This is going to be short, but I finally chose an HD format.
Yes. I went HD DVD. Why would I do something that dumb?
Well because I found the 360 Add-on with King Kong, Transformers, Superman Returns, and the Planet Earth box set for sale very cheap.
How cheap would something have to be to waste money on dead technology?
$40 fucking dollars! For all that... Even if i never buy another HD DVD I feel that I got a great fucking deal. The Planet Earth box set is still selling for $45 and thats half off on Amazon.
But then I got to thinking...I might as well do it up while the prices are low.
So the point of this blog is to ask if anyone knows of any super sales on HD DVDs, besides the Amazon deals...
Thanks for any help and Blah blah better in forums fuck that blah blah...
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So...Like I stated in my "getting a Dreamcast" post, I am a fucktard. I used to sell consoles and games when I got bored of them, usually forcing me to re-buy them months or years later when there is a sudden urge to once again own a specific game or system. I am an idiot and sold my DS after it didn't get played for a few months time.
What follows is my tale of how i came into possesion of another DS Lite...
I recently delved into the seedy underworld of Craigslist looking to trade one of my custom firmware PSPs for a DS Lite. This was due to one of the afformentioned "urges" to once again own a DS. There was no method to my madness. I just wanted another DS.
So i emailed a few people that were selling DS Lites and got a quick response from one guy. I seem to have deleted said email but the response was something like this, "Aight aight, shit sounds tight mang. Where do ya wanna meet nuggah??? I been wanting a damn ass PSPEE for a minute son son. Hit me up lets talk Biness". I fixed alot of spelling in my account, but you get the picture. I knew I was in for a treat.
So i called the dude up and arranged to meet him near the Florida Panthers hockey arena, since I was on my way to a game. As i neared the agreed upon location, i called once again to alert him that we were near. As soon as he picked up the phone he yelled "Yo, iz dat you in that there Fo door?", and a man with one hand in his pocket and a blunt behind his ear jumped in the middle of the road. So the driver, my buddy, pulls over and dude walks up to my passenger window. He doesn't say anything or move. He is just looking. So, using methods of speech I learned in my days of buying dime bags off street corners, i ask..."Yo man, you got that on you?", to which Mr. Shady replies, "Fo Sho". He then asks to hop in the car to go up the street to a gas station and talk. My buddy looks at me like I just invited the devil into his home, but i tell him sure.
Now my buddy has a concealed weapons permit, but if you get shot first they dont do much good. So we pull up to the gas station and he hands me the DS, a black model with New Super Mario Bros and no charger. Now we can all guess why there was no charger, right? Because people dont travel with the charger most of the time and that makes it hard to steal with the rest of the stuff. I hand him the PSP and he reached in his pocket. I see my buddy reaching for his hip and im thinking that im going to die over Nintendo. Thankfully, he just pulls out 50 cents to go buy a dutch.
The man gets back in the car and we take him back down the street, to where we picked him up at. We pull over, but the guy doesn't get out. He just sits. I say "Alright man. Nice doing business with you,", but nothing. He then proceeds to offer to sell me weed, coke, crack, pills, and bootleg movies. I turn him down and he exits. We proceed to haul ass down the street, eager to leave handgun range. All is forgotten with a night full of sky-box hockey, free beer, prime rib, and all kinds of treats.
The next edition of this post, probably up tomorrow, will be about the joys this (probably) stolen DS has brought me the past few days...
Mainly due to these guys...
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Im going to make this short and sweet. I want to know everyone's favorite games for the Dreamcast. I'm going to break it down into a few categories. See below.
Top 5 "Mainstream Games" - Meaning big name titles and sequels.
1.Power Stone 2
2. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
3. Unreal Tournament
4.Sonic Adventure 2
5.Crazy Taxi 2
Honorable Mentions: Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Caliber, Sega Bass Fishing.
Top 5 "Cult Classics" ...i guess that works. - Lesser know or hard to find titles. Can also be import games.
1.Dynamite Cop - I know this is a strecth, but I love it and I was the only one in my group of friends that owned it.
2.Illbleed - Hope you like it -D-.
3.Ikaruga
4.Heavy Metal: Geomatrix
5.Record of the Lodoss War
Honorable Mentions: Death Crimson OX, Ooga Booga, Super Magnetic Neo.
Top 3 Overall - Best of the best.
1.Power Stone 2
2.Dynamite Cop
3.Illbleed
Honorable Mentions: Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Sonic Adventure 2, Ikaruga.
So that is my list. Let me know what your personal list would look like.
