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  1. Posted

    I finally made some time for GTA4 single player. I HATED the "uncle vlad" mission. Vlad got away way too easily. But I checked the vehicle departure location (ie where do you leave it parked) in some youtube vids, followed suit, and did good. Ah the old mission improvisation is back. In earlier attempts, I blocked vlad's car with a delivery truck, but no go on that.

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    I'll have to give those config files a try.

     

    Of course, Friday night I want to play some vids again, and no mp3s showed up whatsoever, and the server string changed(showing percent signs where there should be strings). Yet videos work, yet the 2 videos I added stil don't show, even after a refresh. Ugh.

     

    Wonder if a cronjob is in order to do daily updates of media when I add/remove stuff? Hmm

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    So S1500, found any more notable podcasts? Retronauts is weekly now, so theyre a bit more focused now, but they still talk over each other.

     

    I tried out "retrocore", but it is THE most unprofessional podcast ever, I'm sorry to say. The main host sounded tired & took the last episode in a half-assed manner. His cohosts always sound like they are talking through a Pringles can. Apparently Skyping co-hosts always sound shitty, no matter if you have Mutt Lange doing the audio. Of course, there's volume descrepancies, with the Windows sounds(& skype) coming in the loudest, but you can barely hear the human hosts.

     

    All the other podcasts I tried that were new to me were from dead sites, thus expired before I could try 'em. I'm glad to see RetroGaming radio is now podcastable. Didn't see it initially since the host refers to it as "mediacasting". He could easily split his 3-hour episodes once every 3 months into 1-hour episodes monthly. Everyone's happy.

  4. Posted

    I almost feel bad doing this practice.

     

    When I first got my xbox 5 months ago, I bought a few cheapie titles. One of them is "Yeager", and not once have I made time to play it. A few weeks ago, I bought "lego star wars" on clearance. Never played it yet.

     

    Did you ever buy games & not once play them for months? I once sold my dreamcast without ever playing my copy of "berserker: guts rage" or whatever it was called.

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    After much toiling & trouble, I got it to work last night. Wherever you see the xbox declaration line & false(which showed up in a few places), turn them to True. Things suddenly start to work. A good deal of AVI files won't work, but I assume that is expected due to codecs.

     

    I haven't had any videos not work yet. But I had to work a bit in the configuration files as some settings required changing for the 360. That's why I said to let me know when you were ready for configs so I could provide you the changes I had to make. Let me know if you want them.

     

    I'm curious about the transcoding stuff. With the xbox update, I'm assuming the xbox update as of recent, the "transcoding" is not necessary. still a bit confused about that part.

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    I got a bit further in the 20000000 step process of the install. It now bitches on sqlite3 not being installed, but here's the funny kicker: it IS installed! Can you believe that!?? I mean [email protected]#@!#

     

    It's shit like this that reminds me why Linux isn't a mainstream OS. Seriously., I know this fuppes thing doesn't owe me anything, but really, couldn't you make a nice little binary package that works out of the box? I don't want to manually install 3300 different "dev" libraries just to get one thing working.

  11. Posted

    I can't even get fuppes to compile. God dammit. Of course, trying to make sense of the error messages & such just talks, but doesn't say anything.

     

    I'm a programmer. I can make sense of them. Are you compiling from SVN?

     

    I wasn't compiling from the SVN. It was just a straight download from the website. Did the expected ./configure and it stopped at when it was testing gcc. It was expecting an output file and didn't find it, thus aborting everything.

     

    When I get back home, I'll post what it hath outputted. It's about 20 or so lines in. This is on the latest rev of Ubuntu.

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    Many moons ago, I was at a Goodwill and saw a flightstick for sale. Nothing fancy about it ,but it had a gameport plug. Here's the kicker: it had an adaptor to USB! I regret not spending the paltry 3 bucks to get just that adaptor.

     

    I have an old Microsoft gamepad, that has a handful of buttons(6?) and a d-pad, but no analog. But, with my modern computer, it has done away with the gameport. Anybody know where I can get a gameport to usb adaptor, and will MAME, etc handle it just fine?

