Huz

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  2. Posted

    Sorry that all my INCREDIBLY RUDE fellow GTAers ignored your enquiry. You don't want to bother mucking around with the in-game phone; we organize everything through Steam and GfWL (the latter being purely for the purpose of sending game invitations, which is an unfortunate necessity). So the thing to do is add one or more of us on Steam and GfWL; some of our usernames can be found in this and that thread, respectively. Feel free to add me: I'm TheJamesM on both Steam and Xbox/GfWL.

     

    Ooh ooh! Thanks for the reply. I completely forgot about my intention to join you guys in online GTA IV until today (only 5 days late!), but assuming it pops into my mind on any given Monday I'll follow your advice. Thanks again!

  3. Posted

    Yo.

     

    I guess I've missed this tonight, but I'll be interested in joining in next week! I might need a quick guide suitable for a thick man called Thicky McThick who's just enrolled in a school for the thick though - I couldn't work out how to join a particular game. Took me long enough to work out the "access multiplayer from your actual in-game mobile phone" thing.

     

    Looks pretty good fun though!

  5. Posted

    I also noticed this while playing. I guess it's safe to say that it is a genuine niggle

    True fact. I don't remember it being much different in GTA4, but the default camera angle has annoyed me in every 3D GTA ever released. I just get into the habit of holding the right-hand stick slightly downwards to raise it up.

  7. Posted

    I hope they give the Spy some love next. The Spy lasts roughly 0.5 secs against a Pyro :sad:

    I'd like to see all spies burning in a grave. Filthy bastards.

    However, I do think a 'distractor' weapon would be a great thing for a spy - something that would make real members of the enemy team look a bit like a spy to their teammates, by making them randomly fade into invisibility or change appearance.

    I would also like to see engineers develop some kind of 'spy sense', because even when you the player can see a spy coming for your stuff, it's all too easy for them to sap your shit and stab you in the back before you have chance to do anything about it.

    So, it sounds like we're not really playing tonight? I'm happy to wait until tomorrow (Thursday).

  11. Posted

    Ah man. You only had to mention the N64 to remind me of this absolute classic:

    "How about some scat you little twat?"

    A phrase equally applicable to the game world as to everyday life.

    Also, I think Portal was part game and part song. Would it have had such a love for it if it was just a series of puzzles? I don't think so.

    Absolutely. A huge part of the appeal of Portal was in its jokes and its presentation, from the cutesey turrents to The Cake Is A Lie. But that's how Valve roll nowadays - they understand that to elevate their games above 'another puzzle game' and 'another team-based multiplayer FPS', they have to inject a touch of something different. That's a great thing!

  12. Posted

    A couple of things over the past few days has made me realise that games with musical numbers are far too rare. After all, who can forget the sheer joy of

    and
    ? Nobody, that's who. At least, nobody with a soul.

    So, I thought it'd be nice to have a thread documenting these semi-rare gems, hopefully with some Youtube links for those who've been missing out. I'll kick things off with the two games that got me thinking, namely:

    . Perhaps this falls into the much more common category of "games that have a bit of a song at the end, kinda like Rainslick Precipice of Darkness and piles of others to be honest", but it's so great and in keeping with the rest of the game, I think it deserves a special mention.

    Secondly (and brilliantly),

    . Don't listen if you're susceptive to awful, annoying songs getting lodged in your brain, spreading through your psyche like an unstoppable wasting disease, because... man. You'll regret it.

  13. Posted

    I find it strange that many of you seem to dislike SCART, while being needlessly confused by the alternatives. What could be more versatile and easy-to-use than a single connector that offers stereo audio, video in two forms, and trickery like widescreen switching?

    The process for getting the best picture quality without SCART would be something like:

    Post confused message on the Internet, get typically mixed messages from denizens who don't seem too clear themselves, get more confused, complain about SCART for a while, end up marginally more informed than you were to start with, buy a bundle of cables that probably aren't what you want....

    Alternatively, with SCART, the process in PAL land is as simple as:

    Buy RGB SCART cable for your console of choice, generally an aftermarket item used by console manufacturers to bleed you dry (much cheaper 3rd party alternatives exist). Connect to SCART. Your TV supports RGB? You get RGB. It doesn't? You still get a picture, albeit a less nice one.

    Better than mucking about with RCA connectors isn't it?

  14. Posted

    I believe Huz (Dogman) has been messing with homebrew recently, and he's gotten all sorts of stuff working on it — including ScummVM DS. As far as I remember he had trouble getting DS roms to work on it though.

    It's also worth pointing out that homebrew is far from cheap. It cost Huz about £60 to get all the necessary hardware. :fart:

    Aye. I've found it a bit confusing because, as you say, fishing reliable information from the sea of murky sites is quite difficult.

    The current state of play is that the one DS homebrew app I've tried - ScummVM - works nicely, although it took some doing as I used a relatively new flash cart. GBA ROMs seem to work without any problem, but I haven't had any luck getting DS pikeyness to run - mainly because I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be doing.

    It's entirely possible in theory, though.

  15. Posted

    Oh! I got a brand new one. Just happened a day or two ago. I've liked this girl for awhile and finally got her number. When I called her up, I went back into being the fat little shy kid that I was in ninth grade. Made kind of an ass of myself. If I can play it off as being adorably shy, this may not be as bad as it seems at the moment, but given the lameness of my end of that conversation, it rates up there anyway.

    "I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it, Jeremy? Have I FUCKED it?"

    "Maybe she'll think it was... charming."

    You wish man! Burn!

    :getmecoat

  16. Posted

    Man, what do you expect from a bunch of Amiga programmers? It's fairly obvious that starting life on the Amiga corrupts you for life and renders you completely unable to produce bug-free games for any other platform, even ten years later.

    See also: Team 17.

  17. Posted

    Use all the crazy science you want. I'm going to do this the Super Troopers way and just stare at my computer screen saying "enhance" over and over and hoping something happens.

    24chloe.jpg

    Get Chloe O'Brian on the case. She could tell you what's going on inside Double Fine without even using a camera.

  19. Posted

    I know that I sang about 'Nikola Testis' to nause one of the lucasforumers who blew up at me one day for repeatedly mispelling 'Teslis' or something...

    Also for saying that "Nikola" was a girl's name.

    That was probably the last worthwhile thing ever to happen at LucasForums...

  22. Posted

    You could actually download this site and use it locally in Firefox -- IE doesn't seem to handle XMLHttpRequest for file:// urls.

    [edit]just for example, I made it available as a .zip file. Removed some more listing data to make it attachable here. You could use your own XMLTV files, if you follow a certain pattern when naming them.

    channels_%arbitrary-source-id%.xml for a file that contains only channel listings and %channel-id%_%YYYYMMDD%.xml for listing files split by channel and date.

    Where can I get the XMLTV file for the UK (the huge one)? I tried it on your site earlier - it did indeed take ages, and there seemed to be something strange going on with what channels your app would show. I'd like to try the new version on the same data...

  25. Posted

    Yay, I got it today! I had to pay the UPS guy 20 Euro for shipping, though. And I thought I already paid for shipping with my creditcard when ordering at GameStop. I'll better check that out.
    Would that be a customs charge rather than 'shipping'?

    My package helpfully said it was a "book" with a value of $20 CDN, so I avoided all that kerfuffle.