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  1. Posted

    I put flipper buttons on all my cabinets for video pinball games! I read somewhere that an unreleased Neo Geo game actually was a video pinball game! Those new pinball machines that run with giant screens and have hundreds of virtual tables based on real ones can run you five grand!!

  2. Posted

    It's so it doesn't pop up if you look for it, so it doesn't blatantly spell it out, showing respect for those reading the message, and showing a sense of reservation (something most don't understand). Just over a hundred years ago you never heard higher minded people use bad language. They didn't write it or speak it. A sign of being educated was ones use of expression and not just filling in every other word with swearing. My wife doesn't swear much and I don't either. I reserve it for cheap/bad comedy or personal discussions where I see it fit. I don't think children should be exposed to things for their 'benefit' so the 'true world' isn't 'hidden' from them. Perhaps if we raised our children without exposing them to sick, cheap, and stupid things then those things would thin out and eventually disappear.

     

    My children are all high ability students and score in the top two percent in the nation (the ones in school, that is). My two year old talks with precise enunciation and knows her alphabet and draws, practices writing, and plays video games! I was deeply disturbed by porn, violent, and sickening movies ("oh, it's fake! It's no big deal!" was my own mothers excuse) when I was a child. People that God damned each other verbally hurt me deeply, as I had read quite a bit on the subject of damnation as a child. My wife and I watch everything before my children see it and have turned away many things that others might see fit for young viewers. I don't subscribe to television, my children read as their primary form of entertainment, and it makes a BIG difference!

     

    I have six kids and have extensive knowledge in how to raise them, having a daughter about to turn sixteen that actively volunteers to help at the school where my wife works on days when her school is out. She is extremely creative and has read hundreds of books. I've heard several teachers say "If only there were more Caraways in this school.." and "She's the smartest girl I've ever met.." about all three of my school age daughters. My son has won awards in science and plays games like Alpha Centauri and Freedom Force (having beaten FF several times)!

     

    Just because people treat it likes it's part of our culture doesn't mean we can't refine things for future generations.

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  3. Posted

    Thank you Buttons! LOG OUT NEXT TIME... BAD KITTY!!

     

    I happened to have the dream machine for Bleem! They got sued by Sony for showing a real pic of what Gran Turismo looked like on the PS1 compared to the PC with a good graphics card. My games ran great! What it did for me was raise an eyebrow to what eventually would be the Sony marketing strategy for many popular titles..switch up the resolution and paint on some new textures and rebox and resell the same game again, and again, and again. The reason they hated emulation so bad was because when you put a game like Tekken 3 on a PC with a Voodoo 3500 and a good processor you saw details in the characters eyebrows, etc. that couldn't even be seen on a PS1! Why put detail there that the user can't even see with the intended system? The signs in Gran Turismo are another example, as well as the sheer detail of the car models and backgrounds! You can read all the signs as they fly by in high resolution with a PC and Bleem!, whereas on a PS1 you can barely make out what they say and the fine print is illegible! This proves that they programmed things with a higher resolution future in mind and the blatant recycling of software for the user. Some people might view this as a rip off and back away from the console market in favor of PC's.

     

    I remember a friend of mind saying, when the PS1 was still kicking, that he was under the impression that console systems were superior to PC's. To this I could only remind him of how everything was first programmed on a PC and then set up for a console. There are slight graphical enhancements for old systems that curve up or soften pixel edges in emulation giving the user a different experience, much like Bleem or PCSX but to a lesser degree. Beyond the PS1 we still find that emulation has a long way to go. I have yet to see acceptable levels of performance for most systems beyond that. N64 can be okay, but the original system is so much fun and reliable that I always prefer that.

     

    Even the lower end emulation is beginning to deflect me. I'm hunting down ways to try and fix the audio on the At-Games Genesis. At first I thought that the instrumentation was better and so it wasn't bad. Then I heard a LOT of off-sounding and wrong tuned notes doting games. I wondered if they couldn't give us the real music or if they just couldn't afford to emulate it properly and still make a profit. What gives? My 2 year old doesn't mind and I don't mind running those games on my Everdrive with real hardware even if I don't own the cart. I bought the games somehow, so I own them! There are mods for the earlier dye-drop emulators and so I'm waiting for someone to figure out how to mod that system to fix the audio.

  5. Posted

    I think if you can prove that you owned the game and it got stolen then I personally would have no problem sympathizing with that, but I still think that too much piracy happens today. Don't get me wrong, I think that if you download a game to try it out (usually within the rules, I guess) then you may seek out the real game and the world of collecting gets free advertising.

