Catch yourself some B.A.S.S.

B.A.S.S.

Beneath a Steel Sky...


For those of you that do not know this name it might be a moot point. However for some "hardcore adventure gamers" you already know and love this post-apocalopticaenseitiy work.

-It's available free...

-On the awesome DC Evolution website...

-For the muther-f'ing DREAMCAST...

-FULL GAME PLAY...

-Full saving function...

-And you can use the dreamcast mouse and keyboard...

How the hell have I waited this long to play the damn thing and to blog about? I really don't know. I personally think it's an awesome game. And believe me it's worth getting the files and burning a CD-R just to watch the intro to this game...

A quick rundown of the game places you in an Australian post-apocalyptical outback wasteland after a helicopter crash. Since Mel Gibson is nowhere to be seen in this game you are adopted into a tribe of desert dwellers and learn to live in your new harsh environment. Then *stuff* happens and you start the game armed only with the powers of POINT and CLICK.

Let me stress again that some people might not like this game. However, it's a small download, it's a classic, the game has rabid fans and again it's worth the download just to see the intro. (HINT: Limited animation comic book scenes.)

The graphics are not all that grand in scale but the style is great and I still used my new VGA box to play it.

The sound is good in this game...But the voices in the CD version of the game had me actually laughing. Not because they were bad or anything, the voices are actually quite good for a retro game! But if you are a gaming fan listen to some of the character audio for the first scene after the intro. The "bad guy goon" voice is just so awesomely retro, I just could not stand it.

Gameplay? I LOVED the Quest for Glory series. I mean REALLY LOVED that series. So yeah, my personal perspective might be off on this...needless to say I liked it.

So yeah, even for the short comic book style intro you might want to sacrifice a CD-R and some bandwidth to get this.

DOWNLOAD OPTIONS...

OK you got two options here:

1. EASY

There is the Nero file here if you have a Nero burning program.


http://www.dcevolution.net/game_bass.php


Download the file Nero (81.3 Megs) and try burning it.

2. A bit more involved

The more complicated way of doing this is getting the plain files from the DC evo site (4.4 Megs)


And then get the CD or floppy version of BASS from the ScummVM site. Since the CD version comes with voices I highly suggest that.


http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php (Scroll down to the "Extras" menu)


Beneath a Steel Sky, Freeware CD Version


The DC Evo site says to only put the Sky.dsk and Sky.dnr files from the CD file in the plain files folder. However I also downloaded the extra file and put that in as well.

Beneath a Steel Sky, SKY.CPT - required to run the game with a post-0.7.* ScummVM


I do not know if this will cause problems or not but it seems to work fine.


Download bootdreams and install it.


http://consolevision.com/members/dchelp/index.php?download=BootDreams_101b.exe


Finally make a .CDI of the folder with Bootdreams. Then put a blank 700 Meg CD-R into your disk burner and use Bootdreams again to burn the .CDI file you just created.


Put it in yer dreamcast and enjoy...

So to summarize...


Get plain files folder:


http://www.dcevolution.net/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=ScummVMBASSforDCplainfiles.zip


BASS CD file:


Beneath a Steel Sky, Freeware CD Version (67M)


BASS CD fix file (optional because I do not know if this is required or not)


Beneath a Steel Sky, SKY.CPT - required to run the game with a post-0.7.* ScummVM


UNZIP EVERYTHING


Put the CD files and the fix file into the folder containing the Plain files.


Get bootdreams


http://consolevision.com/members/dchelp/index.php?download=BootDreams_101b.exe


Use Bootdreams to make a .cdi then burn it.

Boom. You got a classic game on an awesome system.

Now use that Dreamcast mouse for something other than FPS!!!! (Don't worry the game still works well with a standard dreamcast controller.)


BIG THANKS to DC Evolution and the people at ScummVM for putting this up.

I am the most bad ass guy ever to throw a spear at a kangaroo...

*This paragraph is not about Retro games*


I called the entire episode of LOST last night. I came into the living room about 7 minutes late but I still managed to guess the ENTIRE plot of the episode, including the ending within a minute of watching it. I read a lot and I am pretty sure that that whole episode was based on a short story I read once or something since I CALLED it. The fake death, the betrayal, the ending, EVERYTHING. So yeah, now I have bragging rights on that.


*We now return you to your regular retro programming*

Some random Dreamcast pics.

I found these on a random search!

Dream_Points

A dreamcast clock?????

Sonic loves the wailings of drunken businessmen.

Sonic loves the Karaoke. Who knew?

Silver
The weirdest? A Toyota model Dreamcast!



WTF?

A bunch of old video game commericals.

The first time I noticed video game commercials was when they started advertising for FF7. However, they had been making the damn things for a LONG time now.

When I was looking over old Kotaku articles I noticed this beauty of a list.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clips-a-brief-history-of-console-tv-ads-224170.php

Notice how the Philips CDi commercial was better than the Saturn one.

Also a favorite was the 1993 Atari Jaguar Commercial for Alien VD Predator (last commercial in the video clip) Holy crap that was pretty damn violent and freaky...



So take a look at how advertising companies who know nothing about video games have screwed up video game ads throughout the ages!

Cool Dreamcast podcast.

Press start has a really nice podcast up talking all about the dreamcast.

Download it here...

http://pressstartpodcast.com/?p=19

Included are topics like the startup beep and how the Dreamcast Keyboard and Mouse destroyed the standard controller in FPS games like Unreal T.

Oh my god...

No words to describe this...



http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/category/zelda/

I think this is about the Treamcast...

I like me a good dolphin

Classic Game Room reviews ECCO THE DOLPHIN...

WTF?

Seriously, wtf?



My next video better turn out better than this.

A sad dreamcast tribute

A nice little dreamcast tribute featuring some stills of various games.

Cool Soul Calibur Video.

This is pretty good...

HeLL-CaLiBuR
Uploaded by Buta_Gaz

And why am I still posting other peoples videos and not my own?

Because last weekend I was too hung over thats why! And I was cleaning my NES this week \/. So yeah. I am going to have some time today and over the weekend to edit some stuff though.

I also got contact info for the cable station for info about a public access show.

Ragh!

Fixin' the old NES.

First off yes, I have an NES. In fact I happen to have 2. I love my SMS for sure and I love using the genesis controller in it to play Phantasy Star. But for cripes sake! I bought and NES at a garage sale for $5 and another for $9 at a salvation army. It's a fun little system to screw around with dammit! So get off my back!

I am still a Sega fan at heart. In fact I was still using my Dreamcast to play NES games because my real NES was not working properly at all. (The other NES has Zelda in in and I do not want to take out the game.) However, the flashing blue screens were driving me crazy so I decided to try to fix the actual system.

SO I found this guide...
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/nesrepair/

I am not one to bitch about electronics but the f'ing screws that they use to put that thing together suck major ass.

Anyways I go through the whole thing and even spray it with some contact cleaner/protector from work. I carefully clean off all the contacts and even re-clean all my games. (Lotsa dirty Q-tips)

Result?

Blue Screen flash...ARGH!!!!!!

But with some minor jiggling to the left and right MOST of the games I have work fine (Even the VERY beat up Link game). Much better than the system was before. I think the the games that do not work properly are broken or too badly tarnished to clean without cleaning solvent.

