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"PS2 crashed at Gameshow!"

I find it amazing how people will happily take pot shots at the Xbox for crashing once at E3, but rarelt remember the disasters that happened to the PS2... so I dedicate this topic to all such people...

A month before the PS2's launch, Sony held a HUGE gameshow in Tokyo dedicated to the console. PS mags tlked about the show for pages on end, but many of them failed to mention the disasters that occurred...

The mainscreen, big demos crashed repeatedly... to such a point that a large number of them were not shown after the first day... slightly worse that Xbox's one crashed demo at E3...

Add to that the actual playable demos... so many of these pods crashed that Sony not only drilled holes into the consoles' pod cases overnight to allow access to the reset button, but even employed hundreds of lovely looking women to stand by the consoles and hit the reset buttons whenever the consoles crashed!

And then, a few months later, the Xbox is shown off at E3. It has a great show, with one small problem- one of the mainscreen demos crashed once, at the end of a press show. Big deal? Well, if you believe the mags it is- Sony fan boys are still in the Xbox forum talking about this one, small problem.

Now, I wonder... how many fan boys are going to see the title of the topic... skim read it... and then post abuse about the PS2 being great. (Which it certainly is! After all, I wouldn't have bought one if I didn't think so!)

Sonic

Well, this one is free, and I can just download it using Linux Debian. Any Linux system will use it. There are loads of emulators here, even a MegaDrive one. ROMs are proving trickeir though.

I know SR used to sell an Amiga emulator, but you can probably pick on up free somewhere. Shop around.

Where can i get Amiga emulation stuff? i really wanna play Sensible world of soccer ya see...

How good are they? as good as the real thing?

I made some really good stuff with it. I think they got up to DP7 in the end.

In fact.... I think I'll emulate it right now!

heh, delux paint:D

I remember messing around with that years ago...didnt have a clue what was i doing mind...

rob@viper:rob$ apt-cache search uae
uae - The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator: Base
uae-exotic - The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator: Exotic binaries
uae-suid - The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator: Suid root binaries


Muahaha... completely free :)

I have a C1200 upstairs that still works. I still maintain that Dulux Paint IV is one of the best paint programs available!

Its stupid to base the reliability of a console in general over one result. In thoery, if treated properly, it should last forever.

My amiga 600, was bought back in 1993, but it still works fine. But thats only becasue i treat it right. I know a friends one who broke is becasue he didnt treat it right.

It must have been mistreated then. Mine worked perfectly and my old friend from school's has worked since he got it on day one, and still does.

Turbonutter wrote:
> You either have a faulty one, have damaged it or are lying.

Then it must be as faulty as hell, quite frankly a console almost giving up the ghost after 5 years is a bit off, it should last at least 10.

You either have a faulty one, have damaged it or are lying.

ResÆvilfan wrote:
> slik wrote:
lol thats Sony and
> microsoft for ya and there unreliable
> technically flawed consoles! at least
> nintendo are reliable, and have
> reputable company's to make their consoles for
> them!
slik ~_~

erm, do
> you know how many attempts it takes to get a NES game up and running? or an old
> SNES/N64 cartridge. My PS1 never crashed or lost a save for that matter, My PS2
> has crashed twice, both on Crazy Taxi but Nintendo are worse ;-)

I find that untrue, My PS is almost unplayable and crashes all the time, i have to turn it on its side to get it going for gods sake, but you can bet your bottom dollar that my SNES will start up no problem, thats almost 10 years on!