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    Image of strideo strideo
    09/29/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    I've always been a fan of this one.
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    strideo was starred strideo was unstarred
    Image of SwordofWhedon SwordofWhedon
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    Oh this was made a long time ago, and better thanks to Corn Pone Flicks. Link below will take you to the video

    [vimeo.com]
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    Edited by SwordofWhedon at 09/27/09 11:12 PM SwordofWhedon was starred SwordofWhedon was unstarred
    Image of Jazhuis Jazhuis
    09/28/09

    @SwordofWhedon: Oh my god, you did NOT just name-drop Corn Pone Flicks. Where is my full theatrical release of Flexible Metal Hose Co. vs. The Universe?!
     Reply
    strideo promoted this comment Jazhuis was starred Jazhuis was unstarred
    Image of strideo strideo
    09/29/09

    @Jazhuis: The Ozone Commandos part 1 is finally out!
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    strideo was starred strideo was unstarred
    Image of krushjudgement krushjudgement
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    Something about these guys, they just seem weak in their presentation.
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    krushjudgement was starred krushjudgement was unstarred
    Image of Firecrest Firecrest
    09/28/09

    @krushjudgement: If you mean they're neither humorous or witty, then yeah, that's what they're lacking. Decent production craftwork dosen't necessarily make something good.
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    Showmeyomoves! promoted this comment Firecrest was starred Firecrest was unstarred
    Image of N●Gage Croal N●Gage Croal
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    I'll never look at Taizo Hori the same way again. What a psychopath.
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    N●Gage Croal was starred N●Gage Croal was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    You know, before being a horror movie, it was already an international crisis!
     Reply
    Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of raffleking raffleking
    09/27/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Man, when are scientists NOT going zonkers?
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    Voyou_Charmant promoted this comment raffleking was starred raffleking was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    Nice! This guys should have some budget and a pro at sfx so they could add dragons and weird red ball creatures with yellow googles...
     Reply
    Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    The puns have now affirmed Owen as awesomeness!
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    Michael Dukakis was starred Michael Dukakis was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    09/27/09

    In reply to Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
    Haha. "Swell" movie poster. Nice. Good usage of puns throughout.
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    Edited by gunluva is prepared to drop. at 09/27/09 6:33 PM gunluva is prepared to drop. was starred gunluva is prepared to drop. was unstarred
    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    wow. i loved that game so very much, even though I spent a large part of it parked on the ground in invincibility mode shooting aimlessly into the sky (give me a break, i was like... 6, or 10 or something). Actually, i learned WWI history from the manual, too.... lots of fond memories. those were the days when manuals were worthwhile...
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    thegreatfratsby was starred thegreatfratsby was unstarred
    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    Damn good sim -- you all remember sims, right? /old farted

    Anyone hear try Rise of Flight? Got good reviews but havent read anything here yet.
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    Image of Mancomb Seepgood Mancomb Seepgood
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    Red Baron is AWESOME! I spent god knows how many hours playing the first one as a kid and the combat flight skills I learnt then still aid me today in games like BF1943.

    Roll, pull up and yaw.
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    Mancomb Seepgood was starred Mancomb Seepgood was unstarred
    Image of Super_Koopa Super_Koopa
    09/12/09

    @Mancomb Seepgood: Read as: Roll, pull up and yawn.

    For a game that seems to be over 5 years old, would it be that difficult to just re-create the source code?

    I guess Mad Otter have already weighed the pros/cons of paying someone for old code/abandonware and determined it's not worth more than 1500 man hours to build from the ground up.

    In all honesty, I see this as more a labour of love, than a project that generates revenue.

    Sorry Mad Otter, I wish I could help you.
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    dowingba promoted this comment Super_Koopa was starred Super_Koopa was unstarred
    Image of dowingba dowingba
    09/13/09

    @Super_Koopa: I should hope 1500 man hours would cost more than $1500.
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    dowingba was starred dowingba was unstarred
    Image of tokugawa tokugawa
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    For $1500 I'd code the games from scratch.
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    tokugawa was starred tokugawa was unstarred
    Image of Glaiel-Gamer Glaiel-Gamer
    09/12/09

    @tokugawa: so what, you work for like... $0.02/hr?
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    VenomIreland promoted this comment Glaiel-Gamer was starred Glaiel-Gamer was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    I still hold that WWI flight sims are the PERFECT sim for consoles with a lower number of buttons to map to controls.

    The planes themselves where little more than paper, fabric, wood, and bailing wire with a engine on the front. Many didnt even have compasses in them and they used roads to navigate the front making mimicking them accurately on a 360 or PS3 so much easier than a WWII fighter and certainly a modern fighter.
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    Image of Poul Wrist Poul Wrist
    09/12/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Consoles suck for sims of any kind. If you don't see why, then you don't know about sims. Especially not about flightsims.
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    Image of Yamen Yamen
    09/12/09

    @Poul Wrist: way to totally miss the point.
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    Rozelle’s Bagman promoted this comment Yamen was starred Yamen was unstarred
    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    09/12/09

    @Yamen: Not really. I suspect he means flight modeling, which is non-trivial and processor intensive.
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    Image of Poul Wrist Poul Wrist
    09/12/09

    @Yamen: Not difficult to do. This site, after all, is infested with PC haters who take offense at every PC related news and spends hundreds of words promoting how everything should be played from their fat asses in their couches.
     Reply
    Poul Wrist was starred Poul Wrist was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    09/12/09

    @Poul Wrist:

    What version of Kotaku are you on? Usually it's the other way around on here. PC elitists as far as the eye can see.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/12/09

    @Poul Wrist: Um no offense, but the modern console has many times the power of the computers that originally RAN Red Baron.

    And I know very well about flight sims, I have been playing them before you where even born little boy. I grew up on F-19, the Falcon series, Hellcats and the like.
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    Jim Topoleski was starred Jim Topoleski was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    09/12/09

    @Jim Topoleski: I like how you said "no offense" and then verbally attacked him. Way to contradict yourself.
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    Edited by gunluva is prepared to drop. at 09/12/09 7:36 PM gunluva is prepared to drop. was starred gunluva is prepared to drop. was unstarred
    Image of Anemone Anemone
    09/12/09

    @Poul Wrist: I don't get it... consoles have flight sticks and both ps3/360 have noted the possibility of head tracking in the near future... I'm pretty sure that they could handle a flight sim just about as well as any pc.
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    Image of NeVeRMoRe666 NeVeRMoRe666
    09/12/09

    @Poul Wrist: Touchy touchy.
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    Image of Koztah Koztah
    09/13/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: The latest X-Plane runs fine on a single-core 2GHz processor.
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    Image of Ad-hominem Ad-hominem
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500
    Strangely enough, this means they'll likely end up giving the reward to pirates- people who never bought the game in the first place.
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    Ad-hominem was starred Ad-hominem was unstarred
    Image of wtf_G wtf_G
    09/12/09

    @Ad-hominem: They want the source code, not a copy of the game -_-
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    Spamps: always with the lurking! promoted this comment wtf_G was starred wtf_G was unstarred
    Image of Neko_Tech Neko_Tech
    09/12/09

    @Ad-hominem: What people get is the buy (pirate) is the compiled version, not the source code.
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    Image of Ad-hominem Ad-hominem
    09/12/09

    @Neko_Tech: I wasn't referring solely to people who illegally download the game. I was referring to real pirates- you know, the ones who manage to crack all sorts of software, and get the source codes to all sorts of games?
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    Image of Narishma Narishma
    09/12/09

    @Ad-hominem: They don't use the source code to crack the games. They reverse engineer them. It's very rare that the source code of a game is leaked as only the developers have access to it.
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    Neko_Tech promoted this comment Narishma was starred Narishma was unstarred
    Image of Neko_Tech Neko_Tech
    09/12/09

    @Narishma: That is true because if pirates has the source codes then they'll remove the copy protections instead of bypassing it.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/13/09

    @Ad-hominem: You can decompile compiled code to try and recover the source code. However most commercial software will be obfuscated when it's compiled making it a lot more difficult to decompile. You might be able to get something from attempting to decompile it but it's unlikely to be what they want.

    As pointed out by others pirates crack via reverse engineering. It's quite rare that anyone gets their hands on commercial source code. That will generally never leave the developers sights.
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    Odin was starred Odin was unstarred
    Image of orijimi orijimi
    09/12/09

    In reply to Got Red Baron Source Code? It's Worth $1,500

    I'm gonna say.
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    bobtheduck promoted this comment orijimi was starred orijimi was unstarred
    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    09/12/09

    @orijimi: Haha! "Here's $1500 and a lawsuit for intellectual property theft" or something...
     Reply
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