The difference is, when I install a new release of Ubuntu on my computer, it's stable. When I tried installing XP for the first time in 2001, it was like shooting myself in the foot. Let's hope Vista isn't the same way, but given Microsoft's track record, I doubt it will be.
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No, Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" isn't coming out until October. However, right around the time the new GNOME gets released, each Ubuntu's pre-release set gets stable enough to be usable. I think I'll still wait for an RC to be released, but it is just about time to upgrade.
Lumines, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, LocoRoco, Me and My Katamari, Metal Gear Acid 1+2, Syphon Filter: The Dark Mirror, WipEout Pure, and that's just off the top of my head.
Actually I was trying to point out the fact that you can't find either of these games anywhere, unless you're getting them for a ridiculously high price. While VP is on PSP (and I have it, in fact), it's not on PS3.
The "classic NES series" emulated ports on GBA had no extra content. Some games on GBA were extended ports of SNES games or remakes of GBA games (Zero Mission, as you noted), but were not part of the Classic NES series.
Even though the market penetration on 1080p TVs isn't very large, those users can still use component cables to view PS3 games in their glorious high resolution, in fact the same cables they're likely already using with their PS2s.
Most people just bitch about it needing a second analog stick, which today many of the more common and better selling games (first person shooters, and third person shooters) make heavy use of. Frankly, I'm glad to have an analog stick at all.
The only reason Nintendo (and Microsoft before them with Xbox) aren't releasing firmware upgrades for their consoles is because they don't have the infrastructure in place to do so.
While I don't really sympathize with any multi-national billion dollar corporations, I can understand why they do this: the ISO loaders. From a business standpoint, allowing your userbase to completely stop buying their games and yet still have them for free, stop supporting your developers, and to stop funnelling you money via royalties, is a really stupid thing to do. By simply leaving all the exploits on 1.0 and 1.5 firmwares in place, it would be a big fuck you to their devs, and a big go screw yourself to their investors.
There are, however, other possible solutions.
1) Allow for non-kernel mode access for un-signed code in an upcoming firmware, which would stop the ISO loaders completely. The downside of this is of course that there is a good possibility of there being a bug that still allows people to access kernel mode.
2) Simply ask developers to submit their homebrew for approval from Sony, at which point they sign ones that aren't harmful to them. This would not only allow for homebrew to run on all firmwares, it would weed out ISO loaders, and at the same time get rid of emulators (which is likely their concern #2 when it comes to homebrew).
Of course, who know why they won't do this. The other thing I notice is that there are a mere three playable demos out on PSP. You'd think they would try and take a page from Microsoft with 360 and release a lot more demos (which actively encourage people to go out any buy games, since they get a chance to try the game before they buy), and even better create a function to download them from the XMB, rather then have to connect to a PC.
At $129, possibly lower if a price drop comes into play, I'm thinking the PS2 could fly ahead to outsell PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Maybe not DS, maybe PSP, time will have to see for those.
PSP's initial specs were upgraded. They started out by only planning to have 8MB of RAM, which was later upgraded to 32MB. Additionally, the 256bit bus in the second graphics core was upgraded to a 512bit bus. Beyond that, in firmware upgrades, PSP now has the ability to run more music and video formats, and now has a web browser with flash support.
The CPU is still 333 MHz as a peak without overclocking. It's designed to run at different speeds in order to optimize battery life. Sony's offical SKU allows it to run at 222 MHz, 266MHz, and 333MHz. At the moment, there's nothing really stopping developers from using 33MHz (in fact in all likelyhood there have been games released running at that speed), other then them wanting to conserve battery life. For instance, many homebrew applications either by default run at 333MHz or have an option to do so to increase performance.
You have to remember something here: this is The Inquirer. (No, I'm not confusing this with the British tabloid The National Enquirer.) Basically all this site does is make shit up in order to increase hits to their site. This is just the latest in a string of false information on that site about the PS3, it's Cell processor, and it's RSX graphics chip.
14.5 mil was an amount added up from figures on various sites, including vg charts, and this included a recently released new amount sold for PSPs in Europe. Also, the DS numbers include both lite and chunky.
Wasn't there a cooling trend in the 70s, that one that made everyone concerned about global cooling? Wouldn't that skew their results? How is it compared to say 50 years ago?