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Hey, I posted this earlier this morning, but i want to make sure everyone gets a chance to download this epic tribute to GA. Thanks for reading...
So, as many of you know GuitarAtomik has just released his debut album, Press Start. To commemorate this occasion I decided to start a little project. I set off to replace the bullshit "BattleJazz" soundtrack of MvC2 (Dreamcast version) with some I Kill Pxls goodness. It took awhile and a lot of my work didn't get done today, but I did it. Also, I know pirating games is bad, but this is an exception to the rule. This is one of our own performing the complete soundtrack to one of the best fighting games ever made! So please put you beliefs aside and support GA! Feel free to check out his site and/or donate some $$$ to him if you are feeling his music.
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YES PLZ!!!
For the record, I left a few of the tracks alone, just because I thought it would sound more natural that way. Below is the complete track list.
Stages
Pirate Ship - Mega Love Gun
Desert - Princess P
Factory - Your Last Life
Carnival - 3D Lover
Bridge - Mid Boss
Underground - My Final Fantasy
Clock Tower - Blocks In The Sky
Ice Boat - These Streets Of Rage
Abyss 1, 2, 3 - Original Music
Menu Screens
Menu Screen - Unblockable
Rank Screen - Your Last Life - Just realized I used it twice
Character Intro - WWJTD
Game Over - Game Over Man
Continue Screen - Continue
Beat A Stage - Lara Likes To Booty Dance
Character Select - Destructoid Theme
Credits, Capcom Screen, and the "Here comes a new challenger" Screen - Original Music
So if you have a Dreamcast and a blank CD-R hit up the link below to download. I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the majority of Dtoiders are pretty handy with this technology stuff. For the ones who are not, I put a small tutorial below.
To create the self-booting disk, you need a few things.
CD-I Image of I KILL PXLS MvC2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BCCUKGWN
WinRAR
I'm sure that almost everyone already has this, but if you don't go here.
Discjuggler
You can find it at your favorite bit-torrent site. I'm not going to link to any of those places, but I will tell you that there is this bay. It's where all the pirates go, you know?
So, just download the rar file from above and extract the CD-I with WinRAR. Once you have the CD-I file, open Discjuggler. Select File>New>Burn CD and DVD Images. Choose the CD-I file as your Source and your CD burner should be your destination. On the right side, under method, you can lower the speed. I lower it all the way, just to be sure, but thats up to you.
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You should now have a self-booting custom MvC2.
Im looking into changing the costume colors for each fighter, so everyone has a Destructoid costume. That might take awhile though...
I hope you guys enjoy Marques' work and this little remix I made.
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So, as many of you know GuitarAtomik has just released his debut album, Press Start. To commemorate this occasion I decided to start a little project. I set off to replace the bullshit "BattleJazz" soundtrack of MvC2 (Dreamcast version) with some I Kill Pxls goodness. It took awhile and a lot of my work didn't get done today, but I did it. Also, I know pirating games is bad, but this is an exception to the rule. This is one of our own performing the complete soundtrack to one of the best fighting games ever made! So please put you beliefs aside and support GA! Feel free to check out his site and/or donate some $$$ to him if you are feeling his music.
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YES PLZ!!!
For the record, I left a few of the tracks alone, just because I thought it would sound more natural that way. Below is the complete track list.
Stages
Pirate Ship - Mega Love Gun
Desert - Princess P
Factory - Your Last Life
Carnival - 3D Lover
Bridge - Mid Boss
Underground - My Final Fantasy
Clock Tower - Blocks In The Sky
Ice Boat - These Streets Of Rage
Abyss 1, 2, 3 - Original Music
Menu Screens
Menu Screen - Unblockable
Rank Screen - Your Last Life - Just realized I used it twice
Character Intro - WWJTD
Game Over - Game Over Man
Continue Screen - Continue
Beat A Stage - Lara Likes To Booty Dance
Character Select - Destructoid Theme
Credits, Capcom Screen, and the "Here comes a new challenger" Screen - Original Music
So if you have a Dreamcast and a blank CD-R hit up the link below to download. I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the majority of Dtoiders are pretty handy with this technology stuff. For the ones who are not, I put a small tutorial below.
To create the self-booting disk, you need a few things.
CD-I Image of I KILL PXLS MvC2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BCCUKGWN
WinRAR
I'm sure that almost everyone already has this, but if you don't go here.
Discjuggler
You can find it at your favorite bit-torrent site. I'm not going to link to any of those places, but I will tell you that there is this bay. It's where all the pirates go, you know?
