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    GCN RE4 > PS2 RE4

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by NeoMaster

    Reading This Report it seems that rumours of the PS2 version of RE4 will have significant downgrades compared to the Gamecube version. For some quickies from the report are

     

    1. RE4 GCN supported 24-bit textures. PS2 version will have to be downgraded to 8/4 bit to make it non laggy.

     

    2. Leon had about 10000 polygons, PS2 will have to reduce it by 5000.

     

    3. Lighting effects and layers and crap like that had to be removed from the PS2 version to stabilize frame rate.

     

    Just a reminder IT IS ONLY A RUMOUR and a not proven fact.

     

    I want it to be just a rumour...for getting it on PS2 is a lot cheaper than getting it on the CUBE. :peopleseybrow::lol:

    Gba > DS

    in Other Emulators [/pc/other]

    Posted

    I'm getting afraid that PSP will pwn DS. Only if the PSP had more battery life and got rid of that sticky button and rapid fire disc shooting blade of disc-struction.

     

    I hate sticky buttons! I know from experience because my crap ass black Dreamcast controller has that same problem...in the same spot too! Argh...can't play kof2002...properly.

    Bit Torrent Help

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted

    I have BitTornado, only problem with it is that when I have multiple downloads, it slows down tremendously for each download.

     

    I also tried bit comet, what I don't like about it is that I didn't really get better download rates that Azureus. And when I switched back to Azureus after using BitComet, errors happened when I tried to resume partial downloads.

    Bit Torrent Help

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

    Posted · Edited by NeoMaster

    Did you check the number of seeds the torrent's have? I end up downloading at this speed also, and my download speed has gone up to 400K/B. But then again  I was downloading from a fast server. My average speed is 150 KB - 220Kb.

    You sir...have a godly connection. *Drool* 220kb...

     

    Where was I? Oh yeah, I usually download torrents that have really good health and many seeds. For some odd reason, the downloads that have little number of seeds and downloaders at medium health are the ones that give me good results. Oh yeah, my connection is shared with another computer and my wire goes through a router which is firewalled. I'm not really asking for that 160kb experience I had before because I know it's shared, I just want it to get back to the 60kb/30kb ratio I had before.

    Bit Torrent Help

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

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    The first time I've ever used bit torrent for my downloads was with Azureus. I was downloading at a total speed of 120kb/s and uploading at 30kbs/s.

    Things simmered down and the average is usually 45dl and 30ul. Then what happened was my connection kept going off whenever I used Azureus. I uninstalled it for awhile and then re got it and things seemed to work fine. Since the last week, I can't seem to get any reasonable download speeds with Azureus. Most of the time it's like 2kb/s for download and 21kb/s for upload and it's really annoying. I later switched to Bit Tornado and things seemed to get better. Sometimes a download would be 65kbs dl and 15 kb/s ul, but now BT is suffering from the same problem. Anyone have a solution or similar experiences? What is the best program to use?

     

    Other notes:

    My connection is still fast. When downloading from pcgameworld.com I usually get 350kb/s.

     

    The second time Azureus had problems, it was slow and for some reason lagged my web surfing and other things related to internet.

    Sony PSP release date and Price

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by NeoMaster

    This system looks RETARDED! I rather wait a year or two , like everyone else is. Your must be shitting bricks if you think I want my parents wasting $400-$500 on a HANDHELD system. I play PC games half the time anyways , and online!

    Preach it brother!

     

    It's best to wait for Nintendo and Sony to slap each other around in competition, then u'll be able to afford both systems.

     

    EDIT:

     

    This is quoted from GameSpot. Basically, various editors comment on the revealing on the PSP price announcement.

    Greg Kasavin/Executive Editor

     

    "That pricing's a lot higher than I thought, but I think I know why. All the facts suggest to me that Sony is dismissing Nintendo as a direct competitor.

     

    I think Sony's delayed the actual decision about US pricing for as long as possible to survey the Nintendo DS's follow-through and to be able to react to it accordingly. In Japan, the two systems launched much more closely together, so it's understandable that Sony would have tried to match Nintendo's pricing at that time. But now the dust has settled on the DS launch, and it's becoming clearer and clearer that there hasn't been much follow-through after the initial rush precipitated by the DS's release. So, I figure Sony thinks it can conduct business on its own terms, while more or less discounting the DS.

