how screwed would we have been...

[snake storm]

if no one ever got the idea for the dex drive? no doubt that started all these other peripherals. think about it. without 'em the pavillion might just be a place for the staff to talk about their games.

[Paladin_Jag]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

Well for me it is, cause I dont have a dex drive...

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

There would be no console RPG Maker series, and we'd be a bootleg RPG Maker forum.

[Valkysas]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

RPG Maker 1 would have come out, but it would have failed. thus that would have been the only RPG Maker released here, keeping in mind that the PS2 file transfer devices were based on the dex drive, and probably would have never existed if it wasnt for the thing. Agetec never even would have considered Fighter Maker 2 for a US release. there would be no designer series in the US.

the dex drive is your god.

[snake storm]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

if you're getting 3 you'd need at least an xport. the dex drive was only for the first one.

i kinda picture this place without it being nothing but valksas talking about his "legend of pants" game. *Shudders slightly* lol

and i kinda think by now RPG Maker is the sole reason that type of peripheral has even survived.

[Valkysas]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

I didnt make the pavilion, without the dex drive I never would have signed up back in 2000.

[Paladin_Jag]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

Its funny , but until I found the site, I never even though of buying a device like that.
Actually if I finish my RPG i will get one to post it on the site.

[snake storm]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

hey, sue me. i preferred the RPG Maker garden back then, but i still remember the day it folded. for some reason i didn't like the pavillion. but now it feels like home.

[tjoris9]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

Valk is right. Without the dex drive none of this would have come about. All we'd have would be RPGM2K and it's siblings, and there probably wouldn't be a legal release of the translation, either.

I think another question, though, is if anyone have bothered with RPGM1 if it weren't for the invention of the memory card? It would've made the Dex Drive impossible if that device had never been made.

[snake storm]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

memory cards were first invented for like the neo geo, i think. they've been around since '94 easy.

[marcus]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

Let's not forget floppy disks which could be considered the first form of a "memory card."

[snake storm]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

we'd be even more screwed without all those technological advances. think of RPG Maker not only without the dex drive or memory cards...but on the atari 2600...

[marcus]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

RPG MAKER 82

NOW WITH 5 EXTRA BLIPS, 3 EXTRA BLOOPS, SQUARES AND TRIANGLES!

[snake storm]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

probably. with that you could do all the excitement of "pong's quest: the sacred paddle".

[marcus]

Re: how screwed would we have been...

That sounds like a porno...

I'd buy it.