| 2024/10/08 |
| This summer was the worst ever, just insane
fucking heat nonstop, in the previous years there were at
least a few days or week when it was cold or rainy but
this time absolutely nothing, just between 30-40 degrees
all the time and it barely cooled down at night. It was so
hot in my room I could barely use my PC
to browse the internet, the CPU was above 70 degrees just
by opening Google and I couldn't watch videos without it
overheating like crazy. Seriously fuck all those global
warming denier American piece of fucking shits, good for
you to have cold there too meanwhile my fucking country is
turning into a fucking desert and it barely ever goes
under 0 in winters anymore, go fuck yourselves you fucking
scumbags. Thank fucking god for my PlayStation
Portable, it's literally a lifesaver in
this situation. I started to realize the only animes that
interest me are those 80s or 90s cyberpunk or B movie tier
action or scifi ones with a lot of violence and sex lmao
so I tried to prepare for the summer with those. I watched
Dominion Tank Police (meh, it was so cheesy lol about this
police squad with tanks), Lily C.A.T. (Alien and The Thing
ripoff lol, nothing special), Black Magic M-66 (The
Terminator ripoff lol, same), Neo Tokyo (3 short stories,
one is like a girl and her cat lost in a very surreal
dreamlike world, a racer with supernatural powers that
lost his mind and goes insanely fast, and a construction
site in the middle of nowhere where robots have gone
insane and everything is collapsing and the only human
there is trying to shut them down, these weren't that good
either eh), Metropolis (I watched it because of the art
deco style but it was so childish), Goku Midnigh Eye (this
was cool about this dude whose robot eye can connect to
any computer, lot's of awesome nudity and violence lmao),
Grey: Digital Target (some post-apocalyptic world where a
computer sends towns to fight and they get points to
advance, meh), Wicked City (this was fucking awesome, tons
of gore and sex lmao in a world where demons and humans
have a treaty and this man and a demon chick gotta protect
a dude to sign the next one), Memories (this is something
I wanted to watch for a long time but I didn't know what
it's about but I fucking hated it because everyone was so
fucking dumb, it's 3 short stories, the first is some
space salvage crew finding a space station with some opera
singer but they see these holograms and think their family
is actually there like how the fuck would they end up
there dude, another one where this lab worker takes some
experimental pills that kills everyone around him and he
starts walking to Tokyo to give everything about the
research to the boss but how fucking retarded you have to
be to not notice that everyone is dying around you and the
entire military is trying to kill you it just made me so
mad, and then another story with some WW1 world where the
entire city is revolved around firing these big cannons,
this one had a really cool artstyle that reminded me of a
Christmas book my grandma had when I was a kid but I have
no idea what it's called, it was some town on a snowy
mountain where this dude makes really cool gagdets in his
workshop) and Venus Wars (it was about some war in the
colonized Venus where this motorbike racing crew joins the
resistance, meh). I also wanted to watch some art animes
because I love art films, but only a few exists lol (no
wonder when most anime is fucking trash), 1001 Nights is I
guess is an adaptation of the Arabian Nights about his
princess who dreams with her love, it was so surreal and
dreamlike and the artstyle was really cool. The other one
is Angel's Egg which is the best anime I've ever seen,
like so much better than everything else, it's about this
girl who lives in this desolate world and she tries to
protect an egg and she meets this dude and they both seem
to be immortals, it's supposed to be a critique of blindly
religious people and it reminded me of a Polish movie
called On the Silver Globe, which could have been one of
the greatest films ever made but those fucking commie
bastards banned it and like 20% of it is missing and
director just filmed driving around in a car and talking
about what the missing scenes would have been which ruined
the entire fucking movie for me and made it unwatchable. I
also watched some movies, some I converted some just
downloaded as UMD ISOs (especially after I ran out of
games to play near the end of summer), The Bourne Identity
was really cool I wanted to watch it for a long time, The
Bourne Supremacy was good too but I fucking hated what
they did to the girl, why do they always have to kill them
off in sequels? Heavy Metal was pretty cool too it was a
bunch of animated short stories, I liked the one with the
taxi driver a lot (it was like the The Fifth Element), it
had lot's of nudity and violence too lmao. And I watched
Demolition Man lmao it was so cheesy, there were a couple
more animes and movies I wanted to watch but I ran out of
time, I will watch them next summer. I also spent a few
weeks watching a video on YouTube with gameplays from
every PlayStation
3 game and wrote down the games I want to
play in release order, no suprise that most of them are
games I thought about playing on the Xbox
360 before but
I didn't want to waste DVDs as I had tons of other games
that interest me more, but there are some exclusives and
other games I found that I never heard of and they look
interesting. And because of that I will play on my PlayStation
3 more than I thought I would, and also
because I'm really worried about the future of my
consoles, like there is no way I could replace the thermal
paste so because of that I'm only gonna play on my Xbox
360 when it's
under 15 degrees, and on my Xbox and PlayStation
2 when it's under 25 degrees. I also did
some more research on what I can do on my PlayStation
3, I got another app called Movian M7 which
is a media player that can play mkv files with subtitles
which my Xbox
360 can't do
so maybe I can watch them on my TV too, and found out what
more I can do with webman MOD, like how to load ISOs and
how to disable syscalls which allows you to connect to the
PlayStation Network
and play games online, I downloaded Call of Duty 4:
Modern Warfare to test it because that's a game I
could never play online on PC
because fucking PunkBuster just refused to work no matter
what I tried, and it fucking worked lmao I played it a
couple of times and haven't gotten banned lol, and I
downloaded YouTube too but it froze when I tried to fast
forward a video lol. I decided to use the remaining
Verbatims on games that I either can't play on the PlayStation
