i don't know what speed the cpu is in the psp but it is woefully inadequate for full frame snes emulation with sound. a simple port of snes9x is just not enough to extract all the performance from the mips cpu. it would have to be written from the ground up for the best experience and most performance.
the fact that it works at all is a testament to the portability of the code.
it sounds like you are begging a company to allow you to do something which should have been the case from the begining.
it's not a console. it is a portable computer. those processors BELONG TO YOU, the rightful owner of the machine.
the business model for "consoles" aka specialized computers worked for a while... but nowadays buying something that artificially blocks your full use of it is offensive to say the least.
and please don't whine and bring up that "people will only infringe their copyright on games".
USE ANOTHER MECHANISM TO PROTECT YOUR GAMES. i just want full access to the cpu, video, sound and other chips in MY MACHINE.
frankly, they can go and become the next horse and buggy manufacturers in an automobile-centric world. your business model is fading and people will not put up with this bs effort to keep people from owning the computer they bought.
that is exactly the reason for "slowly" introducing features since they've had all along from day 1. they want people to keep updating in order to benefit from the features that should have been there since the begining. of course the reason they do this is to prevent most people from using the good firmware, the ones that help them to reclaim ownership over the physical device which they legally bought and are entitled to do with as they please.
microsoft did this just recently... they released an update to windows media player to enable DXVA (directx video acceleration) of high definition wmv9 video. but as you can guess, they are requiring that users cripple their systems by first installing a DRM update before the DXVA patch will work. i'm sure there are many other examples but this one i recall from the top of my head.
the cpu does a lot less work with the patch installed btw. but, if anyone wants to get basically equivalent cpu usage while playing high def wmv9 9 (e.g. T2 Extreme), you can use mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). this is quite an amazing player but it lacks a good gui on the win32 version. it even plays high def quicktime 7 videos with a lot less cpu usage as compared to the quicktime 7 player. 1080 videos that play horribly and drops 75% of the frames in qt7, play smooth and stutter free in mplayer.
anyway, we've got to stand up to these bullies. we AREN'T GOING TO TAKE THIS DRM BULLSHIT. copyright does not entitle you to have any say over what we do with an item once it is purchased. (read that carefully if you think i'm not addressing the full spectrum of the issue). requiring a DRM-crippled patch before being allowed to use a new feature which incidentally is long overdue and promised long ago, is disgusting and reprehensible. if this business model isn't working for you, don't punish your customers or you'll soon find yourself dumpster diving.
so then mac systems can play next generation DVDs and audio discs that have AACS or not? how about linux?
seems like in order to play these formats, apple and the linux world will have to either sell their souls to the devil or refrain from participating in viewing/using next gen media.
so it clearly isn't only a "pc" issue, it is a PC (as in personal computer) issue.
it's starting to look like i'll have my final excuse to forever leave windows. i'll never put up with any form of DRM.
and yes, it does need to be capitalized in order to show the emotion involved.
now multiply that by 640 times, then you have a crappy game.
it was a thinly veiled rts game in a genre-busting package.
i also never managed to get past land 3. taking away your creature made it very difficult to expand your territories. it was also too limiting most of the time.
peter should stick with what he knows best... old dos games. stop making modern ones until you know what the heck it takes to make a good game.
will prosecute the war criminals who commited massive vote fraud. clearly, a lot of the issues being discussed stems from the fact that the "elected officials" no longer feel they are accountable.
national ID cards? check
bombing your own population to terrorize them? check
it'll only get worse folks, if you don't jail those criminals.
orwell wasn't wrong. it's just that it took this long for the small amount of the public to notice.
the disaster is the massive enormous vote fraud in the last election.
obviously the people there are less sheep than americans and decided not to re-elect the war criminals. but the wise and benevolent war criminals decided that this is too important to leave to the tax payers (their employers) and stole a large amount of the paper ballots.
