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(EPSXE is a Playstation 1 emulator for the PC, 1.7 was released recently. Before this, it hadn’t had a new version in I think, over 5 years. You can find out more about it here: http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discussion/)

In continuing my run of themes, or perhaps better stated as “enjoying old things again”, I’ve also been playing Metal Gear Solid, with the intention of finally playing 2 and 3 as well.

I bought the recently released MGS Collection (Play-Asia is freaking fantastic for buying legit games in VN, btw), mainly for MGS1 since I I’ve owned MGS2 for the XBox for nearly 5 years after a crazy sale at EBGames listed it at $19.99. Never played it once.

I have a modded PS2 which is why I bought the collection- I could get a copy of MGS 3 easily, but I didn’t think I could run a copied MGS1 on my PS2.

Turns out, I can’t run legit copies of PS1 games on my PS2 either. I actually own the PC version of MGS and have it with me in VN, but I wanted dual shock vibration. Turns out, the solution was to go with EPSXE and XBCD* drivers to go with an iso image of my MGS1 CDs. You can also play straight from the cd, but its significantly slower, with loads of loading delays.

(I even have Mike’s hint book guide to MGS2, also given to me probably 5 years ago, and again, never played it once.)

The overall gameplay experience was quite good.

20-30 fps, with some occasional dips into the 10’s, but not during gameplay. (I think PSX games were originally 30 FPS anyway, at least MGS was, so for the most part things run well, although I kind of felt that control was slightly sluggish)

Keep in mind I was pushing higher-end settings on my T61P laptop, not running it how it looked on the Playstation when it first came out. See the screenshot at the bottom of the post.

Analog control was good, and vibration accurate. The game’s sound, always one of the most memorable things about MGS, still holds up after all these years, though I think David Hayter’s acting is a little overrated. He’s good, but he’s not fantastic. I kind of feel the way about the rest of the cast too, but I think a lot of that is the script. When I was 18/19/20 it sounded great, now that I’m 27, it comes off a little cheesy.

*XBCD Drivers are 3rd party drivers for the XBox 360 controller. Much better than the Microsoft ones, they’ll let you get rumble in emulators like EPSXE. The link to where you can normally find them is gone, so I’ve uploaded them for download.

XBCD Installer 0.2.6.exe

(edit: June 23: wanted to add some things. 1.7 version of EPSXE has an issue when you get to disc 2- you won’t be able to load it. You’ll have to get an older version of EPSXE (1.5, 1.6), use your save, get past the bug point, and resave for the import back into 1.7. This is easy, just look in the right directory in your program directory. Also had trouble with the ISO image at the end of the game- the Playstation (not the pure emu software) reported it could not read the disc. When I used to original game disc however, things were ok)

Here are my settings with EPSXE:

Here’s another good guide on EPSXE from Racketboy: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sony/ps1/2007/08/enhance-ps1-graphics-with-the-best-epsxe-plugin-settings.html

Screenshots from the game (as always, may have spoilers, click on a shot to see the entire gallery):

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This was before Guitar Hero was a huge smash, before it was even released.

Guess who I am? (I stand out)

For some reason, I don’t see Kyle in this.

Been a while since I’ve worn that shirt too, only reserve for when I don’t mind really standing out (I’m such a bastard). There’s also a side story about this picture that I was thinking of telling about this soon. Like any good story, it involves women.

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Yes, of course I will be getting this. Of course, Henry still has my Rock Band, and I didn’t play it that much in the months since I’ve been in Vietnam….and this track list isn’t that great….and 20 songs for $30 is a bit much…….

Oh I’m still getting it, I don’t care about the logic!

PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii owners will get a chance to snag some new songs for Rock Band.

Harmonix, EA and MTV Games are releasing a disc with 20 rather disparate songs for both platforms culled from the list already available via the Xbox 360 and PS3.

The Wii and PS2 lack the ability to download titles from servers - hence the disc - but it appears more songs will eventually be on the way, given the title of this release: Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1.

It will be released on July 15 for $30.

The disc’s contents are:

• 30 Seconds to Mars “The Kill”
• All American Rejects “Move Along”
• Blink - 182 “All the Small Things”
• Boston “More Than a Feeling”
• David Bowie “Moonage Daydream”
• Faith No More “We Care A Lot”
• Grateful Dead “Truckin’”
• The Hives “Die, All Right!”
• KISS “Calling Dr. Love”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd “Gimme’ Three Steps”
• Nine Inch Nails “March of the Pigs”
• Oasis “Live Forever”
• Paramore “Crushcrushcrush”
• The Police “Synchronicity II”
• Queens of the Stone Age “Little Sister”
• Ramones “Teenage Lobotomy”
• Smashing Pumpkins “Siva”
• Stone Temple Pilots “Interstate Love Song”
• Weezer “Buddy Holly”
• Wolfmother “Joker & the Thief”

Source: Ars Technica

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No wonder people love this game.