Final thought on the classic gaming article? I don't know. My NES was from 1985 and it was BEAT UP and stored in a damp place. That guide might work on a NES that has been treated better but in my case it was only partially successful. But better a partial success than nothing working at all right? If you have multiple NES systems try it. It's easy enough if you can install RAM into a computer.

GAMES THAT I PLAYED YESTERDAY ON MY SOMEWHAT RESTORED NES\

Of all the games that I played Link was the most surprizing since I did not have high hopes for it. It turns out to be a pretty good game though!

Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest) is still a fun RPG IMHO. I just like the simple setup and the cool little enemies you face off against.

Punch out is still a classic. I played Ready to Rumble a bit afterword and I have to say I really liked Punch Out better. And remember people I BEAT Mike Tyson in that game!

Double Dragon 2 is MUCH easier than the PC version that I played on my 386 computer back in the day. I HATED that PC game because of the buggy nature. NES version is cooler. Little touches like the fight on the helicopter where you and your enemies can get sucked out the door are cool. Controls are a bit weird.

Needless to say I have to get one of the dual SNES/NES players they are selling out there. My SNES still has a weird graphics problem that cannot be fixed.

The most awesome video I have seen in awhile.

It's the ORIGINAL CAST from "Karate Kid". Holy shit...

AWESOME...



WOW.

COBRA KAI!!!!!!!!! LIVE OR DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have gots to get me some o' this.

I have two keyboards...

http://kotaku.com/gaming/dreamcast/clip-kill-the-undead-by-typing-245445.php

Blast from the past.

Well my friend Ralph Suarez has created a new site for his video projects. (Some of which I wrote and appeared in) It looks great! http://www.warmmilkpro.com/

It really motivated me to get some shit done.

Thats it! I am getting some video stuff done this weekend!

He also uploaded some of his projects on google video. Warm Milk 2 was one of my favorites. You don't even need to watch War Milk 1! You might not like all the inside jokes but it's still a good video on it's own. I appear about three times in this movie as two characters. The shaved headed goon of the moviemaker Vince and as "archie" a character that I protrayed in many college movies and TV shows. I like the Archie spot the best. Watch the movie! It's pretty cool to look back on the days of college angst.



Also I wrote a couple of skits for this episode of Disorderly Conduct: "The Racist" and "Dark Romance of the Vampyre".

Disorderly Conduct Ep2 - The Stash Bash
Uploaded by RalphyS

New survey!

New survey is up at Sega!

Again there are some game series from the Dreamcast and Saturn!

Show your love for the House of the Dead!

Or whatever is your favorite...

Alien Syndrome? wtf? Is that the SMS game that won't work with a Genesis controller? Was there another version of that game? Why the hell is THAT on there?

I guess that Sega is going to keep on giving out these polls to get some fan feedback about what games to release onto the virtual console, so keep checking the main site to see if there is a new one up and keep on picking your favorites!

Craigslist...The new way to find Dreamcast stuff?

Well as you all know there are two kinds of people out there. Those that know how awesome the dreamcast is and those that do not.

So we all know that on ebay there are two kinds of people selling stuff. Those that want to get as much money as possible and those that just want to get rid of their dreamcast stuff (Heretics! Savages!).

But when someone just wants to get rid of their stuff about a half a dozen dreamcast fans sniff out the sales and drive the bidding price higher (Sometimes higher than the people trying to make a profit) There are exceptions but that is the general rule...

So. You are gonna get screwed over by a collector who has more money to spend than you or a shifty dealer who wants to wring as much cash out of you that they can.

But I have found a new way...The craiglist way...

Buy searching your town and surrounding area you might be able to find some GOLDEN DREAMCAST DEALS!

In my case I quickly found three different ads up for dreamcast stuff that caught my eye. The people all wanted to get rid of their old dreamcast stuff and didn't want much money for it.

Not that this is perfect mind you. Alot of scammers and people just trying to make money are there as well (as well as some people selling burned games) However you can usually avoid these jerks.

Also there is an increased chance that someone will try to screw you over by selling damaged stuff or simply not taking your money.

However, compared to the pox ridden money whore that Ebay has turned into craigslist seemed like a milk skinned virgin to me. Of course like all honest women craiglist will eventually fall from grace...and some say it already has started...

For example one of the people I made an offer to was VERY rude to me when I told him how much I was willing to pay for his dreamcast and games he didn't bother to name.

QUICK NOTE: If you have an auction where you only make a vague reference to what you are selling you shouldn't be rude to someone who offers you a low amount. This guy did NOT state what games were in his collection. So why would he be pissed that someone offered a low price? He said to make an offer!!! Most people like me would assume that he was simply trying to get rid of the stuff (like others were). But from his response he was just a snake trying to rip people off or an asshole. (Or just too goddamn stupid to list what he was selling) [or a stupid asshole, whatever]

It's the same as when people say that they "don't know if the item works" or it is "not tested". If they have that in the item description then the item is broke. There might be a slim chance that they really do not know if the item works so someone might place a really low bid on it. If the seller gets as pissy as this guy did it usually means they are fishing for people with too much money on their hands.

So as in ALL cases in life there ARE people trying to rip you off and there WILL be stupid people.

Currently I think it is easier to tell them apart on Craigslist than Ebay.

But that is no excuse for you not to take a quick look at craigslist to see if anyone has any dreamcast goodness they want to get rid of.

In a mere 15 mintues of searching I found some willing to sell this:

Dreamcast - all cables
2 controllers
Blue VMU
Soul Calibur
Crazy taxi 2
Sonic Adv
Sonic Shuffle
(Another game that Ican't for the life of me remember)
Demo disk
Web browser 2

and a

VGA BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything in MINT condition. And I mean no external case marks. Inserts still in the disk. Ads and contests still in case. MINT!

How much?

$30.

How far away from my job did I have to drive?

6 minutes.

No freaking joke.

I also found 2 other great deals which I will share with you soon.

Craigslist.

Perhaps it's time you looked up "dreamcast" in your area?

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Soul Calibur on VGA box...
so beautiful...
they should...
have sent...
a poet...
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Sphere.

http://www.jigsaw.x0.com/sphere_e/index.html
[sphere]

Holy crap. Once you start this I dare you to try to stop...

Point and click at it's very best.

My biggest pet peeve? The fucking rabbit doesn't look like a duck. And the duck doesn't look like a rabbit. THE DAMN DUCK LOOKS LIKE A RABBIT. IT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A DUCK!


I only beat this game at the cost of a large portion of my sanity. Be warned...

*Spoilers*

The frog is the key...

Never leave anything lying around.

Look in every corner.

Pots can get dirty. You need a nice damp bit of something to clean that off.

For your health look carefully at green leafy vegatables.

The scale is only useful if you complete it and tip it upside down.

This is just AWESOME.

FF VII ripped off!

This made me laugh. I love Final fantasy 7 and I have not finished it yet. I really have to soon.

It looks like this Korean pop star's video was ripped right from the movei Advent Children.



On another note I actually HAVE a 2 DVD copy of advent children that I have never watched. I guess I really want to finish off FF7 before I watch it. I bought it for like 5 dollars from a closing rental store so yeah.

I have watched cutscenes from both the movie and the game though. In fact in college I pretty much watched my roomate play through the whole game.

...This week when I have some free time I really need to get out my new PS1 and take up the challenge.

...but I have so many new dreamcast toys!!!! Oh the agony of being a collector...too many games to play...

