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General Gaming / RE: Sad times

« on: January 23, 2008, 04:11:53 PM »

I'm not saying that it's because "no one uses Linux" (and I read your post), I mean Windows is more popular as in it's the mainstream choice. I've got a feeling that "hackers" or whatever you want to label the people who write/spread viruses as, have more respect for people who use Linux, due to the fact that it's basically created by it's users, and it's free (most of the time). A lot of viruses for Windows are written because they see a flaw, and exploit it, so that Microsoft has to fix said flaw, because Windows costs a good bit of money (again, most of the time) and because it's so mainstream.

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General Gaming / RE: Sad times

« on: January 22, 2008, 03:53:33 PM »

Windows is "more susceptible" to viruses than Linux or Mac for one reason - because it's the most popular. The people making these viruses build them on a machine running Windows, for Windows. I don't think it's really the same with Wal-Mart. I shop at Wal-Mart, because I have to (not because they have a monopoly, since they don't have one - but because there's about 30 of them in my county!), but I hate the company with a passion.  

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General Gaming / RE: Sad times

« on: January 21, 2008, 01:52:03 PM »

Go buy an Arcade 360 from Wal-Mart, and return it when you get your old one back, or within 30 days if you don't get yours back soon enough. Actually, buy one at Target, since I'm pretty sure their return policy is 90 days. GameStop's is 7, so don't even consider them.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:When you play VC games on your HD TV, do you...

« on: January 19, 2008, 02:57:14 PM »

That's an awesome price, though I believe I've actually seen it cheaper before, albeit it may have been a refurb. Still though, it was like $1500, including shipping. I think I'm definitely going to go with a Samsung as well, but I'm probably not going to buy a new TV until I sell my house. I may even go for a 65-71 incher. I believe my Toshiba is 52" (native 1920x1080, though it doesn't do 1080p, but it has pretty good deinterlacing), which was huge 3 years ago, but now it's not that impressive.

Edit - wow, 3 HDMI, 2 component, and VGA (and 2 S video, for the camcorder and maybe a VCR should I ever need to hook one up), I could get rid of my component switcher if I had all of those inputs.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: January 18, 2008, 03:11:34 PM »

I thought the Wii would have been #1 in the US by now, for total LTD sales, but Microsoft has been doing very well for the past several months. PS3 is an absolute joke, at best. I like how they always say that it's on par with the 360's first year sales, not in the US it isn't, maybe it's sold half as many in the first year, again at best.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:When you play VC games on your HD TV, do you...

« on: January 18, 2008, 03:08:01 PM »

My next TV will be a DLP rear project - why? I think flat panels are kind of stupid, since all of your other component are going to stick out around/under it. Also, DLPs are the only TVs that are completely free from the possibility of burn-in.

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General Gaming / RE: Resistance Fall of Man 2 Info and says LAFFO at Hayloe 3

« on: January 14, 2008, 06:54:15 AM »

Resistance? Isn't that what consumers are doing with all those PS3s on the stores shelves? They should change the name to "Please Buy a PS3". My Best Buy *still* has the majority of the 185+ systems that they had piled up for Black Friday. I'd say they still have at least 170 of them.

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TalkBack / RE: Nyko Wireless Nunchuck Wins Consumer Award

« on: January 12, 2008, 03:30:43 PM »

Wow, CES must have really sucked this year.

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General Gaming / RE: Rare classics on XBLA?

« on: January 09, 2008, 04:20:01 PM »

They don't need to port the game, they can emulate the N64, or at least interpret it. Konami released Castlevania SOTN for XBLA, they didn't need to talk to Sony about it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii tech

« on: January 09, 2008, 04:16:34 PM »

You don't need to mount it, it's not a CD image, it's a ROM, an emulator, and a manual, compressed and packed into one file. I don't think anyone read my post, or maybe some don't understand it - .BIN essenitally means *nothing*. Nintendo could have chosen to name these .VC files, or .WII, or anything that they wanted, they chose .BIN, there is no CUE, and there would be no need or reason for one.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii tech

« on: January 09, 2008, 09:51:07 AM »

No, if you changed the name of the file, the Wii would not recognize it. I was referring to .BIN that is associated with a .CUE as well. Can you even change the filenames on VC games? I would imagine that they're write protected files, so renaming wouldn't work, maybe I'm wrong as I've never tried, and maybe that protection (if it exists) is lost once you transfer from file from the Wii's internal flash to the SD card.

