PS3

[AutomaticZen]

Gamestop's website lists the 60 at $329.99.

My 80 doesn't have BC anyways, so I'm probably going to sell it to a friend and grab a Slim.  Smaller and more power efficient.  If I had a BC system, I wouldn't even think about it.

[ffc]

I currently have cheap ebay bids (hell, selling crap I don't need on ebay is financing this economically retarded purchase!) on LBP, Disgaea 3, and Valkyria Chronicles.  Outside of Demon's Souls though there aren't many games I absolutely must have . . . .

I found a new copy of Folklore for $15 and am waiting for it to arrive.  I had first tried a local GameStop that was supposed to have it in stock but a manager had taken it.   

While at GameStop the clerk tried to sell me on some other PS3 games and I told him I wasn't really interested in anything until Demon's Souls.  He laughed and told me to stay away from it because it is too hard to be fun.

He went on to say if you go around a corner you might get killed because you didn't have your shield up.  Then you have to fight back to your body.  And you might die again.  You see other players dying.  And the bosses will kill you.

At first I didn't understand how he viewed anything he just said as a negative.  And then it clicked.  Standing in front of me was bizarro schild.

[Khaldun]

Me love Wii, it am the best!

[Azazel]

While at GameStop the clerk tried to sell me on some other PS3 games and I told him I wasn't really interested in anything until Demon's Souls.  He laughed and told me to stay away from it because it is too hard to be fun.

He went on to say if you go around a corner you might get killed because you didn't have your shield up.  Then you have to fight back to your body.  And you might die again.  You see other players dying.  And the bosses will kill you.

At first I didn't understand how he viewed anything he just said as a negative.  And then it clicked.  Standing in front of me was bizarro schild.

Is there a demo of it on PSN?

No idea about this gamestop manager, but that description sounds as fun as pounding nails into my dick old-school Everquest.

[Azazel]

(And speaking of expensive shit I don't need I preordered the new badass Space Hulk boardgame. )

Mock away fanboys.

saturday, Saturday! SATURDAY! 

[schild]

I currently have cheap ebay bids (hell, selling crap I don't need on ebay is financing this economically retarded purchase!) on LBP, Disgaea 3, and Valkyria Chronicles.  Outside of Demon's Souls though there aren't many games I absolutely must have . . . .

I found a new copy of Folklore for $15 and am waiting for it to arrive.  I had first tried a local GameStop that was supposed to have it in stock but a manager had taken it.   

While at GameStop the clerk tried to sell me on some other PS3 games and I told him I wasn't really interested in anything until Demon's Souls.  He laughed and told me to stay away from it because it is too hard to be fun.

He went on to say if you go around a corner you might get killed because you didn't have your shield up.  Then you have to fight back to your body.  And you might die again.  You see other players dying.  And the bosses will kill you.

At first I didn't understand how he viewed anything he just said as a negative.  And then it clicked.  Standing in front of me was bizarro schild.

This sounds like any one of the gamestop people in Austin. I have yet to find a good gaming store here, which is shocking simply because of how many game devs there are.

[ffc]

No idea about this gamestop manager, but that description [of Demon's Souls] sounds as fun as pounding nails into my dick old-school Everquest.

Haha, that is exactly what I thought.  I was reminded specifically of dying several times in a row and losing a level while trying to recover my corpse in the bottom of Dalnir.  Oh how I raged.  But looking back with my rose colored glasses through a rose colored window in my rose colored house, I miss consequences to dying. 

Not EQ though.  That can burn.

[schild]

Is there a demo of it on PSN?

No idea about this gamestop manager, but that description sounds as fun as pounding nails into my dick old-school Everquest.

It's the best console game I've ever played.

And there wasn't a demo in Asia, so I can't imagine there would be one here. I can't think of a single Atlus game that ever got a demo for that matter.

[Yegolev]

I almost linked this but realized it's N1 and not Atlus.  I get those two confused a good bit.

