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They were happy enough to give us the mirror universe episodes, which in my opinion were some of the best of the entire series. I think Paramount just wanted to make sure no one asked for movies.

The final episode of Enterprise fastforwarded twice. First was 10 years into the future, so it was at the NX-01's retirement. Second was 200 years into the future so it could be dropped into a holodeck on the Enterprise D. I get the impression it was more of a new NextGen epsiode that HAPPENED to feature the Enterprise cast than it was a proper Enterprise episode. Of course, as a NextGen episode, it had to have an exterior shot of the Enterprise D. And I'm sure they sold the model ages ago. For what it's worth, the majority of Enterprise was far better than Voyager.

I quit watching before the title sequence even ran. As soon as the holodeck grid popped up, I left. Apparently I'm that much better off for it. The Terra Prime arc was a massive letdown after the mirror universe, but it beat the hell out of another NextGen episode that just happened to feature the NX01 in the holodeck.

That one is rumor right now. The PSP has an IR transmitter, some crafty japanese kids figured out that they can control their Sony robot Dog with it, it is speculation at this point but if it is capable of transmitting the signal to remote controll the dog, it is probably capable of transmitting to control many different Sony products. It will likely take a firmware upgrade from Sony to facilitate the function any further, or it could just be a fluke with the broadcast spectrum hitting on some of the Dog's signals. I can't find the article about it this second but I am pretty sure I read it on Engadget or Gizmodo.. As I understand things... If it has an IR transmitter, then with the right firmware it can control ANY IR remote device. It's all the same frequency, more or less. The big thing is getting the serial data pulses in. A remote control signal is a set of, say, 12 bits, and the LED flashes to tell the reciever what to do. So, say -**--*---*-* could be the power singal, and *-*-*-*-*-*- could be mute(assuming * is lit and - is dead). I dont even think it needs a firmware upgrade. just need a program like a wav to ir pulse like one of the ipod projects. The BIOS may not allow direct control of the IR port. If it restricts it to certain data packet sizes, you'd have an issue.

Minter's quite popular among the segment of the US market that consists of Jaguar fans and a good portion of retrogamers. He also wrote the lightshow for the JaguarCD and Nuon. As far as I know, however, he was NOT involved in the original Atari-made stereo component visualizer from the early(pre-VCS, if I recall) days of the industry. Amusing sidenote: According to rumor, Sears-Roebuck executives, when shown the original device, promptly asked what the engineers were smoking. And were equally promptly answered as one drew forth a bag of weed. And Insert Credit has a tongue-in-cheek blurb about his XBox 360 lightshow program.

That one is rumor right now. The PSP has an IR transmitter, some crafty japanese kids figured out that they can control their Sony robot Dog with it, it is speculation at this point but if it is capable of transmitting the signal to remote controll the dog, it is probably capable of transmitting to control many different Sony products. It will likely take a firmware upgrade from Sony to facilitate the function any further, or it could just be a fluke with the broadcast spectrum hitting on some of the Dog's signals. I can't find the article about it this second but I am pretty sure I read it on Engadget or Gizmodo.. As I understand things... If it has an IR transmitter, then with the right firmware it can control ANY IR remote device. It's all the same frequency, more or less. The big thing is getting the serial data pulses in. A remote control signal is a set of, say, 12 bits, and the LED flashes to tell the reciever what to do. So, say -**--*---*-* could be the power singal, and *-*-*-*-*-*- could be mute(assuming * is lit and - is dead).

Because in Japanthe user base of all video game consoles or PCs is eclipsed by the huge amount of people who own cell phones. Release a small game for a cheap price, bound to make some money. Well, I understand that japanese cellphones are also a fair bit more powerful than US ones, making modern games a possibility(though the lack of a gaming quality input device hinders them, so ). And I don't even see why US phones are as powerful as they are. I like the cheap phone with the crappy black&white screen that gets 5x the battery life.

Of course it is. Which is why the VF-22 is the winner!

http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/frame1.html FF6 end with consoles. PSP filling in for Kefka. And if someone makes a hack that does this to the entire game, I will worship them.

