touching is good

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:25 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:It could be sunk in a hole (for lack of a better word or description), also like the NGPC.

The NGPC's stick was digital. It'd be hard as nails to be accurate to any degree on an analogue version of something that small, and pretty pointless considering the touchscreen can act as a version of an analogue stick but to an even more sensitive degree than a regular one.

(I wasn't implying you haven't tried it, earlier, I was just pointing out in general.)

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:25 pm

Doo-dad also works in a pinch.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:35 pm

They could have made an attachable analog stick or something to make 3d control easy and keep all that lovely symmetry and folding upness. Of course that's impossible now (methinks anyway) since wherever it could have been placed is obviously not there. Of course Nintendo will release some form of analog stick for the DS in the future but you'll have to shell out 150 buck for a whole new DSt, and all those poor losers who bought it at launch will have been had. It happned to me with the SP anyway (in a slightly different manner of course).

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:11 pm

They released a newer version of the SP? Or was it the SP that fucked you since you had a GBA. That's what happened to me. I rarely ever play it anyway so I didn't care to much, however it was a bitch when we were playing Crystal Chronicles at 5 in the morning. I hate that game.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:34 am

I got a GBA at launch with Mario Kart and some other stuff, I was pretty annoyed with the whole dark screen and crap sound. I bought one of those lights so it would be easier to see, but those batteries don't last at all. Then Nintendo released the SP which I believe fixes these flaws to a certain extent- I was downed. The lesson: never buy anything at launch, you'll only be disapointed in the future, if what your buying is made by Nintendo that is.

Post by **Squirrelknight** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:01 am

smiths32 wrote:I got a GBA at launch with Mario Kart and some other stuff, I was pretty annoyed with the whole dark screen and crap sound. I bought one of those lights so it would be easier to see, but those batteries don't last at all. Then Nintendo released the SP which I believe fixes these flaws to a certain extent- I was downed. The lesson: never buy anything at launch, you'll only be disapointed in the future, if what your buying is made by Nintendo that is.

I bought my SNES at launch... Never had any issues with that. Same for N64 and Gamecube, other than their total lack of third party games, but no one buys a Nintendo system for third party games, thats what a Playstation is for. Handheld systems just have shorter hardware cycles than consoles, perhaps to appeal to the shorter attention spans of their target audiences.

You should change that to "if what you're buying is made by Sony, that is" because... Well, original model PS1's and 2's are about as reliable as those condoms they sell at the 99 cents store. I'm trying to fool myself into thinking that the PSP will be durable, since they're so cool and I want one at launch, but past Sony hardware has left me bitter, cynical, and sterile.

Post by **Popcorn** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:49 pm

I got a GBA at launch with Mario Kart and some other stuff

Mario Kart wasn't a launch game, was it?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:07 pm

Yeah, I think that came out a couple months after launch.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:39 pm

Oh yeah, It was Mario Advance I got at launch, I got Mario Kart quite a bit after.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:44 pm

My original model PS1 was great. I had that thing until like '98. The only reason it broke was because I was walking home from my neighbors house and slipped on a patch of black ice. In the process of falling and reflexively throwing out my arms to catch myself I didn't just drop the PS1, I more or less threw it into the ground. It still turned on, but I fucked the motor somehow cause the discs no longer spinned. If it wasn't for that I bet it'd still be working today.

PS2's are fucking shit though, if you breathe the wrong way near them they shut down. I am still tempted to get a PStwo though. They just look so cool, and it'll be the first time ever that I've owned all 3 consoles in a generation.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:31 pm

I had my PlayStation for nearly six years before it started to freeze up whenever a game would try to load...anything, and my PS2 hasn't let me down so far.

Nova · Post by **Nova** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:07 pm

I will wait until 2006 to get a DS or a PSP...

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:20 pm

My Dreamcast refuses to load certain games and treats them as malfunctioning audio cd's. Jet Grind Radio and Sonic Shuffle can no longer be played at all. Not that I ever really played the latter so much as I did swear at it.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:54 pm

I had the same problem. So I returned it and went to another store and bought the Sonic Edition Dreamcast. So I guess in a way, you could say that was a good thing for me.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:31 pm

Sonic edition what what?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:39 pm

Sonic edition what what?

It just came with some games, no special decorations or anything.

I went through three PS1's and two PS2's. The second one started acting up, but Spam fixed it with some faq he got online. I don't think I've ever had problems with any of the other systems I ever owned...

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:04 pm

My Dreamcast used to be really choosy about which games it would play and when. It would frustrate me to the ends of the earth. I would try cleaning the lens with a Q-Tip and everything like people said, but to no avail.

Then, I blew in it like you would the old NES. Suddenly, everything worked again!

Some things never change.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:32 pm

I have to do that to my Xbox controllers from time to time.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:39 pm

I'm sorry, but the image of Chris giving oral sex to X-box controllers is quite possibly one of the funiest ever invoked at this board

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:43 pm

You and your fantasies.

Ash Holt · Post by **Ash Holt** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:06 am

Zeta wrote:I'm sorry, but the image of Chris giving oral sex to X-box controllers is quite possibly one of the funiest ever invoked at this board

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:21 am

*Insert schoolgirl giggles*

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:21 pm

Aside from my PS1 which broke due to me falling, I hadn't ever had trouble with consoles until this generation. It seems like 3/4s of the Xbox's that had Thampsons DVD rom drives in them give you a dirty disc error occsasionally until they no longer read the game at all. So I had to get a second Xbox.

And somehow my GameCube managed to break too. I swear I am the only person on earth who has ever had to replace their GameCube, but that started not being able to read games too. I have no idea why it happened, my only guess is that is fell off its shelf a few months after I bought it. The system worked fine after that, but a year later or so it acted up for like a week, then suddenly started working fine again. Then it started acting up again and didn't ever start working fine again. I managed to get a new one for like seven bucks though, so it was all good.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:18 pm

My old Mega Drive broke when I gave my cousin a borrow- well, the sound wasn't working, and my parents were too ignorant to see if there was any other factors resulting this and basically disposed of it. Other than that though, my consoles have been fine. My friend however shows how shitty PS2's are (or how careless he is): the front part of the tray is broken, it doesn't read half of his games, DVD's don't work, it's far slower at starting up games and -just to top it off- half of his controller has kinda fallen off. He's a rich kid though, so I don't see why he doens't just get a new one.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:51 pm

'Cause you can't fucking get new ones right now.