Fortunately the Enix side appears to still be ran intelligently -- Dragon Quest 9 was pretty much spot on perfect, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 has some missteps but is much better than Joker 1, etc etc. And the new Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light game is also pretty close to perfect as it stands, so there is hope for the franchise. Just not in the current path they're going down.
Those games are good probably because Square Enix only published them. Dragon Quest 9 was developed by Level 5, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 by Tose and Final Fantasy The 4 Heroes of Light by Matrix Software.
... one of Mars' moons? I remember reading somewhere that one of them will either crash into Mars or be disintegrated into a ring in a few million years because it's orbit is shrinking slowly as time goes on.
As others have said, you don't need the network to update the PS3. If a game requires a newer firmware than you have it'll be on the disc and it will ask you if you want to update.
The free version is basically just a demo of the engine. In the paid version it's called the creation mode. There are no gameplay elements in it. It's just a sandbox. There are other modes in the paid version like survival and multiplayer survival that add stuff like collecting resources, crafting items and fighting monsters among other things.
Nobody uses OpenGL (or derivatives) on consoles. Everybody uses low level proprietary libraries specific to particular consoles, except the Xbox which uses DirectX.
I don't know why you got modded informative because that's incorrect. The 360 doesn't have SPEs, just 3 hyper-threaded cores like you find on PC processors. The major difference is PPC vs x86.
Now compare that to the difference between the PS2 and PS3. The PS2 is a complex little beast with half a dozen specialized processors with weird connections between them. Add to that the weirdness of the PS3's architecture and you'll see it takes a lot more to emulate the PS2 on the PS3 than the Xbox on the Xbox 360, which was my point.
If it only emulates the popular games I'd hardly call that perfect emulation, which is what I was responding to.
The PS2 is anything but a basic machine. It has one of the weirdest architectures ever produced, weirder still that the PS3's. Also, the PS3 is not that more powerful than the 360. It's more powerful in certain aspects but less in others. For example it's very good at parallel problems but that won't help it much in this case because emulation is hard to parallelize. PCSX2 on PC uses only 2 threads and most other emulators only one.
The Xbox emulation on the 360 is hardly perfect. It requires a different emulator profile per game and even then it only supports a few of the popular games. In addition, the Xbox and the 360 are very much alike in terms of architecture than the PS2 and PS3. The more different they are the more resources you need to emulate correctly.
The free version is not a game, it's just a sandbox demo where you can build what you want. The payed version has day/night cycles, where monsters attack at night and you have to survive. In addition, you have to mine and collect the resources yourself instead of having an infinite amount of them like in the free version. There's also a multiplayer mode.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or are just dense, but nobody said anything about 600k sales. It's 600k € coming from 60k sales. Frankly, your made up scenario is completely ridiculous.
Think of it in terms of virtualization. The hypervisor has access to up to 1TB or memory but the individual OS instances are 32-bit and can only address up to 4GB.
Games didn't use to be more fun (whatever that means) than they are today. You just don't remember the tons and tons of crappy ones. There were always good and bad games and nothing has changed. We still get both at about the same proportions.
He probably knew OpenGL and didn't want to learn DirectX just for this? Or maybe he's just more familiar with OpenGL. And it's not like DirectDraw has much to do with Direct3D anyway. It would require the same effort to do what he did with Direct3D instead of OpenGL.
That's mostly incorrect. The PS1 emulation has never been removed and has always been 100% software. The PS2 emulation on the other hand requires hardware assistance because the PS3 isn't powerful enough to do it completely in software. Those chips were removed in 2008, a year before the Slim model was released. Also, the old models that are capable of doing PS2 emulation can still do it, the option was never removed.
PS2 emulation was only removed from the PS3 models that lack the necessary hardware pieces, so I don't know how it could possibly be restored. I don't think the PS3 is powerful enough to enable 100% software emulation, else Sony would have done it a long time ago and saved themselves a lot of money in the process.
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Fortunately the Enix side appears to still be ran intelligently -- Dragon Quest 9 was pretty much spot on perfect, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 has some missteps but is much better than Joker 1, etc etc. And the new Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light game is also pretty close to perfect as it stands, so there is hope for the franchise. Just not in the current path they're going down.
Those games are good probably because Square Enix only published them.