DIEbold to the rescue. in time for the next election. stealing bags of paper ballots is hard and a lot more traceable.
attention british citizens: you are complicit in the war crimes of your beloved leaders for every second they are not tarred and feathered and put in jail.
double that for the poor american citizens.
this message brought to you by the association for the promotion of justice and decency.
say a big FUCK YOU to our new DRM/INSIDIOUS Computing overlords.
even when someone says "EFI != DRM, which is true... what isn't true is that any EFI for x86 will be married to DRM without exception. it IS a requirement for windows VISTA. go check, i'll wait.
on another note, i guess that the new x86 macs won't be booting VISTA on their systems... since it requires a DRM BIOS.
except that modern drives already do bad sector marking internally. it's part of the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic/self monitoring tech.
if a drive you have bought in the last 5-10 years, REQUIRES a full format, you might as well just throw it in the dumpster. it isn't going to work right.
quick formatting is also more properly called initialization. fyi.
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it's probably cause virtually all israeli business is subsidized by the american taxpayer so everything ends up being cheaper to do over there.
well no but we don't have to make it easy for them.
make it as least profitable as possible.
we'll go down fighting.
if you donate any money to the eff, you'll be branded as aiding a terrorist organization.
i only wish i was kidding.
read the FLOPPY article.
thankfully you didn't call it doubleplus c.
it's a computer.
just like the playstation 1/2, the nes, snes, genesis, dreamcast, n64, ad nauseum.
it's a computer.
announce how evil the perpetual copyright extensions are.
99% of the music in the world today would be public domain if it weren't for those meddling cartels.
that they won't address this very big aspect of copyright just means to me that they aren't serious about stopping infringement.
it's the emulation.
i don't know what speed the cpu is in the psp but it is woefully inadequate for full frame snes emulation with sound. a simple port of snes9x is just not enough to extract all the performance from the mips cpu. it would have to be written from the ground up for the best experience and most performance.
the fact that it works at all is a testament to the portability of the code.
it sounds like you are begging a company to allow you to do something which should have been the case from the begining.
it's not a console. it is a portable computer. those processors BELONG TO YOU, the rightful owner of the machine.
the business model for "consoles" aka specialized computers worked for a while... but nowadays buying something that artificially blocks your full use of it is offensive to say the least.
and please don't whine and bring up that "people will only infringe their copyright on games".
USE ANOTHER MECHANISM TO PROTECT YOUR GAMES. i just want full access to the cpu, video, sound and other chips in MY MACHINE.
frankly, they can go and become the next horse and buggy manufacturers in an automobile-centric world. your business model is fading and people will not put up with this bs effort to keep people from owning the computer they bought.
that is exactly the reason for "slowly" introducing features since they've had all along from day 1. they want people to keep updating in order to benefit from the features that should have been there since the begining. of course the reason they do this is to prevent most people from using the good firmware, the ones that help them to reclaim ownership over the physical device which they legally bought and are entitled to do with as they please.
microsoft did this just recently... they released an update to windows media player to enable DXVA (directx video acceleration) of high definition wmv9 video. but as you can guess, they are requiring that users cripple their systems by first installing a DRM update before the DXVA patch will work. i'm sure there are many other examples but this one i recall from the top of my head.
the cpu does a lot less work with the patch installed btw. but, if anyone wants to get basically equivalent cpu usage while playing high def wmv9 9 (e.g. T2 Extreme), you can use mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). this is quite an amazing player but it lacks a good gui on the win32 version. it even plays high def quicktime 7 videos with a lot less cpu usage as compared to the quicktime 7 player. 1080 videos that play horribly and drops 75% of the frames in qt7, play smooth and stutter free in mplayer.
anyway, we've got to stand up to these bullies. we AREN'T GOING TO TAKE THIS DRM BULLSHIT. copyright does not entitle you to have any say over what we do with an item once it is purchased. (read that carefully if you think i'm not addressing the full spectrum of the issue). requiring a DRM-crippled patch before being allowed to use a new feature which incidentally is long overdue and promised long ago, is disgusting and reprehensible. if this business model isn't working for you, don't punish your customers or you'll soon find yourself dumpster diving.
