Yay I can geek it here.
Erm ok so you might find this helpful.
These are links for the 2 most developed sd card things for the ds. These links are compatibility list for games on the DS (torrent-files u can pick roms from).
Bare in mind that the M3 has been out longer and so it’s wiki page has had more detail put onto it.
It also has some homebrew app programs listed but remember just because something isn’t tested, don’t mean it wont work! http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/CycloDS_Evolution_compatibility_list http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/M3_DS_Simply_compatibility_list
Anyway, I’m pretty sure I’m gonna get this Cyclo one from what I’ve read on forums n stuff. Now, if anyone can find me a great offer on a DS lite then plz post that up. whatever will get the most bang for buck, etiher free games or cheapo price.
It all started when I decided I needed to get that brain training or something similar to get my brain ticking.
I came across a video on you tube of it running and thought fook! I never considered looking to see if these functions were being developed. I figure If I can turn the ds into an “all in one” I won’t be so bored when I have to go somewhere boring.
mmm an app on the cyclo list one lets you play all old skool point and click games by lucasarts, so thats all monkey islands, sam and max games, broken sword… I like these type of games. Im going to do a spunken.
Speaking of games, I spent a good few hours last night running through various Demos that I’d downloaded on Live. Many were soon deleted after a short play - but I reckon I’ll be picking up Saints Row sometime soon, at least it’ll give me a gaming fix until GTA IV next year…
The driving elements seem flawed, but it looks really nice and I managed to make an obese Asian with Churchill jaws and a pimp purple tracksuit.
Oh - and the fact that it uses Havok for the physics is pimp; it’s a lot of fun kicking people as they’re down, having their floppy rag-doll bodies flopping all over the place…
Yeah I watched same things as you last night, last week show was as good too.
At the same time was downloading a ton of Nintendo DS ROMS from this site: http://www.romulation.net/NDS/
You have to sign up but just put in some spare email, after that you can download what u want and speed is decent.
Only bad thing is a few annoying popup adverts.
I dont seem to have a laggy sd card either, i bought the one with the cyclods thing on consoleup, wasnt as cheap as u can get but i heard they send japanese made sd cards which is important for an improved access speed.
Needless to say I got a Kingston card that WAS japanese so that was awesome.
Ive tested it just now with the laggiest game and there didnt seem to be any problems/slowdown.
im late. :(
Ok here is the vid of me being a mincer and fumbling with the ds, sry about wobblecam. There are features I don’t show because i havent tried em and you CAN quit out of media player back to menu.
Sry about vid length and filesize, but i couldnt be arsed to edit it.
so yeah, no it don’t mod your DS in ANY way and the device is legal (but the rom part isn’t, needless to say i deleted all ROMs straight after I used them…).
Honest.
If you are wondering the duff file that didn’t play & crashed it wasnt converted properly.
Haha - school boy error putting the micro-sd card in back-to-front. Your voice reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite’s brother, crossed with Big Gay Al. I can see your face in the screen.
Is the Vista GUI just a background on the ‘headphones’ menu? The whole thing looks good, it makes you wonder why they didn’t integrate some of those features as standard (like the PSP).
One question - how much was it altogether (incl. DS/SD/Cyclo)?
Ooh, one completely random thing - a site I built that was recently finished by a colleague has gone live. It’s probably the most ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ site that we’ve produced. The layout was a PITA to get right, but seems to work OK now.
The GUI is mostly just a skin although on the touch screen you can click things as you would a mouse. You CAN customize all of the skins which I might try out. The could have easily integrated some of these features for sure, its a wonder they didn’t.
What I will do is have a longer try this morning and get some applications tested on it and then do a follow up vid showing whats possible as I was busy watching X-Factor (I know…but I like the first shows with the morons) last night.
Prices were about: £95 for DS, 17.99 for 2gb micro sd card (You can get better deal but I wanted from the same site as i got the cyclo thing) and £34.99 for the actual cyclo DS.
You can get a cheaper M3 device that is very similar but I recommend you spend the extra tenner for this device. Really tho, once you’ve bought all this stuff you wont have to spend another penny on it which i like the idea of.
Woo Hoo! Maybe my sentence is being cut short Matt has just gone for what he calls “The Curry Shit” please lets hope..no pray for my sake he gets rid of all that stinky shite…quite literally!
I’ll post up the new vid sometime tonight. On a side note I can now explain why the cyclods is so much preferred over other options.
When you run homebrew applications they all require you patch the application with a didl file which programmers use to create their apps. FOr each app you want to use you must do this, it seems like a faff.
With the cyclods it is already done for you (assuming its part of the firmware) as the team behind it add this application functionality in for you. Each new firmware adds new features and updates are frequent.
I tried the new worms2 rom yesterday and was the 1st DS game to not run, I looked today on the forum and a beta firmware was released which now supports this game.
pretty good!
yeah basically anything other card devices do this does (or will do when the firmware is updated). Thats because its coded with that didl thing i mentioned which is like a ds protocol or something. The incompatibility comes when the coder only tests it on whatever device they have.
I put that web thing on the new vid. Ive not been arsed to put the settings in for it tho as cant remember my IP and WEP code. I think that web browser brings up some really basic pages tho or something.
Not tried anything online for this reason, I been too busy downgrading music files for old skool point and click games.
hmm on this cyclods thing for the msn prog it wants me to put in my IP, Gateway and subnet. where do I find out what to put in?
