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Will it ever be released? There are some Region 1 titles that I want to purchase for my Xbox yet the release date just keeps slipping everytime I look! How hard can it be? The PS2 had one released within 2 months of its launch and I am sure that Microsoft and 3rd party developers releasing their own can hurry it along so that I can order titles before they are released over here. Does anyone have any additional information about Region X and when it will be released? Any version would be Okay as I will be glad when someone gets a move on and releases one before I start to develop my own Region X ;)
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It's best not to, I don't like him and he doesn't like me! Although he always stoops low enough to start the name calling almost everytime which makes me fell sorry for his lack of inteligence :)
Looks like you guys have er.. [scrolls down] erm.. [scrolls down further] had a little 'event' here. I'd join in, but I really wouldn't know what I was talking about.
Indeed, it is a small world after all!
*Breaks into Disney song small world after all*
The thing is Jack is WS best friend ;)
*Breaks into Disney song small world after all*
The thing is Jack is WS best friend ;)
Whitestripes wrote:
> You know jack
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> You know jack
So do I. Delightful fellow.
> You know jack
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> You know jack
So do I. Delightful fellow.
I don't really care whether whitestripes replies or not to be honest :)
The Q Cube is a good machine, but overpriced on import. Now, if the Q had been the Gamecube then that'd change things. As it is I wouldn't fork out money for a machine with no warranty, expecially when the GC has a two year one !
~~Belldandy~~
The Q Cube is a good machine, but overpriced on import. Now, if the Q had been the Gamecube then that'd change things. As it is I wouldn't fork out money for a machine with no warranty, expecially when the GC has a two year one !
~~Belldandy~~
well Belldandy looks like your right coz where is whitestripes and his post proving you wrong?
I want to get this aswell.
Whitestripes wrote:
> Interesting, considering you start 90% of all these arguments. Like
> I've already said, it only takes one person to say "I don't
> really want any XBox games" for you to post your corporate
> statement issueing the reasons why they do want them really.
Oh dear, you want to shoot the guy for telling people to like games ? Line up most of the Ninty forum regulars then.....
> I aren't a stupid fanboy, but if you do figure out that I am please
> tell me for which console! I will pass on scrolling through the SR
> database trying to prove a point because for me life will never get
> that sad ;)
I am not a stupid fanboy you mean. Aren't is short for "are not", I are not a stupid fanbouy sounds...stupid....
> Thirdly, if that's all it does, it's a damn sight more than the XBox
> no? £300 when it was first released, plus an additional
> £30 just for normal, simple DVD playback.
Okay, firsly anyone who paid this price was, upon the price drop, allowed to claim two free £39.99 - £44.99 RRP games, plus an official joypad, free of charge from Microsoft, meaning that the early adopters were rewarded with about £100 free gear.
Secondly, when anyone buys a console in this country, they get at least a years guarantee, so if the console has a fauly it can be sorted, free of charge. Nintendo even guarantee the GC for two years. What has your beloved Q Cube got ? Zip...anythign goes wrong and you're paying for that to be fixed ! and, whilst we're on about buying add ons for simple things....to save games on the GC you need to pay £14.99, or £24.99 in the case of Mem 251, to simply save games. No need for that on Xbox my friend. Plus, to simply play online games, you are going to need a network adapter, estimated at £39.99 RRP, which is built into the Xbox...so for the current price of £159.99, with the games, and just £19.99 for the DVD add on, it is somewhat of a bargain.
> And no, I don't think it's a reasonable price given that I don't want
> any of the games on it, it's a personnal thing, you see? Getting some
> free stuff because of Microsoft's incompetance also cannot be entered
> into this argument, we are talking about it's RRP and what you got
> with it. What if I ordered my GC from GAME and they screwed up
> massivley and gave me some free stuff, does that mean you can get a GC
> for £130 with 2 extra controllers and a game for free? No, it
> means (in a way) I got lucky.
Oh dear, "incompetence" ? Yes, it is very incompetent to lower your consoles price to compete isn't it ? How abuot Nintendo's continued disinterest in the phantom Super Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader lock ups on the GC ? Has Nintendo even tried to sort this out ? Nope...
> And no, it isn't a limited edition at all, it's just only on sale in
> Japan.
You can only buy it officially on one small continent on the planet...sounds somewhat limited to me....
> We both know you want the Xbox DVD player to be better, and we both
> know you meant it as a fact, however as there is no actual evidence, I
> will retract that one statement, something you are too immature to do
> whenever you are wrong I've noticed.