Beats of Rage!!!!!!!!!

I am currently waiting for some dreamcast stuff that I found online. (Not ebay) I will post a full article on this later.

So while I was bored last night I explored some of the cool beats of rage mods that I found on the DC evolution site.

Beats of Rage is a homebrew fighting video game that is pretty exactly like Streets of Rage. The awesome people who made this program made it very easy to edit, so there are a TON of different versions out there.

Here are some of my favs.

Hatchet Ninja - Beats of Rage collection 2 - By far the best music and characters. Featuring a story that was so bad it was good! The collection also contains 8 other Beat em up homebrews.
http://www.dcevolution.net/collection_borvol2.php

Crisis Evil 1+2
Not as fun as the regular RE games: this beat 'em up makes you depend on the > > *punch* moves to allow you to use ranged weapons. Still awesome custom enemies from all the RE games! Nice difference in what character you use. Jill has an easier ranger weapon to use while Chris can beat the crap outta zombies close range and finish them with a shotgun blast.
http://www.dcevolution.net/game_crisisevil.php

Battle toads. I never thought I would like this game...But it actually changes the game up enough to make it cool! Nice animations and cartoony graphics. Wildly different levels with some platforming levels thrown in. Plus Weapons! And the guy from the Comic Zone video game (I didn't want to play as a Battletoad). Nice air combo option.
http://www.dcevolution.net/game_battletoads.php

One of the few 4 player beat of rages mods! Gotta pick the streetfighter version to get the four player option. Final Fight last round is great!
http://www.dcevolution.net/game_finalfight.php

ALL these mods have cool menus that let you choose NTSC (N. America) OR PAL (Europe) versions of all the games. So even the blokes on the other end o' the pond can play them.

To use these mods get the .cdi (diskjuggler image) from the right of the menu on the evolution site.

Then download bootdreams:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/BootDreams

Put a blank 800 meg CDR in your burner drive.

Run bootdreams and click on the burn .cdi option. Find the BoR .cdi file that you downloaded from the evolution site. Bootdreams should do the rest.

Let the CD cool off a second and try it out in your dreamcast. I VERY rarely had a CD burned in this manner not work when doing this.

Since these games are free I think they are well worth the price of a CD-R.

More reviews soon!

Still no meaningfull content yet...

I have been trying to plan my next video project but it has been hard going. Work is still sucking because of the virus on all the older NT systems we use for most of our media programs.

I do have some good ideas though and hopefully I can edit something soon.

Also I am now posting my Saturn related stuff up at the Saturn Junkyard. Check it out >>>

Until I get anothe video or review up here is one of my favorite classic webcomics dealing with the dreamast!

From the awesome people at Penny-Arcade.

No...wait THIS is my favorite comics from Penny-Arcade.

SEGA fans check this out!

HOLY Kotaku article batman!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/sega/sega-fanboys-go-vote-for-franchise-revival-242146.php

Sega is actually running a site that lets fans vote on what games should go on to the Wii.

Choices are limited to

NiGHTS
Streets of Rage
Samba de Amigo
Virtua Cop
Flicky

Right now NiGHTS is winning...

But Samba de Amigo should get a real chance! Please vote for your favorite at this site!

As a Saturn fan and a Dreamcast lover I cannot tell you who I voted for...(Except it involves a monkey and maracas!)

The poll is on SEGA's main site...

http://www.sega.com/home.php

Virus

So yeah at work for the last couple of days a virus attack has destroyed some of the software I use on a daily basis to edit the local news cutins. Most of my equipment and computers has been effected.

So now instead of editing on a digital system I have been reduced to editing on a level of non linear editing with digital elements.

Basically I have no more code to enter into the computer and I have to arrange all elements of the newscast, videos, graphics, camera shots, sound, EVERYTHING in manually.

It's a rough equivalent of editing using rocks.

Imagine entering the code VO4 into the computer when the system is working and the result is the ending video for the local news runs. Now without the program I have to select the correct tape and computer file for the ending. Manually rack the tape to the correct timecode, manually set the freaking thing at the end of the news rundown and set it so it runs for the correct amount of time. It's so goddamn time consuming! And this is all eventually aired live so if I forget one little detail it's all on air for everyone to see.

And I am the only person in the goddamn control room. Back in the day there was literally a dozen people in the control room all helping to put on the news. Nowdays with digital tech, it's watered down to one. Me.

Normally I love this job. However this little experience has taught me that reliance on all the digital editing tricks and software that I use has made me somewhat weak in other areas of media.

So if I am alittle light on the blogging this weak please forgive me.

Berserk is Beat!

Yes I finished "Sword of the Beserk" yesterday!



All in all I really have very little to say about this game that you haven't already heard. Good graphics. Controls are stiff. Cutting enemies apart is cool.





A few things though.

Why the hell does the normal mode only unlock boss fighting? I really don't feel like playing the whole game on easy to get the minigame that can be unlocked! I will one day of course, just not right now.

I think the game is fun as hell...then someone decided to "change things up" and put in a few weird sequences were you are running down a hallway jumping over stuff and avoiding plants that hurt you if you touch them. I don't want to give anything away but if you trip up, even a alittle bit, you WILL DIE. And the game doesn't allow you to save right before that. Run out of continues and tough shit...You have to go through a pretty tough battle before you can try again. BS! Many games have challenging areas that make you feel good when you beat them...Others have VERY annoying areas that suck because of bad controll or field of view. This one is more annoying than challenging.

You gotta keep an eye on the rage meter. When you are in rage mode you do more damage and take very little. No use wasting health if you go into a rage and destroy everything around you without taking to much damage.

You have the option of using a handbow or the seven foot dragonslayer sword as your primary weapon. If you choose the sword you can also use some ranged weapons that you have in limited quantities. Throwing knives, spiked bombs and handcannon rounds. You can get more ammo after beating bosses, starting the game over at a save point or smashing crates, knives are umlimited ammo. Spiked bombs are good for throwing behind you when running or sticking to certain enemies. The handcannon just DESTROYS monsters with a well aimed blast but has limited ammo. The knives that you throw seem useless most of the time. However, some of the weaker enemies can be hurt with knives and they are useful to test out the defense of the boss monsters. Why waste a bomb or the precious handcannon to work out the timing of when a monster will be weak to an attack? I actually used this method on the final boss and ended up beating the thing with a well timed handcannon shot after using knives to find out when the boss's denfenses were down.

Some enemies and bosses are weak to the running jumping sword attack. Just jumping will only give you a basic jumping attack. Time it out a bit more and you will get a much better attack.

The toughest fight was midway through the game. That always bugs me. Maybe it was just my playing style but the final bosses were weak compated to an earlier one. You will know what I am talking about if you ever play the game.

The story goes along with the anime so sometimes there was stuff going on that confused the hell out of me. Who the hell was that guy? Does Guts mark activate anytime some gets sacrificed??? WTF?

However playing this game is not about story. It's about cutting monsters in half with a 7 foot sword. Get used to the weird controls and have some fun.

Overall this game was fun. I like the graphics in the game. The gameplay was good but the controls seem a bit shoddy at times. It was TOO SHORT. Not enough gameplay.

Worth about $10 USD used.

7.5/10

I am going to blog today...maybe.

Well after this weekends 22.5 hour work fest I got sit down and relax down cellar!

