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Retr0gamer · 24-06-2013 03:41PM

Very clever coding there. It's a miracle she got it working at all on such a dreadful processor. It's based on the C64 processor which was always terrible at vector calculations used for polygons.

the groutch · 24-06-2013 04:02PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Just read this about the Another World Snes release (listed as part of a beta version on ebay right now), pretty interesting stuff.

The history behind this game is very interesting. It was programmed by the extremely-talented Rebecca Heineman, who was once Bill "Burger" Heineman, one of Interplay's founding programmers. She said that "since Interplay wouldn't pay for a Super FX chip, I found a way to do it with static RAM on the cart and DMA which got me a great frame rate. Interplay wouldn't pay for the static RAM either, so I ended up using Fast ROM instruction. Interplay wouldn't pay for a 3.6 Mhz ROM either. So, frustrated, I shoved my block move code into the DMA registers and used it as RAM running at 3.6 Mhz. It worked. I got fast block moves on slow cartridges and made a game using polygons working on a 65816 processor with pure software rendering."

to qoute Snake "Did she just say she used to be a dude?"

The Last Bandit · 24-06-2013 04:10PM

the groutch wrote: »

to qoute Snake "Did she just say she used to be a dude?"

Ya, apparently Interplay wouldn't let her have a penis either.

Clever programmer though

o1s1n · 24-06-2013 04:10PM

the groutch wrote: »

to qoute Snake "Did she just say she used to be a dude?"

In November 2003, she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder[4] and began transitioning to a woman.[5]

Seems so!

Steve X2 · 24-06-2013 04:17PM

I was wondering there myself. I mean, a decent female coder, come on!!!

I'm joking of course.

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Nerdkiller1991 · 24-06-2013 04:41PM

Is it weird for me to feel like getting a 3DS, right about now?

Myrddin · 24-06-2013 04:46PM

the groutch wrote: »

to qoute Snake "Did she just say she used to be a dude?"

D.C Fontana syndrome

CiDeRmAn · 24-06-2013 04:54PM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Is it weird for me to feel like getting a 3DS, right about now?

Is that anything to do with the penis talk above? I don't think ChoAniki is on the 3DS yet...

OwaynOTT · 24-06-2013 04:57PM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Is it weird for me to feel like getting a 3DS, right about now?

What's weird is your not thinking of getting a 3DS to play Fire Emblem and then just throwing the system away once you finish it.

24-06-2013 05:11PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

What's weird is your not thinking of getting a 3DS to play Fire Emblem and then just throwing the system away once you finish it.

Althiugh I quite enjoyed luigi's mansion 2/ zelda oot/ starfox/ tales of abyss/ 2 denpamen games/ liberation maiden/ vvvvvvvvv/ smt devil survivor overclocked and zero escape virtues last reward.

OwaynOTT · 24-06-2013 05:18PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Althiugh I quite enjoyed luigi's mansion 2/ zelda oot/ starfox/ tales of abyss/ 2 denpamen games/ liberation maiden/ vvvvvvvvv/ smt devil survivor overclocked and zero escape virtues last reward.

I might try and get that Tales of Abyss next, Ive had it on saved searches for long enough and not bothered.
By the way, where were you Sat for that remote?

o1s1n · 24-06-2013 05:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Althiugh I quite enjoyed luigi's mansion 2/ zelda oot/ starfox/ tales of abyss/ 2 denpamen games/ liberation maiden/ vvvvvvvvv/ smt devil survivor overclocked and zero escape virtues last reward.

Some of my favourites so far not mentioned;

Kid Icarus, Mighty Switch Force, Pullblox, Super Mario 3D Land, NSMB 2, Ghost Recon, RE: Revelations, ... really want to play Paper Mario and Fire Emblem.

Absolutely frothing at the gash for ALTTP 2 and Super Smash Bros 4

24-06-2013 05:33PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I might try and get that Tales of Abyss next, Ive had it on saved searches for long enough and not bothered.
By the way, where were you Sat for that remote?

forgot again didnt i, :eek: send me a txt whenever its down there again and ill collect, was in town twice on saturday an all. head all over the place at the mo, sorry bout that

Star Lord · 24-06-2013 05:43PM

Animal Crossing is out on 3DS now too... struggle to stop playing the damn thing!
Must see if I can get my hands on the Gamecube one again, was great having a bunch of NES games build in to it too!