My god, this kind of statement has escaped from the Life forum I fear....I would point out that the Qcube does not give RGB playback though, unlike the Xbox, and that the Qcube's playback would have to be somewhat amazing to justify spending that amount of money on a no guarantee import machine... incidentally I've seen several review who hint that the Qcube is almost certainly going to be the only GC based machine able to do copied GC games. This is because it accepts the DVD format as well as the optical discs, so if you transfer the games onto DVD format....voila !
> Oh dear, perhaps you don't understand how to interpret information
> around you. Any person could have seen I posted this at 5:50pm, which
> in winter most people would consider evening time.
Ah yes, but it's sort of traditional the not count it until evening until the 6 0 clock evening news starts on BBC.
~~Belldandy~~
> Interesting, considering you start 90% of all these arguments. Like
> I've already said, it only takes one person to say "I don't
> really want any XBox games" for you to post your corporate
> statement issueing the reasons why they do want them really.
Oh dear, you want to shoot the guy for telling people to like games ? Line up most of the Ninty forum regulars then.....
> I aren't a stupid fanboy, but if you do figure out that I am please
> tell me for which console! I will pass on scrolling through the SR
> database trying to prove a point because for me life will never get
> that sad ;)
I am not a stupid fanboy you mean. Aren't is short for "are not", I are not a stupid fanbouy sounds...stupid....
> Thirdly, if that's all it does, it's a damn sight more than the XBox
> no? £300 when it was first released, plus an additional
> £30 just for normal, simple DVD playback.
Okay, firsly anyone who paid this price was, upon the price drop, allowed to claim two free £39.99 - £44.99 RRP games, plus an official joypad, free of charge from Microsoft, meaning that the early adopters were rewarded with about £100 free gear.
Secondly, when anyone buys a console in this country, they get at least a years guarantee, so if the console has a fauly it can be sorted, free of charge. Nintendo even guarantee the GC for two years. What has your beloved Q Cube got ? Zip...anythign goes wrong and you're paying for that to be fixed ! and, whilst we're on about buying add ons for simple things....to save games on the GC you need to pay £14.99, or £24.99 in the case of Mem 251, to simply save games. No need for that on Xbox my friend. Plus, to simply play online games, you are going to need a network adapter, estimated at £39.99 RRP, which is built into the Xbox...so for the current price of £159.99, with the games, and just £19.99 for the DVD add on, it is somewhat of a bargain.
> And no, I don't think it's a reasonable price given that I don't want
> any of the games on it, it's a personnal thing, you see? Getting some
> free stuff because of Microsoft's incompetance also cannot be entered
> into this argument, we are talking about it's RRP and what you got
> with it. What if I ordered my GC from GAME and they screwed up
> massivley and gave me some free stuff, does that mean you can get a GC
> for £130 with 2 extra controllers and a game for free? No, it
> means (in a way) I got lucky.
Oh dear, "incompetence" ? Yes, it is very incompetent to lower your consoles price to compete isn't it ? How abuot Nintendo's continued disinterest in the phantom Super Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader lock ups on the GC ? Has Nintendo even tried to sort this out ? Nope...
> And no, it isn't a limited edition at all, it's just only on sale in
> Japan.
You can only buy it officially on one small continent on the planet...sounds somewhat limited to me....
> We both know you want the Xbox DVD player to be better, and we both
> know you meant it as a fact, however as there is no actual evidence, I
> will retract that one statement, something you are too immature to do
> whenever you are wrong I've noticed.
My god, this kind of statement has escaped from the Life forum I fear....I would point out that the Qcube does not give RGB playback though, unlike the Xbox, and that the Qcube's playback would have to be somewhat amazing to justify spending that amount of money on a no guarantee import machine... incidentally I've seen several review who hint that the Qcube is almost certainly going to be the only GC based machine able to do copied GC games. This is because it accepts the DVD format as well as the optical discs, so if you transfer the games onto DVD format....voila !
> Oh dear, perhaps you don't understand how to interpret information
> around you. Any person could have seen I posted this at 5:50pm, which
> in winter most people would consider evening time.
Ah yes, but it's sort of traditional the not count it until evening until the 6 0 clock evening news starts on BBC.
