If you require blood in order to enjoy a game, by all means, get a PSP. Or wait until Resident Evil DS is released
Or grow the fuck up. This guy sounds like someone who listens to Slipknot, wears black make-up, and bitches about how "nobody understands me", playing violent games as an outlet for his frustrating inability to function as an intelligent human being.
Advance Wars was great for the GBA. If you're on the fence about it for DS, grab a rom of the GBA version and Visual Boy Advance and give it a try. It's a cartoony turn-based strategy game that's a lot of fun.
I'm also planning on picking up Bomberman DS when I get some money. 9 player versus mode from one card? That's awesome. Plus there's Another Code, Viewtiful Joe, Animal Crossing... What is there for PSP? Lumines and (coming soon) GTA? The DS is a much better bang for your buck.
To the AC: Advance Wars for DS is out now. I saw it at the store the other day and lamented my shitty job and lack of money. Age of Empires should be on the way, too, I think.
It's funny to read this now, because when the PSP was about to launch there were so many people going on about how Nintendo was screwed, and how they were going to have their last big market taken away from them. Could have been true, too, if Sony had concentrated on games rather than all the other shit the PSP can do.
Admittedly, I'm naive to this whole MPAA+DMCA vs The People legal issues... but it seems to me that if you own the DVD you could make a good argument for converting it for use on your own PSP.
That's not the illegal part. IANAL, but I'm fairly certain that format shifting is covered under fair use. The illegal part under the DMCA is breaking the encryption on the DVD to perform the format shift. The decss libraries for Linux/BSD are also technically illegal in the U.S. for this reason.
3) UMDs don't have as much capacity as a DVD, let alone a dual-layer DVD. UMDs are 1.8GB IIRC. You can't fit as much game media.
This may come as a surprise (I know it did when I first found out about it), but the majority of current-gen DVD games will fit on a CD or two. There are very few games right now that really take advantage of all the storage that the DVD offers.
though for some reason most vendors still think that RPM is the be-all and end-all of packages.
I recently started using Ubuntu on my laptop, and I've found that Alien is your best friend when you run into RPM-only packages of the apps you're looking for.
I've heard lots of people have problems with ATI cards, which might affect you. For this reason, I only use nvidia cards because the compatibility is so remarkable. If only ATI worked as well in linux/FreeBSD as nvidia did...are you listening, ATI?
Yeah, nVidia == kickass. They even have a native driver for FreeBSD. I don't think ATI does, or if they do it's definitely not a good one.
And xorgconfig worked great in getting X set up for me on my FreeBSD machine. The graphical tool, xorgcfg, sucks balls, though.
A lot of my friends do listen to music and watch movies on their computers, just as I do, but the simple fact is that I've never seen any of them watch a DVD or listen to a CD on their PC. It's all MP3 and DivX. While it would be nice to have better (read: legal) DVD support for Linux/BSD, it likely falls under "nice-to-have" rather than "necessary" for most users.
They don't have to cuddle. But you might want to acquaint yourself with anti-trust law. It's illegal to leverage a monopoly to unfairly kill competitors. By telling OEMs "If you bundle Netscape, you can't sell windows" they did that. It's illegal.
Don't forget BeOS. There were reportedly several OEMs interested in offering BeOS preinstalled either alone or dual-booted with Windows but Microsoft told those companies that they'd lose their incredibly sweet pricing deals if they did so.
I don't know that I would call it "pretty good", but I can think of worse ways to spend around 90 minutes. Like watching the second one, for instance. And it did have a decent sound track.
I wouldn't count on the 360's early launch giving it much of a head start. It didn't help Sega, and the Dreamcast was a pretty solid console overall, just like the Saturn before it. This is especially true with the announcement that the 360 likely won't have HD-DVD capability at launch but will get it down the road. The most hardcore will likely pick it up at launch, but the majority of gamers will probably take the same "wait and see" approach they always have. I don't know that it will necessarily benefit Nintendo, but it won't help MS.
Yeah, but cartridges are more expensive to manufacture than CDs and DVDs. All N64 games were more expensive than Playstation and Saturn games at the time.
Well, you've resorted to trolling in response. Nicely done. I don't think I need to provide any further responses to your verbal diarrhea. Come back when you're able to discuss things like an adult.
Alpha support by whose standards? You provide no evidence to support your claims. Java works fine on every FreeBSD machine I've used. And if the FreeBSD Java port has problems, you can just use the Linux one without any problems.
If I had to peg it, I would say southern Alberta, small town, maybe Brooks? Nothing against Alberta, lived there, loved it. But no one grows rednecks like Alberta.