3 or are downright broken there lol, most
of them I've never really thought about playing before,
some of them I've never even heard of and there were some
I've heard but I thought they're completely different
games. The problem is I kept getting an error on the
Verbatims I bought last year, only one finished burning
after I already went through half of them and I got scared
that my burner is dying, but right at that time I found
another pack for insanely cheap and these were those great
Singapore quality ones I've never had before, but these
all worked lol so maybe I got fucked over with the other
one eh, or maybe the rest of them will work who knows. I
also started reading X-Men comics again, I finally managed
to finish those dogshit early ones but I had to suffer
through these insanely stupid lists that for some reason
are in chronological order which I fucking hate and I
don't understand what the fuck is wrong with those idiots
who make them, like here read this shit from the 60s then
go to this one from the 90s then back to the 60s, like do
you fucking think they just waited 30 fucking years for
something they always planned? Of course not, they just
made that shit up decades later, release order is the only
thing that makes any sense. I found a good one that lists
everything with their release dates too so I could just
ignore all those stupid shit. By the mid 70s it started to
get enjoyable, but then I stopped to read the ones with
Galactus too because I had a comic with him when I was a
kid and I always found the concept fascinating, but it's
gonna take so many fucking years to read everything I want
eh. |
| 2024/05/03 |
| Unexpected update: I bought a PlayStation 3. I've been
thinking about RGHing my Xbox
360, but I
would never ever attempt soldering, no fucking way I could
do it without fucking it up, I don't even have any tools
to do it, and there is like only one guy left in this
country who still does that shit and I heard it could
potentially fuck up and ruin your console, and no fucking
way I would ever trust anyone in this shithole. Even if I
would it isn't cheap and with the train tickets to go
there and eat somewhere while I'm waiting for it to be
finished it would be pretty close in price to just buying
one
used. But I didn't want to have another Xbox
360, so I
thought what if I buy a PlayStation
3 instead, it costs the same amount and it
would give me access to more games I can't play on the Xbox
360. To be
honest I always thought the PlayStation
3 was a fucking disaster (well, I still
do), especially for 600 dollars, the only game I remember
that I wanted to play was inFamous,
and looking through the list of exclusives it's pretty
awful lol, I feel bad for anyone who didn't have a Xbox
360 back in
those days. Still there are some that look interesting,
like the Resistance series (made by the Spyro
and Ratchet & Clank devs), Folklore, God
of
War III etc and actually there are a lot of
download only games that I'm more excited about than
retail games lol. And it can play PlayStation,
PlayStation
2 and PlayStation
Portable games which makes it a good backup
in case something happens to those consoles. I'm still
gonna use my Xbox
360 to play
the games I'm interested in, but there are a few games
that play better on the PlayStation
3 and I would play the multi disc games
there too like Dead Space 2. And to be honest
there really aren't many games left I would buy any
Verbatim discs for, like the rest of those games I would
try out would be fine there. I wanted to find a CECH-2500
model because I heard it's the most reliable one and I
managed to find one a few days ago for a really cheap
price and that's when I decided to buy it. This is the
last model with CFW support (not all though, it depends on
the date code) so that also made it an easier decision. It
wasn't hard to install it, I used Evilnat and it's an
interesting hacking method, you need to open a website
from the PlayStation 3
browser to flash it lol (built in Wi-Fi makes it easier to
use) then install the hacked update from a flash drive.
Even the unmodded menu was a bit confusing, it looks like
the PlayStation
Portable interface but with the CFW there
are so many new options lol. I installed 3 apps, multiMAN
which is needed for FTP and to play ISOs I think, webMAN
MOD for fan control (I switched to Auto #2, it looks like
the best option) which might makes it possible to play
during summers when it isn't above 30 degrees (and it was
cleaned and repasted), and PS2 Classics Vault which you
can use to download games on the console, like straight
from the Sony store lmao, hell you can even go online they
don't ban you lmao, you can download patches officially
too lol. It doesn't have every game, mostly just the ones
released online too, so I gotta look into how it works
exactly, but because of Blu-ray some games are like 30GB
wtf, I don't even have any space to download those yet
alone extract them, I bought a 64GB flash drive just in
case, hopefully that would be enough (holy fuck since when
are these so cheap, I'm really out of touch with current
prices). I downloaded a few games from that store and the
install times are noticeably longer than on the Xbox
360 but it's
not too bad. One thing I was worried about was how it will
look on my TV, cause when I got this Samsung LED TV both
in
720p and in 1080p the games looked blurry as hell on my Xbox
360, I found
an article that explained all the display options and
switching the TV to PC
mode and picking 1360x768 made everything look crystal
clear, I guess the console is weird that way (I will add
that article to the links page, it's really useful). But PlayStation 3 doesn't seem
to have that problem and everything looks fine lol. Also
it's hilarious that the controller is almost exactly the
same lmao (I remember the original banana design lmao,
what a fucking joke that was, then of course they
pretended it was just a concept lmao yeah right), they
just turned the R2 and L2 buttons into these weird
triggers, and there is some motion sensor shit too (fuck
that shit lmao). I'm not gonna use it very often till I
get to 2006 on my PlayStation
2 (that's gonna be like so many years eh),
it was more like a purchase for the future. I'm also
preparing for the summer, I converted a shitton of movies
to watch them on my PlayStation
Portable (I don't know why I like watching
them there, it's just so comfy). Oh and a few months ago Halo
2 finally got added to Insignia, they even added the
DLCs too lol, I played it for a few weeks and it was so
much
fun. Of course the playerbase disappeared again but that
was expected unfortunately. |
| 2023/10/27 |
| Another mostly Sony console focused post.