~~Belldandy~~
ah i see whitestripes is still around the stupid lil fanboy.
the Q Cube is pants, it looks nasty. and if it's so so good why didn't they make the GC that way in the firstplace?
also £20 for region x is a damn site cheaper plus as he has the advance lead he'll get RGB (providing his telly can do it which i guess it does) and if he has an optical cable and a DD 5.1 set up he'll also get good sound.
the x box DVD player is ment to be better than the PS2 and the Q Cube which doesn't support RGB. and anyway Panasonic make pants DVD players.
i have a seperate DVD player made by Pioneer (one of the best) as i feel a proper dedicated player is better than any console.
now whitestripes do us all a fave, go back to your hole known as the GC forum with all your fan boys where you can keep all your comments about PS2 and the x box amongst yourselfs as really we don't give a damn.
the Q Cube is pants, it looks nasty. and if it's so so good why didn't they make the GC that way in the firstplace?
also £20 for region x is a damn site cheaper plus as he has the advance lead he'll get RGB (providing his telly can do it which i guess it does) and if he has an optical cable and a DD 5.1 set up he'll also get good sound.
the x box DVD player is ment to be better than the PS2 and the Q Cube which doesn't support RGB. and anyway Panasonic make pants DVD players.
i have a seperate DVD player made by Pioneer (one of the best) as i feel a proper dedicated player is better than any console.
now whitestripes do us all a fave, go back to your hole known as the GC forum with all your fan boys where you can keep all your comments about PS2 and the x box amongst yourselfs as really we don't give a damn.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Whitestripes wrote:
> *scratches head*
>
> Don't want to wake the headlice now do we?! ;)
Back on it I see
>
> How you've managed to avoid the original subject of debate twice now
> is quite beyond me.
>
> I am quite proud of the achievement myself but only because I aren't
> going to follow your example and start a new argument over somethig
> petty.
Interesting, considering you start 90% of all these arguments. Like I've already said, it only takes one person to say "I don't really want any XBox games" for you to post your corporate statement issueing the reasons why they do want them really.
>
> Secondly, go ahead, you'll be hard pressed to find anything, unlike
> most people seem to have been (or still are..) stupid fanboys when
> they first joined (even Edgy was) I have never acted in that way or
> written such types of rubbish.
>
> I aren't a stupid fanboy, but if you do figure out that I am please
> tell me for which console! I will pass on scrolling through the SR
> database trying to prove a point because for me life will never get
> that sad ;)
The Xbox, and interestingly, you seem to have forgotten this is the first time I have taken this seriously. If you'll notice near the start of this argument I mentioned that I have just been mucking around and winding you up for a laugh, and you are the one who bursts a blood vessel and issues your statement :)
>
> Thirdly, if that's all it does, it's a damn sight more than the XBox
> no? £300 when it was first released, plus an additional
> £30 just for normal, simple DVD playback.
> *
> Yes and worth every penny! I actually paid £289 for mine and
> then Microsoft did the 2 games and 1 extra official controller offer
> so I sent off for them and because they didn't arrive within the
> aloted time I complained and got a the DVD playback kit for free. I
> know you are not very good with figures but wouldn't you say that
> £289 was a reasonable pirce for all that? Not only that but the
> same week I got my Xbox I won a GAD so I chose Max Payne which is
> something that wouldn't be of any use with a foreign console. Not bad
> for £289 wouldn't you say?
Winning a GAD is not a valid argument, I have claimed 3 free games for my GC, but strangely that doesn't get deducted from it's price. It doesn't mean I can go around saying that in reality I only payed £40 for the GG does it?
And no, I don't think it's a reasonable price given that I don't want any of the games on it, it's a personnal thing, you see? Getting some free stuff because of Microsoft's incompetance also cannot be entered into this argument, we are talking about it's RRP and what you got with it. What if I ordered my GC from GAME and they screwed up massivley and gave me some free stuff, does that mean you can get a GC for £130 with 2 extra controllers and a game for free? No, it means (in a way) I got lucky.
>
> Fourthly, that is not a valid argument. I could have bought a Q
> second
> hand for half price couldn't I?
>
> Yes but the point I was trying to make was I can get a 2nd hand Cube
> that works just as well and then a top end DVD player for the same
> price. Just out of interest why didn't you get a 2nd hand Q-Cube?
Because I prefer to my things new, is that so strange?
>
> You sound like a soldier at war, "I say again man down, MAN
> DOWN"! Anyway, yes the Q-Cube DVD player will be of reasonable
> quality but Nintendo and Panasonic would be losing money if you take
> away the cost of a normal GameCube and then work out how much the DVD
> player inside the Q-Cube is actually worth. Not only that but they
> have to make a BIG profit on it as it is kind of limited edition if
> you understand what I am saying so you are bound to pay more.