Dragon Quest 9 was developed by Level 5, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 by Tose and Final Fantasy The 4 Heroes of Light by Matrix Software.
... one of Mars' moons? I remember reading somewhere that one of them will either crash into Mars or be disintegrated into a ring in a few million years because it's orbit is shrinking slowly as time goes on.
As others have said, you don't need the network to update the PS3. If a game requires a newer firmware than you have it'll be on the disc and it will ask you if you want to update.
The free version is basically just a demo of the engine. In the paid version it's called the creation mode. There are no gameplay elements in it. It's just a sandbox. There are other modes in the paid version like survival and multiplayer survival that add stuff like collecting resources, crafting items and fighting monsters among other things.
Even though OpenGL or OpenGL-like APIs are supposed to be available on those platforms, nobody actually uses them for anything useful.
Nobody uses OpenGL (or derivatives) on consoles. Everybody uses low level proprietary libraries specific to particular consoles, except the Xbox which uses DirectX.
Enemy Territory Quake Wars has all of those. Many other games have some of them too.
A game doesn't have to be innovative and bring new things to be good.
Rockstar is British, not American. The guy was talking about American studios.
I don't know why you got modded informative because that's incorrect. The 360 doesn't have SPEs, just 3 hyper-threaded cores like you find on PC processors. The major difference is PPC vs x86.
Now compare that to the difference between the PS2 and PS3. The PS2 is a complex little beast with half a dozen specialized processors with weird connections between them. Add to that the weirdness of the PS3's architecture and you'll see it takes a lot more to emulate the PS2 on the PS3 than the Xbox on the Xbox 360, which was my point.
If it only emulates the popular games I'd hardly call that perfect emulation, which is what I was responding to.
The PS2 is anything but a basic machine. It has one of the weirdest architectures ever produced, weirder still that the PS3's. Also, the PS3 is not that more powerful than the 360. It's more powerful in certain aspects but less in others. For example it's very good at parallel problems but that won't help it much in this case because emulation is hard to parallelize. PCSX2 on PC uses only 2 threads and most other emulators only one.
The Xbox emulation on the 360 is hardly perfect. It requires a different emulator profile per game and even then it only supports a few of the popular games. In addition, the Xbox and the 360 are very much alike in terms of architecture than the PS2 and PS3. The more different they are the more resources you need to emulate correctly.
The free version is not a game, it's just a sandbox demo where you can build what you want. The payed version has day/night cycles, where monsters attack at night and you have to survive. In addition, you have to mine and collect the resources yourself instead of having an infinite amount of them like in the free version. There's also a multiplayer mode.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or are just dense, but nobody said anything about 600k sales. It's 600k € coming from 60k sales. Frankly, your made up scenario is completely ridiculous.
Think of it in terms of virtualization. The hypervisor has access to up to 1TB or memory but the individual OS instances are 32-bit and can only address up to 4GB.
They've been "starting to run on ARM" for two years now and we still can't buy them.
Since you can't run Linux (or anything really except "backup" games) with this hack, I very much doubt it.
Games didn't use to be more fun (whatever that means) than they are today. You just don't remember the tons and tons of crappy ones. There were always good and bad games and nothing has changed. We still get both at about the same proportions.
He probably knew OpenGL and didn't want to learn DirectX just for this? Or maybe he's just more familiar with OpenGL. And it's not like DirectDraw has much to do with Direct3D anyway. It would require the same effort to do what he did with Direct3D instead of OpenGL.
Except when you only have the Windows version of the games like the author.
Easy, the people who RTFA don't comment because their questions are likely answered in the article.
That's mostly incorrect. The PS1 emulation has never been removed and has always been 100% software. The PS2 emulation on the other hand requires hardware assistance because the PS3 isn't powerful enough to do it completely in software. Those chips were removed in 2008, a year before the Slim model was released. Also, the old models that are capable of doing PS2 emulation can still do it, the option was never removed.
PS2 emulation was only removed from the PS3 models that lack the necessary hardware pieces, so I don't know how it could possibly be restored. I don't think the PS3 is powerful enough to enable 100% software emulation, else Sony would have done it a long time ago and saved themselves a lot of money in the process.
We are talking about graphics cards, not music instruments.
Look at the date on that article.