And I played some dreamcast!

Yes I played UFC - A fun game until some jerk gets you to the ground with some cheap wrestling move and ground and pounds you...just like in the real UFC. Let them use their knees on the ground so wrestlers can't be so damn cheap all the time! Dammit... Still worth all the $.99 I paid for it.

I also played Crimson OX! And guess what FC? My North American version lightgun works gun fine. No using the arrow keys with a cursor for me! The graphics suck compared to HotD 2 but overall it's a much better game than I remembered. Maybe FC can get an N. American lightgun sometime and get the full experience. I actually got much farther into the game this time.

Then I beat the crap outta Sword of the Berserk! Finally that game is done. full review soon.

After that I stated up Record of Lodoss War again and I was suprised how cool it was. The item creation thing is a bit more confusing than I remember but overall it was alot more fun than I had recalled. More fun than the original diablo since enemies actually reappear allowing you to gain exp and money easier. I am a bit bored with the combat by now though...Give me a damn spell or ranged weapon already! The game might get better though.

The real dreamcast wouldn't be this whiney...

So...tired...should have brought dreamcast....

Dear Blog:

Why the hell did I accept this extra shift after working at my second job? Is it really worth the overtime...?

Well I am on the last stretch of the marathon work day....

My day started at 6:30 AM Sat And now it's 2:33 AM Sun. I have one more hour of work and 45 mins of driving to go. Holy shit. I am WIPED. WHY did I agree to work this extra shit???

So if there are words spelled wrong or shit that doesn't make sense...sorry.

On a positive note it seems that my blog was mentioned in the DCemulation forums so it seems that people are reading this blog. (just not posting any comments...)

I also got the email saying that I have officially been invited to write for the Saturn Junkyard. So will have to do a review for some stuff for then.

But I am really too damned tired to think about that right now. I just need to stay awake.

But here is some random stuff I found on my flash memory stick.

I recently forgot to trim my beard a couple of weeks ago and I was able to support a medium sized screwdriver from it...














After I trimmed up.

Also I have been using HP lightscribe CD-Rs for some of my emulator/homebrew stuff.

The gold labels looks kinda cool...but it's just not the same as full color.

Take a look.



Image before I tried to burn it.

After Lightscribe burning.

Most cool homebrew stuff comes with it's own labels that can easily be used with the lightscribe program.



So tired....


Yet I can't get too sleepy or else I am going to be in for a dangerous ride home. 3:45 AM is the time of night that all the drunks are out on the road. I literally have driven by accidents caused by drunk drivers before on my route many times so I will have to be double careful tonight.

Luckily I happen to have some Diet Mountain Dew to help me keep awake during the drive home...

More on Monday.

Overtime.

Yeah so I am at work right now covering a night shift at the TV station. I have to stay here until 3:30 AM. Since it is a weekend there is almost NOTHING for me to do... ....but hell overtime is overtime!

So look forward to some random bloggin'!

Star Trek is playing on our channel right now...Holy Crap. Khann!!!!!!!

I was going to bring my Dreamcast into work but at the last minute I decided against it. Turns out that was mistake...dreamcast is ALWAYS a good idea...

Anyways. Gagaman mentioned screw attack on the Dreamcast Junkyard so I am checking out some videos. They make me want to create some videos of my own.

Check this one out...it starts off annoying and unfunny...but just wait until these guys start playing Mario FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

http://www.screwattack.com/Flash%20HTML/AVG/2/2b.html
"So this is going to be our tip of the week" "Avoid everything in Mario World"

Muauahahahahahhaha!

*edit* I did have this video embedded but it was screwing up my blogger so I just linked it. Resizing videos and shit to make sure they don't mess with my blogger format is too much work to do when I am this tired...

Dreamcast Road trip!

Yeah so yesterday I decided to take the 2 hour round trip down to Syracuse to scope out some Dreamcast stuff. It was interesting.

First off I went to Hiawatha video near the Carousel Mall. I wasn't expecting much since I tried to call ahead to see what they had about 20 times the day before I went. I was dissapointed. Not because of a lack of video games though.

First off from the outside the place looked like a crack house. When you go inside you realise that it might actually BE a crack house. I half expected there to be a sign that said "please do not go into the back room because we are selling drugs and illegal handguns there" or maybe "windows are for pussies" (There were no windows in the place)

Dusty rooms filled hapzardly with shelves of movies and video games. Which would be totally awesome but they are all OUTRAGEOUSLY PRICED. And while there was ALOT of stuff almost none of it was rare or in any kind of good condition.

And the dreamcast stuff was lacking and high priced.
A $1.99 (amazon Price) 3rd party controller in box for 14.99???? A shitty looking dreamcast for $100.00?

So I did buy one dreamcast game (The others were all common games being sold for like $20) Industry Spy. It looked cool and I had never seen it before. Please do not ask what I paid for it. Too much. Thats all I am saying.

I tried to use my skills to talk down the price but the (manager?) old biker looking dude would have none of it. Normally I can easily talk down the price for ANYTHING but that was one grizzled old leather clad shitheel who did not want to haggle. He obvousely wanted to get back to buying stolen electronics from crackheads and didn't have the time for the likes of me. (He also managed to limit his side of the conversion to like five words)

All in all I got the feeling that the store was probably just a front. The extraordinary high priced and the multiple computers running in a side room led me to believe that that this store is nothing but a front to sell stolen stuff online (or other shit in the back room). Plus the other "customers" looked like a lineup off the sexual offender registry.

Needless to say I will not be going back there. If you are ever in Syracuse, save yourself some trouble and do not go there. (Unless you want to unload some hot Merch)



The NEXT place I visited was much better. The Game Craze store on Erie Blvd in Syracuse made my trip. NICE store. All the stuff is well organized into glass cases. Very nice. LOTS of stuff for ALL video games systems. A TON of imports and hard to find stuff. The even had a Wonderswan hand held (partially broken)!

Number one I got a good copy of the game Dragon Riders that I had been looking for. Not too bad $7. They had some controllers and stuff but I was looking to increase my game collection.

Then I looked at the middle of the room and saw what I love the most...bargain bins...Three large bargain bins full of stuff! The clerk told me that there might be some dreamcast stuff in there. There was a Ton of stuff in the bins. Mostly ps1 and ps2 and random stuff but there was a ton of random stuff as well.

So I did some diving and found some treasure! Most of the games in there had no case or instructions. Some of them were previous rentals. (one even had the dreaded "blockbuster sticker" more on that later in the blog)

So most of the games were a bit banged up and most had no cases and no instructions. But I found out that they all worked later on.


Bomberman -5.99
Resident Evil 3 - 5.99
Jet Grind Radio -2.99
House of the Dead 2 -2.99
Tony Hawk 2 - 2.99
Trickstyle -2.99
Soulfighter -2.99
Tomb Raider LR -2.99
UFC -.99

Nice haul for a road trip!

I already had copies of JGR, HotD2, RE3, TH2 and TR-LR. However the low prices and the good conditions of the actual disks made me want to get them just to have play copies. What happens down the road if some of my stuff gets stolen or broken?

Over all Bomberman is the best of this haul!

The opening in Bomberman is friggin' sweet! I had completly forgotten how fun Bomberman 1 was when I played it on an Emulator in high school, this version actually doesn't seem to stray far from the orginal concept. The single player is fun and I can't wait to challenge some other players.