I can find my network ok but it doesnt seem to offer the option to put the encryption in… Hmm dunno why i on here asking I spose i should go on the programs website.
To find your IP on a standard Windows PC, you’d go Start > Run > ‘cmd’ and type in ‘ipconfig’ at the command prompt. That will then show you your IP address (usually 192.168.0.x); subnet (usually 255.255.255.0) and gateway (usually 192.168.0.1).
Are you needing an IP of a PC to connect to, or the IP of the DS itself?
Oh and to reward you all for posting so many comments in the lounge - I’ve added a ‘Jump to the last post’ link at the top. Go me, the accessibility guru!
Nah I looked for that already, nothing about settings in the ds menu. Not that I’ve located anyway.
On another note I tried Mario Kart online which does ask for your wep key…. it was trying to connect but then said something like couldnt access DNDS I think.
I’ve had similar problems with this in the past when trying to connect to xbox live through my pc connection
Sounds like it’s not finding your router then (gateway). Either you’ve set the IP for it incorrectly (the gateway) or your router isn’t setup to ‘dish out’ IPs, well automatically assign them (DHCP).
That Skyline is mental, not sure of the 0-60MPH, but it’s running insane horsepower and is filmed somewhere in the middle-east.
Here’s some interesting news for you - apparently, for the Fresher’s week at Lincoln this year, Walkabout had hired Boyd from Neighbours to deliver flyers at the Fresher’s fare!
Though they’ve banned bars from advertising at the fare this year now, so no Boyd…
Oi that was my news!
More Neighbours news….Little Britain’s Lou and Andy were in the show yesterday as extras…Lou could be seen talking to Harold Bishop and Andy was being his usual self getting out of his wheel chair and playing on a computer game in the Scarlett Bar!!!
Thats a fooking joke why do they keep shush-ing freshers week, what a bunch of fannies? The don’t do that here, hopefully boyd comes here, boyd it top.
Have you seen that new loser on neighbours with beefcake mucscles and dodgy voice, he is piss funny.
Heard a good geek story today about RPGIV / AS/400 server reliability. Some company was using a IBM RPG server (the language Im learning) for their company. One day they realised they had no idea where it was in the building. Eventually they tracked it down… it had been sealed into a wall, somehow it was plastered over by some dumb builder and was in this non ventilated space for about 5 years! In this time it never once needed a reboot or anything. Lol pretty funny it thought.
Now im going to go jerk off to something else as geeky.
Maybe some Beef jerky.
I went to play footer with work chaps (in interview I said i didnt mind playing, didn’t think id get the job at the time!)
Anyway I was fooking shit lol was embarrassing as fook. I was knackered after 10 mins and after that my legs turned to jelly and I couldnt do shit. I gotta face the humiliation tomorrow haha on man, Im gonna resign.
I guess you’ve learnt your lesson - don’t lie in interviews! I told the truth about me and football - we don’t really care about one another. It means I’m left out of football conversations, which is good.
Tonight I decided to format my Vista PC as the network adapters were playing up and the hard-drive was being accessed every other second. I couldn’t find a cause to either problem, so decided to re-install Ultimate 64-bit. Turns out I made the right decision, as it’s taken less than an hour to get back to a state similar to before - and no fuss with re-activating even though it’s an OEM edition.
i didnt exactly lie… they said what about football… being unspecific so i said dont mind to kick a ball about…. but didnt say anything more. So in a way i didn’t lie :)
Just read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6992852.stm
found it interesting… I dont think i can think of one person who’s younger brother is taller then the older, yourself included.
Also now I realise I should be tall, dam my sisters for ruining the womb!
I can’t think of any either, but there are plenty of women who’s younger sisters are taller than them. Interesting research - must have been written by someone with plenty of years free.
I went to Anneka’s graduation today. It was weird going back, but being a member of the audience, rather than a graduand. The Student Representative was from Games Computing and wrote a speech about Kevin Jacques and his cat Marmalade (remember those stories!). He also mentioned Paul Reeve’s boring Networking lectures that sent you to sleep - Paulo’s face looked really angry from then onwards. Didn’t spot Mark D though - wonder if he’s still there?
Was overhearing some of the Games Computing lot - sounds like they’ve got jobs in the Gaming industry as level designers etc. The newspaper that lay on our seats for the ceremony had an article explaining how an Animation graduate has landed a job at Ubisoft… Wish we had been employed by Rockstar Lincoln the day we finished Uni!
Yeha I wish Id realised I could easily have got a games industry job, but at the time i wasnt convinced. Well maybe not easliy but… I could have for sure.
Thats funny if Marky D left as i still been using him for my references on CV’s.
Funny side note I broke my micro SD card on my ds when i was pissed and turned it off when it was saving. It fried itself :( FOok.!
WAYYYOOO I was looking on websites to find a good cheap card to replace this one and was getting pissed off with delivery costs that don’t make any sense.
Anyway I was cheesed off so thought ok I last try with this duff card, and i got the micro sd card put in the sdcard adapter i got with it instead of using the usb one and plugging into pooter; I placed it in my camera.
As normal the camera said the disc got nothing on it, so I formatted the card through the camera menu and then took a photo…
hang on a sec the pic went somewhere….
whip out my cable and look at it on my pooter and there it is fooking well working!! WEird as hell so Ive formatted it now and its working on my ds again haha how mad is that?!
Anyway Im chuffed coz im v poor at the mo till i get paid. BO
The moral of the story is a cheap Taiwanese camera is better then my computer. Dun.
