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I'd guess that it's a holdover from arcades, where developers wanted games that weren't being played to run demos and stuff to attract people to play them.
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Posted byKyadytimon Apr 24, 2011, 2:01:42 PM
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Reminds me of a story about some monkeys, bananas, and a staircase.
That story has got to be epic.
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Posted bykungfooeon Apr 27, 2011, 12:13:24 PMAlpha Member
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Now the question is, why title screen is still used in console games and not at all or not much in pc games ?
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Posted byZooLon Apr 28, 2011, 2:34:53 AM
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There is no purpose anymore to the 'Push Start' screen. If it's there, it's there purely as a homage to the form.
So the answer to why they do it, is because that's the way it's been done previously when it probably did have some purpose.
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Posted byzetoon Apr 29, 2011, 1:47:18 PMAlpha Member
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I recently heard (from Jonathan actually) that the purpose of this in console games was that the time that the user presses the start button is a good seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
This has implications!
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Posted byDisruptedon Dec 10, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
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Reminds me of a story about some monkeys, bananas, and a staircase.
That story has got to be epic.
If it is the one I am thinking about, it is a good example of learned behavior.
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Posted bySpoonmannon Dec 10, 2014, 2:25:35 PM
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I recently heard (from Jonathan actually) that the purpose of this in console games was that the time that the user presses the start button is a good seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
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Posted byDethklokon Dec 10, 2014, 6:29:06 PM
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I recently heard (from Jonathan actually) that the purpose of this in console games was that the time that the user presses the start button is a good seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
I know personally that variants of this system (such as time between "press start" and selecting either "new game" or "continue") were used in the Pokemon games until at least 3rd gen (GBA games) - and players worked it out enough that you could get programs that would calculate exactly how long you should try to make that delay in order to get certain in game effects (mostly to do with rolling certain properties on eggs that were about to hatch before you saved).
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Posted byMark_GGGon Dec 10, 2014, 7:18:35 PMGrinding Gear Games
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Guess we'd better start calling it PNG.
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Posted byDeletedon Dec 10, 2014, 7:29:26 PM
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This necro really made me miss old friends now absent. :(
Aww, sorry Charan, I'll try to cut a bit on my random thread necroing.
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I recently heard (from Jonathan actually) that the purpose of this in console games was that the time that the user presses the start button is a good seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
I know personally that variants of this system (such as time between "press start" and selecting either "new game" or "continue") were used in the Pokemon games until at least 3rd gen (GBA games) - and players worked it out enough that you could get programs that would calculate exactly how long you should try to make that delay in order to get certain in game effects (mostly to do with rolling certain properties on eggs that were about to hatch before you saved).
wow that's pretty cool, didnt know that trick.
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