So, just download the rar file from above and extract the CD-I with WinRAR. Once you have the CD-I file, open Discjuggler. Select File>New>Burn CD and DVD Images. Choose the CD-I file as your Source and your CD burner should be your destination. On the right side, under method, you can lower the speed. I lower it all the way, just to be sure, but thats up to you.
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You should now have a self-booting custom MvC2.
Im looking into changing the costume colors for each fighter, so everyone has a Destructoid costume. That might take awhile though...
I hope you guys enjoy Marques' work and this little remix I made.
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So i know Circuit City is not the most reliable company in the world when it comes to their deals. As I am sure most of you know, they are offering Condemned: Criminal Origins for free when you buy Condemned: Bloodshot. I tried to take advantage of the similar Call of Duty 4/ Call of Duty 3 deal. I got shafted hardcore. they refused to honor the deal and then took all of the copies of COD 3 off the shelf and put them in the back, so no one else would be able to try to get something free.
I just called 2 stores and they dont have Bloodshot in yet, but they do have Criminal Origins. So my master plan is to go buy that one on my lunch break today for $15. When they get Bloodshot in stock, my copy of the first game will promptly be returned and given right back to me for free to honor the deal. Im just tryingf to guarantee myself a copy of CO since i never played it. I want to finish that before i play part BS.
Has anyone actually got it at CC yet? Did they honor the deal?
Wish me luck.
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Like many of you, I have been inspired lately by all of the post's showing off various setups.
Last night I took a lot of professional pictures with my digi.
Of course my GF decided to take the fucking camera with her today,
so I retook everything on my cell phone.
Please pardon the potential blurriness.
Here is a front shoot of my TV shelf. I recently got a 32" Vizio, which I love. It's the perfect size for my bedroom.
You can see various other electronics in this pic which I will detail later.
This fucking thing is so badass. It's an Xbox 360 specific shelf I picked up at Wal-Mart for $20 on clearance.
The box looked like someone tried to eat there way through, but I couldnt pass it up for such a low price.
It holds the Xbox on a glass shelf with plenty of room to vent and everything.
The controllers go on the little holders on the front and the sides can hold like 28 games, but I like them better on the shelf.
My 360 games. The rented stuff on top is Turok and DMC4.
I use the TV for my monitor, so the Computer is on the shelf right next to it.
Its a crappy old HP, I think, but through minor upgrades it does exactly what I need. I
Got it for free from my old roommate, so pretty cost effective.
A crappy shot of the woofer that is part of my surround sound set.
The Xbox stand is on top of it. You can see the various speakers in all of the other shots.
The movies that I keep in my room. The rest are in the Living room.
Sorry about these, they are right next to a window so they came out pretty bad.
This is the living room TV. I blogged about it a few months ago.
It's a 50" Vizio, pretty fucking awesome. Some random crap around it.
The rest of the movies in the living room. Nothing too exciting.
Thats about it. If I can get the better pictures I might post them and take this one down.
BONUS
I decided to add my dogs and one of my posters in.
My mutt, Caine.
Precious, a pit-boxer mix. You would think she would be mean as all hell, but
She is a big ass baby.
My awesome fucking Fear and Loathing poster.
Thats all folks.
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I am sure that everyone, like myself, has already seen the MGS4 PS3 bundle that the U.S. is getting, presumably on the recently announced release date of June 12th.
Thanks to Dale North's Blog for this photo. Google image has nothing :)
But, there might be a much smaller number of people who have caught a glimpse of Europe's 2 bundles that will be released in March. Unfortunately they are both 40 gb systems with no DS3 included. Even with those little downsides, like no rumble and no BC, they are still pretty good deals. Well one is ok and one kinda sucks.
This is the afformentioned "Kind-of sucky" bundle.
The 40gb GT5 Prologue bundle will be released March 28th for 399. Kind of a boring, package if i do say so myself. At least it has cool box art.
This one, IMO, is much better.
The second bundle is a sort of celebration of Blu-Ray's dominant victory of the HD wars and will be released March 19th. As I stated before the system is a 40 gb with 1 Six-Axis controller included. No games are bundled but you get three Blu-Ray disks. 300, Casino Royale, and Spidey 3 are packaged in. I think thats a much better deal seing as you dont have a game forced upon you that you dont really want. You can pick up this bundle with a game or two of your choice and your set. While these might not be the best movies ever, there is no doubt that they will all look amazing on Blu-Ray. Like the first, this one will retail for 399.
What do you guys think about these bundles? Which of these three would you rather have? I know that the MGS4 set is finally going to push me over the PS3 edge.
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MSPR: $14.99 
