Just in case you don't know, you could now play NES, SNES, GB, GBA, GBC, and Genesis roms on the Xbox One by firing up the Edge browser and going to http://nesbox.itch.io/x1
When you go to the page, wait a few seconds for the emu to load itself up, then you can start interacting with it. It uses OneDrive to access your roms, so upload them there and give the emu permissions to access your OneDrive when it asks.
I can confirm that Zelda, Link to the Past works, as well as Mario Kart, but haven't gotten around to trying anything else. The dev who created it (@nesboxcom on Twitter) has included save states and 2-player support, amongst other features.
Quick tip on using the save states, press RB+LB (emulated Start + Select), in that order, to initiate the emu save/load screen. You could bring up the save/load screen anytime while playing yuh game, but there only seems to be one save slot per rom, so use it wisely.
So if yuh see meh on Edge on meh XB1, yuh know is wha!
I've heard a couple of my colleagues mention it before, but the ads felt more annoying than anything else, so I kept my distance. Do we have a local clan?
Now that I've dropped the Galaxy of HeroesHorrors addiction, I'm looking for something else to waste my time. I picked up Walking Dead No Man's Land, but am still unsure if I want to continue...so what's everyone playing these days? Free 2 Play only, please.
Surely there are some swgoh players amongst us...? With the upcoming guild feature later this month, how about we band together from now so that we can hit the ground running when it launches?
My ally list is 33/35 right now, but I can make room for some fellow Trinis. Hit me up if you want: 669-643-315 (slyCzar). I'm totally F2P, but have been at it on a regular since Oct., so I've got a few 7* (Lumi, Eeth, Phasma and Sid), a few 5* (QGJ, JC and Rey), and the balance of my top toons at 4* (FOTP, Barriss, Old Ben, Poe and Ahsoka), all minimum lvl 60, but mostly around 66-68 for my favs.
If you're interested in forming up a guild, leave your ally code in a reply and we'll take it from there.
You know, at first, it was kinda nice being back in it, playing over the end scene from the original and all, but that quickly faded and I just couldn't stomach any more driving around in that stupid RC car...uninstalled and deleted.
Makes for a very interesting product for those considering tablets. If you don't wanna read through the entire article, which is well worth the read imo, then here's a walkthrough video that they did:
Netflix try to help d situation recently when they introduced some different settings geared towards capped users:
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... Netflix wants to help the internet starved Canadians! Late last night, Netflix CPO Neil Hunt announced via the official Netflix blog that data usage is being lowered by 2/3 for members in Canada. ... 1. “Good” – The default setting with good picture quality and lowest data use per hour (about 0.3 GB/hour) 2. “Better” – Better picture quality and medium data use per hour (about 0.7 GB/hour) 3. “Best” – Best picture quality and highest date use per hour (generally about 1.0 GB/hour – or up to 2.3 GB/hour when streaming HD content)
Doing the math, a person who streamed 30 hours of content in a month would use 9GB on the “good” setting, 21 GB on the “better” setting and 30-69 GB on the “best” setting. ...
I'll be 32 this year, so my perspective obviously skews the curve on that article a bit
Another thing to consider is that younger generations generally have significantly less disposable income and so have fewer options for acquiring the games that they covet. Not that that's an excuse, but it is a reality. If you'd asked me 10-15 years ago if I would buy a console, knowing that I'd have to buy the games to go with it, I'd have said no without skipping a beat. Now watch meh, 360, and games to go wit it.
While the guy is packaging it up and doing the receipt, I steal a copy from the display shelf.
What do you think of me?
I personally don't equate the two - and this view isn't unique to me. I'll download yuh stuff till kingdom come, buh me eh walkin off wit ah extra copy if I go in d store.
Have you seen these titles like those available on XBL to download? Also I've not seen many really new titles there, everyone's still hyped about pre-ordering and all that. And putting a game on your hard drive still had you need the disc inside the slot.
I know they have fully downloadable games off XBL Arcade, but those are VERY old and most devs don't care too much about em I'd say; definitely not like the new games they put out.
Anyway, if they DO have those games downloadable I'll have to adjust my statement, but I've yet to hear of any big-name games having such wonders as digitally downloadable on Xbox/PS3. Even if they aren't that recent. If you can't find proof (or don't even have an Xbox to check) then I just have to take it as a plan that once was. You know, like Onslaught mode for PC version of BF:BC2?
I just login to my Xbox and check what's available on Games on Demand, here's a quick list of what caught my attention that I could purchase and download now:
Halo: Reach Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Red Dead Redemption Crackdown 2 Batman: Arkham Asylum Fallout 3 Alan Wake Borderlands Just Cause 2
So while it's not the "latest and greatest", there are lots of fairly current titles available.
And as I did point out earlier, it's CHEAPER to release on a PC. I once heard it costs around $52 USD for a $60 USD game to be published on a console. And that it costs approximately $20 USD for the same to be done for the PC, simply due to the large number of digital copies. I'd say if the Xbox got 800,000 sales, the PS3 got 600,000 and the PC got 200,000 for a game that sold 1.8 million copies, and the Xbox/PS3 made $8 profit per disc and the PC made $40 profit per sale, it'd take 5 Xbox/PS3 discs to combat 1 PC copy. So it ends up being, that in terms of how much PROFIT they make, the PC counts for 1,000,000 sales on an Xbox 360/PS3.
