Comments on: Taito Type x2 Hacked – so what?

By: IcyGlare

IcyGlare — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:25:38 +0000

“The only benefit of having a rom is being able to practice before the console version comes out.”

Now whatever a rom means this is stupid. The real arcade experience solo or not if actually brought to the house is unbeatable to the end, whereas the home machine version that should naturally be bought to commemorate such a game you love playing despite the inferiority to the arcade version is just to occasionally play around with people in the other modes offered for the scared indoor players who also have no idea what arcades really are.

By: nitrofurano

nitrofurano — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:29:32 +0000

�Hacker�: A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness�not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean �security breaker.� Please don’t spread this mistake. People who break security are �crackers.� ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker )

By: Gunsmith

Gunsmith — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:41:47 +0000

Good points there, it got me thinking. I knew lots of KOF fans but they simply could not afford $300 Neo Geo carts. Ironically, now as those fans have jobs and can afford to buy the games, it’s too little too late. Luckily, PS3 remains generally unhackable so SNK is safe as long as the game is good!
To add to your point about non-fans and roms, they won’t play the game for more than a week anyway. Copy / Rom hoarders are like that – play whatever’s new then move on.
It is certainly true it is the fans that will make the company the most profit, which is why they make such moves as making XIII fan friendly, and bringing back fan favourites such as Mai; including fan service. – Check out my post on this.
http://orochinagi.com/2010/03/kof-xiii-news-predictions-mai

By: Yorika

Yorika — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:42:53 +0000

the problem with SNK and other great companies that are impacted by emulation is that they dont have a strong fan base.

like the video shown, this guy isnt a fan, he simply played the game because it looked good. most if not all the people who download roms arent fans.

here’s a extreme example, mona lisa. most people would want the original right? instead of a reprint. why? because the original is worth heaps? but why is that? cause its old? no its because leonardo has a fan base. u think a musuem that has his art actually cares about the picture? even if it was half rotted away it would still be worth more then a pixel perfect one.

this is why moves games and music are so easily pirated, because not many people are fans.

another example, what would a fan of star wars do and wat would some1 who enjoyed the movie do? 1 would buy the original and 1 would download it 4 free.

so i guess really its about marketing and changing our perception of the product as a whole good example is Apple, lame products yet people buy them

so in a way emulation shouldnt be affecting SNK but because it relies on gamers not fans, then yeah it does. if this wasnt the case then the mona lisa would be worth the exact same as a reprint.

By: Opal23Mays

Opal23Mays — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:06:38 +0000

That is cool that we are able to take the rom, moreover, this opens up new opportunities.

By: Gunsmith

Gunsmith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:03:09 +0000

3 gb ram? Yeah.

I got 3.0 P4 Hyper threading
1.5 ram
and 256 mb nvidia

it runs at 70% speed.

My laptop, which is 1.74ghz core 2 duo with 1gb ram just says NO.

So yeah, bring on the console port! I don’t live in Japan, and I’m too lazy to travel to the arcade… I want to go online to meet challenges. Fighting the CPU sucks.

By: Toxic Avenger

Toxic Avenger — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:51:08 +0000

I remember reading that the min specs for running it where something about.

3ghz core duo
3g ram
xp or post windows
dunno about video but it was probably good.

By: Gunsmith

Gunsmith — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:15:45 +0000

Really? I might just have to try it out then – just for journalistic purposes. My pc is 5 years old… what about yours?

By: Shinsoku

Shinsoku — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:46:26 +0000

Sorry for the repost, but for those who aren’t tech-savvy in terms of computers, my friend’s laptop is definitely below-average in terms of today’s laptops. Really, in any university, you’ll practically see everyone with a laptop (sadly, at my place, they <3 iMacs). If those people used their brains, and realized that a laptop with a discrete g-card is the same as buying one with an integrated g-card, then even your common person can run the game

Oh, and if you don't believe me about the statement I made, you're just not looking hard enough. It's amazing how the price difference between a laptop with a real g-card and one w/ a crappy integrated one cost nearly the same nowadays (slickdeals ftw, son?)

By: Shinsoku

Shinsoku — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:43:02 +0000

Big LAWLz @ Gunsmith.

As someone who’s played BBCS on the PC, I can safely say that my friend’s 2-yr old laptop (C2D @ 2.3 GHz, 8600M GT) played the game FLAWLESSLY — same FPS as the one in the arcades.

And yeah, so what if this game got leaked? The game isn’t as popular in the US (not to mention the fact that the arcade scene is rather BLEAK here), and according to my JP buddy, there’s still a lot of people in Japan who… still go the arcades to play this game! I’m guessing there aren’t / a couple of people who say, “Hey, let’s go to my place to play some BBCS!”

Of course, piracy is piracy, and any cut in profits will obviously lead to the company getting angry