Teknik_SE-R
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not at my house. i'm too far north in UT, I got some rugrats running around, and the tv i have for games is pretty poor.
I think SLC was fine like last time, but I know there are other ppl from CO that attend.
It would be cool to set it up at large open location, but I don't want to volunteer anyone to facilitate a place like this or ask anyone to pay to rent a place out. although I wouldn't mind chipping in.
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if a new thread starts regarding the next one, plz post it here too or someone please pm me on here or on DP. I don't want to miss out!
btw late may would be a good ida cuz school gets out the first week of may, and things would be settled by the end of the month.
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yup, I missed it. darn jewelry party. oh well, my two babies were sick too, so it wouldn't have been a good idea anyway.
any plans for a sequel? mountain west gaiming night 2... the return of the NUON?
and what about pics yo?
anyway, I'm looking forward to having time to do, well, anything, but this is definitely high up on MLoTtD
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Funny, I just noticed the address. my sister lives right around 1st ave.
BTW, my wife is hosting some jewelry party on fri, so I might not make it.
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Gateway PMed me at digital press. Thanks man!
I'll try to make it. my schedule is all messed up as of jan 9. I don't really have anything to bring for trade or to play considering I don't own any atari's, but I'm down for some crazy classic gaming! don't mean to steal your thread, but whats the dl on packrat video games? never heard of them
I have to rely on the old whale, game crazy, rhino, and the bay for games. the second hand stores around here suck for game content.
anyone ever go to the swap meets in west valley?
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yeah, I have a few neat local record shops (the buy/sell/trade type) taht sell everything multimedia including videogames from day 1 to present.
all of their games are pretty much the same price (except ones they know are rare or complete) so depending on the game you buy, its either a steal or a ripoff.
If there is a place like that around you I suggest going there.
oh and anything RPG related goes for at least $30 no matter where you buy. The best deal I have ever snagged is E.V.O. and FFII in a bundle for $55. Both carts were loose.
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no aux ports for the keyboard, only US controller ports. but it does support the disk system.
http://www.playmessiah.com/images/onlinest...Cdisksystem.jpg
actualy, jag, I've never seen the reviews say the nes doesn't do stuff, just that the NEX has these features. I must admit it is misleading, but I think it is more ignorance, than intentional.
The "I'm an important person with an informed opinion" blogger craze, has screwed alot of things up. I think that these people are the ones that get hired for editorial magazines nowdays. Just cuz you can write in a "wacky and entertaining to some" way, doesn't mean you have the credentials to write about something.
Hey look at me! I can write funny quips about stuff, and I like cars, let me write reviews about the latest car stuff without any comparison to its peers or predecessors! **looks at Super Street magazine**
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I like it;
External hard drive (for portability)
a good blend of modern AND classic gaming consoles
small panel gaps
innovative wayof covering up a big a$$ heatsink
plays with the original system oriented backwards
what isn't to like?
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nevermind, I didn't realize you were the author of this
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sometimes when paypal says an item is "shipped" it just means that the item has been entered for pickup. Businesses and business complexes have parcel companies come on a daily basis like the way usps comes daily to your house, and the item actually won't get shipped until up to two days later when it is picked up.
also, FedEx doesn't always give out tracking #s although they have them for their own use, so Messiah, and consequently paypal couldn't provide one.
I didn't get a tracking number for my controllers. I wouldn't worry about it (I'm sure you have the NEX by now anyway)
If you did get it what are your thoughts?
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Messiah told me, when I got a refund on my preorder, that they are working on fixing the "major" problems with the system.
They said that the sound issues are the the main focus (quietness and inaccuracy) then comes the video (screen shift, color inaccuracy, and garbled tile issues)
then the compatibility.
They said sound issues will be fixed for sure, but, no guarantees on fixing the video or improving the compatibiliity.
What it sounds like to me is that they plan on making the console more compatible with the games they already say are compatible.
I plan on buying the "improved" version when it comes out (reportedly after february) I don't think I'd mind the problems withthe current one, but I hane no reason not to wait for a better version.
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I agree that all the mario patches are too much. But they make their buck and alot of people enjoy them.
as for all of his original games and the sports games? They are an integral part of nintendo. They are on their own level when it comes to ingenuity and unique gameplay. Even back in the beginning whan they "seemed" like just another platformer, they had their own unique traits, characters, and style.
IMO for every major mario game, I can't think of one that wasn't more entertaining and unique than its peers. SMB1,2,3 mario world, mario kart, mario RPG, mario 64 etc. (excl. from that statement DrMario et al. not that they weren't fun, but they weren't as distinguished from the crowd as other maio games)
I guess by the Dr Mario/Tetris comparo, you can see that mario has been pluged into mainstream games to make a buck or two since day one. Never were these games as popular as Tendos original creations though, and for good reason.
