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  1. Are you using the default controller plugin? If you are, double-check the ZiNc readme.

     

    Yep, and there's nothing special in the readme, or the faq on their website. Nothing related at all.

    The games I've tried that the controls didn't work were Monster Farm Jump, DOA++ and Mr. Driller. I'm getting some more games to try tonight. Can anyone try these games in zinc and see what happens for them?

  2. Wasn't able to get an answer on the official zinc forum, so I thought I'd ask here.

    I can't seem to get input to work in Namco games in Zinc. Anyone else having this problem? You can use coin, start and the directions but that's it. I even tried mapping some combos and such and those don't work either. All the non-namco games that I have seem to be fine.

  3. Well eXeem is closer than you think. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=632

     

    It will be released some time soon and it seems there are other plans for Suprnova.

     

    Well, I was excited about eXeem, but after reading that, I'm not sure. They are a little vague on whether or not it'll have the benefits of bittorrent. They also make it sound kinda spammy and kazaa-like. But hopefully if the client is too adware driven, then someone else will make a compatible client without the ads.

     

    Hopefully it doesn't take too long. I only use bittorrent to get tv shows I miss, and its all reruns, at least right now. But soon I'll be missing bittorrent!

  4. I must be the only person here who actuallt likes eq2 over wow. I hate that everyone in wow looks the same. not enough customizations. And as much as i hate grinding, its TOO easy to level.

     

    I went out and bought both games, but eq2 is staying on my comp

     

    I agree, EQ2 is my choice over WOW. EQ2 also made the improvement of moving experience to being driven almost entirely by quests. The fighting isn't anything new in WOW, though LordKanti makes the PVP sound pretty exciting. I like EQ2 though because of that customization factor.

     

    But either game is too expensive for me. :thumbsup: I just play them at friends houses.

  5. Has anyone here ever tried AtomicFE? I've been looking for a good multi emu frontend, and this one has amazing graphics. I really love the animations. Very slick stuff.

    But I'm having a hard time getting it to work. Not a small part of that is due to it being all in French. I made my wife read it to me (she's better than babelfish) and did everything in the tutorial, but I still can't get it to properly set up the game lists. There's this odd "MetaData" tab that is poorly explained and seems rather crucial to making it easy to add games.

     

    Anyway, just thought I'd see if anyone here had tried this frontend before. Or maybe there's a francophone here who might be willing to download it and try it out.

     

    www.atomicfe.com(google translated)

  6. my suggestion is to sell items to enhance stats, like in an RPG. You could have things like a Ring of Strength +4 or Gauntlet of Power +3, etc. Also maybe there could be mystery items for a really high price, and these could either be really good bonuses, or end up being cursed and actually lower your HP or Str!

     

    And I also think if such items were introduced, then it would be cool to make them lootable. Instead of stealing frags, people could occaisionally receive an item from their victim.

     

    What does everyone think about that idea?

  7. I was a huge fan of marvel comics as a kid. I loved Wolverine and the Guardians of the Galaxy. I've just recently started getting back into comics. Now I really like the Marvel Max comics. Especially Supreme Power. I also just went and got all the Earth/Paradise/Universe X series and that was really good. It seems that Marvel has never really faded, and just keeps getting more impressive.

     

    But not I'm not so exclusive to Marvel anymore, as I think comics in general are way better than when I was a kid. I read other stuff, like Hellboy/BPRD and Y the Last Man as well.

  8. I've taken a few Japanese courses in my day, and this article seems pretty much dead on.  :)  So many anime freaks..  By the end of the class, when all the "deers in headlights" have dropped out, and it's just you and the know-it-alls and the anime freaks... oh god, that's the worst.

     

    The writing I liked though.  That is, if they would pick hiragana or katakana and stick with it!  The consonant-vowel combinations make a hell of a lot more sense than English, plus it sounds cool.  :P

     

    And Sturm, it's official, you learned a weird romanization! Tyotto?!  :P  Heheh.. it's probably just newer than the stuff I was learning, but that character has always been "Cho."  What was the name of the book you were using?

     

    Ya I think I had the same book as Sturm. Using Tyo instead of Cho is because its from the British school of japanese transliteration, which is a bit inflexible. I remember that our books did things the British way, but we were supposed to do things the American way. That was a little bit confusing.

  9. This was hilarious.  I was a Japanese minor for awhile.   This is funny because its so true.  I remember my reaction when I learned during my second year that everything we had learned was basically too formal to ever be used in normal conversations with our peers, and really only suited for business.  Apparently my joke of a teacher thought we all wanted to go into international business, rather than just watch anime with the subtitles off.  GRR!

    Also, over three years of japanese I probably learned 100 Kanji.  Which is about what you are supposed to know by the end of the first month of the first year.  And I never learned that stroke order thing at all, that just seemed entirely pointless.

     

    Don't take japanese kids!  While its not the hardest language, it is the hardest language class!

     

    Ummm...WTF!! What language class were you in Sultan? Japanese for business?! If you actually paid attention to your studies, you'd know that it was distal style (ie. polite) Japanese you were learning. The japanese in anime is informal and rude, some of which you rarely ever say to someone. Did you honestly expect to go in and after the first few classes speak informal Japanese? Typically, one does not start with the direct stlye (ie. informal) japanese. That comes later as you learn new structures and predicates. By now though, you should know that dropping the copula "desu" will make something direct style. And I just started taking the language...

     

    Just curious, what crap of a school are you attending...I honestly can't believe you're being taught that way, assuming its not a business oriented course.

     

    Ya I realize why they teach polite conversation first, I just found it really amazing that our teacher managed to go over a year without even informing us that we'd sound really retarded saying that on the street to our peers. I had no idea there was something less formal until then.

     

    My uni wasn't bad, a little small maybe. But my japanese teacher was horrible. The japanese department (her) was new the year I started. And she was an absolute crazy person. She would freak out in class if asked any questions whatsoever. She cried a few times as well. That's always lotsa fun in class; a room full of students watching their japanese teach cry and shake an eraser at them...

  10. This was hilarious. I was a Japanese minor for awhile. This is funny because its so true. I remember my reaction when I learned during my second year that everything we had learned was basically too formal to ever be used in normal conversations with our peers, and really only suited for business. Apparently my joke of a teacher thought we all wanted to go into international business, rather than just watch anime with the subtitles off. GRR!

    Also, over three years of japanese I probably learned 100 Kanji. Which is about what you are supposed to know by the end of the first month of the first year. And I never learned that stroke order thing at all, that just seemed entirely pointless.

     

    Don't take japanese kids! While its not the hardest language, it is the hardest language class!

  11. I guess its a ROM when its on the arcade board, since you can only read from those chips. But once its transferred to the computer, its just another file and can be changed (such as changing the region as a simple example). So maybe we should call it a Former Rom-File?

  12. I'm 26 in less than six months. After that I never have to worry about it again!

     

    BTW, the real reason for the drivers license requirement to register is to get more lower income boys to register. The previous requirements were that you had to register before you could file for financial aid for college. This way makes it a bit more universal. Granted, it now happens at a younger age, but the actual draft wouldn't affect anyone under 18 years of age.

  13. now that i'm thinking about it, i'm not a US citizen yet, so the draft won't aply to me even when i turn 18

     

    Actually, you can be drafted. All US male residents and citizens abroad are required to register by the age of 18.

     

    From the Selective Service System:

    Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees. The general rule is that if a male noncitizen takes up residency in the U.S. before his 26th birthday, he must register with Selective Service.
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