Like I said before one of these games came with the "blockbuster sticker". This is a sticker that many rental places use to put their logo on a video game AND to sometimes attach a small strip of metal that activates alarms if it is stolen. This sticker fits right onto the label and is a pain in the ass when you buy second hand alot like me.

First off they look bad. Second they can actually unbalance the game disk if the MORON who put the metal strip on puts too far from the center of the disk. This makes the disk shudder, shake and rattle. Expecially in the dreamcast! Third it's almost impossible to take them off an older disk...Try to do it and you will pretty much RUIN the disk by ripping off the top layer of reflective coating..

The game that I got (Tomb Raider LR) looked good but some idiot blockbuster employee had put the security strip WAY too far out on the edge and the game sounded like it was going to break my dreamcast when I put it in.

So to fix this problem I used a few pieces of electric tape on the opposite side of the disk from the strip to balance the disk. It took two tries but now the Tomb Raider disk runs like a dream on my Dreamcast and doesn't make any rattling noise when it spins. This may seem like a pain to do but really wht else can you do? If someone knows a way to get those labels off old disks please let me know.

So all in all a good day!

I have to save up for another trip soon and hopefully they might have some more stuff in. (Or the manager at Game Craze will be in and I can haggle).

Peace out.

Dreamcast videos.

I have no clue...really I don't know what the hell this video is about.



If you had a dreameye IN BOX would you open it!?!??!?!?! I dunno. It might have been opened before.

Yet another crappy video!

I created yet another crappy video project in my spare time yesterday after work. The video quality is so bad I will not finish editing it. But I still decided to upload it since it was about the dreamcast. All in all it took me about 2 hours. (not counting rendering since I was eating dinner).
I wanted to do a video that was based on some of the darker games from the Dreamcast (a system which is sometimes unfairly labeled as girly). I had a bunch of stuff but ended up cuting alot of it because of bad video quality.

I was inspired by the video Gagaman did for the Dreamcast Junkyard.

TURN SOUND DOWN.

Dcshort
Video sent by Blandco

Oh those Japanese imports.

So I guess I really don't know that much about Japanese imports for the Dreamcast, save for those shumps that you can play without knowing how to speak Japanese.

There is some "interesting" stuff out there. For example check out this Ebay auction:

http://tinyurl.com/33fm7m

Yeah... It's a dating sim type game for Neo Genesis Evangelion! With a custom dreamcast mouse even! Games like this just make me scratch my head in confusion.

So I guess there is alot of dreamcast stuff out there that I may never know about. For now I think I will focus on the US and Europeans releases though. If I ever get into Japanese imports it will be after my North American/European collection is complete...

Lack of WHAT?

Is this a Japanese release game?

This makes me sad.

Alice Dreams

I always like gory manly games that include killing demons, zombies and aliens. Half Life, Blood, Quake, the Resident Evil series, Soul Reaver, House of the Dead 2, VtM, FEAR, diablo, and many others.. I like those games. I really do.

But I have a deep dark secret...

...not all my video game favorites are filled with bloodsoaked carnage.

I love point and click adventures when they are mixed with other game genres. For example I loved the Quest for Glory series because it mixed point and click with RPG.

If you too hold a love of games like this in your heart, check out the demo of the homebrew game Alice Dreams.



http://www.alicedreams.com/HomePageANG.htm

Yes the game title is pink...I still hold onto my hardcore gaming creds though since it's damn cool little game IMHO.



It's point and click with elements of side scrolling and has a bomberman type bonus game.

It's looking pretty awesome. I played through the first level and I really like it. Reminds me alot of Kings Quest and Quest for Glory. This game will be kick ass once it's done!

Here's a code to unlock the bonus games in the main menu.

Hit : Y X Y X Y Y Y for the bonus stage 1 X Y X Y X X X for the bonus stage 2 Enter in the "stage game" Menu.

The main menu doesn't look like a main menu in the game. It's Alice's room. Click around to choose different options. For example you can turn off voices in game by clicking on the stereo or click the poster to change the difficulty level.

Here is the quick and easy guid how to burn the ISO .cdi file onto a CD. If you use the Bootdreams method you can just pop it into your dreamcast and run it. Remember the CDI burning icon is to the far right. You don't want to MAKE a .cdi if you download a ready made one ISO .cdi like the Alice demo. You just need to burn it.

http://dreamzoneboards.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1143467399

The only problem people seem to have is if the Bootdreams program does not recognize their drive. Then just follow the instructions (inlcuded above) and get it to work.

Then go to dcevolution.net and try out a bunch of other cool dreamcast stuff.

One note though. Sometimes on my dreamcast the disks I use will refuse to load up. Usually even a badly burned disk WILL boot up on the third try. So if your disk doesn't load, try try again. You might have to burn another disk, but atl least you will know that your CD isn't totally crap. Try burning at the lowest speed and using a better CD-R.

Cool Stuff.

If you are like me at all you probably have some used video games in you collection without a proper label. Maybe you even have a disk case that has been broken into several small bits.

In that case just buy some plain DVD cases and then go over to this site.

http://dreamagain.free.fr/layout.php?p=DVD

Even though the site is not in english you can get some new fancy labels for your favorite games (and homebrew games!) (and some wallpaper!)

There is also a nice selection over at the dcevolution site.

http://www.dcevolution.net/covers/

Including a pretty sweet duckhunt label for the NESter emulator!

Dreamcast? Meet your d00m

YES!

Doom for Dreamast.

Or...nxdoom for dreamcast to be exact...Get the latest version here...

http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/index.php

It's pretty damn kick ass. The sfx are there but the midi music you have to install are a bit crappy.

It supports keyboard AND mouse though so you can party like it's 1994 once again!

Holy crap. At this rate I will be playing more homebrew games than regular dreamcast games!!!!!!!

If you have the collectors edition of doom like I do you can use Bootdreams to burn a self boot copy of all the versions of this awesome game. Just jam those .wad files into a folder along with the midi files and burn.

The Dreamcast has not seen so much digital blood! (except when I played HotD2, RE, Illbleed, The Ring, Blue Stinger, Quake, Quake 3, Unreal T, Legend of Kain Soul Reaver, Shadow man, D2...HOLY CRAP! WHo says Dreamcast was a pussy system!?!?!?! Look at all these violent games!!!!

Phear my 133t Dre@mcast Skillz!!!!!!!!!

...Yeah not really...

So anyways I was checking to see if I could use my meager skills to play full version Quake on my dreamcast.

I was inspired by a dreamcast junkyard post in which it was discovered that a copy of Quake turned out to be just the shareware version.

There are actually many different little setups that will allow you to play Quake on your Dreamcast.

Sadly the only one that has full hardware accleration (and looks the best) is QuakeDC. You can get the shareware version of it along with a bunch of SP maps at DCevolution. That also comes with copies of HexQuake (remake of QuakeDC) and Makaquake and covers for your disk and stuff. (use explore when you use the CD in your computer)

If you have the full version of Quake at home you can play it on your dreamcast using HexQuake or Makaqu. Here's the damn twist though...

It's easy to burn both of these using bootdreams, but...

Both versions are sort of a pain to use music on. You can use Joymenu and a Quake sound pack to install music on the directory you are going to use bootdreams on. It's a pain. The only version that you don't have to dick around with this stuff is the .CDI that only has shareware.

