Oh thank you for pointhing that out. You know I don't speak japanese outside of a few isolated easy words...I think in the case of Lagrange Point, though, the interview with Akio DOBASHI implies Konami knew right up front they wanted to use FM for the game music;
This is a terrible example. Nobody outside of this forum would ever care about a detail like that, and the guy is retired and there is *zero* chance he would remember details like that.for example, "why does sprite zero need to overlap with an opaque background pixel to set the sprite zero hit flag? Why not just set the flag when sprite zero is fetched?"
Again, terrible example. But considering how games in 1983 area were, the answer is most probably "no".did anyone anticipate the advantage of being able to switch chr banks over spending cpu time filling vram
This, however, is a very good question. I think everyone would care about the answer, as it's less technical and more general.Did anyone imagine a game like Castlevania 3 (Akumajou Densetsu) or Kirby's Adventure would be possible on Famicom, or did you only envision single-screen games for the platform?
My god I can't belive anyone is stupid enough to build building like that. Sounds terribly inpractical and unsafe. What if there is an electricity shortage ? What if the elevators simply stop functionning for some random mechanical or electrical failure ?'ve used many buildings have an elevator to go in and up, but the stairs are only to the outside. Any door to a stairwell automatically locks behind you. This allows a fire escape (or just convenient exit), but prevents people from entering a floor they don't have permission for via the stairwell. This is in combination with some sort of permission system for the elevator to get in, like keycards, or timed access. In practice, people may often leave the stairway doors propped open so they can get back in easily.
As someone who almost never uses any elevator in my life, this is shocking. You know, we in europe know how to use energy only when it is really needed, and we don't waste megawats of electrical power or oil for nothing just because we're too lazy to use our feets, like north americans do. As for Japan, I have no idea which trend they're following.