[ahoythematey]

This sounds like any one of the gamestop people in Austin. I have yet to find a good gaming store here, which is shocking simply because of how many game devs there are.

For new games you are pretty much screwed, but you may want to check out Game Over.  Gamefellas isn't as nice a store, but they almost always have some nice deals on older systems.

When gamestop and EB merged, Austin pretty much ceased to have good game stores for buying current stuff.

[Trippy]

Having to use FAT32 for the filesystem sucks donkey balls.

[schild]

This sounds like any one of the gamestop people in Austin. I have yet to find a good gaming store here, which is shocking simply because of how many game devs there are.

For new games you are pretty much screwed, but you may want to check out Game Over.  Gamefellas isn't as nice a store, but they almost always have some nice deals on older systems.

When gamestop and EB merged, Austin pretty much ceased to have good game stores for buying current stuff.

Game Over and Gamefellas have terrible, terrible prices and clerks.

[ahoythematey]

Sounds like one of us has had some abnormal experiences then, because I've generally had a reasonable experience in Game Over.  Gamefellas is very hit-or-miss, but I have found a few things there that were underpriced.

[Trippy]

The PS3 Slim hard drive replacement is very easy. There's one screw on the bottom hidden behind a small panel you have remove (a fingernail can pop the panel open or you can use a small screwdriver). Then the panel in front that the hard drive hides behind slides open and you just pull the hard drive tray out (the hard drive is underneath the Blu-ray drive on the Slim). The screws were very easy to remove on my machine, unlike some of the stories I read about the screws on the fatties.

[Jain Zar]

(And speaking of expensive shit I don't need I preordered the new badass Space Hulk boardgame. )

Mock away fanboys.

saturday, Saturday! SATURDAY!  

Oh, you mean Wednesday?  My Marines are clipped off, and filed, just waiting for me to Dremel off all the Blood Angels iconography and make them Crimson Fists and Pre Heresy World Eaters.  The door holders are all basecoated black and awaiting some silver drybrushing.  The Broodlord is clipped together and prepped, and a couple of his homies are too.  (I prefer the original Space Hulk era Stealers personally.  But these will get painted up classical GS colorscheme.)  All the pieces are organized and in baggies.

And to prepare for the upcoming Genestealer Apocalypse I have been playing some V2:  http://wargamedork.blogspot.com/2009/08/space-hulk-mission-1-1-comic-report.html  And of course, using VMWare Fusion to take the Space Wolves through Teardown's Space Hulk V1 game.  (Yes I have a bright and shiny PS3 and I am mostly playing with toy soldiers and low graphics fanmade projects.)

But I do have a quick PS3 question.  Is Smooth and Widescreen the only BC options?  I was expecting something... sharper, ala some Antialiasing or tricks the emulators all pull off.  (Oh yeah anyone who wants to friend me can do so as I am on as Cpt_Rufus )

And how is Resistance Fall of Man?  And can I really use Mouse Keyboard for it if I want?

Oh and my fancypants joystick will need to be pretty so which of these 5 pictures (4 are in 1) would be best?  
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/3885018671_2980e4a953_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/3885018587_86f7c6f6f9_o.png
I'm partial to Nei, the Vindicare Assassin, and the VF1S with Fast Packs in Gerwalk for how they would look on a joystick face, but I do like all of them.  Finding nice widescreen pictures I would like was a pain!

Now I just have to hope that just announced Data East arcade collection gets on the PS3 as well.  Bad Dudes and Magical Drop 3 with a nice joystick?  Hell yeah.  (Shutup about emulators.  I go legal first dammit.)

[Rasix]

What the hell are you doing?

[Jain Zar]

What the hell are you doing?

As I mentioned I am gonna get that ridiculously expensive Madcatz SF4 TE stick for my new expensive game console.  You can mod them in various ways including the art.  Thus the pictures are ones I may choose from to use on my stick.  And thus I am asking for art opinions on them.  But in the interests of page size, I shall turn them into a link instead.

