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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Shocking Resident Evil announcement next week

« on: October 29, 2003, 11:36:44 AM »

Ahem...

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TalkBack / RE: PGC is Hiring!

« on: October 29, 2003, 07:43:30 AM »

I could be wrong, but I always just assumed that any profits, if there were any, just went towards getting more content...IE, getting more games to review, getting people to conventions, etc.  I could be wrong though, but thats just what I assumed.  Their server costs are probably a whole lot more than most people think too.

And thanks for all the encouragment guys...  Cross your fingers for me.  =)  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Warp Pipe Project

« on: October 28, 2003, 02:32:17 AM »

Kirby, there is a good chance your connection was due to internet 2....i wouldn't really use that as a good test for everyone...but I could be wrong.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Shocking Resident Evil announcement next week

« on: October 27, 2003, 03:17:02 PM »

Hasn't it been "next week" yet?  I've been following this thread waiting for the announcment to happen.... =P

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TalkBack / RE: Pokemon

« on: October 27, 2003, 10:11:10 AM »

I really like this supposed "shell" thing they are doing in the Japanese nintendo club thing.  Screw all these new special additions...just keep releasing fancy shells...i would buy a new one every week.  =P

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General Gaming / RE: Interview with a Phantom

« on: October 27, 2003, 10:02:40 AM »

I think this is just a guy with a dream, who managed to get a lot of press before he had any funding, and now its all a big pile of confusing crap.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Warp Pipe Project

« on: October 26, 2003, 07:10:17 PM »

Isn't the maximum whatever systems connected the same as whatever the developers say the biggest lan can be?

As for a really general description of tunnling for those that don't know...
LAN gaming is put into these games so that if two or more gamecubes are on a LAN, they see and talk to each other.  The trick with tunnling is that it makes your gamecube *think* that your computer is another gamecube.  This is acheived because your computer is receiving signals from another persons gamecube somewhere on the net and firing these signals back at the gamecube.  So, then end result is you play online against someone out in the world.  That someone's computer is pretending to be your gamecube, and your computer is pretending to be their gamecube.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Release date changed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: October 26, 2003, 07:03:28 PM »

Hey, is the 18th the ship date for Mario Kart?  I just preordered mine from wal mart and the paper says in stores on the 18th... hrrmmm

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TalkBack / RE: PGC is Hiring!

« on: October 26, 2003, 04:25:16 AM »

Well, I'm really excited about the possibility.  Bloodworth, do you have any sort of time frame on a decision?

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TalkBack / RE: PGC is Hiring!

« on: October 25, 2003, 10:18:10 AM »

My email is sent, I can sure as heck learn cold fusion quickly and I would really love the opportunity.    Give me a shot please.  

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TalkBack / RE: PGC is Hiring!

« on: October 25, 2003, 10:02:34 AM »

I want to apply for the web developer position...problem is, I don't know cold fusion..I sure as hell could learn it though...I'm a php guy...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: i have a dream!

« on: October 25, 2003, 07:34:07 AM »

Would interpreting the gba protocol really be that important?  Other GBAs obviously can interpret it, so if you can just pipe the raw digital signal to another gba shouldn't it work?  I'm far from a networking expert though.  The only thing that interpreting would be good for is telling what type of game it is....but thats more of a luxury than a necessity.  You could just use chat rooms where people said "I'm playing pokemon and my ip is 123.456.789.0" and you could input that info...I dunno...

edit: Pale needs to read the whole thread...I now realize someone else said basically this exact same thing.

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General Chat / RE: The dumbest question...

« on: October 23, 2003, 10:09:41 AM »

Uglydot, i clicked on your profile to see if thats how you send pms...and I noticed you're from batavia....word... I'm living in Geneseo.

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General Chat / RE: Your top 10 movies

« on: October 23, 2003, 10:06:17 AM »

Just because I'm watching it on CN for the 80th time, I think FLCL is one of the coolest 3 hour movies ever.  

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TalkBack / RE: Warp Pipe ver. 0.1 Released for Testing

« on: October 22, 2003, 11:25:06 AM »

Thats exactly it, i don't and never will want to play games against strangers...but I would be all over playing games against friends that live in other states/countries.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Time Machine

« on: October 22, 2003, 11:23:37 AM »

Hell yeah...this would be awesome!  Especially if it fits in the gameboy player...then all the sudden we have a gamecube that plays nes games too!!