Myth: PS2 is hardware-compatible with PS1. Fact: PS2 has the PS1 CPU in it, but emulates the rest of the system. I'd bet one will be ready at launch. And that it'll be close to 100% compatible.

The only ones that were still flying were NASA's. And they had to drop it because they couldn't afford the maintainence.

Yes. Eventually they'll be back to doing video game versions of Wheel of Fortune and tarot cards.

I think it was the BCS. But not because that was the only signifigant diffrence. But Guld was working controls faster and more precisely while processing more information about what was going on. And, of course, once he started pulling the really high Gs, he wouldn't have been able to work the controls manually anyways, so if it'd been Isamu he'd've crashed right there.

It's funny that you should bring up Rally X, because it actually brings this thread back on track. Ridge Racers actually has Rally X as a minigame... if you score over 50,000 points, you'll unlock a special class car for the main game. Rally X is also supposed to be on the upcoming Namco Museum for the PSP. Mmmm.... Nice to see it getting some appreciation finally.

To be more specific, they're saying that the Xbox 360 will have three 3.2GHz, for a grand total of over 9 and a half gigs of processing power. Not to mention that the technology they're licensing from NEC is supposed to all but eliminate the frontside bus so it doesn't get slowed up there. If it means that I can get rid of my current Xbox, I'll take the emulation. Oh, and IIRC, the original Xbox was actually 733MHz. Ooops. I've got a bad tendancy to round things to whatever's convenient. *puts dentures in* In my day we didn't have all this multi-processor multi-gigahertz stuff! It was all a single 1Mhz 6502. Maybe a 4MHz Z80 if we were lucky! And we had to walk uphill through boiling snow to put the cartridge in!

Nice missing the obvious, IGN. The video chipset isn't NEAR the biggest problem. THE FREAKING CPU ISN'T EVEN THE SAME DESIGN PHILOSOPHY! There's big problems before you ever get to the video chipset. XBox 360 is fairly powerful last I heard. Was supposed to be 3 3 GHz PowerPC chips last I heard. That's a lot of power for emulation. Mac Mini has a 1.42 GHz G4(which is PowerPC-based too). Xbox has a 800MHz Pentium 3. And the PowerPC family tends to perform better than the x86 family. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if you could emulate a MacMini on a XBox360. ... I lie. I would be. Bit TOO close spec-wise. But XBox on XBox2? I'd take that bet.

Which is why Saturn was #1 with the Saturn and Dreamcast... ... First release does not equal the #1 spot, the PS2 was put into that situation because of the breakthrough of the DVD player and the backwards compatibility. Saturn came after PS, at least in America. ... Wait... I don't remember if the rushed "advance release" was before or after PS launch. Either way, there were so many things wrong with the Saturn's US launch that it isn't even funny. Always makes me cry to think about it. And the PS2's DVD player was a joke. You could spend half as much and get a standalone DVD player that worked better anyways. I did. I realize it was a selling point in Japan, where there weren't any cheap DVD players at the time, but I don't believe for a moment that it was really a relevant feature anywhere else. IIRC the Saturn came out few months before the PS in America. I think it was 400.00 when it came out. IIRC it came out with little to no advertising. It suddenly showed up at Babbages and Toys R Us. Okay, that's how it worked. They jumped it up for a "pre-release" that was before the PS1's launch, and left the "real" launch date the same. That way they were on shelves first, but since it wasn't a "real" launch, they couldn't be dinged for their poor software lineup and extended delay before the next titles came out. ... I'm sure it worked in Sega's mind. Of course, once hte PS hit shelves, they had the price war to deal with, which they couldn't afford since the Saturn was more expensive hardware. The PS was CHEAP, and Sony could make a profit at levels where teh Saturn was spraying red ink everywhere. Got so bad that Sega actually asked retailers to sell systems at a slight loss at one point. Diodn't go over well with retailers. ... Again, I'm sure it worked in Sega's mind.

