What's exclusive in this compilation is that Xevious Arrangement and 3D/G have the arrange soundtrack in addition to the original. However, the FMV videos are likely to be different than the arcade version of Xevious 3D/G although I don't know what's with the ending, like shooting at the giant ancient symbol on the sandy ground to summon the beam that wipes out the enemy fortress in space. Maybe this ending is what STH4E2 ending should have been in the first place like getting out of the Death Egg II and returning back to the planetary surface and if you have all the emeralds collected, you can use them to wipe that out.
Unfortunately, the PS1 version of Xevious 3D/G has even more flaws than ever. It has lack of graphical and environmental details as well as the blocky looking polygons compared to the arcade version. Also, the effects are mostly polygonal like there's no signs of sprites being used in the game. Also, when I played Xevious 3D/G on my Playstation Vita, there was a huge amount of lag in Area 3 when going through those rotating ring shaped wooden stuffs where there are still ground enemies to take out.
I may be glad to see this having come out in the PSN Store for Playstation Vita. Also, thankfully, there's auto-firing for easier playing. Video captures of the gameplay with arrangement soundtrack will be on my YouTube account soon after this blog post.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Project Diva F 2nd next year
It may be months since my blogging about the upcoming video games but I may believe that my work of last year is still not yet finished. It seemed that I might have already finished most of the arranges ranging from Bemani games to other games but things are not over with the on-going Floor Infection events from Sound Voltex II. With the Floor Infection, it enables me to make a smooth arrangement of the Sound Voltex I songs without encountering those silly sound effects that come from that game. Next time, there will be an arrangement of Daniwell’s Butterfly-Cat but in the meantime, you can view the recent SDVX arrangement on my YouTube account.
Now, here comes the proper part. Sega is announcing Project Diva F 2nd on Playstation 3 and Vita next year! Two of the songs are existing ones and I don’t know how the upgrades are like since we don’t know what’s new in Project Diva F 2nd. There may be more songs exclusive to that game and at the time I’m blogging, I just knew one of the newer Vocaloid songs out there will be in Project Diva F 2nd. Other rhythm games for that song, I don’t know as I think that it is not in those games at all. Sure, the popular Vocaloid songs had also made it to Groove Coaster, Taiko No Tatsujin and Konami rhythm games in addition to today’s Sega rhythm games but the atrocious thing about Konami rhythm games that will piss the Vocaloid and Bemani fans off is what had Konami done with LLNF for Future Tom Tom. WHAT IS THAT COVER, IT’S BULLSHIT compared to the original? That’s right, the same controversial mistake ever since the release of the original Sound Voltex is here this year, damn it but at least the controversy isn’t as big as the one last year. I don’t know how Melt sounds like in Future Tom Tom but those were all the videos I found in Nico Nico Douga.
OK, it may seem like it’s too early for Project Diva series to evolve again after the last year’s release of Project Diva F so its sequel is on the same multi-platforms again. It’s probably due to Sega not owning the Playstation 4 development kit so that they can make future Project Diva games on Playstation 4 in addition to Playstation Vita. Also, I may be sorry about some Konami rhythm gaming X Vocaloid ranting but that’s what happens Konami screws up again but putting in the Vocaloid powered songs in the wrong way ever since the original Sound Voltex but this year, it may look like Sega is gonna be pissed off over Konami’s wrong way of putting Vocaloid songs in their newer rhythm games, that is, if someone from Sega goes to the arcade and finds the Vocaloid song being played using shitty cover, it will be like he can blame Konami for putting those songs in a wrong way.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Aaron’s Law introduced
For this blog post, I probably care for fixing the worst parts of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which are said to criminalize all sorts of mundane Internet use. One part that is really the worst is that you may be forced to surrender your Facebook password to your company if you’re working in the US company as if you may be landing yourself in prison for that but then, we might have already thwarted the CIS** bill the last time. Can this new law repair the shit out of CFAA?
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Playstation E3 Press Conference Live Broadcast
Wow, that was a great event viewed online and BEST OF ALL, Sony has done it RIGHT with the Playstation 4! Ok, so here were the followings from that event:
- Gaming freedom – You can borrow your friends’ games from his collection to play on your own PS4 without being charged or any stupid restriction whatsoever. You can even play games while they are partially downloaded and installed and that’s kind of fast. Also, there’s no way the console has some sort of governmental power against you so that there’s a reason for you to buy it. Finally, the backwards compatibility is here but it’s under cloud gaming that you have to wait until next year.
- Indie Game Support – I believe that those games will be available for PS3, PS4 and Vita so there’s not much to say other than those games looking quite interesting.