Funny stuff that someone had plastered over the server - is it rpg as in role-playing-game? I read a funny story a few months back about some builders who had installed the company servers in the toilets. They didn’t think about water+servers…
I wish it was role playing game :( I wondered what happened to that post as well but couldnt be arsed to rewrite it.
I heard a rumour I’d be learning .net stuff somewhere along the line as well…
I think they eventually want to develop the user interfaces off the lame RPG Green on black screens and modernize the interfaces. Would take years tho.
We were upgraded to dual monitors today and I’ve instantly seen an improvement - code on the left, browser(s) on the right.
Crikey - didn’t realise how big this post had got. Is it easy enough to navigate? Think I need to post some more content to the site as I’m slacking a bit…
Also, Northen Rock! their shares have fallen to 178p jesus! at the begining of the year they were over 1200p. I was thinking of buying some while they were cheap at 300p but 178p is crazy! I hear on the grape vine that if they reach around 150p citigroup may make a bid so then they will rise; not to the heights of the peak but maybe to around 500p a share MAX. What an awful post a bit boring but it could make you rich (or poor).
On the plus side! House prices will start to stumble. There have been many signs of a house price stutter and now more then ever. Firstly the government introduced home buyer survey packs for houses with 3 bedrooms or more (the way to avoid this is to advertise your house with a study and 2 bedrooms) costing £400+ so people tried to get thier homes on the market resulting in a flood of choice; so hence people have the option to shop around. Secondly government intrest rate rises. Thirdly the American house market bust and the banks over here had shares in the banks lending people money, so to recoup the loses UK banks are hiking up the intrest rates. I predict a slump in 2008. Bad time to buy at the mo but great time to save!
Yeah wtf has happened to Simon? jesus man make sure u get proper drunk tonight - hmm prob right now infact.
Its bad that house market might crash, i bet we buy houses and then it crashes then we fucked with these shitholes we want to sell and cant get a nice new place.
I want to buy a shit hole, live in it for 2 year then sell it. then market crash then i go buy a palace for 100k.
Oh and the fooking video post got removed. what was it? whats a NSFW?
Not Suitable For Work. So SFW would be Suitable For Work. It was basically a video showing a cartoonist turning what appeared to be rude pictures into great characters - very quickly.
I am going to get Halo 3, just unsure of the cheapest place - and whether or not to get the limited edition.
i cant preorder either im stone broke until tuesday and they prob send it off b4 then, even tho it due wed so will have to hope i find it cheap in a shop
Picked it up at ASDA in the end - £39.71. I popped into Comet on the way there though, where it was the RRP! It’s the first time in ages that I’ve seen a game for the full £49.99 asking price.
My only worry is that the VGA connection doesn’t support 60Hz - I seem to remember the Hitman demo saying it was only running at 50Hz. Obviously the XBOX 360 isn’t very clever, as my LCD wont support less than 60Hz - and ran at 75Hz when used on a PC.
Going to pop it in after I’ve eaten me Pizza - I’ll let you know if it runs. If you don’t hear from me any time soon, I’m playing Halo 3.
Wow! I wish the game was slower and boring - then I could spend time staring at all the amazing visual delights on display - such as the water, bump mapping on the textures and the insane lighting! I liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike!
Yah is fun and considering it is mainly focussed on multiplayer as well, means it will last a long time.
BTW The power hammer weapon is the best thing.
You need to play on co-op its a laugh, ill try to get a game going when I get time instead of messing about on deathmatches.
I think the graphics could have looked better in area’s but Id sacrifice that for the performance gains any day, besides they do look great don’t get me wrong. The only thing i wish it had a bit more of is AA but ive found sometimes thats just to do with my display setup.
The AI is top notch.
As you say tho, its very hectic = mucho fun!
Sounds good to me holmes! Adamskii, you should come on up and celebrate being employed.
I have to disagree about Anti-Aliasing, I reckon your display setup is off or something, as the game looks pixel perfect to me. On extreme close-up I can’t spot any jaggies.
Very good AI - I especially like the little minions who talk to each other - just now one was crying as I killed his friend.
I finally found the wonders of the power-hammer where you are standing behind a barricade versus a dozen or so enemies. That section took me literally, 10 retries. It wasn’t until the 10th time that I realised there were loads of weapons dotted around the room - I kept running out of ammo and restarting! Ah well.
I reckon most torrent seeders are based in Sweden, due to their 100MB broadband and all that…
for my party i require the followin songs so better get on them torrents byron, you are playing counterstrike at the minute so cant talk to you directly.
you got the love (not the original its not dancy enough) my copy is in barton
shiny disco balls
these should get me pumped ready for party
I had a feeling it was my setup, ill have to try a new resolution.
Was on a coop game yesterday and got booted out due to disk read error which was lameo.
Let me know if/when you wana try some co-op with me it would be bo.
It would be a bit hardcore to drive up to Lincoln friday evening for a party that same night lol.
Its bad enough when I go home on weekend and drive back sunday still fairly pished, all paranoid about police men.
Skyline works once more! It has been 3 months since I last drove it, but patience has paid off. It’s had a new battery fitted, along with power transistor unit and tonight I fitted the replacement ECU.
Now to drive it like I stole it - in order for the ECU to ‘re-learn’.
Please note whenever this party maybe we will require notice to any house guests wanting to stay in the Slickhouse AND they will be required to bring their own donuts!!!!!! Thank You Slickhouse Management.
