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  • The problem was Nintendo charged publishers more money for the larger carts. So a lot of publishers simply took the option of the smallest cheaper cards and made you download the rest.

    Trying to preserve Switch games by buying the carts has been a bit pointless really. I know Diablo 3 was entirely on the cart, publishers were very pleased with that.

  • Didn't the pirates find out that they could copy the games onto regular CDs using some backdoor from the format of Karaoke CDs? You just need that famous loader CD to swap discs.

    I've heard the pirates soon optimised the layout of the data on their versions so that there was less strain of the drive.

  • Living with a friend, in the first place after moving out of our parents places. He smoked weed but that didn't bother me. However, one night he invited in the local weed dealer and I was really concerned but he assured me it was ok.

    We both worked at the same company, so came home at the same time a day or so later to find the front door was open. They smashed the small decorative window which allowed them to reach in and unlock and open the door.

    I can't remember what they stole from my friend but I lost my GameCube, controllers and all the games. Also, my first portable minidisc player and a pair of cheap earphones I used with them which I absolutely loved. The wire was like string and rarely tangled.

    I had a few imported US games and I thought they might give me the edge. I rang all the local game shops to see if anyone had tried to bulk sell the lot but I was unlucky.

  • Reading these replies , I'm going to have to watch some videos on Burnout 3. I played it back in the day but I'd forgotten things like aftertouch to wreck more vehicles.

    I played through games 1 & 2 a few years back and I loved the Crash Junctions.

    Having been playing Burnout: Paradise recently, I now see what's missing. Its a fun racer but stripped of a lot of what came before.

  • When I used to work in a supermarket, I hated the stupid customers. This is a classic example. One of the soft drink companies fairly regularly gave away 50% free.

    Therefore, for the same price, the bottle would be 3 litres in size rather than 2.

    The amount of people who didn't like that.

    "Excuse me, where's the 2 litre bottle?" "Oh, it's the same price miss, you get an extra litre for free." "But I don't want 3 litres, I only want two!" Sigh!

  • I think I've just found my next watch. It looks more useful than my current Fitbit Versa. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

  • Same as. It felt like watching a higher budget Power Rangers.

  • I can just hear the disc drive grinding now as it loads in the assets while driving around the city. 😁 To be fair, the DC was a cool system. The Half Life port was very impressive, it's just a shame the levels were broken into smaller chunks to fit into the system and the load times between them was quite a wait.

  • I don't understand it, but going through various githubs, the problem has been discovered. Here it is:

    YouTube changed their code to make it more difficult to extract the throttling parameter decryption function.

    There was some coding demonstrating the problem but it was way over my head. Hopefully fixes are coming soon as the issue was marked as urgent. It looks like they know what needs changing.

  • Well, that certainly beats Duke Nukem's record!

  • I'm currently playing through Rage and really enjoying it.

    The races are fine and not that hard to win and I haven't touched a card game yet. I get enough money from selling all the junk I find as I play.

    I'm regards to it's sequel, I'm very methodical (blame my autism 😁) and I played the game by competing all missions and side quests in one area before starting the next.

    This side effect of this was that I upgraded the character so much, when I competed the final mission, it was so easy, I didn't realise it was the final mission and it took me by surprise!

  • Back in the early 90s, here in the UK, a company called Cheetah produced licensed joysticks based on Batman, Terminator, AlienΒ³ and The Simpsons. They looked great but they were terrible to use, especially the AlienΒ³ model which I really liked but was incredibly uncomfortable. I never bought one, just tried then on the shops, awful things.

  • Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

    When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren't favourable as I remember.

  • I see what you mean. They could only afford so many lines of dialogue! πŸ˜†

  • 13 years old, isn't it enough? πŸ˜†

  • I was really excited for this on the Cube back in the day but all the reviews said it was another average Star Wars game so I decided not to risk the money.

    When can we get Rogue Squadron remastered? That still looks pretty damn good today. 😊

  • The 8 bit guy. I loved his retro computing channel and then one day, he acquired a rare IBM computer and promptly destroyed the power supply by sticking a screwdriver into it (if I remember correctly).

    For some reason, I googled about this and discovered he's a gun nut. They're videos of him going grocery shopping with his rifle on his back which apparently he does this knowing it will annoy people.

    Unsubscribed from the channel and never looked back.

  • I was being a bit tongue in cheek. GAME took over EB in the UK. I don't think they're any dedicated gaming shops anymore, just independents.