Is it just me, or does this look like a rip off of Advance Wars?

It's not just you. But don't call it a 'rip', call it a 'port'. It just sounds better.
And when is it coming out for that new color graphing calculator with the IR port and stuff that happened to be leaked around April 1st?

THAT WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!!!!!!!! The V400 is not real. Sure there are dreamers like angleboy, that hpe TI will make something similar, but it is a FAKE!

-W-

WHAT!?! That news was in red! That meant it was important!!!

I know, some people really need to learn their news item colors!

I think he knows. Maybe that's why he said,
"and stuff that happened to be leaked around April 1st? "

OMG, you believed that! LOL!

I did too.

Thats pretty awesome, but I have advance wars for my gameboy advance already, but it might be fun if I have a craving for some gaming (woah, it rhymes!) at school.

on the other hand, this could be illegal, after all, its a copy of a very popular game on a portable system...

as long as it doesn't have the same things as advance wars it's not illegal

By same things, do you mean exactly the same graphics, for example?

OMG, it's not illegal. If they completely copied the code, it would be illegal. They have tetris, and a bunch of other nintendo/gb/etc. games on this site...

it might be legal to use the same engine, but other than that I doubt you could use any

But then again, it doesn't really matter... isn't downloading songs or movies off Kazaa illegal? Everybody (except me) still does it...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but its illegal only if you use the same engine or the same name or any name that's copyrighted.

Well if you take any portion of the code or a copyrighted name. Taking the coded means you cannot even look at it because there is no proof that you did not memorize sections (electro-chemical and biological version of copy and paste) and integrate them into you program/games.

I didn't, but only because I was looking forward to the April Fool's Joke.

Geez, all these calc turn-based strategy games have a grid on the playing field. I hate the grid! I made a Tiberian Sun game in BASIC (which I never finished but its almost done) and didn't use a grid, and it looked fine. No grid makes it look more like land instead of a screen. Advance wars didn't have a grid...did it? What is it with calcs and grids?

Then one must ask...does it really matter?

Eh, it doesn't bother me.

When you say grid, do you mean all those lines cutting the screen into squares? Or do you mean spaces to which you can move (like the spaces in chess)? The original Advance Wars IS divided into spaces. However, the strategy game CTC2 for the ti-89 isn't divided up (or at least appears not to be, which is good enough for me).

Too bad it isn't for 89, and I really don't like using VTI, it's too awkward.

I know... usually games for the TI-92+ are always made for the TI-89... guess not. LOL

I think it wasn't ported to the TI-89 b/c the screen is too small.

Most likely.

Guess what, It was just updated with 89 support! Kiss youor sorrows goodbye people!