is it safe?

[ifearviruses]

Ok, so let me explain. I am a huge fan of Harvest Moon 64. I want to use an emulator, but I just got my new computer after losing my old one to a cataclysm of viruses and worms acquired through letting inebriated friends use my computer (I learned my lesson). So here is my question to you: has anyone had a problem with viruses using P64 and does anyone know where I can safely download the ROM?

[CA5]

Project 64, the emulator itself, is fine. As long as you download it from the official site, you're not going to get any viruses.

As for the roms, well, as long as you d/l 'em from the right sites, you won't get viruses. Google is your friend

[ifearviruses]

Do you have any well trusted sites you use? I guess I'm more concerned about the ROM than anything else.

[Mdkcheatz]

This Applies to EVERYONE!

For reasons of "facilitating help with illegal activities," links to roms cannot be distributed in PJ64 Forums. Please search Google or look elsewhere to answer your question.

Have a nice day.

[magmarock64]

So sorry didn't mean to brake the rules!!! it wont happen again!!!

[CA5]

Originally Posted by magmarock64

So sorry didn't mean to brake the rules!!! it wont happen again!!!

Fear not, Mdkcheatz's just a mod-wannabe. We all know you were trying to help

[Mdkcheatz]

Originally Posted by magmarock64

So sorry didn't mean to brake the rules!!! it wont happen again!!!

It's okay really, It's just that people should understand the reasoning not posting links to roms. But you were sincere so you get a slide :P

Originally Posted by rswedlow

What the hell does that even mean anyway?

It means exactly as I wrote it. Pretty self explanatory. I wouldn't expect someone of your intellectual comprehensive ability to be questioning it's meaning.

But fyi if you must be explained it to a greater depth you can msn me and I'd be happy to explain it for you

[HatCat]

For reasons of "facilitating help with illegal activities"...

What the hell does that even mean anyway?

[squall_leonhart]

it means you're English capability is lacking.

[HatCat]

The French Defense is to the King's pawn opening the responsive system surging most with counterplay.

The more popular Sicilian Defense is derived from several concepts.
1.e4 c5 {
2.c3 d5 3.e5 d4
2.d3 d6 3.Nf3 Nf6
2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3 a6 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nf3 Nf6
2.e5 d5 3.c3 Bf5
2.f4 d6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Be2 g6 6.O-O Bg7 7.d3 O-O
}

Other concepts include the flexibility of moving the pawn of the Queen's bishop to its fourth square, as this does nothing to develop the King's side while it is a pawn move that has no counterplay against it except the King's fianchetto (the Indian games involving ...g7-g6, ...Bf8-g7, and ...Ng8-f6). Thus, 1.e4 c5 is not so much indirect lightheadedness as it is a battle between initiative and opening flexibility.

When white moves 2.Nf3, white not only adopts this manouverability between openings by developing the King's side but patronizes Black to give more information before attacking the Sicilian. There is another "chess style proof" I have developed encouraging this answer.

1.Nf3 c5 {
2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qb6
2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 d6 4.O-O Nf6 5.d3 g6
}

Neither of these concepts justify anything superior to 1.Nf3 c5 2.e4 or 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3, so this proves understanding the Sicilian Defense is important.

It is quite possible that the French Defense is much stronger because it has more strength counter-attack.
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nce2 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.f4 b5 8.Nf3 Qb6 9.a3 a5 10.Be3 Bb7 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Bxc5 Nxc5 13.Ned4 b4 14.axb4 axb4 15.Rxa8+ Bxa8 16.Bb5 O-O 17.Bxc6 Bxc6 18.Nxc6 Qxc6 19.cxb4 Na4 20.O-O Rb8 -+

Since Virtual Chess 64, Titus Software changed the opening finality to this in making Virtual Kasparov.
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 a6 8.Bd3 {Book answer...8.Qd2 b5 9.a3 Qb6 10.Ne2 Bb7 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Ned4 Rc8 13.b4 Bxd4 14.Nxd4 Nxd4 15.Bxd4 Rxc2 -+}

Classical variation
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7
{The benefit from exchanging the bishops is obvious due to diagonal access from the decisions of the pawn structure formation, but without sufficient initiative, White falls to Black's center destruction.}

Tarrasch variation, open counterplay
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Ngf3 cxd4 6.Bc4
{Although Black still has much resistance, this is probably the better way to pressure albeit maybe into a draw all the same.}

It is obvious from these studies that the French Defense, instead of immediately halting d2-d4, develops openly until white moves 2.d4 or ?.d4 so that this pawn can immediately be attacked.

The Queen's pawn is the most powerful of the eight pawns on the board because it is the center base.
The King's pawn after 1.e4 has the two best squares above it and to the left. (Imagine 1...h6 2.d4 Nf6 3.e5. Unless Black wants to castle long insted of on the King's side, no knight on F6 is extremely dangerous in this game.) However, the King's pawn is more often traded or even sacrificed for extreme initiative--the force by which usually White wins due to extreme development in the power of time beforehand for positional tension. If the Queen's pawn is removed, there is virtually no center structure.

(This is another reason why 1.d4 is stupid in reality :P, but humanity has apparently adopted it as a social standard.)

Tomorrow I am researching how White can best play without moving 1.e4 e6 2.d4, as in these games the pawn on E6 rather anticipated d2-d4. Now it is a technical weakness.