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Cell phones are great, if like me you like to travel light and hate carrying around half a dozen different electronic gadgets at once, but do like to play a game occasionally, or listen to MP3s while travelling. My philosophy is why carry around a seperate portable game machine, a digital camera a PDA an MP3 player and a cell phone when you can have them all in one convenient package. I'm in love with my cell phone. I can play games on it, call people, listen to MP3s or the radio, use it as an organiser, take photos with it etc, etc. While it's true the phone doesn't do these applications as well as a dedicated device, the lower performance is more than made up for by the convenience in my opinion. Anyway, I'm not a hardcore gamer and I'm quite happy with a simple game on my phone, like Tetris or Space Invaders. Although saying that, some of the phone games are pretty good, especially some of the Doom type games. If I want to play the latest and greatest games, I'll wait until I get home and play them on my PS2. The only things I like to carry with me are my walet, my phone and a paperback in my back pocket. Oh, and what were we talking about again? Graham I'm more of a gamer. And a tad more oldschool, too, both in my tastes(favorite GBA game is Frogger on Konami Arcade) and electronics philosophy. Be it games, music, photos, whatever, I prefer to have a device that does one thing, and does it well.

But the criticism of the saturn lies more in that it was designed poorly. When sega found out sony's machine was focusing more on 3d games (take the arcade games like tekken and ridge racer which were apealing to the masses at the time) sega chucked in another chip which complicated how the developers would make saturn games. It was a last minute decision to make the system (which was originally focused more on 2d power) seem artificialy more powerful as a way to compete with the ps1. It didn't work though because this made it a headache for third parties to make 3d games for the saturn (I won't go into too much detail) Saturn was a pain to develop for, true. Multi-proccessor, multi-GPU, and the dev kit was assembly-only. True. One of the PS1's big selling points to developers WAS the C++ dev kit. Another was that Sony was being nice about licenses. A lot of developers jumped at the chance for a system where they wouldn't get raped on the licensing as Nintendo and Sega had both done. I'm a defender of the SegaCD, actually. And if you look back closely you'll find that it was NINTENDO that took flak in that period, and it was for NOT offering a CD-ROM expansion like NEC, Sega, and Atari did. The 32x, however, was indefensible. A lot of people actually saw it as getting a next-gen system for a fraction of the cost, regardless of how much it actually cost. The argument I usually heard was "Don't buy a Dreamcast, because hte PS2 is gonna come out in a year or 2 and it'll blow the Dreamcast away." It was a raw power argument. And one that was wrong. Nintendo LOST most of their userbase because they were too slow. They had 90% of the market for the NES. 50 for the SNES. N64 was... somewhat less than 50. And NINTENDO DID NOT MAKE THE POWER GLOVE. chrono: You've gone from being a delusional idiot to an incoherent idiot.

Which is why Saturn was #1 with the Saturn and Dreamcast... ... First release does not equal the #1 spot, the PS2 was put into that situation because of the breakthrough of the DVD player and the backwards compatibility. Saturn came after PS, at least in America. ... Wait... I don't remember if the rushed "advance release" was before or after PS launch. Either way, there were so many things wrong with the Saturn's US launch that it isn't even funny. Always makes me cry to think about it. And the PS2's DVD player was a joke. You could spend half as much and get a standalone DVD player that worked better anyways. I did. I realize it was a selling point in Japan, where there weren't any cheap DVD players at the time, but I don't believe for a moment that it was really a relevant feature anywhere else.

More likely is something similar to the F-117. The computer watches what you're doing with the controls, and does what you're trying to do in a way that doesn't crash the plane. YES! Or even just a hybrid without deep-seated psychological issues. I've always felt this way. The BCS was just too promising to abandon like they did. Obviously, the anime production view says that planes with pilots yanking controls are better than planes with pilots just sitting there with their eyes closed.

Screenshots are all wrong for GBA. That's a cellphone game. Why the japanese feel cellphones are a valid gaming platform is beyond me.

Isn't the Air Force's unofficial position something along the lines of "if it can't blow stuff up, we don't want it"?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9537 This game? I'll give it a shot. I've played a Sega game called Transformer that had a guy that turned into a jet. How does XBox memory card sound? http://www.cq-ef.net/index.php?action=articles&sid=13