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I just love PC gaming, it brings better social interactions while gaming, Keyboard and mouse, better graphics and more. Steam also has a ton of cheap games. Not only is a PC a gaming device, it does everything else any computer can do, like productivity applications like Microsoft office and a ton more.
But I usually buy the consoles some time or another for the exclusives, like inFamous and the like.
Each platform has their ups and downs, but for me, PC fits best.
A "good enough" gaming pc could cost around $400, like a Phenom II x4 and a Radeon HD 7770. It can be pretty cheap over the long run.
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It's an impressive approximation in any case.
Yep, it is very impressive for SMS.
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The SMS version of "Mortal Kombat" looks like a 16-bit release.
I don't know what you're seeing, but I'm sure that we aren't seeing the same thing... That definitely does not look like the Genesis or SNES.
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Well, actually that's the thing. I've been thinking of selling PCs again but through eBay so have been checking out the competition.
The most common cheapo games system now seems to be Trinity based machines with maybe an additional GPU and 16gb. However, even that's an overkill.
My main machine is an AMD Athlon three-core. Benchmark-wise it's a little faster than an A6. It has an old 6600 video card and just ... get this ... 2gb of DDR2! It currently plays everything I throw at it without a hitch.
So why would I want to blow £300 on a console when that money could go on a cheap gaming PC to hook up to the TV?
The last computer before this one had a 6600 in it. It was definately time to upgrade, thing was from 2004 I think. It choked on everything, couldn't even run Just Cause 2, that game needed DX10.
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Then online play, hackers are more prevalent on PC then they are on consoles, you run into just as many immature people on PCs as you do on console.
Not in my experience. on PC you can still play COD4 without hacks. Its because of dedicated servers and Moderators on the game prevent those hackers getting on and ruining peoples' fun. I've seen far more hackers on consoles, because the hackers know they people can do nothing about it.
I have had my PC for about 8 months and I havn't upgraded a part, except a new hard drive, 320gb wasn't nearly enough. I had that thing forever and just threw it in my build to save money.
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If you pushed it back 5 years I'd start to believe it. Remember that weird calendar date thing that left the system useless for a day? I don't think they'll fix anything similar if it pops up after the next year or so.
There is also a leap in logic relating to breaking my stuff and then trying to sell me more of it that my brain has trouble with.
I doubt they would do that. If they did, it would leave a very bad taste in people's mouths, and I doubt they would go on to buy the PS4. They would probably rather go to the next xbox or maybe PC.
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This thread is too TL;DR for me at the moment, but I'll throw in what I've seen from the press conference and the released specs.
First of all, Jaguar Cores for a CPU? Really? Is this next generation? For those of you who don't know, Jaguar Cores were released to compete with Intel's ATOM processors, the slowest piles of junk you'll ever use. Judging from the specs of Jaguar cores, The PS3's cell processor is almost as powerful, hardly an upgrade. The only upside to this is that its probably easier to program for. It has a Blu Ray drive @ 6x speed, so faster loading. and no "only download" poop that has been going around. That is definitely where its heading, but its not ready yet. All of the demos but one were pre-rendered so I couldn't really measure it up to my pc or the PS3 or anything, but the Watch Dogs demo was actual gameplay. The the graphics are looking how I expected them to be, with the Watch Dogs demo (that was a live demo) and they are good. Hopefully games will be running at native 1080p, and not WSVGA upscaled to 720p or 1080p, you can tell, it makes the image look aliased and blurry. Though I'm not sure how well that CPU is gonna hold in the long run, considering its for high end tablets and netbooks....
The controller doesn't look that good. Everything looks cramped together. The touch pad almost looks useless, I picked up my PS3 controller, and tried to imagine a touch pad there, and its not comfortable reaching over there anyway. I loved the convex joysticks on the Dualshock controllers, they let me roll my thumb off the stick as I play, instead of sucking my thumb into the stick and forcing me to move my whole thumb to control the game, like the xbox 360 controller. It appears that they tried to do a little bit of both, but it still doesn't look that comfortable to me. I don't care much for the share button on the controller, and its placement, just imagine hitting that on accident and then having the PS4 rape your internet connection by streaming. Why not let that be a menu option?
The concept of a new inFamous game excites me, I like that game franchise a lot.
In the end, I'm not getting one. I've had my mind made up for about 7 months about that, since I got my PC. I'll be able to enjoy Watch Dogs on the PC, and I won't have to deal with a gimped CPU. People were complaining about the Wii U CPU (which is basically a tri-core version of the Wii's CPU, which was an overclocked GCN CPU) being slow, this is gonna be right next to it.