     

    The other thing is, Sony's probably noticed common themes in feedback about the PSP, and one of them must certainly be about how sleek and sexy a device it is. Comparisons between the PSP and the iPod are common, and Apple succeeded at marketing the iPod as sort of a premium product: You felt special to get one. You had to pay a pretty steep price to make it yours, but it was worth it. I think the PSP could easily succeed along the same lines. Yeah, I wish it was cheaper than $250 (I wish the PSP--and everything else--was free and that there was peace and harmony in the world, and a bunch of other crap), and I think $50 for its games sounds awfully steep. But do I think it's worth it? Hell, yes! I already imported one for about that much and have been happily playing it ever since. In fact, I just barely missed beating my high score in Lumines yesterday."

     

     

    Jeff Gerstmann/Senior Editor

     

    "It's more than I expected, but it's still a feasible price. Personally, I always expected Sony to just gangster its way into the handheld market by pricing the PSP at $149. Why not just take it to Nintendo at full blast, right from day one, right? But I suppose the $250 price makes a little more sense. An iPod mini costs $250, after all, and that thing's a frickin' phenomenon. Plus, the Nintendo DS may have sold well over the holidays, but with a weak batch of software already out and the next batch not looking so hot, either (how do you mess up something as simple as WarioWare?), the PSP-DS competition sort of seems like a nonfactor at this point. But enough about comparing the two systems. Taken on its own, the PSP is easily worth 250 bones, even if you were only going to use it as a portable video player. When you factor in that it plays games, many of which we already know to be totally rad, the 250 bucks starts to sound like a deal.

     

    How about that list of games, eh? That's a thick launch list, and even now they're claiming these 24 titles are going to be for the "launch window." I'd actually expect somewhere around 12 to 15 games to be in stores on March 24. I've already played the heck out of Darkstalkers, Lumines, and Ridge Racer, but I'm still interested to see if they make the transition to the US fully intact. I'm sure they probably will. As for stuff I haven't already played a ton of yet, I think Untold Legends looks rad, and games like Wipeout Pure, NBA Street Showdown, and THUG2 Remix seem to be quickly burrowing their ways into my skull, too.

     

    With its lengthy list of great games, sleek design, and useful media features, the PSP is an extremely desire-worthy piece of hardware. It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

     

     

    Alex Navarro/Associate Editor

     

    "The first thing that ran through my head when I read the announcement about the Sony launch price point was, 'OK, great. So what's the price if I don't want all that other crap?' Seriously, forced bundles are the bane of my existence, and this one barely even seems like an actual bundle. Things like an AC adapter, battery pack, soft case, and headphones really ought to just be a given, right? Guess not. And why the hell do I need a free UMD (Universal Media Disc) copy of Spider-Man 2? So I can play it and go, 'Yep, that's Spider-Man 2 alright. I sure do already own this on DVD.' I think I'm really missing the 'value' portion of that 'Value Pack' title.

     

    But, ultimately, I guess it doesn't matter. The launch lineup is a strong one, it would seem, and frankly, an extra $50 isn't going to deny me that ivory backscratcher I've been pining for if I opt to pick up a PSP at launch. For what the system has, $250 isn't the worst price in the world (it's actually still pretty cheap considering what it must cost to make those damned things); it just isn't the most competitive price, either...especially if Sony really wants to pry Nintendo fans away from their beloved DSes and Game Boys."

     

     

    Bob Colayco/Features Editor

     

    "The pricing is disappointing when you think about what the PSP costs in Japan: under $200. Sony really pulled the rug from under us North American consumers. The only so-called value-added item I can see in the box is the 32MB Memory Stick, which is utterly ridiculous. What am I going to do with a 32MB Memory Stick? Load six MP3s on it? If you look on any pricing search engine, you can buy a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo for only $125, which will actually hold a feature length movie and a good number of MP3s. The 32MB one is about as useful as the 8MB flash card that comes with a digital camera. You know, the one that holds eight pictures? Oh! I forgot that Spider-Man 2 is included on UMD. Who cares?! If I did care, I'd do what everyone else is going to do: rip my DVD to computer and then load it onto a Memory Stick.

