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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #270, on November 23rd, 2011, 12:15 PM »
But you get instant state saves :)

Also, Dolphin emulates the Wiimote if you connect the IR bar to your PC or something, but it can also emulate it with a keyboard or pad. Which is what I did because I hate my Wiimote. It hurt my hands.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #271, on November 23rd, 2011, 02:20 PM »
Well, the sensor bar is primarily an IR source rather than a consumer of signal from what I remember, so that's not so much an issue - but the real issue for me is that SS *really* needs the motion sensitive stuff to work well, and I don't have the ability to make that happen on my PC at this time.

Mind you, for virtually all the other games I have, it would probably no inconvenience at all to use keyboard, since virtually all the other games I have are the Lego games. (Though, at least one of them makes use of the Wiimote to target enemies, so if that can be replaced by mouse control I'd be rather happy)

As far as instant state saves go, despite having had that ability in other emulators for years, I find myself not really using it.


Mind you, it would allow me to do one thing: I might get to play some of the Mario games on Wii... someone very close to me does not like Mario :/
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #272, on November 23rd, 2011, 02:39 PM »
Lol.

Well, if you like childish construction games, try MySims Kingdoms. I absolutely loved that game a couple of years ago. On my Wii.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #273, on November 23rd, 2011, 02:43 PM »
The Lego games aren't really construction games, they're more action adventure games with movie licences that aren't absolutely hideous to play...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #274, on November 23rd, 2011, 04:10 PM »
Yeah, I know the kind of game, seen them on TV, but MySims Kingdom was really fun in its own right -- it's not really a Sims game, the goal is to roam islands to find quests to complete, which usually involve solving puzzles like constructing a pipeline system to bring water from point A to point B, or rebuilding something from sort-of lego blocks, etc... When you complete the missions, you get access to more islands, more things to do, etc... Gosh, just talking about it, I want to play it again from the start...

But right now, I'm addicted to Mawaru Penguindrum, an excellent bizarre Japanese show (I always loved the guys who work on this one.) I'm totally cured from Skyrim for now. Too many boring quests, no 'craziness' so far, the Thieves and Dark Brotherhood quests suck (compared to Oblivion's), I'm pissed off with the dragon spawns (I should have left the main quest alone, I didn't know that doing a specific action would trigger these and bother me forever, and now it's too late to load an earlier save), and there are too many bugs in the game -- probably more than in Oblivion. I've taken a few amusing screenshots in that respect... Well, amusing when you're not playing, obviously. Like a character who was on horseback, riding into the sun, I tried following him for as long as I could, then he just disappeared and his horse went to the sky and was suddenly drawn back at lightspeed. Hours later, I was walking around another area, when I found the very same friggin' character who'd disappeared... He was in the wild, stuck halfway into the ground (only his trunk and head were visible), and when I addressed him, he just talked normally. Talk about immersion...

Anyway! :^^;:

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #275, on November 23rd, 2011, 04:13 PM »
In other news, I'm now trying out Dolphin...or I will be in a while once the first disc has finished being ripped...

:edit: Or I would if it didn't think I had a faulty drive :/

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #276, on November 23rd, 2011, 04:50 PM »
Ouch...

Well, we're in private, so I'll just say... You could simply download a rip of your game off thepiratebay or something ;)
If you bought it, you're entitled to a backup copy anyway...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #277, on November 23rd, 2011, 04:53 PM »
I could but I actually feel wrong about doing that (and under UK copyright law, it's still illegal to do that in any case)

Eh, I need a new DVD drive anyway as the one I have is now about 8 years old and misbehaves anyway.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #278, on November 23rd, 2011, 05:38 PM »
You may feel wrong about it, but it's not wrong. Ask the game developers, I'm sure they won't mind...
Anyway, it's up to you whether you want to be able to play your games without getting in your girlfriend's way ;)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #279, on November 23rd, 2011, 05:41 PM »
Technically even ripping CDs to computer is illegal here, btw. Backup copies argument aside, format shifting is technically against the Copyright and Designs Act. Just that for personal use it's quietly ignored.

It's only really Skyward Sword and the Mario games (that I don't own yet) that I can't play during the evening, I can play those during the day if I choose... and Skyward Sword is a bit buggy at the moment going by the forum...

Still, I'm certainly intrigued by the idea.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #280, on November 23rd, 2011, 09:09 PM »
Keep me posted :)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #281, on November 23rd, 2011, 09:11 PM »
First I need a new PSU and DVD drive... Meanwhile Imma go look for a tool for my Mac, whose DVD drive does actually work properly...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #283, on November 30th, 2011, 08:48 PM »
Other than the top entry which is the 2011 Christmas special, most of the extra bits are just special extra scenes, like deleted scenes or extra scenes. They're all on the season 6 boxed set. (The special isn't... It hasn't even been shown here yet ;))

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #284, on November 30th, 2011, 08:50 PM »
And the silly Einstein skit.