Lord Byron should have double, no triple-checked his numbers. I saw the 12th and thought ‘phew’. But no, turns out he mis-informed us - I’m not here the 19th/20th/21st. Silly Byron.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. I can. Hoping Adamskii can too. As someone posted earlier though - all occupants of the slickhouse should provide their own donuts.
Hmmm, well to Plymouth is 299 miles according to Google maps. If I’m lucky, I get 250 miles to a tank, but driving like I normally do, it’s closer to 200. So let’s call it 300 miles, which is 600 there and back, which would be 3 tank fulls - which would be £150, lol. I’d go halves, but it’s probably cheaper for all of us to get the train down to see you, then return to Lincoln and travel back with you, then back again.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Hello!
August 30th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Yay I can geek it here.
Erm ok so you might find this helpful.
These are links for the 2 most developed sd card things for the ds. These links are compatibility list for games on the DS (torrent-files u can pick roms from).
Bare in mind that the M3 has been out longer and so it’s wiki page has had more detail put onto it.
It also has some homebrew app programs listed but remember just because something isn’t tested, don’t mean it wont work!
http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/CycloDS_Evolution_compatibility_list
http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/M3_DS_Simply_compatibility_list
Anyway, I’m pretty sure I’m gonna get this Cyclo one from what I’ve read on forums n stuff. Now, if anyone can find me a great offer on a DS lite then plz post that up. whatever will get the most bang for buck, etiher free games or cheapo price.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Sounds good - what suddenly got you looking at them?
It would be good to put our games programming skillz to teh test!
August 30th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
It all started when I decided I needed to get that brain training or something similar to get my brain ticking.
I came across a video on you tube of it running and thought fook! I never considered looking to see if these functions were being developed. I figure If I can turn the ds into an “all in one” I won’t be so bored when I have to go somewhere boring.
mmm an app on the cyclo list one lets you play all old skool point and click games by lucasarts, so thats all monkey islands, sam and max games, broken sword… I like these type of games. Im going to do a spunken.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
You should’ve got Dr Kawakankdninin’s Brain Training - or whoever he is.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Speaking of games, I spent a good few hours last night running through various Demos that I’d downloaded on Live. Many were soon deleted after a short play - but I reckon I’ll be picking up Saints Row sometime soon, at least it’ll give me a gaming fix until GTA IV next year…
August 31st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
yeah i bought saints row after i heard gta was delayed. i think ats alright actually.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
everyone goes pub on friday lunch, was fooking weird never happened at a job before.
Beer gone to my head …. cant focus. lol
August 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
The driving elements seem flawed, but it looks really nice and I managed to make an obese Asian with Churchill jaws and a pimp purple tracksuit.
Oh - and the fact that it uses Havok for the physics is pimp; it’s a lot of fun kicking people as they’re down, having their floppy rag-doll bodies flopping all over the place…
August 31st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
We get takeaways on a Friday - today was chips n’ cheese for me. Only downside is you want a sleep afterwards from being so full.
Pub sounds great - though don’t worry about it going to your head, surely they expect you to be pissed.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
its funny, i trying to code stuff and its all a load of wang.
SAints row wouldnt be fun without the physics but with them its a right laugh.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
oh also cheap game too, its in the classics range
August 31st, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Bah, beer worn off now I’m home, I wanna hit the pubs!
August 31st, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Did you hit the pubs?
I watched Mackerel win Big Brother, he was a bit of a yoghurt top.
Saw Episode 2 of the IT Crowd, flippin’ funny! Pity I missed the last episode…
September 1st, 2007 at 8:41 am
Yeah I watched same things as you last night, last week show was as good too.
At the same time was downloading a ton of Nintendo DS ROMS from this site: http://www.romulation.net/NDS/
You have to sign up but just put in some spare email, after that you can download what u want and speed is decent.
Only bad thing is a few annoying popup adverts.
September 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Have you bought a DS yet? Or are you still contemplating it?
I’ve just realised that there are over 1,500 comments on this blog…
September 1st, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I’ve bought it today, just testing it all out. All’s well so far…
September 1st, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I dont seem to have a laggy sd card either, i bought the one with the cyclods thing on consoleup, wasnt as cheap as u can get but i heard they send japanese made sd cards which is important for an improved access speed.
Needless to say I got a Kingston card that WAS japanese so that was awesome.
Ive tested it just now with the laggiest game and there didnt seem to be any problems/slowdown.
September 1st, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Nice. Is it purely an add-on to the DS itself, or a modified DS?
I’m currently playing about with iGoogle, until some data has finished transferring.
September 1st, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Ill do a quick vid so u can see what it is… ill post it up asap b4 9pm
September 1st, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Bo - you’ve got 54 minutes left!
September 1st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
im late. :(
Ok here is the vid of me being a mincer and fumbling with the ds, sry about wobblecam. There are features I don’t show because i havent tried em and you CAN quit out of media player back to menu.
Sry about vid length and filesize, but i couldnt be arsed to edit it.
so yeah, no it don’t mod your DS in ANY way and the device is legal (but the rom part isn’t, needless to say i deleted all ROMs straight after I used them…).
Honest.
If you are wondering the duff file that didn’t play & crashed it wasnt converted properly.
http://www.adamskii.slickhouse.com/cyclods.wmv
September 1st, 2007 at 9:00 pm
OK downloading now - will be back to comment once I’ve watched it…
September 1st, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Haha - school boy error putting the micro-sd card in back-to-front. Your voice reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite’s brother, crossed with Big Gay Al. I can see your face in the screen.
