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- Comment on Microsoft FrontPage 1 week ago:
Built my first web page with FrontPage back in the mid '90s… but soon stopped using it after I realized the absolutely spaghetti it produced
- Comment on You can now build Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Macintosh 128K with this $10 VGA kit 3 weeks ago:
Seems like several compromises in v1: incorrect resolution and no audio. Mac 128K is the easiest Mac to run via emulation if you want accuracy.
If you’re interested in Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, you can put those on a regular Raspberry Pi: github.com/jaromaz/MacintoshPi
- Comment on Meet The $16,500 "Nintendo Game Boy Bike" Which Comes With Its Own Cartridge Key And Cheat Codes | Time Extension 1 month ago:
It’s not about being friendly. It’s about not saying the exact same comments in every single Nintendo thread.
- Comment on Meet The $16,500 "Nintendo Game Boy Bike" Which Comes With Its Own Cartridge Key And Cheat Codes | Time Extension 1 month ago:
You’re all making this community as bad as Reddit game subreddits with your incessant bitching about Nintendo. We get it.
- Comment on Ryujinx Switch Emulator Removed After Nintendo’s Request 1 month ago:
It’s not
- Comment on Genesis Shmup Earthion Looks Incredible In This New TGS 2024 Footage | Time Extension 1 month ago:
“What should the logo look like?”
“Well, start with Doom, and then just kind of end there”
- Comment on DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU 1 month ago:
Although DOS emulation is very good these days, this is really cool!
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
If it had been, don’t you think Square could simply remake it in one game rather than splitting it into the multi-game saga that it always has been? It would never work!
- Comment on New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games | Time Extension 1 month ago:
You said:
Another problem is that physical is a red herring. You don’t own modern physical games any more than you own digital ones, This is false. Most games do have the full game data on disc (or card). There are some specific examples, usually AAA titles like Hogwarts and Jedi Survivor, where there is either online DRM (I gather you mean online DRM, add that is the only thing that would make sense in context) or the title was too big to fit on one disc and they cheaped out. This is somewhat more common with Xbox hybrid discs; the disc will generally contain the Xbox One version, while the Series X version is a download. PlayStation 5 games generally have the full game on disc. Switch cards have the full game.
For the most part, if you buy a physical game, it has the game data on it.
as the famous The Crew shitshow has demonstrated. It doesn’t matter if you still have the fancy disc, if you can’t even go past the main menu when the publisher decides to shut down the game.
If it’s an online-only game, of course it’s not playable if the servers shut down. Don’t want to pay for a time-limited game? Don’t buy them. (I don’t.)
In the end DRM is the only deciding factor, not if the game is digital or physical. This is also false. DRM (again, presumably you mean online DRM in this discussion) is not the deciding factor. The actual deciding factors are the things are cited above.
When you say that physical and digital are equivalent, you’re just factually wrong. There are certain cases where the physical disc isn’t sufficient, but by and large, this sweeping statement is incorrect.
- Comment on New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games | Time Extension 1 month ago:
You mean The Crew, the online-only racing game?
“It doesn’t apply to an online game, therefore it doesn’t apply to any situation.”
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
To be fair, there’s never been a time when Final Fantasy 9 could’ve been a single game. It’s simply not possible.
- Comment on Super Game Boy Plus: Ultimate Super Game Boy Upgrade with Enhanced Features 1 month ago:
No, it doesn’t copy the game data in the way you’re describing, anymore than a Game Genie would (it doesn’t either).
And anyway, this Nintendo lawyer fear is getting a little ridiculous in this community. ROM dumping for this kind of data is legal, at least in the United States.
- Comment on Super Game Boy Plus: Ultimate Super Game Boy Upgrade with Enhanced Features 1 month ago:
Your understanding is incorrect if copying involves circumventing encryption or other means of protecting the data. That said, it’s not an issue for the Super NES.
- Comment on Atari Jaguar Emulation Is Coming To iPhone | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Hello from Portland
- Comment on Lunar Remastered Collection Retains Original PlayStation 1 Lyrics, Sparking Speculation 1 month ago:
Fan speculation and a whole article about it, and no one took the time to actually check… I did literally five minutes of research and the screenshots on Sony’s blog post match the Working Designs script. So it’s it pretty clear that they’re using that script, at least for English.
