I didn’t know about the electronic disruptor until the last level. I’ll have to replay it now that I know about it, to see how much of a difference it makes.
Back to F.E.A.R. 1.03 problems
Finished Splinter Cell. Way too much fun to be legal. I decided to return to F.E.A.R. and the 1.03 update. I reinstalled the game, applied the correct patch, and still could not run the game. It took about an hour to find my solution to the problem. From the VU Games Community Forums we have, down at the bottom a link to securom that contains a replacement binary for F.E.A.R. so it now works correctly again. For those of you who care, this is just to get the game to work, you still need to be legal.
and then the new update breaks the application
I download the european version of the patch. Bleugh, another 200MB download. I apply the patch and now the game no longer works as it claims the game DVD is incorrect. Piece of s**t. There’s no way to unpatch the program so I uninstall it to reinstall it. I forgot to have the game manual handy. Hunt the install key.
Could it be that having Splinter Cell and F.E.A.R. installed on the computer at the same time could be causing problems? Or was it an incorrect patch, as it worked before I applied the patch.
Annoying, I’ll just have to stick to playing Splinter Cell until I’m finished it.
220meg download later – incompatible auto-update
I bought FEAR last week. It informed me that there was an update to the game to bring it up to snuff. Took about 25 minutes to download it and started to install. It then displays the following:
This Update is only compatible with the English (United States) version of F.E.A.R. Please use the correct Update for the installed version of the game.
This was the auto-update tool that came with the application. What a waste of my bandwidth!
Aaaaaaargh!
Wikipedia is good for something… Wonderboy
It turns out that there is a mobile phone version of Wonder Boy. My little sister wants it for her phone dammit! Anyone know how you can get it in Ireland? Legally?
Penny haha
It’s roleplaying. It’s Penny Arcade. I laugh (you may not be able to view this directly.
Buy one for Mid January (Xbox 360s in Tralee)
I wandered into the store yesterday and they have sold out of Xboxes. Now they have a sign up telling people that they can pay for the box now, and expect it in mid January. Well, I would just love to see the face of some snotty little kid on Christmas day, expecitng and Xbox and getting a card saying: ‘iou in mid January’.
Liver liver on the wall, who’s the swollenest of them all.
Waiting for a Darwinia
I just love the retro look of Darwinia I’ve pre-ordered it on steam, but can’t wait for it to come out, so I’ve been looking for illicit copies of it. I thought I had one, but it turns out to have been released as a ‘Don’t steal our game‘ exercise. Even then, it’s just increased my desire to have the game. The interation model has been changed in the 1.3 version – you can use either gestures or an icon based environment. I use the gestures when I’ve got a mouse, the Icons when I’m on the touchpad of the laptop. It works quite well providing I tweak the configuration file, putting RenderLandscapeMode = 1 (corrected 2005-12-20) into the settings.txt file. Otherwise I get a crash in iglicd32.dll when you enter the game. I’ll probably have to apply this to the game once it’s released.
Correction 2005-12-20 – the entry should read RenderLandscapeMode = 1
Did you get your 360 today?
I’m wondering if my friend ‘Tipp got his Xbox 360 today. I certainly didn’t get one. I’ll just saunter down to the nearest toy shop and see if they have one. If they do, then maybe I’ll get it, or maybe not. I don’t really have the time to invest in games at the moment.
Solid snake grows up
Looking at the teaser trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3. Looks really impressive. I hope that it will live up to the trailer hype. I have never really been into consoles, for the simple reason that I can’t easily program them, and that’s part of the fun of computers.
God, but snake looks ancient in this trailer.