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This has always amazed me. Why don't Sony make a portable handheld console like the GBA? Sony could get away from cartridges, and even use their own MiniDisc media for holding the games. If nothing else, it would offer some competition to Nintendo.
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Erm.... all minidiscs can record MP3s... I got a MiniDisc last Xmas... it can record MP3s from the PC to it (as long as I have the right cable... which I don't...) or you just plug a cable into the headphone socket of your PC, play the MP3 and put the other end of the cable into the input socket on the MD and record...
Dunno if they can hold games though... dunno if they can hold data at all, I'm sure someone on here will know.
Dunno if they can hold games though... dunno if they can hold data at all, I'm sure someone on here will know.
Thought i saw a Next Gen MiniDisc recorder from Sony the other day that could also record MP3's.
Edgy wrote:
> Minidiscs record in analogue much like the ZX Spectrum tapes did. So
> it is possible to record games to minidisc, just chances are you wont
> get them as well made as normal disc or cartridge games because of the
> limitations.
I thought MiniDisc was digital?
I don't see why a MiniDisc cant store other types of data, like games. CD's store music or games.
How much does a MiniDisc hold (in terms of Mb's) compared with a GBA cart?
> Minidiscs record in analogue much like the ZX Spectrum tapes did. So
> it is possible to record games to minidisc, just chances are you wont
> get them as well made as normal disc or cartridge games because of the
> limitations.
I thought MiniDisc was digital?
I don't see why a MiniDisc cant store other types of data, like games. CD's store music or games.
How much does a MiniDisc hold (in terms of Mb's) compared with a GBA cart?
Minidiscs record in analogue much like the ZX Spectrum tapes did. So it is possible to record games to minidisc, just chances are you wont get them as well made as normal disc or cartridge games because of the limitations.
Sibs wrote:
> Want something portable from MS...?
>
> Can't you just get an LCD screen for the Xbox...?
>
> ;-)
And a rucksack to carry it in..........
> Want something portable from MS...?
>
> Can't you just get an LCD screen for the Xbox...?
>
> ;-)
And a rucksack to carry it in..........
Heh, keep on getting that mother to play Mario games... see if she can get anywhere on Mazza 64 or Sunshine...
(latest research shows that 9/10 parents crack when the young gamer introduces them to the concept of playing a game in three dimensions)
(latest research shows that 9/10 parents crack when the young gamer introduces them to the concept of playing a game in three dimensions)
Sibs wrote:
> Yeah, Tetris was a major selling point on GB release, but now it's
> not. Look at all the poor imitations of it, they have all tried to add
> new twists and usually ended up completely ruining the formula
> altogether...
Yep, my original copy still spends most of its time in my GB Pocket, because It just doesn't have the same feel in colour on the gba (and Im lazy). Everything since has just made the game too complecated. That was the genius of Tetris - it was easy - so easy in fact my mum spent hours on it whilst I was at school....
(this is the same mother who completed Mario on GB before my, whilst renouncing video games as a waste of time. How I have changed her in the last twelve years...)
Glad to see your in the right decade ;D
> Yeah, Tetris was a major selling point on GB release, but now it's
> not. Look at all the poor imitations of it, they have all tried to add
> new twists and usually ended up completely ruining the formula
> altogether...
Yep, my original copy still spends most of its time in my GB Pocket, because It just doesn't have the same feel in colour on the gba (and Im lazy). Everything since has just made the game too complecated. That was the genius of Tetris - it was easy - so easy in fact my mum spent hours on it whilst I was at school....
(this is the same mother who completed Mario on GB before my, whilst renouncing video games as a waste of time. How I have changed her in the last twelve years...)
Glad to see your in the right decade ;D
Heh, I'm probably thinking of the DK arcade game on DK64...
Sibs wrote:
> P@st@ M@st@ wrote:
> Um, Sibs, the Game Boy was originally released in 1989 or 1988, not
> the early eighties!!!!
>
>
> Oops... weel anyhoo it's a long time :D
> I just thought back and I seemed to remember the copyright stuff on
> the GB load up screen that said something like (C) 1981... maybe I'm
> thinking of something else... ah well :D
1981 was the year Nintendo decided to go into the videogames business with Shigeru Miyamoto's Donkey Kong.
> P@st@ M@st@ wrote:
> Um, Sibs, the Game Boy was originally released in 1989 or 1988, not
> the early eighties!!!!
>
>
> Oops... weel anyhoo it's a long time :D
> I just thought back and I seemed to remember the copyright stuff on
> the GB load up screen that said something like (C) 1981... maybe I'm
> thinking of something else... ah well :D
1981 was the year Nintendo decided to go into the videogames business with Shigeru Miyamoto's Donkey Kong.
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