And 4k? don't even count on it, its not happening. 4k isn't ready, last time I checked a 4k TV costs $20,000. Even the highest of the high end PCs choke on 4k resolutions when gaming. It would be like designing the Gamecube for 1080p, there just isn't any reason. I've seen an integrated video solution run 4k video on a demo video of CES, so just video at that resolution takes hardly anything.
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I have the same thing on my GBP, but to a lesser extent, where if there is a vertical dark object in the screen the pixels above and below are darkened, I fix this by turning the contrast down. If it still persists, its a probably a bad connection or something like the original GameBoy's screens are prone to.
Its definitely not leaking, if it was leaking there were would be black splotches all over the place when the system is off.
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Needing to replace a chip of some sort to make the game save again? sounds like a Dallas RTC/cmos/battery chip -.- those things suck, my pentium has one.
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L337 64? oh no....
Its cool, but I'm not a fan of portable consoles with that cheapo SOC hardware.
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There was Mortal Kombat for SMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE2UTBhQkzk
I used to have the R-Zone, the one that straps around your head, that stuff was baaaad. My mom threw it away without asking at one point though becasue I was using it wrong (focusing my eyes on the plastic screen thing instead of a wall) and it gave me headaches.
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I'm guessing that a light gun would work on a 120hz CRT. Since the signal output from most consoles is 60hz, the tv would probably scan the same image twice, so it should theoretically work, unless there is some kind of picture processing going on.
I have a flatscreen Sony Trinitron TV and all my lightguns (Zapper and Super Scope) work on it.
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I got my copy of Turtles in Time for $5 2 or 3 weeks back, I don't know why anyone would pay >$20 on this game
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Well, my sisters did have a NOAC device that was basically 8-bit DDR, it had the equivalent of a Power Pad attached to it. It had a 3.5mm headphone jack on it so you can passthrough your MP3 player's music to the TV, but it didn't affect the gameplay in the slightest.
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Its probably the Super FX chip, the pause screen has rotating polygons that say "PAUSE" so that probably kept it under load the whole time you left it on.
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Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. If Apple is suing companies for using a rectangular shape for their phones, this will be on the top of their list of companies to sue.
But that's hilarious how Sony is just making fun of them.
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3. Tetris (Nintendo version, NES)
I remember being quite good and constantly beating my dad and all other family members on one-on-one matches to see who could get the most lines. I bet I'm the only one who thinks it's better than the Tengen version (which stops you every 30 lines which is quite annoying.)
I also like this version of the game more.
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That "Hardcore Pawn" show is the worst.
Oh boy, yes it is. It seems every episode there is some psycho serial killer dude freaking out trowing punches and shit, and that intro music oh gosh. If you are trying to make it sound like you're overdriving the speakers in the TV, you're doing it WRONG. It absolutely sounds horrible.
There is only one image that describes this show.
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1: Pokemon Gold
2: Link to the Past
3: Kirby's Adventure
4: Frogger Hop to It (PC)
5: Bugs Buny Lost in Time (PC)
That was the awesome stuff I used to play when I was 6 or 7.
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I do but it's a beast. Idk in order to have an older pc I would want an entirely new set-up w/monitor and kb and .... That takes up a lot of space I don't have. Unless there is a way I can daisy chain monitors to multiple pc's
Get back behind there and start pluggin
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I wouldn't run SNES emulators on the PSP. For some reason I've never found a nearly perfect SNES emulator, they all run at like 50%-70% speed, and that drives me nuts. I don't understand, because they can emulate a GBA and Genesis almost perfectly....
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A other problem is the big variety of videocard, soundcards, and setting up a working system without IRQ or low basic memory errors.
Thats the fun of it
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I don't collect pc I think alot has to do w/the fact that you need a huge slow computer to play them lol. Not sure maybe games can be played on newer systems? I know most pc's don't even come w/floppys anymore. I could drop one in mine but would it even be compatible?
The other thing is pc games are freaking HUGE. I would need an entire room just for pc lol. If I was to collect pc it would be Boxed only. I do have the Tandy 1000 Castlevania complete which apparantly goes for quite a nice chunk of change. I grabbed it last year at a yardsale for $1 not even knowing what it was. I just seen Castlevania and was like well I have to give it a shot and just tossed it in my bag.
Believe me if I had known the value it would have got its own seperate bag hand carried for the rest of the sales.
There is dosbox for playing old dos games on the newest of computers. you can also get USB floppy drives if you want to boot up an old game, but I'd rather get a few older PCs and use those. its like emulation vs real deal type thing for me.
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I think this thing is the greatest open platform computing device ever made, especially since it is only $35.
I don't think so. I think it might as well be a fact that the PC is the best open platform computing device ever, since they have been selling since 1981.
Just sayin.
I don't really have anything to say about the Raspberry Pi, except it would be a fun device to experiment with.
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I was gonna say acrylic, but that would probably be a better idea.