Because the insane summer heat was coming up I mostly just
focused on my PlayStation
Portable. It really bothered me that I
don't have any case for it and I just store it in the
cupboard, I already managed to scratch the screen twice
and it drives me insane so I wanted a screen protector
too. I bought screen protectors and a clear case where you
can still play on the console without taking it out on
AliExpress, and suprisingly it arrived in like 3 weeks, it
usually takes months for everything to get here from
commie China. Of course the case is a cheaply made piece
of shit like everything from China, it wouldn't protect it
from shit plus the top of the screen cover had a crack on
it but I could just lift it up so that's not really an
issue, the problem is I could barely plug in the charger
and I play without battery because I don't want it to
bulge and explode lmao and I want it to last for a long
time. Well still it's good enough to store it in something
plus I have the screen protector too, and before I put it
on I wanted to open the PlayStation
Portable and clean it inside, especially
that giant fucking dust ball inside the screen which drove
me fucking insane. It had so much dirt inside lol, I
cleaned up the faceplate with some water and soap, and the
LCD screen carefully with a microfiber cloth, the fucking
dust shit barely wanted to get off, plus there seems to be
some fungus like shit inside I couldn't clean off but it's
not visible when I play. And man the screen look so much
better since I cleaned it, there was so much fucking
little dust inside it's unbelievable. There was 3 screen
protectors in the package and of course I fucked it up
with the first one, I'm so bad at aligning shit, the
second one I was able to put it on perfectly without any
air bubbles. I don't know how much these cheap garbage
Chinese shit protect but it looks ok so far. I also looked
more into the programs and emulators and fan games, I had
a Game Boy Advance one
already for a few games and I got some for Sega systems
too like Mega Drive
and Mega CD,
I usually hate 2D games but there are a few ones that look
cool or play like a third person game, or something like Snatcher
which is like an adventure game. It seems like the
emulator is almost perfect, but most people use a newer
version that isn't even compatible with the PlayStation
Portable, someone just ported it back and
most games are broken as fuck, the last real PicoDrive
version was 1.51b so get that one. Then I found some Halo
fan game which is like multiplayer only with bots lol I
wish the real games had them too. I also added a Turok
inspired game which has a proper campaign which is pretty
impressive. But their order was all fucked up, I wanted to
keep the emulators and PlayStation
games separate and I found some programs that're supposed
to let you change it but they just fucked everything up,
but I found this one called PSP Filer where you can change
the last modified date and change the order that way and
it works perfectly. I also had comic and book reader
programs on it already but I don't really use those, it's
crazy how much shit you can do on this device. I also got
fascinated by the idea of watching movies on it, back in
the 2000s I would have lost my mind for a portable DVD
player like that. But I didn't just want to convert MP4
videos, I wanted to play those UMD movies with menus and
shit and turned out it's possible, you just load up the
ISO and that's it, the problem is no one has archived all
of them but you can still find some large collections. I
was in a cyberpunk mood all summer so I watched Akira on
it which I liked and I didn't feel like the small screen
takes away from the experience, so I wanted to find more
from the 80s and 90s (because the artstyle after that is
fucking disgusting I don't understand how anyone could
watch them) and I found out about AD Police Files but it
was part of series so I had to watch Bubblegum Crisis
first and it was fucking terrible juvenile girly garbage
like most anime, but man AD Police Files was fucking
awesome it had a completely different tone, then continued
with Bubblegum Crash which is the same shit as the first
one, and finally Parasite Dolls which was alright and I
think I read something like it was one of the last hand
drawn animes that's why it looked better than anything
since the 90s. I also found out about Appleseed which had
a UMD release, so I watched the 80s original and of course
same garbage as most of these, and the other one was
pretty bad too. Well the ones without ISOs I converted
with HandBreak with burned in subtitles (and English dubs
of course, how the fuck could anyone tolerate Japanese
voice acting is beyond me), for some reason they either
looked like shit first or didn't want to play at all, the
settings that worked for me the best are Encoder Level:
Baseline, Encoder Tune: None and Encoder Level: 2.1, the
rest I think is pretty obvious. I also wanted to watch
Perfect Blue but the UMD release had fucked up aspect
ratio and no subtitles so I downloaded a DVD ISO and
ripped the movie and the extras and converted lol, it was
ok I guess, nice to see some nudity in these cartoons lol.
And at last I watched the Starship Troopers UMD lmao, to
me it's just a stupid B movie about killing bugs nothing
more, I refuse to treat it as a satire of propaganda. As
for games, I played tons of Lumines: Puzzle Fusion
and normally I would never play games like this, but my Xbox
360 has some
trial games on it and I played Lumines Live! when
I was bored and I found it suprisingly addictive so I
downloaded the original game and it's actually really fun.
I also got Go! Sudoku (the European version, the
American is literally broken) and Mind Quiz: Exercise
Your Brain to get my shitty brain back on track lol.
The reason why I don't list these games is because there
is no way I could ever finish them and I only played them
when there was nothing else to play. Well that's about the
PlayStation
Portable, which is fucking awesome to have
in summer, seriously I can't imagine what else would I do
without it. There are some games that don't work in OPL,
most notably Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War so I
bought a 10 pack of Verbatim DVDs which should be more
than enough, but they accidentally sent me a 50 pack lmao
so now I have tons of fucking DVDs. Anyway I patched the
ISO with the ESR method because that's the only way to
play discs on Free MCBoot but the same shit happened as
with the FreeDVDBoot DVD, it barely wanted to read it and
it made such horrible noises I was scared it's gonna kill
the disc drive. So I looked up online what could be the
issue and some people were saying never burn on the
slowest speed, it's some leftover myth from the early
2000s and it's the worst thing you could do to your disc.
