Originally posted by "keeper

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Whelp! I'll be damned.

Microsoft hasn't won; they've more or less just strapped booster rockets to their shoes and are in the process of turning them on.

Aparrently, they do have quite a few "starter kits" for the various genres, and even better, they seem to also allow you to delv into the base code, as well. Damn!

I'm willing to bet, however, that we might see something similar out of Wii's Virtual Console. Both consles feature downloadable content, and if N wants to provide some competition in this field, they'll have to come up with a good similar idea.

We'll have to see how that goes.

In any case, my hat's off to Microsoft for this one. They're managing to pull themselves back up to this, and if this works as well as it sounds, it could really change the industry quite a bit.

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Originally posted by Prince Kassad

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So, according to the rules, you actually need to make a hack to be granted ROM Hacking privileges?

Otherwise the idea sounds good, except the part above. (though a better idea would be to grant access for all now registered users here minus known troublemakers, and make only new users need to ask for approval.)

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Originally posted by asdf

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At the risk of sounding offensive to your superiority, this seems more like stupidity paranoia than idiot defense. It is a good idea however. The only thing I dread in this is potential collateral damage, if you will. Some users who are smart but lacking self-confidence might be scared off due to the circumstances. Or maybe there are people who seem idiotic on the outside (due to their typing skills, for example), but are talented on the inside. Most importantly, this system doesn't seem very friendly towards new people who are idiots when they join but are willing to learn and not become idiots. It just doesn't give them a chance.

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Originally posted by Prince Kassad

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Originally posted by asdf

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Originally posted by Xkitten

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If you fuck up your typing skills and you're not drunk/tired/bharlhgablfkh'd, you're an idiot.

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Not necessarily. Bio tends to type with no regard for capitalization at the beginning of a sentence and has a few grammatical and spelling errors here and there, but he's one of the more experienced ROM hackers on the board.

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Staff can look at existing posts of this person and see if the person is worthy of getting approval. It is not like proper grammar is the key to victory (and it would be stupid if it is), so don't worry.

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Originally posted by ||bass

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As MathOnNapkins already said. If everyone in the middle eastern region is dead there will be no more regional instibility. You can't have sectarian violence and kurdish rebel groups and mujadin militants and all the other stupid shit if everyone is razed into heaps of ash. Thus, problem solved.

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Originally posted by asdf

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Explaination of what the log file is for and how it came to be corrupted?

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