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[hakunushi]

i was wondering... how many ppl around this forum has a actual GC and how many are hoping to play games they never played bcoz they at the time, has chosen another platform to buy and then didnt had money to buy the other platform....

talking about globalization.... i wonder how many ppl here....live on 3 world countries like me, that a single console worths the eye of your face.... and u got to buy one....choose one....coz its stupidty to buy 2 or 3 expensive consoles so you can play all of ur fav games.

thats wen wen comes into mind a platform wich has the potential to have em all togheter, and sometimes ppl opt for that platform wich is the computer.... but thats wen u see u would have to be a programmer, and even if u was one ud be stuck coz its too dificult to program one.... then u see that thers these guys who can do that.....but....

instead of assuming the comitment they got themselfs into, they prefer to toture these poor ppl =P.... well, i bought a ps2 and a computer.... and i must say that i love nintendo games, but sony had much much more titles that i wanted to play.... and thats the very same reason that im paying(here in brasil u can pay monthly a parcel of the price till uve payed all of it) playstation 3 instead of a nintendo wii(here in brazil both consoles costs 3 times what they cost in united states, thats anoying... and u can see ppl of united states complaininmg about prices wen a console costs 1/4 of theyr payment...anoing)..... so... im not going to buy any game cube any time sooner... but id buy the games if there was any way to play em on my computer....since my computer run any of the pc games today(and this pc was a hell expensive was like 8/4 of my current payment that is around $600 wen converted from "real" to "usd" and only 10% of brazil population makes more than this per month....sux).

so.... there was a good time wen emulator developers actualy did things happen... but those times are gone... i can understand that past consoles were easier to emulate... im am compreensive about time.... but hell if i didnt had a playstation 2.... id be waiting for pcsx2 to get improvements.... but cmon.... that freaking amulator didnt evolve in 2 years.... wen are that piece of software work?.... wel i didnt buy a game cube and i see i wouldnt b able to play any of its games.... ill stick around with my ps2 and ps3 =P.... i think that no much ppl are going to buy a GC these days... they are more likely to use their WII to do that.... and nintendo will be happy to still sell GC games... and if there were any working amulator theyd sell even more... i dont get it myself why they(nintendo) didnt code a emu.

anyway sorry if i made myself understandable..... but english is not my native language.... it actualy pretty good for someone of my contry =P

cheers.

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[Maratanos]

I suspect most of the dev team here is working on Dolphin because it's a technical challenge. Often people with computer science skills enjoy this sort of thing.

[Xblade]

Originally Posted by hakunushi

i was wondering... how many ppl around this forum has a actual GC and how many are hoping to play games they never played bcoz they at the time, has chosen another platform to buy and then didnt had money to buy the other platform....

talking about globalization.... i wonder how many ppl here....live on 3 world countries like me, that a single console worths the eye of your face.... and u got to buy one....choose one....coz its stupidty to buy 2 or 3 expensive consoles so you can play all of ur fav games.

thats wen wen comes into mind a platform wich has the potential to have em all togheter, and sometimes ppl opt for that platform wich is the computer.... but thats wen u see u would have to be a programmer, and even if u was one ud be stuck coz its too dificult to program one.... then u see that thers these guys who can do that.....but....

instead of assuming the comitment they got themselfs into, they prefer to toture these poor ppl =P.... well, i bought a ps2 and a computer.... and i must say that i love nintendo games, but sony had much much more titles that i wanted to play.... and thats the very same reason that im paying(here in brasil u can pay monthly a parcel of the price till uve payed all of it) playstation 3 instead of a nintendo wii(here in brazil both consoles costs 3 times what they cost in united states, thats anoying... and u can see ppl of united states complaininmg about prices wen a console costs 1/4 of theyr payment...anoing)..... so... im not going to buy any game cube any time sooner... but id buy the games if there was any way to play em on my computer....since my computer run any of the pc games today(and this pc was a hell expensive was like 8/4 of my current payment that is around $600 wen converted from "real" to "usd" and only 10% of brazil population makes more than this per month....sux).

