XBox has it's own full blown VLM!

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:21 am 0

While listening to any song on your XBox, push Y and then X. That little squiggly lightshow in the bubble on the left will go fullscreen and start cycling between a TON of new effects!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:48 am 0

Yeah, it's kinda cool, but then after watching it for a little while, you get that feeling that you've seen it somewhere else before...

It is a really cool little easter egg though. I wish they put in some more, and possibly some hidden games. Best Video Game Dashboard Ever, Period. I don't think anyone will argue with me on that.

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:40 am 0

I think it's amazing that the Nuon VLM looks ten times better than the XBox one, yet runs on hardware that is effectively a generation behind. Shows what a great coder can do.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am 0

Psychedelia on the C64. Tiny prog, running on a sub-1MHz machine. 'Nuff said

stark · Post by **stark** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:24 am 0

yuck. the xbox thing is horrible. all squiggly lines . ive seen better screensavers

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 11:14 am 0

The dashboard one is kind of boring and doing the type of stuff Cathuga was doing years ago. I used to like the one that came with the PSX but I have not seen it for a while.

theataridays · Post by **theataridays** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:33 pm 0

The 3do Had a very good VLM to if i remember correctly

TheAtaridays

Post by **Snakey** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:48 pm 0

matt303 wrote:I used to like the one that came with the PSX but I have not seen it for a while.

The Psygnosis thing? Yea, it was fairly pleasant to look at, but it didn't seem to respond to the audio very well at all, IMHO.

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 5:53 pm 0

I sold my playstation a year or so after getting it because there were just so many bad games and I wasn't ready to invest the time in figuring out which titles among the 8 million in my local gameshop were actually worth owning. Plus, the N64 had Mariokart 64 and Goldeneye, and that was that.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 8:24 pm 0

Snakey wrote: The Psygnosis thing? Yea, it was fairly pleasant to look at, but it didn't seem to respond to the audio very well at all, IMHO.

Was the T-Rex tech demo on the same disc? Now if that had responded to audio...

JonH · Post by **JonH** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:51 am 0

Immaculate! Now I have 3 reasons not to put my Xbox in the skip!

1) xbox "VLM"
2) xbox MAME
3) xbox UAE

most of the xbox games are shite, i'm waiting for more homebrew stuff

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 3:40 am 0

Rod_S wrote:
Snakey wrote: The Psygnosis thing? Yea, it was fairly pleasant to look at, but it didn't seem to respond to the audio very well at all, IMHO.

Was the T-Rex tech demo on the same disc? Now if that had responded to audio...

I remember that! They had that underwater demo thing as well when you could swim around as a Devil Ray with the fishes. Neat, but pointless.

ophion · Post by **ophion** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:10 am 0

theataridays wrote:The 3do Had a very good VLM to if i remember correctly

TheAtaridays

The effects were fairly good-looking, but if I remember correctly there were only two or three of them.

Post by **Muttley** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:36 am 0

It's NOT VLM!

It's not VLM unless you can interact with it along with the music, this is just a audio visualisation gizmo.

Muttley

Post by **Snakey** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:31 pm 0

You can! You can pick up your TV, and dance with it

Seriously, though - the problem with pretty much all VLM-a-likes is that nobody takes it far enough. I guess most people get bored after a while, and think "that'll do."

This is why the Yak is the master of VLM. He loves this stuff so much, that he just keeps on going, until the limits of the hardware become the only thing that stops him.

Sometimes, even THAT doesn't stop him