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TalkBack / RE: Olimar Joins Brawl

« on: January 09, 2008, 02:48:43 AM »

IceCold beat me to it, but, w00t!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii tech

« on: January 08, 2008, 03:39:59 PM »

BIN just means binary - you're thinking of ISOs, where a cuesheet (CUE) is generally only for CD/DVD burning. There's no real association between the two. Also, a cuesheet (.cue file) is just a text file that tells the burning software what mode to write, where the ISO (.bin) is located, where to separate the tracks, if need be, etc. You can even edit the cuesheet, change the target file to say, .XZY (or anything), and change the associated file's extension to match what you made it say, and it'll work just fine.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: House of Dead 2 & 3 to Wii

« on: January 07, 2008, 07:50:28 AM »

Looks pretty good, nice and fluid. Hopefully you can disable the aiming reticule like you can in Ghost Squad. I'm gonna be balls deep in that game when it comes out.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: January 06, 2008, 03:57:33 PM »

Jesus. Did France win the Nintendo lottery or something? Maybe that's where Japan's missing units have been going.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: January 05, 2008, 01:28:49 PM »

1 million in France is impressive...I guess. They actually take a much bigger piece of the pie than I would have imagined.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Bully: Scholarship Edition Thread

« on: January 05, 2008, 01:26:47 PM »

Hey, I'll take any graphical enhancements that devs are willing to give out.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nyko Wii remote battery pack in Wavebird

« on: January 01, 2008, 11:41:45 AM »

I tried it, didn't work for me. Maybe they have 2 different types of battery packs.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nyko Wii remote battery pack in Wavebird

« on: January 01, 2008, 05:15:52 AM »

That's actually a pretty cool discovery. You can buy additional battery packs for the Nyko kit, and it wouldn't be very hard to solder in some wires to extend the connection from the charger itself, so you could charge the batteries while they were in the Wiimote...of course it would be easier to swap the batteries out.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Psyclone's Wii Remote Recharge Station DO NOT BUY!!

« on: December 30, 2007, 03:25:52 PM »

Probably not, since there's very few people that own it most likely.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Bring on the wii homebrew and hacks!

« on: December 29, 2007, 05:05:56 PM »

You don't need this (and probably would not want it) for Wii piracy. There have been Wii modchips since about 3 months after the system came out in the US. This is all about homebrew, plain and simple, it's basically what the whole convention is about, which is why they showed demos of Linux on the 360 taking advantage of the 360's 3D abilities, instead of talking about playing copied games.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Bring on the wii homebrew and hacks!

« on: December 29, 2007, 03:35:22 AM »

I don't think this is something that they can possibly patch, it's a hardware issue. It can be fixed in newer systems, possibly.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Bring on the wii homebrew and hacks!

« on: December 28, 2007, 02:23:48 PM »

That's awesome. I read about it before, but that's the first time I saw the video. This could lead to tons of awesome, awesome stuff. Hopefully someone develops a media center program with access to SD storage, or even a USB HDD, then I get get rid of my gigantic Xbox...maybe.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Remember kids only the crappy 3rd party Wii remote shells kill TVs!

« on: December 28, 2007, 02:16:48 PM »

Should have been wearing the strap.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: How many players?

« on: December 27, 2007, 07:03:59 AM »

I'm sure the DS connects via ad-hoc WiFi (same way that it connects to another DS), it doesn't have any other wireless capabilities.