No, the cost is minimal. You take a DVD player, you put the GC's graphics card and processor in it, and give it the special lens for reading the 8cm discs, thats it, not very expensive at all. Why? Because the DVD player already has the casing, it already has the power supply, it already has all the wires and circuits inside to make it all work, all it needed to have done was for it to be adapted to play a different media.
And no, it isn't a limited edition at all, it's just only on sale in Japan.
>
> I think you will find that I said... and I qoute:
>
> "The DVD quality on the Xbox is actually better than that on the
> Q Cube as far as I am aware and from what the reviews I have read have
> suggested"
>
> I also said... And I qoute:
>
> "I don't pretend that I do know anything about the Q-Cube but
> from what I have read the Xbox is better, I haven't tried and tested I
> have just read so I never said it was right or wrong."
>
> DidI ever say that it was definitley better or did I say it was what I
> have read and it is what I have read :)
>
> I was going on reviews as many people do, after all I can only go by
> what other people have told me or what I have heard when I haven't
> experienced it. Unless of course you have a different method?!
Well please, show me these reviews. I expect some links to comparitive reviews sharpish, and not after you've had a few hours to actually find some.
We both know you want the Xbox DVD player to be better, and we both know you meant it as a fact, however as there is no actual evidence, I will retract that one statement, something you are too immature to do whenever you are wrong I've noticed.
>
> Where as you insult just because you're ranting and raging, and
> angry
> because you can't string together a decent argument to combat the
> rather long post I made yesterday.
>
> You mean like the Shenmue 2 argument that you just left half way
> through when other people backed me up and agreed with what I was
> saying.
No it got boring, and also, it's an opinion argument, and opinions cannot be argued, therefore it was pointless to continue, and there are better things I could be doing.
>
> OR...
>
> The Audio thread in the Nintendo forum where users said that myself
> and Edbear were the only ones making any sense and that you didn't
> know what you were talking about?!
err..no, you and Edbear (or in other words, 3 times banned Alcofrolic) were saying that you buy films you don't like, just because it has nice audio effects. I merely pointed out that it seems incredibly stupid to buy a film you don't want to watch, just because you can listen to it in surround sound. Unfortunaly neither of you have managed to grasp the concept of what I am saying, instead you prattle on about how I don't understand surround sound, despite having been using it for 6 months or so longer than you.
>
> I could give you plenty of other examples but I am too tired and I am
> in danger of turning into your twin brother...
Examples of what? Your losing of arguments? Your biased posts? your ill-informed and factually incorrect attempts at putting other consoles down?
> Have a good evening ;-)
> *
> *Looks at watch*
>
> Nope I would say have a good night!
Oh dear, perhaps you don't understand how to interpret information around you. Any person could have seen I posted this at 5:50pm, which in winter most people would consider evening time.
Run along now.
> Whitestripes wrote:
> *scratches head*
>
> Don't want to wake the headlice now do we?! ;)
Back on it I see
>
> How you've managed to avoid the original subject of debate twice now
> is quite beyond me.
>
> I am quite proud of the achievement myself but only because I aren't
> going to follow your example and start a new argument over somethig
> petty.
Interesting, considering you start 90% of all these arguments. Like I've already said, it only takes one person to say "I don't really want any XBox games" for you to post your corporate statement issueing the reasons why they do want them really.
>
> Secondly, go ahead, you'll be hard pressed to find anything, unlike
> most people seem to have been (or still are..) stupid fanboys when
> they first joined (even Edgy was) I have never acted in that way or
> written such types of rubbish.
>
> I aren't a stupid fanboy, but if you do figure out that I am please
> tell me for which console! I will pass on scrolling through the SR
> database trying to prove a point because for me life will never get
> that sad ;)
The Xbox, and interestingly, you seem to have forgotten this is the first time I have taken this seriously. If you'll notice near the start of this argument I mentioned that I have just been mucking around and winding you up for a laugh, and you are the one who bursts a blood vessel and issues your statement :)
>
> Thirdly, if that's all it does, it's a damn sight more than the XBox
> no? £300 when it was first released, plus an additional
> £30 just for normal, simple DVD playback.
> *
> Yes and worth every penny! I actually paid £289 for mine and
> then Microsoft did the 2 games and 1 extra official controller offer
> so I sent off for them and because they didn't arrive within the
> aloted time I complained and got a the DVD playback kit for free. I
> know you are not very good with figures but wouldn't you say that
> £289 was a reasonable pirce for all that? Not only that but the
> same week I got my Xbox I won a GAD so I chose Max Payne which is
> something that wouldn't be of any use with a foreign console. Not bad
> for £289 wouldn't you say?