It’s been at least 6 or 7 years since I played FFVII for the first time, originally playing the PC version, which at the time didn’t really seem to compare to the original Playstation one. The PS version’s low-res backgrounds and videos looked great on a TV (at least a TV from that era) but terrible on a higher res computer monitor. Nonetheless, I remembered FF7 as being a wonderful game and its value on EBay today confirms how many people still cherish it as one of the Square RPG’s to have, along with Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana for the SNES.

You’re Cloud (or rename him to be any name you want), a young loner punk with a big, uh, sword. You’re young, strong, badass, and you do your own thing. As the game starts, Cloud’s teaming up with a rebel group called Avalanche who are trying to overthrow an empire-like Shinra. Cloud’s in it for the money, which causes some friction with the group’s leader Barret, whom I would describe as Mr. T with a minigun for a hand. As things progress, you decide that maybe you should stick around, maybe you’re not such a punk after all. Maybe they are things you care about in life.

Like Tifa, the hot girl you grew up with. Or Aeris, the hot girl with mysterious powers who is wanted by Shinra for more than her looks…..Both of whom have an interest in you.

Hot girls, a call for adventure, and only you can save the world?

An innocence any not-so-cool-in-life 17 year old (or for me, 27 years old) would enjoy!

Oh yeah, did I mention you may have occasion to ride a bad ass motorcycle and cute little yellow horses/camels/things called Chocobos?

Sign me up!

If you’ve played any of the SNES FF games or the recent GBA remakes, think of FF7 as FF3/6 in 3D. I basically mean, the town structure, the battle system, you have seen it before. The way you interact with non-player characters (NPC), etc., there isn’t any real change in gameplay. Instead of 2D sprites, imagine a world with painted CG backgrounds and polygonal characters.

10 years ago, the big deal with FF VII were the graphics and story. The story, while great, had been done before, but not the graphics: Full motion video, polygon characters, crazy special effects! Summons were half ridiculous, half awesome. Obviously today the graphics are no big deal, but the art direction still shows. The designs still look amazing, if not super clean, and it’s still a world I’d love to be part of today.

Final Fantasy VII feels like a true adventure. You go places, meet people, have sad moments, have happy ones, I think it’s more of you feel like you’re doing something, you’re part of a world, but you in itself are not the world. You have to save the world, but you can enjoy the ride, life isn’t so depressing. It reminds me of the original Star Wars trilogy, where there was a seriously depressing obstacle in the way, the Empire, yet the stories and characters have time for fun and comedy in between moments of near-death.

Yet, what’s most apparently wrong about FF, not just with this FF game but so many in the series as well as other similar-styled RPGs is the need for constant battle.

In many Japanese-style turn-based RPG’s, battles does not mean action.

I personally don’t think battles are fun. Leveling up, getting stronger, sure that’s important and rewarding. Who doesn’t want to progress, gain more skills? But random battles? I’m just running along trying to get to the next town, and then I have to get hit randomly 20 times on my way there, forced to fight? And when I do fight, I don’t consider the act all that appealing. Sure, maybe for a boss fight, that can be stressful, exciting, tension-filled, but fighting a bat 30 times in a hour? All I do is keep pressing attack when the turns turn up because I don’t want to waste my magic points in case I need them later.

This isn’t fun. And random battles is a big reason why I haven’t haven’t played many RPG’s. Square Soft games are notorious for them, and while leveling can be a fun time, knowing there’s 30 hours worth of leveling to be had doesn’t really fit my schedule any more now that I’m older.

I know the newest Final Fantasy game, FFXII, makes battle more enjoyable, but I don’t see any reason why battle is so important. To me, it’s more about the adventure, the story, the characters you meet. There can be fights, but my guess is that you can easily remove at least 70% of the fights, and you’d enjoy the game much more and not feel so enslaved to monotonous level grind.