go go Gadget GPL software!
so then mac systems can play next generation DVDs and audio discs that have AACS or not? how about linux?
seems like in order to play these formats, apple and the linux world will have to either sell their souls to the devil or refrain from participating in viewing/using next gen media.
so it clearly isn't only a "pc" issue, it is a PC (as in personal computer) issue.
it's starting to look like i'll have my final excuse to forever leave windows. i'll never put up with any form of DRM.
well thankfully os x runs on non-apple x86, otherwise i'd have to spend an enormous amount of money to get a good equivalent system.
what? you say it doesn't? how odd.
the secret is diebold and es&s.
that the american people would tolerate vote fraud is a very dangerous precident.
diebold's ceo is quote as saying
"committed
to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
and the massive amount of evidence that the mainstream media hasn't even touched on.
www.blackboxvoting.org for more info.
britain was also caught in the last election in an enormous vote fraud operation. their agents were also caught hauling away bags and bags of ballots.
that neither nation has indicted these criminals says a lot.
http://www.google.com/search?q=deliver+ohio
"MUST BUILD HOMES"
and yes, it does need to be capitalized in order to show the emotion involved.
now multiply that by 640 times, then you have a crappy game.
it was a thinly veiled rts game in a genre-busting package.
i also never managed to get past land 3. taking away your creature made it very difficult to expand your territories. it was also too limiting most of the time.
peter should stick with what he knows best... old dos games. stop making modern ones until you know what the heck it takes to make a good game.
next up, game publishers find more profitable ways to earn a living.
apple won't let mac osx runs on regular x86 computers. :)
you cannot harmonize injustice.
will prosecute the war criminals who commited massive vote fraud. clearly, a lot of the issues being discussed stems from the fact that the "elected officials" no longer feel they are accountable.
national ID cards? check
bombing your own population to terrorize them? check
it'll only get worse folks, if you don't jail those criminals.
orwell wasn't wrong. it's just that it took this long for the small amount of the public to notice.
the disaster is the massive enormous vote fraud in the last election.
obviously the people there are less sheep than americans and decided not to re-elect the war criminals. but the wise and benevolent war criminals decided that this is too important to leave to the tax payers (their employers) and stole a large amount of the paper ballots.
DIEbold to the rescue. in time for the next election. stealing bags of paper ballots is hard and a lot more traceable.
attention british citizens: you are complicit in the war crimes of your beloved leaders for every second they are not tarred and feathered and put in jail.
double that for the poor american citizens.
this message brought to you by the association for the promotion of justice and decency.
clearly, australian radio is brilliant enough to tell you not to "re-elect" certain war criminals to the station of prime minister.
thank goodness that DIEbold came to the rescue, otherwise you might have to put with someone more honest than satan.
sony, just as evil as MS and Intel.
say a big FUCK YOU to our new DRM/INSIDIOUS Computing overlords.
even when someone says "EFI != DRM, which is true... what isn't true is that any EFI for x86 will be married to DRM without exception. it IS a requirement for windows VISTA. go check, i'll wait.
on another note, i guess that the new x86 macs won't be booting VISTA on their systems... since it requires a DRM BIOS.
current 64bit cpus are limited to 40bit addressing.
so no, you'll still have to worry about hitting the cieling, just not in the next decade or two.
except that modern drives already do bad sector marking internally. it's part of the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic/self monitoring tech.
if a drive you have bought in the last 5-10 years, REQUIRES a full format, you might as well just throw it in the dumpster. it isn't going to work right.
quick formatting is also more properly called initialization. fyi.
actually, if everyone but you gets a vaccine... you cannot transmit what you might or might not have to anyone else.
and all vaccines have thimerosol in it (among other things) that causes autism.
so in effect, you are playing russian (corporate) roulette with the lives of people.
maybe another analogy is in order.