N64 EMU on G4 TV.

[Hexidecimal]

I don't know which one it was, but it was defintaly an emulator. On the ICON: Mario, it shows some ingame of Super Smash Bros. but you can tell it's on an Emulator. You have to watch closely, but you can see the black box around the out of screen indicator, (one of the sure signs.) It also shows a fullscreen ZSNES for Super Mario World, and I think it shows some NES emulator with really craptastic sound for Super Mario Bros. because in certain ingames from SMB the sound is hideous.

Nothing really important, but thought I'd mention it, thought it was cool to see emulators on the TV.

 

[Moose Jr.]

lol Now Nin. can sue G4...

 

[Gorxon]

What is G4 TV?

 

[Hexidecimal]

TV 4 Games, all video games all the time, they do reviews, previews, top 10s, its a good time.

 

[Lizard Blade]

It would be a decent channel if they didn't have constant reruns and complete Gen-X reject morons as hosts (most notably Bill Sindelar). That and half the commercial break isn't even commercials, just attempts to both remind me that I am in fact watching G4, and give me epilepsy.

 

[ScottJC]

probably cheaper to do emulation for them, they don't have to buy the consoles and games.

 

[Tagrineth]

probably cheaper to do emulation for them, they don't have to buy the consoles and games.

You can't be serious... lol... read what you just wrote and think about it for a few minutes.

This is a *TV NETWORK* we're talking about here.

 

[ScottJC]

Yeah, and if they done it right they wouldn't get caught ;P
IE Not pick games with obvisous emulation problems

 

[Tagrineth]

Yeah, and if they done it right they wouldn't get caught ;P
IE Not pick games with obvisous emulation problems

I was referring to the "SAVING MONEY" part, ok, thank you. ;\ In fact magazines have been using emulators for screenshots for some time - there was one a while back where a friend of mine pointed out some GBC screens which were obviously stretched slightly, and there was a corner of a MOUSE POINTER on one shot.

But I SERIOUSLY DOUBT it has anything at all to do with money. They work pretty closely with a lot of game stores, especially EB Games, so I honestly doubt they couldn't, say, rent an N64 + SSB for a short clip for like $50, tops.

 

[Hexidecimal]

You seem to all be forgetting, if you own the cart, it is legal to have a ROM and play it on an emulator. How much are you willing to bet that the company has an actual cart and an N64 around there somewhere. They probably weren't breaking the law, and its a hell of a lot nicer looking to capture an AVI from the PC then using a camcorder and taping the TV. They were doing it simply because it would end looking nicer, and it's a hell of a lot easier.

 

[URAMetroid]

You seem to all be forgetting, if you own the cart, it is legal to have a ROM and play it on an emulator. How much are you willing to bet that the company has an actual cart and an N64 around there somewhere. They probably weren't breaking the law,...

It's not legal when everybody in the office is playing a ROM on more then one PC at a time if the company owns one cart.

...and its a hell of a lot nicer looking to capture an AVI from the PC then using a camcorder and taping the TV. They were doing it simply because it would end looking nicer, and it's a hell of a lot easier.

You don't need a camcorder to record N64 game play, you can use a VCR to record game play, or better yet, a TV tuner card (or an All in Wonder Radeon card) for your PC and capture it to almost any video format, like MPEG 2.
And also, capturing an AVI at the same time when playing an N64 game on an emulator will result in major frame drop in both the AVI and the emulator.

 

[Tagrineth]

You seem to all be forgetting, if you own the cart, it is legal to have a ROM and play it on an emulator.

BZZT! WRONG!

All ROMs as circulated are illegal full stop. They were created using illegal devices (ROM dumpers != legal) and thus are invalidated.

You'd have to obtain an official developer's tool to dump a legal ROM, or you could use an EEPROM reader. But downloaded ROMs are illegal, regardless what you do or don't own.

 

[nephalim]

BZZT! WRONG!

All ROMs as circulated are illegal full stop. They were created using illegal devices (ROM dumpers != legal) and thus are invalidated.

You'd have to obtain an official developer's tool to dump a legal ROM, or you could use an EEPROM reader. But downloaded ROMs are illegal, regardless what you do or don't own.

#1 - Rom Dumpers aren't illegal. Nintendo would like you to believe otherwise, though. Nintendo's BS "lease" they use now that you get when you buy a game probably is, however.
#2 - Downloaded ROMS ARE illegal, though. The only ones that are legal are dumps you make yourself from the cart you own.

 

[Matt Lukin]

there was a video games program sometime ago in portuguese tv and they used GBA emulators when showing GBA games, i found that interesting

of course it was the easiest (if not only) way to get them fullscreen

 

[pandamoan]

there was a video games program sometime ago in portuguese tv and they used GBA emulators when showing GBA games, i found that interesting

of course it was the easiest (if not only) way to get them fullscreen

what if you dump 300+ n64 roms on your machine and then sell the carts?

is that illegal?

jamie

 

[DuskoDugousko]

i hope that selling those carts would be legal, but having dumps without owning carts would be illegal

 

[Tagrineth]

what if you dump 300+ n64 roms on your machine and then sell the carts?

is that illegal?

jamie

Selling the originals is effectively selling the single user licenses to the recipients. Therefore your licences for those ROMs are invalidated. Therefore, yes, it's illegal.

 

[DWells55]

what if you dump 300+ n64 roms on your machine and then sell the carts?

is that illegal?

jamie

I would think so. I'm a newb so pardon my asking, are you saying that you can dump the ROM and then write it to a blank cartridge that would play in an N64? If I have said anything that violates the board policy, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, don't ban me.