Additionally, something is only a failure for gamers if it doesn't have games it likes, and PSP has plenty I like. It's also only a failure for the company (the point in question), and PSP has been pulling a profit per unit sold after the 3 million point was reached (when R+D costs were nulled), not to mention royalties from the software sales.
1) I got the figures from units sold, 14.5 million to 22.2 million, making roughly 40%.
2) Please, saying GBA is directly competing in the market with DS and GBA would be like saying PS1 competed directly against PS2, GameCube, XBox. The idea just doesn't stand.
3) If I were to go to EB and ask how many DSs and PSPs they had, they'd have more DSs because of people trading in the originals for lites.
Yeah, some failure. Taking away 40% of the market share from Nintendo and having a new Playstation line to ride all the way to the bank must really have hurt them financially, and made them cry at night.
Aside from not having flash for FireFox (unless you use a simple workaround, just like every other distro) Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper is absolutely painless to use. In fact, due to a weird problem with AGP and AMD64 CPUs in 32-bit Ubuntu, it actually runs with less problems then the 32-bit counterpart.
Don't know if you've ever played Lumines or Rez, but having played all 3 of the games you've mentioned I find the two much more enjoyable and addicting them Meteos.
Well for one, at 2000's SpaceWorld event, Nintendo showed a GameCube tech demo of a realistic Link and Gannondorf fighting, stiring up their fanbase into believing that was what the GCN Zelda would look like. The first screens and videos emerged with it being cel shaded, and they felt left down. Additionally, the style of cel shading in Wind Waker (while it doesn't bother me personally) was more like a Saturday morning cartoon, rather then the Anime style cel shading featured in oh say Dark Cloud 2, Dragon Quest 8, and now Okami.
Not here in Atlantic Canada. I live in Halifax, and the major cable company (Eastlink) provides one of the fastest and most stable cable internet services in North America. My connection is 10 Mbit/s, no bandwidth cap.
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The difference is, when I install a new release of Ubuntu on my computer, it's stable. When I tried installing XP for the first time in 2001, it was like shooting myself in the foot. Let's hope Vista isn't the same way, but given Microsoft's track record, I doubt it will be.
No, Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" isn't coming out until October. However, right around the time the new GNOME gets released, each Ubuntu's pre-release set gets stable enough to be usable. I think I'll still wait for an RC to be released, but it is just about time to upgrade.
Lumines, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, LocoRoco, Me and My Katamari, Metal Gear Acid 1+2, Syphon Filter: The Dark Mirror, WipEout Pure, and that's just off the top of my head.
Actually I was trying to point out the fact that you can't find either of these games anywhere, unless you're getting them for a ridiculously high price. While VP is on PSP (and I have it, in fact), it's not on PS3.
Didn't all 3 sort of copy GameTap then?
The "classic NES series" emulated ports on GBA had no extra content. Some games on GBA were extended ports of SNES games or remakes of GBA games (Zero Mission, as you noted), but were not part of the Classic NES series.
Find me Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile.
Even though the market penetration on 1080p TVs isn't very large, those users can still use component cables to view PS3 games in their glorious high resolution, in fact the same cables they're likely already using with their PS2s.
Most people just bitch about it needing a second analog stick, which today many of the more common and better selling games (first person shooters, and third person shooters) make heavy use of. Frankly, I'm glad to have an analog stick at all.
The only reason Nintendo (and Microsoft before them with Xbox) aren't releasing firmware upgrades for their consoles is because they don't have the infrastructure in place to do so.
While I don't really sympathize with any multi-national billion dollar corporations, I can understand why they do this: the ISO loaders. From a business standpoint, allowing your userbase to completely stop buying their games and yet still have them for free, stop supporting your developers, and to stop funnelling you money via royalties, is a really stupid thing to do. By simply leaving all the exploits on 1.0 and 1.5 firmwares in place, it would be a big fuck you to their devs, and a big go screw yourself to their investors.
There are, however, other possible solutions.
1) Allow for non-kernel mode access for un-signed code in an upcoming firmware, which would stop the ISO loaders completely. The downside of this is of course that there is a good possibility of there being a bug that still allows people to access kernel mode.
