Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Rise of the Triforce

dolphin-emu.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 87 posts

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#41

Post by cyphar »

charcircuit wrote: post #33
cyphar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That depends on the country. In Australia, there is an explicit carve-out in the Copyright Act to allow for backups of computer programs[1], and there is also a widely held belief (at least, according to the government) that backups of this kind in general are also considered fair use[2]. Actually, it seems there is a somewhat similar carve-out in the US as well[3]. [1]: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/…

>there is an explicit carve-out in the Copyright Act to allow for backups of computer programs But there is not a carve out for breaking DRM to do so. It's not the backup part that is the problem with dumping them. It's that these games are encrypted and decrypting them requires breaking the DRM scheme which is illegal.

There is a separate carve-out for breaking DRM for the purposes of "interoperability"[1], which (as far as I understand) is generally believed to include emulators.

I also disagree more broadly with the initial moral indignation over a perceived violation of copyright law -- legality and morality are two different things, copyright law is meant to be a balanced trade-off between the public and creators but modern copyright laws are a travesty. What ever happened to the hacker ethos behind DeCSS and the anti-"illegal numbers" movement?

[1]: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/cons...

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#43

Post by SonOfLilit »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #39
jldugger wrote: post #12

Thats a long article for what amounts to "Dolphin now supports F-Zero AX" =) Must have taken a heckin' amount of work!

What does "heckin" mean? I associate it with redditors' impersonation of dogs and I was surprised to see it here.

"Heck" is to "Hell" like "Darn" is to "Damn" (or "Freaking" to “F--ing") - a word that sounds similar but is more polite, to be said in public in more religious places and times.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#44

Post by pezezin »

stackghost wrote: post #17

The Gamecube aspect is particularly poignant to me. Splayed across my workbench right this very moment is a Gamecube that has a failing optical drive. I am currently trying to resurrect it with a RP2350 so I can load roms from an SD card. It was a pretty great console, in its own way.

I recently restored my old GameCube. Back in the day I installed a ViperGC (the first modchip for the GameCube) to play "backups", but the optical drive has died.

But thanks to the community, after reflashing it with Gekkoboot it can load Swiss from a SP2SD2, and from there load ROMs from the SD card! Reflashing the modchip was a pain in the ass though, the programmer required a parallel port and the software only runs on Windows XP, but in the end it worked and I am pretty happy with the results.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#45

Post by threetonesun »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #37
jonplackett wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is where arcade machines should have all gone. More interesting experiences with hardware that are really difficult to replicate at scale. The best arcade games sell did this - it doesn’t take much - like the pedal for time crisis. Sure you _can_ buy one at home but most people don’t and even then it’s a crap placid pedal.

In Codona's Amusement Park in Aberdeen in the late 90s, there was a Ridge Racer "cabinet" with three massive rear projection screens and an ACTUAL REAL MAZDA MX5 TO SIT IN. WHAAAAAAAAAT Seriously insane levels of money-no-object zero-fucks-given design.

This is painful to me on three levels: 1. Real estate costs have gone up so much it’s prohibitively expensive to do something this grand. 2. Advertising is now a race to the bottom where showing car ads on websites has almost zero cost with all return compared to something novel like this. 3. It’s impossible to find a car like a 90s Miata these days because manual transmissions are almost dead and every car had to get heavier to have enough safety features to survive being T-boned by a Cybertruck.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#46

Post by derr1 »

rtpg wrote: post #11
pezezin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that list is quite old and lists some games that are not available anymore, while missing some others like the retro floor of Gigo 3 in Akihabara. Anyway, Mikado in Ikebukuro has the standard F-Zero AX cabinet, and it is great. I have never visited their game center in Takadanobaba though, it is still in my TODO list...

Is there anything worthwhile in moving games at Gigo 3? Even back in the Sega era it felt like it was mostly those generic Taito cabinets running most things.

There's Sega Rally 2 and Dirt Dash which both have motion cabinets.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#47

Post by derr1 »

pezezin wrote: post #15
rtpg wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything worthwhile in moving games at Gigo 3? Even back in the Sega era it felt like it was mostly those generic Taito cabinets running most things.

If my memory is correct, they have OutRun, Rad Mobile, Sega Rally, and a few other classic racing games.

That's correct, last time I was there they had those games.

Zenius: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcade.php?id=2701#games has a list of the games, please bare in mind that this is a community driven database.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#48

Post by Leynos »

larodi wrote: post #26

Incredible the pace gaming companies in Japan did innovate with chips and boards and everything during this era. While PCs were following a somewhat slow pace, guys at SEGA, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom and similar were literally making innovation by the hour, and commercializing it. A lot to learn from their stories.

Sadly, like everything, the arcades are now commodity hardware. Everyone just started putting out industrial PC based systems and shipping the games on hard drives

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#49

Post by PlatoIsADisease »

larodi wrote: post #26

Incredible the pace gaming companies in Japan did innovate with chips and boards and everything during this era. While PCs were following a somewhat slow pace, guys at SEGA, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom and similar were literally making innovation by the hour, and commercializing it. A lot to learn from their stories.

Wild to see how far they've fallen. Although I think this was basically the turning point for Nintendo. The GC intentionally avoided competing(at least on graphics) and was still a financial success.

From there, Nintendo relied on gimmicks and corporate mascots/IP.

I guess sega was a few years ahead of them on their own timeline.

Re: Rise of the Triforce

#50

Post by thaumasiotes »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #43
throwaway27448 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does "heckin" mean? I associate it with redditors' impersonation of dogs and I was surprised to see it here.

"Heck" is to "Hell" like "Darn" is to "Damn" (or "Freaking" to “F--ing") - a word that sounds similar but is more polite, to be said in public in more religious places and times.

That can't explain "hecking", because there is no form "helling".
Post reply on HN