XBox Video Speed Drop

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  having a few games that are mature (Conker's Bad Fur Day seems pretty fucking stupid to me) doesn't a ma... : daggah
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    what?? You think CBFD looks stupid? I'm buying it the day it comes out! That shot of a deathmatch gam... : timmie
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      i would agree. nintendo has learned from their mistakes. we will see more cooler games aimmed toward... : Orion
      • bullshit. I'll be reminding you that you said that when the GameCube launches with Mario, Zelda, and ... : daggah

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  Happy to help! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15808.html : baron calamity
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    does the x box only have 2 controller ports? : Orion
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      No Four. They are on the other side of the front. Apparently they didn't repost all the pictures. : baron calamity
      • oh alright, i was going to say. i think it is pretty gay that PS2 still only has 2 game controller p... : Orion

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  Yeah, but why would anyone want to code to the metal for PS2? : avixe
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    Because they are used to doing it for consoles and it's the most powerful one out there. : cot
    • not when the X Box comes out. : freshview
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  I was under the impression that the only way you could code for the PS2 was to the metal. And that's wh... : astral
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    you're right. There were no libraries shipped with dev kits. The decision was made at Sony to not incl... : timmie
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      gamecube is going to be this shit : Orion
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        i mean by the shit the console to buy : Orion
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          It's a good thing you clarified, because otherwise I would have thought by "the shit" you meant the stuf... : cot
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            oh no, gamecube is going to be the shit. i cant wait for that one to come out!!! : Orion
            • too bad it won't have more than five games that cater to an audience over the age of 12... : daggah

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• yup. It's all about the games. : Kayn
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  getting the most FPS is what games are about. : TreMetal
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    ... not really. I can play tetris at 1,500,000 fps but the game isn't fun. : dra.
    • Well wait it is, so that proves it aint all about hardware. : dra.

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  The specs are getting shreded. : dra.
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    I would hardly call a 50 MHz - 17% - drop a "shredding," especially when the processor speed has alread : avixe
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      But that hasn't been the only change to this box, and its still quite a ways off. And these changes com... : dra.
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        Come on now, it's an nvidia video chip we are talking about there. They are notorious for initially clai... : Quagmire
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          Just wait, when the Xbox 2 Ultra Pro comes out, it'll have the originally promised specs. : cot
          • hehe : Orion
        • you are so right : kjeldsen
      • I think they're just finalizing the spec, that's all. They are probably now getting real prototypes toge... : wumpus

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  yeah the viruses and hacks.....let the show begin!! : Orion
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    oh won't that be sweet when little johnny can't play his games because the X-Box BIOS got fried by a vir... : xvdl
    • Who is this little johnny kid? He always seems to be screwing up. Maybe his parents shouldn't let hi... : cot
    • johnny is going to get screwed. besides, i will just buy all those games that come out for Xbox on m... : Orion
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      downloading save games will be a real thrill since it could have a virus in it. : .spanky.
      • Depends on the data type being used. Unless the savegame file comes in an email with VBScript viruses,... : RatBastard
• Heh. If X-box proves as hackable as every other piece of M$ shitware, it's going to give consoles a ... : hi-c
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  Not to be a total bastard about it, but the point is "moot", not "mute". -Rat : RatBastard
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    aboot? : johnny rotten
    • "It's aboot respect! It's aboot .. What the hell are you laughing at? You're all dicks!" -Rat : RatBastard
  • mute = sound off moot = not applicable : Zapp0
  • Not to be a bastard but apparently we're both wrong: Usage Note: As an adjective moot has come to be : indeego

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  This is why gamecube doesn't have DVD. Nintendo is going for nearly at cost for gamecube. (~$200) : Warlock
  • there will be a different version of the gamecube with DVD capabilities (for more $), instead of just an... : astral
• #96 - Ok here's how I see it. The XBox would have come out at a flat $x99 price point anyway. Doesn't... : Carnivac

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• the mouse will be $100 extra, drivers for the mouse will be $25 more. : .spanky.