     

    I used to back up all of my DVDs and only play the backups. I later pawned much of my DVD collection and sold it. I kept the back ups for a long time, but then realized that I rarely, if ever, watched the backups and then destroyed it all and threw it away. I felt a lot better about that and haven't really felt like ripping things too much since.

     

    I think the law is pretty smoky on what is legal with downloading and playing ROMS. Many media licenses were only fifteen years back in the day (I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere..), so even though a lot of titles aren't declared abandoned, they couldn't be pursued in a court. I used to argue that it was free advertising for the game and that a true collector or enthusiast would buy something that they otherwise may not even know about, due to emulation. Now I think that people can just find whatever they want pirated and it has a negative impact on the industry.

     

    Emulation can be fun and all, but there really is a high level of piracy involved today. I bought a few movies recently and found out when they arrived that they were bootleg knock-offs. Sometimes it's cute, and it doesn't mean much. In at least one case, though, the movie didn't play worth a crap and it was a big rip off. I've purchased games thinking they were rare and found them to be knock-offs. Really my gripe is more about the performance of the game itself.

     

    The original hardware seems to play better, in my opinion. I use emulation every day when programming and then try the game out on real hardware to settle how I feel about it. The real hardware always makes me happier. Back when I did much of my gaming on an Athlon 600 with a Voodoo 3500 with TV-Out and a SB Live! I would not have agreed. SNES emulation was very fun and I really loved finding extra details in Playstation games using Bleem!.

     

    To each his own!

     

    I hope they found your stuff!! Let's see pics of your collection after you get it back from the cops!!

  6. Posted · Edited by Papa

    Here are some contrasting views of emulation vs hardware.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnF9mMEpwaA

     

     

     

    I think that emulation makes piracy into child's play. Too many people just snatch and grab titles that may or may not still have a real license behind them. Colors will never be perfect, the screen will never be exact, controls will never be totally 100% the same as on the original hardware, and side by side you CAN tell a difference. Your supposed to own the game that you're emulating or it must be abandonware/freeware. People don't care anymore and just like with Napster and music, everything went downhill from there! I care about the authenticity of my experience to the degree that I would rather have the real processor and cartridge or disk playing on the screens that they were intended for. The only thing I think emulates better than it's original is the Playstation with big enhancements that are only available through PC emulation. Gran Turismo cranked up to high resolution (you can read the signs!), or Tekken 3 with all of the extra details popping out that can't even be seen on the PS1 make it worth it in those minor cases. NES with the wrong colors, screen tearing, jittering and sloppy controls doesn't even come close to the real thing. I can't even believe they put SNK Classics out with the amount of crap emulation that is going on in that game with the PS2. It's nice to be able to play a lot of arcade games all at once and some emulation is 'alright' I 'guess', but I really love the original stuff!!

  7. Posted

    I feel sorry for you, then. People this day and age have no respect for one another. I am currently having problems with people booming super loud music up and down the street all day and night. They were playing it at 1 AM in the morning. We have a city-wide ordinance on noise, fireworks, power tools, constantly barking dogs, etc..but just see if you can get it enforced! We also just had over eight armed robberies and quite a few shoplifters in stores recently. The shoplifters got busted, but the armed robbers are still on the loose! It would seem that if the place has their own security (cameras and workers) then the culprits get busted. I think the lowest of the low are the ones who attack Village Pantry stores and gas stations. These workers barely make enough to live off of and rarely have very much money in the register. The past few armed robberies were near our street and we had cops in our yard and around the block looking for the thief! My wife and I were rolling up our bad-mitten net when it all happened and the cops came up and asked if we saw anyone. We didn't. I'm fixing the cameras on the back yard, as there is a big woods behind us that someone might be able to hide in to get away from the cops. I think these little punk wannabe gangsters riding around terrorizing everyone are probably up to all of this. I've been here for over eighteen years and we never had this much crap hit the fan until recently. The quality of people is falling rapidly. My wife works in the school system and said that based on how the kids are acting as of late it's only going to get worse.

     

    I wish the best for you and your new collecting endeavor! The only positive from this would be that you get to pick what you want from the ground up (although that probably doesn't help much.)! A PS2 would probably be the first thing to get, as you can get big collection disks and there are lots of games for it everywhere. You've got your Arcade, Pinball, Sega Genesis, Neo Geo (although the emulation is shoddy), Activision, and Atari right there! Too bad they never made a 5200 compilation disk, huh?

