uh. for the record, Gumpei Yokoi designed the controllers for the SNES. it wasn't until the n64 era that Nintendo started designing systems around games (n64's controller and specs were largely influenced by Super Mario 64's design).
the reason for this change was when Yokoi (who also designed the game boy, nes, famicom, virtual boy, and all their controllers... not to mention Metroid) was killed in a car accident. Apparently, Nintendo used this as a catalyst to change their ideas about design.
Thankfully, the GameCube wasn't really designed around a certain game. they just designed a really comfortable controller.:)
a little background: I've been playing vide games since I was 2 years old... as of tomorrow, that'll be 23 years of being a gamer. I used to pride myself as being a good gamer. I could play a hard game like Ninja Gaiden or Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight and beat it in about a day. I've moved up to games like Metal Gear Solid, Ikaruga, and Viewtiful Joe lately. I felt I was still at the top of my game.
last week in IRC, I was telling my friends about Mega Man 2 being the easiest of the series. realizing that I hadn't played it in a while, I fired it up with the intention of beating it. by the time I actually beat the 8 robots, my hands were sweating as if I had just beaten Shinobi on the PS2.
If anything, games have gotten EASIER since the NES and SNES era. go get an emulator, and see for yourself.
Wouldn't the fastest runner have a distinct advantage over the other players?
I imagine it'd be like the speed hack on pac-man, where pac-man is about 3 times faster than the ghosts. if it's good enough for many arcades, it's good enough for me.
1) saying that linux has massive hardware requirements is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing ever given a +3 insightful. the weakest computer I ever personally saw linux running on was a 386 (with floating point emulation) and not even a MB of ram. linux ran without effort on a 486DX 66 around the same time Win3.11/95 were out, with a full GUI (X11/FVWM). in fact, it was faster than a comparable Windows 3.11 system, or even a Win95 System. hell, even Enlightenment, widely trolled on slashdot as a big bloated hog of an application, was faster than Windows 95 or 98 on the same system.
2) there was no "great debate". linux had a GUI, and many different window managers. all worked just fine. this is another statement that makes me wonder what hallucinogens you may have ingested before posting.
3) by the time the pentium II/III systems came out (with 64MB Ram? how anemic were your systems?), linux was not only outperforming a similar windows setup, but outperforming it by an order of magnitude. even a big bogged-down GNOME 1.4 or KDE 1.x setup would have been faster than what Windows had.
the bottom line, is you proved you have no working knowledge of anything linux before at least the year 2000. in fact, before posting this, an IRC channel full of long-time linux users laughed at your post for a good 10 minutes before they could even begin to start picking apart the many things you got wrong.
I'm not a fan of piracy, but if Australia felt like going easy on him, that's his concern. he never broke a law in the united states. is someone going to arrest me for a law I broke in Ukraine?
this could have set a dangerous precedent. considering how foreigners rights can be trampled due to the PATRIOT act, I'm glad we can't add unlawful and/or unwilling extradition to the list of powers we hold over non-citizens.
I've been a member of this "community" for seven or eight years now. right when NESticle's source was stolen and released. and almost every year, someone complains that the community is dead.
they claimed the emulation community is dead when Sardu's box got hacked, and NESticle was leaked.
they claimed it was dead when AOL'ers came on IRC asking for roms.
they claimed it was dead when Sony bought Virtual Gamestation, and sued Bleem!, because corporations were gonna ruin the fun.
they claimed it was dead when UltraHLE was released, and for a few months the IRC channels were flooded with newbies wanting to get current games.
People complaining that the "community" is about to die are fun to watch. they're like that stereotypical long-haired, bearded old man holding the sign saying "The End Is Nigh"; nothing but a bunch of Chicken Littles running about, telling everyone the sky is falling.
now they claim it's gonna die because the mainstream attention is going to bring more people into the emulation community.
the community will somehow implode on itself from growing too big.
right.
last I checked, zophar.net, emuunlim.com, retrogames.com, emuforums, et all were experiencing MUCH higher participation than they ever have.
Zsnes has 6 active developers, up from the original 2, and quality is better than ever. MAME is seeing more commits than ever before.
emulation, and the community surrounding it, is better than ever. the only people angry are the ones that dislike it being an "insider" thing. the same people who hate a band or artist when they become popular. once everyone knows the secret, they feel like they've lost something.
am am Phantom suporter, as you can probably tell by my sig: [Disclaimer: I am a Phantom Beta Tester and Moderator at the Phantom Forums]
wow. if all it takes to make something sound true is to put a statement in your sig, I guess this means I really AM a waffle.
if you don't have a Phantom game console, you are not a beta tester. you are what Lenin called a "Useful Idiot", meaning you are someone who repeats the propaganda as if it were your own thoughts. this is really not an attack on your intelligence, mind you; just a comment on the role you're playing.
the fact that so many sites have come forward to say the same things about Infinium Labs, and have done the research to back it up says that perhaps you're on the wrong side of the fence here.:)
how can one distribution that uses the same linux kernel (where all the drivers are located) as another distribution have better support? if anything, using Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel would have MORE hardware support, as there are more drivers in 2.6.x than 2.4.x.
You see, the arcades tried to go the route of "hyper-realistic graphics" quite a few times in the past with games like "Mad Dog McCree", and "Holosseum". they tanked horribly, as the niche market those games tried to fill was horribly small. games with great visuals generally cost far more to produce, and to purchase. A system that would support the level of graphic detail Tiger Woods 2004 would require is far more expensive than the Golden Tee hardware. admittedly you could just put a high-end PC in the machine, but that'd add another $2,500 to the cost of the unit.
But I think the biggest mistake you're making is thinking that great graphics mean more profitable games. Golden Tee is an amazingly addictive game, and when stuck in a bowling alley or bar, will pay for itself within a very short time. stick a Virtua Fighter 4 or Tekken 4 machine in the same location, it'd take four times as long to make the same amount of money.
Besides, you put a Tiger Woods 2004 machine in an arcade setting, very few people are going to play it, as the tempo of the game crawls compared to a Golden Tee game. the GT series is just a better game in the setting.
playing videogames for extended periods of time certainly builds muscle.
why, after my first 10 hour marathon of Street Fighter II on the SNES, I found that the little muscle between my index finger and thumb on my left hand was weak and unable to move well. three days later (and a few more marathons), the damn thing was rock hard.
also, playing games like Tekken Tag Tournament (especially when playing someone like King, Nina, or Armor King) will build up the muscles in your right forearm, from all the repetitions of complex button presses. after a good 2 hour stint of "king of the hill" on a Tekken Tag arcade machine, one's forearms will be screaming for mercy.
oh, they meant cardiovascular fitness? pfft. who needs to jog for miles when I can crush concrete with my bare hands.:)
if you're looking for cheap, but with lower resolution, you can't go wrong with the ATI TV Wonder card. they use the bt868 driver, and are a dream to work with in linux. they were actually EASIER to use in linux than in Windows XP, as the drivers didn't suck sour frog butt. I got mine on pricewatch for around $40.
if you're going for quality, check out the Hauppage PVR 250 cards. two of these (for picture-in-picture, or recording different channels) work magic when dealing with digital-quality streams. they're more expensive, but the picture quality is absolutely incredible.
I have about 30 relatives on my wife's side of the family. apparently they all swear that they didn't talk to each other about what they were getting me, but each one bought me a different Pez Dispenser.
sirius only has 2 censored channels: the Top 40 station, and the Adult Contemporary station. the rest are uncensored. a few of them, like the metal and rap stations, have promos/bumpers with swearing, and the DJ's tend to speak realistically.
XM has some of the stations that aren't censored. the ones that aren't are labeled as such.
and repeating on Sirius is FAR less than that on XM. I almost want _more_ repetition occasionally.
you know, I've read from the very begining that the PS2 Dual Shocks had pressure-sensitive buttons. but a cat/dev/js0 really doesn't show anything difference between mashing a button, and pressing it lightly. I was actually hoping I'd have that sort of control in games like Gran Turismo 3, but I never felt it.
The Dual Shock 2 is noticeably lighter than it's PS1 counterpart. that alone makes a difference when your hands are aching after 4-hour Street Fighter marathons.:)
my PS2 Dual Shock is pretty darn sturdy, I'd say. I love the Gamecube controller (which also has USB adapters for using with Linux), but when you're playing any sort of fighting game, they're horrible. try playing Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO for the GC sometime. it's just plain sad. I rented it, and returned it within two hours.