Is the Vista GUI just a background on the ‘headphones’ menu? The whole thing looks good, it makes you wonder why they didn’t integrate some of those features as standard (like the PSP).
One question - how much was it altogether (incl. DS/SD/Cyclo)?
September 1st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Ooh, one completely random thing - a site I built that was recently finished by a colleague has gone live. It’s probably the most ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ site that we’ve produced. The layout was a PITA to get right, but seems to work OK now.
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 am
Looks good, Im going to buy a scarf.
The GUI is mostly just a skin although on the touch screen you can click things as you would a mouse. You CAN customize all of the skins which I might try out. The could have easily integrated some of these features for sure, its a wonder they didn’t.
What I will do is have a longer try this morning and get some applications tested on it and then do a follow up vid showing whats possible as I was busy watching X-Factor (I know…but I like the first shows with the morons) last night.
Prices were about: £95 for DS, 17.99 for 2gb micro sd card (You can get better deal but I wanted from the same site as i got the cyclo thing) and £34.99 for the actual cyclo DS.
You can get a cheaper M3 device that is very similar but I recommend you spend the extra tenner for this device. Really tho, once you’ve bought all this stuff you wont have to spend another penny on it which i like the idea of.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Not bad then, I was expecting a lot more than that. I’m tempted, but saving up for 32″ LCD HD TV at the moment.
Can you make games yourself and test them via the cyclo?
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I had an Indian takeaway last night and I’m releasing lots of gas today!
I need this Messenger kit right now!
September 2nd, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I’m officially being gassed!
September 2nd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Woo Hoo! Maybe my sentence is being cut short Matt has just gone for what he calls “The Curry Shit” please lets hope..no pray for my sake he gets rid of all that stinky shite…quite literally!
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I was going to have a curry tonight… not anymore!
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Check this out! Over 2000 BHP and 0-60MPH in a second = faster and more powerful than a Veyron. I’m getting ideas…
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
LOL nice^
I’ll post up the new vid sometime tonight. On a side note I can now explain why the cyclods is so much preferred over other options.
When you run homebrew applications they all require you patch the application with a didl file which programmers use to create their apps. FOr each app you want to use you must do this, it seems like a faff.
With the cyclods it is already done for you (assuming its part of the firmware) as the team behind it add this application functionality in for you. Each new firmware adds new features and updates are frequent.
I tried the new worms2 rom yesterday and was the 1st DS game to not run, I looked today on the forum and a beta firmware was released which now supports this game.
pretty good!
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I seen a vid where a guy has a R4DS thing and got MSN on it and internet. Have you looked into that yet? Get mario kart online innum.
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
yeah basically anything other card devices do this does (or will do when the firmware is updated). Thats because its coded with that didl thing i mentioned which is like a ds protocol or something. The incompatibility comes when the coder only tests it on whatever device they have.
I put that web thing on the new vid. Ive not been arsed to put the settings in for it tho as cant remember my IP and WEP code. I think that web browser brings up some really basic pages tho or something.
Not tried anything online for this reason, I been too busy downgrading music files for old skool point and click games.
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Oh, I thought didl was a small lidl, like the Spa or local Co-Op.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:09 am
im not even sure if its called that but couldnt be arsed to look it up. It sounds similar at least.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Spar not Spa…a Spa is what your M&D have in their shed in Windsor…lol
September 4th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
can you use cyclods on old school ds?
September 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
yup
September 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
thats why i said u should get one in the 1st place!
Wont have to buy anymore games for it.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
hmm on this cyclods thing for the msn prog it wants me to put in my IP, Gateway and subnet. where do I find out what to put in?
I can find my network ok but it doesnt seem to offer the option to put the encryption in… Hmm dunno why i on here asking I spose i should go on the programs website.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
To find your IP on a standard Windows PC, you’d go Start > Run > ‘cmd’ and type in ‘ipconfig’ at the command prompt. That will then show you your IP address (usually 192.168.0.x); subnet (usually 255.255.255.0) and gateway (usually 192.168.0.1).
Are you needing an IP of a PC to connect to, or the IP of the DS itself?
September 4th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Oh and to reward you all for posting so many comments in the lounge - I’ve added a ‘Jump to the last post’ link at the top. Go me, the accessibility guru!
September 4th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Im not sure, I think the IP for the DS
September 4th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Does it say in one of the menus within the DS?
EDIT: Check out this mentalist Skyline, I thought it was running a jet engine at first as it’s so fast! Here’s another video of it.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Nah I looked for that already, nothing about settings in the ds menu. Not that I’ve located anyway.
On another note I tried Mario Kart online which does ask for your wep key…. it was trying to connect but then said something like couldnt access DNDS I think.
I’ve had similar problems with this in the past when trying to connect to xbox live through my pc connection
September 5th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
that skyline looks faster that that one you posted up the other day!
Its not DNDS its DHCP. Says unable to obtains an IP address.
September 5th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Sounds like it’s not finding your router then (gateway). Either you’ve set the IP for it incorrectly (the gateway) or your router isn’t setup to ‘dish out’ IPs, well automatically assign them (DHCP).
That Skyline is mental, not sure of the 0-60MPH, but it’s running insane horsepower and is filmed somewhere in the middle-east.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
although the dude got a nerd voice this is fooking awesome new way of manipulating images, http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/102434.html?playlist=featured
(Needs sounds to hear bloke.)
