Not just another NPC - (ds-x2 ver.)

The past few months I’ve been puzzled as to why I was unable to load DS games(or really anything) on my supercard. I tried a number of things and after a few weeks I discovered that the way I transfer files to my miniSD card over the network just won’t cut it. It’s bizarre but even thought the file(s) will exist/transfer and show up on the card it apparently just doesn’t write correctly. So instead of writing them that way(with a network printer) I tried using the SD card slot in my mom’s laptop, and sure enough it made all the difference.

My DSLite with some games, a classic DS strap, and a Radirgy sticker. Not pictured: Supercard, for obvious reasons.

With that out of the way I’ve been playing Race Driver: Create and Race, and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Phantom hourglass kicks ass so far and just about everyone I talk to agrees with me. Funny story, there’s this girl in broadcasting who I recall playing Nintendogs one day, and then just recently I saw her playing Zelda. Talk about effectiveness, it seems Nintendo really is converting non-gamers… hell girl non-gamers - that’s a difficult thing to pull off IMO. Back to Phantom hourglass: it’s good but I start to loose interest after awhile. I really don’t care about difficulty but currently I feel like the dungeons are kind of busy-work getting in the way of my story. Maybe I’ve been playing too many action games like Metal slug lately. Which also reminds me, my friend with the MVS finally got Metal slug X! Currently we have this wonky temporary CP set-up since we had taken out the whole CP(control panel) for an over-haul, and we just couldn’t wait. Basically I don’t think I’ll do a review on PH because I’ll probably take my sweet time and I know there are other people at DS-X2 who are probably much much further than me. As for Race Driver: create and race, I’m trying to like it but just can’t. It might suffer from small-screen-itis where the game could be much better… with a bigger screen. I say this because the cars start off feeling really slow and then jump to being really fast. It’s weird but I think if I had a bigger screen I could have a much better sense of speed. Either that or the game’s just broken. Now that I think about it, if they had just made the car models much smaller it would give the game bigger screen space(Think: Mario kart), and higher frame rate. Are you listening Codemasters? Really the game is very well polished(love the menus) but from what I’ve experienced of the gameplay it’s not worth the 30(?) bucks. Yea I think I might do a review on this one, I just need to bring myself to play it more. Though ironically this weekend I’ll be trying to allocate some time towards studying for my permit test(zomg Monday). You know… so I can drive real cars.

One last note, it seems my little drama story (which I decided to only post at my main blog) has got me twice the feedburner subscribers! Woo! 8!… um yea, I know. I think it’s a big improvement though. Also, don’t expect me to blog like that again. Well maybe a bonus blog - yea ok - but I still try to avoid personal posts.

Some days I don’t know where I am. Figuratively of course. This weeks post was highly delayed because I planned on posting my broadcasting project, only to find it fairly difficult to export. Or actually I played back the exported/compressed file in windows[VLC,zoom]: Nothing. Played it back on a mac[quicktime]: Bingo! Screw imovie and it’s compression techniques(codecs..), my next project(which will be actual reporting - sorry) will have to be done in final cut. imovie is too… weak.

Continuing on my last post a bit, I opened up my last Nintendo Power(or as we know it). Sure there were obvious hints that the NP staff was being booted out the door(editor’s note) but I question how far in advance. I say this because there were at least 2 or 3 places in the magazine where they still encourage you to visit the Nintendo forums - which have been inaccessible for about 3(?) weeks now. I have a feeling we knew almost before they did! Quite sad.

Now let us celebrate Sin and Punishment finally coming to America! Yay! Ok, I still don’t have a wii. But if you have a wii I highly recommend you purchase/download it. Just remember: Change it to normal, and don’t bother with easy. The game leaves out some of the insane stuff if you put it on easy. Sin and Punishment is an easy game on it’s own - compared to most other Treasure games. If you’re not into Treasure games already this game(well, and Gunstar) will change that. I heard they even improved the graphics a bit. *insert “tighten up the graphics” joke here*

Ok, last on my list here for today is the fact I finally joined myspace. “ZOMG Nick joined MySpace!?” is what you’re thinking, right? Because I swore to never ever join MySpace, but I caved recently… I have my reasons. Blog will totally still be here, MySpace is a terribly designed website and is nothing compared to my little template-tweaked blogspot page. So anyways, here’s my page if you know me you can send a friend request or something. But if you’re some random internet-troll guy looking for more friends on MySpace don’t even bother. I’m very strict about approval of friends… and in case you’re wondering I sent a request to Ken Ishii - he’s a DJ and I like his music, so yea. If you have no intentions of ever joining MySpace, don’t have an account, ect. ect. - then I encourage you to click the link anyways for some awesome dZihan & kamien music.
Sliiiding~

Is this goodbye? My internet roots? Wiped from the internet for good? 14,503 posts gone up in smoke? This is where it all started for me, all my (geek)knowledge and obsessions spawned one way or another from here. I can only hope they’re making some sort of major move or upgrade, but seeing as Nintendo power(the main drive behind the forums in the first place) is now being sold to Future publishing I don’t hold out much hope. Worst part is I never liked Future publishing, I always hear about how many mistakes they make. Also, if(at least) my account isn’t linked to my subscription anymore I might just drop the magazine and support the good guys over at uncle Ziff.

I’ve got nothing on TGS here, in fact I avoided posting anything over at DS-X2 about it. The rule: post one thing, might as well post’em all - and I’m not doing that. I’ve got school to work on…

Speaking of school, I’m adding a few more touches to the video for broadcasting and so I’m not sure when it’ll be ready. This is pretty much a one man operation so I’ve got to take my time and make sure it turns out the way I want it to. Also, I promised I would take a video of the blue spark on my VGA switch for someone, but I filmed it and it didn’t seem to show up on camera very well(or really at all). Bummer really, but it’s nothing special, my VGA connector probably could use some grounding of its own. I’m not going to bother really…

Halo3 launch is upon us, and I’ve been invited by multiple friends to come over and play it(as they know I don’t have a 360). Bungie even admitted the second one was rushed and broken. As result they’ve taken their time with Halo 3 and I think it shows. Looks a lot better than previous versions by far(and I’m not just talking graphics), and I’m actually looking forward to it.