  8. Posted · Edited by Papa

    That's why I have night-vision, closed circuit security cameras and I'm at my house, raising children, all day every day! They wouldn't just need the time to rip off games or systems, they would need to disconnect things bedded deeply within giant, heavy arcade cabinets. My wife is trained in locksmithing and has set the locks herself to be as hard to pick as possible and there are several doors between entrances with chains bolts and sliding locks on all. Our house has a naturally confusing layout, and that helps. I have guns, swords, knives and can throw pretty much anything from a knife to a screwdriver with deadly accuracy. I've been trained in martial arts and have had military training and wake up at the slightest disturbance (6-kids and a wife to protect) while using microphones throughout the house. Everything is well documented and photographed. I put things in the pawn shop and then get them out, so they are very familiar with me and all of my belongings. Getting my stuff sold to a local shop would identify a thief immediately! Placing special markings on or inside your belongings can help! It might have helped to have someone there all the time that you can trust. That you haven't commented after the assumptions that you are begging for free stuff doesn't sit well for the authenticity of your claim.

     

    On emulation..

     

    I still think it sucks when compared to real hardware ('cept BLEEM! with PlayStation games). Your using a lot of wattage on a PC to play something that otherwise would have used very little power. A hard drive is going to fail and so all of your stuff should be backed up on disks or solid state drives if this is your method. Games look different on monitors than on original intended TV's and controllers can have lag and perform differently than on original hardware. Emulation is simply NOT the REAL GAME! Plus, saving states (although fun and great for the time crunched lives we live today) is cheating! If you have a save state and claim that you beat a game you're claim is nothing when compared to the work of someone winning on real hardware with the same limitations intended by the programmers. I often play on emulation (Capcom Classics, SNK classics, Taito arcade, Midway collection, Atari, etc..), but I always will prefer the original hardware and the original cartridge or disks. I use arcade controls, though.

  10. Posted

    The two bears at the beginning of Legendary Axe are impossible to beat, so the game is impossible.

    I've beaten Legendary Axe several times. I REALLY love Legendary Axe II, though. It's far superior in my opinion. I got the TG-16 instead of the Genesis when it first came out because my friend got a Genesis, so I was always playing with him. When he came over and played China Warrior and Ninja Spirit, he wanted one. I eventually got a Turbo Duo and a region adapter with a six-button pad and Street Fighter Championship Edition. Now I have a region modded PC Engine Duo and a SuperGrafx. I totally dig Lords of Thunder, Gates of Thunder, Alien Crush pinball and most of the library. I know it's an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit MOS chip, but the system is just so good!

     

    Diamakaimura for the SuperGrafx is STUNNING!! I like to compare as many versions as I can at once. I have the Master System hybrid playing next to the Genesis one, next to the Capcom Classics arcade version, next to the SuperGrafx version. SuperGrafx looks best (some parts I even like better than the original), but I'd have to side with the Mega Drive/Genesis one for play mechanics.

  12. Posted

    I think it'll work fine. I have run my big ol' fat sixer with no top or static shield or little soft bits. I've also seen a 360 running like Frankenstein open heart surgery, too, and it worked great. I've repaired all manner of stuff and wired and soldered things. Static shields can be important, don't get me wrong. They are more like a suggestion in many cases, like pants. A 32X is a case of suggested static shields. I often found that games seemed to have a higher rate of failure in loading with the static shields on than without on the 32X.

  16. Posted

    Something like this..

     

    player0color:
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    $4E
    end

     

    ..would color your player pink. Each row can be a different color.

     

    If you declare your background colors they should match your number of rows..

     

    pfcolors:
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    $0E
    end

     

    ..like this.

     

    Things could be separated with more space between colons..

     

    if joy0fire && !missile0y<player0y-1 then missile0x = player0x+4 : missile0y=player0y-1 : b=1

     

    this is mostly housekeeping, though, but it will cause your AUD stuff to be highlighted.

     

    Good luck with your game! Remember that you're telling the screen that it has 11 rows with 16 lines each.

     

    DF4FRACINC = 32 ; Playfield colors.

     

    I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do here, but I think you want your bottom row to shrink as the enemy hit's the player!?! I changed the background color and verified that the missile is appearing, it just hasn't been colored.

  17. Posted

    You declare the resolution of the playfield..

     

    DF6FRACINC = 64 ; (These are your background colors. It can be 0 and make the whole background behind the playfield one color or it can match the playfield rows.)

