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Yeah, it sure sounds like that. Sounds exactly like those spam commenters on YouTube that say "link this video to 50 of your friends and good things will happen to you". Besides, official sources never refer to titles (either their own IPs or some other company's) with just "Halo" or "L4D".

Finished Fatal Frame II on Hard. Now I want to play the final battle again from a previous save, just to grab a thing I missed.

In most cases even a hack has a romset of its own, unless you happen to find a patch file that hacks your existing, original set.

No rom requests. The rules should be clear enough. Go through MAME Plus' IPS archive and see if there is an IPS matching that hack.

And most of them are male, because of shortsighted policies that were/are based on equally shortsighted and skewed family "values" of sort.

Thank yee kindly. Much obliged.

Yeah, over the shoulder camera was a genius change in RE4. Quick Time Events seems to divide opinions like Moses did to the Red Sea, but I personally like those very much (speaking only for RE4 as I haven't touched RE5). Specific actions with specific objects is also a nice touch (like erecting and kicking down ladders and such).

Sure, but I'd much rather get out of my mom's house first and settle in my own apartment.

"Yes". ... Very very few applications and/or games aimed at regular users ([hardcore] gamers or otherwise) make use of more than two cores.

I take an aducated guess and say that no-one in this thread cares (much less the topic starter) after two years. No gravedigging.

Not really Iceland, but I suppose the overall yearly temperatures have something to do with it, and I've probably boosted my immunity as well.

There was a time in my life when I had fairly bad allergies every year. The funny thing is that all of them just disappeared some years ago, and haven't come back since.

All I know is that it's supposed to be released sometime in 2009. No definitive release dates anywhere. No in-game images either, just a logo has surfaced.

Yeah, that's the gist of it.

I like my sports games with an unrealistic arcade-y twist, so I'm having a lot of fun with Fore. The British English accent in the game grates my ears a bit, though.

That's something straight out of Metal Gear Solid.

Yeah, nice to hear this sorted out. The MAME set is bigger because it separates the Neo-Geo MVS (Arcade) BIOS and the Neo-Geo AES (Home console) BIOS into separate files, not to mention their regional (EU, US, JP) flavors. I find it a bit strange considering that one can freely set the Neo-Geo BIOS to any region and either Arcade or Console mode. I guess MAME just likes to separate these things to the extreme. The old set had only one main Neo-Geo BIOS + assorted support files (sfix, lo-lo, etc.)

VRAM or just video memory refers to the amount of memory a graphics card has to work with graphics data (the act of guiding the display devices, storing textures textures, dimensions/resolution, bit depth, etc.) - basically anything that has to do with displaying any type of graphics. A video card with less VRAM can be better than another card with twice the mount because the card simply outperforms the other in terms of speed and/or other features. VRAM is just a storage area and plays a crucial role in graphics-heavy applications - like games. Take something like Crysis set to use every graphics trick it has at maximum detail levels on a resolution of 1600x1200 or higher. It's a huge undertaking for the graphics card, as it has to make millions of calculations per second and handle all the textures and effects at their intended detail level without dropping a single frame in the process. A situation like this is where a huge amount of VRAM comes into play, as the game continues to send data to the graphics card to process. There is a definite limit on how fast a card can process data and it will need to store the data somewhere and perform operations on it. Sure, the graphics card and the game know how to manage the graphics data effectively, so the contents of the VRAM is purged every so often. The problem with older cards with less VRAM is the fact that the card's VRAM becomes filled way too quickly, and the card isn't fast enough to process the stuff it has. When this happens, the card requests that the system RAM and Windows pagefile (and extension of sorts to the computer's main memory) be taken into the play, to lighten the load on the card. when this happens you start to see a lot of swapping in the hard drive, as the CPU has to start switching data back and forth between the graphics card and the RAM. This process is very slow and you start seeing severe performance issues, as the computer tries to cope with the amount of data the game wants it to push around. In terms of emulation the amount of VRAM available is not such a huge issues because after all, we're mainly dealing with consoles of yesteryear that did not boast with graphics back then the way modern games do now. 2D sprites really do not tax a a graphics card at all. Sure, the likes of the PlayStation the Nintendo 64 and the like are a bit different in the way that not only are they pushing 3D graphics, their graphics routines themselves are so specified and unique that they need more VRAM and video card features in order to be emulated at least in some degree of accuracy. Still a video card with more than 128MB of video memory is overkill. I won't go into the newer consoles; the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube. I think you get my long-winded point already. Yeah, got carried away, and there's probably some misinformation too, so people can correct me later.

Yes, I meant the Neo-Geo BIOS files that MAME uses, my bad. They are different from the "basic" Neo-Geo BIOS files. It's worth noting though that all emulators that emulate the Neo-Geo these days use (at least should) the same set of BIOS files that MAME does. Many romsites do not even carry the old BIOS set, because it's basically useless. For the record, there was a time when all emulators used a different set BIOS files (NeoRAGEx still does, being a relic and all) until MAME's way of doing things brought upon the change. Or, alternatively, people realized that the Neo-Geo BIOS files were named kinda weird and/or some needed files weren't there to begin with - well, whatever the case was, Neo-Geo emulation back then worked just fine with those BIOS files.

Your problem (or anything relating to it) does not need any kind of scripting nor coding knowledge. What version of MAME are you using? By the looks of it, your MAME BIOS files are outdated (CRC calculations of the files do not match what MAME expects them to be, and some BIOS files have the wrong lenght), and you don't have the proper MAME set of SvC Chaos, for the same reasons.

Everybody Golf aka Hot Shots Golf Fore!. You can just pick it up and play, and it doesn't require massive concentration efforts or quick reflexes (well, some reflexes are required if you want to make decent swings). Best damn golf game on the PS2, too. Rez, to a degree. At least until you get to a boss. Space Channel 5 Ridge Racer V is pretty laid back. Same cannot be said about Burnout (any installment, most notoriously Revenge) with the speed it has. Most RPGs, as long as they're not action RPGs, or have some kind of realtime/semi-realtime thing going on, can be pretty laid back. Gradius V just kills me. There's nothing laid back about it. Even more so with R-Type Final. Both are excellent games otherwise, though. Definitely not something to wind down with.

WTF happened here? Guest posting?

Not what I was looking for, but a good example of the use of for-each that I can use in my future projects.

This board does have a handy multi-quote feature, you know.

I'd much rather see some from of the Arcade back here than FAS. Then again, the arcade we had was a buggy, insecure mess. I wouldn't be too surprised if that was one of the reasons why we were hacked in the first place.