ZSNES board

Out of curiosity, how much do you think it cost to produce all of those cartridges? Considering they contracted the work, probably not that much. The collectors ' theme packaging probably contributed a lot more to the cost. I imagine the cart was pretty cheap considering the price of the memory chi...

Gil: By that logic $3.30 gas can be justified. Or even $4. Are you utterly morally depraved? Nah, autistic is more likely. This forum seems just... completely out of touch. As out of touch as the U.S. is with Iraq. (hell, people here probably voted for Bush en mass! Or at least, didn't vote for Kerr...

I buy my games used. Yes there are "hardcore" retrogamers, and they number in the low thousands per system. It's not surprising the DC has survived because it has Windows installed on it and thus, is a dedicated computer. (same reason XBOX is still going strong) If I play an RPG, I play it...

I could ridicule the lot of you for reacting to your impulse to make me look bad, and thus missing the point of my arguement. But that would be a waste of time. Who is Batman? Anyone who thinks Virtual Console will ever be more than a generation milking system for old classics doesn't understand Nin...

Isn't it obvious? I want to discuss where the fledgling retro-console industry could go from here. For example, wouldn't it be a good idea to sell ROMs of translated games using the Gametap download model? There is definitely interest in seeing the game gap closed (for RPGs, anyway) from a professio...

First off, let me say that I've no interest in selling or distributing old console games. I do, however, have opinions about the way the Beggar Prince product was handled, and how I'd do it differently. I respect the company for trying something that had, quite frankly, never been done before. (to m...

Eh I'll just link to my blog: http://tcaudilllg.wordpress.com/ That should make my motives clear enough. There is, to my mind, value in the study of any plausibly realistic depiction of character. (that is, realistic enough that we accept the presented as mind) Japanese RPGs are unique in that most ...

sweener2001 wrote:it only took five pages to realize this was worthless.

wow

The search for closure is never worthless.

In the end it really doesn't matter anyway, because the subject is so inane and obtuse that we'd have the support of the ACLU anyway. (in the U.S.) The translation rights are stupid, and amount to information control. Moreover, the translation regime is batantly self-serving, putting the financial a...

Berne doesn't apply to the U.S.. Parts of it do, but those "parts" are very plain. The U.S. is "party" to WIPO, but a look at the Copyright Office's summary statement for WIPO says point blank, the U.S. liked some parts of it and ignored the rest. (the translation parts being one...

Deathlike2 wrote:

tcaudilllg2 wrote:Apparently the work of localizing is itself intellectual. Who knew? (I'll bet byuu did).

I bet byuu has a quite a better understanding than you do on all of this, but you would ignore what he has to say just the same.

I would never ignore another progressive.

sweener2001 wrote:SHUT UP ALREADY

Do you think you're cute?

I'm saying it overrides it... Actually that's a sticking point with a lot of U.S. treaty obligations. TIME had an article about how the U.S. law system doesn't mix well with treaties yesterday. They made the point that the U.S. often adopts "treaties" by passing bills instead of trying to...

Yes, I did. Did you? You do realize that the damn U.S. COPYRIGHT CODE is the LAST WORD and that ALL THAT BILL DID WAS MAKE CHANGES TO THAT SAME CODE? Read it. For crying out loud, read it. Additionally, you're missing the cultural context. From the U.S. PoV, prohibiting translations is redundant, be...

Is there a special reason why you keep TRYING to go around this? He's a frigging idiot who is trying to justify his actions because he feels unclean. Edit: Also, WIKIPEDIA PROVES YOU WRONG YOU FUCKING IDIOT! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_W...

I looked up the U.S. copyright law. After skimming the entire thing, I've come to the conclusion that Berne DOES NOT APPLY to the U.S.; in fact, the U.S. makes the point very clear that those aspects of Berne which are not implemented specifically by statute are not a part of the U.S. code and moreo...

On the matter of the PPU: - if the memory address is immediate, in-code switches are not necessary to determine the PPU function to process - if the memory address is accessed from a register, then full emulation (not simulation) of the entire external system is probably required, because we don't k...

All I get from this is that if Nintendo decided to make some kinda move against the scene, there would be a lot of betrayals around here. My understand of human nature is that acute, at least. Apparently you haven't heard that the Attorney General is trying to link software piracy to terrorism.... T...

Didn't they mean it more like "the americans won't understand it cuz it has like anime and stuffs" rather than "foreigners are stupid". I think they meant the whole "Dhaos was not necessarily evil" bit. Kids these days get it, but back in '94 a bad guy was a bad guy. T...

Word is (from those links) they delisted themselves from NASDAQ. Or are all of those detractors just wishfully thinking? I think it probable that "downgrading" hardware has never been tried by a company with Creative's stature before. (at least not at the driver level, god forbid!) Somethi...

By any definition the administration of the company is corrupt. I'd forgive them if they tossed out their idiot execs and started an open source driver program, but it just comes down to treating your customer right. I mean really, it's that timeless of a concept. What's important is to let everyone...

Gil_Hamilton wrote:I wish this had come out a week ago. I JUST bought a Creative Zen, and would've reconsidered if I'd known they were being this shit-headed.

It's not too late: return it if you can.

Who said anything about a forum? They've got an editorial page which I've contributed to before. As for those who are arguing about things "becoming popular again", you're only demonstrating your insecurity and ignorance of the nature of popularity, thinking it has some kind of "magi...

Google's got a lot this year...

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http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/ ... green.html

Who said anything about a forum? They've got an editorial page which I've contributed to before. As for those who are arguing about things "becoming popular again", you're only demonstrating your insecurity and ignorance of the nature of popularity, thinking it has some kind of "magi...