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Kazriko's Dive

Disqus

For those of you who haven’t posted to my blog because you don’t want to create an account here, I’ve now implemented something just for you! There’s now Disqus comment support in the blog. No longer any need at all to create a Socia account just to comment, and I’ll probably even block off the account creation bit here before too long. (If you actually want a Socia blog, let me know.

Game imports

I finally caved and imported a game. I usually hang on to the hope that they will eventually bring the title over here and I’ll be able to play it normally, but after reading the forums for Atlus, the JP publisher of the game and the logical choice to publish it here, I discovered there is absolutely no possibility of the game being translated for US release. Princess Crown was a very early Vanillaware game.

March Multimedia Completion

Books Didn’t quite finish any, got stuck on another really, really dull book about primitive cultures and their bizarre caste systems and primitive magic. It took me all month to read 160 out of 480 pages of it… Games 6. Ys 1. Excellent game, aside from the lack of direction. 9 hours. Quite fun though. 7. Ys 2. About 8 hours to finish this one. Much more focused than the last.

Hazards of Amazon...

It used to be that you could trust buying things from Amazon. It seems though with them putting third party stores up, that these days are long gone and Amazon should be treated essentially like Ebay. I picked up a copy of Paranoia Agent from them and found that it had a number of odd features that lead me to believe it’s counterfeit… I’ll paste the email I sent to the seller via Amazon here.

Music?

I often wonder in my Multimedia things if I should include Music. Music is much harder for me to judge on a quick basis than the other things that I list. There’s no real “finishing” music, and I often don’t know how I feel about music until it’s been in my rotation for a few months. Maybe I should just make a post occasionally of music that I’m thinking about…

February Multimedia Completion

Eesh, it’s the last day of February. That month flew by fast. Books: 1. Wraiths of Time: Another Andre Norton book. This book was the reason I didn’t get any books finished in January. It just dragged… 2. Quantum Connection. A book by Travis Taylor on the other end of the spectrum, I finished this book in 2 days. It’s one of those wish fulfillment sort of books where the geeky main character is brilliant and reverse engineers things, and the situation he’s thrown into just happens to need that skill exactly.

Vita, and other stuff

While looking at the intellectual property notices of my Vita, I saw some interesting tidbits. Netfront from Access Co in japan is apparently still the web browser for this thing, Access Co is the company that owns the PalmOS operating system and the Graffiti text entry method. It uses Skyhook for location services. Open source components it uses? Blist, CyrusSASL, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Freetype, Giflib, libEtPan!, libjpeg, liftiff, MD5, squish, strlcpy.

Sony's tantrums and bully tactics

I’m pretty much frustrated with Sony at the moment over their behavior with the PS3. It’ll take a bit of a history lesson to really understand why what they’re doing is so offensive to many of their open-source supporting fans. In the beginning, there was Atari, and a few other assorted groups. Game consoles pretty much operated on the old model, you make money on the console, you make money on the games you sell, but other people can sell games too for your system.

January 2011 Multimedia

Books: 0. I didn’t finish one by the end of the month. It took until the 2nd of February… Games: 1. Tales of Monkey Island ep 5. Rise of a Pirate God. I thought this was an excellent episode. Tales of monkey island was pretty good overall too. I liked to see the insult swordfighting come back with a twist. 2. Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, Episode 1. Crazy actually playing this surreal twisted kids show of a world.

Sony NGP

I know I shouldn’t get excited about a console that is coming out in around a year, and that probably won’t have much in the way of software at launch… But here’s what is known and unknown. Size. About 1.2cm taller, 1.2cm wider than the PSP3000. Exact same thickness. It has internal memory for storage of games like the PSP Go. Games will be sold on cartridges, similar to the DS.