Thursday, October 11, 2007

Sonic PS3

Yesterday I finished the PS3's version of Sonic The Hedgehog with Silver (I had already finished it with Sonic himself, and now it's Shadow's turn). I'm glad, Silver's episode, though fun, is tough and annoying.
His telekinetic abilities are awesome, I just love all the objects flying around and the enemies getting picked up by them and such, but compared to Sonic and what I've seen from Shadow it's really tough to get anything done at all. Sonic and Shadow both have homing attacks, and although Silver's attacks also go straight into his enemies, he can't jump at them.
Having no objects around would also not improve on ease of playing. Now I'm not hating it because I don't like a challenge or anything, it was fun, but somtimes it's too much at once.

Sonic's episode was mainly bothered by the fact that collision detection was sometimes way off. Sometime's you'd get a speed boost and immediately stop because there was a 1pixel difference in height between 2 drawn objects. If this happened whilst running on a wall, you were pretty much screwed.

It's still a fun game though, look forward to completing it with Shadow.

I would like to thank one of my friends for helping me though, she kicked that giant billiard ball's ass! If it hadn't been for her I'd still be stuck there, so thx! (I know, I know, nobody reads this crap)

On to Shadow!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Shallow...

It seems I have become a shallow music listener, which I've always accused others of being because they didn't listen to music beyond the surface of itself or of the pop-culture.
And sure I can't say that I only listen to the surface of music or only to the surface of pop-culture, but apparently I do listen to so much at such incredible speed that I can't remember what I've heard before. Ok, maybe I've just reached the point where I've listened too much music and whenever I hear something new, something old gets kicked out, thought I doubt this.

I don't know what to do, I already made a little application that randomly picks songs or cds from my collection and plays them for me to reacquaint myself with the music I have, but apparently it's not working well enough since the other day I heard a new CD for the first time, only to find out the next day that I'd heard it before already. And today I heard a song from my collection that I had just absolutely no recollection of and it sounded awesome.
I hope this doesn't start happening too often...
I was thinking of modifying my application to also just pick a few CDs (up to a certain size) for me to put on my MP3 player...

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Now playing: Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
via FoxyTunes

Saturday, September 22, 2007

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I've been trying to get my little ciso front end to not show the ciso console application anymore. Now I can easily get the information to go directly into my program, but I don't want the user interface to stop working completely while you're compressing a 2GB image. I want it to show what it's doing.
I've tried getting the asynchronous reading function to work, and I can up to a point. It'll read it and return any info that I might want, but when it comes to adding something like a progress bar or even just a textual representation of it, it'll start reading and then just do nothing and get stuck. The debugger doesn't give any kind of error though...