The-Ice-Man

They fuck you up real good.

The SCART cable sure did though. Using the RF cable that came with the console sucked arse compared.

Cue Robert......

Me too. However I'll go away and make a proper list.

I hate the registry. Who's stupid idea was it?

Um, which one would be Kenshiro and which one iq_132 in that pic?

How did you miss that? That's why it was down for weeks and came back looking like this, with FAS missing.

First console I ever burned my own games for. First console I ever emulated Mega Drive on. First console I ever downloaded hacked savegames for, first console I ever had two of, coz one broke. Only console along with the xbox that I will keep replacing if it ever breaks. I think I'll go play Confidential Mission with two lightguns.

They should send in Duke Nukem.

Was this rating system there before the forum hack? I don't remember it.

Cold man. Cold.

Exactly. Publishers are wasting their time with DRM, it just encourages piracy. But what's worse is the way that they're acting like hackers making software that installs secretly and can't be removed without advanced measures. Securom installed without my knowledge at all, started invisibly every time windows starts, did not have an entry in add/remove programs, made registry keys with null values so they couldn't be removed in regedit without a special tool, and made files with invalid filenames so they could not be removed normally in explorer. All the exact behaviour of spyware/malware.

Try installing it four more times and see what happens.

I make sure to look at reviews very carefully now for any mention of DRM. I was gonna pick up Dead Space for £5 until I read it had DRM. Just means that people will wait for a cracked version to be released instead of paying for it. I used to just download tonnes of games for the PC, but since games got DVD size I don't do it anymore coz they take so long to download. Now I like to wait till games have been out a little while and are cheap, but not if they have DRM. BioShock could be free and I wouldn't take it. I would like to play BioShock and Dead Space one day, but it'll probably be on the 360 when I get one, unless they rerelease them on PC without DRM. And I don't think it's good enough for companies like Eidos to make DRM software where you're only allowed 5 installs but you get one back if you make a successful uninstall. What if uninstall fails? And you can bet that even after successfull uninstalls the DRM malware is still left behind.

Still loving that.

Guess I'll be just sticking with CCleaner then. Reason I asked is coz I realised today that I had that nasty Securom DRM shit on my PC and had to follow this tutorial to fully get rid of it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-98241_25_0.html I don't know what game it was that installed it, I've never played BioShock, I won't touch games if I know they have DRM, I'm guessing it was a demo of something that didn't mention it was being secretly installed.

Sorry for double post, second time that's happened to me. My mouse keeps registering double clicks when I only press once. Flood control didn't catch it.

The forum's turned into a dating website.

I was gonna say what you drew was basically the NeoGeo pad. A lot of people love that pad. Too big and rectagluar for my liking, but the stick is supposed to be really good.

I love Valve, but I hateth Steam.

Is there a good program for getting rid of the rubbish that a lot of programs leave behind when you uninstall them, like registry keys and files in application data etc? Is there something automated that searches out useless bits of programs that aren't needed anymore so you don't have to try searching the registry or trying to find files in explorer when you don't really know what you're looking for. I have CCleaner which I use regularly and that gets some of the un-needed registry items, and I always try to find folders relating to the program I've just removed, but that's often not good enough by a long shot. There are very often files in places outside the install folder you specified, which have names that bear no relation to the product you removed, so searching doesn't help. Then there's files that get placed in the system32 folder and other system folders that you really don't want to go poking around in. So is there a good, preferably free or easily cracked program for hunting down and totally removing the leftovers from programs you no longer use?

I tried Spybot after reading this thread and it found a few nasties that my ZoneAlarm and AdAware was oblivious to.

Originally it meant a cure for a hangover, which ironically was most often alcoholic, like a Bloody Mary. Now pick me up usually means something that wakes you up if you're tired, like coffee. Or Red Bull. Or Prozac.

Yay trolls. There used to be a few knocking about my house. Now the only two we have are the Mr and Mrs Claus ones which we get out at Christmas.

I don't know a lot of the characters too but I think it's nice to learn about them through these games.