And I know I burned them on 4x speed which is the slowest,
and they said you should be burning on half of the max
supported speed. So I burned the game again on 8x speed
and of course the PlayStation
2 immediately reads the disc and loads fast
as fuck without any issues. Of course most people online
would be telling you to replace the laser as they would
have when the ribbon cable was the problem, never fucking
listen to those morons there is nothing wrong with your
laser. And for last, I bought 10 Verbatim discs for my Xbox
360 too lol
because they were insanely cheap (like 20% of what they
cost) and I can't miss an opportunity like that. And it
turned out there are still lots of games I would be
interested in playing, especially some late ones I didn't
really know about so it should be enough for a while. Oh I
forgot to mention I got a Play and Charge Kit cable too
for my Xbox
360. AA
batteries cost like 3 times as much now for some fucking
reason so I can't just buy a cheap pack and use it for a
few weeks, so to save money I wanted to get one, some dude
was selling the cable only (you don't need the battery, it
works without it too which is fucking awesome) and luckily
I asked first if
it's still available but it wasn't, he wanted to sell me
some Chinese garbage instead for the same price yeah fuck
right off, but a few weeks later someone else was selling
the OEM cable for half the price lmao so I got lucky
again. And it's great, honestly I prefer having cables it
feels more real (I need my fucking cables and buttons to
press, I still can't get used to typing on a smartphone)
and I don't have to worry about it disconnecting when the
controller vibrates like crazy and the battery is low. |
| 2023/04/08 |
| This is going to be a Sony console centric
blogpost. So I started looking for a solution to play NTSC
PlayStation
games with disc swapping more than a year ago, I went
through lots of old archives and forums, and some people
said you can patch the game and make it PAL but that would
add shitty black bars on the top or bottom, and the speed
wouldn't be correct. I looked through French, German,
Italian, Russian forums lol searching for keywords and
someone said you can get the correct speed with changing
the video mode to NTSC in GSM, but I think that would only
play the games in 480i. There is Mechapwn too which came
out around that time but that woulnd't allow me to play
NTSC games on my model without patching games to PAL and
you have to burn discs in a special way which means I
couldn't play the games I already burned, and it fucks
with Free MCBoot so no thanks. But someone mentioned
PS1VModeNeg on a forum which would play the games in their
correct speed, but then I read about it and there was a
note that said it could literally make your TV blow up
lmao wtf, so I was scared to try it out and that's why it
took me more than a year to play NTSC games. On another
forum and one a French one some people mentioned that you
can burn an Action Replay or GameShark disc which would
stop your disc drive and you can swap the disc again and
then press play in the menu and launch the game and it
would pass the boot screen that way. Now the question was
which disc would be the boot disc in this situation,
because with this method you can only play games that are
smaller in size. I couldn't really find an answer online,
but I wanted to play Metal Gear Solid without the
shitty black bars so I put together all these methods and
came up with the solution that could work. Here is what I
did: I downloaded PS1VModeNeg v1.01 (later one doesn't
work) and an iso called "Action Replay 2 Version 2.23
(Europe) (En,Fr,De,It) (Disc 2) (Bonus PSone Codes!)
(Unl)" (but apparently "Breaker Pro Version 1.1 (Europe)
(Unl)" could work too) and burned a CD and I copied
PS1VModeNeg to the memory card. Then as usual I put in my
original PlayStation
game and held down R1 when I turned on the PlayStation
2 to go into uLaunchELF which stops the
disc drive. Now I swapped the disc with Action Replay 2
Version 2.23 and launched PS1VModeNeg (then ran the fuck
out of the room in case my TV would explode lmao, it
didn't) which then launched it in NTSC mode and the screen
was all fucked up because it's a PAL disc. Then I selected
Start game without cheats or something like that, which
means the disc drive stopped again and I could swap it
with my NTSC disc and then I pressed X. This passed the PlayStation
boot screen entirely and the game launched fine with the
correct picture and speed! And I played through both Metal
Gear
Solid discs and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
which means the original PlayStation
game you start with is the boot disc. So I was really
happy to have a working solution but then near the end of
the first disc of Metal Gear Solid I noticed light
scratches on the bottom of the disc, which means the
ribbon cable was scratching discs again. I checked and the
tape didn't hold it down anymore so I taped it down again
but then it barely wanted to read discs and the game froze
once so I was like oh god did I fuck up the laser somehow?
Well turned out damaged ribbon cables can cause this so it
was time to replace it which I was not looking forward to
do. I found the only online store in my shithole that
sells ribbon cables lmao and I ordered one (it's really
cheap) but there are no good tutorials online and
unplugging shit was a nightmare, but I managed to replace
it and it fixed everything lol, it reads discs instantly
with barely any load times and I don't have to worry about
disc scratching anymore. From what I've read online
everyone says it's always the laser when this happens and
you need to replace it, and a lot of people complain it
still doesn't work after replacing it so I can guarantee
you it's the ribbon cable, always try to replace that when
this happens out of nowhere. Because I've been playing
more and more PlayStation
games on my PlayStation
Portable I was also looking for a solution
to play games that might have some issues there, and I
found out about PopsLoader which would allow me to switch
between earlier version of the official Sony emulator as
there are some games that don't work on the latest one. It
also has the CDDA Enabler plugin which could fix sound
issues. The problem was compatibility lists are from the
2000s so they are outdated as fuck lol but I found an up
to date one and I will add that to the links page. And
about Insignia, shit's dead as fuck lmao, it's like
everyone left. I hate people who just check out some cool
thing then leave and never touch it again. I couldn't find
anyone online for months until recently, but only on the
weekends when they add new games. At least I could