     

    You would expect radio shack to have it instore(you have answers, we have CBs!), but eh, I'm not feeling it. Or better yet, can one be made if the adaptor itself is a bit pricey? I wouldn't mind getting that gamepad back into use.

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    Sadly, nobody's into doing coop matches, save for one guy. Him & I did one level for 3 hours, then it was time for bed. Good stuff.

     

    Sorry......I didn't feel like playing any Duke Nukem last night, man. I decided to play some Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. I've been playing less multiplayer lately.

     

     

    Ahh that was you(I can''t match atariage & xbox names right). I was surprised anyone on my friends list had Duke. I think a few more mutuals have DOOM.

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    I feel bad I don't think I've completed any games on my PS2 or xbox as of recent. Wait, I did complete DOOM, and now I'm on Duke Nukem. I feel bad I never went through all the GTA games. Any time I'm trying to go through a GTA game(when I have free time), another one comes out and I'm on that one. Heh

  22. Posted

    Perhaps I should have found this thread before making my own in regards to video game related podcasts.

     

    I'm listening to Retro gaming Radio right now. Not bad so far, but come on, THREE HOURS!??!!? Chop it into smaller blocks & space out your episodes. You have one 3-hour episode, you might as well release 3 1-hour segments & relax a bit. Really wish he would podcast it.

     

    I think 99% of these podcasts I've listened to are hanging on to whatever's been released on Wii's virtual console and XBLA.

  23. Posted

    I played that dang thing for 45 minutes last night. Good stuff. I bought the Atomic edition back in the day.

     

    Does anyone remember that one level that, even with cheats on you CAN'T(at least I can't) pass whatsoever? At the very beginning of the level/episode, there's some narrow tunnel you have to get through, but there's a health depleting explosion that happens. You have to get to this one point in a very quick time before it closes, shutting you out.

     

    I also couldn't seem to find the end for the tanker level, even with cheats. I might buy it though since it's $10. Already played to the end of Doom.

  24. Posted

    Okay I'm listening to another episode of RetroForceGO here. One guy I can barely hear, being way too quiet. The other male host I think is trying to puncture my eardrums. It wasn't until 45 minutes into the podcast they started to talk about the main topic listed(2600 games).

     

    And so I present a handy list of podcasting tips:

     

    1. Cap the podcasts to an hour. 1 hour. After one hour, just like corporate meetings, ADD kicks in and the audience is lost. If you spill over, put it into the next episode.

     

    2. Keep it to a minimum of one new episode a week. Don't space it out too infrequently(ie every other month), or too often(every other day). Look for a nice medium.

     

    3. This one is extremely important: All podcasters are to turn off their cell phones. This turns off the annoying bluetooth beep that microphones are tuned into hearing, it prevents your fellow podcasters from taking a call & walking off set. That just creates akward silence.

     

    4. Important: level your audio! You don't want your listeners having to turn up the volume to hear a quiet person, then having their eardrums blown out from the "noisy guy" who likes to surprise you with yelling & excitement over some XBLA download.

     

    5. Don't feel obligated to have "The British guy" on your show. For a podcast to be successful, you don't need some guy with a British accent chiming in on a choppy Skype connection.

     

    6. The Itunes store is filled to capacity for "gamer" podcasts. Mind you, there are more videogame websites than there are videogames. We don't need yet another 20-something talking about XBox 360 achievements...for 2 hours.

     

    7. Remember that one thing you did with that one guy at that one place? Don't make the first 45 minutes of the podcast self-referencing discourse that only you would understand. We don' t know what you did last weekend, and we don't need to hear about it for 45 minutes.

  25. Posted

    It's funny how..

     

    1. Activision is still a known name around. They still manage to stay relevant.

     

    2. Hasbro owns numerous other company names/IP as if they were EA. They own a LOT of 80s toy/game trademarks.

     

    3. There are game companies still out there that EA hasn't swallowed yet. Hopefully they will NEVER get their hands on Grand Theft Auto.

     

    4. EA used to be a respectable company.

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