Letterman

i've completed mother 2 many times, ask a question we can answer and i'm sure you will get the help you need. if in doubt at the last boss get the girl to pray and keep praying

there is a new option comming soon, a mem card that plugs into the pc, upload/download and email your saves around the world, if your console is chipped or modded you can now use just one mem card and swap between pal/usa saves and *** ones by uploading your saves to the pc and reformating as *** or usa/pal

Sorry, the relevence of the new q (which was confirmed 2 weeks ago, its no longer stylish, but looks like a vcr:() was the tv recording functions that are set to appear on the xbox 2 in the future, its online functions will be the same as the standard cube. The reason for the cubes ability to play pso online at 56k is simple, it was designed to run on a 36k modem for the dreamcast, so 56k is just enough extra speed to lose the lag that was associated with that title, xonline however is different, again as you said with an eye to the future, and to reduce costs to microsoft themselves there are plans to copy windows xp and steal some of your bandwidth this is to be used for some kind of distributed computing model where the xboxes that are online act as part of the main server, thus vastly increasing bandwidth requirements above what would normaly be required, hence the need for broadband connections only, the idea isn't new, sony are also planning a similar system with the ps3. i'm sure xonline will be a success in the long term with xbox 2, but in order for it to happen microsoft will need to overcome consumer resistence to having to pay twice for a game and then pay again for a larger broadband connection so as not to interfere with any homes current internet usage. This rush to play games online may just be a few years too early for people brought up on paying for a game then taking it home and playing it, now they will be buying part of a game (still at full price) taking it home, paying for an internet connection, paying for the xonline service to download patches and level upgrades then having to pay even more to play the game online, all this will need a credit card and a friendly (and rich) parent to pay all these extra costs, and that assumes that all countries are like america where most people have a credit card, europe and africa arent like that so how are people over here going to pay for all these services, in the united kingdom, a home user cant even get a dsl connection without having a credit card. with that said, does that mean that xbox and xbox 2 will be consoles for adults only? Basicly pricing children out of the equation altogether.

i hate to interject here, but not only is microsoft a late starter (and probably the largest $black hole EVER in the gaming world, but its wonderful plans for xbox 2 just dont hack it, we already have a home dvd recorder with a built in hard drive they are made by panasonic and can do all the normal things a hard disc recorder can do, not only that but our digital satellite tv system has exactly the same features too (its called sky plus) the japanese version of the gamecube made by panasonic called the Q is about to be replaced with a new model which also has all those hard drive features so just where is microsoft doing anything new, the new panasonic "Q" will be doing all that within 5 months not 3 more years as far as broadband is concerned its never fast enough, ok, at the moment it can just about cope with modern pc games but in 3 years it has no hope. We have a hybrid system here that uses a 20mb/sec satellite connection for the downstream service and an 8mb/4mb dsl connection for upstream data and cover for when bad weather stops the satellite from working, i guess thats fast enough, but no current console will allow that kind of a connection so we will be limited to using an 8mb/4mb service as i said before, thats ok for now, but for the future, i dont think it will be fast enough for the amount of data that will need sending (especialy if companies are thinking of making games have to be downloaded to play them) i want to be able to put a disc in my console and play and i want to be able to play with my friends at home, if i want to do something online then thats why we have a pc. i'm afraid going broadband only is a mistake for microsoft at present and when there is enough people can afford broadband (and actualy get it) will it be fast enough, i know we pay around $600 a month for our service, but not everyone can afford that, having an option of 56k like nintendo and sony is a far more marketable idea as people can buy a new adaptor as and when they get broadband installed. I'm sorry if my spelling isn't that good, i have dyslexia so spelling isnt always my strong point (nor is making sense ;)) Letterman

I have to put in here, you have made so many mistakes, the first problem that you have is that for some reason you think that the usa is the best at hacking consoles, i'm sorry to tell you but upto the advent of the playstation all the hacks came from the far east, since then all the best hacking was done in europe (neo, messiah, neox, extender, executer, enigmah, exodus, origachip & and neo3 (not to be confused with the neo series for the ps2) for what its worth xbox live works just fine with a modded xbox, but you should only use the chip to play imported games or backups of games you already own, if you use them for copied games you are hurting the software companies and costeng everyone else more money. I guess the main reason that europe leads the way with chips is because we get our games much later so we have more need to be able to play imports and yes even your gameshark is actualy made in europe by datel, interact just badge it as an american product. of course to play an xbox live game you must own the original in order to have a valid key so copying would be useless Letterman

its supposed to have been cancelled now in favour of a gamecube version, because of the poor sales of the xbox around the world and they are going to release a version on the ps2 as well. knockout kings 2003 has also been cancelled on xbox and will be a gamecube exclusive too, in my country the xbox has fallen in price from £300 ($450) to £127 (about $160) as shops are doing their best to get rid of it before christmas so they can sell gamecube and ps2. the main problem was the very poor games on xbox, everyone is still waiting for a good xbox game to come out and they see people playing great games on the gamecube and ps2.

i cant remember what it was called, but there was a ninja game on the NES i could never beat, when you got to the very last boss you had touse 4 power ups against him, but it was totaly random and if you used the wrong one you had to start the whole game over again, i even phoned the nintendo hotline and they couldnt help me on it either, i did see it completed though as my friend got lucky and did it in the correct order (jammy sod)

i remember when i got my first NES, i got mario, gyromite + rob, duckhunt + zapper, batman and teenage mutant hero turtles but all i played was mario :) I still have my nes, and i have over 1000 cartriges for it (i got it chipped so i could buy imported games from japan and the usa, because they had all the good games) My favourite games is a harder one, pick any from this list Scramble (arcade) space invaders (arcade) any zelda or startropics game on nintendo eternal darkness (gamecube) every mario game mgs 1 (PS one) parasite eve 1 (PS one) legend of legia (PS one) Super monkey ball 1 & 2 (gamecube) final fantasy 6 (snes) i'm sure i have more favourites, but i cant think of them at the moment. Letterman