I'm trying to open up my SNES to get the tabs out of it so that it will be able to play Super Famicom games without the use of an adapter. I got a game bit off eBay, but either the bit was useless or I was - I think I ended up stripping it and / or the screws, as I only could get two out of the six screws out of the bottom of my system. If anyone ( Read more... )

If you don't like console RPGs (no, not rocket propelled grenade launchers mounted on dashboards), skip this post. It won't interest you ( Read more... )

I’ve been wanting to write this up for a while, but I’ve kept putting it off. Here are some of the games I played lately, all but the last via emulator. Coupled with beer, it’s how I spent my spare evenings in Japan after I stopped writing.

I started by downloading virtually every SNES ROM via a single BitTorrent and have been playing them with ( Read more... )

Written while waiting for Masae on the morning of August 4th.

G-yah! That was a disappointing cybercafé. It was expensive, cramped, and they didn’t even have soup or ice cream! Yes, they did have nice showers and bathrooms, but I did myself a disservice by not thinking things through before going to sleep: When I woke up in the morning, just ten ( Read more... )

I should clean my room out more often. I keep finding cool stuff! Among other things, I've found my old algebraic calculator, a few forgotten story ideas (although many are lame and are going into the recycling bags, but let's not talk about those), a bunch of old cassettes (Police or Huey Lewis and the News, anyone?), and Microsoft's official ( Read more... )

Last night I drove myself to Charlottetown for Jenna’s party. From the 7 Mile Road to Cherry Valley, it was all blowing snow, slippery patches, and white-outs. Scary ( Read more... )

Orrin met up with me after psychology and gave me Sarah’s copy of Spyro the Dragon. Thanks, guys! I always wanted that game, and not just me - every time my cousin Erin used to come over when she was younger, she’d want to play the demo version of Spyro I had on the disc that came with my PlayStation. So now I have the entire thing. From what I saw ( Read more... )