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• I told you they were dropping down to a Celeron 300A! -Rat : RatBastard

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• When am I going to get a console with a built in 8-Track player! Cater to me, damnit! -Rat : RatBastard
• screw DVD, the GAMES should run off a VHS tape! oh yeah! : astral

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  The remote costs 20-30 more. Thats hardware and the licence. Its not that much more. Money grab. : GoofyBoy
  • yeah, you're right ... but that'll save me $30 plus tax because I already have 2 DVD players. I can get... : xakmalice
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  Also, they might be trying to avoid the Japanese PS2 'problem' where everyone bought it as a DVD player : avixe
  • true...actually I think I remember reading that somewhere...both the xbox and the gamecube were gonna do... : Doom

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  With no level 2 cache and the GPU will be a TNT chipset. :) : Nemo_NX
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    I heard it was going to be a Verite' board. -Rat : RatBastard
    • nah, its a bitboys board. : firebone
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      Since nVidia bought out 3dfx, they could always use the Voodoo 1 as the GPU. :) : Nemo_NX
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        The Voodoo 1 was a good board when it came out. Kicked the crap out of everything else in the consumer... : RatBastard
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          Not really. The Rendition v1000 was 70% of the speed of the voodoo 1 in most applications and sometimes ... : baron calamity
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            70% of the speed at much lower resolutions. Compare VQuake to GLQuake. The V 1000 also had a piss-poo... : RatBastard
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              Actually I was refering to 70% speed or faster in D3D games. Yeah vguake got man handled by glquake. And... : baron calamity
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                It did look better than the Voodoo's 16-bit color depth, but the lower resolution minimized that. It w... : RatBastard
                • How was the resolution lower? They both had 4 megs and did 640x480x16. : baron calamity

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• kills self : snackula

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  Vaporware is a term applied to something which is never brought to market. This will be. Therefore i... : avixe
  • Until i see it within the revised (again) specs it is for me.. Btw the original specs was a machine tha... : kjeldsen

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• That's a long-standing tradition at MicroSoft. -Rat : RatBastard

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• The video card flame war dies out too early. Sorry. -Rat : RatBastard

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  or, microsoft could be a really bad ass company and include a nice remote with the console : firebone
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    Remember Plus for Window 95? All that stuff was originally going to be included with Win95. Then some... : RatBastard
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      i dunno..i remember i had a plsu folder in my program files, and it had a few cool proggies...you mean t... : firebone
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        Yep, a whole CD-ROM full of crap. Theme support, some games, and a bunch of other stuff that I don't r... : RatBastard
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          i remember a game called something, it was hover, ithink? ? : firebone
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            I love that game! Hover was cool and hard to beat a level without getting sick first. :) : Nemo_NX
            • It was okay, but it was slow as hell on the average system of that time (Pentium 100 - 133). The marbl... : RatBastard
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  Yes, put in a real DVD player in my TV stand AND xBox AND VCR. See the problem? Way too much crap to ... : Nemo_NX
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    DAMN YOU, YOU DIRTY APE! : firebone
    • ? : Nemo_NX
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    If you really want things to be simple then just get a computer with an ATI All-In-Wonder card with a D... : GoofyBoy
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      I'm there man...getting a radeon all in wonder pretty soon....how good does it capture do you know? : Doom
      • You bastard. :) Its should be "good enough" considering. Check out ATI's web site for their nifty T... : GoofyBoy

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  ou want to know my opinion on consoles? ILF? [-they]- He SUCKs! : ghost in my shell
  • Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! *x-plodes* : ghost in my shell
  • 3 2 1 Ah, why bother. shacktagged -Rat : RatBastard
  • why? : ILF

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  all the next-gen consoles are ugly... : firebone
  • True: ) I think Xbox takes the Ugliest Next-Gen console award though. : Grandmoff

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• the way i read it, Microsoft has decided to change the specs on the XBox once again, this time around... : firebone

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  better n' anything who teh fuck are you? lucky, looking for his lucky charms? : firebone
  • It was me, actually. : avixe
• How is supposed to be better n' anything else? The thing isn't near release, and its getting hacked to ... : dra.

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• To hell, like you said. :) : Nemo_NX

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• IT DOSENT GEIV ME THE SAEM SCARY CONSOUL RUSHH LIKE RUSHH IN SIONK THEH HEDGEOHG : firebone

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  I'm just going to use it as a DVD player and maybe buy a couple games for the thing as well. :) : Nemo_NX
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    Well you have to buy a 20-30$ package to unlock the DVD playing capabilities. : dra.
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      Are you serious?!?!?! : indeego
      • Yes, its in the article and its been announced before. They probably are doing this to compensate for... : dra.
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      I understand that because a few people at microsoft didn't want people to buy it just to use it as a DV... : Nemo_NX
      • If I were just to buy something for DVD playback I'd just buy a real DVD player. But I got a PS2 and it... : dra.
  • 14...did you read that to use it as a DVD player they are going to sell a COSTLY special remote? Cant pla... : pimpium

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• stuff. : dra.
• and the systems will be built in the leftover windows 95 boxes, and will be sold 50$ higher because its ... : firebone