I swear by the EMS USB2 adapter. it allows you to use 2 Playstation Dual Shock pads per adapter. fully supported under linux, and recommended by the PyDance authors for those who crave Dance Mats. Works wonderfully in every emulator that supports the kernel joystick driver, and especially rules for XMame's fighting games The PS2 Dual Shock is the best controller ever made, other than the Japanese Saturn controller. Why use a crappy Gravis "good enough" pad if you already have the real thing?
at least in Windows XP Professional, all new users are defaulted to "Administrator". I didn't even know of the "Power Users" account until a week after installing WinXP. I had to manually change many of the accounts over to Power User. There is an Administrator account, but being WinXP made the other four accounts Administrator by default during setup, I'd say it's sorta pointless, not to mention redundant.
so yes, the grandparent was accurate in the fact that OS X is a bit more secure, if only because it doesn't encourage users to be running around as the windows equivalent of root.
want your fussy child to go to bed when she wakes up at 2:00 am? sit down on the couch with a bottle of milk, and put on C-SPAN (or C-SPAN2). boring monotonous voices talking about mundane subjects. The camera rarely switches, so unlike other channels (or commercials) the light differences don't send a great big WAKE UP signal to a near-sleeping daughter.
when you have fussy children, you'll suddenly love C-SPAN.
Well, give it a day, and this page will have an installer package, as they have with all the nightly builds.
And this page has all the information to install plugins. Besides, flash isn't hard to install. you download a.exe, and double-click it. Rocket science, I know.
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uh. for the record, Gumpei Yokoi designed the controllers for the SNES. it wasn't until the n64 era that Nintendo started designing systems around games (n64's controller and specs were largely influenced by Super Mario 64's design).
:)
the reason for this change was when Yokoi (who also designed the game boy, nes, famicom, virtual boy, and all their controllers... not to mention Metroid) was killed in a car accident. Apparently, Nintendo used this as a catalyst to change their ideas about design.
Thankfully, the GameCube wasn't really designed around a certain game. they just designed a really comfortable controller.
a little background:
I've been playing vide games since I was 2 years old... as of tomorrow, that'll be 23 years of being a gamer. I used to pride myself as being a good gamer. I could play a hard game like Ninja Gaiden or Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight and beat it in about a day. I've moved up to games like Metal Gear Solid, Ikaruga, and Viewtiful Joe lately. I felt I was still at the top of my game.
last week in IRC, I was telling my friends about Mega Man 2 being the easiest of the series. realizing that I hadn't played it in a while, I fired it up with the intention of beating it. by the time I actually beat the 8 robots, my hands were sweating as if I had just beaten Shinobi on the PS2.
If anything, games have gotten EASIER since the NES and SNES era. go get an emulator, and see for yourself.
Wouldn't the fastest runner have a distinct advantage over the other players?
I imagine it'd be like the speed hack on pac-man, where pac-man is about 3 times faster than the ghosts. if it's good enough for many arcades, it's good enough for me.
wow. where do I start?
we'll do an ordered list.
1) saying that linux has massive hardware requirements is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing ever given a +3 insightful. the weakest computer I ever personally saw linux running on was a 386 (with floating point emulation) and not even a MB of ram. linux ran without effort on a 486DX 66 around the same time Win3.11/95 were out, with a full GUI (X11/FVWM). in fact, it was faster than a comparable Windows 3.11 system, or even a Win95 System. hell, even Enlightenment, widely trolled on slashdot as a big bloated hog of an application, was faster than Windows 95 or 98 on the same system.
2) there was no "great debate". linux had a GUI, and many different window managers. all worked just fine. this is another statement that makes me wonder what hallucinogens you may have ingested before posting.
3) by the time the pentium II/III systems came out (with 64MB Ram? how anemic were your systems?), linux was not only outperforming a similar windows setup, but outperforming it by an order of magnitude. even a big bogged-down GNOME 1.4 or KDE 1.x setup would have been faster than what Windows had.
the bottom line, is you proved you have no working knowledge of anything linux before at least the year 2000. in fact, before posting this, an IRC channel full of long-time linux users laughed at your post for a good 10 minutes before they could even begin to start picking apart the many things you got wrong.
you are a shame to your low user ID.