experience Call of Duty 2: Big Red One and Tom
Clancy's Rainbow
Six 3 online too, they are really fun. |
| 2022/11/28 |
| Not much happened until very recently, big
they are two really big things so I thought I should talk
about them. Sometimes I browse local marketplaces to see
what they have, even if it's something I don't need. Well
I found some housewife selling a 25 pack Verbatims for
half the price I bought my 10 packs, no way I'm gonna find
a deal like this ever again. The problem was they are
printable discs and I didn't know if they are meant to be
burned differently or something, but apparently not so it
was a no brainer, I just had to buy it. Looking through
lists again, there are still some games I would like to
try so I'm sure they will be enough, and maybe I could
have a few as backups because some of the shitty quality
discs that came with my Xbox
360 barely
wanted to work recently. But the most important news is
the launch of Insignia. A few years ago I heard about this
project which wants to bring back Xbox
Live, but I
thought it's never gonna happen because so much time had
passed. But then they announced the closed beta starts in
November and you can sign up and register your Xbox
so I did immediately lol. I didn't even had the stock
dashboard installed lol so I had to find my softmod disc
again but I could test the connection and it worked. Then
the day came and I was waiting for my invite code but I
didn't recieve one. I tried the codes they posted on
Twitter too but they didn't work anymore. But at the end
of the day I finally got my invite and I managed to create
a gamertag, with the name I've been using in games for
like 20 years, which is so basic it's usually claimed
everywhere else but here I could have it lol. Man I was so
excited I don't even remember which game I tried first, it
might have been Midtown Madness 3, which came with
my Xbox and I played it a lot based on how much
shit I unlocked lol but I barely remember it. And it has
all these game modes that you can't play alone, like being
a cop and chasing other cars, or trying to take some gold
to a place before other cars, it's actually a lot of fun.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour seems to be one of the
more popular games which is weird lol, I actually bought
it back in the day because I loved this series and I
wanted to play all of the games (Call of Duty 3 was
one of the first games I burned for my Xbox
360), but it's
such a terrible game lmao but still I'm having fun with
this one too (on the first day I actually killed that
Modern Vintage Gamer guy in the game lmao). I downloaded Counter-Strike
too, I've never played it but it's a multiplayer only game
(with bots too), it's a bit weird like I don't think you
can zoom in your weapon but this can be fun too. Unreal
Championship is pretty cool too, I'm not the best
but I'm not the worst either lol, it's really fast paced
compared to other games. I could finally try out MechAssault
too a few days ago and I was right it's a lot more fun in
multiplayer lol, and Crimson Skies: High Road to
Revenge which is awesome and much better than the
singleplayer (it's weird that barely anyone wants to play
these games). It sounds like online multiplayer just makes
everything better but that's not true, Whacked!
felt exactly like the same and XIII is actually
worse, the gunplay is terrible I can barely hit anyone for
some reason. And then the next Monday they added my
favorite games, Star Wars: Battlefront and Star
Wars:
Battlefront
II! I can't believe I could
finally experience them online on Xbox (I played
them on PC
before but it sucks there), and I knew decades of playing
these games would prepare me lmao because I'm dominating
everyone lol. It's so much fun even though they are kinda
laggy. I just hope people will keep playing, it's already
hard to find games with enough people. There is another
way to play online with XLink Kai which is like system
link through the internet, but it fucking sucks I have to
disable the router and the computer firewall just to
launch it and the only game people play is Halo 2,
and just Slayer with shotgun and energy sword on that
shitty snow map over and over again, so fuck that. |
| 2022/04/06 |
| Well here is a new update: I bought a PlayStation Portable. I'd
been trying to find one for a couple months, I almost
bought one but it was in a really bad shape without a
charger. Most of them are quite expensive and I just can't
justify spending that much money. But a week ago I found a
wallet when I was walking home, and I found the guy and
contacted him. He gave me a lot of money for returning it
(and turned out he is a boss and said if I ever need a job
just call him and he will hire me instantly lmao), and the
next day I randomly looked up PlayStation
Portable online sales and someone was
selling a 3004 in my city for really cheap and in a
really good shape. I felt like this was a sign and bought
it later that day. And it came with a charger and a 64GB
memory card which is like the largest you can use I
believe. It also came with 2 Need for Speed games
on UMD but I'm not gonna use that when you can just play
games from the memory card lol. Seriously I can't believe
how cheap it was, they go for like twice this much at
least. So just like with the TV and the PlayStation
2, the best solution is always just waiting
for months for the right one to pop up. It didn't come
with an USB cable, and it turns out it needs Mini USB
which I thought I don't have. But I realized I had this
card reader and I can probably insert the card and just
copy the games to it, and I was thinking where could it be
when I realized it's outside somewhere in a bag lol. When
I found it I immediately realized it has a removable Mini
USB cable so I didn't needed it anymore lol. For some
reason though it doesn't want to charge the console, but
it's a really old one so I will buy one and see if it
works, but it's not a big deal because it copies files and
the charger works great. And seems like the battery lasts
for a long time too so that's great. When I wanted to
download games I quickly realized I only know a few, and I
was worried if it was the right choice to spend my money
on it, but as I went through a list of games I found so
many I want to play that it's definitely worth it lol. As
for the first game, MediEvil: Resurrection would
be an obvious choice, but as it is a remake and I just
played the original on PlayStation
a few months ago, I would rather wait with it a year or
more. Apparently it can play PlayStation
games too, so I might use it for the games I don't want to
waste a CD for if that shitty emulator doesn't work well.
