Hard Core Rikki

I'd say the most bothersome issues are interdev relations. I seem to recall the FBA author was regularly abused on mameworld, and the author of a superior MDEC decoding method for PS1 games proposed to contribute it to MAME but was flat out rejected. Development should IMO get more modularized, drivers aren't cutting it. There still is the problem of the licence, making it pretty much the same as useful as closed source, just that the code is released with every update. Jumping on the throats of anyone deviating from a highly restrictive (borderline fanatist) interpretation hardly helps either. The licence thing also makes little sense as pretty much all emulators explicitly state somewhere that they are not to be used commercially or bundled with ROMs/BIOSes (outside the scope of code licence terms).

Gentlemen. http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2010/12/09/h...hreadbare-team/ Well, seems a new generation of capable MAMEdevs is direly needed.

Anything specific?

Get AVG out of your system within the briefest delays. Just recently, it wrecked a ton of systems with its very poor QA, requiring full system reinstalling. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/02/av..._immune_update/ You'll find Avast 5 to be a superior allaround protection whereas AVG lacks a number of protections. Comodo jumped the shark and can be overwhelming (especially if youre foolish enough to install the whole suite rather than just the firewall or fw+hips), so I'll recommend Online Armor. The free offering should do. The next paid tier offers some nice extra convenience. http://www.online-armor.com/products-online-armor-free.php

Something a few might find interesting, especially coders. Google and RIM currently are offering free devices from theirs, for participants in a testing and marketplace pre-filling phase. Google: a disposable CR-48 smartbook laptop using ChromeOS, a cloud-only operating system integrating fast, secure, quickbooting access to Google's services and the web. All you need to do is simply filling a form, and hope you get selected to receive one of those machines via postal service. I believe it's limited to US addresses currently. RIM: more known for Blackberries, they've been looking to compete with Apple's iPad, with a "Playbook". All you need to do is submit an app to their app store, and get it accepted. The SDK includes many mainstream languages and compilers, and licencing more liberal than Apple's. A few report its as straightforward as just recompiling apps with barely any modifications. CR-48 Pilot program: http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-cr48.html Apply for one: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/cr48advanced/ General news and infos on Chrome in general: http://www.chromestory.com/ Playbook Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/rim-accepting-a...for-free-device

What qualifies as nextgen or retro can be subjective. Console, handheld and arcade emulation ought to be nice (with a misc subsection for misc and/or retro talk not lumped within the root category or its subsections). Subcategories can be displayed on the forum index.

Well, if youve got wellworn shoes, he's still buying.

MUGEN would fit inside the Arcade category. With the amount of posts it has, it would be senseless to remove that section. Gamecube and Wii could be merged without a problem, its essentially the same system with upgraded controls. Overall, theres nothing wrong with the current sections, except maybe underoptimal placement. I'd have expected something closer to such a structure: SITE --Announcements --News --Ideas on this forum (site feedback sounds nicer) --Emulation radio show (maybe as a subsection inside announcements?) --FAS FREE FOR ALL --Lounge --reviews/rants (?) (maybe better placed as a subsection in lounge?) --multimedia (no separate sections for videos and pictures?) --computer talk (splitting this for software and hardware discussion could be nicer, as different crowds can be interested in hardware discussion). GAMING/TECH --computer talk/software discussion (assuming split) --computer talk/hardware discussion (assuming split) --gaming talk --netplay HANDHELD EMULATION (lumping those within a 'handheld emulation' category might be more intuitive, especially if the larger 'general handheld' would be the actual placeholder for all handheld discussion, and the following project sections to be sections within that category). Keep note of Sony's PSP and the absence of mobile gaming discussion (like about iphones). --general handheld talk --dswifi --dualis --dsemu --stellaDS ARCADE --general arcade talk --mame --mugen --neogeo --cpsX NINTENDO SONY MS SEGA Nintendo, Sega, Sony and MS categories seem to be alright to keep as they are, other than maybe throwing one or 2 retro consoles somewhere else or in their own 'retro' category.

I take there seems to be a max time limit for item display on portal currently (not just max number of news). For displaying the full content of news without needing scrolldowns, just replace the fixed height value with auto. IPB 3 has an arcade. I believe an upgrade script from v2.3's arcade is available (though that shouldnt be needed, as scores and arcades could just be reinstated without preserving past scores, but just in case Arcade returns here before an update to IPB3). Can the black theme make a comeback? It shouldn't have been excessively broken or should require too much patching for 2.3 compatibility. Also, topX daily stat reporting on the forum index.

Thank the heavens you've escaped with your sanity still intact. There's all sort of nuts on the web. Perhaps nothing as extreme as you, but I've had a creepazoid that kept sending me flattery then requests to buy used shoes from me (someone called 'bootlicker' and having profile pictures of him submissively licking people's boots while theyre wearing them). I'll spare you the imagery.

Any specific needs? What site is that? HTML doesnt really require anything beefy that free hosts dont provide.

IPB 3 was still a mess back then. IMO, the significantly different UI wouldve turned many off. 2.3 is snapier in general. Mods like forum attack system are still not available for v3 to this day (I take their return was originally planned but kept on hiatus).

If you checked the emuchrist forum, they decided a few months ago that it was time to take the lights out, let the domain expire, and keeping meetings elsewhere (like on facebook) since most the regulars there knew each others. Kept an emulmao mirror somewhere for historic purposes, so no, its not gone, I suppose.

Certainly not as much as France's team has been. Its elimination could've be considered deliverance for all the french nation. These people couldn't stop ashaming it too soon with their seemingly infinite arrogance, absence of any fairplay, patriotism, civic sense or respect for opponents or even their teammates. Quite the downfall, for the once world champions to get defeated like noobs by the 84th-ranked nation by the FIFA. I don't recall anything this tainting to the WC event ever happened in the history of the FIFA. French football is in ruin.

Hajime no Ippo, as first pick (boxing). Samurai Champloo (warm recommendation. Relatively realist swordfighting, a definite good watch).

That.

The digitized 2d versions looked and played the best. They better go back to that, or the design board. D for trying reviving MK with an apparent nextgen remake (MK II? Some characters and stages/backgrounds from MK III are recognizeable, like Nightwolf, Sektor and Smoke), though. Amusing that the makers of old hits try bringing back old titles mainstream again (Super Mario, Sonic, Street Fighter II, Tomb Raider 1...). Not really unexpectable, with the fanbase behind some of those oldies. Someone there seems to be thinking that just increasing visual gore will shock today's gamers into buying this, like MK did back around 1992.

That. At least it won't be as bad as the upcoming King of Fighter movie. These attempts at pugilist hollywood flicks ought to be reserved for Hongkong studios.

Not before the dark theme comes back.

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Get Avast 5. It now shines the most in how extensive it resident protection is, as well as feature-wise. Set it to cache items during quick scans too (this reduces the time needed for the next scans and resident protection by maintaining a list of safe files known to be in a currently safe state, like with Norton 2009-2010's Insight whitelist). AVG dropped balls big time since the old v8 days. Don't walk away from it, run.

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Picking Zangief and expecting to win? Oxymoron detected. Thats hardly a afair match of technique against mashing, with such unbalanced odds.

Dont give them any funny ideas.