Emu nights & DJ prep

ohhhhh yea so you know you’ve been playing video games too long when you see the first Christmas decorations in your town and the first thing you think of is Shenmue at Christmas time.

For those not in the know, Shenmue 2 has been cancelled in the US for Dreamcast. It has been moved to an Xbox exclusive. When I get rich again, I’ll buy an Xbox. And I might just have to buy a PS2 so I can play the Final Fantasy series.

Speaking of Dreamcast, here’s a great DC emulation site: consolevision. It amazes me how these guys can figure out how to program that little box. There’s even emu’s for the PS2 now.

And what’s the point of buying a Game Boy Advance when you can get the games and an emulator online? I am into emulation, but I’m more into the collecting part of it. I like to have the old old arcade games. Pac-Man, Tron, Asteroids. I like to be able to play them and not have to pay 25 cents a pop.

Plus, there are quite a few new games on the emu scene. The ones that use the custom 3D hardware aren’t emulated yet. But I’m sure it will be one day.

The whole N64 emulator on the Dreamcast was a joke. The Neo Geo emu was a joke. I was there on the showdown that night with the supposed N64 emu author. It was a good show, and entertaining for sure. I got all the IRC logs.

However, there is a MAME project for the DC, and MAME does Neo Geo. Neo Geo was a great system, and SNK made some great games, too bad they recently went out of business.

I’d like to get an old Sega Saturn to play Bomberman, Ecco the Dolphin, NiGHTS, and that dragon saga or something or another.

Last Neo Geo system I saw was at the anime con here in Durham. And there’s an arcade Neo Geo system that has 4 games on it in a restaurant in Henderson. And I fell in love with the game Windjammers at some place in Zebulon. But we wont talk about that.

Arcades aren’t what they used to be. I remember going to Spring Lake, no… something Lake here in NC a long time ago with a friend and his family. They had a warehouse full of arcade games. Now, there’s really nothing. There’s only 2 I know of, one at Crabtree Mall and one at Adventure Landing, a putt putt place in Raleigh.

Plus they’re so expensive now. I think the last time I played an arcade game was one of the Dungeons & Dragons series in Crabtree with me and a friend. We actually beat the game, go us!

Now, when I want to beat an arcade game, I download it, play it and just keep hitting F1 to simulate a coin drop!

So I helped Steve some on a new UT map, just did some rearranging to one of the rooms. Maybe he’ll have a release soon.

I’ve been too busy with my music and stuff recently to do anything else. Just making sure everything is perfect for Saturday night.

I bought a bunch of plastic containers tonight to put all my crap in. I still need a fold up table, and I want 2 little stands to put these huge 90 pound speakers on, but no luck yet. I want a dimmable light for my DJ table and a fan.

I want to learn to mix beats, realtime. I thought tonight of a way to get Fruity Loops into playing 2 instances of Winamp. Hmmm the timing would be too terrible though.

I really like my new song. I rarely really like something I make, I’m too critical. But it still needs more work. Don’t worry, I know it ends too abruptly 😉

Hmm I need to write some poetry. Just cuz I haven’t in a while. Ok I gotta test Steve’s new map…