Pet owners vet bills on the increase due to doggy brain tumours. With this thing strapped to his head how long will it be before Fido's brains start dribbling out of his ears?
Your right, I am suprised. Guess they could decompress the data on the fly then. Would be better if they didnt have to though, saves wasting processor time on doing jobs that could be used for domething else. The bit I really like about this document is this bit about advice to developers working on games for their console: Design for controller input, not for keyboard & mouse input. Console players press simple buttons--they don't move the mouse or tap a keyboard
I can just see some Microsoft exec sitting down a developer and repeating in a very slow clear voice "Your designing this for a console....A Coonnssolee"
Swapping to another disc after a few days of play then to another a few days later never bothered me when I played Final Fantasy 7 on the Playstation, so I dont think that this will bother me now. Its not like your going to have to swap discs every 20 minutes is it? And I very much doubt that you'll have to swap backwards and forwards between discs.
How much do HD-DVD drive unit cost?If they do release a new version of they 360 perhaps M$ will do something similar to what they did with their power supply screw-up. Go online, enter your serial number and they'll upgrade your old dvd drive to a spanking new HD-DVD drive. Not particularly likely I have to admit, but its one way they could avoid alienating developers by having 2 flavours of storage to be taken into account when developing games.
Yep they ship on 1 or 2 CDs/DVDs but the data on these is usually compressed. The games then unpack onto the PCs harddrive and take up sometimes double the space they did on the discs. Not really a practical solution for a console.
Yep, its in Game Over. Somewhere around the beginning. It said that it was used as a tourist attraction at somekind of goverment facility, I'm not sure but I think it was a power plant.
It doesnt matter whether some splipper wearing pipe smoking anal rentetive thinks that games are art or not, the industry will still keep pumping millions upon millions of pounds into it anyway, because people keep on buying. I wouldn't have said that the latest Star Wars film was art but it sold didnt it? Made a bit of money didnt it?
Is Kazaa still used by anyone? I stopped using these kinds of P2P when I got tired of all the fake files being hosted. Bittorrent is the way forward (for now).
Theres been lots said about the fact you'll be able to download and play old Nintendo games but has anything been shown of the new games that'll be availible for the system yet?
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Ding Ding Dinga Ding. Thats whats wrong. Whats wrong with having your phone just ring like a normal phone, instead of paying £2.50 to get that bloody frog?
while those with a little patience will likely be able to get Xboxes in the days or weeks following Tuesday's official launch, it's the threat of shortages that's drawing people like Nelson to early-morning lines.
"It seems like if I don't get it on day one, I might have to wait awhile," said Nelson,
Oh no, what a tragedy that would be, having to wait another few weeks to buy a console with (at the moment) no worthwhile games.:/
Jesus monkey humping christ! Look at the size of that power supply, Its nearly as big as the original Xbox. Thats the real reason for the X360 shortage, Microsoft were worried that to many of these things being plugged in at once would shut down the national power grid.
What a load of rubbish. It claims my laptop cant play Half Life 2. Thats funny because I've played it through start to finish on it with no problems. Sure I had to use a lower resolution and I didnt get all of the flash special effects but I was still able to play it.
The differance is that because the N64 had already been out in japan for a while & Mario 64 was a finished game with (most of) the bugs removed. Because Microsoft is releasing the X360 in the states first it means that the games available to play test on these cabinets are not neccesarly 100% finished and as such still need there final tweeking and polishing before release. This may give people a detremental view of what actual games are like on the console. On the other hand it could turn America's Walmart going youth into a bunch of drooling rabid MS fanboys spending all their free time standing in front of the Walmart x360 worship alters, then camping outside the shops in fevered anticipation of the release date.
Sad fact but the UK just cant afford to finance its own space program, I mean cmon we cant even afford to give our troops the correct equipment when they go to war. We just kit them out with tin foil helmets and Nerf bats.
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Microsoft and the Xbox 360. Burn in hell, along with your profits
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Xbox360 profits? That'd be a very small fire then.
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"Please remove brain and leave at the door."
I do this most days when I go into work anyway so no problems there.
Pet owners vet bills on the increase due to doggy brain tumours.