I'm not a fan of piracy, but if Australia felt like going easy on him, that's his concern. he never broke a law in the united states. is someone going to arrest me for a law I broke in Ukraine?
this could have set a dangerous precedent. considering how foreigners rights can be trampled due to the PATRIOT act, I'm glad we can't add unlawful and/or unwilling extradition to the list of powers we hold over non-citizens.
I've been a member of this "community" for seven or eight years now. right when NESticle's source was stolen and released. and almost every year, someone complains that the community is dead.
they claimed the emulation community is dead when Sardu's box got hacked, and NESticle was leaked.
they claimed it was dead when AOL'ers came on IRC asking for roms.
they claimed it was dead when Sony bought Virtual Gamestation, and sued Bleem!, because corporations were gonna ruin the fun.
they claimed it was dead when UltraHLE was released, and for a few months the IRC channels were flooded with newbies wanting to get current games.
People complaining that the "community" is about to die are fun to watch. they're like that stereotypical long-haired, bearded old man holding the sign saying "The End Is Nigh"; nothing but a bunch of Chicken Littles running about, telling everyone the sky is falling.
now they claim it's gonna die because the mainstream attention is going to bring more people into the emulation community.
the community will somehow implode on itself from growing too big.
right.
last I checked, zophar.net, emuunlim.com, retrogames.com, emuforums, et all were experiencing MUCH higher participation than they ever have.
Zsnes has 6 active developers, up from the original 2, and quality is better than ever.
MAME is seeing more commits than ever before.
emulation, and the community surrounding it, is better than ever. the only people angry are the ones that dislike it being an "insider" thing. the same people who hate a band or artist when they become popular. once everyone knows the secret, they feel like they've lost something.
get over it. find a new hobby.
wow. if all it takes to make something sound true is to put a statement in your sig, I guess this means I really AM a waffle.
if you don't have a Phantom game console, you are not a beta tester. you are what Lenin called a "Useful Idiot", meaning you are someone who repeats the propaganda as if it were your own thoughts. this is really not an attack on your intelligence, mind you; just a comment on the role you're playing.
the fact that so many sites have come forward to say the same things about Infinium Labs, and have done the research to back it up says that perhaps you're on the wrong side of the fence here. :)
how can one distribution that uses the same linux kernel (where all the drivers are located) as another distribution have better support? if anything, using Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel would have MORE hardware support, as there are more drivers in 2.6.x than 2.4.x.
I'd say the Bill of Rights would count as "essential liberties", wouldn't you?
quote still works for me.
the arcade JAMMA hardware that uses the PS2 is much more expensive than the Golden Tee hardware. so yes. yes I am.
I know for a fact that Vonage has a 911 service. I've called it. they just ask you your full address beforehand. that's the only reason I didn't go with over Vonage, as they didn't have a 911 service.
You see, the arcades tried to go the route of "hyper-realistic graphics" quite a few times in the past with games like "Mad Dog McCree", and "Holosseum". they tanked horribly, as the niche market those games tried to fill was horribly small. games with great visuals generally cost far more to produce, and to purchase. A system that would support the level of graphic detail Tiger Woods 2004 would require is far more expensive than the Golden Tee hardware. admittedly you could just put a high-end PC in the machine, but that'd add another $2,500 to the cost of the unit.
But I think the biggest mistake you're making is thinking that great graphics mean more profitable games. Golden Tee is an amazingly addictive game, and when stuck in a bowling alley or bar, will pay for itself within a very short time. stick a Virtua Fighter 4 or Tekken 4 machine in the same location, it'd take four times as long to make the same amount of money.
Besides, you put a Tiger Woods 2004 machine in an arcade setting, very few people are going to play it, as the tempo of the game crawls compared to a Golden Tee game. the GT series is just a better game in the setting.
playing videogames for extended periods of time certainly builds muscle.