September 7th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Here’s some interesting news for you - apparently, for the Fresher’s week at Lincoln this year, Walkabout had hired Boyd from Neighbours to deliver flyers at the Fresher’s fare!
Though they’ve banned bars from advertising at the fare this year now, so no Boyd…
September 7th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Oi that was my news!
More Neighbours news….Little Britain’s Lou and Andy were in the show yesterday as extras…Lou could be seen talking to Harold Bishop and Andy was being his usual self getting out of his wheel chair and playing on a computer game in the Scarlett Bar!!!
September 7th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Thats a fooking joke why do they keep shush-ing freshers week, what a bunch of fannies? The don’t do that here, hopefully boyd comes here, boyd it top.
Have you seen that new loser on neighbours with beefcake mucscles and dodgy voice, he is piss funny.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
wayo im pumped up after stiffy week, going plymco beach tommorow gonna be on the beers all day, gonna be good.
get down the pubs, do it do it.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
How was the beach? Did you feel like Leonardo as you ran into the water?!?
September 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
eugh im ill and i gotta tuff up for work tommorow, beach was good tho but not enough babes, too many families that day :s
Was funny in club there was a tranny with miniskirt and no underwear and his nuts just hung out like Nadia on bo selecta!
On a side note, that Skate game got a top review: http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/818/818832p1.html
I knew i wasnt imagining a good EA game
September 11th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Heard a good geek story today about RPGIV / AS/400 server reliability. Some company was using a IBM RPG server (the language Im learning) for their company. One day they realised they had no idea where it was in the building. Eventually they tracked it down… it had been sealed into a wall, somehow it was plastered over by some dumb builder and was in this non ventilated space for about 5 years! In this time it never once needed a reboot or anything. Lol pretty funny it thought.
Now im going to go jerk off to something else as geeky.
Maybe some Beef jerky.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I went to play footer with work chaps (in interview I said i didnt mind playing, didn’t think id get the job at the time!)
Anyway I was fooking shit lol was embarrassing as fook. I was knackered after 10 mins and after that my legs turned to jelly and I couldnt do shit. I gotta face the humiliation tomorrow haha on man, Im gonna resign.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I guess you’ve learnt your lesson - don’t lie in interviews! I told the truth about me and football - we don’t really care about one another. It means I’m left out of football conversations, which is good.
Tonight I decided to format my Vista PC as the network adapters were playing up and the hard-drive was being accessed every other second. I couldn’t find a cause to either problem, so decided to re-install Ultimate 64-bit. Turns out I made the right decision, as it’s taken less than an hour to get back to a state similar to before - and no fuss with re-activating even though it’s an OEM edition.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
i didnt exactly lie… they said what about football… being unspecific so i said dont mind to kick a ball about…. but didnt say anything more. So in a way i didn’t lie :)
Just read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6992852.stm
found it interesting… I dont think i can think of one person who’s younger brother is taller then the older, yourself included.
Also now I realise I should be tall, dam my sisters for ruining the womb!
September 13th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
hmm maybe Ralf and Michael Shoemaker.. dunno
September 13th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I can’t think of any either, but there are plenty of women who’s younger sisters are taller than them. Interesting research - must have been written by someone with plenty of years free.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
wish i made it
September 13th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I went to Anneka’s graduation today. It was weird going back, but being a member of the audience, rather than a graduand. The Student Representative was from Games Computing and wrote a speech about Kevin Jacques and his cat Marmalade (remember those stories!). He also mentioned Paul Reeve’s boring Networking lectures that sent you to sleep - Paulo’s face looked really angry from then onwards. Didn’t spot Mark D though - wonder if he’s still there?
Was overhearing some of the Games Computing lot - sounds like they’ve got jobs in the Gaming industry as level designers etc. The newspaper that lay on our seats for the ceremony had an article explaining how an Animation graduate has landed a job at Ubisoft… Wish we had been employed by Rockstar Lincoln the day we finished Uni!
September 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Spotted this on Digg just now - use your DS for VOIP.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Yeha I wish Id realised I could easily have got a games industry job, but at the time i wasnt convinced. Well maybe not easliy but… I could have for sure.
Thats funny if Marky D left as i still been using him for my references on CV’s.
Funny side note I broke my micro SD card on my ds when i was pissed and turned it off when it was saving. It fried itself :( FOok.!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
OH cool a phone, is that SIP thing free to sign up for? HAvent got time to read up about it!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
No idea, just briefly skimmed over the article.
Have you seen the Dairy Milk advert yet? I saw it on TV a week or so ago and haven’t seen it since.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
with the ape? Phil collins?
I seen it once, it was effective as I’ve remembered it.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Looks like Bit-tech read your blog or something and have been reading my recent postings about the DS homebrew stuff and have decided to do an article on it all, tho I bet they’d never admit it! http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/09/15/the_world_of_ds_homebrew/1
September 15th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
It didn’t mention anything about damaging an SD card whilst pissed though. Obviously they’re not as hardcore as you…
September 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
WAYYYOOO I was looking on websites to find a good cheap card to replace this one and was getting pissed off with delivery costs that don’t make any sense.
Anyway I was cheesed off so thought ok I last try with this duff card, and i got the micro sd card put in the sdcard adapter i got with it instead of using the usb one and plugging into pooter; I placed it in my camera.
