@Azuris to clarify this, Doom 64 couldn't handle room-over-room. It used some super clever macros that triggered based on your position in some maps to change the floor position of select sectors to pull off the illusion, but that is doable in stock Doom.
@aegis_autumn as a professional who works extensively with FPGAs and the like in both design and procurement:
All of Analogue's products are way overpriced part-for-part. You can argue some of that heavy profit margin is the sum of all the parts being really good. I don't particularly agree the part selection is all that special. I fully believe that they charge thrice what they should so they can sell thrice less units, again, for status.
@nocdaes Even if Nintendo has a copy of every game ever published for their platform, which they don't, Nintendo should not be the only archivist of that culturally and historically significant data.
What if Nintendo accidentally deletes it? What if they get hacked and it's deleted? What if the storage it's on fails? What if a rogue internal employee modifies it? What if the site it's stored at is targeted by a physical attack? And so on...
Or what's most possible: all of the collection falls into the public domain (after an embarrassingly long wait) and they decide not to release any of it. They don't have to! Even though they don't own it at that point, there's no law requiring them to give it up.
That's why we need sites like the archive and people like me and others here that meticulously maintain physical and distributed electronic backups. We can't trust Nintendo as the sole source. And as illegal ROM sharing is... It's an insurance plan, just in case everything else fails.
Oh hey, it's this guy, the one that thinks flipping the switch logo upside down makes it "parody" and the RF shield "is Nintendo trying to hide its secret chips." He's great at making consoles look like knockoff Intel NUCs.
Snarkiness aside, I don't hate this one, but there are two glaring issues with his approach: First, he's created an incidental hinge at the screen. Without a cart behind it, even the pressure in your pocket will bend and break the line between PCB and screen. Second, it's too darn thin. That thing looks painful to use for more than, well, a YouTube video's length.
Like most of his projects, it's a good showpiece, but it doesn't stand up to real world use. His fascination is in design, not use, of his mods.
It seems like people are completely missing the point: almost nobody cares that it's USB. That's actually not that bad of an idea and most people are for it.
However, these are the cheapest, least reliable mass produced flash drives on Earth, and that's not an exaggeration. For the price LRG charges, they must have made a seriously amazing profit margin.
If you bought this, image the drive ASAP as if it's the last time it'll ever read, because it might be the last.
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Re: Doom II Comes To The SNES, Thanks To Fans
@Azuris to clarify this, Doom 64 couldn't handle room-over-room. It used some super clever macros that triggered based on your position in some maps to change the floor position of select sectors to pull off the illusion, but that is doable in stock Doom.
Re: Taki Udon's $99 MiSTer FPGA Clone Won't Be $99 - It Will Be Even Cheaper
@aegis_autumn as a professional who works extensively with FPGAs and the like in both design and procurement:
All of Analogue's products are way overpriced part-for-part. You can argue some of that heavy profit margin is the sum of all the parts being really good. I don't particularly agree the part selection is all that special. I fully believe that they charge thrice what they should so they can sell thrice less units, again, for status.
Re: Talking Point: Is Nintendo Erasing Its Own History In Its War On ROM Sites?
@nocdaes Even if Nintendo has a copy of every game ever published for their platform, which they don't, Nintendo should not be the only archivist of that culturally and historically significant data.
What if Nintendo accidentally deletes it? What if they get hacked and it's deleted? What if the storage it's on fails? What if a rogue internal employee modifies it? What if the site it's stored at is targeted by a physical attack? And so on...
Or what's most possible: all of the collection falls into the public domain (after an embarrassingly long wait) and they decide not to release any of it. They don't have to! Even though they don't own it at that point, there's no law requiring them to give it up.
That's why we need sites like the archive and people like me and others here that meticulously maintain physical and distributed electronic backups. We can't trust Nintendo as the sole source. And as illegal ROM sharing is... It's an insurance plan, just in case everything else fails.
Re: Modder Builds "The Ultimate Game Boy"
Oh hey, it's this guy, the one that thinks flipping the switch logo upside down makes it "parody" and the RF shield "is Nintendo trying to hide its secret chips." He's great at making consoles look like knockoff Intel NUCs.
Snarkiness aside, I don't hate this one, but there are two glaring issues with his approach: First, he's created an incidental hinge at the screen. Without a cart behind it, even the pressure in your pocket will bend and break the line between PCB and screen. Second, it's too darn thin. That thing looks painful to use for more than, well, a YouTube video's length.
Like most of his projects, it's a good showpiece, but it doesn't stand up to real world use. His fascination is in design, not use, of his mods.
Re: Limited Run's New "PC Micro Edition" Hasn't Gone Down Well With Some Fans
It seems like people are completely missing the point: almost nobody cares that it's USB. That's actually not that bad of an idea and most people are for it.
However, these are the cheapest, least reliable mass produced flash drives on Earth, and that's not an exaggeration. For the price LRG charges, they must have made a seriously amazing profit margin.
If you bought this, image the drive ASAP as if it's the last time it'll ever read, because it might be the last.