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aqualizard

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  1. I just wanted to mention that our nhl94online.com/nhl92.com league is going well so far. Most of the coaches have played some games, and for the most part it's going smoothly.

    Damn, I wish I stumbled on to this site 2 weeks ago.

    Any chance of me filling in for someone who has dropped the ball?

    I played my first game tonight with someone from the IRC group. Lost 6-2, but had fun.

    What controllers do you use? I used a sidewinder. Me no likey.

    aqua

  2. I am sure a lot of us here are like me: you don't get why every game these days has to be in 3D, with the focus on great looking graphics 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and playability 25th or not at all.

    Some games are meant to be 2D! Like NHL94! With the focus on the mechanics of the game, like realistic "smooth" skating. Seeing the game from birds-eye view in 2D makes for being able to focus on playing in a uniform manner. The focus is on the "playing the game", not looking at it!

    I am sure many of you were looking so forward to NHL95, way back then, when you expected EA to fix bugs and enhance the core game,as they did going from '93 to '94. Boy were we disappointed!

    And, I know a lot of you have serious computer skills, and may have even thought of designing a game "the right way", taking up where '94 left off. With today's computers, you could make a WICKED game, with good TWO DIMENSIONAL graphics, but with the focus on PLAYABILITY! So, tell me, has anyone thought about...

    making there own hockey game, with the goal of enhancing what was great about NHL94?

    I have computer skills, but they are limited to Web Development, like ASP and PHP. But I have the fundamentals... I just don't know where to begin? I also have design skills, I was always expert in designing 2D "sprites", and do icons even today, and know Photoshop well. But would you use Photoshop to design a modern-day version?

    And would it be programmed in C, or C++, or something else?

    Surely there is an NHL94 fan that has a more suitable skillset than me. Or there could be a team of us that could all contribute using our different skills?

    Have people thought about this?

    Do you think it is doable?

    Have I inhaled too much photocopier fluid?

    aqualizard

  3. Any '94 fans in the Toronto area that want to meetup and play?

    Three of us play on a Sega using the old cartridge. We have a 4-way thingy, too, but need another fan. (All of are other friends play only new games on PS2, and don't get how we want to play a 10 year old game with "blobby" graphics! The fools, lol.)

    Anyway, if you are computer savvy and want to show us how to get this emulator/online thing going, that is cool, too. But for the record, we are currently only playing the real thing on our taped-together Sega from years ago, using gamepades with sticky buttons that rattle when you move them.

    If interested, make a note here or email

    aqualizard at hotmail

    and we can take it from there!

    Thanks,

    aqua

  4. This point has been argued many times, especially within the MAME community.
    Interesting. Where is this "MAME community? Is it a newsgroup?
    I think the conclusion was some games (definately not all) can have different patterns (e.g. CPU character movement) when compared to the original game on the original hardware.
    So was there a consensus, or are there still a lot of holdouts that say "There is no 100% emulation possible". In theory I am sure this is true, in practice, that has been my experience as well.

    Also, do the people of this fine forum feel that "NHL 94" emulated on a PC has the same feel as on the original Sega? I do not think it has the same feel, but I can allow that it may be other factors (PC Monitor, different joystick, other prejudices) may be fooling me. Specifically, using my Microsoft Controller (a sidewinder maybe?) I remember feeling the control was different and lagging. Maybe it is in my head?

    Comments are appreciated. This is a great site!

    aqua

  5. Ok, I know that the code lifted from old cartridges or CDs is 100% the same when run through an emulator.

    BUT, the chips and architecture of the computer doing the emulating is not the same, and this must make for a different "feel" to the same games played in native format versus emulated format.

    I have used Atari 2600, C-64, Colecovision emulators, and when you play the the real machines side-by-side with an emulator, their is always a different feel.

    Do people agree or disagree?

    aqua

  6. I didn't find it crap at all.. it played perfectly smooth.

    at least in the Europeal PAL version. Cannot say much about the USA NTSC version though because I haven't played it.

    How similar is it to the REAL Genesis version?

    They had to have made an "emulator" built in to play on a PS2, and for all I know it is emulating the far inferior Nintendo version?

    Furthermore, no emulation is 100% the same; not possible.

    Would you say, swos, it plays just like the Sega version? As in, I can finally put away my taped-together Sega and half-working sega gamepads and play "the same game" on my pristine PS2?

    Thanks so much for the responses! This could save me some $$ and disappointment!

    Thanks,

    aqua

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