Someone's never been to Saskatchewan or eastern BC.
It's not as if Telus has had a history of being angels in the ISP field. They actively block ports like SMTP (I have a web host that provides me with an SMTP service, but I can't use it from home), and even goes so far to block other ports if it's found you're running servers on their network (HTTP, FTP, etc).
All the ISPs in Edmonton do that to some extent. Telus and Interbaun both block all ports below 1024 on "residential" service to keep you from using your connection for things forbidden by the TOS. I'm not sure if Shaw blocks them, too (I've never set up a web server or an FTP on my connection), but it IS forbidden by your TOS and if they catch you doing it, they can cut off your service. An instructor of mine from Nait got several calls from Shaw warning him that if he didn't shut down his IIS on his computer, they were going to cut off his service. The reason these companies do that is so that you'll buy their "business" packages, which of course allow you to host whatever you want on your connection. Shaw DOES block SMTP ports, though. We have a few customers who use Telus and Shaw as their main ISPs but do their hosting through us, or have email only accounts with us. In both cases, they have to use their main ISP's SMTP server to send mail. It's fucking ridiculous.
and Telus even claims the contract with their users says that Telus can block any site for whatever reason they like.
Somehow I don't think that extends to the ISPs that lease from them. They're also affected, by the way, and they didn't sign any contracts with Telus saying Telus could block any sites they wanted.
I mean one that hasn't fallen into a complete state of misrepair, though I am having a hell of a time in getting a repair guy to come out and fix the extensions upstairs in my house.
You could be waiting a long time. I work for an ISP that leases from Telus to provide DSL, and we're not allowed into the COs to do any work when our customers are having connection trouble. I can understand the reasoning behind it, but the due dates on some of the trouble tickets we've sent to Telus are in November. You might be just as well off to switch to another provider and get them to do the work.
I work for Interbaun Communications. We lease our lines from Telus to provide DSL and none of our customers can reach that site either. Letting other companies sublease hasn't solved this problem at all, it's just affected more people.
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If you require blood in order to enjoy a game, by all means, get a PSP. Or wait until Resident Evil DS is released
Or grow the fuck up. This guy sounds like someone who listens to Slipknot, wears black make-up, and bitches about how "nobody understands me", playing violent games as an outlet for his frustrating inability to function as an intelligent human being.
Feel free to mod this flamebait, by the way.
Advance Wars was great for the GBA. If you're on the fence about it for DS, grab a rom of the GBA version and Visual Boy Advance and give it a try. It's a cartoony turn-based strategy game that's a lot of fun.
I'm also planning on picking up Bomberman DS when I get some money. 9 player versus mode from one card? That's awesome. Plus there's Another Code, Viewtiful Joe, Animal Crossing... What is there for PSP? Lumines and (coming soon) GTA? The DS is a much better bang for your buck.
To the AC: Advance Wars for DS is out now. I saw it at the store the other day and lamented my shitty job and lack of money. Age of Empires should be on the way, too, I think.
It's funny to read this now, because when the PSP was about to launch there were so many people going on about how Nintendo was screwed, and how they were going to have their last big market taken away from them. Could have been true, too, if Sony had concentrated on games rather than all the other shit the PSP can do.
No, that's not a troll, that's a truth.
Yeah, no doubt. Someone mod that AC up!
Admittedly, I'm naive to this whole MPAA+DMCA vs The People legal issues... but it seems to me that if you own the DVD you could make a good argument for converting it for use on your own PSP.
That's not the illegal part. IANAL, but I'm fairly certain that format shifting is covered under fair use. The illegal part under the DMCA is breaking the encryption on the DVD to perform the format shift. The decss libraries for Linux/BSD are also technically illegal in the U.S. for this reason.
3) UMDs don't have as much capacity as a DVD, let alone a dual-layer DVD. UMDs are 1.8GB IIRC. You can't fit as much game media.
This may come as a surprise (I know it did when I first found out about it), but the majority of current-gen DVD games will fit on a CD or two. There are very few games right now that really take advantage of all the storage that the DVD offers.
though for some reason most vendors still think that RPM is the be-all and end-all of packages.
I recently started using Ubuntu on my laptop, and I've found that Alien is your best friend when you run into RPM-only packages of the apps you're looking for.
I've heard lots of people have problems with ATI cards, which might affect you. For this reason, I only use nvidia cards because the compatibility is so remarkable. If only ATI worked as well in linux/FreeBSD as nvidia did...are you listening, ATI?
