Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Is OPM still taking games? Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:44:01 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <87evlp$1174@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <75+oDKAqzMm4EwNH@trsoft.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-en135-124.pool.dircon.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 On this subject, someone wrote into OPSM about the Yaroze, and OPSMs response is in the latest issue. Here's a bit of it: "...,calls into PSM Towers suggest you lot want the Yaroze games to return to our cover disc. Why have they dropped off? Because none have been submitted of sufficient quality." What bloody cheek!! There's been plenty of games released in the past few months that have been brilliantly playable, and I'm pretty sure that's the only quality issue that may be considered, if any. Admittedly the problem may be that the games submitted have not met the Sony Technical Requirements Checklist, but if so, why not say that? Why try and say that the currently active programmers are shit? Especially as they're wrong. I'd also like to mention that they made them look even more stupid by saying that: a) "Sony still support Yaroze on their Website so order one from there..." even though I'm sure they stopped accepting orders for the Yaroze almost a year ago. They then naively say that the letter writer could alternatively buy one second, despite the fact that the license agreement says you can't transfer the Yaroze to other people. b) as well as needing a PC, "you'll need knowledge of C++ and Visual Basic". Now I might have missed something here, but I've been programming for the Yaroze (alright, I haven't done much recently, but my GCSEs are in 12 weeks so I don't have too much time to piss about) in C, not C++, and certainly haven't been using a piece of software which outputs Windows .dlls and .exes for making Yaroze games. So it's great to see that some journalists still fail to get any facts correct, even when there's no need to exaggerate the truth to sensationalise the story... Rikki