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I guy at work has just bought an R4 for his DS it uses the mini sd card that plugs into the R4 card itself. The mini SD plugs into a usb adapter and you just drag the roms from your pc to the mini SD/USB connection.
All comes together with CD and instructions for £40
@Ryzo wrote:
sites like this: http://nds-roms.com/ will also provide roms.
Another good one is http://www.simplynds.com/ 😉
@Cha0sEngine wrote:
yep got it on sat afternoon.
have u played it yet (anyone)?looks pretty good. played OK on my system. not on very high settings tho.
and (probably due to my gfx card o/c) i had some wierd artifacts. all the enemy were wearing flourescent green camo!! LOL!!
set it back to normal and all was ok.ai seemed pretty good.. and i had a go on the map editor.. not very successfully tho. there’s a lot going on in there 🙂
Played it and completed the Island Level included in the demo. Played ok on my machine with everthing turn off or low due to my system deperately needed an upgrade once I get the fund to do it.
Looks and plays great, AI is good too. Have spent much time on the map editor had a quick play around with it but as you said a lot going on.
You can get the demo which includes the Sandbox 2 map Editor here http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/demos/Crysis_SP_Demo.exe
Is it being released through File Planet? If so I would have though you would have to enter a pre order reference number first before they let you get to the content.
Also is it the multiplayer or Single player demo? Single player apparently will have the map editor built into the content so would be fun to play around with that for a while.
I see what I can find out 😉
@Cha0sEngine wrote:
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
On the topic of overclocking i may clock my Athlon x2 4200 to see what it can do. i have decent cooling on that so should be ok. (currently temps dont go above 55ish).
I’d be careful, I am overclocking mine now (out of necessity more than anything else) and have temperatures of about 30 – 40, maxing out at about 46. Anything above this and it starts to become unstable. I am fairly sure it’s not the chip as the last chip I O/ced did the same.
Is that on the same processor as mine?
FWIW.. i had an XP3000+ (single core) in my media pc, vista was hammering the processor and causing it to run at 100%.. anyway long story short.. i had turned off the bios’s thermal protection because the pc was crashing (i.e. saving the cpu) so the temp was hitting 120 degrees, at which point the cpu its self shutdown to save its self.. i guess my point is that while its probably not a good idea to go anywhere near 100degrees… it seems the processor can take a bit of abuse. 😈 👿 .. i now have a 4200+ X2 in the media pc now as well.. (i think the high temps may have been a compatibility issue between the mobo bios and the 3000+ processor)…
anyhoo.. im reading up on exactly what knobs to tweak to oc. since im not a hardened o/c er.There some pretty good Overclocking guides here http://www.custompc.co.uk/phpbb/
Yes they revived the Commodore Brand but are now aiming for the high end gamer market. You can also specify lot of difference case skins C-Kins) too http://www.commodoregaming.com/pcshop/Home.aspx?gclid=CNb-9cWxrI8CFQrolAod7QpwIA
I’M sure one of these will be Max’s next impulse buy 😉
@=XDC=JuDgE-MenTaL wrote:
I hate Toms hardware, there’s been too many red faced incidents over the years for my likeing and there are plenty of other hardware sites that I can ‘Cherry Pick’ results from.
so speaking of skewed results here’s Tom’s Hardware review for the so called big DX10 shootout. It’s a shame that they chose to use the slightly buggy 7.9 driver set (7.8’s were better) for the ATI (fair enough because that what was available at the time of the review) however, have they updated the review (near on a month later) for the 7.10 which addresses the issues raised? No have they fook. It’s still on page 1 of Toms Hardware being displayed as the definitive DX10 GFX card review.
Review here… http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/09/directx_10_shootout/
Guess what ATi’s don’t come out too well in it (surprise, surprise) but all the issues it raises seem to have been addressed. What pisses me off is what they also fail to mention is that Nvidia has exclusive deals with many game developers meaning they get the heads up on games and can develop drivers and bug fixes well in advance of what ATi can do (hence why ATi revise their drivers more frequently). So to slate ATi for taking ages to taylor the drivers for games that came out after the 7.9 drivers did so they didn’t even get a look at these games until they were officially released is BS. So in that sense ATi are always going to playing catch up so let them catch up you fux and maybe use a less biased playing field.
here are the release notes for the 7.10 catalyst suite.
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalystâ„¢ 7.10:
Battlefield 2142: CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1300/X1550
BioShock DX10 CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 series of products
Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFireâ„¢ ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2600 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2400 configurations
Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 series of products
Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2900 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2600 products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1x00 series of products
FEAR CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
Lost Planet DX10 CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 series of products
Supreme Commander CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
World In Conflict DX10 CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2900XT and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2600 products
World in Conflict DX9 CrossFireâ„¢ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD2x00 productsgranted a lot of the enhancements seem to be around crossfire configs but that still has to mean an increase on a single card. Anyway now you’re all thinking STFU JuDgE you ATI fanboy….so I will 🙂
No one is arguing that the 8800 GTX and Ultra are the daddies, they are no question. However, are they value for money?
I say not, not until the new Nvidias come out and there’s a massive price drop then they really will be the hot ticket.
/geek out
No I absolutley agree with the Tom’s Hardware Guide crap they are too commercial now.
I try an keep an eye on what’s current in the hardware arena because it is something that always interested me. It also helps if you keep an objective mind to see through the marketing crap and look at various different source from benchmark tests.
Some are inevitably skewed to one particular vendor but that is probably more to do with corporate advertising revenues and sponsorship. If you can view a wider scatter of reviews then you pretty much end up more balanced picture overall.
Right the new Edition of CutomPC has just landed on my desk so Fook Off no more questions for a few hours. 😉
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
Not much room inside Mike no, lol. Its a tight fit for my arse.
I give you 2 weeks until you sell it 😆
Nice car mate just dont have a smash in it as they dont bend they shatter as all the panels are fibre glass /carbon fibre.
No you misunderstood the question. What i meant was can you run TF2 and COD4 on the same box at the same time so say TF2 has an IP of 162.43.120 101 and COD has an IP of 162.43.120.102? so in essence multiple game servers running on the same box?
I have seen this before ….. I think it’s a complete reinstall of 2142 + NS if memory serves me correct but hold off and let me confirm it.
@11thSignal wrote:
I got more benefit from going from a Pentium 4 to a E6600 Core 2 Duo
The Pentium 4 with the ‘Netburst Cache’ was the biggest overhyped bollocks to justify their equally farsical pricing. The Core 2 Duo’s are fantastic in comparision until you get into the Extreme price range which gives you more bios option to tweak the CPU Voltages and FSB but not enough to warrant the premium they charge for them. Although with the new P35 socket just being released and their ability to provide the full 1333Mhz FSB and DDR3 Memory compatabilty you should start to see the extreme prices drop a bit in the next few months.
Those E6600’s clock like fook on air ( providing you have a decent HSF like Artic Freezer Pro 7) and I think you can pick them up now for under £100- absolute bargain.
Next………? 😆