Yeah, nVidia == kickass. They even have a native driver for FreeBSD. I don't think ATI does, or if they do it's definitely not a good one.
And xorgconfig worked great in getting X set up for me on my FreeBSD machine. The graphical tool, xorgcfg, sucks balls, though.
A lot of my friends do listen to music and watch movies on their computers, just as I do, but the simple fact is that I've never seen any of them watch a DVD or listen to a CD on their PC. It's all MP3 and DivX. While it would be nice to have better (read: legal) DVD support for Linux/BSD, it likely falls under "nice-to-have" rather than "necessary" for most users.
They don't have to cuddle. But you might want to acquaint yourself with anti-trust law. It's illegal to leverage a monopoly to unfairly kill competitors. By telling OEMs "If you bundle Netscape, you can't sell windows" they did that. It's illegal.
Don't forget BeOS. There were reportedly several OEMs interested in offering BeOS preinstalled either alone or dual-booted with Windows but Microsoft told those companies that they'd lose their incredibly sweet pricing deals if they did so.
Nah, that's been around forever. I had some before coming in to work today.
I don't know that I would call it "pretty good", but I can think of worse ways to spend around 90 minutes. Like watching the second one, for instance. And it did have a decent sound track.
Do you think that would still be the case had they waited until after the Dreamcast, XBox, and Gamecube had been released before releasing the PS2?
I wouldn't count on the 360's early launch giving it much of a head start. It didn't help Sega, and the Dreamcast was a pretty solid console overall, just like the Saturn before it. This is especially true with the announcement that the 360 likely won't have HD-DVD capability at launch but will get it down the road. The most hardcore will likely pick it up at launch, but the majority of gamers will probably take the same "wait and see" approach they always have. I don't know that it will necessarily benefit Nintendo, but it won't help MS.
Yeah, but cartridges are more expensive to manufacture than CDs and DVDs. All N64 games were more expensive than Playstation and Saturn games at the time.
Well, you've resorted to trolling in response. Nicely done. I don't think I need to provide any further responses to your verbal diarrhea. Come back when you're able to discuss things like an adult.
Alpha support by whose standards? You provide no evidence to support your claims. Java works fine on every FreeBSD machine I've used. And if the FreeBSD Java port has problems, you can just use the Linux one without any problems.
I haven't, but I'm fairly certain no company would enter into such an agreement unless it was run by morons.
If I had to peg it, I would say southern Alberta, small town, maybe Brooks? Nothing against Alberta, lived there, loved it. But no one grows rednecks like Alberta.
Someone's never been to Saskatchewan or eastern BC.
It's not as if Telus has had a history of being angels in the ISP field. They actively block ports like SMTP (I have a web host that provides me with an SMTP service, but I can't use it from home), and even goes so far to block other ports if it's found you're running servers on their network (HTTP, FTP, etc).
All the ISPs in Edmonton do that to some extent. Telus and Interbaun both block all ports below 1024 on "residential" service to keep you from using your connection for things forbidden by the TOS. I'm not sure if Shaw blocks them, too (I've never set up a web server or an FTP on my connection), but it IS forbidden by your TOS and if they catch you doing it, they can cut off your service. An instructor of mine from Nait got several calls from Shaw warning him that if he didn't shut down his IIS on his computer, they were going to cut off his service. The reason these companies do that is so that you'll buy their "business" packages, which of course allow you to host whatever you want on your connection. Shaw DOES block SMTP ports, though. We have a few customers who use Telus and Shaw as their main ISPs but do their hosting through us, or have email only accounts with us. In both cases, they have to use their main ISP's SMTP server to send mail. It's fucking ridiculous.
and Telus even claims the contract with their users says that Telus can block any site for whatever reason they like.
Somehow I don't think that extends to the ISPs that lease from them. They're also affected, by the way, and they didn't sign any contracts with Telus saying Telus could block any sites they wanted.
I mean one that hasn't fallen into a complete state of misrepair, though I am having a hell of a time in getting a repair guy to come out and fix the extensions upstairs in my house.
You could be waiting a long time. I work for an ISP that leases from Telus to provide DSL, and we're not allowed into the COs to do any work when our customers are having connection trouble. I can understand the reasoning behind it, but the due dates on some of the trouble tickets we've sent to Telus are in November. You might be just as well off to switch to another provider and get them to do the work.
Cutting telephone lines? First I've heard of it. Got a link?
I work for Interbaun Communications. We lease our lines from Telus to provide DSL and none of our customers can reach that site either. Letting other companies sublease hasn't solved this problem at all, it's just affected more people.