Hi Shaun. If you are serious about getting into mainstream games then you are going to have to invest something in one of the consoles, emulators are fine to a point but they will only take you so far and they will always lack something that the dedicated consoles have and in my experience they will usually come up short. I chose the psp because I wanted something I could both play at home and take with me and I heard good things about it but that is certainly not the only choice although I am very happy with it and don't regret spending the money a bit. You could do very well with a ps2 for instance from what I understand however I have not found a really good deal on one yet that is why I don't have one.
Best of luck. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:09 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible option for testing games sounds interesting. For me I have a friend that buys games, downloads games and gets games by other means. I mostly get them for sounds, I sometimes play. My main issue is I don't have an adaquit system to play these games well sertainly not a desktop to play these on without mangling the entire things. I suppose I do now with my old half dead laptop. If I took all the software and data off it, maybe, just maybe I could play games, but there is not much space on there, and i have no 3d card. I may have a 733 desktop at some point that with a bit of deleting and formatting could be used although I have to change oses from the systems and only have win98 well I have xp but I have to transfer keys and such to the new box my dad has and well I have no idea. The box crashes every so often and I'm not sure about stability. But if someone gave me something that I didn't have to manage, ie if I wreck the system it doesn't matter, then I probably would test. In theory I could use this one but its my main box pluss the recovery disk is hard to use. Unlike my old system I can't just reformat with a few keys. At 06:28 a.m. 23/06/2008, you wrote: >Hi all. > >As you know I am still looking into convenient places to rent >mainstream games to test them for accessibility. One of my nephews who >is a big gamer told me about a service that he said might actually save >some money and would definitely be easier to deal with. The service is >called gamefly and it basically works like the netflix service if any >of you are familiar with that. For those who aren't, you basically pay >a monthly fee and for that you can be mailed a number of games, I think >it is something like 22 or 23 bucks a month if you want two games at a >time. There is no return date or late fees you can keep them pretty >much as long as you want, in fact there is a way to buy them outright >for a pretty good discount if you want to. One game at a time is >something like 16 or 17 dollars I believe so it is not that much less >so two at a time is probably a better deal. When you are done with >them you just put them in the mailer and send them back and if you have >another one in what they call your game queue they will go ahead and >send it to you. I have not quite decided whether or not I can spend >that much extra a month to try this service out for psp games. >According to my nephew you will go through that amount of money real >quick if you try to rent games from a video store or whatnot plus the >inconvenience of having to be sure they are back by a certain date. >The good thing is, there is no contract or anything, if you want to >quit you just quit. I am not sure if this is just available in the >U.S. and perhaps Canada, but I suspect so. If I decide to try it out I >will let you guys know. > >Best regards, >Tom > >-- > > If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of >servitude > greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us >in > peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and >lick the > hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our > countrymen. > Samuel Adams: > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your >subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
