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That's possible. Xbox 360's and PS3's design is similar to that of a mini-PC. I tried hacking through an Xbox 360 once and the inside looked very similar to the interior of my mini-PC. In fact, its interior parts are enough for me to call it a mini-PC -- it has an IBM processor and an ATI graphics processor.

This reminds me of the Battle Arena thread. That thread would've been great if only people would stop trying to compete each others' universes. Combining each universe is fine, but try to make them fight each other is itself a paradox or plain ridiculous. I deleted Battle Arena 2 thread earlier because my cousin, whatever he did to get around my aunt's rule against him, started to post again with my account (with EWJ ended up calling him (or "me") a "douche" as far as I can remember). This is also when I found out my friend, who's still p***ing me off because of what happened last year, was trying to convince my cousin to hack my accounts for him by telling him I took his Yu-Gi-Oh! card collection. What th- *boom*?! @Everyone: My original Yahoo! smiley Pwns everyone with creativity, simplicity, and a smiley sticking his killer tongue out while holding a banner saying "Yahoo!"

There are other reasons, like "would you consider wasting your time reinstalling a 15+ MB game and a 300+ MB mod if something goes wrong?" It is still possible for GTA3, GTA:SA and GTA4 to have 80's look. It all depends on the buildings and other alterations on the environment we make.

It doesn't mean someone else is going for GTA4. It means Del doesn't really want this team to mod the game. There are good reasons why GTA4 shouldn't be modded for BTTF. But it's not ensured that this will still be the case in the future. When installing the mod, the players can just make back-up copies of files that need replacing, but it is possible that the files are too big that it's wasteful for the HDD space to back-up copies for them, and what more if the files that will replace those files are also huge in size?

I did two: 1. I and an old friend of mine decided to go ghost-hunting once, but another friend, a person who likes to do fun than serious stuff like ghost-hunting, decided to do a more wacky one -- get water guns, dress with formal outfits and enter the abandoned house at 12 AM while like we were "ghost cops". We did a lot of silly and fun stuff inside, nothing really related to ghost-hunting nor anything spooky inside really happened (if there were ghosts, they either be laughing at us that time or happy to see we're having fun at this other than spooked to be with them). This is actually how I conceived the idea of "Ghosthunter Chronicles", the very Half-Life mod I'm working on right now. 2. Worse than hscipte's -- we once threw a bag full of heavy antics from the 7th floor of a building. It fell to a car and it broke almost "like tin foil". The ones below never really figured out, until now, who threw it.

User Account Control is a security feature. It doesn't only control the actions of users, it also controls the actions of all types of programs -- installers, games, and even viruses and spywares. Turning off UAC completely will make Windows Vista or Windows 7 completely vulnerable to viruses as Windows XP. There may be not as much viruses that can invade Windows Vista and will work fine, but most of these viruses can still try to hack through certain features of Vista and screw it up in the process. My dad tried turning off UAC once, and for the first time my Windows Vista screwed up because a virus tries to hack through Windows Explorer but failed and made the program crash every time it runs. In other words, UAC's trying to save my computer well before it was turned off, and for me it doesn't suck. I'd still recommend having UAC turned on.

They can't, 'cause Windows 7 IS Windows Vista. Windows Vista was originally just an minor intern release, more like a Windows 7 Beta. Dunno why they decided to release it as a mainstream OS in the first place. The development of Windows 7, or Windows Vienna, came first than Vista's. Windows Defender, User Account Control, Windows Sidebar, DirectX 10/11, Windows Aero, Windows Media Center, Windows Security Center (it's renamed to Windows Solution Center), the browser-independent Windows Update, Desktop Window Manager, etc.. -- all of these Vista features are originally Windows 7, or Vienna, features. Maybe you meant "Windows 7: the FATHER of Windows Vista".