2) Simply ask developers to submit their homebrew for approval from Sony, at which point they sign ones that aren't harmful to them. This would not only allow for homebrew to run on all firmwares, it would weed out ISO loaders, and at the same time get rid of emulators (which is likely their concern #2 when it comes to homebrew).
Of course, who know why they won't do this. The other thing I notice is that there are a mere three playable demos out on PSP. You'd think they would try and take a page from Microsoft with 360 and release a lot more demos (which actively encourage people to go out any buy games, since they get a chance to try the game before they buy), and even better create a function to download them from the XMB, rather then have to connect to a PC.
Apparently you've never ran through walls in SMB1.
At $129, possibly lower if a price drop comes into play, I'm thinking the PS2 could fly ahead to outsell PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Maybe not DS, maybe PSP, time will have to see for those.
PSP's initial specs were upgraded. They started out by only planning to have 8MB of RAM, which was later upgraded to 32MB. Additionally, the 256bit bus in the second graphics core was upgraded to a 512bit bus. Beyond that, in firmware upgrades, PSP now has the ability to run more music and video formats, and now has a web browser with flash support.
The CPU is still 333 MHz as a peak without overclocking. It's designed to run at different speeds in order to optimize battery life. Sony's offical SKU allows it to run at 222 MHz, 266MHz, and 333MHz. At the moment, there's nothing really stopping developers from using 33MHz (in fact in all likelyhood there have been games released running at that speed), other then them wanting to conserve battery life. For instance, many homebrew applications either by default run at 333MHz or have an option to do so to increase performance.
You have to remember something here: this is The Inquirer. (No, I'm not confusing this with the British tabloid The National Enquirer.) Basically all this site does is make shit up in order to increase hits to their site. This is just the latest in a string of false information on that site about the PS3, it's Cell processor, and it's RSX graphics chip.
14.5 mil was an amount added up from figures on various sites, including vg charts, and this included a recently released new amount sold for PSPs in Europe. Also, the DS numbers include both lite and chunky.
Wasn't there a cooling trend in the 70s, that one that made everyone concerned about global cooling? Wouldn't that skew their results? How is it compared to say 50 years ago?
Additionally, something is only a failure for gamers if it doesn't have games it likes, and PSP has plenty I like. It's also only a failure for the company (the point in question), and PSP has been pulling a profit per unit sold after the 3 million point was reached (when R+D costs were nulled), not to mention royalties from the software sales.
1) I got the figures from units sold, 14.5 million to 22.2 million, making roughly 40%.
2) Please, saying GBA is directly competing in the market with DS and GBA would be like saying PS1 competed directly against PS2, GameCube, XBox. The idea just doesn't stand.
3) If I were to go to EB and ask how many DSs and PSPs they had, they'd have more DSs because of people trading in the originals for lites.
Yeah, some failure. Taking away 40% of the market share from Nintendo and having a new Playstation line to ride all the way to the bank must really have hurt them financially, and made them cry at night.
Oh that. Yeah well w32codecs is basically useless until it can play the DRM'd WMV files.
Is it possible to get this for AMD64, preferably packaged as a .deb for use in Ubuntu?
Aside from not having flash for FireFox (unless you use a simple workaround, just like every other distro) Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper is absolutely painless to use. In fact, due to a weird problem with AGP and AMD64 CPUs in 32-bit Ubuntu, it actually runs with less problems then the 32-bit counterpart.
Don't know if you've ever played Lumines or Rez, but having played all 3 of the games you've mentioned I find the two much more enjoyable and addicting them Meteos.
Well for one, at 2000's SpaceWorld event, Nintendo showed a GameCube tech demo of a realistic Link and Gannondorf fighting, stiring up their fanbase into believing that was what the GCN Zelda would look like. The first screens and videos emerged with it being cel shaded, and they felt left down. Additionally, the style of cel shading in Wind Waker (while it doesn't bother me personally) was more like a Saturday morning cartoon, rather then the Anime style cel shading featured in oh say Dark Cloud 2, Dragon Quest 8, and now Okami.
Perhaps they couldn't get it to work well until now?
Not here in Atlantic Canada. I live in Halifax, and the major cable company (Eastlink) provides one of the fastest and most stable cable internet services in North America. My connection is 10 Mbit/s, no bandwidth cap.