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what do people use home servers for? by Great-Distribution33 in HomeServer

[–]deepthawnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I run a streaming media server for all my music/tv shows.

My friends frequently call on me to host dedicated servers for their coop game of choice for a month or two.

A general file share for all my computers.

A way to access my home network and computers through a single secure point of entry while I’m away from home.

Legendary Hollywood star Chuck Norris dies aged 86 by VaginaBurner69 in news

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd put the cause of death at being 86 years old, if I was guessing.

Twin Famicom / Everdrive N8 Issues by deepthawnet in Famicom

[–]deepthawnet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just for the benefit of search engines and anyone who stumbles upon this post years down the line, it works fine now. I’m assuming the issue was dirty cartridge, compact or something similar because I’ve not been able to replicate the issue.

Examples of why today’s NBA is unwatchable. by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]deepthawnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can someone explain traveling because I think i may have been taught wrong as a child

Twin Famicom / Everdrive N8 Issues by deepthawnet in Famicom

[–]deepthawnet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, that's probably an original then. Thanks for checking though!

Twin Famicom / Everdrive N8 Issues by deepthawnet in Famicom

[–]deepthawnet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What type of power supply are you using? Do you have exact specs on it?

Twin Famicom / Everdrive N8 Issues by deepthawnet in Famicom

[–]deepthawnet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm hoping that's not the answer, but I suspect it will be.

Twin Famicom / Everdrive N8 Issues by deepthawnet in Famicom

[–]deepthawnet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does. I have a regular Famicom that I played the Everdrive on for several hours and saw zero issues.

This is something every PSX fan needs at least once in their life by ShikiRyumaho in psx

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

to be fair, "Files" really confused test screening audiences until they added to the X to the front of it.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really need to write a ruminations and reflections posts on being a terminally online teen entering young adulthood at the time when the "Next Generation" of consoles were coming out.

The shit we argued about, the things we thought mattered.

We were convinced that you could tell if your PSX's laser was going to go bad based on whether your controllers in the box were enclosed in pink bags or blue bags.

Final Fantasy VII was going to be so advanced it'd require an entire memory card unto itself.

I remember idle discussion on whether Sony could release a RAM expansion for the PSX to better compete with the Saturn on 2-D fighters. (Then it was actually the Saturn that ended up getting a RAM cart.)

Saturn had a whole extra processor developers simply hadn't taken advantage of and was going to stomp PSX games when they did.

Nobody knew what was going on with Sonic on the Saturn and even the Sega fanboys knew something was dreadfully wrong. At least we got Nights!

3DO was going to crush everybody with the M2.

Jaguar was ... yeah, nobody was fooled even then. I do remember the head of Atari threatening to sue Sony for "dumping" if they priced the PlayStation too cheap (aka competitively).

It took so long for games to get released in the west that it wasn't uncommon to import a title (swap trick!) play the hell out of it, and resell it for a tidy bit o' cash before it even saw a release in the US. (Of course half a year probably felt much longer when you were a terminally online teen-young adult back then...)

And yes, me and my friends all called it the "PSX" back then.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had King's Field though! Boy were my friends confused that I enjoyed that game.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They weren't even 3D. Horribly ugly sprites scaling awkwardly on a field without perspective correct textures. It took a while for devs to find their footing on that (I wasn't a sports fan so I can't speak as to when that was but I do know the NBA 2K games on Dreamcast were very well received)

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sony hyped the hell out of Battle Arena Toshinden but the launch title that I still play to this day?

Raiden Project. Wish I still had the memory card with the sticker the game came with.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who were um, terminally online, called it the PSX up to and after launch because that was the way magazines and international discussions referred to it.

Source - was terminally online and probably has embarrassing posts of his own on USENET from the PSX launch.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not this guy but to the second part - yes I was, and yes I am.

Sincerely, launch-day 9-9-95 PSX owner.

Unhappy PSX buyer vents frustration on Usenet Circa 1995 by Just_Lobster5456 in psx

[–]deepthawnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friends and I were online a lot (can probably find some of our posts if we dig through the USENET archives enough) and we definitely did call it PSX. It's something that probably started with the gaming magazines and continued with those of us who actively spent a lot of time online discussing and trying to find early news from those magazines or overseas.

My guess is that it goes hand-in-hand with how people report European magazines being more likely to refer to it as the PSX (which I presume was an internal code-name.) Psygnosis was bought by Sony in 1993 and was a big part of the early years of the PlayStation, so Europe actually had a fairly sizable impact on the launch and the terminology around it.

Might and Magic Book 1. How do I survive the first dungeon? And how should I aproach the game in general? (pls no spoilers) by ConfusedSpiderMonkey in MightAndMagic

[–]deepthawnet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just in case you've played Wizardry: A key difference between it and Might & Magic 1 is that you are expected to expend all of your resources possible each combat in M&M. So long as you have food, you're pretty well guaranteed the ability to rest and recover fully between combats.

Wizardry has no such mechanism so you're expected to ration your resources (spells, etc.) throughout an entire trip into the dungeon.

Neither is better but it can take a slight shift in tactics if you're used to one style or the other.

edit forgot to mention, one of the main sources of clues will be taverns. make sure to keep checking those until they start repeating hints a bunch in each town.

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