Hexquake LOOKS awesome. But no mouse support. None. It never will. Long story.

Makaqu has mouse support, but no hardware acceleration. So it doesn't look as good.

The DC controller with keyboard does a decent job. But I LOVE mouse support for FPS.

So you have three choices!

1. The easy path of going to the above link, burning a copy and having fun playing shareware Quake and a ton of little deathmatches against bots. NO MOUSE SUPPORT. Looks awesome because of hardware accel.

2. Burn Hexquake and screw around trying to get the music to work and getting the files off the original quake for Full version play. NO MOUSE SUPPORT. Looks great because of hardware acceleration.

3. Burn Makaqu Screw around with music. Get full version play. Mouse is supported. Feel slightly dissapointed that you can't get full graphic smoothness because it is software accelerated.

So as you can see there is no perfect solution to this situation...

The easiest I found was to get Hexquake and use it with the full version without music. Painless, looks great. You can always get used to the controll and play music on a nearbye boombox.

However I think I am going to end up editing a Makaqu disk for full version quake and music. It will be a pain, but I will have my DC mouse support and music. It may not look as good and seamless but the damn gameplay is kick ass and the music really adds to the game!

D2 Dreamcast Finished - Review

I do not know why it took me so long to beat D2 but I am glad I did.

First off let me tell you D2 is not to everyone's taste. Some people might not like it at all. Other might be put off by some of the gameplay issues.

Here are a quick few bad points about the game.

1. This game has VERY annoying cutscenes. Didn't like the doors opening and closing in RE games? You will HATE the amount of time this game takes to focus on opening doors and picking up items and stuff. Learn to love double clicking the B button since that is what skips cutscenes. A real shame since most of the cutscenes are great! But WHY would we need a 10 second cutscene of Laura picking up an item????? It's not even an important item, just a health pack or something...shit man.

2. This game should have had lightgun funtion. This would have been AWESOME. When you go into combat in this game you move from 3rd person to 1st person perspective. You have a target that you move arount with the directional or the analog controller. I use directional since the analog aiming seems to be pretty damn shoddy. But I think the light gun could have made this game SO much better. I mean you go into combat mode. You quickly grab the lightgun and aim it. It would have been great!

3. The voice acting does not match up well to some of the characters.

4. The item system sucks.

5. Not enough bonus stuff to find. Everything is linear.

6. Battle system is either WAY too easy or RAPES you.

Overall though I had an excellent time in this game. I like the weird story more than the glitchy gameplay. You command your chracter Laura (who must be related to Gordon Freeman because she almost never TALKS) around Canada after a plane crash. The story is weird and the cutscenes are weirder. Consider slogging through the 4 disks just to watch the ending movie. It's awesome and possibly the most messed up video I have seen in a video game yet.

You get levels as a character that give you more hit points and allow you to do more damage but this is more of a bonus than something you need to do. Collecting the weapons and lmited ammo is more important. This is one of the VERY few games that I didn't feel the need to max out my characters levels to beat the game. You get basic weapons that have unlimited ammo...I usually do not like this, but the fact that you also have limited ammo weapons like the shotgun make it more acceptable.

A quick note on item collecting. You need to use the Y button + the analog stick to look around every room to collect items when you are inside a building and in first person mode. This is annoying... What is even more annoying is that in some spots you CANNOT get items that you miss after you leave a room or something happens. They are still there, you just CANNOT get them....this drives you slowly insane in certain spots where you can miss ammo and health packs. So when you get to a new area, look ALL around and get all the items before you actually DO anything. That's the only way to avoid missing items.

The hunting aspect of this game is nice and can be considered a minigame. In fact if your controller sucks and you can't get a hang of the combat, hunting is a great way to get meat to replenish life points without having to waste medkits. (save those for the final CD, there are NO animals to shoot and eat) Just select the gun from the left trigger menu when you see an animal in the distance, zome in and shoot the bugger. Kill more animals for better aiming and little metals. The meat is the important thing though. You need to keep plenty healthy in this game incase you get suddenly beat down by three different monsters. Save often so you don't loose your levels or meat if you happen to die accidently. (which is actually difficult until the last CD since you can pause and heal yourself at any time)

The bosses make up for the normally crappy gameplay. VERY cool. If the regular enemies were half as fun to fight as the bosses then this game would be GREAT.

There is also a ton of messed up shit in this game which is actually toned down from theJapanese version (tenacle in the mouth, nudity).

You really get the feeling that some of the characters in this game that you face off against are truly demented. Notice that I say demented and not evil, in fact most of the creatures and bosses you face were once normal humans and you feel better after putting them out of their insane mutated misery.

The true evil is the last boss, which was about the only gameplay I truly got into. An experience!
Good for collection purposes and to fight the last boss to see the ending. If you see if for about $9 American get it. Otherwise hold out. It was one of the last games distributed in the USA and it is NOT really rare (no matter what people tell you). I wouldn't pay over $15 for this game unless it was NEW in shrink wrap.

Like I said some people like me will enjoy this strange game, others cannot look past it's flaws. Not for everyone, but I enjoyed it. 8/10

Indie gamer! With the power to import!

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164

L33t Dre@mcast Ge4r

Yes I don't know how many of you read this blog but this is public service message.

You see when I was in college I was poor. I had my beloved dreamcast but pretty much nothing else. Not even a computer that was good enough to play video CDs. Not even a VCR. (Of course not a DVD player)

If I would have known what I know now I could have been doing alot better. I could have been playing video ON MY DREAMCAST!

Thats right. It's easier than you can imagine.

Remember this site:

http://www.dcevolution.net/

And this, Dream Selection Vol. 1.

With this nifty, FREE, program you can listen to .mp3s on a tracklist, play some cool games (including the most messed up version of minesweeper you will ever find...) and WATCH VIDEOS ON DREAMCAST!

Just get the .cdi file and burn it using Alcohol120 or the free program Bootdreams.

Here is an easy lesson on how to use Bootdreams.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21626

Let me tell you. This little program would have saved my brain from exploding when my crap computer couldn't play the video cds that I had.

Just burn the .avi files you want to watch on a CD and swap the CD's after starting the DCDivX program. Same thing with the included .mp3 player with tracklist. Just start up the program and swap a cd burned with all the media you want.

There is also a pretty cool collection of demos and full games on the Sandman disk as well an excellent shareware version of Quake 1 with 300 frag maps. (think quake 3) In addition you can find CDIs collections of almost EVERY version of Beats of Rage, including Hatchet Ninjaz. Just look at the difference catagories on the left hand side.

Overall it's a pretty damn cool site and I wanted to let people who can't use torrent or sharing services like me know that you can still find cool downloads for your dreamcast.

On another note I found out that Memorex Lightscribe CD-Rs seem to work really well in my dreamcast. Consider it if you have a lightscribe recorder or find some disks on clearance.

This started out as a response to FC and I just kept writing.

*EDITED*

IMHO - "New" Consoles - by Caleb

I REFUSE to pay full price for ANYTHING. Let alone video games.

I played Wii at a party and I think it's keen and all but I don't have a burning desire to have it. I already have awesome systems and a growing collection of cool games. As for X-box 360 all the games I would want to play on it I can play on my PC. (I already got Fear on sale for $15.99) And there have been NO games for it that I REALLY want...Now if later down the road I find one of these systems for a good price then yes I might buy it. Or if something truly great comes out.

