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Erm... isn't Ironclad a Neo-Geo CD title? Or was it hacked to run on arcade or something? Ithink picture quality boils down to the settings you use, plus NeoRAGEx uses DirectDraw while all the other emulators use Direct3D by default. I could be wrong though, so correct me.

If you got it from my homepage, then simply overwrite the exiting files with the patched ones. The reason why kawaks didn't display graphics properly wa most likely due to the romset incompatibility I talked about earlier - like I said, thre is really no point trying to get romsets designed for NeoRAGEx to work on any other emulator. In regards to MAME, yes it can be more confusing than others, especially with some of the changes its Neo-Geo part has undergone in recent years. Another very good and easy to use Neo-Geo emulators are FBA and its offshoot FBA Shuffle. Actually, they're my favorite.

The 1.01 patch is out and gives the option to install data onto the HDD. The download size is 138MB, and install size is 4544MB which takes roughly 15 minutes to install. Loading times (excluding the practice mode between chapters) are much shorter, so fiddling with the menus, journal entries, picking up new items, etc. is much faster now. emsley: You need to be connected to the Internet in order to download any patches, so yes.

Yeah, I haven't seen that. I'm not much of a Kotaku reader. Very good news, so thanks a bunch.

There is no such patch, and I don't think I ever claimed that I could install game data onto a HDD. From what I've been reading, such a patch won't show up, as Sega would have to recode the game (this is at least what the supposed official response from Sega/PlatinumGames was). Don't know what the future will bring, though.

Depends on how the "patch" is constructed. Is it a file that's part of the actual romset, only modified (e.g. xxx_p1.rom or xxx_m1.rom) or a standalone executable that is used the original files. If the answer is the former, just overwrite the existing files in the romset with the modified ones. If the answer is the latter, extract the files that need patching to a temporary folder and run the patcher in the same folder - then put the patched files back into the romset Or, you know, since this is 2010, and there have been far better emulators than NeoRAGex for some seven years now, ditch NeoRAGEx completely and get a good emulator (Kawaks, MAME, etc.) that emulates the Neo-Geo with much better way and uses the proper romsets, which by the way, do not need patching of any kind (seeing how the e.g. "proper" version of Samurai Showdown V Special has been dumped and playable ages ago, just not in NRX due to protections in the game and the rigidness of NRX's design, among other issues). Also, don't try to get the NeoRAGex romsets you have working on the other emulators though, and vice versa. NeoRAGEx is, how should I put it... special, in the same way that a handicapped person is special in a sporting event meant for able-bodied athletes.

Sneaky spambot is sneaky. And gets crushed.

It's not just 'some game'. What's been cracked is actually an arcade-only addon for BlazBlue named Continuum Shift. Sure, this applies to BlazBLue in general as well, though.

I'm all for it - if only GameCop would suddenly appear and offer his thoughts on this.

Neat. I wonder what Sony's answer outside of suing/trying to downplay this thing will be. This just goes to show that no hardware or software is ever hackproof.

Personally, I love the game's rendition of Fly Me To The Moon and Bayonetta's theme.

Bayonetta some more. The fight against Temperatia and the following Route 666 level are just wow.

Word has it that there's even more additional extra for those who already own the original Street Fighter IV. We'll see.

When Vanilla Ice is somehow involved with anything, it results in many forms of hilarity and fail. Man, I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies when I was a kid. I was basically a TMNT nut back then, so that might explain my infatuation with practically anything TMNT related.

Uh, Kingdom Hearts: Flames of Judgement? You just got my kind of excited there, until I realized you actually meant Vandal Hearts.... There's a lot of gore in the game, yes? Based on the reviews I've read, this new Vandal Hearts doesn't quite stand up to the originals.

This. I don't know if DownloadHelp is a converter as well, though. It probably isn't.

We have other, more appropriate forum sections, you know.

I'll wait for Super. More stuff and whatnot.

I read the thread title as "Internet in my nom nom". Anyhoo, The Internet is always a good thing to have.

There's a reason why nullDC and Demul do not support BIN files and why you shouldn't use BIN image formats - ithey're never selfboot images because of the design of the file format.

While it's very true that Bayonetta and Darksiders are definitely shaking up the genre, the "old folks" of the genre still hold up very well. Out of those four you listed, Onimusha is the only one that needs a sequel or on a next-gen console (Nobunaga was dealt with during the course of the first three games, then Hideyoshi in Dawn of Dreams - what's in store for no.5 I wonder?). ... Which reminds me that I have to finish Dawn of Dreams. Damn thing's hard. P.S. Bayonetta is starting to get punishingly difficult, but it's not like I'm complaining. It kinda tells you something when you need ten continues just to clear a chapter.

A good review, as always. It seems that more and more games nowadays are constructed to follow a mission format, which doesn't fit a JRPG in my opinion. Unless it's a T-RPG, in which case I suppose it's fine. I also think it's a good thing that Square-Enix fleshes out the story behind Kingdom Hearts, but I'd much rather see them working on KHIII. I still resent Square-Enix for never bothering to give westeners any of the massive special editions of their games (Final Mix+, etc., why is it that we never get those despite the editions have tons of new content and clearly being the definite versions?). Need Kingdom Hearts III. If Disney gets their way, we'll get it.

I just saw a documentary a few days ago that followed the work of some companies whose only purpose is to make designs for gadgets and whatnot, so the consumer gets the mindset that the gadgets in question are worth buying. The documentary was full of design meetings and control groups and questions like "If an MP3 player is considered sexy in the eyes of the consumer, what exactly does that mean?" and "How would one sell a product with a form factor like this one?" and "What is the mental image this product purports?" etc.

Most likely you just don't know how to use it, because Boot2Bin/Bin2Boot are commandline programs, and as such will not work simply by starting it and expecting it to do stuff without arguments from the user. I really wouldn't advise you to go down that road, as those programs require quite a bit of knowledge about their proper use. In any case, if you find that you have a non-selfboot disc image, I say ditch it and look somewhere else for a better, selfboot one. If nullDC and Demul both fail to boot the game (even if it is selfboot), then the disc image is either poorly dumped or not supported to begin with. Also, I wouldn't go down the "start converting disc images to another format" path either, unless it's absolutely necessary. Way too much hassle and often offers unreliable results, to boot.

For the record, the 1.6 Beta is way outdated and has since been superseeded by 1.0.3 (non-beta) with 1.04 being in the works as of this writing. So you really want to upgrade. It's not really WinRAR's fault either. WinRAR has done its job properly for years and would show you a host of error messages if there were anything wrong with the archives. Of course, WinRAR doesn't see any errors that might have existed in the original file before it was compressed and split.