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  1. Posted · Edited by Papa

    The games look different on different systems, regardless of the ROM that is on the chip. The hardware plays it different. The Japanese systems display more/different animations, and the RAM in the systems (home vs arcade) are different. The Euro systems are slower then the U.S. or Japanese systems. If you put a ROM in a system and that system has different hardware than another, then the ROM might look different. Oh, I certainly admit that I use RAM to describe memory, and I'm not the only one. I say things like, I have this much RAM left or this takes up that much RAM, and I've heard it used before. Like I said before, I understand that this is not the same as, say..SDRAM, or DDR-RAM. It's more like using it as a universal term for memory, like with solid state drives, or DVD-RAM. I wouldn't admit that there is something wrong with that, because there isn't. You can put a Genesis cart in an AT-GAMES system and it will sound different and possibly look different due to the hardware being different. You can put a famicom cart in a FOAC system and it may look or sound different. The AES carts contain most, if not all, of the variations of the ROM image, whereas the MVS are, for the most part, regional. If you don't think that the ROMS could look or sound different on different hardware, consider the Neo-Geo X. As I said, I've seen and read evidence of it, so I am not just making this stuff up. I've played enough Neo-Geo games on both fronts to have the knowledge to say what I've said.

  2. Posted · Edited by Papa

    .... speechless ....

     

    hopefully just a communication issue, maybe not a native speaker.

     

    I'm just used to referring to memory as RAM, that's all. When I've worked on systems in the past I've heard "How much RAM is left on my hard drive?", or "How much RAM is left on this disk?"! I've heard it used to refer to memory many, many times. It may not be a technically correct term for storage space, but I actually would consider it interchangeable with all of those media. I've heard it by a lot of people that have little or no computer knowledge and have incorporated it, much like slang, into my computer dialect. I was not aware that people didn't refer to memory as RAM, honestly. I've heard it so much I thought it was commonplace. I guess it could just be regional, as I've lived where I do for most of my adult life, but I know I'm not the only person around that calls memory RAM. I thought people would understand what I meant. RAM is space..that's how I see it. It's easier to lot space together under one umbrella term and that's what most people I talk to have done as well. My point had to do with storage, rather than RAM as it is, technically speaking, a series of chips in a computer.

     

    If you read my earlier post you would see I do refer to RAM in the technical, non computer slang, way in reference to the subject at hand, which is Neo-Geo (compared to 3DO, Jaguar, and CD-i) games and whether they are absolutely identical on both AES and MVS systems. I was indicating that there are subtle differences, whereas most people believe that there are not.

    I've actually read and seen proof of this. I've seen details processed on both MVS and AES games with not-identical results and this was my basis for argument.

     

    Whether I'm allowed to call memory RAM or not is not up to someone else to warrant.

  4. Posted · Edited by Papa

     

    WTF?

     

    ..again, someone who's never moved data to a hard disk from a read only source.

     

    Amiga Basic Inside and Out..

     

    "ROM

    This stands for Real Only Memory. IN contrast to RAM, ROM isn't erased when the computer is turned off. You can't write your own data to ROM, and it's

    hard to get rid of what is there. This characteristic makes it good for the operating system and similar things...

     

    ..There is very little true ROM (how can that be?) in the Amiga 1000. The ROMSs only contain the loader program for the Kickstart diskette and the "hand holding disk" icons. The RAM section where the operating systemis can be locked up electronically so that it acts almost like ROM...

     

    TRS-80 Assembly Language Programming

     

    "The term RAM stands for Random Access Memory and simply means a memory that we can both read from and write into. ROM memory, on the other hand, is Read-Only Memory..

    .. each can hold one byte, or 8 bits, of data.."

     

    GW-BASIC

     

    "random-access memory

     

    The system's high speed work area that provides access to memory storage locations by using a system of vertical and horizontal coordinates. The computer can write information into or read information from random-access memory. Random-access memory is often called RAM.

     

    ROM

     

    Acronym for read-only memory."

     

    Microsoft MS-DOS

     

    "Attrib

     

    +r sets the read-only attribute of a file.

    -r disables the read-only mode."

     

    Like I said before..

     

    Both are measured in bytes. My phraseology may be old-school, but I know what I'm talking about. I'm using it as a universal term for the space that memory takes up. You people are all on a quest to prove or disprove each other to a degree where if everyone followed all common definition there would be about five members on this forum and about ten posts.

