[QUOTE="DeathSquirrel"][QUOTE="PC360Wii"]As a degree student of Design for Interactive MEdia .... no I completely disagree, the old dashboard was a mess.PC360Wii

Well I havnt used it yet, havnt used my 360 in months, but the concept seemed alot better, in the end it comes down to personal taste, it seems theyve tried Apples approach this time around.

As a degree student of Design for Interactive MEdia .... no I completely disagree, the old dashboard was a mess.PC360Wii

I loathe the new UI.There are FAR too many windows to flip through and it's insane that they don't let you customize it.

There should be 3 or 4 tabs tops. One for playing games. One for watching video/pictures. One for listening to music. One, maybe, for system settings. Under each of those let me browse the relevant portion of the marketplace or access my own content. Whatever. It should be SO much easier.

There is another means of region bypassing-there's a bunch of jumpers that set the region that you can bridge/isolate. However, they're not like the jumpers you'd find on a PC motherboard (for example), so you'll have to perform a bit of soldering. The 4-in-1 cart would probably be the most convenient route, though, simply because it works on any Saturn, no internal modification needed. It also provides 4 MB of extra RAM for games that use it (usually arcade fighting game ports), more backup save RAM, and Action Replay-style cheat capability. (Did I get all of that correct?)NamelessPlayer

Yeah, that's what my cart does so sounds right :)

[QUOTE="DeathSquirrel"]I'm friends with someone on the supreme commander team. He mentioned that there were about twice as many multiplayer players as there were copies sold. That's anecdotal but I can get why the industry favors some sort of DRM. Hopefully the eventual results look more like steam than spore.True_Gamer_

Either the SupCom devs are complettely disabled...by not having the ability to monitor their own servers...or the pirates broke in a warehouse with stored copies and run away with thousands of serial codes...

Heh never played the game but suspect they didn't lock down multiplayer to only valid registered copies or something. Regardless it's really not possible to say how large the piracy issue is. Most pirates just wouldn't play if they had to pay. Is that really a lost sale? Even if it's not a lost sale is piracy not a problem because the people illicitly accessing your material wouldn't have paid you in the first place?

My Saturn collection is larger currently then any console I own, even the Wii and PS3 combined. That being said, yes it is expensive to invest in but most games are actually better then what is being offered for the current gen systems. If you can get your hands on one you probably won't regret it. Check out racketboy.com, this guy offers all the cables and VGA boxes to get Saturns and Dreamcasts running on newer TVs, but the forum community is large and they are always selling consoles with games. One guy was selling two Saturns, one chipped for imports and one normal one for only 80 bucks with like 20 gamesxXDrPainXx

Just as a note on that, the saturn doesn't need a chip for imports, just an adapter cart. I assume they're still for sale in multi-function type carts that offer the RAM cartridge/cheat codes/import play & such in one cart. That's what I've used forever for imports. You need a chip to play copies IIRC but not japanese originals.

Fantastic system if you like great shooters, fighters, and RPGs but some of the most popular titles are FAR overpriced for their actual rarity.

edit--lol just looked at ebay and apparently if I shrink wrapped it & stuck a weathered price tag on it my mint panzer dragoon saga could go for 250+. Ridiculous!

I've enjoyed plenty of FF over the years but I don't recall ANY of them with a story remotely on par with the real RPG champs like planescape, BG2/ToB, or Daggerfall.

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[QUOTE="Tnasty11"]MGS 4 producer: If you want to play the game buy a PS3 Harden_hawk

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read after the "but" dont just stop after the first paragraph.

The 360 couldn't run it.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/port-update/mgs4-still-being-built-on-ps3-hardware-261471.php?cpage=2

The game is made on ps3 hardware, and it's made totake advantage ofthe blu-ray disk.

Yeah it'll reload game materials over and over in order to eliminate seek times just like other 'huge' PS3 titles that use tons of storage. Compressing the audio isn't exactly going to kill the user experience after all ;)

I don't know that I expect it to gomultiplatform but the whole 'oh it just couldn't be done' line is bull crap.