And it has some interesting homebrew games and emulators
too, but I need to read more about them later. So finally
I have all the consoles I ever wanted,
hurray! And about the lack of reviews, I just don't have
energy to type all that shit anymore. I need to return to
the style of my earliest ones, where I just wrote a few
lines about the games. Luckily I took notes of all the
games I've played so I can always write them later. |
| 2021/08/26 |
| A lot of things happened in the past few
months: first of all, could barely play anything thanks to
the insane heat we had all summer. It was worse than ever,
and as I said said earlier I fucking hate summers in
general but with this heat it was unbearable. Every couple
weeks it got cold enough for a day or two so I could play
a little bit but that was my entire gaming in the last 3
months. Seriously, fuck all global warming deniers,
especially those retarded Americans, just because you
don't see it happening in your country doesn't mean it
isn't noticable somewhere else in the world. Finally it
looks like the heat is gone and it's gonna stay cold. Just
in time for my new acquisitions... There is a lot of them:
I got a new 80 something cm Samsung LED TV, which looks so
much better than my older HDTV which was really small and
the black colors were kinda fucked up on it. Then I also
found a 72cm Sony Trinitron CRT I was looking for, which
is really hard to find, especially because almost all of
them seem to be those shitty 100hz TVs and this one also
has an NTSC mode which I really wanted. My other CRT was
too small for my eyes and the picture was all fucked up
and it looked really fucking awful with black bars
everywhere on my PlayStation
2 for some reason. This one isn't perfect
either, the geometry isn't the best (especially
horizontally) but I improved it a little bit in the
service menu, it's still much better than the previous one
though. But the colors looked pretty bad and the picture
was blurry as fuck, I was worried until I found out that's
how it looks on larger TVs with composite lol. So the next
step was finding new cables. The TV has RGB and S-Video
inputs, I use my Xbox the most so it was the
obvious choice for the better picture (and it's a 1.6, the
older models can't output RGB colors correctly!). I only
wanted official cables, and it took a while to find them
used on the German eBay for cheap (I used the "family
member in Germany" glitch to avoid the expensive shipping
cost lol). When I turned on the Xbox with the
Advanced SCART Cable I couldn't believe how beautiful it
looks: the colors are soooo vivid and everything looks
sharp as fuck, it's fucking incredible. The Sony S-Video
cable was a big improvement too, but the colors aren't
that noticeably better, however the awful blurriness is
gone. And finally: I wasn't sure if I should use my PlayStation
2 to play PlayStation
games, it seemed like buying the console was cheaper than
buying a game, a memory card and new CDs, and I was scared
I will fuck up something by taping down the ribbon cable
and the sensors. But I couldn't find one for cheap, they
are more expensive than a PlayStation
2 for some reason lol. Recently I found an
official memory card for cheap, I was trying to bid in the
last minute but apparently a lot of people want one lol so
the price went up like crazy in the last minute bidding
war. At the same time I found a German Tomb Raider II
copy from the same seller, and I decided to go all in on
that one. My winning bid just came in 2 seconds before the
auction ended lmao, and it was pretty cheap. So I got the
original game, next step was finding a memory card. It
turned out it's also possible to use non-official cards
with a trick, so I bought the cheapest one I could find
(it was sold by a guy who used to write in a gaming
magazine 20+ years ago, I recognized his name). So now all
I needed was some CDs, so I bought 20 of them for really
cheap. The final step: the taping mod. It was a bit messy,
especially fixing the ribbon cable, but I managed to tape
down everything. When the CDs arrived, I was really
excited to try it out. I burned a game, put the Tomb
Raider II disc in the PlayStation
2 and turned it on while holding a button
to boot up PSXLauncher. I opened the lid, and the disc
wasn't spinning, so my sensor taping was successful, and
no scratches either by the ribbon cable! I put in the CD,
then pressed X and the PlayStation
logo showed up and the game booted up perfectly! At first
I wasn't sure what to do with the memory card because the
game only wants to save to Slot 1, but apparently you can
just remove the FreeMcBoot
memory
card
during
the
game,
so
it
recognized
it
and
formatted it, so everything works! I'm
really excited to discover some new games, I
know I also have the Nintendo 64 emulator but I
just didn't really find any game that looks that
interesting to me, I pretty much only use it to
play something like Diddy Kong Racing, Mario
Kart
64, or F-Zero X. I will take
another look at some point, but right now I'm
more interested in discovering the PlayStation's
library.
I
think
I
already
know
what's
the
first
game
I'm gonna play, but I also need to figure
out how to play different region games. |
| 2021/03/04 |
| Couple new acquisitions: I had this shitty
bootleg chink HDD Transfer Kit I bought more than 10 years
ago, I used it to transfer title updates to my Xbox
360. Now that
shit died, so I bought another one on eBay: that one
wasn't working either, what a suprise (their shitty
tracker didn't show it was delivered so I just said it
never arrived and I got my money back lmao, fuck that
country and their cheap shitty products). After doing some
research it turns out you can copy any game data from USB
flash drives if they are formatted by the console first. I
don't remember if this was a thing a decade ago, I
remember there was an update that allowed games to be
installed on them, that's probably when it happened.
Anyway I bought a 16GB SanDisk flash drive, it was really
cheap and I found a coupon that made shipping free. I had
a smaller one (2GB) I could easily use for title updates,
but I need it to play installed XGD3 games (for some
reason if you start playing a music from your flash drive
then you can start those games without any errors, I have
no idea who discovered this but bless him lol) and I
actually found out some Xbox
Live Arcade games and
DLCs were DRM free, and after some deep googling I found
them on various different sites. So I'm gonna play some of
the DLCs too for games like Dragon Age: Origins, Borderlands,
BioShock Infinite etc. Speaking of BioShock
Infinite, I finally found a copy really cheap and I
bought it, so I got my second and last original Xbox
360 game lmao.
It had a shitty sticker on it from the store that sold it,
I managed to peel it off, I hate when they do that shit.
And so the biggest news: I bought a PlayStation
2. I was looking at some games
recently I would love to try out, and I was doing some
research to see which models are the best and how to
softmod them. At first I wanted to buy a fat model
because you can add a HDD (and I just think the
originals are always the best looking), but it needs a
network adapter and there is no way I could find one
used in this country with it. Slims have ethernet
ports but I didn't want to buy discs for it, because I
know how unreliable the lasers in these consoles were.