- Gaikai – In addition to PS Plus, PSN, there will be Gaikai cloud gaming that allows games to be streamed to the PS4 and the PS Vita. I don’t know if PS3 games will be streamed to the PS Vita but then games on that console can be gigantic compared to PS Vita games. Also, will there be PS1 and PS2 games available for Gaikai as well that will be played on PS4?
- Cross-Platform Playing – The PS4-Vita and PS3-Vita are already the great ways of remote-playing but PS4-Tablet or PS4-Smartphone, well, how the hell can that work for specific games? You think that the Smartglass like idea is kind of ideal, huh? At least, the Wii U tablet-like device is the combination of the game controller and the tablet that it is already that ideal enough to play and especially for the PS Vita which is also neat as mainly a game console for gaming purposes first.
- Music, TV, Videos – Uhh, WTF? Those contents look very western like by the way and I DON’T WATCH MOVIES, okay.
- Apps – You can share your gameplay videos as well as to post certain things about what’s going on in video games to the popular SNS sites.
- GUI – Looks kind of better than Metro UI, I guess as if things are visually making sense.
And that’s basically the greatness of this console that puts the Xbox One to complete shame. Well, that Xbox One is like the next CIS** by the way because not only it spies on the US gamers, but also the gamers around the globe so buy PS4 or Wii U at all costs if you want the freedom and gaming fairness as I already mentioned at the beginning of the list.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
PC Show 2k13
This IT Show was really big at Singapore Expo and it was shown in the news as well like it might be one of the best IT Shows out there of this year. It might be large that it consumed like 1-3 hours of explorations and information and product gathering. For me, I don’t buy stuffs from the IT Shows by the way but here were some of the updates.
There were some car cameras that were similar to normal cameras and the cameras in your smart devices. Also, there were DVD players for the cars that feature GPS as well that can be useful. I might have discovered on the net that even the PSP can be used as the GPS as well but you will need some GPS related hardware and app you want so that you can hook your PSP on the car deck or something. It may be great but it can attract like a huge amount of laziness or something.
Plus, there were even more Android TV devices that provide even more useful purposes such as having a Karaoke on the Android TV for instance. How do you like that when you turn your home into another modern technology powered Karaoke room with the Android TV device. You can play games on that but I recommend using the actual Android device which is the smartphone/tablet one.
And of course, the Surface and Surface Pro were in this IT Show. Too bad that I still couldn’t see the Surface RT at Challenger at Tampines though but I was told that it could be found in Challenger elsewhere. The Touch Cover was kind of weird like a freaking toy or something but it served as a reminder of a dual-screen Acer laptop with the virtual keyboard at the bottom screen. Think of that laptop as the larger HD Nintendo DS system. But I told that person that there were some presumed technical problems haunting that laptop that I was given a Type Cover which was already better, right?
Lastly, the Pioneer booth. They surely had mixed modern technology with the DJing equipment. The only place to buy their DJ products is at Sim Lim Square which might be unfortunate to me anyway as I think that place is seriously vulnerable to scams or something. The least expensive one cost $100+.
Other discoveries included the interesting gaming computers, some IT *abes promoting their products as well as the ISP booths which were pretty large. For gaming computers, there were some cool features on one of those gaming laptops such as the secondary monitor on the right side of the keyboard that featured touch-screen ability. You can activate other features as well as to disable certain keyboard shortcut features like trying to prevent any irritation while you play games. There was a Samsung gaming laptop known as Samsung Series 7 Gaming laptop that has four freaking modes and one of them is the Gaming mode. The wallpaper and screensaver were damn cool looking but it could be extra better if the interface is looking futuristic as well, not the freaking default Windows 7 interface anyway. Also, the version 8 of Parallels Desktop had some sort of bonus. If you bought it under Windows 8 bundle, you will get the full version of Windows 8 as the Guest OS installed but that will mean extra cost compared to buying Parallels Desktop alone.
Unfortunately, as I went back home, it was already raining but I bravely dashed through the rain to the bus stop while getting drenched. That hurt my ears but I couldn’t get the water drops out of them as if I had learnt a bunch of retarded tips in public areas like that. Maybe I should take superior tips and tricks next time.
There were some car cameras that were similar to normal cameras and the cameras in your smart devices. Also, there were DVD players for the cars that feature GPS as well that can be useful. I might have discovered on the net that even the PSP can be used as the GPS as well but you will need some GPS related hardware and app you want so that you can hook your PSP on the car deck or something. It may be great but it can attract like a huge amount of laziness or something.
Plus, there were even more Android TV devices that provide even more useful purposes such as having a Karaoke on the Android TV for instance. How do you like that when you turn your home into another modern technology powered Karaoke room with the Android TV device. You can play games on that but I recommend using the actual Android device which is the smartphone/tablet one.
