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Game developer 'Atlus' issues a DMCA takedown against open source PS3 emulator
29 Sep 2017 at 9:06 am UTC

". Unfortunately, when our content is illegally circumvented and potentially made available for free, in a format we do not think delivers the experience and quality we intend, it undermines our ability to do so by diverting potential support from new audiences."
they are absolutely right.

emulators arent perfect, if you think the old zsnes emulator is perfect, youre playig wrong.
you need at least 3ghz to properly emulate an Snes:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/ [External Link]

the video they sho is hard to notice, here is an comparission to make it more clear, the difference between emulators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNLo-mn8Pw [External Link]
can you tell what is the correct speed to run this game? without the real hardware to know how the game should run?

now just imagine how hard it is to run an ps3.

many computer gamers think they are smarth while the truth is they're computer illiterates.
they complain at the lack of 4K but dont mind putting an gigant gap between each monitor on a multi moitor setup, break the aspect ratio etc.

emulators arent perfect, they take years to become perfect and in the mean time a lot of people are "guinea pigs", spoil the game experience with a lot of bugs.
its hard to tell if an game is bad because its not funny or because you had an bad experience with tons of glitches that shouldnt be there.
even worse, when they game has real glitches and the player cant tell if its the emulator fault or game fault.
or when glitches are part of an culture, like missingNO and all the legends arround him.

when ninteno tried to relaunch nes/snes games, i saw a lot of people complaining that "you can play this games for free" on pc, ignoring that they arent really free and the emulators arent accurate at all.
i saw emulators distorting the pitch of the musics, that simply didnt worth using then.

Atlus may be wrong trying to sue while the copyright law dont allow then to, but their argument was right.
they cant make an profit proting the game for pc, if everyone on pc had played the game already.
they cant afford an propper port.
they cant justify the sale.
and many people who had an bad experience with the game will lose the interest.

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux
28 Sep 2017 at 1:51 am UTC

" Can you imagine it? The three major consoles becoming "
its very unlikely this can compete with PS4 and Xboxone, nintendo is more likely to compete with then, than atari

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux
27 Sep 2017 at 3:10 am UTC

Sega Next please!
i really didnt had an atari-childhood but i played some of those games on other platforms.

sega on the other hand...

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux
27 Sep 2017 at 2:49 am UTC

"Steam Link - Controller, $x,000 PC, wired gigabit—you're golden!"
care to translate this line?

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux
26 Sep 2017 at 11:54 pm UTC

"It might seem strange for a bigger company to go to crowdfunding, but they say this is because they want the community to be part of the launch. Honestly though, it's mainly so there's less risk involved for them, but it's also a good way for them to gauge real interest in it."

i hate to say that, but i've seen this happening before, people asked for windows instead of linux, and i'm afraid that might happen again

There's a brand new Humble Bundle with almost all the games on Linux, oh my
21 Sep 2017 at 9:34 pm UTC

Quoting: Nyamiou
Quoting: razing32I'll be honest , I never got the appeal of pr0n games.
Sure I don;t mind a titillating character but if you want pr0n just go to a XXX site and get your Hentai fresh from the source. Why bother matching gems if all you want are anime tits ??
Those are not porn, they are actual fun games that spice things up with sexyness. They are not here to masturbate to, but to play and have fun. A lot of people seems to not get it here, just try and play the games.
they arent porn, there is a game designed to be playable with one hand, so you can use the other hand for... stuffs... but they definitely arent porn! xD

A look at some great Linux & SteamOS racing games available in 2017
20 Sep 2017 at 4:46 pm UTC

Vector 36
"...If you could imagine piloting a pod racer from Star Wars, I feel that would be a reasonably accurate description of how it feels. Your "Skimmer" is also highly customizable..."
is like star wars racer?

"F1 2015"
its a shame that the name itself denounces how old the game is (2015) and we dont have the 2016 version, but hey! at least we gonna have the 2017 version!

"Road Redemption"
didnt they promissed to open source this one?
they didnt ? they will in the future? or they did it?
i guess this kind of "detail" should be on the description of the game...

7 years later, Humble Bundle has now raised over $100 million for charity
18 Sep 2017 at 7:16 pm UTC

wow! thats amazing! i'm in tears here, literaly!

Wine Staging 2.16 is out with more D3D11, D3D8 & D3D9 work and fixes for games like The Witcher 3
8 Sep 2017 at 2:17 am UTC

Quoting: Duckeenie
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: elmapulso, the D3D9/DirectX9 still dont run flawlessly ? dammit that is sad =\
Wine will likely never get finished. Windows is a moving target for them.

Even when an implementation might be classed as complete, there will likely still be work that can be done to improve it.
DirectX 9 isn't a moving target though. But of course it's understandable that one can only do so much with limited resources. We should be grateful for what we have
.
wait, DirectX9 being a moving target i can understand, but MS keeps developing Dx9 after start developing Dx10, 11, 12?

Wine Staging 2.16 is out with more D3D11, D3D8 & D3D9 work and fixes for games like The Witcher 3
8 Sep 2017 at 2:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: elmapulso, the D3D9/DirectX9 still dont run flawlessly ? dammit that is sad =\
Wine will likely never get finished. Windows is a moving target for them.

Even when an implementation might be classed as complete, there will likely still be work that can be done to improve it.
i know, but i hoped that at least some old tech like D3D9 was complete. (without bugs, performance issues are aceptable since you can always run on a stronger hardware to solve the issue)