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  1. Re:Or.... on Convert NSF Files to MP3s · · Score: 1

    Or you could do it the hard way, and record it with an SNES emulator using the program shown here.

  2. Re:Where to buy? on How America Changed the Mario Brothers · · Score: 1

    It was released on only on disk. FDS - Famicom Disk System. There are some pirate and unofficial versions on cart, but might be hard to find. And you'd need an adapter, NES carts have more pins than Famicom (though most of them are always unused).

  3. not a question, but.. on Homebrew Community Blends Gamers and Hackers · · Score: 1

    Congrats! :-D

  4. Re:Wow-Crummy Burger. on Major League Baseball In Second Life · · Score: 1

    Oops, nevermind that second part, the tax is in all the surrounding countines. Guess I have to pay for it no matter what.

  5. Re:Wow-Crummy Burger. on Major League Baseball In Second Life · · Score: 1
    I don't remember ever paying millions to a sporting event. Maybe that's in yen?
    Well, over here we have to (collectively) pay millions to subsidize millionaires.
    http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= /20051017/NEWS02/510170432/

    I think the Colts suck and should leave town, but I have to pay for this shit? Lucky for me I live near the county line, so sometimes I'm able to avoid paying this dumb tax.
  6. Re:Console Repair on The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES · · Score: 1

    If you bought the hardware, I can't imagine anything that could legally stop someone from reselling it (in pieces, rebuilt, or otherwise).

  7. Re:Patents are gone, but copyrights live on on The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES · · Score: 1

    There is no code inside the NES, it's all on the cartridge.

    The lockout chip does have code, but clone systems won't have that (and neither does the official Famicom).

    I've written games for the system and built them on cartridges. Totally legit.

  8. new NES games being made on 20 Years of NES · · Score: 1

    NES is still alive, I'm making new carts for it. :)

  9. Re:"ARMY" is such a deceptive name. on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    "The names "ARMY" and "NAVY" and "MARINES" are so deceptive. No reasonable person could join any of them and think that the organizations had anything to do with military operations!"

    Don't forget the Army National Guard. One weekend a month, 2 weeks a year

  10. game coding competitions on Favorite Programming Contests? · · Score: 1

    PDRoms Coding Competition 3.33 is going on right now, check it out if you want. I'm too busy to participate this time, myself.

    The yearly MiniGame Compo is great too. I've written 1kB and 4kB games in previous years, they didn't rank too well but they were a lot of fun to write.

  11. Re:This just in, North Korea has an army too! on North Korean Hackers Rival CIA? · · Score: 1
    1,000,000 people could be starving in the hands of a maniacal dictator

    So what will you do about it? If you think the "U.S." should get involved, I'm assuming you're also a US citizen, so have at it and get involved. Or do you mean you want someone else to solve it, so you can feel good about it and laugh at your "liberal" strawman?

    The U.S. even allows left-wing propaganda such as farenheit 9/11 to be played in movie theaters across the country.

    Eh, who allows what again? I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damn satisfied knowing that I can express my opinions without having to ask for permission. And if I can, so should anyone else. Wouldn't you agree?

  12. Re:Yes, but.. on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can envision that. But it's hard to tell what things could be like the future.

    A democratic republic makes sense for the past/present, but even now with the internet we can see how easily issues can be resolved or created without being physically present (a bigger obstacle than the workload itself, I beleive).

    So maybe we don't need it now, but lets at least keep the word's original meaning around for future use.

  13. Re:Yes, but.. on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    "Representative democracy" is an oxymoron. I don't see why everyone is so quick to embrace a new definition of the word democracy. Apparantly it's an effective way to discredit the idea of people's self-rule, if we soon won't have a word for that concept.

  14. Re:More importantly... on Simple, Bare-Bones Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    My latest PC (w/ onboard sound) does support MIDI through the gameport. The pin header is actually on the board, but it didn't come with the IDC-to-DB15 backpanel thing. I pulled one from my old PC, hooked it up, and it works well enough.

  15. Re:About bit flip on Computers in Space Examined · · Score: 1

    Are you thinking of Hamming codes? That's a type of error-correction.

    Huffman encoding just makes me think of compression, unless it's another thing I haven't heard of before (likely).