Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:29:00 GMT
Day six was the free day for the set tour, and even though there were many other options open to me, I decided to go and look for stuff to buy again.
The day went well, details are within. Actually, I’m writing this entry on the evening of day six as I’m catching up on my backlog. But you probably won’t have seen it until a day or two later, because I first need to (a) find some Internet access that doesn’t suck in a country which is allegedly well-connected, and (b) get all the previous entries checked and put up first.
I found the wifi hotspot in the hotel, but my laptop can’t connect to it so it’s as good as broken. Why can’t they just give us an ethernet jack and be done with it? I’d rather pay ¥500 per day for that than the same amount for wifi that doesn’t even connect.
…and as for what happened today…
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:54:00 GMT
Looks like I have a bit of free time. Not enough time to post photos though, I guess that can come later. I don’t have enough time to properly hyperlink this entry right now, so if you find reference to something you’ve never heard of, JFGI.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:50:00 GMT
Kirby: Canvas Curse on DS is probsbly the best game of its kind.
Anyway, I think I might be getting faster.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:24:00 GMT
I haven’t posted for a while, so I thought I might owe the few readers I have, a bit of an update to give some kind of poor excuse for my lack of posting recently.
The media centre is basically complete, with the operating system installed and bits of MythTV already working. A PVR-150 card has been ordered for video capture, which comes with its own IR receiver, so I should be able to get some kind of agreement going between my universal remote and LIRC.
I ordered the PVR card some time ago, but it went on back-order so I don’t know exactly when it will be arriving. I have been putting off actually plugging things in yet though, because nothing is worse than having to disconnect and reconnect a piece of home entertainment equipment – that cabinet is just not meant to be touched, ever. I did measure things up though, and the unit fits in the cabinet with just enough space to breathe.
Gaming-wise, I have been playing through Metroid Prime: Hunters. The game isn’t exactly challenging per se (I haven’t met a hunter yet who was a problem to kill – the sniping one was the hardest so far, mainly because they kept going invisible) but finding the right direction to go is a major issue at the current point in time. I don’t want to use a walkthrough, but if I can’t get anywhere in another hour or so I’ll probably be forced to.
I’ve also been pushing through Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll
But most of my time over the past several weeks has been sunk into a certain anime series which has crawled into my brain and stuck there, poking around to see how I will react. I think I’ve watched certain episodes eight times over now, so maybe it will burn out at some point in time. Unfortunately I don’t know which will burn out first – my brain, or my interest in the series. In the meantime, I have some t-shirts to make.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:15:00 GMT
Well, I said I’d blog about Nintendo DS games, and it didn’t really happen except for my
little email to Capcom about the “fabulous” voice acting in their latest game (I actually did send that, incidentally… it wasn’t one of those “open letters” which people put on a blog and then expect the company to run across by accident.)
And you know, because I didn’t blog about DS games, people complained. So this entry should keep those people happy, or at least sedated.
Since I seem to have a little time to burn, and I don’t have a large amount of text for any of these,
I’m just going to run off the first few games I bought and played on the Nintendo DS, and drop some
commentary on those. You know, so that these games don’t feel left out if I initially start going on
about Kirby.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:34:00 GMT
From: Trejkaz <trejkaz@trypticon.org>
To: Capcom <megamail@capcom.com>
Subject: Battle Network 5 DS Voice Acting
I don’t know if feedback like this ever really has an effect, but I have to say something or maybe nobody will.
Lan/Netto is a 12-year old kid (or thereabouts.)
MegaMan.exe/Rockman.exe is based on Lan’s brother, Hub/Saito, who we are led to believe is of a similar age.
Why, then, is the voice acting done to sound like an 18-year-old?
The Japanese version of the game at least sounded right, and I wasn’t put off because the voices were tastefully done.
But I bought the US release, and then found out that the voice acting was completely unacceptable,
and I would go so far as to say that it makes me cringe every time any character talks.
It’s so bad that I have to wear headphones so that other people don’t think I’m playing a lame game.
So that you don’t make the same kind of mistake again, perhaps it would help in the future to take into account things like the age
of characters in the game, and to hire voice actors capable of sounding the part. I’m sure there are plenty of qualified voice actors
out there who can mimic voices in other languages, so you could even make it sound like the original game if you wanted.
In the meantime, perhaps for the European release you might like to take the couple of months you have to add in an option to
disable the voice in the game, so that users at least have a workaround.
TX
Tags gaming, megaman, nintendods, rockman
Posted by Trejkaz
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:58:00 GMT
It seems forever since I made my last weblog entry, so I feel like I’m under some kind of obligation to make one now. Today we’ll talk about gaming.
Despite what my blog might suggest, I am really a gamer before a developer. I find it somewhat surprising that I don’t blog about the subject constantly,
considering that I tend to spend more time gaming than writing code. Perhaps the problem is that, when games are on my mind,
I would rather be sitting down and playing them than talking about it.
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