@Chibi_Manny That's an interesting observation, but "stealing" the tech was never the abhorrent part of the story - as other commenters have pointed out, sharing and building on each other's tech within a company is actually healthy. Naka's scumbag move was in plotting (and stupidly in front of them) to string an entire team doing good work along before &#$%canning them all and then stealing their tech.
Still, insofar as it provides indirect confirmation of the story, a good catch on your part though.
@Splodge Screen protectors on a Gorilla Glass screen are mostly pointless; the screen itself is almost certainly tougher than the covering that's supposed to protect it, and should survive unscathed anything short of being carried around in a rucksack filled with gravel.
You do you, of course, but just ask yourself - with how much you hate putting the darn things on, when's the last time you've actually gone to the trouble of replacing a screen protector on a device to get rid of the sort of mundane wear and tear you foresee such a thing protecting your device against?
@Mountain_Man In case you hadn't noticed, "repackaging" old IP's is big business for practically every console game publisher with a back catalog worth half a damn these days.
This really isn't that novel; I had a plug-in battery pack for my Game Boy 30 years ago. A bit bulkier than this one probably is, but it didn't need any console modding, just popped right in, so on the whole, this thing is notably worse than decades-old tech.
Sad to see this comment section is just the unending debate over ROMs and piracy, when the point of the article is a genuinely interesting example of electronics design and cutting corners.
A proper electrical engineer is basically a defensive driver - you design your stuff to survive twice the abuse you spec it out for, because you can't control whether or not the schmuck who picks it up is going to plug it in right-side-up or upside-down. All the engineers working together to cover each other's butts makes it so that a lot of things will appear to "just work" if you toss 'em on a board and run some juice through 'em, but it's an amateur mistake of the worst kind to take that for granted.
You can't ever forget in electronics design that you're dealing with nature, not man, and nature doesn't do plug-and-play. Electricity doesn't care that all its little details are getting in the way of your pretty picture of plugging component A into slot B; it's gonna do what it's gonna do, and if you don't really understand that and design to accommodate it, your board might last for a day, it might last for a year, but sooner or later you're gonna let the magic smoke out.
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Re: Yuji Naka Killed "Dreamcast's Star Fox", Says Former Sega Producer
@Chibi_Manny That's an interesting observation, but "stealing" the tech was never the abhorrent part of the story - as other commenters have pointed out, sharing and building on each other's tech within a company is actually healthy. Naka's scumbag move was in plotting (and stupidly in front of them) to string an entire team doing good work along before &#$%canning them all and then stealing their tech.
Still, insofar as it provides indirect confirmation of the story, a good catch on your part though.
Re: Hardware Review: Analogue Pocket - Potent FPGA Power In Portable Form
@Splodge Screen protectors on a Gorilla Glass screen are mostly pointless; the screen itself is almost certainly tougher than the covering that's supposed to protect it, and should survive unscathed anything short of being carried around in a rucksack filled with gravel.
You do you, of course, but just ask yourself - with how much you hate putting the darn things on, when's the last time you've actually gone to the trouble of replacing a screen protector on a device to get rid of the sort of mundane wear and tear you foresee such a thing protecting your device against?
Re: Random: What Happens When You Remove Charles Barkley From His Own Video Game?
@Mountain_Man In case you hadn't noticed, "repackaging" old IP's is big business for practically every console game publisher with a back catalog worth half a damn these days.
Re: Ready To Ditch Those AA Batteries? Check Out The Amazing 'CleanJuice' Game Boy Mod
This really isn't that novel; I had a plug-in battery pack for my Game Boy 30 years ago. A bit bulkier than this one probably is, but it didn't need any console modding, just popped right in, so on the whole, this thing is notably worse than decades-old tech.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
Sad to see this comment section is just the unending debate over ROMs and piracy, when the point of the article is a genuinely interesting example of electronics design and cutting corners.
A proper electrical engineer is basically a defensive driver - you design your stuff to survive twice the abuse you spec it out for, because you can't control whether or not the schmuck who picks it up is going to plug it in right-side-up or upside-down. All the engineers working together to cover each other's butts makes it so that a lot of things will appear to "just work" if you toss 'em on a board and run some juice through 'em, but it's an amateur mistake of the worst kind to take that for granted.
You can't ever forget in electronics design that you're dealing with nature, not man, and nature doesn't do plug-and-play. Electricity doesn't care that all its little details are getting in the way of your pretty picture of plugging component A into slot B; it's gonna do what it's gonna do, and if you don't really understand that and design to accommodate it, your board might last for a day, it might last for a year, but sooner or later you're gonna let the magic smoke out.
Re: How Star Wars Helped Nintendo Defeat One Of Sega's Most Ludicrous Patents
"Fireframe graphics" is a pretty cool typo.