So back to FFVII again. It is a good game. I don’t think it’s a game for beginning game players, just because it’s a bit annoying in terms of the level grind. I guess at this stage in my life, which is mainly consumed by work, I’m more into immediate benefit, linear gameplay. Whatever I’m doing, I want instant feedback that, hey this is fun, I want to keep doing it. Battles take away that constant feedback/fun for me. I

If you have a gamepad, I definitely recommend using it. I used my XBox 360 controller, but when you’re playing the game you definitely think of it as a console experience, as not much was done to take advantage of the PC in terms of game interface.

For the PC version, fans have worked on various projects to update the graphics (1280 x 1024 res, new character models) and fix other issues that have not aged so well over time (various bugs).

For information on the upgrades, try:

• http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=2670.0
• http://fem1.uniag.sk/Miroslav.Jezik/ff7ncopam.html

(Edit: 06/01/2008) Added Screenshots of the game with the enhancement patches:

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I like to sing. As with most people, however, you would not want to hear me sing live. In Vietnam, singing is a huge phenomenon, well, more precisely, Karaoke is. You can find a place to sing karaoke in nearly every neighborhood, and keep in mind that a neighborhood in Vietnam is much smaller than what we consider one to be in the US. There are also hugely popular websites dedicated to people singing and uploading for others to listen to and rate.

I like to sing, but I don’t do karaoke, even in Vietnam. Partly because of embarrassment, partly because it’s not always so easy to find the songs I want to sing (I definitely don’t want to sing Vietnamese pop). Karaoke Revolution, though, is perfect for me. Singing in seclusion with a lot of English-language pop (I love 80’s, but who doesn’t?), hoorah!

Karaoke Revolution presents American Idol has a very simple concept: imagine karaoke on an American Idol stage, getting feedback from the judges (this game replaces Paula, but has Randy and Simon) while you sing an assortment of pop songs that, most of them I assume, have actually been sung by contestants in years past. I’m not a huge fan of American Idol, but I do watch it if I happen to run across it on TV (it’s shown a lot on Star World, so SE Asia must like it too)

Simply, no need to read the rest of this review, if you like Karaoke, and you like American Idol, you will like this game.

Karaoke Revolution is basically Karaoke on your Playstation 2, but instead of free form singing, the game will grade you on how correctly you match pitch with the real version of the song (the songs are covered, but essentially you’re being graded compared to the real interpretation of the song, not your own). Grading is constant on every part of the song, but it isn’t truly grading you on how well you sing the song, just the pitch- this means you can hum the music of the song rather than sing it and still get a good grade.

I’m a little interested in what would I sound like if I recorded my singing because I think my singing isn’t perfect in the lyrical sense. Because the mic doesn’t pick up quite exactly when you sing, you have to start singing slightly earlier to compensate. Also, because of the game structure and knowing you have to match the song meter, you change the way you sing to make sure you’re on score. The end result, I believe, is sometimes you might not say all the words or you might change your interpretation of the song to make sure it fits within the scoring requirements.

Regarding the American Idol tie in, you can play without the American Idol career mode or you can even sing Karaoke without scoring, pure karaoke. There are a number of multiplayer modes as well, but the gameplay for everything is the same, pick a song, start singing.

In the Idol mode, you start from early tryouts, and move along the various stages you see in the show. The judges are there for it all, and are their normal selves (mean) when it comes to feedback. If you can get to the end, you’ll see the familiar final stage as your backdrop. Overall, it’s a fairly simple tie-in, and you won’t see anything particularly creative or interesting (Mariah Carey does not drop by, for example).

I had a lot of fun, though to me, the tracklist is not so much weak, but not enough 80’s! There’s probably no coincidence that the songs I like most are the ones I sing the best. Playing KR:AI definitely is motivating me to find other KR mixes; I think this would definitely favor a Rock Band-like model (and Harmonix developed both games) where you buy the game disc/starter pack and buy new songs online.

The Tracklist: (my favorites in bold, many have to be unlocked)