[Rasix]

Spoiler tags work too.

[Azazel]

Oh, you mean Wednesday?  My Marines are clipped off, and filed, just waiting for me to Dremel off all the Blood Angels iconography and make them Crimson Fists and Pre Heresy World Eaters.  The door holders are all basecoated black and awaiting some silver drybrushing.  The Broodlord is clipped together and prepped, and a couple of his homies are too.  (I prefer the original Space Hulk era Stealers personally.  But these will get painted up classical GS colorscheme.)  All the pieces are organized and in baggies.

It's tomorrow here. So picking it up then. Might open it up and have a browse, but no chance of playing it for a few weeks, so they can sit unpainted on the sprues for awhile. Or possibly forever.

Oh and my fancypants joystick will need to be pretty so which of these 5 pictures (4 are in 1) would be best?  
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/3885018671_2980e4a953_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/3885018587_86f7c6f6f9_o.png
I'm partial to Nei, the Vindicare Assassin, and the VF1S with Fast Packs in Gerwalk for how they would look on a joystick face, but I do like all of them.  Finding nice widescreen pictures I would like was a pain!

Um, dunno. Whatever you like? Prettying up a joystick with printed artwork is a bit like using those stupid stickers they give you with Guitar Hero games to me.

[schild]

Jain Zar's tremendously bad taste in artwork aside, the SFIV CE sticks do need their picture replaced, and the buttons needs to be replaced with Sanwa buttons, but that's neither here nor there. It's nothing like using the guitar hero stickers.

[Azazel]

These things?

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/12/11/mad-catz-street-fighter-iv-fightstick/

I can't contain my indifference for the artwork. But for me, agonizing over replacing them (especially with those pics) is the same thing.
Really though, he can do what he wants. I won't ever use his joystick, so what do I care?

[schild]

These things?

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/12/11/mad-catz-street-fighter-iv-fightstick/

I can't contain my indifference for the artwork. But for me, agonizing over replacing them (especially with those pics) is the same thing.
Really though, he can do what he wants. I won't ever use his joystick, so what do I care?

Well, yea, agonizing over pictures is just stupid. And yes, particularly when they're THOSE pictures. This one is much better.

[Azazel]

ok, I LOLed. 

[Jain Zar]

Ok then Mr Art snob types, then you find me some good art to use.

My preferences:  Phantasy Star and Ultima series (Solo games not the online MMO stuff),  Robotech, Super Robot Taisen, Contra, Castlevania, Aliens Transformers G1 and Beast Wars, Warhammer 40K (Chaos Space Marines primarily).

I also like the Batfamily, Giant robots of all sorts, the SR 71 Blackbird, and Dragon Quest.

Put your mouse clicks where yer mouths are then.  I am open to suggestions.  Constructive ones.  I know, that's HARD and all, but why not try it on for size?  Its amazing what it can accomplish.

[FatuousTwat]

These things?

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/12/11/mad-catz-street-fighter-iv-fightstick/

I can't contain my indifference for the artwork. But for me, agonizing over replacing them (especially with those pics) is the same thing.
Really though, he can do what he wants. I won't ever use his joystick, so what do I care?

Well, yea, agonizing over pictures is just stupid. And yes, particularly when they're THOSE pictures. This one is much better.

Would have been much better if they could have somehow made his crotch under the stick.

[Azazel]

See, this is your problem:

My preferences:  Phantasy Star and Ultima series (Solo games not the online MMO stuff),  Robotech, Super Robot Taisen, Contra, Castlevania, Aliens Transformers G1 and Beast Wars, Warhammer 40K (Chaos Space Marines primarily).
I also like the Batfamily, Giant robots of all sorts, the SR 71 Blackbird, and Dragon Quest.

I mean, I like some of those things too, but I don't need them on my joystick.

