The big catchup post part 3: Other Wild and Crazy (not really) Stuff A: Games

OTHER STUFF

Karaoke! The fire drill! Shopping! Cooking! Anime Figures! O RLY Chocolate!
Um.... pictures up when I feel like it. I'll get to it tomorrow.
So you have to wait.
Nya nya.

Games Post

What would I do without games? Sure there's traveling and learning and all that great experience stuff... but what do you do in the mean time? Sit and twiddle your thumbs?
No, you play games!
What better way to spend your extra time than playing a game in a language you're studying! (or even one in your language!)

Current MMORPG

Ghost Online

(insert picture)

You've probably seen Maple Story, a 2d rpg. Ghost Online is a lot like Maple Story, but... you're basically a guy out of Dragon Ball Z. You can run fast, high jump, weild a sword or shurikens, fire chi blasts... but you can't make breakfast. For shame.
The game is still new and there's not much to do yet. But running around and high jumping in an MMORPG is pretty cool. Give it a try.


Other Games

Wild Arms (Japanese) PSX... but playing on my computer. ...what? I own 2 Ps1's and 2 Ps2's... I just don't have them with me! Its legal!!!

(insert picture already!)

I played it before in english, now again in Japanese. I kinda forgot the story, but oh well. One of the first RPG's that came out on PSX, and one of the best.

Halo 2 - Japanese, Xbox.... but playing on my friend's 360

So I bought an Xbox in Japan and brought it back to America during my break... but I recently found Halo 2.
Basicaly one of the good shooters for Xbox... a console of nothing really but shooters.
Also, I heard that the XBox 360 isn't fully backwards compatible... what the hell is up with that? Luckily Halo 2 worked... with some slowdown. Ps3 was backwards compatible, Wii is everything compatible... come on Microsoft, quit bein' a B****! I hope Bill Gates gets a blue screen on his way to heaven when he dies.

Also, on weird thing. The game is Japanese, but it has an almost full english version in it. With english subtitles, even. But the humans and aliens(!) SPEAK Japanese! Freaky.


Magic Knight Rayearth - Japanese, Sega Saturn

For the last time, even if its got female leads, it doesn't mean its a girl game. Come on, I'm having fun with it.


Panzer Dragoon - Japanese, Sega Saturn

Heck yeah. Its like a shooter. But you ride a dragon. Its cool.

Shining Force 3 - Japanese, Sega Saturn BUT playing this one on my computer. It wont save on my saturn

Good game for Saturn. Wish I knew what was goin on.

Tales of The Tempest - Japanese, DS

I just started it, but its a new game in Japan, wasn't released in America, and there's no gamefaqs as of yet. Maybe I should write the Gamefaq for it. Maybe. I just basically finished translating the first dialogue.


Other game stuff

Elecom Playstation Controller to USB adapter

I bought this in Akihabara. Allows me to plug my PS1 controller into my computer. Great for emulationa and MMORPGs. Heck yeah!

R4 Revolution DS

So yeah... I bought a rom card for my DS. It uses Micro SD memory. Meaning you load roms on the Micro Sd card and it plugs into the R4 which is the size of a DS game. It just plugs into the DS like any game and works.
These things are legal to have... like emulators. But the roms are illegal. So yeah... um... of course I don't download roms! I'm homebrew games all the way Nintendo!
(whew, think they bought it?)
So yeah... anyone looking for a rom card for their DS, if you can find some cheap micro Sd memory, the R4 works really well in my case. Just don't use it as a music player. It is by far NOT an iPod replacement.

iPod Shuffle

Not a game, but I got it for Christmas and I like it. Sure it has no screen, but it can play songs I put in in order as I choose on my computer, or I can random it. I can navigate it quite well switching between random and straight to find the song I like. It has an invincible battery life (it just doesn't die!) and is small and sturdy. 1 gig is perfect for it too.
Not many people know this, but it can also be used to store files on! Its basically a 1 gig usb file storage card that plays music! I usually keep it half full of music in case I need to move a big file.

(there are currently no photographs for anything. I'll edit them in soon)