9th June 2005, 1:31 AM
From personal experience, and that is admittedly not a wide enough margin to prove it as fact, my hard disks have outlasted my optical drives by a wide margin. Which is to say, I am STILL sticking my old hard drives into machines I occasionally build for people, but I end up having to buy new optical drives.
I know, I know used game stores sell old Gameboy games. I'm saying I'd rather know it's there, because a lot of the rarer Gameboy games are...well rare.
Having the original cart always better (and I don't think having it in an unoriginal form means it's not "the real thing")? Well, personally I don't really hold that view. So long as the game plays exactly the same as before, it's all I could want. The trouble is making sure it does that. Hence, the reason I want this for DS, not Revolution. I would like the portability to remain. Plus, the added bonus of wireless multiplayer is always nice, if they work that into the emulation (I'm basically imagining a small window you can "freeze" the emulation to get to, wherein you would select which DS within range you want to link up with).
I know, I know used game stores sell old Gameboy games. I'm saying I'd rather know it's there, because a lot of the rarer Gameboy games are...well rare.
Having the original cart always better (and I don't think having it in an unoriginal form means it's not "the real thing")? Well, personally I don't really hold that view. So long as the game plays exactly the same as before, it's all I could want. The trouble is making sure it does that. Hence, the reason I want this for DS, not Revolution. I would like the portability to remain. Plus, the added bonus of wireless multiplayer is always nice, if they work that into the emulation (I'm basically imagining a small window you can "freeze" the emulation to get to, wherein you would select which DS within range you want to link up with).
"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)