BlackKnight

Yeh the DS has been around for some good years now, and PCs today have proportionately a f.ckload of power to leverage in emulating it. I always remember the GBA being emulated extremely well early on, and, hardware wise, the DS doesn't seem overly more complicated than that was.

Haha that song has been stuck in my head for weeks now. I can't shake it and it annoys the hell out of me. Its even more annoying because I'd never even heard of Rick Ross before. Right now though I'm listening to... Battle No. 2 from Final Fantasy III.

Juno Reactor - Children of the Night

Kutaragi sounded like a bit of a moron anyway so i'm glad he's gone. Even though everyone likes to have a go at Kaz Hirai, I reckon that guy has what it takes more than this old buffoon.

Hmm... Garou, Kof96/2003 and SvC are favourites of mine but... Metal Slug 1. Amazing game. Unbeatable.

Ahk. Yeh I got a hold of that. The version there isn't as good as the PSP's though. I'd love to find out where they ripped this one from.

Same. I used to be under the impression that arcade emulation of anything relatively new wasn't possible at all. Then one day I tried FBA and was getting fullspeed CPS-2 consistently. This was before they had NeoGeo support. I was amazed. That's when I started collecting arcade roms seriously, despite my 56k connection. Kinda miss FBA. Good on ya.

Thanks guys for the help but I sorted it out. The track is actually a remixed version on Final Fantasy III's 'Battle No. 2'. Agozer, you probably know the track- the remixed version sounds amazing though. I love it. The secret bosses in this game all get battle theme's from the games they came from- the new version of Final Fantasy VI's 'The Decisive Battle' is similarly well done. This one is my favourite though. Did FF3 ever get an arranged soundtrack?

First was .5- something. Can't remember. Got it to play the arcade version of Mortal Kombat II with better graphics and the intro story.

Yeh I was reading that on the train yesterday and thinking... 'what the hell?' I have beef with psychiatry and its tendency to attach PC labels to inconsequential in general, but this takes the cake. ADD? An excuse for bratty kids to get away with their spoilt behaviour, all the while under this impervious umbrealla of psychological illness. It's suddenly not cool to reprimand little bastards because, oh no, they have ADD, cut them some slack. Hogwash. These little flockers should be disciplined like I was as a child and maybe then they'll be forced to exercise some self-control instead acting up all the time and turning into the violent banes of society they all invariably will in the future.

Here's a question for anyone who has played either this or Dawn of Souls for the DS- Does anyone know what the bonus boss music is called or where I can find it? It is predictably not on the Origins soundtrack... is it from a different Final Fantasy? I'm talking about the bosses in the shrines, like Echidna, Ahriman and Cerberus in the Earthgift Shrine. Any VGM fans got an idea on this?

I hate that song. Spieluhr by Rammstein. Why a Rammstein song at a funeral? Listen to it and see.

Yes they do. And, based on that, flock em. Kill them all

The sheer audacity of pop lyrics these days astound me. That and 'doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me'. Wtf? What kind of shallow ape do these lyricists take me for? Is some dumb broad who 'don't like my girlfriend' meant to be attractive to me? And do I wish that my girlfriend was a used and abuse slag who I personally wouldn't let touch me? The answer to that one is implicit I guess. Annoying as all hell, and utterly insulting to my intelligence. That sh.t is the reason why pop is ruined and why I can't turn on the radio now without reeling in agony. There should be a new topic 'Do pop lyrics contribute to the contemporary degenerative state of morality- eventually turning kids into poor deluded flockers, and, by way of course, inevitably inspiring the plague of emo-ism?' It's a bit long winded, but well warranted nonetheless.

The technology is available, not common. People have a right to pay a premium to adopt early if they like. It obviously won't make great budget sense to the rest of us.

I agree. My problem is just with the argument everyone puts up that 'oh no we've upset the terrorists'. I remember that line was all the rage a year or so ago when some cleric specifically targeted Australia for an attack because of our then-involvement in the war effort. My stance is; who the hell gives a sh.t what some bearded flockers in a cave somewhere threaten us with? In the general sense I don't think there is any morality that grants authority to invade another country, except the one I subscribe to. That being might makes right, and that violence itself is the supreme authority from which all other forms of authority derive. Guess where I stole that line from. But I believe it too. If someone has the strength to do something, you either are strong enough to stop them, or you surrender. That simple. The inability of Iraqi militants to get that through their thick skulls is what is costing lives in Iraq moreso than the US occupation, in my opinion. After all, a demo truck blows away 152 lives- 3 guesses as to whether an American GI or some dumbass fanatic was driving. And considering that, I dunno how the all bloodshed is suddenly the US' fault.