But here, take your pick of Blackbirds.
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=sr-71+blackbird&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=t96gSseQHISIkAXA1pjXDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

Or if you like Alien, buy this book, and get a colour photocopy done of the image of your choice.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=20214

Or this one (large format book - both of these are worth owning):
http://www.biblio.com/books/74639012.html

There's also a bunch of decent-quality Giger images here if you just want to print.
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=561

If you must do 40k, fuck that shitty wannabe-Mark Gibbons pencil art and go right for the good stuff:
http://www.redknuckle.com/images/sales/world%20eater.jpg
http://www.freewebs.com/trolllock/mark_gibbons_warhammer_004.jpg
http://www.redknuckle.com/images/illustrations/fabius.jpg
http://www.redknuckle.com/

This one is perfect for a joystick in terms of layout
http://www.redknuckle.com/images/0808/grimaldus08_main.jpg

For Batman, stay away from cutesy fanfic line art and go right for the good stuff.  
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/b/images/batman-and-robin-6.jpg

..Okay. but there's evocative stuff like this around.
http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/batman_imax.jpg


Or, you know, whatever Phantasy Star charpics or Southern Cross Dana Sterling wankfest floats your boat. Like I said, it's your joystick.

[Yegolev]

Having to use FAT32 for the filesystem sucks donkey balls.

Are you trying to install linux?  I, for one, am interested in your tales even if I'm not interested in doing it myself.  Also, I agree about fat32.

[Trippy]

No I wasn't since I have the Slim. Formatting a drive larger than 32 GB for FAT32 turns out to be an issue under Windows XP. And then when I did manage to get a drive formatted larger than 32 GB it would BSoD one of my Windows machines

I also now understand why people take the time to convert stuff to H.264 to playback on the PS3 even though it can play MPEG-2 files and converting to H.264 takes forever. With MPEG-2 you are much more likely to bump into the 4 GB file size limitation on FAT32.

[Yegolev]

Is streaming from a PC not an option?

[schild]

Ok then Mr Art snob types, then you find me some good art to use.

My preferences:  Phantasy Star and Ultima series (Solo games not the online MMO stuff),  Robotech, Super Robot Taisen, Contra, Castlevania, Aliens Transformers G1 and Beast Wars, Warhammer 40K (Chaos Space Marines primarily).

I also like the Batfamily, Giant robots of all sorts, the SR 71 Blackbird, and Dragon Quest.

Put your mouse clicks where yer mouths are then.  I am open to suggestions.  Constructive ones.  I know, that's HARD and all, but why not try it on for size?  Its amazing what it can accomplish.

First of all, your taste in shit sucks. So that's a big problem. Second of all:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/games/castlevania/Castlevania_pck.jpg
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/games/castlevania/Cv_Cover_copy.jpg

But I don't really believe you when you say you like Castlevania given all that other shit.

[schild]

Is streaming from a PC not an option?

I do this off my NAS and my Windows box. It's so easy to join!

[Salamok]

converting to H.264 takes forever.

ffmpeg + cron, you can script it to auto convert for you and dump the result anywhere your script can access via the network.  Seems pretty fast as long as what you are converting can fit in memory but that may be due to the settings i was using.

side edit to keep on topic: any chance the Sony Aino isn't going to be a piece of shit?

[Murgos]

Is streaming from a PC not an option?

I do this off my NAS and my Windows box. It's so easy to join!

What NAS are you using?

[schild]

Is streaming from a PC not an option?

I do this off my NAS and my Windows box. It's so easy to join!

What NAS are you using?

Some cheap iomega thing from Frys. The Storcenter IX2 or some shit.

[Trippy]

converting to H.264 takes forever.

ffmpeg + cron, you can script it to auto convert for you and dump the result anywhere your script can access via the network.  Seems pretty fast as long as what you are converting can fit in memory but that may be due to the settings i was using.

Batching is not the issue, it's simply the time it takes do it. At, say, 6 fps conversion speed a movie takes 5X "real time" to convert.