If you’re a fan of Dragon Quest (aka Dragon Warrior), my net-friend Tom-Servo has been translating Dragon Quest V (PS2) to English. You can find the patch over at his website http://www.dqtranslations.com/. You’ll also find a patch for Dragon Quest III (SNES), as well as a few translations of other games.
After two years, I decided to buy a new computer. My friend mmax also put together a new computer recently and blogged about it here. So I might as well do a quick write-up as well.
Specs:
I took some more long exposure photographs of some games this evening. One in particular, the introduction to Ninja Gaiden for the NES turned out well, so I made a widescreen and standard set of wallpapers out of it.
1600×1200:
1680×1050:
Bonus:
Dragon Quest IX is an amazing game, by the way.
Awhile back a netfriend of mine posted some long exposures of some videogames. I thought that they were neat, so I took some as well.
I happened upon this project called dismap last week that generated fantastic artwork from 8-bit game carts. The person behind the project, Ben Fry, disassembled the roms using a tool called NESrev, and then formatted the 6502 assembler instructions into readable columns. To touch up the visuals, he then drew lines between all of the jmp source and destinations. He also lead a companion project called Mario Soup, featuring tiles ripped from Super Mario Bros., and another project called distellamap, which featured assembly code from Atari 2600 games. Prints are available for both dismap, and distellamap.
I forgot to mention on here that I saw another Bear last weekend. This time from further away.
I was out for a hike today, and I saw a Black Bear.
My friend Simon and I were at Half-Price Books this afternoon, and I was having a wander around the Computer Science and Technology stacks, and I happened to find a copy of Steven Levy’s, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. It was a slightly used copy; the pages were aged to a mild yellow, but there didn’t appear to be any tears, or frayed pages. So I went ahead and bought it. When I got home I started reading it, and happened upon a receipt from the ASUC (UC Berkeley) bookstore from 1989, that the prior reader had been using as a bookmark.
Sorry, I haven’t updated in ages. Prepare yourself for some rambling. I switched to Night Shift, then back to Day Shift. Went on a couple road trips, read a book or two, etc. Anyway, I’ve been porting Mode8 to SDL. It was sad when I decided to do so, as I had to throw away the coolest, and most time consuming classes. But actually the switch improved the over all structure. I’ve also been watching a lot of races over at the Velodrome. Good stuff. The Tour de France is currently in the Pyrenees’s; Team Columbia has been doing well. I wish both them and Garmin-Chipotle the best. Also, the teams that composed the ProTour decided not to renew their licenses, effectively ending, well, the ProTour. FF4ds comes out next week, and it looks fantastic. DQ4ds comes out in two months and looks even better. This years E3 was utterly pathetic; the only decent news to emerge was about Mirrors Edge, and the FFXIII port to the Xbox 360.