As normal the camera said the disc got nothing on it, so I formatted the card through the camera menu and then took a photo…
hang on a sec the pic went somewhere….
whip out my cable and look at it on my pooter and there it is fooking well working!! WEird as hell so Ive formatted it now and its working on my ds again haha how mad is that?!
Anyway Im chuffed coz im v poor at the mo till i get paid. BO
The moral of the story is a cheap Taiwanese camera is better then my computer. Dun.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I have managed to get on the multiplayer games through the DS WIFI now so am mucho pleased!
September 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Shit Colin Mcrae dead…
That fucking sucks.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
It’s odd, 2 great Rally legends dead within a couple of years.
His legacy will live on in his games!
September 16th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
yeah madness. Out of respect Im gonna play CM DIRT
September 17th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Just spotted this reply you’d left on September 11th. It was caught up in the Askimet spam.
Funny stuff that someone had plastered over the server - is it rpg as in role-playing-game? I read a funny story a few months back about some builders who had installed the company servers in the toilets. They didn’t think about water+servers…
September 17th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I wish it was role playing game :( I wondered what happened to that post as well but couldnt be arsed to rewrite it.
I heard a rumour I’d be learning .net stuff somewhere along the line as well…
September 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Bonus. I’ve been given 2 huge books on ASP and VBScript, which so far seem interesting to say the least.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I think they eventually want to develop the user interfaces off the lame RPG Green on black screens and modernize the interfaces. Would take years tho.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
There is a dood here who used to program games for games company. What he doing here?
Mental.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Mental - exactly!
We were upgraded to dual monitors today and I’ve instantly seen an improvement - code on the left, browser(s) on the right.
Crikey - didn’t realise how big this post had got. Is it easy enough to navigate? Think I need to post some more content to the site as I’m slacking a bit…
September 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Yep easy to navigate with that linker up top.
Im bored today can never think what websites to look at at work either.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
As you will have probbably of heard already the smug Jose Marinho has left Chelski. That was a bit out of the blue, maybe they will empoly me?
September 20th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Also, Northen Rock! their shares have fallen to 178p jesus! at the begining of the year they were over 1200p. I was thinking of buying some while they were cheap at 300p but 178p is crazy! I hear on the grape vine that if they reach around 150p citigroup may make a bid so then they will rise; not to the heights of the peak but maybe to around 500p a share MAX. What an awful post a bit boring but it could make you rich (or poor).
September 20th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
On the plus side! House prices will start to stumble. There have been many signs of a house price stutter and now more then ever. Firstly the government introduced home buyer survey packs for houses with 3 bedrooms or more (the way to avoid this is to advertise your house with a study and 2 bedrooms) costing £400+ so people tried to get thier homes on the market resulting in a flood of choice; so hence people have the option to shop around. Secondly government intrest rate rises. Thirdly the American house market bust and the banks over here had shares in the banks lending people money, so to recoup the loses UK banks are hiking up the intrest rates. I predict a slump in 2008. Bad time to buy at the mo but great time to save!
September 20th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Though mortgages are rising?
What’s happened to you today Si? Have you gone into Business News Reader mode?
Though I agree, all signs are pointing towards saving.
If you’re bored at work, look at Digg. Alternatively, buy a car and read the enthusiast forums…
September 20th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Haha found this masterpiece on Digg - how to turn NSFW into SFW.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
hahaha that one of the best things i seen in ages! wish i could free style like that.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Yeah wtf has happened to Simon? jesus man make sure u get proper drunk tonight - hmm prob right now infact.
Its bad that house market might crash, i bet we buy houses and then it crashes then we fucked with these shitholes we want to sell and cant get a nice new place.
I want to buy a shit hole, live in it for 2 year then sell it. then market crash then i go buy a palace for 100k.
Oh and the fooking video post got removed. what was it? whats a NSFW?
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
hey dood are ya gonna get halo3 this week? AS would be muchos cooel to play the story in co-op mode.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Not Suitable For Work. So SFW would be Suitable For Work. It was basically a video showing a cartoonist turning what appeared to be rude pictures into great characters - very quickly.
I am going to get Halo 3, just unsure of the cheapest place - and whether or not to get the limited edition.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Maybe I will opt for the standard version after all - seeing as the limited edition apparently scratches discs to death.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:08 pm
im just gonna get the normal one i think,
scratches discs? lol thats mental
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
i cant preorder either im stone broke until tuesday and they prob send it off b4 then, even tho it due wed so will have to hope i find it cheap in a shop
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
I’ll do some research to see who has it at the cheapest - Amazon have it @ £39.99
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:27 am
Play.com: standard @ £39.99 | limited @ £49.99 | legendary n/a
Gamestation: standard @ £39.99 | limited @ £44.99 | legendary @ £69.99
Game: standard @ £39.99 | limited @ £49.99 | legendary n/a
Gamestation’s Limited edition looks the best value - except I’m put off by the scratching discs issue in the USA. Let me know if you find cheaper…
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I found this article ‘101 amazing facts about video games‘ on digg earlier - many I didn’t know, including:
88. The Xbox was originally due to be called the DirectX-box, after Microsoft’s programming interface for Windows.
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
DirectX-Box hHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I hope that was a joke that someone once said, and as Americans don’t understand sarcasm someone it took literally.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Woo I wrote the 100th post in the Lounge!!!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Where does it say? I hope I got number 69.
Halo3’s got very good reviews so that’s good.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Right at the top, just below the original post:
101 Responses to “The Lounge”
Of course, as you read this it will say 102, or 103… or 104; 105 - you get the picture.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
oh ya, i see
September 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Good job!
