27th October 2005, 1:10 PM
One thing I can say for sure is this. The Sega CD's memory cart DOES use a battery. That's more annoying than a cart because that's a lot more lost saved games...
Oh yeah, I still have a lot of saved games to "catch up" on on my PS2. I did manage to accomplish a number of difficult goals in Katamari Damacy, and my current save file is better than the first.
I also thought I'd mention that I got to try out the updated GBA SP in a store. Turns out their old GBA broke or something so they had the sky blue one in there. Those screenshots don't really do it justice, namely because you look at them and you say "wait a sec, my SP isn't that dim". I think it looked like that due to the lighting adjustment, but anyway that updated screen is nice. I don't notice any blurring problem or anything, but I will say that if ABF decides to buy one of these new models, him holding out this long may end up making the rest of us look like fools. The thing is just a very nice screen. Turning down the brightness is the only option there is though, you can't actually turn off the light completely. As for battery life, I think I'll need to look that up somewhere. I would suspect it to be roughly the same knowing Nintendo though. I believe the clarity doesn't come from extra energy output so much as directing all that light into our EYES rather than directly UP (try using your old SP as a flashlight and you may notice the brightest beam comes directly from the top facing up from the system, as opposed to directly forward from the screen out, I believe that a lot of energy is lost due to that which the new design manages to harness).
Oh yeah, I still have a lot of saved games to "catch up" on on my PS2. I did manage to accomplish a number of difficult goals in Katamari Damacy, and my current save file is better than the first.
I also thought I'd mention that I got to try out the updated GBA SP in a store. Turns out their old GBA broke or something so they had the sky blue one in there. Those screenshots don't really do it justice, namely because you look at them and you say "wait a sec, my SP isn't that dim". I think it looked like that due to the lighting adjustment, but anyway that updated screen is nice. I don't notice any blurring problem or anything, but I will say that if ABF decides to buy one of these new models, him holding out this long may end up making the rest of us look like fools. The thing is just a very nice screen. Turning down the brightness is the only option there is though, you can't actually turn off the light completely. As for battery life, I think I'll need to look that up somewhere. I would suspect it to be roughly the same knowing Nintendo though. I believe the clarity doesn't come from extra energy output so much as directing all that light into our EYES rather than directly UP (try using your old SP as a flashlight and you may notice the brightest beam comes directly from the top facing up from the system, as opposed to directly forward from the screen out, I believe that a lot of energy is lost due to that which the new design manages to harness).
"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)