Generally by taking you to a screen to get ready for the hot-swap that keeps everything it can about the currently running state in memory.

Insert the disk, make whatever changes / inferences you can about what was hot-swapped, re-insert the disk - resume from where you left off.

IIRC Tekken would also do something similar, if you put a CD in after loading the game you could listen to the music on the CD.

Little blurry but @Almo was right on the money.

DDR on the left and Dance Factory on the right (case).

I think this all became possible because of the way PS1 games had to work to make it so that you could have long RPGS (at the time spread out across multiple disks)

@Noctrine Some really huge games did this on PS2 as well. Xenosaga being one of those.

Yep

Oh... I just thought of something I wonder what music I can use for the video though lol. I guess I'll have to burn a cd of Kevin McCloud lol.

Dear god. I hate forgotten just how bad the PS2 Eyetoy was.

unless you're talking about Harmonix's Antigrav, yeah

Antigrav was the best use of that tech

well best one I saw anyway

The detection is just so horrible. I mean really I don't see how anyone can play with that.

didn't stop people from playing with Kinect.

Kinect detected well, but was laggy as fuck

The Kinect was by no means perfect but not PS2 Eyetoy bad.

I'll have to do a video on Harmonix too.

playstation move however... very good.

Is it? I actually have one.

yeah

I played a decent amount of frisbee golf on it

I have played a decent amount of real FG, and it's surprisingly lifelike

So basically I'm doing videos like where I look at old video games, talk about what made them good or not so good, and also talk about the developers. Do you think I should do videos by developer or by game?

the pingpong was good

@Sie both

Kinect pingpong is a joke

a vid on Jeff MInter would be interesting.

I know. I have so many ideas.

But the dance on Kinect seems good, my sisters like them

but burnout 2... not really a single person you can point to, and not a whole lot of point in doing criterion since their games were across different genres

people interested in burnout 2 don't necessarily care about BLACK

Crap. Looks like I need a Dance Mat. I thought it'd allow input on the controller. Guess not :/.

Dancing is prescribed input patterns, where lag-compensation works

so kinect can work fine with that, hence one of its best games being Dance Central from Harmonix

Well I'm mainly looking at the PS2/Game Cube era. As far as games and development process I find that to be one of the most interesting.

but for anything needing quick reactions, it's terrible

anything requiring precision is terrible as well, since it has no buttons.

truly a gimmick, not very useful for real game design.

Ya. I do recall it's recognition being pretty slow.

move's just better. both from a design perspective and a hardware perspective

Kinect is more interesting as it does 3-d spacial recognition.

But as far as making actual games, it's crap

(as was the Wii)

My first video is focused on Heavy Iron Studios. The only thing is I'm not really sure how transformative my work has to be in order to fall under fair use. I'd say it is transformative. I mean really it's meant to give an insight into the past on why some games did really well or poor or wherever but to also give insight into the development side of things.

That's it, another borderline off topic question hit the HNQ :P

?

What part?

I guess I missed it in the feed.

We'll get a lot slices of life :P

Let's see if I can compile my Android app that I haven't touched in almost 2 years...

loworbitsatellite.bandcamp.com/track/unsyncc

good shit

The worst part about updating an old app: Upgrading about 50 packages just to update the old app...

The worst part is I was literally off by 1 small point... Sigh.

:(

Oh well. It'll be good to get my app to Android Studio. And I needed to upgrade it anyways because some of the old libraries won't be supported anymore...

You using Android Studio 2?

or the old one?

I was using Eclipse...

so your computer can handle Crysis I take it.

*Will you be using

Oh, I might as well use the latest and greatest.

Studio 2.1

I haven't tried it myself yet but supposidly there's been a few big changes

idk

Didn't realize I had to update to Java 1.8 too... Sigh...

any language requiring regular updates is suspicious in my book

I've lost all my motivation

And, on top of everything upgrading seems to have lost my git connections... Sigh.

@NaCl noooooooo

@PearsonArtPhoto nooooooooooooo

:(

Java :/

I should be able to get this to work...

That's the one real issue with Android. You don't play with it for a while, you come back to it and have to spend 2 hours getting everything back to the same state you left it...

Current status: planning to develop a very complicated city creation script

@arda cities are cool

Sigh I want to plan this on a whiteboard. None here though :(

@arda A marker and a wall should do the trick.

You monster

Try not to do it at your home, though :P

I'm at vacation / hell (no Internet) at some family members though, so they'd have to clean it.

Anyone know of any good video editor suites out there? I tried out Sony Vegas but it's not all it's cracked up to be. VERY pick when it comes to what formats it'll accept and really just all around eh.

Yeah; and I guess 'respect' is one of your core values...

:P

@Sie what will you use it for?

Just some basic video editing. The important features it needs for me is 60FPS support and maybe some deinterlacing methods/controls (I'm working with some older video content).

GL? :P

If you have old video, I'd just run it through FFMPEG/AVConv to get it to a modern format, then use whatever editor you have on hand

ah got you