And of course, the Surface and Surface Pro were in this IT Show. Too bad that I still couldn’t see the Surface RT at Challenger at Tampines though but I was told that it could be found in Challenger elsewhere. The Touch Cover was kind of weird like a freaking toy or something but it served as a reminder of a dual-screen Acer laptop with the virtual keyboard at the bottom screen. Think of that laptop as the larger HD Nintendo DS system. But I told that person that there were some presumed technical problems haunting that laptop that I was given a Type Cover which was already better, right?
Lastly, the Pioneer booth. They surely had mixed modern technology with the DJing equipment. The only place to buy their DJ products is at Sim Lim Square which might be unfortunate to me anyway as I think that place is seriously vulnerable to scams or something. The least expensive one cost $100+.
Other discoveries included the interesting gaming computers, some IT *abes promoting their products as well as the ISP booths which were pretty large. For gaming computers, there were some cool features on one of those gaming laptops such as the secondary monitor on the right side of the keyboard that featured touch-screen ability. You can activate other features as well as to disable certain keyboard shortcut features like trying to prevent any irritation while you play games. There was a Samsung gaming laptop known as Samsung Series 7 Gaming laptop that has four freaking modes and one of them is the Gaming mode. The wallpaper and screensaver were damn cool looking but it could be extra better if the interface is looking futuristic as well, not the freaking default Windows 7 interface anyway. Also, the version 8 of Parallels Desktop had some sort of bonus. If you bought it under Windows 8 bundle, you will get the full version of Windows 8 as the Guest OS installed but that will mean extra cost compared to buying Parallels Desktop alone.
Unfortunately, as I went back home, it was already raining but I bravely dashed through the rain to the bus stop while getting drenched. That hurt my ears but I couldn’t get the water drops out of them as if I had learnt a bunch of retarded tips in public areas like that. Maybe I should take superior tips and tricks next time.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The Costly Mistake event
It's time to visit the past to see the fictional invasive catastrophe. It's more like a fictional sci-fi alien invasion thingy than a mysterious disaster sort of event as organized by DirectX Co-Creator. The event was supposed to take place in 1996 in Halloween. It had the reference to X-Files, Area-51 and so on but this was supposed to be a gaming related event. Sure, there would be cool games to play back then on Windows 95 days with the arrival of Direct-X technology. Why were you required to install that? Well, that technology was a new thing back then needed for advanced looking games for Windows.
In 1995, it was when DirectX was firstly shown in prototype stages before it was re-shown again in final stages as well as the introduction of Direct3D. The event in 1996 was supposed to be a huge one but then, it seemed that Microsoft had to cancel it at the last moment which was kind of unfortunate. For that event, things were supposed to resemble certain Sci-Fi alien themed shows as well as the involvement of some X-Files actors. For example, the interior was supposed to resemble the alien spaceship thing. On the inside for the event, people could see Bill Gates with the mask that would make them think that he was an alien or some sort. The event should be lasting three days and there was an online game tournament.
In the middle of the speech, it was interrupted and the developers were sent to the military base to see some huge alien vessel as part of the event.
Well, those were all the plans the DirectX Co-Creator had gotten as well as Microsoft. In 1997, he was apparently gotten a bad review of a 2/10 and got fired as a result for some silly alien abduction plans as part of the event. It was kind of controversial in the past to the company and the consumers as if there was a fake alien invasion all along planned by Microsoft.
Eventually, the alien ship thing was taken down and still sitting somewhere inside the company premise for years. Today. it looks like the same kind of mistake is bound to happen but in completely different way with the upcoming launch of Xbox One. That kind of modern event failure to that DirectX Co-Creator reminded him of his event failure in 1996 and that failure was kind of nostalgic.
You know, what that guy did was seriously unforgivable to Microsoft as if all the alien abduction stuffs were starting to look fake anyway and especially for the spaceship. Having to abduct people like that as part of the event as well as to make things extremely costly should not be parts of the event anyway. It should be displaying a bunch of epic looking games on screen similar to E3 today, not making up certain scenes from alien invasion movies like that.
Okay then, here are the following links taken from his blog:
In 1995, it was when DirectX was firstly shown in prototype stages before it was re-shown again in final stages as well as the introduction of Direct3D. The event in 1996 was supposed to be a huge one but then, it seemed that Microsoft had to cancel it at the last moment which was kind of unfortunate. For that event, things were supposed to resemble certain Sci-Fi alien themed shows as well as the involvement of some X-Files actors. For example, the interior was supposed to resemble the alien spaceship thing. On the inside for the event, people could see Bill Gates with the mask that would make them think that he was an alien or some sort. The event should be lasting three days and there was an online game tournament.
In the middle of the speech, it was interrupted and the developers were sent to the military base to see some huge alien vessel as part of the event.
