware, and plays all my games. Why do you use Free BSD? Probably because you think your sticking it to "the man" and being rebellious. When your OS of choice can't run something as basic as flash, it's time to change. Fuck, you could eve change to a good Linux distro, even that would be better than the POS you're currently using.
Maybe you can move up to a big boys OS? Havn't you heard? BSD is dead.
Every major Browser on the major platforms. That's probably what I should have said for clarity. They can't support an OS that just a few hundred geeks use.
There is a good reason that you can't. A troll posts an insightful/interesting/funny post, gets modded up and then changes a link to goatse. Since it's +5 a few people MIGHT be tricked before it gets modded down as a troll.
But seriously, I doubt there will be more than 2 or 3 that are even worth a damn. Look at the Game cube or GBA launch. The only launch title I liked for the GC was Pikmen, and I had to rely on my GB/GBC library to hold me over until some good GBA games were released.
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That may be true in Canada, but here in the US games cost 50-60 dollars at release. That, to me at least, is not worth it. But guess what price I do find fair, 0$.
Face it, if someone is willing to download an iso of your game, and find a crack, and put up with not having patches or online play, would they REALY have bought it? I'll give you a hint, the answer is no.
If only I could have have gotten 271828 as my UID.
But an Athlon XP 2000+ IS better than a 1.8Ghz P4.
Would that make emulators illegal then?
...While there isn't any emulator out there today that can really do decent psx emulation...
Emulators will never be illegal, maybe the ROMs/ISOs but, not the emulators. It's only illegal to download/obtain a copy of a game you don't own or never owned.
PS1 emulation is right about where N64 emulation is, we have decent, playable emulation for both platforms right now, and it's always improving.ePSXe emulates the PSX almost perfectly for most games, with a decent video plugin. I recently finished FF7 on the emulator (I have the discs but no PS/PS2), and with my GCN to USB adapter it was was a nearly spot on reproduction of my experience playing it on the PS1.
TotalGaming.net was also mentioned on PA in the last three paragraphs of todays news post
TotalGaming subscription based service is phenomenally successful and revolutionizes the gaming industry...in Japan.
LOL at Paragraph 30. These people must get high and sit in a circle thinking of all this bullshit with a tape recorder on and then make laws based on it.
Flash carts are great, I own a 256Mbit one myself. If you do plan on buying one, I would recommend Jandaman's. That's where I bought mine. And I would suggest getting a 256 or bigger, some games wont fit on a 128Mbit card.
After you have your cart, check out these two projects. An NES emulator on the GBA, and an SNES emulator on the GBA.
Also PogoShell is great, it let's you store text and pictures that can be viewed on your GBA, as well as organize your ROMs and game saves.
Strange, I never had a problem, even with massive playlists.
You think it's sluggish on 256? Then come to my house, I have an ancient POS Celeron 700 with 64 MB of RAM running windows XP. It runs like frozen syrup but it surfs porn, sends e-mail and plays music just fine.
foobar2000 puts iTunes and Winamp5 to shame in memory footprint. Foobar2000 uses a tiny 2MB or memory with a 400 song playlist and while playing music. It also comes with the Mass Tagger plugin for ID3 tag editing.
There is also an iPod plugin for Foobar in development that will give you all of iTunes iPod functionality. Currently it only can read the iPod DB, but it is in development.
I think AA looks worse. I prefer the crisper look to high-res non-AA graphics. I play games usually at 1280x960x85hz with no AA.
Well maybe it's a problem for some people to sleep in the same room as a running computer, but show me someone who would be bothered by a couple fans with a movie playing on surround sound, and I'll show you a safe cracker.
You think Far Cry can rape a high end machine? Then wait until you see Doom3. Beta testers report that the "realistic" minimum specs are close to a 3.0 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 9800 Pro/FX 5900 class card to get acceptable performance. I don't know about you, but that counts me out, at least for a while.
If I could just get a PC that's quiet enough for the living room
I never understood this. I have a computer in the same room that I sleep and I leave it on at night (running p2p, encoding video, BURNING A DVD) and I can still easily sleep.
If I am actually using the computer then sound becomes even less of a problem because I am either a) using speakers B) using headphones so I can't hear the fans/drives anyway. If you're using the computer with a TV then the TV's speakers will drown out the quiet hum of the fans.
...which invalidates most of your opinions of OS's off the bat.
I could say the same thing about YOUR choice of OS. I use windows because it's widely supported, works with all my hardware, and plays all my games. Why do you use Free BSD? Probably because you think your sticking it to "the man" and being rebellious. When your OS of choice can't run something as basic as flash, it's time to change. Fuck, you could eve change to a good Linux distro, even that would be better than the POS you're currently using.
Check, check and check.
Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!
Maybe you can move up to a big boys OS? Havn't you heard? BSD is dead.
Every major Browser on the major platforms. That's probably what I should have said for clarity. They can't support an OS that just a few hundred geeks use.
There is a good reason that you can't. A troll posts an insightful/interesting/funny post, gets modded up and then changes a link to goatse. Since it's +5 a few people MIGHT be tricked before it gets modded down as a troll.
LMAO, meatspace, how did you come up with? Did you make that up? Sounds like something off ATHF.
Every major browser supports flash. Mozilla and firefox also have a flashblock extension to stop all flash from being played UNTIL you click on it.
That might be true. I didn't buy a GC until a few weeks after launch so maybe it wasn't a launch title.
PSP launches with 59 games...in Japan.
But seriously, I doubt there will be more than 2 or 3 that are even worth a damn. Look at the Game cube or GBA launch. The only launch title I liked for the GC was Pikmen, and I had to rely on my GB/GBC library to hold me over until some good GBA games were released.
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