MOAR LANZ!

Seems to be LAN season at the moments as I will have attended at least 3 LAN's within 3 week(ends) in a row.

At the 1st one we fired up AVP2 (which lasted most of the night :D ).

The last LAN is a student oriented LAN at which I will be adminning game servers (that I installed, patched and configured using Linux dedicated server software) etc.

On another note. It looks like the UT3 Linux release (rumoured to be released soon) won't make it in time for the last LAN unfortunately :(

Now, this begs the question: Before the last LAN, what should I spend money on:

• 2 x Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 7,200 RPM HDD (for the XPSM1730)
  or
  
• 2 x 1Tb Western Digital HDD's for the server...?

I really should buy myself a Gigabit switch, but HDD space is more important. Apparently :)

Soul Calibur 4 & PSP Tinkering

Soul Calibur 4 has become available and a friend of mine is offering a gathering for some practice before the big weekend of pure Soul Calibur...

On another note, I have managed to make the ulitimate (well, a slightly custom) Despertar del Cementerio (Pandora) Kit with ELF-Menu and... USB support! (think of it kinda like a Live bootable PSP OS :P).

All using homebrew...

Next up, Wii CFW ^_^

No more games for Linux?

As I am now a dedicated Linux user, I am finding it interesting (and annoying) to see a decline in Linux games. For example NWN2 and UT3, both of which were released last year have both previously had Linux versions made, but no more.

Is this because it's easier/cheaper to develop for directx/windows?

If this trend continues, I will never purchase a windows game again and I will continue my gaming shift from PC to console.

Freeloader + SSBB = Awesomeness

I just received my copy of Super Smash Brothers: Brawl from Play Asia and it rocks! (I have played the Japanese version already but now I own my own copy). Hopefully I can practice some more when the real UNI holidays kick in...

Now off to do some SSBB UNI stuff :P

Dusting off the PSP

In a feet of awesomeness (and some help from a fiend), I was able to get 3.52 M33-4 (CFW) on my (Japanese) PSP Last night :)

I'm not sure if this is even worth it because I can't find any decent (working) media players for ogg/flac/vgm/ffmpeg and I want to be able to play my games as iso's but so far, no success.

I am also going to pandora (battery) it, but I would like to wait until I have at least 1 spare battery.

At least I have emulation :)


UPDATE: 26/03/2008 @1307
I found out why some homebrew apps and iso's won't load, I apparently have fake memory sticks that don't properly implement magicgate :(

I'm shelling out $150 for a genuine 8Gb SanDisk (I won't buy anything Sony anymore), I should be able to run just about everything :)

Rock band... rocks. Apparently.

Well, My friend has Rock Band and he says it's really, really, really, really, really awesome.

So I am invited over to his place for simultaneous Rock Band and LAN, but UNI assignments prevent me from going over there :(

Picking up unfinished games

After receiving my (late) Christmas present of Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin, I realised that I haven't even finished the fist one (AW:DS)!

This got me thinking... Why did I stop playing it? but better yet, why shouldn't I pick it back up again?

I'm now playing AW:DS and I will probably finish off, Burnout 3: Takedown (1 more gold medal needed!), Pokémon and some other games that I have effectively "shelved".

I just have to make sure that I don't distract myself from UNI studies too much :P