For example I bought Resident Evil 4 for full price. But, I didn't have a problem with doing that since I really knew that it was a good game and I wanted to play it.

Can I say the same thing about any game out there today? No.

God forbid I ever get hooked by a game release and HAVE TO play it...but I still won't pay full price for new system.

The only one that tempts me alittle is the DS which has FF3 on it. (But now I can play the original Japanese FF3 with an English sub on my dreamcast! Whoot! F the DS)

Then there is simple economics...

I guess I just can't justify spending money on games I KNOW will go down in price when I can pick up retro stuff for a cheap price that I KNOW will only go up in price.

For example the NES I picked up at salvation army ($8.99) is selling for $60 at the local pawn shop. That means that they would pay 1/3 that price for one, i.e. $20. I could get more than DOUBLE my money back for the NES. And that number will only go up if I sold it on ebay.

Or I could buy a Wii for $250 and download NES games for $5 each and then play those. And not get anywhere near that much money back for a used Wii.

*ALSO*

And I am a solitary person in crap wilderness now...No proper lines for internet connection or anyone nearbye to multi-play.

As far as I am concerned single player games have not come as far as multiplayer/internet-content ones.

For my money the PC I purchased was well worth it. I can play games and edit video and stuff.

I have no need of "new" consoles (Which are untested) until something truly awesome comes out or I can get a system UNDER $100. That has always been my way.

And have you ever talked to someone that ONLY plays new console games? HINT: They are normally 13-16 years old and/or REALLY piss you off when they said that the X-box "is the greated system ever" and now they say the EXACT SAME thing about the X-box 360 and think that the original Xbox is nothing special.


FINAL ANSWER: Old games are still fun. Thats why the Wii has them for sale via download...They are not GIVING them away. I have fun collecting games and systems and playing them. I have no NEED nor WANT for the newer stuff.

Who really does? Where do you draw the line between what the hype is and what YOU want? Some dumbass consumers can't. Some people have just been trained by society to spend money or get left behind in the dust. If you REALLY like a new game then buy it. If you like collecting older games then buy them. Don't bow down to pressure from either side of the arguement...

Now FC - PRAY that I don't report you to the Retro Gamer PD and have your retro game creds destroyed...you new console loving traitor.

A few good links.

The underdogs site. A great site for old games that are free AND legal to download.

The only problem is that it seems like some of the games that I used to be able to download are not in that catagory any more, still a good site.

HERE

The warmmilkcomics site. The site that features a few skits that I wrote and acted in. Check out the free episodes. I appear in episode 1 in talkline and I wrote "Dark romance of the Vampyre" in episode 2.

http://www.warmmilkcomics.com/

I also did a quick web commerical awhile back because I was bored.

Snow and more snow.

Well the weather in my neck of the woods has hit some national news lately so most people in the USA know how bad the lake effect snow is.

Today was one of those days when I had to got to work at the TV station and create the "school closings" list for all the schools and local businesses that are closed because of the weather. It's a long list...

So while everyone else from college kids to local businessmen had the day off I had to work. It sucks, but it is actually not that bad. I have to get up early in the morning to go to work and nobody else is one the road. I am a really good driver in bad weather so it's OK. It's always the other guy you gotta look out for in bad weather. Who cares if you skid on the snow covered road if there is nobody else on the road to hit?

This weather is awesome for alot of stuff like skiin. It's also a great time of year for video games. There is nothing like chopping a bunch of wood for the fire, throwing off the snow and getting the feeling back into your hands before sitting down to burn a copy of SMS for the dreamcast!

And SMS for the dreamcast is smooth as silk! Look up SMS in the dreamcast junkyard for more on this emulation goodness.

D-2 Dreamcast Intro video - Japanese version

Need to get into the "Dreamcast Mood"?

Video of someone overclocking a dreamcast to 270

Yeah. So.

Well shit man. I have tried to get pictures of the games I bought and tried to get a blog up but it has been hard as hell.

I have been working my ass off at the two jobs and getting my resume updated and trying to get into the placement center of my old college. So the Hunyak blog has been put on hold for awhile.

And my cat decided to blast my jacket when I hung it up down cellar. If you have not had the honor of of having your stuff "marked" by a cat please take note: If the ENTIRE side of your cool polar-tek jacket is stiff as a board do NOT put it on.

In his defence I DID pet another cat in a bookstore when I was wearing that jacket so I guess he just wanted to remind me that I am only supposed to pet ONE cat, him.

In other news fatherkrishna put up a punks and nerds webcomic on the dreamcast junkyard blog that I had featured in my blog. Such an honor. I will have to light an extra incense burner at my Segata Sanshiro shrine tonight. It's a shame he didn't repost this classic...

Right click and open in new window.

Yeah as for new "Cool stuff" thing I have to offer is a list of the used merch. I scored from the local Salvation Army, Used shop, crooked pawn shop, comic book store and opium dens around town. I will arrange by console.

Saturn:

These are the games that I got 2 per game case for $3.00 each.

Mr Bones - Side scroller! Score! This game looks Hella fun. I had trouble with the first level though. It is a two disk swapping game which makes it a first for my Saturn. It looks AWESOME.

According to Wikipedia this little know Saturn game is quote: "one of the Saturn's most technologically advanced games"

Also the storyline:

"A dead blues musician, Mr. Bones, was mistakenly buried in a cemetery full of criminals. The evil Da Goulian, not knowing this, brought the entire graveyard to life. He is quickly pointed out by a nearby skeleton, and they are ordered to catch him."

I don't know about that but this is the kind of game that Saturn was SUPPOSED to be made for! Side scrolling goodness!

Crimewave- Vehicles, guns and missiles? GTA for Saturn?

Die Hard trilogy - Crappy Bruce Willis audio!

Maximum Force: Pull the Trigger - crappy Arcade translation shooter. Live action actors -AGAIN! Kind of like Area 51 - except without all the good stuff like aliens and zombies...

Note: since I got these games two in a case I only got the cases for Crimewave and Maximum Force. All disk were in decent condition though.

Got for 1.50 a week later on reduced sale...

Hangon GP '95 - Have not played it yet - looks alot like a hang one game I played on the computer...

VR Soccer - Have not played it yet.

PS1:

Like NEW PS one - tiny version with controller memory card and all cables for $9. -used shop. Nice... I will enjoy FINALLY finishing FF7 and Crono Cross on this. It reminds me of the...

Dreamcast:

Sonic Adventure - 2.99 Wow! Who knew a whale could be so bad ass? A bad copy of the game, the cutscenes and some audio seem messed up...Still playable. Will have to be my crap copy if I ever get a good one.

Maken-X - 3.99 "Jackinto" other people...hahaah! Shoved in a genesis case but has intructions and CD cover on front. - Blockbuster rental copy I would bet...in good condition.

Ooga Booga - 2.99 Looks fun if I ever get 3 other people to play it with me.

Disney's Dinosaur - 2.99 Suckarse...but a DC game...(I made it past the fire!)

Ripping Rider - 2.99 Snow boarding for the bored.

Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX - 2.99 I hope it's about vampire dragons. *fingers crossed*

Re-Volt - 2.99 Control radio controlled cars without the hassel of going outside.

