MGO Japan: Training Teachers!

June 22nd, 2008

Looks like on the Japan side of MGO, they had classes that teach people to become instructors in specific areas. Here’s the rough translation I came up with:

Kept you waiting?

On the 21st (Saturday), the elite staff from Kojima Productions will be holding Teaching Coaching!

13:00~ KP_Ocky - CQC, Scanning (Intermediate)
17:00~ KP_OTANI - Basic Actions (Beginner)
21:00~ KP_KUNIBERT - Shooting, Weapon Characteristics (Beginner)

*Each class is scheduled to be held for about an hour.
*Attendance for lectures are first-come first-serve.
*We’d like for people to take only one class per person.

Just so people can benefit from the Teaching Coaching sessions, we’ve put up a manual!
Please be sure to listen to the teachers.

Teaching Coaching Manual: http://www.konami.jp/mgo/jp/instructor.html (Japanese)

Mabinogi USA = Crap

June 19th, 2008

Seriously, the support is god-awful. 12 hour maintenance today, and then there are glitches in Emain Macha’s map, spelling/grammar errors, Secret Shops not working, and Australian IPs still can’t log in despite the claim Oceania countries can now log in.

I’m very likely to withhold further payment from Nexon until they get their act together, this is absolutely stupid. I’ll bet next week they’ll have their content update, but unless they fix up all the bugs and stuff I’m not paying.

SEGA Fails to Support Armored Core

May 12th, 2008

Shame that they don’t… the Japanese side of things currently have Regulations version 1.60 up and available for everyone, but on our side, only the Xbox 360 version gets this glory; the PS3 version still remains at 1.40, and I can confirm this as a fact (at this time of writing).

Furthermore, it appears SEGA has no plans on working on Armored Core: For Answer.

Finally, the site SEGA once had for Armored Core 4 is now offline (the US PlayStation site still links there).

Can we get someone more competent and prompt localizing the Armored Core games, please? It appears SEGA has just gone downhill.

New theme for LB:EX

May 5th, 2008

Image says it all:

lbexspec.jpg

P.S. Kanata is looking good:

kanata.jpg

Little Busters: EX cast decided

May 1st, 2008

You can see the page here.

Frankly speaking though, I doubt they changed the cast at all. There are some hints at this:

  1. Rin’s seiyuu is still named “Tomoe”, but in hiragana (ともえ) as opposed to the original being katakana (トモエ)
  2. Sasami and Rin’s seiyuu are still the same, as is Haruka and Kanata’s
  3. Looking closely at names you can tell there’s something in the characters that somehow matches with the original
  4. What kind of idiot would re-cast for an all-new group?

Devil May Cry 4 PC Version Details

April 25th, 2008

Releases this summer, demo will be out before then. Official page opened up here, and the list of details include:

  1. Turbo Mode; 1.2x normal speed
  2. Legendary Dark Knight Mode; lots of monsters sent flying at you
  3. Very descriptive and detailed list of customizations to allow your PC to run the game smoothly. The variable framerate addition there is also very nice, showing Capcom may have what it takes to program a PC game this time.
  4. Benchmark mode; you’re sent through 4 (or more?) scenes and are ranked based on your framerate. For example, a Core 2 Quad managed beyond 60 for all the scenes and got ranked S in its stylish bar. :)

All in all, great stuff to look forward to!

Bell Traffic Shapes Everyone

April 23rd, 2008

Not just their customers, but the reseller ISPs now, and I’m under one of those reseller ISPs.

News Link

Bell claims they’re only slowing down torrents, but it’s also affecting network latency in Mabinogi, too! You tell me if I’m happy with that!

I hope the CRTC takes the matter seriously and does something that’ll let everyone be happy. Or just make Bell suffer and we win (zero-sum game). Don’t care which, just let me play my games in peace!

I’m nowhere near Ottawa, but a rally is being held there April 29, so if you’re around, please show your support!

1/100 Exia: The 8 Hour Job

March 24th, 2008

32 images in all, enjoy the gallery. :)








Mabinogi/GameGuard under Wine (not working)

March 20th, 2008

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11252

I’ve opened up a Mabinogi application entry here, since no one else has done it. Either Mabinogi has to be working properly, or GameGuard needs to start working:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7198

Please take the time to register and vote for GameGuard or Mabinogi support in Wine; GameGuard moreso.

P.S. Mabinogi in the above link may take time to be approved before appearing.

16,512円

March 12th, 2008

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すごく高いですねw


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