Atavan-Halen · 24-06-2013 06:00PM

Yep, animal crossing is a must buy for the 3DS. I also need to get the gamecube version. I have a Jap copy of it but I'd like to get the English one too, along with the Japanese N64 version.

OwaynOTT · 24-06-2013 06:02PM

paypal doesn't suck.

If anyone recalls, I was on here recently jawing on about a chargeback from a buyer of mine even though it was all above board.
Will just got a message from paypal saying that despite the chargeback being issued, that they will cover the funds for me because I followed protocol and provided any info they wanted.
I only gave them the tracking code and gave up when An Post couldn't give me anything to say what address it was posted to, only the signature.
So the moral is An Post are useless and Paypal aren't so bad in fairness.

o1s1n · 24-06-2013 06:06PM

Glad to hear it!

So maybe in the email I got, the bit about 'if the seller doesn't have the funds' was more in relation to them being punished for their actions rather than me not getting my money back (as the first paragraph said the refund was on the way to me)

Will keep an eye on my credit card balance and see.

Retr0gamer · 24-06-2013 06:34PM

Animal Crossing is evil. I have a suspicion that atavan is moving in on my woman and using Animal Crossing to do it.

OwaynOTT · 24-06-2013 06:34PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Glad to hear it!

So maybe in the email I got, the bit about 'if the seller doesn't have the funds' was more in relation to them being punished for their actions rather than me not getting my money back (as the first paragraph said the refund was on the way to me)

Will keep an eye on my credit card balance and see.

I reckon you'll get it back and they will cover it.
Who said big multinational companies are bad eh? Amalgamate them all.

Atavan-Halen · 24-06-2013 06:37PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Animal Crossing is evil. I have a suspicion that atavan is moving in on my woman and using Animal Crossing to do it.

Hey she's been visiting my town! I did nothing, you can't prove it, take me on Jeremy Kyle, ill pass a lie detector!!

CiDeRmAn · 24-06-2013 07:02PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

Hey she's been visiting my town! I did nothing, you can't prove it, take me on Jeremy Kyle, ill pass a lie detector!!

How to Moderate such a dispute,
Retr0 on one side
Atavan on the other
Sera, in the middle, dressed as an Alpaca.....

I'm thinking arrangements could be made....

Retr0gamer · 24-06-2013 07:48PM

Very interesting thread over on HG101:

http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/10474/sony-sega-joint-game-console

apparently Sega US organised a joint 32-bit console development with Sony. Sega Japan turned them down. They also arranged to use a SGI chipset in the saturn that was more powerful and cheaper to manufacture. Sega Japan shot it down and the chipset ended up in the N64.

Augmerson · 24-06-2013 10:08PM

Sparks43 · 24-06-2013 10:48PM

Nintendo in a Halfshell

Reggie Power

DinoRex · 25-06-2013 02:01PM

Yikes. Look at the size of the PS4 controller:

o1s1n · 25-06-2013 02:04PM

Holy crap! Good look to small Japanese hands holding them :eek: That's very out of character.

The Last Bandit · 25-06-2013 02:05PM

Maybe the Xbox 'one' is just very far away ?

DinoRex · 25-06-2013 02:06PM

Guess it's to accommodate that touch pad.

Has anything been show about how that thing is going to work? I didn't think the touch panel on the Vita proved terribly popular (relative to the Vita's popularity)

richymcdermott · 25-06-2013 02:09PM

how am i suppose to pause the game without the start button ?

MrVestek · 25-06-2013 02:11PM

richymcdermott wrote: »

how am i suppose to pause the game without the start button ?

You will never pause a game ever again, YOU WILL PLAY IT TO THE END.

Although there's a nice idea... wouldn't it be cool if a games console had a 'hibernate' feature where it just saved the running game to RAM and then resumed to that point when you powered it on again?

Are you listening NSA Microsoft / Sony?

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