Nintendo Announces 2DS XL (theguardian.com) 52
The future for Nintendo is the Switch, or is it? Nintendo continues to keep things interesting. From a report: The ever-unpredictable hardware veteran has announced the Nintendo 2DS XL, a new version of the 2DS, which was itself a refreshed version of the 3DS. Featuring two enlarged displays, 4.88in on top and 4.18in on the bottom, and a clamshell design, the new format is lighter than the 3DS XL and of course lacks that machine's stereoscopic capabilities. Available in black and turquoise or white and orange and with built-in NFC support for amiibo cards and figures, it's a fully featured member of the extended 3DS family, even boasting the secondary C-pad nub like the New 3DS XL. It is priced at $150.
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I'm waiting for the Nintendo 1DS XL.
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The 1DS XL has more: __
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"the original copyright terms are 25 years"
[citation needed]
Not sure what you may be referring exactly, but my guess is patent, but even that is wrong as patents are 20 years. Works created for hire have a copyright of either "95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation", so no 25 years is not even close. None of the NES titles have fallen out of copyright and likely never will with the way copyright law keeps extending the term.
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
I bet you believe tha
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I think AC #54319087 was proposing a repeal of three-generation copyright [copyrightalliance.org] in favor of a return to the copyright term under the Copyright Act of 1790, which was 28 (not 25) years with a maintenance due after 14.
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Confirmed. The current copyright law is so far from the spirit of its creation that it's a crime in itself.
COPY. RIGHT. The RIGHT to COPY, after some time is given to the original author to profit from it.
Re:Hurray! (Score:4, Insightful)
So you're saying artists shouldn't be allowed to sell permanent rights? Or that a past contract isn't valid?
That is exactly what we want.
These contracts have already been made. The original artists already sold permanent rights to their creations, and were compensated for it, and I don't think it's the right of the government to come in and change existing contracts.
You can buy real estate, only to have it be taken away later by eminent domain or the taxes can increase on it dramatically forcing you to sell it at a loss.
If you want, you can try to create a fund where copyright holders that are still reporting profits on an asset could apply to receive some portion of the fund. There is no way it can completely cover their loss, but it is potentially an option.
Businesses also are able to write off losses on future taxes. We'd need some tax code to make sure a bunch of businesses don't write off an infinite amount of money for the next 100 years, but there is likely a pretty straight forward solution here.
I suppose the government could step in and make it illegal for artists, in the future, to sell lasting copyrights. But I don't think it's the job of the government to disallow artists from freely entering into contracts. Artists & creators are already able to sell 28 year rights if they so choose.
It's precisely the job of the government to create laws and change those laws to reflect new realities. We must be able to roll back things if we find they are not working.
I wonder why sort of compensation was offered to slave holders after the government took their "property" away from them by forcing the freeing of enslaved people. (it makes my eyes water to think in these terms)
Protip (Score:1)
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They understand emulation. They also understand that legally running a nonfree game in an emulator in Slashdot's home country requires buying an authentic copy of the game and dumping it to a ROM image yourself, not downloading someone else's ROM image from the Internet. See 17 USC 117(a)(1) and UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.
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Even the grandpas reading Slashdot were running emulators before the younger readers were even born.
599 US dollars (Score:1)
Your cell phone also probably costs a lot more to run per month than a Nintendo 2DS/3DS or Nintendo Switch does. Many cell phone games such as Super Mario Run depend on a continuous Internet connection even in single-player mode. This requires players to pay a cellular ISP for a data plan, which often costs hundreds of US dollars per year, in order to play outside the range of home or restaurant Wi-Fi.
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Games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS are designed to be played offline at least in part. Games for mobile phones have no such requirement for certification.
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Business as usual (Score:1)
Nintendo also launched the Game Boy Micro in 2005 after the launch of the Nintendo DS back in 2004.
This isn't a new thing for them. The Switch isn't compatible with 3DS games, and they obviously want to provide a cheaper path for people interested in looking back and seeing what the 3DS library has to offer now that the Switch has caught people's attention.
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all the Zelda games seem pretty much the same to me
The latest one sure isn't.
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Contra 4
Shiren the Wanderer
Retro Game Challenge
Cave Story (downloaded, but you can get that on almost any platform, or the PC in its original form for free)
They were technically first party, but the best games were, in my opinion, Tetris World Party and Clubhouse Games. Both let one player with a single cartridge host games for up to 7 other players without cartridges. Tetris this way was just
To be followed shortly by... (Score:1)
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I'll wait for the adults-only 3DS XXL with exclusive hentai games.
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I want one (Score:3)
Re:I want one (Score:4, Informative)
You could always turn the 3D slider all the way down to "off" which puts the display into 2D mode. In fact, it turns off the lenticular grating too so it's not just faking 2D using a 3D screen.
software controlled ? (Score:2)
You could always turn the 3D slider all the way down to "off" which puts the display into 2D mode.
yup, this part i understand : slider controls how much horizontal separation between the pictures generated and sent to each eye.
In fact, it turns off the lenticular grating too so it's not just faking 2D using a 3D screen.
huh? how come? you mean the separation into left and right side is software activated ? that you can actually shut it down and gain twice the horizontal resolution?
how does this software controlled grating/lenticular work?
i'm genuinely interested.
LCD grating (Score:2)
managed to find the answer [wikipedia.org] my self.
apparently, some display have an *LCD* stereo grating barrier.
i.e. the barrier it self is a second black-and-white transparent LCD stacked above the main colour screen.
thus the barrier can be turned on or off
some autostereo displays even feature alternatives grating. by switching fast enough between odd and even columns, grating can change whitch eye sees which half of the display.
thus these fast-switching display can increase their visible resolution by horizontal interl
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The near future is mixed (Score:2)