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So my dvd burner might be dying.

Godmode — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:53:38 +0000

It’s having issues burning a few differnet iso’s, although I’m still working on figuring out if it is the iso itself or the media, or if it really is the drive.

I’m leaning towards it being either media or drive, because the iso itself is working fine, and when mounted back onto the pc with Daemon Tools I can re-use DvdFab to re-rip it – one would think if the iso was the issue, I wouldn’t be able to use a ripping app to re-rip the disc again.

I’ve actually got my drive re-burning a movie that failed (miscompares and unrecoverable read errors) right now, but there’s one thing that confuses me. The dvd player downstairs appears to have no issue playing it back.

Maybe it’s just part of the disc thats bad or something funky.

Killed PHPBB3 – Shotgun Blast To The Face

Godmode — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:59:31 +0000

I hate PHPBB3’s patching system; it spends more time hashing and comparing files than it does actually patching.

Upgraded to MyBB and got most of the stuff off the other forums; the stuff that’s missing is stuff I opted not to keep.

The rest is history I guess; we get to use mybb now! Check it out!

Crap, almost March.

Godmode — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:24:32 +0000

Picked up Formula D though, looks awesome.

Beat Mass Effect 2 once, working on second playthrough, then might go back to ME1 and see if I can get past the bugs long enough to finish it so I have one of my own ME1 characters to import.

Later for now!

Failure, and a bit of an epic find.

Godmode — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:16:06 +0000

Okay so earlier I tried to install WP-United so the phpbb3 forum and wordpress would link together (bridging they call it) and basically users on phpbb3 would exist in wordpress and vice versa, blog posts in WP would have a corresponding topic in phpbb3, and comments would go to the topic in phpbb3.

Didn’t happen, 45 minutes after starting the install epic-failed so I went back to last nights backup. Fix’d.

Epic Find on the other hand was this: http://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-FDUSASM-Formula-D/dp/2914849648/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1265278057&sr=8-1

My apologies for the horrible link, but basically this is a remake of an older game called Formula De` (note the extra e). Differences: Almost none, other than a graphics makeover and addition of “street racing,” which I quite frankly couldn’t care less about. Works with the original maps, so I’m happy.

Just gotta wait for the tax refund(s) – state refund is coming in about 5 days so it might not be long before I have another board game to keep Risk 2210 company.

New TV, New TV Problems, and ELX-4 again.

Godmode — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:08:55 +0000

So I replaced my monitor with a 42″ 1080p tv from Insignia, although the audio out just blew on the back so I get to call them later and schedule a service thing from the Geek Squad.

Other than that, I’m looking at getting off my butt again and getting ELX-4 Remake 2 at least working, although I know I’ve said that quite a few times. So we’ll see if it actually happens. Screenshots if all goes well will follow.

Happy New Year

Godmode — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:37:30 +0000

Yeah, I’m late. Stuff it.

Changed theme again.

Godmode — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:05 +0000

Old one I forgot was up for halloween cause it was black and orange; this one’s easier on the eyes I think. Not this harsh color contrast stuff.

Reverted to old theme.

Godmode — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:18:15 +0000

I -had- set this up so it’d be ready for a webcomic, but I’ve no ambition or ideas to actually make a decent comic at this point, so I put it back to one of the older theme.

That’s about all for now; got a few ideas in my head, but none of them are really going anywhere right now.

Happy Halloween!

Godmode — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:32:56 +0000

Okay so I’m about 25 minutes early, but I haven’t posted in 45 days anyways, so I figure I should at least say SOMETHING.

No real updates, haven’t done much coding. Biggest accomplishment so far was carving 3 foam pumpkins this month, and finally getting a Netflix membership going. Other than that, no news.

Don’t rot your teeth out folks.

ELX-4 in the works, again.

Godmode — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:36 +0000

ELX standing for EmuLauncher XNA, of course. I’m gunna restart it and avoid coding myself into a corner this time – the main issue I have right now with the other one is I can’t expand it easily, partially due to a restricted menu.

Plus it just doesn’t look cool enough. So far the to-do list is short but ugly, although I’m cutting it back down to size and adding in all the Genre/Player-Stats/Profiles stuff in later. Advantage is I’m adding in the Carousel Selector from the very first one I did back in Game Maker, so any new menus will be easy as hell to add

Oh, and videos for backgrounds, and game previews (if you take the time to make an avi for each game and stick it in the game’s info file). And I’m doing a cross between XML and folder-style info – XML for all the theme/profile data (once that gets added), but folder-style for the game files again. Using XML for the games was a good idea, but it’s clumsy and requires a separate app unless I wanna code a whole GUI that’s usable with a gamepad, which I don’t.

I’ll end up posting screens at some point once I get further along, and if I’m in a good mood I might see if I can’t get some form of craptastic flash AVI viewer going and put up an avi or two of what it actually looks like in action, but that’s a ways off – it needs to work first.