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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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    #4202
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    In anticipation of my first ever grail... :D

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    490070-darius-burst-psp-screenshot-warning-a-huge-battle-ship-is.jpg

    GDFire_Fossilh01.png


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    #4203
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Just make sure you choose wisely!


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    #4204
    safetyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqmdv5iyIOY


    OMG


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    #4205
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Those ships look like 3D models. I'll believe it when I see Brian Cowen given a shot of nitrogen up the arse and made to levitate. :pac:


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    #4206
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Hmm, the very last shot does look more realistic but the rest of the video is kinda suspect.


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    #4207
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Apparently my grail was delivered at 9:43am and signed for. No sign of it still!

    If it's not here soon I'm grabbing a torch and a pitchfork. :mad:


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    #4208
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Hmm, the very last shot does look more realistic but the rest of the video is kinda suspect.

    I would imagine those involved in quantum science would at least be able to spell 'research'. I've seen super-cooled super-conducting magnets do the whole levitation thing, never seen the cool vapour trails though....bit too cool to be real?


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    #4209
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    The actual quantum levitation videos look too cool to be real... but this one is a bit much.

    Everyone knows they're actually too hard at work on Back to the Future hover boards to be dicking around with Wipeout.


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    #4210
    safetyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJV5PSpYPL0


    Looks a bit more genuine :)


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    #4211
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    So, smooth jazz is the preferred bgm to all experiments or just the ones involving superconductors cooled with liquid nitrogen?
    I mean, if they were posting videos of them conducting experiments involving the teleportation of photons using the quantum tunneling effect, would it be belgian techno?

    I take the latter point back, the original Wipeout music, used in the first video, with the Wipeout models, is not too far from Belgian techno... deary deary me :(


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    #4212
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Actually, doing a quick search online suggests that the Wipeout demonstration is perfectly possible, given the use of pressurised Nitrogen to cool the superconductors that must be mounted in the models.
    Then, by manipulating the electromagnets in the track material you can propel the craft.
    Nice!

    No time soon will there be practical uses, on track say.
    The track itself would have to be a giant array of electromagnets, and the craft would have a prohibitive amount of superconducting material to get it to levitate.
    I think the easiest part would be the storage of enough liquid nitrogen!

    Some day, when I win the lotto and have a spare 150 million, I'll build my wipeout track, some of you may even have a go, if only so I can hit you with a Quake Disruptor as you pass, Mwa hahaha!


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    #4213
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    I think it's a viral for WipeOut 2048.


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    #4214
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Hmmm, it's only worked because you've mentioned the link...

    Pyongyang, are you a Sony corporate schill?
    Tell the truth now!


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    #4215
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Hell no! Though I confess I'm looking forward to the PS Vita.


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    #4216
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    This just in from the 'wasn't expecting that' department:

    http://www.next-gen.biz/news/report-retailers-cutting-3g-vita-prices


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    #4217
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    [SARCASM]This just in from the 'wasn't expecting that' department:

    http://www.next-gen.biz/news/report-retailers-cutting-3g-vita-prices[/SARCASM]

    Fixed it for ya!

    But, yeah, just read that myself and it seems inevitable.
    I'm not sure it's legit to lay the fault at the feat of the popularity of smartphones, apps and, hence, an apathy towards portable games systems.
    I just think that the new format fails to make itself essential in any way.
    Only Wipeout fans are excited by Wipeout 2084, no new gamers give a toss about the series and this is evidenced by the lack of traction (pun intended) for any futuristic racing titles since the PS1 titles.
    Uncharted seems to be the biggest AAA title in the launch lineup but, if you are trying to attract a cross-section of the gaming community to your new console the chance is that 360 owners who may be interested in buying may not think highly of the hitherto PS3 exclusive series.
    The 3DS has been playing to the crowd with a number of crowd pleasers released, Mario Kart 7, Mario 3D land, ZeldaOoT, Starfox and sales have responded.


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    #4218
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,825 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    3G seems completely pointless to me. In Japan it's even more pointless since all portable multiplayer is local multiplayer with not much interest in online multiplayer.
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    #4219
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    I think it's a viral for WipeOut 2048.

    I still choose to believe its real. Purely cause I want a flying car before I die


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    #4220
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    If the prices are being, or planning on being cut, surely that would have a knock on effect with the EU and US launches?

    If it doesn't, it makes importing a PS Vita a bit more palatable.


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    #4221
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    From the article:
    It appears to be an isolated case

    This is just a retailer looking to shift some units I'd imagine. Sony are far too pig-headed to admit defeat yet & lower the price.

    Cidock is spot on, the Vita just isn't essential yet. Uncharted is the only AAA title in the line-up, but at damned near or over €300 for the privilege, they can sing.


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    #4222
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    the Vita just isn't essential yet.

    http://caveinteractive.com/news/cave-release-games-playstation%C2%AE-vita/

    Yes it is! :pac:


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    #4223
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    http://caveinteractive.com/news/cave-release-games-playstation%C2%AE-vita/

    Yes it is! :pac:

    I said yet ;)

    Sony made the same mistake Nintendo made initially. The unit itself isn't a selling point, the games are. The 3DS is only now seeing the good life, with a nice trickle of good games coming out, & coupled with the price drop, should actually see the 3DS brought back from the brink.

    Sony though, can & will mess it up if its possible to do so. Fingers crossed though, it looks like a cracking handheld.


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    #4224
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Look at this thing:

    retrode.jpg

    Takes SNES and Megadrive cartridges and plugs into your USB slot.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/04/nintendosega-retromancy-on-pc/


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    #4225
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭Doge


    Speaking of levitation, i just won one of these babies on ebay recently: :)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrxXiOtkm0



    Stays up for about 3-5 minutes.

    If you buy the perpetuator which is an expensive mains powered electromagnet you can put under it to help stabilize it
    And it could stay airborne for weeks maybe even months without interference.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR1tqiaO1TI



    You can get a cheaper chinese immitation version on dealextreme for about 13 euro:

    http://www.dealextreme.com/p/magnetic-in-air-suspending-and-hovering-gyro-4773


    Their's is more prone to wobble though, and doesn't rise as high.


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    #4226
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    waveform wrote: »
    There's is more prone to wobble though, and doesn't rise as high.

    Ciderman has a similar affliction


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    #4227
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Look at this thing:

    retrode.jpg

    Takes SNES and Megadrive cartridges and plugs into your USB slot.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/04/nintendosega-retromancy-on-pc/

    Think theres one of those on order for one of the residents here, am I right?

    But the VITA, spec wise it looks to be pretty great. But Sony are well able to make **** out of any handheld as we all know


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    #4228
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Look at this thing:

    retrode.jpg

    Takes SNES and Megadrive cartridges and plugs into your USB slot.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/04/nintendosega-retromancy-on-pc/

    Already have one preordered :pac:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76241384&postcount=7133


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    #4229
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Plus, with the 3G version, you're looking at the extra expense of a sim and a subscription to a mobile provider.
    I wonder if your current PSN account will interlink with the Vita account?
    If you are paying the hilarious PSN+ blood money (and Sony slagged MS for charging for the superior XBL) will you have to do it again for the Vita?
    Are you going to get stung with ads?

    And the fact that the menus are exclusively touch screen driven sounds like a complete pain, I suspect it'll be rectified by a firmware update soon.


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    #4230
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Ciderman has a similar affliction

    No, mine stays rigid and up for hours.... ;)


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    #4231
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    No, mine stays rigid and up for hours.... ;)

    I thought you two broke up years ago?

    Have you realized how much you missed each other?


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