Hey LSD that's the opposite of your stance on that topic about girls yesterday. Didn't you advocate girls having the right to wear skimpy stuff without having to worry about be raped? Not the best comparison, but doesn't the US deserve to do what it thinks is right without having to worry about what all the bitter militant groups out there are gonna do about it? The US isn't antagonising terrorists anymore than a short skirt would antagonise any red-blooded man. I realise that war isn't good for anyone, but on principle I think America has the right without having to worry about all those pissy little factions who were likely gunning for a war with anyone because of their own bitterness before this all started anyway. Speaking of 'who started it' can anyone say 9/11?

Uh-oh... Iraq topics always annoy the hell out of me because there are always too many bleeding hearts out there to let me get off unscathed with my far right views and without a flamesuit. So I'll sit this one out. My vote says enough. (Stay!)

This is the dilemma it came down to before I bought my PSP. I ended up deciding that although the GP2x is a much more open platform, it doesn't have the sheer power that the PSP has to throw around. I figured the emulation scene would one day be stronger on Sony's system anyway, if only because the community would likely be bigger. Still, SNES being a biatch is a major thorn in my side. SNES9xTYL seems to have hit a dead spot as well as far as development goes. It's a tremendous shame.

There are two arguments here... are you saying that mediated violence introduces it into our awareness and makes us more worried about it happening to us? Or are you saying, like everyone from that senator to Dr. Phil says, that representations of violence encourage violent behaviour? If it's the first, then no. I don't think there's a case in that. I'm never scared walking into a bank or a 7-eleven. I carry my Zen in my hand when walking home from the station at night without a huge perceived risk of getting mugged for it. But then that's just me. Might be different in certain parts of the States, but then Western Sydney certainly isn't the safest place around either. To the second question- it's more difficult. People worry about games being the influence that causes people to shoot up schools etc. I think that is largely unfounded. I believe anyone with any kind of weapon at their disposal, and a willing mentality, can potentially end up hurting others, whether Grand Theft Auto and its ilk were ever made, or not. I do however believe that popular media help shape social norms and codes of behaviour in negative and subtle ways. Again, at least in Australia, the social and cultural climate- trends, mannerisms... ways of reacting to situations- mirrors that of the US so closely because of TV and film. That says loads about the way in which people learn about social interaction from media as opposed to real life. Of course this is only a problem when the difference between reality and the representation shown is not obvious. I think any halfwit will realise its wrong to go out and bludgeon hookers with golf clubs, but its not so easy to discard the suggestion that you'll look cool for driving a car a certain way, as per Need for Speed or The Fast and the Furious. I don't think representations of violence are, in themselves, of great social concern, because most of the time it is easy to set them aside from everyday life with little effort. It also helps that often violence is heavily stylised to further remove it from reality. People who make films like The Departed (which had an unconscionable number of headshots) are recklessly irresponsible in their blatant portrayal of violence, but in their defence, those are films rated retrictively anyway. The bigger problems are the less-obvious negative influences, simply because they are not so overtly and noticeably unnatural as a point blank gunshot to the head. Those are my 2c on the subject although I get the feeling I hit a tangent somewhere...

True. What surprises me is that we now have fullspeed NeoGeo and CPS-1/2 emulation (when the raster effects are off, and the screen isn't being stretched) but still don't have a decently working SNES emu for the PSP. Yeh I know that the SNES had a bunch of weird custom chips and various sound emulation problems still exist but get with the times... it's 2007...

Nah, she's a lost cause. I'd strongly recommend her for the part of Andariel, Maiden of Anguish, in any upcoming Diablo film.

Way harsh. That Jap girl is crying now. But I disagree on the last point- I barely even noticed Denise Richards was in it, so stunning was Sophie. Not that I'm a fan of Denise's anyway. Yeh she's gone downhill, but come on - she's old. Cut her a break.

Take that back. She looks like a demon. Seriously.

It's on! Here are my TOP 3; #1 - Emmy Rossum #2 - Jun Natsukawa #3 - Sophie Marceau Love 'em all. Too bad all 3 are big sluts.