It turns out you can connect the console to your PC and run games from there. And
there is a new method called FreeDVDBoot where
you just need to burn a DVD and you can softmod
the console with that. So I was looking through
some local sites every once in a while but they
cost more than what I wanted to pay. But I
checked it again last week, and I found the
exact model I was looking for, with original
memory card and controller (most of the time I
see them with shitty bootleg ones), without a
modchip on a local eBay like auction website,
starting from zero, whoever has the biggest bid
wins when it expires. It felt like a sign, I
knew I was gonna go for it. I had a price in my
mind I was willing to give for it - basically
half of what I usually see on these sites, and I
thought if I'm lucky it might be just enough,
because in this shithole people are so dumb they
still think this is the 2000s and you need a
modchip to play pirated games, they ain't gonna
waste money on original games. So I was getting
ready for a bidding war, checking the auction
every day. There was a lot of bidding for a
while then it slowed down a lot, there was only
one bid on the last day, I thought it's gonna be
an intense last minute battle. But minutes
before it ended it was still the same price. So
I put my bid on it, refreshing it like crazy
every second to see who is gonna battle with me.
No one did. I won. For almost half of what I
wanted to pay maximum, for the third of other
consoles with modchips (there was actually
another auction like this but that console had a
modchip, of course the price was higher on that
and there were still a couple days left). Lmao.
So I had the DVD and FreeMcBoot and OPL on my
flash drive ready. When the console arrived, I
couldn't believe how tiny it is. It looks so
cheaply made, no wonder they made so much, the
way you put the disc in it is just ridiculous.
It didn't want to read the DVD, but it came with
an original game (XIII, which I'm not
gonna play there, I have it on Xbox) and
it had no problems reading that, so I thought
great, I can go and buy another DVD. I looked at
the disc and saw these circular scratches, and I
saw them on the game too. Apparently it's a
common problem with Slims, caused by the shitty
ribbon cable. But I just kept trying over and
over again until it just read the disc, and I
could install the softmod and the program needed
to run games from the PC.
I set up everything today, downloaded a game to see if
it works and it played the game! I think I'm gonna
clean it first and try to tape down the ribbon cable.
And tape down the sensors too, because apparently
that's what needed to play PlayStation games with softmod (there is a way
to do that with an emulator, but it's not
compatible with the game I want to play the most,
and the model I bought is the only slim that can
play them without issues). I need a memory card
and an original game to play burned games, so that's
not
gonna
happen
for
a
while.
I
never
really
cared
for
Sony consoles, I think I only played on a PlayStation
2 once at some kid's
house, I couldn't believe how bad Star Wars:
Battlefront looked compared to my Xbox
version, and that's a common thing for multiplat
games, so I'm still gonna play most games there.
But there are a couple exclusives I really want to
play, like the Ace Combat games, Ico
or Shadow of the Colossus for example. The
controller is fucking awful though, the analog
stick placement is retarded, and those R and L
buttons feel so bad compared to triggers. Also
it's so small, it's weird to hold it with my big
hands, I hope I can get used to it. I think I'm
gonna make a list of games I want to play first, I
probably gonna start playing on it after that (I
already know the first game is gonna be Ico).
I
also
need
to
find
a
Sony
Trinitron
TV,
because
on
this cheap shit I have the picture has
a shitty black bar on the right and it isn't
really centered. I have this issue with some Xbox
games too, I hope I can get lucky with a TV too. |
| 2020/10/16 |
| So I bought another pack of Verbatims right
after the last post, but more than half of them were
coasters and that made me really mad because I can't waste
my money like that. I checked on Amazon how return works,
no way I would have sent it back but after writing my
complaint they gave my money back in a gift card and I
didn't even have to send it back! What I did was I bought
another pack with it lol and seems like they all work so I
got one and a half pack for one's price, pretty good deal.
I also bought another one from a local website recently
because
they had a discount and I didn't even have to pay for
shipping and that's just a deal I couldn't miss. And
because I found more games I'm interested in than discs I
had it was perfect timing. Now I really can't think of
more games to play so this was probably the last one I
bought. I didn't really play much in the summer because
the heat was just unbearable and my room was really hot
too, so there were times I didn't turn on my Xbox
360 for a
weeks, and never more than just 30 minutes. I hate summers
so much, my body just breaks down if it's more than 20
degrees, I can't breath or sleep, I'm sweating all the
time, the fan is constantly on and it doesn't even help
that much, and I'm just in my underwear for months. And
no, I'm not fat and I've never been fat, I was skinny most
of my life but now my BMI is perfect. It got really cold
recently and I can finally play more which is awesome. |
| 2020/05/31 |
| Lot of things happened on the Xbox 360 front: I wanted to fix the USB flap on the faceplate then I realized I should clean out the console too. It was so hard to open it, I was so scared I'm gonna break something. Also it's ridiculous but that small plastic thingy that broke off was still in there lol, so I glued it back on and when I was trying it out a couple times it broke off and now I can't find it! Anyway the console was really dusty, this was the first time it was opened since 2012 I believe. Suprisingly the heatsinks barely had any dust on them, but the fans looked terrible. Here is a PHOTO of how it looked (it's missing the spiderwebs and dead spider that were on the back of the DVD drive lol). I'm way too scared to replace the thermal paste, hopefully that won't be a problem. And it shouldn't be: I always knew it's a Jasper, but I never knew it's the Kronos revision, which are the most reliable ones (yes, more reliable than the Slim and E models!). It was really suprising because it was made in early August, which makes it one of the earliest Kronos consoles out there, pretty cool. Anyway I cleaned it up and put it back together. It was still loud when I played from the disc, but I don't have to do that anymore because I finally finished Alien: Isolation. Also I was checking the Verbatim price on Amazon to see if it goes down a bit and I noticed there were only 10 something left, so I had no choice but to buy another pack. The problem is I'm not sure what games to burn. I burned 9 so far, one disc was a coaster but that turned out to be a good thing actually (unless I'm gonna need another