And where the hell did they get the 'X' for christmas? It's not X-Mas! IT'S CHRISTMAS!
Death to all nonsensical abbreviations!
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How.... Khyron.... uughhhhhh:
What is the 'x' in 'PSX'? Playstation 1 was always abbreviated as 'PSX', yet there's no 'X' in it.And where the hell did they get the 'X' for christmas? It's not X-Mas! IT'S CHRISTMAS!
Death to all nonsensical abbreviations!
The Playstation was originally known as the PSX back when it was envisioned as a peripheral for the SNES. When Sony told Nintendo, "Screw you guys, I'm going home," and redeveloped the Playstation as an independent console, the X was dropped. However, the abbreviation PSX was already in common usage throughout the industry, and some people continued to call it that. The original Playstation would most properly be abbreviated PS or PS1.
EDIT: PSX may also have been used in early promotional material for the console, but don't take my word on that.
The "kriss" sound in Christmas has a (very) vague phonetic similarity to the letter X. Beyond that, I have no idea. Sentow, Maybe fucked around with this message on 03-18-2005 at 04:16 AM.
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Khyron had this to say about Robocop:
And where the hell did they get the 'X' for christmas? It's not X-Mas! IT'S CHRISTMAS!Death to all nonsensical abbreviations!
The X actually stands the first letter of the roman word for "Christ"
And yeah, I may be raising a stink over nothing, but that's partly due to my above mentioned issue with logical incongruency, and partly due to the fact that I was attacked over it by people with nothing to back up their argument.
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How.... Alek.... uughhhhhh:
It didn't work for me, I put the roms in the roms folder, but it won't find the stupid things!
file -> audit all games
worked for me
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How.... Maradon!.... uughhhhhh:
file -> audit all gamesworked for me
I did that and it didn't work. 
It's also the "project" name of the Wonderswan from Neo-Geo. The Wonderswan was a handheld much like the GBA, it's "biggest" title was the remake of Final Fantasy (The same version on the FF: Origins and FF: Dawn of Souls). The Wonderswan was never released in the US.
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Alek stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
I did that and it didn't work.
I bet you unzipped the files.
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Verily, Maradon! doth proclaim:
The X actually stands the first letter of the roman word for "Christ"And yeah, I may be raising a stink over nothing, but that's partly due to my above mentioned issue with logical incongruency, and partly due to the fact that I was attacked over it by people with nothing to back up their argument.
The company itself (Both american and japanese offices) call it GCN. How much more fucking proof do you need? Fucker fuckity fucking fuck!
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Maradon! wrote this stupid crap:
The X actually stands the first letter of the roman word for "Christ"
Greek.
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Lashanna got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Greek.
whatever
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about pies:
The company itself (Both american and japanese offices) call it GCN. How much more fucking proof do you need? Fucker fuckity fucking fuck!
THEN THEY'RE WRONG TOO
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Lashanna wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Greek.
No, see, the Romans copied that from the Greeks about the same time they copied their gods.
Romans had some pretty crappy gods before that, you know. "Jeff, the God of Biscuits" or "Simon, God of Hairdos."
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Sentow, Maybe was listening to Cher while typing:
The Playstation was originally known as the PSX back when it was envisioned as a peripheral for the SNES. When Sony told Nintendo, "Screw you guys, I'm going home," and redeveloped the Playstation as an independent console, the X was dropped. However, the abbreviation PSX was already in common usage throughout the industry, and some people continued to call it that. The original Playstation would most properly be abbreviated PS or PS1.
PSX is correct. The internal name for the project was "PlayStation eXperimental" when it was being developed as a NES/SNES addon. When Sony and Nintendo split ways over the project (thus killing Nintendo's dream of a CD based system/addon) Sony took the research data that was invested in the PSX project and started working on a self-contained CD system (something which to date had never been done, this was pre-Saturn). The project codename stuck when the project was being discussed externally and was initially used in their product numbers and spare parts listings.
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Maradon!'s account was hax0red to write:
THEN THEY'RE WRONG TOO
When you make a game system you can abbreviate it however the fuck you want.
There's a good PC version of it on Underdogs, however. I played it on Wine with no problems. El Cuchillo fucked around with this message on 03-18-2005 at 04:33 PM.
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El Cuchillo spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Whoever asked for Raiden 2, it doesn't work on MAME yet. It loads, but the graphics are all kinds of screwed up, there's no sound, and it freezes when you try to actually play.There's a good PC version of it on Underdogs, however. I played it on Wine with no problems.
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Nobody really understood why El Cuchillo wrote:
Whoever asked for Raiden 2, it doesn't work on MAME yet. It loads, but the graphics are all kinds of screwed up, there's no sound, and it freezes when you try to actually play. (This is with 0.94, but that Kaillera version only uses 0.64 or something, which is all kinds of old.)There's a good PC version of it on Underdogs, however. I played it on Wine with no problems.
I want Zone66.
Liam vs. Nem, how did it go?
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Lashanna wrote this stupid crap:
I wanna play.Liam vs. Nem, how did it go?
nem is a lot better than me.
Big ol' box
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From the book of Liam, chapter 3, verse 16:
I bet you unzipped the files.
Yeah, I'm an idiot.
King Arthur gets Dragoon armor. And a cape. A CAPE!
nem-x fucked around with this message on 03-27-2005 at 05:22 AM.