Well, those were all the plans the DirectX Co-Creator had gotten as well as Microsoft. In 1997, he was apparently gotten a bad review of a 2/10 and got fired as a result for some silly alien abduction plans as part of the event. It was kind of controversial in the past to the company and the consumers as if there was a fake alien invasion all along planned by Microsoft.
Eventually, the alien ship thing was taken down and still sitting somewhere inside the company premise for years. Today. it looks like the same kind of mistake is bound to happen but in completely different way with the upcoming launch of Xbox One. That kind of modern event failure to that DirectX Co-Creator reminded him of his event failure in 1996 and that failure was kind of nostalgic.
You know, what that guy did was seriously unforgivable to Microsoft as if all the alien abduction stuffs were starting to look fake anyway and especially for the spaceship. Having to abduct people like that as part of the event as well as to make things extremely costly should not be parts of the event anyway. It should be displaying a bunch of epic looking games on screen similar to E3 today, not making up certain scenes from alien invasion movies like that.
Okay then, here are the following links taken from his blog:
Organizing & Sharing Information with OneNote Jump Start
Alright, it looks like I'm back for another Jump Start from Microsoft Virtual Academy and this blog as well. Hopefully, things should be peaceful this year like there won't be any need for emergency like blog-posting reaction from me like disastrous things that will be bound to happen in some year that I may to blog everything about the products that will be released on that year just like I did last year alot about Windows 8 and Office 15. This time, it's about OneNote and things should be that easier and especially when we're missing certain tricks needed to use for OneNote.
Before that, I had made various discoveries from that Jump Start. You can go to the Office Webinar like the next one will happen next week. Also, the Office Webinar happens like regularly except on some days like today due to the freaking Jump Start. Another thing was the Opalis Integration Server in which I have no freaking idea even if it is part of System Center family of suites from Microsoft. I don't know if that feature will be learnt in Microsoft Virtual Academy as well but we want the students to know what the hell is that as it left me kind of curious during the Jump Start.
For this Jump Start, it featured various keyboard shortcuts shown such as using Shift + Alt, followed by other key to do the tricks and especially Ctrl + . or / for bullets and numbering respectively. For Ctrl + numbers, those are for tags and you can make your own one if you want. Other features involved importing slides into OneNote, inserting embedded Excel and Visio documents, adding subpages and synchronizing OneNote documents to Skydrive, Sharepoint and Skydrive Pro. Even better is that you can use Lync with OneNote perhaps for online meeting, I guess, and you can try to edit the documents and take notes during the meeting. Lastly, you can record video and audio but is there a reason not to have the feature about inserting embedded videos? OK, I asked a question about that but I may assume that I'm not the only one who makes this kind of request. Sure, you can insert embedded videos in other document editing software but for OneNote, it's trying to be a different thing like its main purpose is about taking down notes. Other stuffs seen from the Jump Start involved the Event Template, Schedule Template, Resume Template and so on.
Unfortunately for others, there was some disgraceful technical problem that they were not able to get in the Jump Start even when it had started. It might have wasted their time but for me, the technical problems were kind of different though that I was kind of fine.
So that's it for this event and we'll be looking forward to more of these Jump Starts from MVA.
Before that, I had made various discoveries from that Jump Start. You can go to the Office Webinar like the next one will happen next week. Also, the Office Webinar happens like regularly except on some days like today due to the freaking Jump Start. Another thing was the Opalis Integration Server in which I have no freaking idea even if it is part of System Center family of suites from Microsoft. I don't know if that feature will be learnt in Microsoft Virtual Academy as well but we want the students to know what the hell is that as it left me kind of curious during the Jump Start.
For this Jump Start, it featured various keyboard shortcuts shown such as using Shift + Alt, followed by other key to do the tricks and especially Ctrl + . or / for bullets and numbering respectively. For Ctrl + numbers, those are for tags and you can make your own one if you want. Other features involved importing slides into OneNote, inserting embedded Excel and Visio documents, adding subpages and synchronizing OneNote documents to Skydrive, Sharepoint and Skydrive Pro. Even better is that you can use Lync with OneNote perhaps for online meeting, I guess, and you can try to edit the documents and take notes during the meeting. Lastly, you can record video and audio but is there a reason not to have the feature about inserting embedded videos? OK, I asked a question about that but I may assume that I'm not the only one who makes this kind of request. Sure, you can insert embedded videos in other document editing software but for OneNote, it's trying to be a different thing like its main purpose is about taking down notes. Other stuffs seen from the Jump Start involved the Event Template, Schedule Template, Resume Template and so on.
Unfortunately for others, there was some disgraceful technical problem that they were not able to get in the Jump Start even when it had started. It might have wasted their time but for me, the technical problems were kind of different though that I was kind of fine.
So that's it for this event and we'll be looking forward to more of these Jump Starts from MVA.
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