Re: [gbadev] Re: To all unpublished developers - You may find this very interesting...
> Maybe A 'respected' company like Interact(gameShark) could get away
> with it - make the cart 3.5Mbit to stop piracy of standard games...
> they already have the retail ties established etc...
As someone who remembers getting cracked copies of games without their
cutscenes as a kid (yeah, yeah, I stopped a few years ago, and have since
paid for the games I regularly got), I fear that any such manufacturer would
have to cut a cart so far down in size to make such impossible that it would
begin to lose some of its usefulness.
One thing which might work, however, would be a similar product which
connected via multiboot. No, really: a cart for the SIO port. It'd be a
pain in the butt to write for and you wouldn't be able to write multiplayer
games, but the extant games would be fundamentally unusable, and that ought
to tickle Big N pink.
Not that it's gonna happen. :) But a man can hope.
Only the 256Mbit cart supports flash, eeprom, sram ... From: Neil Holmes To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:29 AM Subject: RE: [gbadev]...
... As someone who remembers getting cracked copies of games without their cutscenes as a kid (yeah, yeah, I stopped a few years ago, and have since paid for...
... That would be *sick*. How much would it cost to amateur assemble? Can they be made with mostly off-the-shelf parts? Will someone need to solder (a ...
... How much would the Visoly flash carts cost to amateur assemble? I wasn't considering amateur assembly; I was considering having some manufacturer make it....
This sounds pretty cool -- here's my ideas as well - the device should plug into the cart port, and have a passthrough for both carts and link port. - assuming...
There was special hardware that ppl made to load onto the famicon disks just like they loaded the roms onto them at a software store. in fact some software...
... good protection! and as soon as someone comes up with a way to make new protection it will be counteracted asap and can probably be dealt with in less time...
That's a joke. Just look at how the new copy protection on the CDs was broken... It took them over a year to make it and they pirated the CDs before they even...
... It can be prolonged. I'm with the list in that I feel that a serial ID system will only work for games which are low-profile enough to not get cracking...
... there's nothing that wont get pirated. people even pirate US $5 shareware tools. and if the games are low-profile enough to not get cracking attention ...
Markus
markus@...
Jun 2, 2002 9:38 pm
... Though I could be in error, I believe that the Visoly carts do not support EEPROM data. I originally tried to gack the Mario combo game when I first got...
As usual, i feel the urge to step in and act as the pessimistic old fart that i am :). One thing that a lot of people in here seem to forget, is the fact that...
Thomas Nielsen [Lifto...
thomasn@...
Jun 3, 2002 12:18 pm
Personally, I think the reason that most homedev is crap is because there is no promising monetary motivation for devr's. If people were actually able to make...
... I disagree. I think that the motivation for homebrew developers is better than money: it's that they want to create something and show off what they made....
... The United States has anti-trust legislation. ... But OSDN does. If you get your product mentioned on Slashdot, you'll get mindshare, and from mindshare...
... fart that i am :). ... that you need to actually SELL your games. Developing and physically getting cartridges done is the easy part - selling is the hard...
... that i am :). ... neccessary to invest into doing proper games. Since games wont sell, naturally noone will invest in doing them. And no, you CANT do...
Lanza
lanza@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:52 pm
I get the impression people think that official carts are write once carts. Not so. The big N does NOT burn all those carts on machines that they won't let us...
Joe Sengir
jsengir@...
Jun 3, 2002 6:32 pm
You're forgetting.... a lot of the stuff out there for any platform that are 'proper' games is crap too! I won't name names to offend anyone on the list that...
... Actually, I think Mario Kart Advance (called Super Circuit in the states) has quite good control, but the "Boo Lake" and "Ghost Valley" courses are way too...
Sorry got some lines crossed there cuz of an ambiguous acronym... I was actually referring to Mortal Kombat Advanced. ... Actually, I think Mario Kart Advance...
I think there are many skillful devs here.Better than petition it's better to make togheter a E-commerce site selling games. I think also that we could produce...
Giuseppe Crugliano
g.crugliano@...
Jun 4, 2002 9:04 am
Heres' a suggestion: Persuade a big publisher (with an eye to doing GBA stuff) to try something similar to what the Lionhead bunch are doing, and become an...
the thing is that no publisher in their right mind will take your game and not spend some time testing it. (and i should know, i'm working for one). I have...
ePAc
epac@...
Jun 5, 2002 6:35 pm
I dont understand why the publishers should care. If I have an fpga design I dont have to prove myself worthy or overcome barriers to entry, I simply buy the ...
So let the publisher provide the funds to outsource testing to a dedicated outfit, and recoup costs from sales. Such groups exist (I should know, my brother...
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