Rocket Knight

**PopeJewish** · 13 May 2010, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by Cheebs

And typing "frames per second" has thrown my brain into a tangle of a tangent concerning the word "per". Help me out so I can think normally again.

"Per" means "divided by", right? Frames per second = (frames/seconds)
Miles per hour = (miles/hour)
etc.

"cent" means 1/100 of something, right? There are 100 cents in a dollar. There are 100 centimeters in a meter. etc.

So the word "percent" is all fucked up. It should either be "perhundred" or just plain "cent".
How is there any logic in phrasing it as "percent"?

As the word is written, 80 percent should be 80/(1/100) = 8000
But it is not. 80 percent is 0.80 = 80/100 = 80 per hundred.

Mind assplode.

Cent is latin for hundred. A centurion was a unit of 100 men. so percent is something divided by 100. cents just means you need 100 of them to make it whole. centimeter doesn't mean 1/100 of a meter, it means you need a cent (100) for it to be a whole meter

**Nash** · 13 May 2010, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by Cheebs

If I were to take a guess, I'd say that it only needs 120 Hz to keep the frame rate up. If it is the same shutter deal as the Master System, you need two complete screen draws to make one frame of animation. So 60 fps would only be possible on a 120 Hz monitor.

I guess that means the Master System 3D was locked to 30 FPS...

And typing "frames per second" has thrown my brain into a tangle of a tangent concerning the word "per". Help me out so I can think normally again.

"Per" means "divided by", right? Frames per second = (frames/seconds)
Miles per hour = (miles/hour)
etc.

"cent" means 1/100 of something, right? There are 100 cents in a dollar. There are 100 centimeters in a meter. etc.

So the word "percent" is all fucked up. It should either be "perhundred" or just plain "cent".
How is there any logic in phrasing it as "percent"?

As the word is written, 80 percent should be 80/(1/100) = 8000
But it is not. 80 percent is 0.80 = 80/100 = 80 per hundred.

Mind assplode.

There's an easy way to resolve this: kill yourself.

**Chux** · 13 May 2010, 01:18 AM

Also, talk about Rocket Knight.

Bring this to like the tech board or something.

**NeoZeedeater** · 13 May 2010, 01:49 AM

I tried the demo. It's okay but it makes me want to hook up my Genesis to play the original more than making we want to buy it. It just doesn't have the same appeal and has more of a fan-made vibe than I would expect from an official new game in the series. It's obviously much uglier than the old handdrawn games but the level design seems amateur-ish as well.

**Chux** · 13 May 2010, 01:57 AM

That's the same feeling I get from the Sonic 4 videos I've seen.

**pjustus** · 14 May 2010, 05:56 AM

I find it unbelievable that 2D games with 3D graphics have not improved visually in sixteen years. In fact, a game like Donkey Kong Country looks, IMO, much better! When one sees how gorgeous a modern hand-drawn, 2D game can be, it boggles my mind that they use cheap-looking polygons for new editions of old series.

I still want to play it, though.