If all mario games were just another <fill in the blank> then I could agree with the original post that it is getting old, but they aren't a clone of other games, even the sports games are unique. hmm, sports games that aren't based on simulation, who woulda thought?
It does seem that the target demographic has gotten slightly younger. Personally, I think everything up to mario 64 has been quite ubiquitous (sp?). The basics are easy enough for a kid to handle, but the challenge is in the depth of the game. Name another (non puzzle) game series that covers such a wide demo so seamlessly. I haven't played sunshine, but from what I hear, it is a little too easy to the point of being boring for the older fans.
As I said before, the patches/plugs of mario into existing games is a bit much, and is a lazy tactic if they depend on these games to replace their releasing original titles. Nintendo:Make your money with the patches as you please, but don't forget to keep up the good work by coming out with unique and enjoyable games for all ages.
I too am looking forward to a "mario 128" I'm just hoping that it slightly harder, and just as deep as mario 64.
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come to think of it, I knew this guy that bought an atari system from a garage sale, who bought it off of a hobo on the union pacific who bought it from you. you shipped it to springfieild, USA, and it got lost in the mail before it even reached the garages sale. then a dragon got hold of it and flew it to the 'shire'. its sitting in a hobbits house being played AND I'M HOLDING YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT GETTING WHAT I PAID FOR!!!!
give me a flipping break
I can't imagine the guy bugging you again. but if he does call his local looney bin, I'm sure they'd be glad to have him join their army to fight the alien invaders that are coming to visit us tomorrow at 11:15 right after brunch. AHHH!
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Shame. It's hard to imagine that some of the people responsible for such revolutionary thinking and ingenuity are reaching that age.
Think of all the experience that he had, and the knowledge that only he posessed. I can only hope that appreciation for the heritage of computer and gaming technology don't fade with time. Preservation, people. PRESERVATION.
lest we forget...
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if famiclones are programmed to read/write the EXACT same way the NES is, why do some famiclones load levels in incorrect orders, have inaccurate music and weird color palettes?
if it is simply because of one or two i/o pins not being connected, don't you think famiclone makers would have caught on and figured that out over the five or so iterations they have gone through? wouldn't the NOAC's be regarded as a viable resource for NES development projects rather than programming a chipset from scratch?
does this mean a 60 pin famiclone with a nes adaptor is even less compatible with those mappers (MMC5 etc) than a 72 pin famiclone, or vice versa?
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lol. btw. love the avatar. brings back the good ol days
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darn, there are so few threads about GTA, we need more of them! lol!
that was postwhoring at its best! no wonder you have nearly 3k posts sigma! J/K
I have been working on sons of liberty since it came out in november of 2001!!! and I never beat metroid II!!! i kept getting lost. someday i will get smart and download a map off of a faq site
I feel for ya. that's why I wnt back to the simple games. I don't have hours to waste anymore, so I need something that is relaxing, not stressful, and I can just pick up and be able to play without having to spend an hour learning the controls. Like i said, metroid II is pushing it for me! I do have about 15 ps2 games, but I play them about as much as my NES. You don't get much satisfaction getting from one couch to another in ICO as you do beating contra five times through!!!
simple games and simple controls for a simple mind.
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I wouldn't do anything but tell the guy no and why, file a police report, and call it good. worst that continues to happen is the guy continues to call you till he gets bored and you continue to update the police till they get annoyed.
I once bought a "book" for a college class that turned out to be just the solutions to the problems on cdr. cost the guy $0.25 plus a stamp and I paid $65. he claimed that I get what I paid for... except that he seemed to forget that he ripped off someone elses listing description of the book and nothing else. so I got him on copyright infringement,a nd false representation and threatened to take it to mediation and give neg feedback. he refunded $40 without having to do any of that, and I noticed on his next wave of mass listing of the same thing, it was of his own creation and it explicitly expressed that it was a cdr of the solutions only.
what a pain in the ass to have to teach another adult a basic principle such as LOGIC. thank you to all of the inept idots in this world that should be spade and neutered right out of the womb. this world is going down the shitter, and all because of ebay idiots!!!!!
the hassle sucked, but all in all the best $25 bucks i ever spent... I got a solid A in the class
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my buddy works for a shipping company and processes mis shipped products. He told me to alway always put an address slip inside the packaging, that way, if they open the package at his shop, they have a place to ship it. and they will do so for free
also do you have your receipt for the shipping? it may help but I doubt it. I think you are just going to have to eat the cost cuz unelss you bought the ins, or confirm, it can't be pinned on the customer OR the shipping co.
of the few things I have sold, I required ins. and I will always require it if the product costs over $10. some might think it is an unnecessar expense to the buyer, but since I charge exact cost for shipping +/- a dollar (total incl ins), I think it is fair, I deem it necessary, and anyone who argues against it won't get my product. when they bought it, they agreed to the terms.
yes there are flaws to the system, just like every other system. take the civil law system... don't even get me started. "the coffee was hot" ..."No F&cking way!"