1. “All My Life” - K-Ci and JoJo
2. “Alone” - Heart
3. “Always Something There to Remind Me” - Naked Eyes
4. “Be Without You” - Mary J. Blige
5. “Breakaway” - Kelly Clarkson
6. “Build Me Up Buttercup” - The Foundations
7. “Can’t Help Falling in Love” - Elvis Presley
8. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” - Queen
9. “Dilemma” - Nelly & Kelly Rowland
10. “Do I Make You Proud” - Taylor Hicks
11. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” - Elton John
12. “Don’t You Want Me” - The Human League
13. “Easy” - Commodores
14. “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” - Poison
15. “Flying Without Wings” - Ruben Studdard
16. “Heartbreaker” - Pat Benatar
17. “Heaven” - Los Lonely Boys
18. “Hungry Like the Wolf” - Duran Duran
19. “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” - Simply Red
20. “It’s Not Unusual” - Tom Jones
21. “Just the Way You Are” - Billy Joel
22. “Let’s Stay Together” - Al Green
23. “Love Will Keep Us Together” - Captain & Tennille
24. “More Than Words” - Extreme
25. “Photograph” - Nickelback
26. “Piano Man” - Billy Joel
27. “Proud Mary” - Creedence Clearwater Revival
28. “Rock with You” - Michael Jackson
29. “Saving All My Love For You” - Whitney Houston
30. “She Bangs” - Ricky Martin
31. “Stand By Me” - Ben E. King
32. “Stickwitu” - The Pussycat Dolls
33. “Straight Up” - Paula Abdul
34. “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” - Fall Out Boy
35. “The Real Thing” - Bo Bice
36. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” - Bonnie Tyler
37. “Unwritten” - Natasha Bedingfield
38. “What a Girl Wants” - Christina Aguilera
39. “You and Me” - Lifehouse
40. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” - The Righteous Brothers

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Went out with Jimmy, Thuy, Hai, and Hung for New Year’s Eve (Giao Thua in Vietnamese) here last night, first stopping by Hai’s for Texas Hold Em (I played for the first time and got lucky enough to earn 200K VND net on my 100K VND initial buy-in) and then later going off to Ho Tay for fireworks.

The fireworks view was pretty awesome; we ended up almost directly under them. Debris from them actually landed on me a few times (very small bits, don’t worry), definitely the closet and best view of fireworks I have ever had.

Go Vietnam!

Now, for the next few days, Rock Band, video gaming, and rides around the empty streets of Hanoi. I’m off for 6 days.

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1. Rock and Roll !!!
GH80 I Wanna Rock         Twisted Sister
GH1 I Love Rock & Roll Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
GH80 Metal Health (Bang Your Head) Quiet Riot - Hidden track from demo
GH80 Balls to the Wall Accept
GH1 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple (encore)

2. Dude, I totally broke a rock!
GH2 Strutter         Kiss
GH80 Police Truck         Dead Kennedys
GH2 Shout at the Devil     Motley Crue
GH2 You Really Got Me Van Halen
GH2 Hangar 18         Megadeth (encore)

3. God Gave Rock ‘n Roll To You
GH360 The Trooper         Iron Maiden
GH1 Ace Of Spades         Motorhead
GH2 Search and Destroy Iggy Pop and The Stooges
GH2 Tattooed Love Boys The Pretenders
GH1 Spanish Castle Magic Jimi Hendrix (encore)

4. Highway to Hell
GH80 No One Like You         Scorpions
GH1 Cowboys from Hell Pantera
GH1 Bark at the Moon Ozzy Osbourne
GH1 Thunder Kiss ‘65 White Zombie
GH2 Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses (Encore)

5. What’s up, dude?
GH1 Infected         Bad Religion
GH360 Billion Dollar Babies   Alice Cooper
GH2 War Pigs         Black Sabbath
GH2 Bad Reputation         Thin Lizzy
GH1 Frankenstein         The Edgar Winter Group (encore)

6. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
GH1 Iron Man         Black Sabbath
GH1 Crossroads         Cream
GH2 Rock This Town         Stray Cats
GH2 Jessica                 The Allman Brothers Band
GH1 You’ve Got Another Thing Comin Judas Priest (encore)

7. High Voltage
GH2 Madhouse         Anthrax
GH360 Hush                 Deep Purple
GH1 Killer Queen         Queen
GH2 Psychobilly Freakout The Reverend Horton Heat
GH2 YYZ                 Rush (Encore)

8. Excellent!
GH80 Electric Eye         Judas Priest
GH1 Symphony of Destruction Megadeth
GH2 Misirlou         Dick Dale
GH80 Holy Diver         Dio
GH2 Free Bird         Lynyrd Skynyrd (Encore)

Bonus Track (Let There Be Rock)
GH2 Message in a Bottle The Police
GH1 Higher Ground         Red Hot Chili Peppers
GH1 Take It Off         The Donnas
GH2 Heart-Shaped Box Nirvana
GH2 Woman                 Wolfmother
GH80 Hold on Loosely         .38 Special
GH1 Texas Flood         Stevie Ray Vaughan
GH80 Caught in a Mosh Anthrax
GH2 Can’t You Hear Me Knocking The Rolling Stones
GH1 Ziggy Stardust         David Bowie
GH2 Surrender         Cheap Trick
GH80 Synchronicity II The Police
GH360 Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo Rick Derringer
GH1 Even Rats         The Slip
GH1 Take Me Out         Franz Ferdinand
GH1 Godzilla         Blue Oyster Cult
GH80 Ballroom Blitz         Krokus
GH1 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones
GH2 Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You T. Spinal Tap
GH1 Sharp Dressed Man ZZ Top
GH1 Unsung                 Helmet
GH1 Trippolette         Andrew Buch - Hidden track from GH1
GH80 Play With Me      Extreme
GH80 Wrathchild         Iron Maiden