so.... there was a good time wen emulator developers actualy did things happen... but those times are gone... i can understand that past consoles were easier to emulate... im am compreensive about time.... but hell if i didnt had a playstation 2.... id be waiting for pcsx2 to get improvements.... but cmon.... that freaking amulator didnt evolve in 2 years.... wen are that piece of software work?.... wel i didnt buy a game cube and i see i wouldnt b able to play any of its games.... ill stick around with my ps2 and ps3 =P.... i think that no much ppl are going to buy a GC these days... they are more likely to use their WII to do that.... and nintendo will be happy to still sell GC games... and if there were any working amulator theyd sell even more... i dont get it myself why they(nintendo) didnt code a emu.

anyway sorry if i made myself understandable..... but english is not my native language.... it actualy pretty good for someone of my contry =P

cheers.

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

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[Joe Finger-Eye]

I see that English is not your first language, but may I suggest you use a spell checker? It would make it a lot more readable, since your grammar and punctuation are already ok for a non-native speaker.
Firefox has a spell checker available, and you can use the google toolbar's one if you use IE.

Also, I don't know much about buying products from outside the US, but here we can buy gamecubes (used) in the store for $30. I wonder if it would be possible to buy one online and have it shipped to Brazil? I mean, paying three times the cost of a PS3 is pretty outrageos (seems like about $1500 to me!), so just picking up a $30 gamecube, plus shipping (probably quite a bit!) should still cost less than $100, unless there are some sort of customs fees or something that I don't know about (let me know if I'm wrong!).

Anyway, as to whether dolphin is a viable alternative to the real thing, for me, my laptop (which is also my main computer) is very fast (and consequentially, expensive), so many of the compatible games run very well, although many of the games I wish I could play simply do not run.
Here's a tip for Super Smash Bros: Play a "fast melee" from the "special melee" menu, and it runs as fast as the real thing if you have a slow computer.

[Squall-Leonhart]

If you don't own a Gamecube, you have no business using Dolphin. (you need a Gamecube to dump games anyway, unless you have one of the special LG drives that can)

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[N4ch007]

being from argentina, i have exactly the same tought as hakunushi.
here, an 80gb mgs4 bundled ps3 costs 1100 dls. but it´s much more expensive than that when you take in account the currency.

in the end, it´s like if in USA, the same package costs 3500 u$s. how many would buy it? that´s why piracy is so big in this region. answer this to yourself honestly: would you buy an xbox 360 for 3200 u$s, and each game for 300 u$s?

this currency problem may seem ridiculous, since you may be thinking "it´s still 1100 dls, even if you call it 3500 something". well, add to that the average montly pay of 500u$s. so, to have a ps3, you work for 3 months, but do not eat, go out, live... nothing.

i´m not saying that ppl in the usa have it easy. but to complain about something and repeat the famous "you warez kid", you need to actually understand the situation in full.

i also dislike piracy... but like everything on this world, in most cases it´s a consequence of exclussion.
again, it´s NOT an excuse, just a consequence.

you could translate that into anything you like: why does ppl steal x thing?

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[kronoxrox]

I actually own a GC PSO and the broadband adapter xD. Most of my isos come from my own collection, but i've also ripped games from my friends (and i feel a little like stealing too)... the only iso i've ever downloaded is Cubivore:Survival of the fittest ... and yeah i felt awful (not really xD) Dunno maybe it sounds like a excuse, but i don't really consider cubivore much of a game. Maybe a tech demo? xD

As someone said above in Third world countries technology cost a lot more than in EU, so when you say "Buy a Gc...i saw one for 15 Dls on Ebay"... i go like O_O!

Here technology is something that only mid and above classes can afford. That doesn't mean we live on trees or something like that. It just means it's more expensive and quite "rare" to find... IE: my PC Athlon 64 x2 5000+ plus my ATI Radeon HD2600 pro 512 (PCI-E) it's like ultimate tech at this point in time... we/I don't have access to the newer ATI cards, nor Nvidia ones. If they exist they tend to be exclusive, and by exclusive i mean expensive like hell over 800dls. Life cost here is high and salaries are not as high as in other countries so really we don't spend much on tech, since there are other inmediate needs...