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agreed, especially since the printed contacts could simply and easily be made more robust.
a little aluminum (is that what the print is made of?)costs much less than engineering and producing a spring loaded contraption
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bump... Judges, may I have the envelope...
prediction.... I can't believe this! the underdog, Yobo takes the crown!
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That makes more sense that the hardware isn't built around mappers, but mappers are built to "fool" the hardware into being able to read more ram/rom.
So, since famiclones aren't programmed to retrieve ROM data the same way the NES does, these famiclones aren't "fooled" in the correct manner, correct?
Thanks JB, I think I learned just as much as davepesc
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someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I's like to take a crack at da question...
data is stored in a specific way on a gamecartgridges's memory chips. The NES was programmed to load this data in a certain way and that certain way only.
The nes has limited memory to load and temporarily store data, the data that is used to sense what buttons you are pushing, and what is displayed on your TVand played on the speakers.
as developers wanted to make games with better graphics and more depth of gameplay, these games took up more memory than simpler ones and exceeded the capability of the NES. because of this, programmers had to develop a way to get the limited capacity of the NES to work with these larger games. they did this using mappers.
if you can imagine a single excel spreadsheet as the amount of data a nes can handle and the amount of data in a simple game. Each cell has a specific code representing a task, a color, a sound. The nes knows how to access that information and load it correctly. E.g., when it wants to laod the next few frames of the scroll in SMB, it accesses, say, cells A57-A92
Now, imagine a larger more complex game that takes up four separate spreadsheets and that all of these spreadsheets have to be accessed simultaneously. now when the NES is commanded to access the same cells, the information it needs is not there, it is in another spreadsheet. How does it load the correct info?
A mapper directs it to the right spreadsheets and what cells in the spreadsheet to look at when it is told to do something. this techniqhe to extend the memory capacity of hardware is called bankswitching. And not only did mappers allow for bankswitching, but they allowed for better graphics (i.e., detailed backgrounds) and more complex sound.
Some mappers were made by nintendo and work very well with the system, and some were made by 3rd party companies and pirate companies. many of the 3rd and pirate based mappers are unique to different companies. i.e., many companies made up thier own mappers so their game (s) would work correctly with the nes.
famiclones were not programmed to be able work with some of these mappers, particularly the complex mappers found in some of the more complex games. take for example castlevania 3.
JAG:
wouldn't it be incredibly easy for kevin horton to make his FPGA NES with a 72 and/or 60 pin? I know he knows his pinouts, probably by heart, so all it would take is the time to program the code in to access the correct channel for eaach command. Time consuming, but not difficult compared to what he has done so far.
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OMNE:
Although my opinion is well expressed in that last post, my wording might have come out more harsh thqn intended. I hope you can sense the sarcasm in the extreme parts of it. I respect everyone's opinion regardless of it agrees mine. I apologize and I'm sory if I offended you. Regardless of how one might interpret that last post, I in no way meant to label you, and in my limited time on this forum, I have seen no indication of a lack of community. Simply many people voicing their opinions, exactly what it was meant for.
If you want to see some hardcore ripping, go over to the digital press' thread on this same subject and read how those guys ripped JAG a new one. Now THERE was some blatant and unfounded attacks on their own members.
with that out of the way....
I do like the ford analogy, but if it is truly going to be anlaogous to the issue we are talking about here, I would say it would be like ford stating that the new stang would perform better than anything in its class and will revolutionize the inexpensive sportscar market, and then deliver a V6 "girl-stang". Now that would be an accurate analogy
and WE (the "hardcore" gamers) might not be large enough to create a large revenue, but are the group responsible for consistent support of many small companies. I am sure you can understand this, why else would you provide the unique services and products that you do? the profit you make off of these unique things cannot be as high as selling copies of, say, GTA, to the masses.
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Don't yo own Packrat VG? what will be come of it? I was planning on a trip down to the UC to visit after graduation. That may not happen now
<---- that's me dying of sadness and going "down under"