The rising exchange rate (now USD 1 = RM 3.5-ish) has put the brakes on my video games buying habit. Not that it’s a bad thing, I’ve been averaging 2 games a month and that’s not including the recent retro console purchase. I actually welcome the respite. On the downside, it’s preventing me from participating in Gog.com’s Open Beta.

Anyways, the good news is, income is still steadily coming in from Nine Over Ten, thanks to the ads. Over time, I hope to accumulate enough to start buying games again, possibly within the next few weeks. I’ll also be getting a new advertiser, a first for Nine Over Ten in the form of a flash kart retailer, so stay tuned for the banner (and other, normal updates)…it should be up in a couple of days.

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Okie Dokie. What turn-based game is so addictive, and yet it crashes every single time? I think I’ve asked this question before, but nevermind, here’s the answer again: Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures on Facebook. I’ve been clocking in the hours on this game, and like my friend said: You’ve been busy.

Burnt-Out?

That aside, I’ve tried out Burnout Legends for the DS. According to conventional wisdom, if game review sites label a game as sucky, it should suck. But hey, at Nine Over Ten 9/10, to hell with conventional wisdom, lets play the game and find out for ourselves.

Now, if I was driving, and subjected to driving Burnout Legends style, I would be suffering from major whiplash without even trying to hit something. But once you get used to the driving style, and getting tossed about in collisions, you can probably appreciate the rest of the game. For one, the graphics are rather decent, and it does feel like the PS2 game has been transported over to the DS.

SONYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!11

It looks like Sony Malaysia would be revising the pricing of the PS3 bundle for the launch on 20th September. In lieu of a possible price hike…I is sad. Anything above RM1700, lol, and I’ll just sit here, wait, and probably get one of those Xbox 360s, however dodgy they may be with 3ROD.

I’ve got a copy-cat going on. Anyways, I’ve ditched my 14-inch CRT monitor and replacing it is a 32-inch LCD monitor. Actually, I brought back my Samsung R7 LCD TV from my old house along with my PC and bought a new VGA cable for them to be friends with each other.

Here’s a pic of the new setup:

Nothing much to shout about, but I’ll be retrieving the Dreamcast which is in exile in another house, and once I get new controller pads for the SNES, it should be fit to be placed along the PS2.

I’m finally back! The weeks of sporadic blog updates are now over as after weeks of thumping on TMNET’s door asking “I can has phone linez and broadbands?”, the new home finally “has internets”!

Internet availability coincides with the PC Fair and I went and bought several items today, namely a Belkin Wireless Router + Modem (All-in-one) and the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 700 (Mouse + Keyboard…by which I’m typing this post) combo.

The best thing about my new Belkin toy is that it plays nice with my Nintendo DS when it comes to Nintendo WFC connections. This is unlike my old DLink router left in the old house, which I had to brainwash with an Aussie firmware before getting it to work with the DS.

Other goodies from PC Fair include an MP3 player I won from the Microsoft booth and a coffee table book from TIME, “1968 The Year That Changed the World”, a gift for taking up a one year subscription to TIME magazine.

I bought a total of 3 Nintendo DS games last month (July) and one of them included a Club Nintendo Limited Edition game. . Anyways, I’ll let the picture do the talking:

From the top left (clock-wise), Hokuto no Ken: Hokuto Kami Denshoumono no Michi, Bleach: The Blade of Fate and Zekkyo Senshi Sakebrain [Club Nintendo Limited Edition]

Among the 3, I like Hokuto no Ken the most. Interested in getting any of the games in the picture? Just click on the titles listed above.

Thanks to the EZ 3-in-1 Expansion Pack running in my Nintendo DS’ Slot-2, I finally get the chance to play GBA games that are previously sold-out on Play-Asia. Running a game in NOR mode is like having the actual cartridge itself and I can pop the Expansion Pack into my Gameboy Micro and start playing.

But I’m actually more interested in running Quake 2 DS on this. That’s the idea all along in getting the Expansion Pack. I’ll be reporting more on that in the next couple of days .

On to the DS front, playing two Brandon Fraser related games in as many months sounds a bit much. Journey to the Center of the Earth was okay, but The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor tie-in is pretty boring. I can’t play the game without falling asleep. The game is available at Play-Asia but don’t say I didn’t warn you, click here.

The following games also saw their release just recently:

• Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns (click here for details)
• New International Track and Field (click here for details)
• Final Fantasy IV (click here for details)
• KORG DS-10 Synthesizer (click here for details)

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