     

    It's perfectly acceptable to refer to the amount of space a program takes up as RAM, and I've heard it used many times. I understand that it is commonly used to refer to a systems memory, whereas, ROM would be control chips, etc.

  6. Posted

    Someone stole my Supercharger at one of my retrogaming parties

     

    The people that would steal something like that from you are terrible. These same types are all over the place, too.

    It's sad really! You trusted people around your things and it got lifted, I hate that. Those aren't that cheap anymore, either.

     

    I'm getting pretty tired of the crude nature of most people today. People running their mouths online and trying to pry into friendly meetings and discussions. It reminds me that phones, texting, and internet devices bring out defection and insults, that simply would not manifest in real life, to an alarming degree.

     

    Which reminds me. Are there gatherings of AA members? I'm writing a list people that I need to meet with. We're all talking about something we enjoy and have in common. Like I wouldn't say to the guy above me.. "You like that game?.. you're a F*ing idiot, with no brains, who know's nothing at all!"

    Would I?

     

    You'd be surprised how people act when they're not behind a keyboard hurling insults. I like to try and be as nice as humanly possible. I think that my positive attitude and military and marial arts training have made me a very good father and friend and, when applicable, coworker. My children are in high ability schools and get all A's and B's. My wife of sixteen years loves me to this day. I love being honerably polite all the time, BUT..the level of insults that happen over the internet has really got to be curbed. I know it won't be, though. It's a sign of the times, I guess.

     

    Anyway, I got my stuff from Hozer, but it has been a loooong time. Sad to here he's MIA.

     

    I got a lot of the cassettes for the Supercharger over the past few years. Frogger is out there, but very expensive ($200). The CD's can be fun to use, although many converted games won't work without a hack to make the SC read them. The extra RAM matters a LOT.

     

    I would have liked to have seen suped up games like Double Dragon (better than the 2600 version, of course), or a full fledged Galaga (although Communist Mutants from Space does a pretty good job fitting the bill), or Joust. So much could be done on that little cartridge that the VCS could have easily beaten the Colecovision or, dare I say..the 5200!?!

     

    Bean Ice !!!

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  7. Posted · Edited by Papa

    You seem to like to insult people, don't you? Like I haven't worked on computers for most of my life. Both are measured in bytes, that's all I'm saying. I know exactly what I'm talking about.

     

    I have repaired computers, built computers, programmed computers and loved computers since my early teens. I've worked as a computer repair technition and fixed peoples computers as side work. I've spoken to computer programmers and builders and that's the lingo that we use. This takes up that much RAM or that takes up this much RAM. I have programmed games in several languages.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Papa

    OH, you've never heard that this or that game was, say, a 4 gig game. That means the ROM (I.E. DVD Read Only Memory) is 4 GIGs of RAM (measured).

     

    If I move a ROM to my computer, it takes up RAM space on my hard disk. I can measure it and say.. "HEY, this game is such and such ammount of RAM on my computer!"

  9. Posted

    Actually the Japanese system is different from the U.S. and the Euro. Also, the home systems have a diffent kind of RAM which sometimes displays a tad less sprites in things like explosions or repetitious effects, like fire from a flamethrower, energy waves..etc. The home version displays a different screen rate and has slightly cheaper components than the MVS board. The MVS is easily fixed and can even be slightly upgraded with higher quality caps and bios. The Japanese systems have blood and some extra animations, too. The differences are very minor, but they are there! They are not absolutely identical. You will find that most of the different variations of the games are on the AES cart, whereas it is just one variant on an MVS cart. You can often choose what version you want with a unibios or button codes,and this makes the AES a nice choice. I have an MVS multicart that is very good and sports most of the best games.

  10. Posted

    I took the flashing out of the Warp screens and animated them, too. This was because I liked the cleaner look and felt it actually looked like you were being pulled into a different place, like a warp gate could look. One way to test the gate (albeit a trap) is to use magic against the second appearance of the Titan boss in the Emerald city. There is a trap there that will yank you back to an earlier place in the game.

  11. Posted

    Why stop at the tiny speakers?

     

    If you were to take the difference between stock LCD and the improved LCD, and apply them to sound system, you would probably need this sound system:

    WXP6YWB.jpg

     

     

    Is that a chubby Lars Ulrich smoking a joint with a roadie?

     

    Lynx ROCKS!! YEAAAAH YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! WOAAAAAAHHH WOAHHHH!!

