I have hope though that public pressure and the SEC could change matters. Maybe the game market isn't precedence but I am sure Apple will try to make it that way!
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Jeff Massung <mass...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > What happens if they refuse to give you the "QA" approval? > > > > Nothing other than you fix a couple bugs and resubmit for approval. To be > clear, this is *not* like submitting your app to Apple for approval in the > AppStore. Apple's approval is about them making sure they like what they > see > and they can (for all intense purposes) reject your app for any reason > what-so-ever. Submitting to Nintendo (or Sony or MSFT) is 100% a QA > approval. They aren't "playing" your game or checking it for inappropriate > content (ESRB does that and rates your game). All the QA approval process > is > about is whether or not your game crashes and abides by certain guidelines. > For example (taken from Nintendo Wii lot check): > > *Section 3.3: Prohibition of Sustained Continuous Non-Sequential Access > [Required]* > > If there has been no user input for more than 5 minutes (or 10-15 minutes, > based on the screen burn-in reduction feature setting), continuous > non-sequential disc access should end within 1 hour. Once user input is > received, resume normal operations. Non-sequential access is defined as > seeking to access data spaced more than 200 MB apart on the disc. > > Non-sequential access resumed within five seconds for a long period of time > can shorten the lifespan of the disc drive. To avoid unnecessary aging of > the disc drive while the user is not operating the application, do not > conduct this kind of non-sequential access for more than one continuous > hour. > > For example, when a movie is playing for a long time, position the files > that will be accessed nearby and, if non-sequential access will be carried > out, limit the number of loops. > > For information on the wait time set for the screen burn-in reduction > feature, see the Wii Video Interface Library (VI) manual and the Video > Interface Library section of the Revolution Function Reference Manual. If > you are going to reconfigure the wait time for the screen burn-in > reduction feature, see section 6.22 Changing Screen Burn-In Reduction Wait > Time [Recommended]. > > > They are all like this. They are geared towards protecting the hardware > from > malicious use (constantly writing to flash or pinging the head of the DVD), > and the user's TV, making sure the user has certain interface expectations > (ala HID), and that should something bad happen, your application handles > it > gracefully. There is absolutely nothing about the QA submission process for > which you can be rejected permanently. You'll just be given a list of bugs > to fix and you fix them. > > > > > What does the actual license agreement say (can you quote it)? > > > > No, I cannot. > > > Jeff M. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution