Nintendo GameCube
After buying a Play TV Legends Street Fighter 2, I quickly got into console gaming, finally I decided to buy a Nintendo GameCube (Platinum Edition), with Mario Kart: Double Dash included. The GameCube...
View ArticleF-Zero GX on crack
Yesterday evening just before midnight I managed to unlock the fourth F-Zero GX cup, called the Diamond Cup. The Diamond Cup offers a new range of cool but harder tracks, and a significant change with...
View ArticleNintendo GameCube a year later
A year (and two days) back I went and bought a Nintendo GameCube. Back then I had some doubts, I thought about waiting for the Wii (which was then still known as Revolution), but didn’t. In hindsight...
View ArticleWhy I, all of sudden, hate Nintendo
When I bought my GameCube I was on a relatively tight budget, so I chose to buy a third-party 16M memory card. The card still works fine. Today I decided to buy an official Nintendo memory card to...
View ArticleWhy I, all of sudden, hate Nintendo: Part II
I checked the the GameCube and F-Zero GX manuals last night and it seems that both don’t have any special license clauses regarding the save game data. The lack of indicating otherwise would imply the...
View ArticleWii Homebrew Channel
I while back, I rented Zelda (Twilight Princess) to install the megacool Wii Homebrew Channel using the Twilight Hack, which went just fine. At first sight, you don’t even notice it’s homebrew, the...
View ArticleioQuake3 version 1.36 went Gold
The guys are ioQuake3 have been doing excellent work. Maintaining the basic Quake 3 engine, without fiddling with it. No upgraded graphics, no gameplay changes. Just the plain old Quake 3 with heaps of...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons: Old School
As I’ve blogged before I’ve played roleplaying games off-and-on for the past ten years or so. As most people around my age I started out playing AD&D (2nd edition). Although AD&D 2nd edition...
View ArticleQuake 3 CD Key
A long long time ago I bought Ultimate Quake, which is a collection of Quake I, II & III (without expansions). Back then it cost about 50EUR, so it was excellent value. I’m providing this info to...
View ArticleioQuake3 for Ubuntu Lucid
I have proper ioQuake3 (1.36) packages for Ubuntu Lucid available in my PPA now. The package includes an important bugfix to make bots work again on 64bit systems, the new Tango icon is used as well…...
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