Gamecube Emulator

[femngi]

p.s.
you shouldn't crucify people for asking these sorts of questions, just politely expain that emulation and running a game natively are very different.

Exactly.

Whoever goes apeshit over something like this, needs to sort out their own stuff before going online.

I think it's more to do with this question being asked every other week. Maybe the systems capable of emulation should be in a more prominent list. Either way I guarantee we'll get a "It can emulate Dreamcast so it can emulate PS2 right?" by the week after next.
Just count to ten before posting.

 

[rabidpoobear]

I currently an in the BYU animation program at my school, and we are always making portfolio projects with the computer science department. What kind of games is the Pandora audience interested in? FPS, RPG, Action, Action RPG, MMORPG?I am curious if there are any game dev teams looking at making something with a Pandora SDK, if it exist?

There's not an SDK, it's a Linux machine so you can use any Linux library that is already ported to ARM. Probably the CS guys will already know how to use either Pygame or SDL, and we're guaranteed to have those on the Pandora at launch. It's probably the most developer-friendly handheld you can possibly find because you don't even need emulators to test your application on the computer. You can just run them natively in Linux.

 

[fiori_musicali]

I think it's more to do with this question being asked every other week. Maybe the systems capable of emulation should be in a more prominent list. Either way I guarantee we'll get a "It can emulate Dreamcast so it can emulate PS2 right?" by the week after next.
Just count to ten before posting.

Right.

One line would be sufficient though:
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/44746-the-pandora-information-index/

To help further:
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=47518

If you want to be really nice, add:
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=47310
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=41891

Then finish your post with a neutral remark "Use the search function."

Or, you can invest your time and energy into making the original poster feel as crap as possible.

 

[Vorporeal]

The reason why people give harsh, unwelcoming responses is that an uninformed first post is basically the OP asking a question without putting any time into finding out whether the question had been asked in the past, and is expecting other people to put in their own time to do the search that the OP should have done, and link to the posts that their initial search would have found for them. Even if it took you very little time to find the results, it would have taken the OP the same very little time. People get pissed off because an OP's lack of an initial search is seen by some as being slightly rude.

 

[fiori_musicali]

People get pissed off because an OP's lack of an initial search is seen by some as being slightly rude.

I understand and sympathize with that.

But frankly, it's not always just about that. The "shit-slinging monkeys" phenomenon occurs when the pack knows they can engage in behaviour that would under normal circumstances be considered socially despicable but in certain instances receives the blessing of other members of the pack, and that is when the character flaws which spawn the negativity (and I'm speaking quite generally here) are allowed to flourish.

We also must take into consideration the possibility that what is perceived as "rude" from their (people exhibiting lazyness in your view) part, may just be thoughtlessness, incapability or straight-forward stupidity. In that case the ill-mannered responses they get will only make them gasp, shrug or wonder what is wrong with these people. That's a wasted effort.

If you really want to make a point, consider ignoring such questions altogether.

 

[Vorporeal]

I understand and agree, but it's hard to change the general forum behavior/response that's developed over the past many years (and I'm talking generally - not about this forum specifically). I asked a question on a different forum today, and got a reply that was basically a link to another post with the same question, and "Thanks for searching." I realized then that I was an idiot. I thought that my question/suggestion was new and different, and didn't think to search. I did a quick search, and found tons of posts with the same questions. It's a natural response for someone to get aggravated after being asked the same questions over and over again. I'm not necessarily saying I condone it, but it's understandable.

EDIT: Just ignoring the question would lead to the same response, and would cause the OP to repeat their question over and over again. It would be totally counter-productive.

 

[fiori_musicali]

I understand and agree, but it's hard to change the general forum behavior/response that's developed over the past many years (and I'm talking generally - not about this forum specifically).

You're right, the community isn't a hivemind that can collectively decide how to respond, but you can suggest and adopt new modes of action. If you show support for lashing out at everyone who's arguably an idiot, it will be the default way of responding. But that way is not really good for the community, it doesn't help the community; the sources of idiots are limitless and the next idiot doesn't know what happened to the last. It's all about abusing a channel that "the pack" approves to be used for venting personal frustration.

EDIT: Just ignoring the question would lead to the same response, and would cause the OP to repeat their question over and over again. It would be totally counter-productive.

In that case, you approach a point at which I personally approve of any shit slung at the poster, as it would further prove that their behaviour was in fact rude. It's the same point at which a mod should step in to either lock or delete the thread(s).

 

[Vorporeal]

I agree with everything you're saying. As a devil's advocate: Can we really be sure that positive reinforcement would be better than negative reinforcement in this situation? I'm learning towards believing otherwise.