Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Mark Green Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: N64 on the PC Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:22:15 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <36C179F7.210F1191@reading.ac.uk> References: <78qua8$ccr1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <78sf9o$ccr2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <78sm7j$ccr3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <78sml6$ccr4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <78tbfg$ccr9@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <78tdbr$ccr11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ssfmse3.rdg.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en > >comparable to PC demos, they can be easily downloaded. If this emulator > does > >well it will provide a massive boost to the N64 piracy market. > I agree completely (and had posted something along similar lines at > virtually the same time - so cancel that ;-) ) > As I looked at those amazing hi-res N64 screenshots at IGN64, I couldn't > help feeling this UltraHLE, Bleem, VGS situation is very bad news indeed. > Imagine the possible impact a working Dreamcast emulator could have if it > arrived before the machine's official US/European release. If it happened - and it almost certainly won't (because as somebody's already mentioned, the PC won't be able to read the GDROM discs) - it would hurt Sega. But if they had produced a machine that could have been emulated so easily, and delayed its release so long, it would serve them right! :) The piracy thing is a worry, although it's notable to see that emulator authors have started trying to prevent it (though I'd be pretty worried about that PSX emulator that does detect the copy protection bytes, because it's just asking for somebody to reverse engineer the emulator and find out how the copy protection works.. and leaving the regional lockout in was a bad idea, since the regional lockout was practically what caused the PSX piracy market to appear so quickly), but I think that it's a useful rising-water mark for technology companies. By the time your hardware has been emulated - especially if it's by "underground" programmers (though I'd wonder why programmers who could emulate an N64 from the ground up *wouldn't* have professional jobs), it's time you should be moving to more innovative hardware. Sony are doing so - and that's a Good Thing.