The official stament....on that pic!

LyonHrt · Post by **LyonHrt** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 5:36 pm

Well i was checking the sites, and it seems that The Panoptican has posted something on that site about it!

So if you want to have a laugh, read in.

Post by **|darc|** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 5:39 pm

Thanks, LyonHrt!

Panoptican's Site wrote:Official Statement regarding Neo DC pic:

Yes, the screen shot of Neo DC running is most definitely fake -no question about it. There was NO time or effort spent doctoring it to make it look real. Heck, we didn't even make it too hard to find...all you had to do was search for neo geo sites and you would have found it.

Having noted this, our emulator is real. As you can see, we have NO real pictures of Neo DC running. Of course, there was pressure to show some evidence (I am lazy), so we created a false picture. It was a great hoax and one that we thought would last only one day...because the original picture is sooo easy to find. Evidently, we were wrong and we decided to see how long it would take before someone found the picture. Today someone did.

I realize this might harm our credibility as programmers, and it's something we were prepared to face right from the beginning.

Neo DC IS real. Neo DC IS being programmed still. Neo DC will come out this summer. No, we don't have pics of it. No, my friend never owned a digital camera...and I don't have running pictures.

The Panoptican

PS: I am MORE than happy to answer questions regarding the emu and take flak for our stint. If you have questions regarding my technical/programming merits, cuz gimme a hollar.

We are usually on dalnet, #neodcemu

Peace.

This part particularly cracks me up:

Panoptican's Site wrote:Yes, the screen shot of Neo DC running is most definitely fake -no question about it. There was NO time or effort spent doctoring it to make it look real. Heck, we didn't even make it too hard to find...all you had to do was search for neo geo sites and you would have found it.

Having noted this, our emulator is real.

It's so fake it's indescribable.

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 5:43 pm

Will this ever die?

Pinoy2201 · Post by **Pinoy2201** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 5:45 pm

what fake emu ...i just went to his site amd found the files for the so calld emu but it was hackked and would not run in a DC....if he was so eager to prove it is real thn why didnt he just realease thoses files as Alpa release wat a dumb azz

mirrorsaw_2000 · Post by **mirrorsaw_2000** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:03 pm

Christ, how dumb does he think we are?

This reminds me of that saying..."Fool me once, shame on you...Fool me twice, shame on me."

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:06 pm

OK, so he/they were too lazy to get a screenshot of NeoDC running, yet they spent time photoshopping two pictures together.
Doesn't make sense to me

someoneElse · Post by **someoneElse** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:06 pm

404NotFound wrote:Will this ever die?

The stillborn are forever doomed to walk the earth as the undead...

the panoptican · Post by **the panoptican** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:21 pm

Yeah, it was a crappy pic. I can admit that. Chaos_X thought it'd be funny to make an edited picture that was obviously not the emu. I thought: "what the heck?"....so we did it. Partly in time for April fools, we uploaded it to the site.

My thoughts: there hasn't been a screen pic yet, even though we've been hosting this site for a while. The screen pic that we DID put up was hilarious and even with blatant proof of tampering, we decided to deny accusations of fraud until someone could find the original pic. The site is still updated regularly; status on Neo DC is given to the public.

We DID make a fake pic, which we thought would be a short, fun stint...especially for all those load-mouthed flamers and spammers. But we are *still* working on the emulator and look forward releasing it this summer(ish).

The Panoptican

I'll be on IRC more when my computer is working. Right now I am on dial-up.

Post by **|darc|** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:27 pm

the panoptican wrote:Yeah, it was a crappy pic. I can admit that. Chaos_X thought it'd be funny to make an edited picture that was obviously not the emu. I thought: "what the heck?"....so we did it. Partly in time for April fools, we uploaded it to the site.

My thoughts: there hasn't been a screen pic yet, even though we've been hosting this site for a while. The screen pic that we DID put up was hilarious and even with blatant proof of tampering, we decided to deny accusations of fraud until someone could find the original pic. The site is still updated regularly; status on Neo DC is given to the public.

We DID make a fake pic, which we thought would be a short, fun stint...especially for all those load-mouthed flamers and spammers. But we are *still* working on the emulator and look forward releasing it this summer(ish).

The Panoptican

I'll be on IRC more when my computer is working. Right now I am on dial-up.

Don't post any more pictures. Any dumbass can take a picture of a NeoGeo game, say, Metal Slug, running on MAME for PC. Then load up one of the JPEG slideshows for DC. Maximize the pic right in the right position on the screen.... BAM an instant screenshot. Or you could do the same with a fake menu made in photoshop.

No one beleives you. No one will until you but out a release.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:36 pm

|darc| wrote: Don't post any more pictures. Any dumbass can take a picture of a NeoGeo game, say, Metal Slug, running on MAME for PC. Then load up one of the JPEG slideshows for DC. Maximize the pic right in the right position on the screen.... BAM an instant screenshot. Or you could do the same with a fake menu made in photoshop.

No one beleives you. No one will until you but out a release.

Darc, don't tell him how to make slightly more convincing fakes! Tsk, now we are going to see a surge in badly-made JPEG fakes in the DC scene

... just kidding man

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 9:14 pm

There are better ways of making fake screenshots runing on a TV than to photoshop them.-_-

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 9:17 pm

yeah, like what darc said.. stupid darc.

Jeeba Jabba · Post by **Jeeba Jabba** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:27 pm

The funniest fake was saddsnes

But the biggest publicity stunt for a fake.. That I can remember, Was the Jim Henderson sit. and his "N64 EMU".

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:33 pm

You guys missed him in #dcemu last night. He kept talking about he was going to confess to something, then he took forever updating his site, and we all to laugh at him when we finally got to read that crap.
He also says he will send alphas to 4 or 5 people and listed them, can't remember all of them: HyperG, 007, he said maybe to MrSiggler, can't remember the rest.

archduke · Post by **archduke** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 6:19 pm

:o WOW Its so fake its Real!!!

qreturns · Post by **qreturns** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 1:16 am

This emulator was obviously fake. I don't understand the satisfaction in proving it. The best thing is to ignore a fake. When you hound these people you discourage actual programmers from releasing anything.