Modding in GTA4 should be way different from Vice City modding. Since GTA4 is not using the RenderWare engine, the engine GTA3, GTA:VC and GTA:SA used, we may no longer be editing a main.scm but something else, probably more sophisticated and has a entirely different language. In fact, there might not be any file with codes in it to edit. In other words, fixing all of the bugs in VC before transferring to GTA4 won't help. And Del has a point. If you've installed the mod and something bad happened that you need to reinstall it, would you waste all of that time reinstalling a 15+ GB game and a 300+ MB mod? That's unless R* finally made a mod-friendly game for the first time.

For me, it would be PC. It's either those irritating red lights known as the "Red Rings of Death", or an annoying program under the name "User Account Control" that make numerous pop-ups with the options Continue and Cancel while making everything else you do and use more secure, safe and worry-free from stuff many call as "viruses" and "spywares" and noobs who call themselves "hackers" (this program does the worrying for you). What'd you choose?

I know. Did I say "alone"? I clone it so that the HDD would have the right data (the BIOS, etc.) for the back-up/restore disc of the PC that it came from to work (either the disc made by the computer manufacturer or the Windows XP disc). Then I just do is use the restore disc on the HDD, which should work, to "reinstall" Windows XP in that, then restore some settings and load in the drivers. I did all of that, but it wasn't Windows XP nor the lack of driver nor the HDD. It's eMachines PC itself lacking the capability to identify the HDDs right. For some reason, it can't even detect it. I tried other HDDs from other computers, new and old, and still the same problem. I even tried doing this on other 2 eMachines PCs and strangely enough they all experience the same problem. Getting desperate to know what's really going on, I tried it on an non-eMachines PC and it worked.

I know. It's just that a friend of mine used this computer before and wanted to have Windows XP, so I helped him by doing the same thing but for some reason, even though I did it all right, it screwed up. I then did the best possible solution, Acronis True Image with my hard drive back-up of my Win XP hard drive. I did this on both the new and old hard drives, and it was the first (and second) time the solution that shouldn't fail failed. When we decided to go for a new hard drive from the store along with the Acronis solution, it finally worked. In short, transferring default hard drives from an non-eMachines to an eMachines computer would screw up the eMachines PC. If he's aiming for Windows XP, either he'll try transferring his old hard drive to the new computer (hoping it would work on his unlike my friend's) or spend a lot of money and time by buying a new hard drive, creating a back-up of the entire partition(s) of the old hard drive and installing that back-up to the new hard drive.

The PC's good but, other than the expensive display, you should also do something with the video card as well as the speakers. USB speakers are not that good to hear to (and I don't know why they have USB speakers if the audio outputs of the PC is for surround systems and high definition audio). If you're aiming for good and cheap speakers, I'd recommend Altec Lansing ATP3. As for the video card, it'll be your choice. Since it will be running Windows Vista, you'll need cards like NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE or better. If you're planning to replace Vista with XP, buying a copy of XP at this moment is hard or completely impossible due to Microsoft seizing its sale since June/July.

SONIC UNLEASHED (the game is like 2 separate games in one, due to the daytime gameplay having different game mechanics compared to the nighttime gameplay) Sonic the Hedgehog (Daytime) User rating: 9/10 Beginner difficulty: 3.5/5 (Wii/PS2) or 4/5 (X360/PS3) Gameplay rating: 4/5 (In my point of view, Sonic is like a two-legged living supersonic racing car; I praise this part of the game for its speedy gameplay as well as being similar to the Sonic Genesis games, the only Sonic games I liked the most before this) Sonic the Werehog (Nighttime) User rating: 7/10 Beginner difficulty: 4/5 Gameplay rating: 3.5/5 (the Werehog sections resemble to that of God of War and other beat-em up games of the like; gameplay's repetitive but it's nice to beat up some purple spore s***, or whatever they are, after finishing a 100-mile (or more) track on foot) User Rating: 8.7/10 (I rated it as 7.9 in my review) Beginner difficulty: 3.8/5 (people who haven't played the previous games will find the plot confusing) Gameplay rating: 4.2/5 (it's nice to play the game with another player to cooperate with you, but I can't say the same for 1-player gameplay; battles are still repetitive but not as much compared to its predecessors)

Developing editing tools for GTA4 will take a lot of time. Dudes like Steve M. are good at these stuff, and let's just all hope that the game will be moddable. But don't expect much that the mod will move to GTA4, in case the game becomes moddable. Blue/Del and others don't really want to mod the game due to some reasons.

