We played Soul Calibur 2 yesterday for about six hours. I would like to play it for another six hours today but I told myself I'd work on Over Easy today. I have two pages I need to finish for our beloved Club PA members and by God I'm going to get at least one of them done today.
My Xbox is acting really fruity lately. It doesn't appear to like reading my game discs anymore unless I turn the power off and on like six times. I've tried cleaning it and that doesn't seem to do the trick. I even tried blowing on it which always seemed to work for the NES, but doesn't seem to do shit for the Xbox. I've heard of other people having similar problems and I'm curious what you all did to resolve the problem. Do I have to send it in to MS or something?
An advertisement for Metal Slug 5 has been released. No word yet on the actual game but if I were a betting man I'd say you will shoot stuff. In other Metal Slug news, Sony announced that Metal Slug 3 will be hitting the PS2 on May 22 in Japan. PS2 owners should be pretty excited as three is arguably the best of the series. While we are on the subject of the Neo Geo, mine is still dead. I mentioned a while ago that the monitor in my 4 slot Neo Geo arcade machine had gone out. A very nice reader who lived in the area offered to come help me out with it. We got what is called a cap kit for it. Essentially this involved removing and replacing all the capacitors on the main board of the monitor. Apparently this is often enough to bring a dead screen back to life. It was however not enough for mine. He then recommended I send it to Bob Roberts (what a great name) and have him repair it. However, as my luck would have it Mr. Roberts has been retired now for quite some time. So again I ask, if you live in the Seattle area and you can either fix a monitor that is shot or know how to get a new monitor and put that in please, please, please contact me. I need to get my Mark of the Wolves on something fierce.
A lot of you mailed me asking when VGD was gonna get more Freeloaders back in stock and it appears they got some more in yesterday. The Freeloader is a boot disk that allows you to play import games on your GameCube without having to Mod it. I've used similar disks on my Dreamcast and Saturn and they work great. They appear to have gotten more copies of Soul Calibur 2 for the GC to go along with them so you might want to head over there if you missed out on it last week.
Those of you who are fans of the Web Comic phenomenon would do well to check out Comixpedia. Unlike most web comic community sites that like to pretend we don't exist, Comixpedia actually uses the CTS as their icon for the Gaming Comics genre and has even mentioned us in passing once or twice. WOOO!
Oh, and if you wanted to vote for us to win a Webby in the Games category I wouldn't be mad at you. In fact, if we won maybe we could work out a deal where you get the trophy every other weekend or something.
-Gabe out