Nintendo:

A fully functional NES system with two controllers, power cable and RF connector

+ Star Tropics - 8.99!!!!!!!!!!!! Salvation Army score! These are going for $60.00 in the local crooked pawn shop!

All in all a nice haul for January and the beginning of Feb. I will have more info soon! I am working on a few projects including my local access cable show and online video blog as well as regular work and better job hunting.

-Caleb

This is America?

http://collegehumor.com/video:1739538

Looks like those guys at Adult Swim have decided to treat the matter like a joke. Which is what it is. Fucking moron authority figures in Boston...

Those fucking light bright signs were up for like 3 weeks!

Goddamn losers dropped the ball on this one and they won't admit it.

Those crazy Moonintes

Well it looks like those two Atari Characters from the moon have tried to wreck havoc once again.

Again once again the stalwart Boston police quickly respond after just 3 weeks!

Hopefully these horrible terrorists with their brightly colored bombs will not win!

BAN ALL FORMS OF PUBLIC ART BEFORE WE AMERICANS ARE OVERRUN AND DESTROYED! ACT NOW!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249241,00.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2840425

Dreamcast in webcomics.

http://www.punksandnerds.com/d/20060919.html

Just one of the webcomics that has featured the dreamcast.

It's amazing just how many dreamcast references there are out there.

Again i will post my new dreamcast and saturn games as soon as I have 5 minutes of free time. 7 day weeks suck much ass.

So looks like Blogger is new.

I finally had to update my blogger which sucks...

Anyways I have just finished watching some videos featuring Segata Sanshiro and I feel bad that I have not yet posted about how I aquired some new Saturn games. I have no pictures yet so I will have to post them on Monday.

A hint though...when I bought 2 Saturn games from a Salvation Army store I found out that there were MORE than just two games in the cases. More like 4!!!! So some person must have been trying to save space and jammed a bunch of games in the same case...SCORE. Well not really since I don't know if the games are any good yet.

I also happened to get quite a selection of DREAMCAST games from the local crooked pawn shop in town. So you can tell I have been busy and not been posting to this blog very much. Nothing great and rare (unless you count Oogha Booga [sp*?])

Also the best score (if not ever at least the best one in awhile)








SEGA GENESIS 3! The teeny tiny one.










I dunno why they decided to make the Genesis so small since it was pretty streamlined to start with but it look so damn awesome! Plus I think that the graphics look a bit sharper off this unit (Maybe because my orginal Genesis was stored under conditions that killed my SNES)

Anyways what did I pay? 3$!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats right a friggin' 16 bit system with controller and power cable for just 3$! And that is damn sweet.

Altered beast is kickin' much ass. I still can't wait for a copy of Shining Force!

No real posting or anything...webcomics kick continues.

I know there is work and media porjects to be done but The PBF webcomic is just too choice.

I am so happy that there is humor like this out there. I feel inspired for my local access cable show.

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF001AD-Mice_Gun.jpg#72
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=0PBF28042BC-Pyro_Billy.jpg#30

Webcomics with robots are funny.

It's true.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=20

Plus I went over to Matt's place and kicked his ass in Soul calibur. This time he was sober.

I am so awesome.


And Eye toy fitness is no friggen' joke. I am sore as hell today after beating the crap outta virutal targets yesterday. Best $5 I have spent in awhile!

Nothing much to do with video games.

Well it has been a pretty fun time. Except for the fact that I have been a bit sick the past couple of days and I cannot seem to drag myself to the gym or apply for jobs... No sleep = sick for me. I dunno. I am healthy as a horse most of the time. But when I don't get sleep I get sick. Always. I spent my first year in college sick as a dog before I realized that. So that sucks.

And the whole ad campaign thats going on about not spreading germs and shit that keeps airing on the radio and TV is freaking me out. Is there some SUPER bug on the loose?

Holiday time was busy as hell.

Highlight was New Years when I faced off in a dreamast duel against Matt. I never knew he played but I guess he does. He does the whole "plays with fingers instead of thumbs" thing on the DC pad. He used to play Soul Calibur against other people for money. So I beat him by two games in Soul Calibur he but he crushed me in SNK Vs Capcom. To his credit he was VERY drunk at the time. Fun times. In shameful news I got beat out by a girl (my cousin no less) in SNK vs. Capcom but I beat her so yeah. Still lamez. I don't have much experience facing other people in those games though so I think I did good. Overall it sucked that I had to leave early since I had to work the next morning...

However I would have stayed the whole night if I would ahve known that I had NO work on the first. Shit dude. Nothing. I basically just sat there and read webcomics.

Anwyays I blew through a TON of webcomics in the past week. Including leastIcoulddo penny-arcade and RPGworldcomic. And by that I mean I start at the first one and read my way through. Hundreds of pages.

I have a bad habit of ripping into books, art, movies or whatever reading them and throwing them away.

I mean authors and artists put a ton of work into these creations and I rip my way through them hungry for the next panel, the next page. Whatever.

And then I never pause to refect on the deeper meanings of the story. Sure I can read any book in a few hours and remember enough of it to write a college level paper without any trouble. (Thats why I kept the History portion of my college education ...easy A's and B's.) But do I really get anything out of it?

Have I actually got anything out of all the material I have gone throughout the years?

So for the past week a ton of material and I gotta say the one comic that actually stopped me in my tracks for a second was megatokyo. Wow. What a friggen' awesome little free comic that is. Like most comics it started off very rough but it really expanded beyond most. It's actually not that great at times but really captured my interest due to the mood I was in. Very ironic and stupid and annoying at times. But overall prett cool. It took me two days to read what was there so far. A record length for me. So unlike most of the others that I will probably check in with it once in awhile. I don't usually follow much manga or anything.

But thats the exception rather than the rule. I blow through media of all sorts really quickly trying to get to the next page or episode or whatever. Maybe I should just concentrate on trying to come up with stuff on my own?

Hanging out with other people that I knew was fun too. So maybe it is just a social life I am lacking?

Anywho. Need more money. Better job. Social life. Purpose for existance. Outlet for creative impulses. Answers to all life's questions. I need alot of stuff.

I am 25 and I feel like my life is already slipping away. I feel like such a waste. And I also hate feeling like this because feeling like this seems to waste even more of my time.

Wtf?

Someone was asking me life questions like this at the party and I started to realise that I had no fucking answers at all. Yet I am not a person that can just sink into total oblivion or blindly follow someone else's lead.

I can't put my life into some else's religion or way of thinking. I have read and learned about a ton of shit.

None of it rings as the truth to me.

I can't believe in the shit that other people tell themselves or lie to themselves about.
Is my life really a waste?

Beacause what else can I do? Lead a "Normal" life. Sire offspring that will have the same non-existance as myself?

And people that have seem to shun "normal life" are EVEN MORE NORMAL THAN NORMAL PEOPLE!

And I really am NOT a fucking person who doesn't believe in anything. I WANT to believe in something. I know there is a higher power. I fucking know there is something somewhat like a plan. I WANT to believe in other people and in myself.


But there is so much shit like emotion and chemicals in my brain that don't make any sense at all. Why do I build up so much fantasy when there is no reality to support it?

Is the fog in my brain self inflicted to keep myself from going batshit crazy?

I dunno. I do not have any answers to anything. I hope to God that someone else does or at least does not have to deal with the kind of shit that is going on with me. Because if everyone is like that it would suck ass.

My brains are srcamblezedddddd.