As I'm fond of saying: pics or it never happened - hearsay is no good in court, we require proper evidence. Me eh business if is wiki and all, jes provide some links and I'll be happy to look into these figures that you've produced, because I find those figures rather ludicrous tbh.
ALSO, I'd like to point out, the consoles MUST use a disc for their copy.
Untrue:
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Microsoft Announces Xbox 360 Game Digital Distribution, Launches August by Nick Breckon, Jun 01, 2009 12:43pm PDT
Microsoft today announced that Xbox 360 titles will soon be available to purchase and download.
"We're launching full retail games on demand [this year]," said Microsoft general manager Mark Whitten. "We'll be launching this in August with a portfolio of about 30 titles. We'll be launching new titles every week."
Mass Effect, BioShock, Assassin's Creed, Oblivion and Call of Duty 2, Civilization Revolution, DiRT and Rainbow Six 2 are all titles that were confirmed for a digital release by way of a demonstration of the on-demand interface. The interface resembles the Xbox Originals store.
"You'll see these priced just like retail," said Whitten, who did not clarify whether there are plans for new releases to launch on the service alongside disc-based versions.
Right now the lion's share of new releases are disc-based only, but there are a growing number of titles that are also being distributed digitally via the Marketplace on Live (again, I cannot speak to the other consoles).
There is no doubt that piracy touches consoles as well, but it quite obviously doesn't affect the developer's bottom line near as much as on the PC - one need only look at the published sales figures for evidence of this. Even if we doubled or tripled PC sales figures to account for digital distributors (which I think is a far stretch), PC sales are often, still paltry, at best.
Further to the piracy argument on consoles, it's not as accessible to the everyday Joe, and in the case of the Xbox, it's predominantly used for offline play (I can't speak to the other consoles) as it's widely known and expected that the Microsoft banhammer will catch up with you if you take them online. That's not to say that there aren't any modded Xboxes on Live, but they are more the exception than the norm. Of all my friends that I know with modded Xboxes, none of them dare go online with them and only use their Live accounts on their legit Xboxes. I know a guy who's selling modded Xboxes here in Calgary, and he says you can go online with them, "for now", but then goes on to say that you should setup a separate Live account for them and he can't guarantee how long it'll be good for.
Yeah, Canadian telecom rapes and gouges customers, no doubt about it, which is what I alluded to in my previous post - there are special interest groups like openmedia.ca trying to bring this to the attention of the politicians ahead of the upcoming election so that consumers can get some sort of relief. They got a big win recently when they got the regulators to reverse the introduction of bandwidth caps (at least for now), and are trying hell hard to keep the issue in front of the politicians.
For a 15mbps package in Calgary, be prepared to shell out close to CAD$60. You can supposedly reduce that figure by bundling it with a phone service and/or tv service from same ISP. End of d day though, is jus more rape in yuh pwef. Canadians now beginning to open dey eyes to dis madness dat dey been goin through, and starting to fight back - hopefully something good will come of it.
But to address your question, is nuh so much about whether it affordable on a Canadian salary (which, to be honest, it is), but more about what choice do the consumers have really? All d ISPs chargin similar prices, so either take d rape here, or go across d street. Most people end up finding which bundle (internet/phone/tv) works out best for them, and going with that provider. In Calgary, it's typically Shaw (shaw.ca) or Telus (telus.ca).
Sony makes Vaio laptops that run Windows, do they not?
So why is a Microsoft console using BDs so 'logic-defying'?
Try to think outside the box a bit.
Das d best parallel you could draw to argue yuh point? No thinking in, or out, of boxes required here, wyatt pretty much said it - Microsoft nah want nuttin to do wit Blu-ray, and they are happy with the alternatives (DVDs and digital distribution), whereas Sony doesn't have that stance regards Windows (maybe it totally grinds their entertainment division though), and even if they did, wha dey go put on dey PCs? Linux?? OS X??? Be real, there is no alternative, unless dey wha have sales drop harder dan breadfruit. You self. Bettah dan dat.
A full decade away boy wyatt? Seems like a lifetime when you consider how quickly tech evolves. I agree that the retail channel is still huge for them right now, so yeah, switching to digital-only might not be the best choice just yet, but all in good time. Like apprentice say, making it available both in stores and online would be a good first step towards it.
You're right apprentice, Rogers has been found "traffic shaping", and recently, it's been adversly affecting customers who play WoW...
OpenMedia is once again at the helm trying to out Rogers as not playing by the rules, and the regulators (CRTC - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) are taking note finally and starting to ask questions.
I figured you knew this, but to hear that you aren't joking - well, the logic defies me. Not sure what to tell yuh. D maths jes doh add up fuh me, sorry.
Digital downloads is still a good while away, especially with many ISPs in the states starting to cap downloads. There's also the issue of changing the whole way without involving retailers, some might think offence, refuse to sell the hardware.
I agree that capped connections are an issue, but I fundamentally believe that something will change all of that - telecoms will bow to the masses, whether by way of legislature, or consumer uprising. We've just experienced the very thing here in Canada - the big telecoms wanted to put caps in place and Canadians fought back, so they rescinded. Now Canadians are trying to push for it to become a talking point for the coming election so that politicians and lawmakers know that it is an important issue to consumers.
As for retailers refusing to sell the hardware, I find that hard to believe since they'd only be diggin out dey own eye - no media sales, AND no hardware sales? Sounds like a lose-lose for them.
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