I started playing Half-Life when I was 10 and Grand Theft Auto (Vice City) when I was 12/13. As a matter of fact, my dad GAVE those games to me, though he never really minded how rated those were. At that point, I don't know the terms "prostitution" and "sex", I can differentiate real from fiction, and I know what a kid should be limited to, so I was pretty much safe. My dad knows that. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't try messing up with the Half-Life SDK, learn C++ coding, learn how to type fast and type a lot (the reason why you often see me make big posts), learn how to fix PCs/Macs, gain interest in action-adventure and gain interest in game development. If your mom doesn't really want you to get GTA4, then how can you play BTTF:HV and GTA:VC? I sort of the same thing. Maybe you can just tell your mom that you ARE playing a GTA game and it wouldn't affect you as a kid to play such games.

We're not even sure what's this for, since gameznerd provided little information. He just "asked" us for something. He's probably making his own mod or something and he's just searching for someone with skills to help him out. If he is, this is probably a wrong way to form a modding team.

Only the swimming part works. I can't make the running fast work. At the moment, I have an alternative for this -- the CLEO mod that allows you to slow down time, but I think it will only work on my vids and on replay when the game's time is played in normal speed (where CJ is shown going 4-10 times faster than usual that the replay looked like it fast-forwarded by itself). lol my GTA: SA looks like a Heroes game now: CJ has the ability to fly by himself, swim in super human speeds, fire fireballs from his hands, slow down time and be fast enough to outrun everything in the game including time itself in the process, teleport from one place to another (via map and marker), change the weather, change time by himself (a.k.a. time travel), cause a nuclear explosion, make objects move with mind, etc..

Like I said earlier, the game is buggy, and like what Mike said earlier, it's unable to play online. R* is working on fixes for those bugs, but the "free" game being unable to play online could be a problem when it comes to obtaining these fixes. 13GB is fine to me too. I have 4 hard drives on both my computer and my bro's, with each having more than 40 GB of space so if that's also referring to the required HDD space to install the game I should be fine.

You don't really believe that he bought all of those DeLoreans at once, do you? I spent twice more than what KITT spent on those DeLoreans on my big Transformers toy set. I never bought them all at once -- it took me 2-4 years of my childhood to spend all of that dough.

Tried it. Never worked.

I still don't get how the run fast in this mod.

I've heard of it too. The error was called "MMA10". The error causes the game to crash (a la VC crash). There is however one solution to get around this error: log-out from the Rockstar Social Club program before playing the game. I've also heard there are also a lot of code error and similar problems they're encountering with GTA4 that R* hurried at making fixes for them. And I thought this was more stable than the previous GTA games. lol GTA4 for PC has a replay editor. This might become very useful

A friend of mine tried the GTA4 torrent download OUTATIME showed earlier in the forums, and he said the crack provided for the torrent download worked. SecuRom wasn't much a trouble for him.

I also pre-ordered for the PC version earlier, so I expect to get it in this weekend. Unfortunately, only my brother's PC will get most of the benefit from this game. My mini-PC doesn't meet the requirements to play the game. I can use the same software I've been using to make my GPU work for games like Crysis, but I don't know what kind of gameplay I'll get when I use it on GTA4. SecuRom? I had a lot of trouble of SecuRom ever since I started playing games with SecuRom. I just hope it won't when we finally have GTA4.

Anything cheap, as long as it's a magnetic plate.