:)
why, after my first 10 hour marathon of Street Fighter II on the SNES, I found that the little muscle between my index finger and thumb on my left hand was weak and unable to move well. three days later (and a few more marathons), the damn thing was rock hard.
also, playing games like Tekken Tag Tournament (especially when playing someone like King, Nina, or Armor King) will build up the muscles in your right forearm, from all the repetitions of complex button presses. after a good 2 hour stint of "king of the hill" on a Tekken Tag arcade machine, one's forearms will be screaming for mercy.
oh, they meant cardiovascular fitness? pfft. who needs to jog for miles when I can crush concrete with my bare hands.
if you're looking for cheap, but with lower resolution, you can't go wrong with the ATI TV Wonder card. they use the bt868 driver, and are a dream to work with in linux. they were actually EASIER to use in linux than in Windows XP, as the drivers didn't suck sour frog butt. I got mine on pricewatch for around $40.
if you're going for quality, check out the Hauppage PVR 250 cards. two of these (for picture-in-picture, or recording different channels) work magic when dealing with digital-quality streams. they're more expensive, but the picture quality is absolutely incredible.
Pez.
I have about 30 relatives on my wife's side of the family. apparently they all swear that they didn't talk to each other about what they were getting me, but each one bought me a different Pez Dispenser.
I'm now the owner of a small Pez collection.
I'm looking from the outside, but it sure seems to me that Republicans are exactly the same.
see, this is why you should read the full post before replying.
if you'll note the grandparent's post, the next line talked about Republicans being just as bad.
sirius only has 2 censored channels: the Top 40 station, and the Adult Contemporary station. the rest are uncensored. a few of them, like the metal and rap stations, have promos/bumpers with swearing, and the DJ's tend to speak realistically.
XM has some of the stations that aren't censored. the ones that aren't are labeled as such.
and repeating on Sirius is FAR less than that on XM. I almost want _more_ repetition occasionally.
you know, I've read from the very begining that the PS2 Dual Shocks had pressure-sensitive buttons. but a cat /dev/js0 really doesn't show anything difference between mashing a button, and pressing it lightly. I was actually hoping I'd have that sort of control in games like Gran Turismo 3, but I never felt it.
:)
The Dual Shock 2 is noticeably lighter than it's PS1 counterpart. that alone makes a difference when your hands are aching after 4-hour Street Fighter marathons.
my PS2 Dual Shock is pretty darn sturdy, I'd say. I love the Gamecube controller (which also has USB adapters for using with Linux), but when you're playing any sort of fighting game, they're horrible. try playing Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO for the GC sometime. it's just plain sad. I rented it, and returned it within two hours.
Nice that you'd assume I was a pirate.
Funny, because this CD that I purchased from HanaHo games with 50 LEGAL capcom games (including many of the fighting games) says otherwise.
Plus, many of us do purchase JAMMA boards, and enjoy collecting them. I'm one of them.
go back under your bridge, troll.
I swear by the EMS USB2 adapter. it allows you to use 2 Playstation Dual Shock pads per adapter. fully supported under linux, and recommended by the PyDance authors for those who crave Dance Mats. Works wonderfully in every emulator that supports the kernel joystick driver, and especially rules for XMame's fighting games The PS2 Dual Shock is the best controller ever made, other than the Japanese Saturn controller. Why use a crappy Gravis "good enough" pad if you already have the real thing?
no..... you are an administrator by default.
at least in Windows XP Professional, all new users are defaulted to "Administrator". I didn't even know of the "Power Users" account until a week after installing WinXP. I had to manually change many of the accounts over to Power User. There is an Administrator account, but being WinXP made the other four accounts Administrator by default during setup, I'd say it's sorta pointless, not to mention redundant.
so yes, the grandparent was accurate in the fact that OS X is a bit more secure, if only because it doesn't encourage users to be running around as the windows equivalent of root.
C-SPAN lives for late-night parenting.
want your fussy child to go to bed when she wakes up at 2:00 am? sit down on the couch with a bottle of milk, and put on C-SPAN (or C-SPAN2). boring monotonous voices talking about mundane subjects. The camera rarely switches, so unlike other channels (or commercials) the light differences don't send a great big WAKE UP signal to a near-sleeping daughter.
when you have fussy children, you'll suddenly love C-SPAN.
And this page has all the information to install plugins. Besides, flash isn't hard to install. you download a .exe, and double-click it. Rocket science, I know.
also, all of you owe it to yourselves to discover the horrific wrongness that is www.bikinikaratebabes.com.
however, if they put naked midgets and fat women in the game, I might just have to plunk down hard-earned cash.
admit it, you would too.