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 22, 2003, 07:21:34 AM »

I think apple would do wonders to convert their crap over to x86 architecture.  I admit that their laptops are the most kick ass of all laptops available, and some of their monitors, though ugly as sin (IMHO), are some of the greatest monitors out.  My gripe is that if I buy a mac laptop, I want to be able to do things on it.  OS X, though is just toooooo "user friendly."  They suffer from overly dumbing the product down.  When it first came out and I heard it was based on unix I almost crapped my pants.  It wasn't until I used it and realized it was nothing more than a dumb down version of unix where basically the only thing they stole was the command list, that I didn't really care anymore.  If they wanted to make a difference in the industry, they would join the x86 standard and actually give people a choice between two similars.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Soul Calibur 2 too easy ???

« on: October 22, 2003, 07:08:42 AM »

I don't like the guard impact using a GCN controller.  I much prefer using the should button to guard and for throws, but I cannot time the analogness of it for a guard impact.  So I have to somehow remember to switch down to b in order to guard impact.  Did anyone get that official SCII arcade stick?  Is it any good?

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 21, 2003, 07:33:02 PM »

Assembly is definately cool, but hard to get eye popping results...  Hmm the most fun I've ever had programming is doing modeling using open GL and straight C.  I had all these drawings on graph paper and it was really cool.  I created this whole key frame engine for a game involving a slightly modified version of the Serpent Custom from Endless Waltz.  Too bad nothing ever came of it.

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 21, 2003, 05:21:30 PM »

Just to clarify my points...i don't think you are a jack ass, though i'm not a frequent poster I read quite a bit.  I was saying you come off as a jack ass sometimes..especially to people that don't even know what a PSF is.  It would have helped your argument if you explained those a bit and you would get less flame responses and more civil ones...know what I mean?  I have a lot of heated opinions about crap too....I'm just saying thats all..... I've worked on the end user side of tech enough to know that just stating something will not change their opinions.  They want to believe what the commercials tell them too because its easier.  We all fall prey to that sometimes.

As for iTunes, in theory I think it is a great concept.  Would I stop buying music on regular cds for this?  No, not in a heartbeat...there are two main reasons why.

1. I'm not happy with the quality of MP3s.  I spent forever downloading the FLCL osts and they sound like sh*t.  That really pisses me off.  MP3s in theory have great potential for matching the quality of cds (when played on the average stereo) but it seems shoddy encoding and frequent transfers cause too many clicks and fuzz for my liking.

2. itunes does not remember previous purchases which I think is essential to making a concept like this work.  I don't want some god damn virus to wipe out hundreds of dollars of music and have no (legal) way of replacing them.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "I don't care how it looks...how does it play?"

« on: October 21, 2003, 05:12:15 PM »

I follow it to, but at the same time, while i'm thouroughly enjoying Skies of Arcadia....I keep thinking to myself..damn this would be sweet if the graphics were of this generations standards.

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General Chat / RE: Japanese DVDs

« on: October 21, 2003, 02:47:50 PM »

Ok, i got a question now, what makes a regular dvd player play pal discs?  I got my q and they claimed it had the pal mod but it won't play pal discs....it plays any ntsc region..but nothing pal.  Very frustrating.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Donkey Konga

« on: October 21, 2003, 02:39:15 PM »

I think it would be a great marketing idea, especially with a game like this, to just release the japanese commercial here in the states...changing only the info at the end of the commercial.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Donkey Konga

« on: October 21, 2003, 09:31:28 AM »

Clapping is kind of moot then in a competitive match huh....seeing as if one person hits it right on, the other's controller will register it as well.

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 21, 2003, 08:59:38 AM »

Grey, I appreciate your knowledge of things and all...But you really need to tone down your arrogance.  I don't mean any offense, but you do come off sounding like a jack ass.  Everything in technology isn't as cut and dry as you think it to be.  Some things work better than other things and yeah striker was a little off base by being so belligerent (sp?) but you started it with your second post in this thread.