- Comment on Counterfeit PS1 Games Are All Over AliExpress 1 month ago:
For PS1?
www.pricecharting.com/console/playstation?sort=hi…
95% of games are below $60, and the vast majority of those are below $20.
You might mean “more than I’m willing to pay,” but it’s a market. There are millions of copies of certain titles, so no one is cornering the market. People are just willing to pay more than you. In the case of PS1, maybe $10-20 more. No one is getting rich from that.
- Comment on Counterfeit PS1 Games Are All Over AliExpress 1 month ago:
What exactly is your definition of scalping in this case
- Comment on Switch Remake Of Yuji Horii's 'Hokkaido Serial Murder Case' Seems To Be Doing Well In Japan | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Oh hey, I didn’t know there was a remake of this game. Imagine that, a game that actually deserved a remake! Hopefully this is translated to English.
Next they need to do Shin Onigashima. It’s similar to Famicom Detective Club or the 999 games. Maybe they think it’s “too Japanese,” I dunno.
- Comment on FPGA PS1 Teased By MiSTer Pi Creator Ahead Of PlayStation's 30th Anniversary | Time Extension 1 month ago:
If they can prove clean room isolation, it’s also legal for a team to document the plans in detailed technical language and another team to implement from the documentation (provided to them via an intermediary not involved in either effort).
This is how the IBM BIOS was replicated by Compaq for its line of “IBM-compatible” PCs.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation 30th Anniversary: PS5 Pro Collection Unveiled 1 month ago:
I have zero need for a PS5 Pro, but… I do want this.
- Comment on Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack 2 months ago:
How can someone look at all these different styles, let alone the ones that literally look like they’re drawn by a six-year-old, and think, “Yeah, that’s fine”?
- Comment on New Pirate-Metal Rhythm Game Chantey Coming To Game Boy & Chromatic 2 months ago:
Facebook offered him nearly a billion dollars personally. I don’t think many people would do something different there.
But I don’t think most people would go on to start a military subcontractor. Between that and his politics, he’s pretty shitty.
Facebook and Luckey both say they fired him for reasons that don’t have anything to do with politics, so there’s probably something else that makes him shitty that we don’t even know about.
- Comment on New Pirate-Metal Rhythm Game Chantey Coming To Game Boy & Chromatic 2 months ago:
The game looks cute. I’m sure it’s only like three hours of gameplay, but I decided to preorder a copy. Also picked up Dragonhym (nice art, and they claim 10-15 hours of gameplay) and Kudzu (fantastic music) while I was at it. My first modern Game Boy games.
- Comment on PlayCase Turns Your iPhone Into A Proper Portable Game Console | Time Extension 2 months ago:
No, they patented a plastic shell containing buttons which charge capacitive screen inputs but do not rely on transference. In other words, they can be used with gloves or anything else that inhibits capacitive touch.
They cited about a zillion other patents for plastic cases with capacitive buttons (physical keyboard attachments, etc.).
This is a perfectly acceptable usage of the patent system.
Read it for yourself: patents.google.com/patent/US20180275769A1/en?oq=2…
- Comment on [Official Art] Super Smash Bros. Japanese Box Art 2 months ago:
It looks just like the commercial with the Turtles song
- Comment on This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed | Time Extension 2 months ago:
CDs are particularly susceptible to this. DVDs far less so, and Blu-ray (modern games) will likely outlive all of us—if not stored in a shed.
Fortunately, ripping the games most at risk is usually quite easy.
- Comment on Donkey Kong Country's Developers Are Reuniting For An EGX Panel Later This Year | Time Extension 2 months ago:
If you’re like me and you’ve never heard of EGX before: it’s in London and used to be called Eurogamer Expo.
- Comment on GameStop Launches New Retro GameStops Across North America | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
And everything will have impossible to remove price decals directly on the covers that ruin whatever condition and collectibility there was.
- Comment on Gen 1 Pokémon Fans Are In Awe As Cubone’s Face Is Discovered In Old 90s Picture Book | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
Do you believe that Pokémon’s creators intentionally included these revelations in their products to subtly provide emotional closure?
😂
- Comment on Gen 1 Pokémon Fans Are In Awe As Cubone’s Face Is Discovered In Old 90s Picture Book | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
This level of over analysis about a children’s brand was a joy to read