As for my interests... i've been always a fan of emulation. I found the concept behind of it amazing... Being able to reproduce using written code what the real thing would do.

well that's my story
Saludos desde Chile
And thanks for helping me on improving my english

Kronox

[Squall-Leonhart]

Hey, i had a warez rip of starcraft, but back then the warez scene was more considered a demo scene then anything..... these days everyone pirates like mad, sheesh, atleast i bought starcraft battlechest,

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[eyepopper776]

I want a good stable emulator, just for the THRILL of playing console games on PC's.

( How cool was it to see the PSX boot up on your monitor, hm? No arguments )
And because if you do hombrew, it's FAR cheaper to have an emulator than it is to burn a fukaton o'dvds AND find out you had a bug.

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[dogwild]

Originally Posted by kronoxrox

I actually own a GC PSO and the broadband adapter xD. Most of my isos come from my own collection, but i've also ripped games from my friends (and i feel a little like stealing too)... the only iso i've ever downloaded is Cubivore:Survival of the fittest ... and yeah i felt awful (not really xD) Dunno maybe it sounds like a excuse, but i don't really consider cubivore much of a game. Maybe a tech demo? xD

As someone said above in Third world countries technology cost a lot more than in EU, so when you say "Buy a Gc...i saw one for 15 Dls on Ebay"... i go like O_O!

Here technology is something that only mid and above classes can afford. That doesn't mean we live on trees or something like that. It just means it's more expensive and quite "rare" to find... IE: my PC Athlon 64 x2 5000+ plus my ATI Radeon HD2600 pro 512 (PCI-E) it's like ultimate tech at this point in time... we/I don't have access to the newer ATI cards, nor Nvidia ones. If they exist they tend to be exclusive, and by exclusive i mean expensive like hell over 800dls. Life cost here is high and salaries are not as high as in other countries so really we don't spend much on tech, since there are other inmediate needs...

As for my interests... i've been always a fan of emulation. I found the concept behind of it amazing... Being able to reproduce using written code what the real thing would do.

well that's my story
Saludos desde Chile
And thanks for helping me on improving my english

Kronox

Well you can find the lastlest Nvidia and ATI cards in Argentina , so i can guess you are able to get it in chile too.

[Joe Finger-Eye]

I don't find the use of dolphin described here particularly objectionable, but this site has rules, and rules are rules. Just keep that in mind.

I also have a question, it was mentioned here that you need to use your gamecube to dump the games, right? I'm wondering how ok it is to simply download games you already own. Is it totally ok (as ok as anything else in emulation, that is), against the rules here (but no one will ever catch you), or viewed the same way as outright piracy?

I mean, with things like NES games, the rule is "only download what you own" because no one expects you to build and program a device to dump roms from you old carts, but with optical media, the standard seems to have become "just use the physical disk." Is that because it's easier, or because it's more legal/acceptable?

[kronoxrox]

i think this is a really good thread, but i also think we should stop... Really IMO this kind of things are loopholes in the law and maybe is best not to mess with this community rules. I know we haven't broke any rules, but maybe this kind of topic is not well taken by admins/mods

[helles]

@Joe:

Here in Germany since 2008 copying ANYTHING is illegal. Even a safety copy of my favourite, 10-year-old Audio-CD is illegal...

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[mudlord]

Hey, i had a warez rip of starcraft, but back then the warez scene was more considered a demo scene then anything.....

IIRC, the Starcraft rips were done by Razor1911, ISO rls by Fairlight.

But I agree. Back then, the warez scene was all about optimization: how much you can fit in X "disks", blah blah blah. Plus, the cracktros the groups release are just awesome.

Shame now that piracy is on a large scale and this lost art is getting quite rare (its extremely rare to see cracktros in warez releases these days )..the demoscene though still lives on, but in different ways to keep legal.

Shame how time creates havoc, as well as laws.

[Squall-Leonhart]

Yup,. i'll send you the Razor1911 Demo that came with that release later on mudlord, it was quite,.... interesting.

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