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19th June 2009 is Worldwide (unless i've been misinformed). Carphone Warehouse, Apple Stores and O2 shops will have them (and demo units) up by a week on Friday. UK pricing... unclear. Higher than the 3G (not helped by the bad exchange rates) but how much higher? How long is a piece of string?

Wha...? That sucks. Might just ignore Heroes Season 4 now, barely anyone i know watches it anymore due to it being utter shite. Same thing that happened with Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives and many other US TV series.

Wha...? Noooooooooooooooooooooo:cry: Better get round to finding a copy soon then, got fond memories of playing that in an 8-hour drunken stint with one of my mates after a house party a while back. Everyone else went to bed, we stumbled upon a copy of EDF. Everyone else woke up and we were still playing the damn thing, 10 hours later! Bloody hilarious game and addictive to boot! Shame it didn't have online co-op, bet they'd have sold a lot more with that.

Damnit! All this talk is making me want to play the game RIGHT NOW! :p

New campaigns, new characters, new gameplay mechanics. Sounds a lot like a sequel to me

Post something like that in this cess pit and watch what happens :p http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/streetfighteriv/forum.html

Yup, i'm passing the blame. Never seen that thread in my life before. I guess i could argue though that you weren't just discussing illegal stuff but were in fact encouraging people to buy a PSP and engage in illegal activity with it instead of buying a Go. Suddenly the moderation across forums is more consistant and in fact you're lucky to be getting away without an infraction. Also, that thread is from AGES ago, moderation standards change over time. We've even had a rules re-write since then so the point is pretty moot. Is anyone making you pay twice though? You can still play the game on the PS1. The only reason you'd be paying twice is if you want to play the game on the move, but was that the premise you were sold the game on in the first place? Paying twice and breaking the law to play the game on the PSP are two separate issues. If you don't want to pay for the game twice then you simply don't get to play it on the PSP. It's not difficult. For some reason you seem to believe that you're entitled to play the game however you see fit and use the contents of the game disk however you like. For what it's worth i'd agree that making you pay for the same title twice is crappy. However i don't agree that this fact entitles you to modify game and console to get to the same effect.

The stuff in General ain't my problem, tell it to the MOdwin. So you view what you are doing as the same as backwards compatability on the PS2, PS3, Wii, DS, GBA, GBC etc? Despite the fact that in order to do it you need to illegally rip the game files off the PS1 disk, then illegally convert those ISOs to a format that the PSP can play and finally copy these files across to your PSP running illegal (see the EULA) firmware? You also don't find a shred of immorality in doing all that so you don't have to pay to play the game on the PSP, thus cheating the developer, the publisher and Sony out of money that is rightfully theirs? Fair enough, now i know why the "ignore user" button was invented.

So you're ripping PS1 games and loading them on to your PSP instead of buying them on the PSN store. Your justification for this is that you aren't cheating the developer out of any money Surely it's up to the developer/publisher if they want to re-release one of their titles on a new format (even if it is played by emulation)? The methods that the PSP uses to play the games are irrelevant, it's the tools that Sony have laid down and the developer/publisher can't do much about that. What you're doing is not only illegal it's also immoral. I agree, that law is daft. The law is still the law though, if you live somewhere then you abide by the local laws rather than doing what the hell you like because you don't agree with those laws. That's how people end up serving 2 years in a Dubai jail for having sex in public :p Also, you don't own a game. You own a lisence to the game. When you bought a PS1 game you bought a liscence to play that game on the PS1, you didn't buy the rights to the game. It is illegal and you are talking about partaking in illegal activity. The fact that the legal ramifications of illegally creating copies of software are pretty much zilch doesn't change that. N-E have had complaints from people in the industry in the past with regards to similar discussion, hence you are to zip it before you get yourself an infraction. OK?

Sheikah, no illegal talk on the boards please. And yes, playing PS1 games on your PSP using custom firmware is illegal. It is illegal to rip, reproduce or distribute PS1 bios files (found in emulators) without permission. Further to this, by the law of this land it is also illegal to make back-ups of UMDs and it is also illegal to tamper with the contents of these back-ups (i.e. shrinking the size by cutting stuff out). You are wrong. End. Of. Story. Go into the Gamespot Street Fighter forums and ask how to pull off a Hadouken. I dare you :p Seen someone ask something similar once and it turned in to 10 pages of spamming, flaming and just generally ripping on the guy! He was a gay paedophile who's dad is also his Grandpa by the end of it

Are there any drivers on Packard Bell's website? System builders usually host the correct drivers for their machines. Also, check Control Panel -> Sound and make sure you have the right device set for playback.

