oubliette

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    So yeah, I picked this up last night on XBLA and can't seem to put it down! I even got up early this morning to fit in a game before work.

    I absolutely adored the originals on the megadrive and this is essentially the same game but with plenty of extras to tide you over. The 'shop' where you can redeem points earned within the game seems to be littered with neat extras like extra teams and graphical filters (I unlocked one named 'retro' in the hope that it'd make it look like the originals but it just pixelates everything).

    I didn't play the disc version released a few months ago but I hear this is a definite improvement over that but with a slimmed down 'Tour Mode'.

    The only draw back I've found so far is that if you want to play a local co-op games, both profiles have to be Xbox gold members, otherwise player 2 has to sign in as a guest.

    And this is coming from someone who usually despises sports games!

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    Fucking hell, this is the best idea ever. Is this easy/legal in the UK?

    I own all the games on cd if that counts? I'm running it on 2.3.3 (think that's the highest firmware out for the Galaxy s2), I think it' requires a later version as most games now use multi touch.

    I had to visit the Scummvm homepage within the browser and download the package that way to get it work, I'm sure there's a release history on there that you might find an older version on?

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    I made the jump from an old iPhone 3G to a Galaxy S 2 a couple of months ago and haven't had one regret yet.

    So far my main highlight has been installing Scummvm and working through classic adventures again. Outside of that I have mainly been playing Fruit Ninja, They Need to be Fed and Angry Birds Rio.

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    Overheating is an issue I've been suffering from recently.

    I recently installed a e8400 dual core 2 duo and it seems to be over heating like a beast.

    Somedays it'll idle at 40 degrees and sometimes randomly jump to 60 for a second. If playing a game it can go up to around 70 degrees.

    I've heard that the fan that comes with Intel processors is a bit crap but I can't seem to get the bastard off the motherboard to replace it!

    The graphics card (9800GT bought in Jan this year) also easily hits 70 degress when playing a game, the fan is currently set at 35% and can easily cope if I up it to about 60% but i don't want to wear the fan out.

    The scary thing is that I'm only playing games at 1024x768 too as my monitor is crap.

    Any advice? I don't want to buy a full on water cooled unit as I'm enough of a geek as it is.

  23. Posted

    I guess I should have mentioned my podcast in this thread as opposed to the Podcast one seeing as it's all about music!

    Anyway, I have bought far too many records this month.

    I highly recommend:-

    Japandroids - upbeat stuff that sounds like a punk my bloody valentine

    Everyone Everywhere - amazing poppy indie like "Nothing Feels Good" era promise ring

    Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate!) - twinkly mineral-esque stuff

    Castevet - lile Cap'n Jazz, Small Brown Bike & Explosions in the sky all put in a blender

    Pswingset - awesome 90's sounding emo like braid etc

    Dude, Japan - Ace Urusei Yatsura style indie from the States

    The Light Sleepers - lovely Yo la Tengo/seafood soundsing stuff!

  25. Posted

    It's not games related, but I do a monthly podcast of new music.

    It's mainly new stuff that I'm trying to get around and expose to people.

    Basic Text it's mainly indie rock stuff (a mix of US and UK stuff) and can either be downloaded via an mp3 or streamed via Mixcloud.

    Give it a go and let me know what you think!

    There's two up there so far!