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Another cool Guitar Hero torrent I’m checking out. This one, I actually like a lot more since it’s just the best of Guitar Hero’s 1, 2, X360, and 80’s Encore rolled into one disc. After playing this, I realized I will have to do a lot of practice sessions to get my fingers in shape, or I’ll never get anywhere on Hard mode if any of these games. In Rock Band, which is a lot easier, I can kind of cheat but being fast enough to use my index and middle fingers to play the harder notes, but GH doesn’t let you “cheap” the skills.

You gotta be fast with all fingers, so I gotta find a song that lets me practice sequences all day long so I can get in shape.

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This is a custom version of GUITAR HERO 2...
The song list!:

1. Blink 182
First Date
Dammit
The Party Song
Rock Show
What's My Age Again

2. Foo Fighters
My Hero
Pretender
Time Like These
Everlong
All My Life

3. Rage Against The Machine
Testify
Freedom
Bomb Track
Calm Like A Bomb
Gorrila Radio

4. Sum 41
No Difference
Underclass Hero
Over My Head
The Hell Song
We're All To Blame

5. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't Stop
Charlie
Give It Away
Hump De Bump
Snow (Hey Oh)

6. Tenacious D !
BezzleBoss
Break In City (Storm The Gates)
The Pick of Destiny
Kikapoo

7. Green Day
American Idiot
Nice Guys Finish Last
Holiday
Good Riddance
Basket Case

8. Dragonforce !
Revolution Deathsquad
Fury Of The Storm
Operation Ground and Pound
Through Fire and Flames

Holy Bonus Tracks, Batman!

Brainstorm
What's This (FOB VERSION)
School of Rock
Detroit Rock City
The middle
Master of Puppets
Ultimate Showdown
Separation Between Church and Skate
Misery Business
Anna Molly
Out of Control
Paradise City
Rock Lobster
Cannon Rock
Cute Without The E
Here It Goes Again
The Immigrant Song
Pinball Wizard
Joker and The Theif
Purple Haze
Rock n' Roll High School
Eruption
Walkie Talkie Man
Halo 2 (Mjolnir Mix)

This is about the coolest thing ever- I saw the song list and was….(jaw dropping), EVERLONG!!!!

(Most favorite song ever, along with so many other cool songs I’d want to play)

So I downloaded it and put it in to play and THEN….noticed that most songs are Expert only. And I can barely play hard. Why, lord why?!

And I have the PS2 Rock Band, so it’s not like I can download (buy) these songs and play either.

I honestly don’t think I will ever be good enough to play Expert. If I can pass all the songs for all the GH + RB games on Hard, I’d be plenty happy.

I won’t link to where you can get this, but search for the title (of this blog) and maybe it’ll come up

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I’m headed back to the US for a couple of weeks for Christmas, which means it’s time to go shopping. Not when I go home, but now! Online shopping is the best!

I figured I’d share some of the items I’ve purchased (other than the Lenovo T61P I showed a week ago):

1. Sony Playstation 2 Slim, Condition: Like New (40 Hrs Usage). $65 Shipped, Original Price: $130 + Tax Retail

2. 

3. Final Fantasy XII 8MB Memory Card, Condition: New. $15.14 Shipped, Original Price: $35 + Tax Retail

4. 

5. RedOctane Guitar Hero Wireless Controller, Condition: Like New. $32.49 Shipped, $59.99 + Tax Retail.
   
6. Monster Cable PGL400 PS2/PS3 Gamelink 400 (Component Video Cables for Playstation 2), Condition: New. $19.90 Shipped, $59.99 + Tax Retail.

7. 

8. Chares Barkley vs. Godzilla Vintage Nike Poster (1992), Condition: New. $30 Shipped. Not available in retail.

9. 

Everything but the PS2 Slim was bought over EBay. Hope the Guitar Hero controller really is in Like New condition. Unfortunately, won’t find out for another six weeks.

I’ll share more of what I’ve purchased later.

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