With this thing strapped to his head how long will it be before Fido's brains start dribbling out of his ears?
Yep, if I'd forked over my money for an Xbox 360 and all they gave me was a broken Xbox I'd be a bit annoyed to.
Your right, I am suprised. Guess they could decompress the data on the fly then. Would be better if they didnt have to though, saves wasting processor time on doing jobs that could be used for domething else.
The bit I really like about this document is this bit about advice to developers working on games for their console:
Design for controller input, not for keyboard & mouse input. Console players press simple buttons--they don't move the mouse or tap a keyboard
I can just see some Microsoft exec sitting down a developer and repeating in a very slow clear voice "Your designing this for a console....A Coonnssolee"
Swapping to another disc after a few days of play then to another a few days later never bothered me when I played Final Fantasy 7 on the Playstation, so I dont think that this will bother me now. Its not like your going to have to swap discs every 20 minutes is it? And I very much doubt that you'll have to swap backwards and forwards between discs.
How much do HD-DVD drive unit cost?If they do release a new version of they 360 perhaps M$ will do something similar to what they did with their power supply screw-up. Go online, enter your serial number and they'll upgrade your old dvd drive to a spanking new HD-DVD drive. Not particularly likely I have to admit, but its one way they could avoid alienating developers by having 2 flavours of storage to be taken into account when developing games.
Yep they ship on 1 or 2 CDs/DVDs but the data on these is usually compressed. The games then unpack onto the PCs harddrive and take up sometimes double the space they did on the discs. Not really a practical solution for a console.
Yep, its in Game Over. Somewhere around the beginning. It said that it was used as a tourist attraction at somekind of goverment facility, I'm not sure but I think it was a power plant.
It doesnt matter whether some splipper wearing pipe smoking anal rentetive thinks that games are art or not, the industry will still keep pumping millions upon millions of pounds into it anyway, because people keep on buying. I wouldn't have said that the latest Star Wars film was art but it sold didnt it? Made a bit of money didnt it?
Is Kazaa still used by anyone? I stopped using these kinds of P2P when I got tired of all the fake files being hosted. Bittorrent is the way forward (for now).
Theres been lots said about the fact you'll be able to download and play old Nintendo games but has anything been shown of the new games that'll be availible for the system yet?
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Ding Ding Dinga Ding. Thats whats wrong. Whats wrong with having your phone just ring like a normal phone, instead of paying £2.50 to get that bloody frog?
while those with a little patience will likely be able to get Xboxes in the days or
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weeks following Tuesday's official launch, it's the threat of shortages that's
drawing people like Nelson to early-morning lines.
"It seems like if I don't get it on day one, I might have to wait awhile," said Nelson,
Oh no, what a tragedy that would be, having to wait another few weeks to buy a console with (at the moment) no worthwhile games.
Jesus monkey humping christ! Look at the size of that power supply, Its nearly as big as the original Xbox. Thats the real reason for the X360 shortage, Microsoft were worried that to many of these things being plugged in at once would shut down the national power grid.
And it also says I cant play Final Fantasy XI but says that I can play the addon pack Chains of Promathia? Huh?
What a load of rubbish. It claims my laptop cant play Half Life 2. Thats funny because I've played it through start to finish on it with no problems. Sure I had to use a lower resolution and I didnt get all of the flash special effects but I was still able to play it.
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The differance is that because the N64 had already been out in japan for a while & Mario 64 was a finished game with (most of) the bugs removed. Because Microsoft is releasing the X360 in the states first it means that the games available to play test on these cabinets are not neccesarly 100% finished and as such still need there final tweeking and polishing before release. This may give people a detremental view of what actual games are like on the console. On the other hand it could turn America's Walmart going youth into a bunch of drooling rabid MS fanboys spending all their free time standing in front of the Walmart x360 worship alters, then camping outside the shops in fevered anticipation of the release date.
Grand Theft Walker......With hidden Hot Coco content.
Sad fact but the UK just cant afford to finance its own space program, I mean cmon we cant even afford to give our troops the correct equipment when they go to war. We just kit them out with tin foil helmets and Nerf bats.
Jack Thompson makes Woody Woodpecker look sane.