    RRRRRROOOFFF TO NEVUH NEVUH LAAAAAAAAAND!! (*reeeeow)

  12. Posted

    The NGCD does not take frustratingly long time to load anything .... except the fighters you can time that it's 30 sec and then the vast majority never loads again .... for fighters it is really too much as they load at every interlude, at every round and at every ending ..... it's not 30sec each time but still King of Fighters quickly becomes King of Loaders etc...

     

     

    I was frustrated by it.

     

    ROM carts are measurable in RAM. If you got a NEO GEO MVS or AES cartridge without RAM (I mean the Read Only Memory, measurable in RAM) then there was no game in it! The systems have a little bit different RAM, and this effects the number of sprites occasionally displayed on screen. When you've played a Neo-Geo in the arcade and then bought the CD system it could have been frustrating to have to wait minutes for the game to load. It's darn near impossible to tell the difference between an MVS game and an AES one.

     

    Also, on the note of 'back ups'. The 3DO games are pretty easy to back up. Usually you just rip 'em. Sega CD's sometimes have to have the tracks added, as do PC-Engine games. It's a bit like having to add Security Sectors to a 360 disk. It also can be frustrating (meaning, I, personally, was frustrated by it.). I would recommend backing up everything you buy and never playing the original, though (Amiga rules, as I call them).

  14. Posted

    Rampage (2600)..I expected it to suck but it turned out to be a very fun port.

     

    Double Dragon (7800). I played the living crap-lights outta this game until my hands hurt (1 1/2 minutes.. :P jk) and I beat it with help from my coaxed kid brother.

    Joust (VCS). I was not a big fan of the arcade game, but was pleasantly surprised by how the simplified VCS port was. Bird A$$, as it's called. Now I like the arcade game a bit, too.

     

    Kaboom. I thought it looked stupid but was actually hooked pretty hard.

     

    Defender (VCS). I also thought the arcade game was just full of distractions and very hard to play. I thought the VCS port was funner (I'm weird like that).

     

    Asteroids (A$$-turd-roids.. :dunce: ) (VCS). The arcade game was frustrating for me due to the lack of any real controls, but I could play the VCS one well and my wife and I enjoy it (oops, I teleported..). She cannot be beaten in this game and I really need to put up a picture of one of her scores, 'cause it's ridiculous.

     

    Galaga (7800).. I didn't like the box art and thought they should have tried to accurately portray the ship, but was surprised at how great it plays and, again, the wife loves it big time and plays it in our arcade.

     

    Pacman..I wasn't really into ol' Puckman when it was all over the arcades, but really had fun with the VCS version. I played it a lot and am currently loving the 4K and 8K versions. 8K is just awesome!

  21. Posted

    I just meant that the Neo-Geo CD took a frustratingly long time to load anything. Pulstar is the worst, I've heard. You can recap a Neo Geo and they sell cards to let you play MVS on AES. When I think of the Genesis and how awesome the arcade ports were and then how it blew my mind how different they really were (usually less color) when compared side by side, I am also reminded that the Neo Geo AES stuff was the ever tiniest ,barely noticeably, little bit different than the MVS. Mostly just a little less splashy stuff here and there due to a tiny bit less RAM.

     

    I really like a lot of the fighters for it! Voltage Fighter Gowkaizer was one of my favs (lots of hot chicks in wedgie-ware), and the hack jobs like King of Gladiator are really fun (and Mai rips out her rack every time you blaze across the screen :P ). Some of the KOF series are better than others, if you can even tell them apart aside from the titles. Metal Slug is a great game, but the arcade demo screen is so annoying with the "AHHHH... AHHHHH. AHHHHH...AHHHHHH" ever repetitious death WAV screaming every couple of seconds. There are a LOT of faithful multicarts for those games, too. It seems that a lot of these carts start with Neo-Geo emulation and then work their way around other titles afterwards. I really loved League Bowling and Magician Lord back in the day. I still play them both in my arcade at times. League Bowling just never gets boring to me..

     

    I'm sure the Jag could keep up (prolly the CD over carts, though)!

  23. Posted

    They're all pretty fun in one way or another! Pending they still work, and your internet is out (no DLC or logging in to your Windows, 360, PS3, PS4, XboxOne games..), and your 360 just went RROD, or your PS3 BSOD, or your PS4 won't connect to PSN, or you just want to play a fun game that's not drinking your soul or replacing your life while requiring a headset, subscription, and a portable urinal!!

     

    It would be great to somehow port Neo-Geo stuff over to the Jag just to see what that would be like..

     

    I think Neo-Geo is still pretty awesome (although the NeoGeoCD was a wreck).

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