Quoting: Mountain ManThis was tempting until I looked at the Steam page for Street Fighter 6 and saw the game is not only infected with Deunuvo DRM, but it requires a Capcom account. Much less tempting.

Capcom has been adding a DRM called The Enigma Protector, often to older releases (and sometimes after removing Denuvo), without declaring it on the Steam listings, too.

They're currently in a war against modders, because they claim all modding is cheating and damages their reputation, after they got upset about a US Street Fighter tournament-organiser accidentally leaving a nude Chun-Li mod active whilst streaming the event via their personal machine.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAMD clearly has made inroads with getting all the game console contracts.

Quoting: elmapulcough cough switch cough cough

Which, it should be noted, is currently sailing towards becoming the best-selling console of all time, no less. Its successor is claimed to use Nvidia hardware, too [External Link].

Anyway, I wouldn't want Nvidia in a Linux box myself, so though this device is nice to see, it's not for me - Nvidia's more hassle than it's worth, for me. As an almost entirely portables-focussed user (my only non-portable is a Raspberry Pi 4), I've had better experiences with Intel and AMD. :tongue:

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Quoting: PhlebiacEver notice how those who fuss the loudest usually end up being guilty of what they are fussing about?

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, that's the key, isn't it? GPL'ed projects. For big corporations, if a copyright, or property of any kind, isn't in the hands of somebody very rich and being used to enrich them further, it's not really property and they should be able to grab it.

Exactly, both of you.

I always think of the Sony thing whenever some corporation is pushing DRM and anti-cheat rootkits - I reckon it's a pretty fair guess that they themselves are not willing to drink the same poison they're pushing on others. Of course, Sony really was a special case - "Data security? Oh, plaintext'll do for the peons.". Anyone remember that one? :tongue:

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Quoting: whizseFamous last words I hope. Before they put the blindfold on and gave him his final cigarette? :whistle:

Sony/BMG then unironically went on to infringe on the copyrights of various GPL'ed projects [External Link] and then used pirated software within the company [External Link], with as much as 47% of what they were using at the time believed to have been pirated.

Never forget!

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumIndeed. But this is why so many of us for years have opposed DRM and tried to call attention to such tactics. But alas, most people don't listen, "it won't affect me.".

As Thomas Hesse of Sony once famously opined [External Link], "Most people don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?". :sick:

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelGreat to see Demo culture getting a comeback.

Quoting: AndroidNougat7It really remembered me on my early childhood days in which I tried demos on PS2.

Quoting: whizseFor me it was the demos in the PC Gamer magazine, CD Gamer. My bread and butter during those halcyon childhood years.

Mine was the Official UK PlayStation Magazine demos :grin: The most utterly iconic demo-disc, for me, was the one from issue 17 volume 2, which PS1DemoMuseum has recordings of on YouTube [External Link].

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I'm obligated to point out that the first Super Bomberman R [External Link] (which, unlike R 2, has co-op for the story-mode) is in this sale for £13.99. :grin:

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Quoting: TcheyBack in time, with the NES then the Megadrive/Genesis, i played and liked Super Mario 1-3, Earthworm Jim 1-2, Sonic 1-3, Ecco the Dolphin 1-2, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Lost Vikings (not really the same but still i wanted to name this awesome game), and many others, but Megaman never really hit me.

Would I be right if I guessed that Contra, Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, and other games of the "run-and-gun" ilk also aren't your jam?

I can certainly see no common-ground between your list of classics here (some true greats that are dear to my heart here :grin:) and Mega Man (and, indeed, Disney's Darkwing Duck for the NES, which uses the Mega Man engine and plays near-identically), which is a very different sort of thing - and there's nothing wrong with that, of course! :smile:

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Quoting: RelsreFWIW, there are more recent handheld PCs that do have trackpads -- the AYANEO KUN for instance: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ayaneo-Kun-gaming-handheld-in-review-Performance-beast-for-individualists.797526.0.html [External Link]

Whether they are as useful or well integrated into the UX as the Deck's trackpads (especially outside of playing games with Steam Input) is another story.

Good to see more companies picking them up! :grin:

That said, I'm not sure about the placement or shape of these - round trackpads look a bit less useful to me. :unsure: BUT, that's probably a view influenced by a lot of laptop usage over the years, since I expect the shape to match that of the display for non-gaming use.

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Quoting: PeffseI've heard the new DRM is near rootkit levels of intrusive. Does that affect just Windows?

I don't know and I'd like to know this too. I uninstalled my handful of Capcom titles on principle regardless, because aside from it now not being what was advertised, in my books surreptitiously adding unwanted software whose behaviour and presence is undeclared is just malware distribution.

Of course, it's their right to have it there just as it's mine to remove it, I just feel that what they've done is underhanded.

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