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  1. Remember there is a new genereation of players now. Our kids.

    They are not used to anything better. Once they get bored, the industrie is down. Look whats it like now. Loads of NES/SNES and Genesis sites on the net. Maybe a dozend PSX sites. The cut it almost obvisiously. Ofcourse the accessibility of games is a big thing on consoles, and with several Gigs to be downloaded, the average gamer wont download any.

    Give them a few more years, if they dont keep the gap to keep the now new player generation pleased until the next one is up, they will fail.

    Also there is a big economic aspect to consider: EA owns them all for now and if EA goes down, the gaming business goes down. I dont mind. I just enjoyed Tetris Attack on my SNES along with my wife.

    New game concepts are needed. Sony did well with its Sing star hooked to the webcam. Thumbs up for that. But its only 1 new concept. Gaming industry will go down sooner or later unless they try something new. I said that a while, now other people join in. I dunno why, but Duke Nukem was more fun to me than Doom3. All where/are ahead of its time (then). Sure Call of Duty revealed a new atmosphere, but as the article states, only very few games to make it. And those few cant keep an industry alive.

     

    We will see a new run on emulation soon.

  2. Maybe i want a minimum of 30 fps in a game on decent settings ? Doom3 and FarCry didnt run in a reasonable manner here. And low settings ? wtf ?

    Try Joint Ops with low settings and you cant say wether that pix there is a plant or the opponent.

    I dunno. Maybe my old comp was just plain crap. Slow ram and crappy mainboard. But it sure wasnt bloated with crap. It was one of those preconfigured systems you get everywhere. Thats why i handpicked my current components.

  3. First of all, projectors are expensive as hell, I already looked into that.

     

    The purpose of the card was to play classic console games in a classic fasion.  I can play classic games just fine on this tiny monitor, or just as fine on another larger monitor, but it just isn't the same as playing them on a TV.  If I was using a real console the resolution would be fine, so there must be a way to get a high quality picture with emulators.

     

    I already have a HDTV, as well as several that aren't HD.  So that isn't a purchase I have to consider.  And I don't think I'm actually going to be using that high a resolution, most of what I'm going to be using it for is emulation, which by default is about 800x600.

     

    uh ? So Plug your comp to your TV and go, that was what i was saying in the first place, all the classics have lower resolutions, even a normal TV can handle.

    I compared my emulated Ecco with the one from the real thing hooked to a normal TV and there was no difference besides the scrolling was smoother on the real thing.

  4. beamers have the downside they go broken quite often, especially the lamps inside, and they are very expensive. My hint is, check lamp repair costs first. Not you get surprised afterwards.

     

    I'd love to play Resident Evil on realsize once, or maybe Silent Hill.

    One day, i will get a beamer too i hope :)

  5. Well, Quality will be quite ugly. But its not the graphics card that sucks, its the TV. A TV cant do these high resolutions you are used to from a Monitor. Text will also be very blurry and you may have to use a bigger font.

    I have some comp hooked to my TV on a FX5200 which i use for emulation only. Its ok for N64/SNES, Genesis, Amiga and stuff, but you cannot work with it. Too blurry.

    But its ok to pick your game and fire the emu, then switch to fullscreen and you are set.

    Try to get a decent pad, like the logitech wingman cordless.

  6. I miss innovative new game concepts. In 8 and 16 Bit times, the developers tried something new now and then. Ecco the Dolphin for example, a totally different game concept, realised in a beautiful way made the game popular. Another world is another example.

    Lemmings. And so on.

     

    Today its all about first person shooters and realtime strategy. Maybe some (online) RPG now and then. Thats all there is to play today.

    No company dares to try something new.

  7. Ya, the ModChip only works on the 2nd Saturn version. I know, cause i bought some ModChip, and found out later it wont work in my Saturn Modell. Anyway, there is a cheaper way to play copied games on the Saturn without a Modchip.

    Here is how:

    Open your Saturn and tape the CD-case-open-detector (made short here. Instructions out there)

    Then do the Swap trick.

     

    Put in your CD copy when powering Saturn on.

    Saturn checks boot sector.

    Saturn moves laser to CDs outside. CD will turn slower at this point.

    You pop your copy out and put some Saturn original in.

    Saturn checks copy protection on original. Wont notice, cause you taped the CD-open-sensor so the Saturn doesnt recognise when you have the CD tray open.

    When copy protection on original game succeeded, Saturn will try to load the game. Laser will move back to th inner CD area. At this point you replace the Original with your backup again.

    Backups boots - you are pleased.

     

    If you figured the swap trick out, you dont need a modchip.

    And once you got used to it, its no big deal.

    Yes, the cd-drive-motor will die earlier, but well, dunno, the Satrun didnt kick me off my seat. In fact its the console i use the lessest/most less.

  8. ANY language you code in IS compiled to binary/assembly, upon execution latest (.NET Framework compiles upon execution) as binary/assembly is the only stuff your comp can execute

    So debugging something is accessing at the binary level, therfore it returns assembly stuff.

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