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Hey, I 've been jobless for almost 2 MONTHS now.......I hate it, I've never been without a job this long before. Then again, I've only ever had 3 jobs in my entire adult life so far.

Why would it never happen? Ikaruga is on Gamecube and XBLA. Was originally ported to Dreamcast from arcade. Radiant Silvergun also, was ported from Arcade to Saturn, and why would the CEO speak so outwardly of a proposition from Microsoft if they weren't considering it? Just because it goes to XBLA doesn't mean it can't go to the Wii as well, and they'd be stupid not to if you think about it from a $ standpoint. What I get from his comments, provided they weren't mis-interpreted or taken out of context (And that is on Kotaku, where they often get things dead f**king WRONG), is they're probably considering a remake on physical media.

Theres really no hassle to using the real thing, provided you can wire it up. Heck you can even use extension cables for the ports in a box project instead of hacking the ends off your controllers and wiring up DB9 connectors, leaving you with controllers that still work on the real thing. [Project Box {Parallel Port You stuff everything in the project box, wire the parallel port to your serial/connector ports. And away you go, easily being able to use the real controllers of your choice. I know I'm making it seem rather simple, but once you wire up a single pad, it is.

Gryph, use the IE Tab add-on in Firefox for that. Sure, it's still the IE engine.....but at least you don't have to bother with IE itself.

If it contains the word "Sonic" you shouldn't, because both Sonic Adventure games sucked fierce @$$.

Before I rant at the lack of games the Dreamcast had, know that I still love mine. As far as I'm concerned, a system cannot be judged by games that are not exclusive. In this regard, the Dreamcast has a pathetic library of titles. If you exclude that, it has plenty of arcade ports and multi-platform titles. My favorite game that is an exclusive, would be Headhunter. And no the PS2 game isn't the same, it's quite inferior, not to mention released almost 2 years later.

One problem there inky, older systems used no analog sticks (NES, SNES, Genesis etc) and this poses a huge problem with your suggestion. The 360 d-pad is the worst d-pad in existance! It's even worse than the elf sized one on the Gamecube pad!

4 pads (Or more in certain cases) from any given system can be hooked up to 1 parallel port.

No it's not the site in my sig, and of course I know big market share studies encompass business users. Those aren't core internet users though, people like us and the visitors to said site are, not people who use the internet for just browsing/shopping/im and sending emails.

Those people don't actually exist on my internetz. Well, I don't recognize their existence, or associate with them. One in the same.

Over 200 unique visits in only 6 days, and my site already shows IE is NOT the dominant browser, hell it's not even 2nd place. (Well I guess it is if you combine all 3) Die IE.........die.

Edward Norton could do a better job on both sides as far as I'm concerned. He's fairly diverse and a better actor than Bale in any category. That wouldn't happen though, they already cast him as The Hulk, and would be confusing.

I honestly don't know, but I firmly believe Bale is a poor actor in general........so there are plenty who could do a better job.

THIS MOVIE = FAIL!

What about Batman? As long as his look is NOT Christian Bale the movie will be awesome. I absolutely cannot stand that POS, he's ruined Batman for generations of kids.

PS1 and PS2 discs are not "special", they conform to yellow book standard, and can be copied directly. There is no special method involved in the actual copy of the disc. Though there are special cases where certain games make checks for copy protection, this has nothing to do with the disc format/filesystem itself. ALWAYS close a disc with DAO. RAW DAO, DAO 96 and DAO are all the same thing just different hardware methods. It doesn't matter what you use. DAO - Disc At Once. Writes an entire disc at once and closes the entire disc after writing, allowing no more data to be written. A "finalized" disc. SAO - Session at once. Writes a "session" on the disc, allowing the rest of the disc to still be used. You can put Data on 1 half of a disc for instance, and audio on another session. A CD player wouldn't even see the data, though a PC would, and would identify the disc as a data disc or an XA disc. You can also close this format, but only when specifically choosing to. TAO - Track at once - Useful only for making an audio CD really. Writes one track at a time, and doesn't close the disc unless set specifically to do so. I hope that makes sense. Just copy your games directly to ISO, and reburn, or copy disc to disc. Copy protected games have NOTHING to do with the disc itself really, unless they use corrupted subchannel sectors.....and thats a whole different pile of garbage.

OMFG Firefox 3 is so broken, that Youtube comes up as a text based page only. Sick of this POS. Wierd characters because some asshat dev broke Unicode detection, and now this? I'm actually *gasp* going back to using Internet Exploder until they fix Firefox properly.

No...... MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!

All I can really say there, since I don't know many DOS shmups and only have a dozen or so classic games I REALLY enjoy, is to visit this place. http://www.the-underdogs.info/ Loads of info on old games, and anything classed as Abandonware or given permission to distribute by the original author can be had for download. Legally too I might add. (Anything still commercially viable etc links to places of purchase etc)

When I tried to run RAP.EXE, it insisted I run SETUP.EXE first, so hopefully it came with an existing config file too.

I was thinking PC DOSBox with regards to entering a filename. Regardless, what I already said stands true. I just ran Doom II and Pinball Fantasies again on my Xbox. Unpack the zip, and find the EXE file from "Select Game". You CANNOT have things inside a ZIP, it doesn't work. I tried it with Raptor. It MAY work if theres only 1 EXE inside said ZIP, but the readme from the latest DosXbox doesn't even have the word "Zip" in it.......so go figure.

I have heard this mentioned on other sites, and it cannot be true in such a direct sense. If this was the case, everyone's Zune would have skipped the last day in February and wound up 1 day ahead of where it should be. It's possible that the function is expecting 364 days in a full year, and when it tries to jump to the next year, conflicts with the fact that there is still another "day" in the month. I believe it's nothing more than a bug in reference to this precise day in the date function, which could be confirmed by setting your date to tomorrow (Jan 1/09). If it works, it's something specifically to do with the last day in a year, and could probably be duplicated by setting the date to Dec 31/09 or 10 as well. Inky, have you tried pulling the battery and resetting the date? If not, try the above (Set to tomorrow and see if all is well. Then try Dec 31 09), I'm curious.

Not true You need to enter the precise filename you want to run. I haven't used DosXbox in a while, but I have run Raptor and Pinball Fantasies before with it. Leaving it inside the zip may or may not work, but you certainly can't just call the zip file and expect it to know which EXE to load.

Unzip it for starters, you need access to the setup EXE to create necessary configuration for sound etc. There is more than 1 EXE in there, so DOSBox can't know what the program is or that setup must be run first. P.S. Just go with default options in the setup, and use SB16 for sound. If SB16 doesn't work, try Waveblaster.

Nonono, it can't reach zero. It must be reset before then, 5 or 6 times before finally being removed.