Halo 3 today! Off to the supermarket, where I’m hoping they’ll have it @ £39.99…
September 26th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Try woolies, its was £37.99 at ours and the collector ed. was same price! Bu they said the only had 3 in and the went suprisingly.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Picked it up at ASDA in the end - £39.71. I popped into Comet on the way there though, where it was the RRP! It’s the first time in ages that I’ve seen a game for the full £49.99 asking price.
My only worry is that the VGA connection doesn’t support 60Hz - I seem to remember the Hitman demo saying it was only running at 50Hz. Obviously the XBOX 360 isn’t very clever, as my LCD wont support less than 60Hz - and ran at 75Hz when used on a PC.
Going to pop it in after I’ve eaten me Pizza - I’ll let you know if it runs. If you don’t hear from me any time soon, I’m playing Halo 3.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Ignore that - I can see you’re playing it too! Looks like it works through my VGA connection, so let the game begin…
September 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Wow! I wish the game was slower and boring - then I could spend time staring at all the amazing visual delights on display - such as the water, bump mapping on the textures and the insane lighting! I liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike!
September 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Yah is fun and considering it is mainly focussed on multiplayer as well, means it will last a long time.
BTW The power hammer weapon is the best thing.
You need to play on co-op its a laugh, ill try to get a game going when I get time instead of messing about on deathmatches.
I think the graphics could have looked better in area’s but Id sacrifice that for the performance gains any day, besides they do look great don’t get me wrong. The only thing i wish it had a bit more of is AA but ive found sometimes thats just to do with my display setup.
The AI is top notch.
As you say tho, its very hectic = mucho fun!
September 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
maybe get Si around and get it splitscreen at your end and coop with me, no idea if you can do that but I know u can have 4 player coop over live.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
torrents are ending as they are banning fat americans from using it so wont be as many seeds, buggers!
September 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
yeah i noticed this stuffs, pirate bay wont stop tho. they are swedish and ignore all the legal shit.
Pirate Bay is my new fav.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
party on the 12th october anyone up for it? getting catherine and chris up hopefully
September 27th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Sounds good to me holmes! Adamskii, you should come on up and celebrate being employed.
I have to disagree about Anti-Aliasing, I reckon your display setup is off or something, as the game looks pixel perfect to me. On extreme close-up I can’t spot any jaggies.
Very good AI - I especially like the little minions who talk to each other - just now one was crying as I killed his friend.
I finally found the wonders of the power-hammer where you are standing behind a barricade versus a dozen or so enemies. That section took me literally, 10 retries. It wasn’t until the 10th time that I realised there were loads of weapons dotted around the room - I kept running out of ammo and restarting! Ah well.
I reckon most torrent seeders are based in Sweden, due to their 100MB broadband and all that…
September 27th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
for my party i require the followin songs so better get on them torrents byron, you are playing counterstrike at the minute so cant talk to you directly.
you got the love (not the original its not dancy enough) my copy is in barton
shiny disco balls
these should get me pumped ready for party
September 28th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I had a feeling it was my setup, ill have to try a new resolution.
Was on a coop game yesterday and got booted out due to disk read error which was lameo.
Let me know if/when you wana try some co-op with me it would be bo.
It would be a bit hardcore to drive up to Lincoln friday evening for a party that same night lol.
Its bad enough when I go home on weekend and drive back sunday still fairly pished, all paranoid about police men.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!
Skyline works once more! It has been 3 months since I last drove it, but patience has paid off. It’s had a new battery fitted, along with power transistor unit and tonight I fitted the replacement ECU.
Now to drive it like I stole it - in order for the ECU to ‘re-learn’.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Byron and Rachel - it’s the final episode of The IT Crowd series 2 tonight - the one we saw filmed in Pinewood Studios!
September 28th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
haha cool, i wondered when that episode was gonna be on. ill be listening out for ya matt.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I am slightly confused is the party the 12th or the 20th. I just booked the 19th and 22nd off work to aid my attendance and recovery!!
September 30th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I think I heard us in the laughter! The hand thing still makes me laugh thinking about it…
September 30th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Please note whenever this party maybe we will require notice to any house guests wanting to stay in the Slickhouse AND they will be required to bring their own donuts!!!!!! Thank You Slickhouse Management.
September 30th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
no frodo is right, i realised this later it,s the 19th 20th etc not the 12th.
lord byron wants numbers
September 30th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Lord Byron should have double, no triple-checked his numbers. I saw the 12th and thought ‘phew’. But no, turns out he mis-informed us - I’m not here the 19th/20th/21st. Silly Byron.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
beefy
October 1st, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Lamby
October 1st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Can everybody make Friday 26th October for this swingers party? Yay or Nay?
October 1st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. I can. Hoping Adamskii can too. As someone posted earlier though - all occupants of the slickhouse should provide their own donuts.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I’m guessing the donuts thing is for Chris, hehe.
Chances of me making it… not good really…unless someone picks me up in their Skyline! ;)
October 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Hmmm, well to Plymouth is 299 miles according to Google maps. If I’m lucky, I get 250 miles to a tank, but driving like I normally do, it’s closer to 200. So let’s call it 300 miles, which is 600 there and back, which would be 3 tank fulls - which would be £150, lol. I’d go halves, but it’s probably cheaper for all of us to get the train down to see you, then return to Lincoln and travel back with you, then back again.
October 2nd, 200