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I'm personally waiting for early 2010 because of God of War III, Star Ocean: The Last Hope and Final Fantasy XIII. Also, the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia, if only Namco Bandai would stop being a bitch and make a proper announcement of the NA/EU release (and you know, the game sold ridiculous amounts of copies on it's first day in Japan). I have already bought DMC4 and Prince of Persia, so that I have something to play when I get the console. The only real problem is my Internet connection, or rather, my cable modem box and the Ethernet cable are located in such a place that it's going to take a bit of sweat, a switch and more Ethernet cable if I ever want to put that console online. EDIT: Is the 250GB model already out?

In somewhat related news, I'm planning to get a PS3 Slim this Christmas.

Start a fresh game on pro - It's sweet. IIRC, the game doesn't let you start a game on Pro until you've cleared the game on Normal, so I don't really have a choice. I cleared the game way back when on Easy, but then accidentally deleted my save and started from scratch on Normal.

Usually my only motivation to play on higher difficulty levels is to unlock extra stuff.

Resident Evil 4 on Normal is hard enough for me. What I do enjoy playing on Hard is God of War II. Got quite far utilizing a number of tactics, but currently that huge fatass of a Gorgon boss (Euryales?) is mopping the floor with me.

I find it quite questionable that news have surfaced that UbiSoft tried to strongarm favorable reviews for Assassin's Creed II by threatening reviewers with not giving them anymore games in the future - or something close to that.

I started noticing a lot of these things when console manufacturers didn't really regard their hardware as just video game consoles, but rather entertainment centers. Playing with friends at a party seems to be old and busted, new hotness is being connected and playing online, which the whole multiplayer angle plays into. All three major players are guilty of this. Crappy Bullshit Downloadable Content™ is probably the culmination of this - and of course, it's simply just another way to make more money. Sure, the PS2 had an Ethernet and a HDD addon, but it never really went anywhere, because of 1) the whole endeavor was doomed in PAL territories from the start, and things weren't much better in America 2) I don't think Sony even cared enough about online play with the PS2, and pooled their online resources to the PS3. As to why fewer an fewer games truly innovate, I reckon it has to do with corporate execs basically demanding how a developers should develop a game. This happened with Sega's Sonic Team, for one, and they certainly aren't the only ones feeling the sting. One problem to go along with that is developers (either by their own doing or by executive meddling) try to cram too many genres into one game. As for Nintendo Wii, Nintendo discovered the "casual gaming" market, and the rest is history. They've always been really poor at signing deals with "high profile" third party developers or caring about them ever since Square and RARE left. Plus, Nintendo themselves as a developer doesn't even try to create something new, hence why we always get yet another Mario game. What really pisses me off the most is that you are required to install a console game (!) on the console's HDD in order to play it. What the fuck, are loading times that much of a curseword in the industry these days? A Blu-Ray disc can easily hold 25+GB of data, and a game has the audacity to tell me that it needs to be installed first. The whole point of console gaming is that you don't need to jump through the same hoops as PC gamers to enjoy a game - at least, the point USED to be that.

"JUST LIKE G DID"

Grandia isn't completely and utterly bad, but it certainly is very far from being great. House of the Dead 2 is just an instant classic in its badness.

I use a Philips "Wiliams F1 Team" electric shaver. I get a pretty close shave with it, but I reckon it's not quite as close as with a regular shaver.

I got vaccinated today, and now I'm starting to feel the after effects. :/

Use the game's own save feature, not savestates. Savestates couldn't care less about what savetype the emulator is set to use, but at the same time, they shouldn't be used to completely substitute a regular in-game save.

I see what you did there

I would advise against posting while drunk or under heavy medication or whatever.

That's because MAME Plus Plus uses PlayStation graphics plugins in order to get hardware accelerated graphics. AFAIK, the latest MAME Plus Plus b0.134u1, and if you can't find that, you fail at Google. Seriously, it isn't that hard to find. Also, we are not linking to MAME Plus Plus, only the "official" MAME builds and derivatives. P.S. Please refrain from digging up threads in the future. Especially ones that are a year old.

Have you set the correct savetype for the game? are you using the actual in.-game save feature of savestates? Perhaps No$Gba simply doesn't emulate the game(s) properly, although that's a bit of a stretch.

That doesn't make sense,

There's something very wrong with that, not to mention that the entire health care system in the US revolves around insurances. I mean, what the fuck?

Here I was wondering when a new version will be released. Great work, long-ass changelog too.

This line makes this thread worthwhile. Swine flu sucks ass, though.

For one, NeoRAGEx is seriously outdated. While it was without peer in its day. Things aren't the same nowadays. The last official version was released some 7 or so years ago, IIRC. Due to this, NRX doesn't conform to the "romset rules" later set in stone by MAME, which dictate how the ROMs inside romset must be named, what their required size must be + other validity checks in the form of CRCs and hashes. Not to mention that games created in 1999 and later used protection mechanisms which NRX doesn't emulate, and needs specific hacked ROM to be able to boot these games without issues. Having said that, all other emulator conform to the aforementioned rules, including gnGeo. To be more specific, your romsets and Neo-Geo BIOS files are as outdated as NeoRAGEx itself and will not be recognized by newer emulators. What you need are the Neo-Geo BIOS fileset and romsets used by MAME, and those sets are used by all other emulators as well. Trying to rename existing files will only end up with you climbing the walls and tearing your hair out, so it's a fool's errand. For Linux, your only choice is pretty much gnGeo. For Windows, FBA (former Final Burn Alpha), Kawaks, or MAME are good choices.

Let's see... currently Tenchi Muyou! TV aka Tenchi Universe and Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari (no I won't bother translating that) - someone seriously need to get off their ass and sub the two PPV releases. Lot's of currently ongoing shows on the list, too. Watched Scrapped Princess a couple years ago but got stalled mid-way, and never returned to it.

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Despite failing to actually name the video card model, the amount of video memory it has suggests that your video card is way below minimum requirements for Dreamcast emulation on any emulator (not just by lacking in video memory, but in needed features as well). Having said that, you can now stop trying to get Code Veronica working on that computer. P.S. Half-Blood Prince really has nothing to do with this. Unless you used it as an example for where you got DirectX 9.0c... Which can be obtained from Microsoft's site anyway.

There could be a number of reasons why a Dreamcast emulator crashes with a generic Windows error message, most prominent ones being that your video card is poor and/or it has poor drivers that haven't been updated in ages, or there are simply some stranger driver conflicts present. There's also the possibility that Bin2Boot gave you the finger and gave you a corrupt CDI file (which is supposedly fairly rare but does happen). While 256MB of RAM is indeed quite low, that in itself shouldn't be causing generic crashes like that. So, without dancing around the issue longer than necessary, start posting some of your computer specifications.