Put the disk in as soon as you switch the PC on (if not then before and reset). What does the computer do? If it's the same thing as without the disk then it's ignoring it and booting from the HDD. You'll need to change the boot order in the bios set-up menu ("press Del. to enter set-up").

Would they really up it to 1080p while keeping the sucky framerate of the N64 version though? I'm hoping not.

I'm thinking it won't recognise what the object is, but it would recognise what your hand is and that it's holding something (they already demo'd the ability to tell the difference between an open and closed hand). You could play Natal Golf with a Katana if you felt like it. Might loose a toe or two though

Think this could be it to be honest, maybe he's already dead? Dead people go to Heaven or Hell, right? God is in Heaven. He's dead. Something that's dead can't die. If he can't die then he can't commit suicide (without resurrecting himself and comitting suicide, but then he'd go to hell, battle it out with the Devil and the whole of existance would cease to exist).

While nobody outside the informed know the exact spec sheets for these devices it's easy to speculate. We know how the camera thing work but it's also fair to say that pitch and yaw and roll can't be as accurately mapped via that method. To get the kind of accuracy demoed in the press conference you'd need to have gyros (or a similar tech) built inside the wand. It's then fair to assume that if these gyros are inside the PS3 Wand that Sony wouldn't miss out on using them in the same way the Wii does, allowing them to reinforce the coordinate data obtained by the camera as well as providing yaw, pitch and roll data. Essentially you could expect similar (though likely not as good) results to WM+ by turning the camera off. It's only informed speculation, Sony's system might not use gyros at all or might only use pitch, yaw and roll data to calculate pitch, roll and yaw rather than attempting to calculate relative position with it. However if the speculation is correct then you could turn the PSEye off and get near (or equal) performace to WM+. With the camera on the accuracy should be better. This isn't a pro-Sony or anti-Nintendo post btw, it's more of a "Holy smokes, Batman! Your tech rules!" kind of post. I'm more impressed that someone saw the Wiimote and thought "hmm, i wonder what this would be like if we strapped a light bulb to the top, filmed it with a camera and used some clever software to track it's position in 3D?". That kind of innovation is the best, a nice, simple improvement of an existing idea that *should* yield very impressive results. AKA i really couldn't care less what console it's on it's still impressive and I now look forward to seeing what developers can do with it (followed finally by me getting my hands on it, realising it's shite and selling it on :p).

He could potentially could commit suicide but he'd just be reincarnated as himself again anyway rendering it pointless.

I really, really can't wait! My favourite n64 game! Wasted so many hours on it it's unbelievable

The thing with Natal though is just because there's no requirement for a controller doesn't mean you can't use one. It's completely up to the game developer, the system could work in conjunction with the Xbox 360 pad or maybe with some form of one handed controller. If devs choose to make it EyeToy 2.0 it'll suck donkey balls but I don't really see it. Most will cross develop for PS3 and 360 like they are at the moment and work around the differences between the two techs. Not to say there won't be EyeToy style games for it, it's just that the system has the flexibility to do both (just as the PS3 has, although not in such an advanced way).

Thread unlocked. Loads of posts deleted. I'll start banning people from threads if you carry on, it's cutting in to my Left 4 Dead playing time :p

Crying shame. Wonder what caused him to top himself? Either a sick joke or you didn't read the thread. I'm hoping the latter. Are you gonna delete it or shall i?

Zechs, shush. You're spouting drivel now. Only warning you're getting. Oh, and less of the F-word please guys. Is there any point in the idle name calling?

I don't think attitude towards motion control has changed at all. Personally my problem wasn't the concept, it was the Wii's lame implementation of that concept. I expect Motion+ will have changed that but it's a bit late now, i've lost interest in the Wii.

I'm not the only one then? TBH i'm not sure what it was for me. Maybe the very, very bland enviroments?

It uses a bog standard camera, yes. Now what happens if we move an object of set size closer to the camera? It looks bigger. What happens if we move it away from the camera? It looks smaller. Unless i'm mistaken this is how Sony's system judges distance. Combine that with vertical and horizontal position and we have full 3D mapping of the unit's position. It's a fool-proof system that has one single downside; you need line of sight between the camera and the wands. This is where the Wiimote wins out (barring pointer functionality, which has the same disadvantage).