    DF4FRACINC = 64 ; (These are your playfield colors. input 16, 32, 64, 128, or 255. There are many more. 255 would be 88 rows with 2 scanlines each, and so on.)

    DF0FRACINC = 32; ( this is Column 0)
    DF1FRACINC = 32; (this is Column 1)
    DF2FRACINC = 32; (this is Column 2)
    DF3FRACINC = 32; (this is Column 3)

     

    drawscreen

     

    The above sets up your resolution for the background and draws the screen.

     

    Player0 is the same for resizing..

     

    NUSIZ0=0 (normal size)

    NUSIZ0=5 (double sized)

    NUSIZ0=7 (quad sized)

     

    ..player1 is different!!

     

    _NUSIZ1=5 (double sized) using the underscore.

     

    Reflecting the player0 sprite is the same..

     

    REFP0=8 (mirrors the player0 sprite)

     

    Other than player0 is different..

     

    _NUSIZ1{3} = 1 (mirrors 1-9 with the number after 'Z' defining the sprite and 1 or 0 after "=" setting the bit on or off.)

    SO. REFP doesn't work on anything past player0 because all the extra sprites use the player1 sprite.

    Only player1 needs the underscore, so NUSIZ2{3} = 1 would flip the reflect bit on for the player2 sprite. This is the same for 3-9, no underscore required.

     

    Player colors are done like this..

     

    (This is a tree..)

     

    tree

    player1color:
    $E6
    $E4
    $E8
    $E8
    $E6
    $F6
    $F8
    $F8
    $F8
    $F6
    $F6
    $F6
    end

    player1:
    %01010101
    %10100010
    %01010101
    %10101010
    %01010101
    %01111111
    %00111110
    %00011100
    %00011100
    %00011100
    %00111110
    %01111111
    end

     

    "Player1color: " is declaring the colors for each row of the sprite,in order. (replace the 1 with any number between 0-9 to define the colors for those sprites. You can also use the same colors for sequential sprites. If sprites 1 and 2 use the same colors than "Player1-2color:" would do the job.

     

    Sprites are flipped in DPC+, so if you port work from earlier you will want to load the sprite into an editor and flip it before pasting it into the program.

     

    Certain things have to be alone in the code, without "if" or anything else in front of them. This doesn't mean you can't use it with a variable, you just may need to gosub it from somewhere else.

     

    NUSIZ

    COLUBK (replaced in DPC+ with "bkcolors:" and then a row of colors (or one) that matches your rows defined above with "DF6FRACINC =")

    REFP

     

    These are examples of write-only. They flip a bit in the hardware that zooms, reflects, or recolors something. (Atari has HARDWARE ZOOMING!?!) :cool:

     

    RT made a non-flashing list of commands for DPC+l!! :P :-o

     

    http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#dpcplus

     

    (I just chopped up bits from it I use and made my own little manual, as I don't program on an internet computer)

     

    :thumbsup:

  21. Posted

    GORSH!! You got font from John Romero!! :-o :love:

     

    Maybe if they made a CD version with waaay reduced textures and some other limitations (possibly just shade the ceiling or floors (or both) ala SNES, a weird, hybrid version could be pieced together!?! Maybe use the Skyhammer engine. I don't know, though. I still think they could have put the music in Doom somehow. Quake is a different beast altogether. Aiming, jumping, 3D enemies, HUGE levels. You're making me want to hunt down an N64 again and play that version. Doom 64 is AWESOME, too! I have Quake, Quake II, and a modded version of Quake III for the PC (hot chicks everywhere) that I really like, but the first one still has a place in my heart as one of the best games.

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  23. Posted

    ..Nah..it still says 'public' and I don't think anything got unchecked. I'll be sure to fine-tooth-comb it when it gets done uploading. I really can't wait to publish this game. My next one is almost ready to be demonstrated.

     

    Here's a pic from a blurry television!!..

     

    post-40395-0-30227800-1430398592_thumb.jpg

  24. Posted

    A new video of Titan Axe is on it's way! Tips on how to play, secrets, and a complete run with Walkuria!!

     

    I'm re-uploading it now!

     

    (no thumbnails appeared on the first try, so here we go again..)

     

    I've uploaded videos that were watched before, so this must have happened just recently.. I'm doing it over..

  25. Posted · Edited by Papa

    A new video of Titan Axe is on it's way! Tips on how to play, secrets, and a complete run with Walkuria!!

     

    I'm re-uploading it now!

     

    (no thumbnails appeared on the first try, so here we go again..)

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