Winning a GAD is not a valid argument, I have claimed 3 free games for my GC, but strangely that doesn't get deducted from it's price. It doesn't mean I can go around saying that in reality I only payed £40 for the GG does it?
And no, I don't think it's a reasonable price given that I don't want any of the games on it, it's a personnal thing, you see? Getting some free stuff because of Microsoft's incompetance also cannot be entered into this argument, we are talking about it's RRP and what you got with it. What if I ordered my GC from GAME and they screwed up massivley and gave me some free stuff, does that mean you can get a GC for £130 with 2 extra controllers and a game for free? No, it means (in a way) I got lucky.
>
> Fourthly, that is not a valid argument. I could have bought a Q
> second
> hand for half price couldn't I?
>
> Yes but the point I was trying to make was I can get a 2nd hand Cube
> that works just as well and then a top end DVD player for the same
> price. Just out of interest why didn't you get a 2nd hand Q-Cube?
Because I prefer to my things new, is that so strange?
>
> You sound like a soldier at war, "I say again man down, MAN
> DOWN"! Anyway, yes the Q-Cube DVD player will be of reasonable
> quality but Nintendo and Panasonic would be losing money if you take
> away the cost of a normal GameCube and then work out how much the DVD
> player inside the Q-Cube is actually worth. Not only that but they
> have to make a BIG profit on it as it is kind of limited edition if
> you understand what I am saying so you are bound to pay more.
No, the cost is minimal. You take a DVD player, you put the GC's graphics card and processor in it, and give it the special lens for reading the 8cm discs, thats it, not very expensive at all. Why? Because the DVD player already has the casing, it already has the power supply, it already has all the wires and circuits inside to make it all work, all it needed to have done was for it to be adapted to play a different media.
And no, it isn't a limited edition at all, it's just only on sale in Japan.
>
> I think you will find that I said... and I qoute:
>
> "The DVD quality on the Xbox is actually better than that on the
> Q Cube as far as I am aware and from what the reviews I have read have
> suggested"
>
> I also said... And I qoute:
>
> "I don't pretend that I do know anything about the Q-Cube but
> from what I have read the Xbox is better, I haven't tried and tested I
> have just read so I never said it was right or wrong."
>
> DidI ever say that it was definitley better or did I say it was what I
> have read and it is what I have read :)
>
> I was going on reviews as many people do, after all I can only go by
> what other people have told me or what I have heard when I haven't
> experienced it. Unless of course you have a different method?!
Well please, show me these reviews. I expect some links to comparitive reviews sharpish, and not after you've had a few hours to actually find some.
We both know you want the Xbox DVD player to be better, and we both know you meant it as a fact, however as there is no actual evidence, I will retract that one statement, something you are too immature to do whenever you are wrong I've noticed.
>
> Where as you insult just because you're ranting and raging, and
> angry
> because you can't string together a decent argument to combat the
> rather long post I made yesterday.
>
> You mean like the Shenmue 2 argument that you just left half way
> through when other people backed me up and agreed with what I was
> saying.
No it got boring, and also, it's an opinion argument, and opinions cannot be argued, therefore it was pointless to continue, and there are better things I could be doing.
>
> OR...
>
> The Audio thread in the Nintendo forum where users said that myself
> and Edbear were the only ones making any sense and that you didn't
> know what you were talking about?!
err..no, you and Edbear (or in other words, 3 times banned Alcofrolic) were saying that you buy films you don't like, just because it has nice audio effects. I merely pointed out that it seems incredibly stupid to buy a film you don't want to watch, just because you can listen to it in surround sound. Unfortunaly neither of you have managed to grasp the concept of what I am saying, instead you prattle on about how I don't understand surround sound, despite having been using it for 6 months or so longer than you.
>
> I could give you plenty of other examples but I am too tired and I am
> in danger of turning into your twin brother...
Examples of what? Your losing of arguments? Your biased posts? your ill-informed and factually incorrect attempts at putting other consoles down?
> Have a good evening ;-)
> *
> *Looks at watch*
>
> Nope I would say have a good night!
Oh dear, perhaps you don't understand how to interpret information around you. Any person could have seen I posted this at 5:50pm, which in winter most people would consider evening time.
Run along now.
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