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If the stages are large and varied enough, with missions taking place in different sections of each stage(Or different paths through stages, with overlap on some points), there's not much to worry about. So, time spent on creating a game determines if it's good or bad? Duke Nukem Forever will be fucking awesome then.

I wouldn't trust anything that lists the Windows print spooler service as a trojan. However, it's possible that the file can get infected. It might be worth it to run msconfig and see if there's anything suspicious going on there. Do the windows that pop up actually come from Firefox, or are they IE windows in disguise? Also, check here for some more stuff: http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#online It also lists Easy Spyremover as formerly suspect software. Finally, when you uninstalled Firefox, did you also delete your Profile folder?

You're not paying $50 for it though, you're paying $10 to get an extra game with a controller . As for the whole selling used games thing, I'm pretty sure they don't like it because it could technically cost them sales, with people buying used games(With the profit going to the seller) as opposed to buying new games, where most of the money goes to Nintendo.

Outside of that, Ad-Aware and Spybot are rather low on the list of applications that detect spyware/adware these days, basically they don't detect all that much. Windows Defender does a much better job, and it's free as well.

Well, Excite Truck's now out in Europe(And I gots me a copy). It's the same price as Wario Ware Smooth Moves, putting it at €49.99 as opposed to the €59.99 all other games cost. And we haven't gotten Kid Icarus on the VC this week. There were updates for a few games though.

Might wanna turn your BSoD's back on, that should help a hell of a lot with diagnosing. Could be faulty drivers, could be faulty hardware, could be faulty software. No way to tell without the BSoD.

Quicktime itself can also be easily set to only open up a select few filetypes. Control Panel > Quicktime > Filetypes. Outside of that, check Browser > MIME Settings as well. Uncheck everything it lets you uncheck, hit OK, then start the programs you want to use for those filetypes and set them to use them. You can also avoid this to begin with by unselecting the filetypes during Quicktime's installation.

Some fun news: The TG16 game Military Madness now has an Update mentioned on the Shopping Channel, it's supposed to fix a few bugs in the game/emulator. This can only mean that updates are indeed possible, and it's just a question of when we're gonna see them, as well as what's gonna be fixed/added. Personally, I'm hoping for Mario Kart DS tracks in Mario Kart 64 and some glitch fixes. Would also be nice if other games gave you these options too.

Release date for Super Paper Mario's also known now: April 9th.

I got Sonic Adventure 2 Battle along with my Gamecube at the European launch. Played the hell out of it, and enjoyed the hell out of it. For its time, it was a pretty good game with great graphics. However, going back to it now kinda hurts since the flaws stand out so much more. It just hasn't aged well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vib-Ribbon That's what you're looking for. Never played it, but it seems interesting.

The first part might be a browser issue. What browser are you using? Along with that, check to make sure your screen resolution is high enough(1024x768 or higher) and make sure your text size is set to default(View > Text Size) As for the second question, there's not much that we can actually recommend for legality reasons.

It looks rather large with a tiny screen, and the external antenna makes it look old. Would be better with internal antenna and slide-out numberpad, as well as a bigger screen. EDIT: appears that the patent is from 2001: http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/02/07/nintendo-thought-about-going-into-the-cell-phone-business/

If you want to pwn someone, you do it properly .

And once again lack of research shows up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Technical_specifications Note that there's only 8 PCM channels, not 16 "ports". Meanwhile, the GBA's audio hardware is a bit of unknown black magic, since there's no full official specs on it. From what I can find it uses the GB's 4 audio channels(Two square-wave, one of which has a frequency sweep, one sample, and one noise), along with Direct Sound channel A and B. More on that can be found here: http://belogic.com/gba/ There's also something nice here: http://www.gbadev.org/docs.php?showinfo=14 While the linked article doesn't work, look at the description: Important part is bolded, because it means that the GBA can technically do SNES-quality sound. From what I've found the sound system used on SNES and on GBA isn't comparable in any way. There's no listing of the amount of audio channels a GBA can handle(Although there's some homebrew using up to 16 channels) Apparently it all depends on the audio engine the developer creates, because the GBA can do some pretty kickass sound if required.

Almost any kind of compression will result in a smaller file, bitmaps are completely uncompressed.

I wouldn't mind if my drivers could sing, as long as they remain in tune that is. Also, it'd help a lot if you were a bit clearer. What programs don't work, and what error messages do you get?

It's rather short and vague, and feels incomplete. Could have used some more exposure on the remixing sites out there and how they're different(Also needs more remix.kwed.org), some background on how it all started, links to examples, links to the sites, stuff like that. Basically, it feels like a summary to a much longer article.

The Starter edition isn't intended for the US/Canada/Europe/Australia consumer market though.

Good news: You need about as much background from the MMZ series to play ZX as you need from the original MM series to play X1. Which means "pretty much none". Although having played at least Zero 1 helps a bit in enjoying the references, and some characters will make a bit more sense.

Yeah, NTFS reading is supported. Writing is still a bit on the iffy side though, and you can't access your fancy Linux partition under Windows without installing extra stuff. That's basically what I mean . Of course, you could set up a FAT32 partition for this purpose.

What, people actually encode with WMP9?

Ubuntu's distributed as a Live CD that can be installed while you're still using the OS if you like. Also, you don't need a second physical harddrive, just space to create partitions in(Most distros come with the required software to create partitions at an appropriate size) Dual-booting's highly recommended if you're not using a separate system, mainly because you can always go back to the OS you're used to. The only potential issue is sharing files between the two OSes.

Does it count if I have a separate system running Ubuntu as a fileserver and for experimentation purposes? I also dualboot into Ubuntu on my own system from time to time.

And don't forget that all Apple desktops come with the Mighty Mouse, which doesn't only rightclick, but also has a fancy scrollball. Not like OSX ever requires you to right-click though.