     

    The good news is that there's going to be a hearty lineup of launch games on the PSP that I'm interested in playing, which is a lot more than can be said about the Nintendo DS's lineup...months after that system's debut. Ape Escape, Lumines, NBA Street Showdown, Untold Legends, and Wipeout Pure all look like compelling games. But despite a clear advantage in software, Sony is missing a golden opportunity here to jab a hot knife into Nintendo's complete dominance over this market. Or is it? I'm going to buy a PSP anyway, despite being annoyed at its price. And that right there tells you why Sony priced its unit the way it did. Because Sony can."

     

     

    Avery Score/Assistant Editor, Mobile Games

     

    "In our Game of the Year Awards, we called Sony's offering of the PSP for 19,800 yen ($185 US) the biggest news of 2004. We naturally assumed this would correlate to a similar price on US shores, which seemed like the sort of thing capable of wiping the perpetually wide-eyed, smirking expression from Shigeru Miyamoto's pedomorphic face. What we didn't count on is that Sony's executives, to use a term coined by the current holder of our national executive office, are a bunch of 'freedom haters.'

     

    Freedom is about not having to drop a massive wad of cash for the privilege of buying a 'Value Pack,' which includes a host of Sony products that may or may not be of interest to a given consumer. Being forced to buy more than you bargained for can rarely be described as a 'value.' Of course, the lucky first million get a free UMD copy of Spider-Man 2! Now we can watch our Sony-published films on our Sony console with our Sony headphones! This Value Pack is sounding more and more like a mugging. At least when you have your cash literally stolen, you don't feel like a piece of consumer cattle.

     

    It's hard to not be resentful of a populace that's effectively getting its PSPs for 50 fewer dollars than we. Was the theory that the Japanese population is more likely to notice that its square buttons don't work properly? Is this restitution for the flying UMD issues that cropped up in the PSP launch units? Whatever the reason, I am supremely displeased.

     

    Were it not for the region encoding of UMD movies, as well as prohibitive shipping costs, it might make sense to simply import the device. You'd be saving more pride than actual cash, but that's nonetheless an interesting situation. I can't think of a single other instance when hardware has been cheaper to import from Japan than to purchase domestically. I thought hardware was supposed to get cheaper over time, not more expensive. For example, I bought my first-gen PlayStation 2 in Japan for around $400. I was later ridiculed by friends who picked up the system for much cheaper...and who didn't end up playing the Bouncer 50 times until real games started coming out. Come to think of it, that was another time Sony screwed me over! Dammit!"

     

    I'll still buy a PSP, but I'll scowl as I do so. Hopefully, the cashier will note my displeasure, and Sony reps will be somehow notified. Call it trickle-down scowling."

     

    If you don't want to bother reading all of it, let me sum it up.

     

    1. Editors are pissed that it's priced so high, but they'll buy it anyway.

    2. They see Nintendo DS as a low threat and believe that Sony can mark it high because DS would not be directly competing with them.

    3. They don't care because PSP is the best and it's worth it :shootem:

    Sony PSP release date and Price

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted

    But K'dash performs his duties as forum troll most skillfully.

    ...That's no something I'd necessarily be very proud of.

     

     

    D:' D:' D:'

    This is why I love being on the internet. I can be a tool and still win even if it looks like I lost.

     

    Edit: NeoMaster. The SP is 100 CAD? Over here in it's 89.99 while the regular GBA is 69.99, yes I am in Canada.

    Yeah I know that. When it was 130 CAD, I was like... "Just a little more..."

    Then bam. $99. But then boxing day came and ever since the SP was $80-90. The lowest I've seen it go was $70 but it was that Best Buy super boxing day once in a lifetime bonanza.

    Uwe Boll should stop making movies.

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted

    Boll thinks the Bloodrayne movie is going to be succesful because there is going to be lesbian sex in it.

     

    I sincerely think something is wrong with him. I haven't seen any of his movies, but I have heard they are awful. The whole world is telling him that his movies are bad, but he refuses to believe. What gives?

     

    And it's a crying shame he is going to wreck Far Cry.

     

    If he gets his hands on rights to make any movies out of QUAKE, DOOM, DIABLO, STARCRAFT or PLANESCAPE: TORMENT, I will personally assassinate him.

    Really? Lesbian?!! I'm preordering the DVD this second!

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