This months Famitsu mag has confirmed the release of Super Robot Wars Z2 on PSP!  The release date is 14th April 2011, and the game will cost 7329Y.

Read on for full series list and magazine scans.

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ZAGG and Best Skins Ever have forever been at each other in deciding which is the best screen protector for the iPhone.  Now having recently tried both, which one is better?

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The G700 is the next evolution in Logitech’s gaming mice, superceeding the G500.  I took the opportunity to purchase one of these as my old MX1000 died after a good 3 years of use.  I’ve also previously owned a G15  (the original G15, not the redesigned watered down one), until it was sadly destroyed by spilt drink, and I figured a mouse which had G series macro capability would be a good choice for me.  Read more…

It’s the end of the financial year again and once again we have crazy game clearances going on.  But this year GAME are getting in as well with what seems to be the ‘sale to end all sales’.   Here’s what I managed to pick up:

GAME

• Football Manager – $2
• Infinite Undiscovery – $8
• Last Remnant – $8
• Lips – $8
• Fight Night Round 3 – $2
• Guitar Hero World Tour – $8
• Assassins Creed – $2
• Dante’s Inferno – $24
• Magna Carta 2 – $24
• Chronicles of Riddick – $12
• Where the Wild things Are x2  $8 each
• FEAR2 – $8
• Terminator Salvation 360 – $4
• Terminator Salvation PS3 – $8
• Armored Core  4 – $8

DSE

• 2x Wirelesss 360 Mics – $5 each
• SingStar Pops – $20
• SingStar Queen – $20
• Borderlands – $30
• Dragonball Raging Blast – $20
• Ghostbusters – $20
• SingStar Wireless Mics – $30
• Armored Core 4 – $15

JB

• God of War Collection – free after trading Wild Things & Terminator
• Transformers – free after trading FEAR2, Wild Things and a copy of Wolverine I had

So yeah, I managed to get quite a few not so great games that I’ve been holding out on a while now.  Whether I’ll actually get to playing them is another question :S

Saint-ism finally has it’s own domain name!

Please use www.saint-ism.com in the future

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and immediately noticed how unbelievably clunky they’ve managed to make file sharing and permissions work.

My media center is  a modded Xbox with XBMC running, and normally I just share a folder on my PC where all my downloads go.  Strangely enough, with Windows 7, XBMC wouldn’t detect any files in my shared folder at all!

After fooling around with Windows 7, I discovered the following:

Windows 7 has 3 types of ‘Networks’ you can connect to – Home, Work and Public.  Home and Work are extremely stringent with how files are shared, because not only do you have to share the folders, the files inside must have share permissions set for people to see them.  This can get annoying because files that say uTorrent create, never have shared permissions, even if they are created inside a directory which is already shared.

Well there are a couple of solutions to this:

• You can manually set file permissions each time you download a new file.  You do this by Right-clicking on the parent folder that contains all your shares.  Properties > Security > Advanced.  Click the “Change Permissions…” button then Check “Replace all child object permissions…”

• You can copy the file to another shared folder.  This should ‘reset’ the file permission to whatever the folder you are copying to.

• You can set your network to Public.  This isn’t as bad as it sounds, if you are running your own home network, chances are you know exactly who is connected to your network at any given time.  Setting your network to public means you can share a folder without having to set file permissions individually, which is good, since consoles can’t really identify themselves to Windows 7 anyway.

Other things which you need to do are to get rid is 128-bit password protection in Advanced Sharing Settings in Control panel.  Make sure it’s set to ‘Enable file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption’ as the Xbox doesn’t support it.  And finallly, in the Homegroups section, make sure ‘Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers’ is checked.

Having come here alot recently to take the train, it’s kinda sad to see this station go.  So, as the sun sets on the final day before the station was demolished,  here’s one last picture to remember the station by.

So long Nunawading!

For my impressions of the recently released Perfect Grade 00 Raiser, please see my latest post.

Wow Bandai.   Talk about making kits of obscure suits lately.  First PG Red Frame, now MG Blue Frame 2nd.

The PG 00 comes with the Raiser and the GN Sword III, so rather unlike the PG Strike, Bandai are being upfront about stealing away your monies this time.  As for price, this thing will set you back a cool 26,250Y.  Ouch.  Get ready to sell off some limbs or ebay your firstborn for this.

How about giving older MS some love.  LIKE MG GUNDAM X K THX.

Source:

Ngee Khiong

GA Graphic

The Perfect Grade Astray has just been released recently, and at a whopping 18,000 yen it’s one of the most expensive ones out there. Is it worth the price?

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After 2 weeks off relentlessly plugging away at RE5 it has fallen

Having finally completed everything I took some time to watch the Making of Documentary that came with the special edition. RE5 has some really good production values and some of the techniques they used for making the cutscenes I’d never heard of before but were really awesome

• realtime motion capture, so the movements processed realtime and there’s a preview screen with the in game engine showing the movements of the actors
• previzualization, sort of like a moving storyboard for the director to be able to visualize his concept before they actually start fully committing to it. For RE5 they used a combination of live action for the actors, superimposed on the game CG cutscenes, which the final product looks almost exactly like
• virtual camera, so after all the motion capture is done and ported into the game, they set up a virtual camera in the scene which can be moved around in real life using some kind mock camera in real life with a monitor so the director can pick the camera angles as though they were filming live action

All this reminded me of Hideo Kojima’s talk at GDC where he mentioned using good game design and technology to overcome impossible barriers. He also mentioned that Japenese developers mainly rely on good design while the west had access to superior technology. It’s good to see developers like Jun and Hideo embrace the west use it to make the best game they can.

Saved for my interests…

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So in my entire one year as trade master, this is my biggest heist yet. The red limited edition RE5 elite tempted me since I laid my eyes on it, but alas I bought my replacement 360 a month too early and missed out.

Or so I thought.

Here’s how it went down.

JB Hi-fi were offering the usual trade deal, but for some reason they were doing a special ‘trade 2 and get it free’ instead of the usual 3 games. I decided it was too good NOT to take advantage off, so I went down to JB and got myself 2 preowned games for a total of $60 and traded those in for RE5.

I had my suspicions that EB would have some kind of crazy trade deal for this game and it was confirmed when I went to trade it in. $93.50 for RE5!

EB’s crazy trade deal for RE5…just crazy

At this point I could’ve went home with my $93.50 ($33.50 profit) in EB Games credit and been relatively happy. But one of my colleagues at work said something that I didn’t really consider before:

$29 profit..do that 3 times and u got a new game…anything else coming out u want?

hehe, do it about 15 times and buy a new 360

So I decided I would ‘take advantage’ of this loophole a few more times. With the 93.50 EB credit I purchased 4 more cheap games and went back to JBHifi, went back to EB games and traded those in for $187 credit. I think so you can see where this is going.

Resident Evil 5…and there’s 5 copies…hahah get it?!

So after much trekking around to various EBs and JBs I end up with 5 copies of RE5. Along with my own personal copy, 6 x 93.5 = 561 and with some leftover credits from buying games, I had the grand prize:

YOU VICTOLY

Sold off the copy of Halo Wars that came with it, as well as the SF2 HD Remix which I both already have. So back in the black and a red elite to top it off. Legendaryyy….