9th April 2008, 9:40 PM
Well they kinda have, in the form of giving their local group out of Digipen a start and Rare they more or less hired out and there's Silicon Knights.
Still, aside from that Digipen group we're talking about already professional companies that are just not well known, not people working out of a friend's den, coding the "REAL WAY" (I open my hand one time, having calculated the exact diffraction and position of the flap to distort the air and thus the light from the sun in just the right way to burn a disk with my program on it, this can also be done in emacs, with command "C-x M-c M-butterfly").
Ya know, one can still be critical of something they don't have direct experience of if they have collected sufficient information to be suspicious. I mean do I really need to have cut off my own arm to have a good idea based on what I know of what an arm does and what I've seen of those without arms living their life to know why I may or may not want that condition?
I'm totally in favor of the continuous uploading of ROM after ROM to their servers, just not at the speed it's happening. I'm not sure what the hold up is. There's also some emulation issues due to them not really wanting to update those emulators to support additional features properly. Part of this is their desire to make it user friendly, but those who would sacrifice capability to gain user friendliness gain neither. When a user is struggling to find out how to do this or that and find they outright can't, that's the opposite of userfriendliness, and on top of that, my twist of a classic phrase is clever (in my own mind).
Well anyway, aside from some issues like with Mario Kart 64, all in all I love being able to buy old games I missed out on long ago. Further, Earthbound and Super Mario RPG on VC mean the actual carts should go way down.
Wii Ware does have some enhanced games, but what I'm more interested in is the original games. That's really where it's at. I'm looking forward to a number of interesting games there.
I still think the online service needs some revising though.
Still, aside from that Digipen group we're talking about already professional companies that are just not well known, not people working out of a friend's den, coding the "REAL WAY" (I open my hand one time, having calculated the exact diffraction and position of the flap to distort the air and thus the light from the sun in just the right way to burn a disk with my program on it, this can also be done in emacs, with command "C-x M-c M-butterfly").
Ya know, one can still be critical of something they don't have direct experience of if they have collected sufficient information to be suspicious. I mean do I really need to have cut off my own arm to have a good idea based on what I know of what an arm does and what I've seen of those without arms living their life to know why I may or may not want that condition?
I'm totally in favor of the continuous uploading of ROM after ROM to their servers, just not at the speed it's happening. I'm not sure what the hold up is. There's also some emulation issues due to them not really wanting to update those emulators to support additional features properly. Part of this is their desire to make it user friendly, but those who would sacrifice capability to gain user friendliness gain neither. When a user is struggling to find out how to do this or that and find they outright can't, that's the opposite of userfriendliness, and on top of that, my twist of a classic phrase is clever (in my own mind).
Well anyway, aside from some issues like with Mario Kart 64, all in all I love being able to buy old games I missed out on long ago. Further, Earthbound and Super Mario RPG on VC mean the actual carts should go way down.
Wii Ware does have some enhanced games, but what I'm more interested in is the original games. That's really where it's at. I'm looking forward to a number of interesting games there.
I still think the online service needs some revising though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)