disc in the future lol), I will tell why when I finish playing that game, it's such a ridiculous story! There are some games that can't be burned with a normal drive and there are two of them that I'm interested in. One is Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, which became the first retail game I've ever bought lmao. I have like 60+ games and this is the first one, crazy (I don't care what people think about piracy, I've always been poor and I'm not gonna miss out on things because I was born in a shithole with no opportunities). It was cheap and used, and it looks so awesome so I had to do it. The other game is BioShock Infinite, but I'm not sure about this and I don't have more money to waste. I will finish the first game on PC which I stopped playing years ago too and decide, but I don't remember liking it that much. Also I organized the way I think I'm gonna be playing games: I'm trying to pick games based on release date (the earlier ones first), and play not more than 3 games on Xbox at the same time. One would be a shooter, then some kind of adventure game without guns, and maybe some other short and easy game inbetween the two. On the Xbox 360 it would be 2 games max, an easy game that I can just play randomly (I feel like that's gonna be EDF for a while) and then something else, either a game I haven't finished or an earlier title. The reason why I left so many games unfinished is because new titles were coming out around 2010-11 when I was still playing something else, then I stopped for a new game and circle continued. I'm watching longplays on YouTube to catch up with them, and of games that I played on PC and didn't like but I have the sequel which should be a lot better. Well, I hope I can put together a list of games that I want to burn soon. |
| 2020/05/02 |
| Man it's crazy how many games I've left
unfinished. Games I just stopped playing 5-10 years ago
and it feels like just a few years. I think I'm not gonna
play anything new on Xbox
360 until I
finish at least some of them. I played a little bit of Alien:
Isolation, I was so excited for that game because it
feels and looks like the first Alien movie. I love those
sci-fi movies with futuristic analog technology so fucking
much. Alien, Star Wars, Blade Runner. God I just love that
so much and this game is full of it. I don't even know why
I stopped playing, I remember it was ridiculously
stressful though. I'm gonna rewatch the missions I've
played just to remind myself what's going on, I remember
the alien got blown out of the airlock and there was
something about androids but not much else. At least I
remember something, I will have to start a new game with Red
Dead
Redemption because I forgot everything. This
might have been the only game I've played on a 720p TV
with HDMI cable, and the last Xbox
360 game I've
played (with the exception of Earth Defense Force 2025,
which I've only started playing recently). Every other one
I played on my shitty CRT with
composite cable, I didn't even know there is a graphical
difference. I played Ace Combat 6's tutorial just
to try it out and it looks so gorgeous. Also I discovered
so many cool games I would like to play, mostly RPGs. I've
never really been into that genre, I mean fantasy RPGs,
but I'm playing Fable: The Lost Chapters and I'm
enjoying it. It's gonna take a while to get there, these
games take a long time to finish so I hope I will have
more DVDs by then. |
| 2020/04/23 |
| Finally my Verbatim discs arrived. This is
the first time I ordered something from Amazon and it took
them a week just to ship it because of that stupid virus.
Who the hell buys food from Amazon anyway? I guess I
should talk about this virus as the great happening of our
time: it has no effect on my life whatsoever lmao. Well
except for going out less to buy food. I understand that
we can't overwhelm hospitals (especially in this shithole)
but the panic is ridiculous. You know what else is
ridiculous? People going crazy because they have to stay
home. They have access to all the movies, music, books,
games, whatever in the world through the internet but
that's boring, they gotta go out and socialize lmao. "All
of
humanity's
problems
stem
from
man's
inability
to
sit
quietly
in
a
room
alone." What a great quote. Anyway
I bought 10 discs, I thought about buying the 25 pack but
I went with the cheaper option because it should be enough
for the games I really want to play. Here is a few of
them: Perfect Dark Zero: I remember when it came
out and I thought it looks good, but I've never played
the original and I'm gonna do that first on my Nintendo 64
emulator. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Advanced Warfighter: I remember seeing it in
stores and in
a magazine I bought and I was obsessed with it. This is
probably the Crimson Skies of my Xbox
360 lol. Syndicate:
I don't know much about it but I thought it looked
awesome when it came out so I gotta try it out. Lost Planet: Extreme
Condition: I actually thought about getting
this ages ago but it didn't look interesting enough,
but after reading more about it I want to play it. Ace
Combat
6: looks like a really good flight sim
and I can't wait to try it out. |
| 2020/04/16 |
| Last night before falling asleep I was
thinking about making a website where I post about the
games
I've finished playing. I've flirted with this idea for a
while after lurking on /retro/, and I used to have one
almost 2 decades ago but I forgot everything and I'm too
much of a brainlet to do real coding so I'm using
SeaMonkey. Recently I rearranged some stuff in my room and
put my old Xbox and my Xbox
360 to more accessible
places. I got really into the idea of playing older games
again (new games just suck, everything is either DLC
ridden cancer or half assed early access indie garbage,
and I'm kinda stuck in the past and still think the
graphics on 10-15 years old games look great) so upgraded
my old Xbox with a newer softmod and bought a
bigger HDD, as for my Xbox
360 I ordered some
Verbatim discs. As for why consoles, I just don't like PC gaming that much and I
have an
ancient toaster that would make it harder anyway (although
I want to play a few games there too). I've downloaded so
many games (including a Nintendo
64 emulator with 212
games
for my Xbox) it's gonna take years to go through
all of them (I have a bad case of simulation sickness, I
may talk about it later but I can't really play more than
30 minutes or an hour or I will get a pretty bad
headache). But whenever I will finish a game I will write
my thoughts about it, but no ratings because that's lame.
I don't like attention so I don't want to write those on
imageboards but I like the idea of leaving my thoughts
behind as a time capsule, maybe some day someone will find
it and read through it, I like doing that with old
websites although it always makes me sad (some other time
I will tell why). I may post about personal stuff too but
I'm really paranoid about that, my family never left me
any personal space and always wanted to get into my
private life and ruin shit and that kinda fucked me up. |
