Curiousity is killing me...

Yugaminee JOINT

2009-09-18T03:48:00.003+08:00

uploaded by request from anime-shrine members :3

Cyberfusion2009

2009-05-10T12:07:00.015+08:00

Slow post is slow.

How about to beat 40hrs non stop gaming record? Anyone?

more pictures at my flickr photoset
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimaweaponx/sets/72157616769598251/
more story maybe will edited later lol

Random pics 20090321

2009-03-21T22:17:00.005+08:00

Teru teru bo-zu Taiga

Lumix LX3 gettho

2008-12-22T22:37:00.010+08:00

Currently in Shanghai

I've been here since august btw

and... It's damn cold in here.. yesterday was -3 degree celcius -.-x

I got a new camera, Lumix LX3...

I'll mass upload the pics in flickr later

Actually I was expecting for snow... till now no sign of it... bah

Gundam X (with 2-barrel beam machinegun, divider unit and satelite

2008-12-22T22:32:00.003+08:00

Gundam X (with 2-barrel beam machinegun, divider unit and satelite cannon),
originally uploaded by ultimaweaponx.

Test post from flickr

Mission accomplish! WA5

2007-08-18T03:49:00.001+08:00

Okay... some random updates...

It was yesterday, finally I just finished "Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard" (or WA5 in American version). Of course it was the japanese version since localization for US ver will release this August, 28th :p
lol, I should finished it like 4month ago.... but no time for games lately ><; (WA5 NTSC-J was released last december)

Anyway, hurray... for me :D

Should try the opening theme song, "Justice to Believe" by Mizuki Nana

01.Justice to Believe
02.アオイイロ "aoi iro"
03.Justice to Believe(without NANA)
04.アオイイロ(without NANA)

*Mizuki nana is also the voice actress for the heroine, Rebecca .....but I like Avril :x

Reference
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Arms_5

Oh my gosh! the US version package look soo lame!
see it urself. especialy the logo!

Jap version :D

the US version ....

just dont get it.. thats why never likes Gran Turismo US ver ;_;

Currently playing this:
Super Robot Wars: Original Generations

pic taken from the official web

currently at stage 30 or something
I'll upload some crappy screenshots later XD
ah yeah.. the op theme, ROCKS by Jam Project also good :)

Gundam SEED DESTINY FINAL PHASE "The Last Strength" 「最後の力」

2005-11-19T10:46:00.002+08:00

Got this logo from here....

"uWaaaa... Luna, it ended like this...!!"
"Dont you worry, Shinn, you didnt done anything wrong, its Fukuda's fault."
「うぇぇーん、ルナ、こんな結末になっちゃったよー」
「大丈夫よ、シン、あなたは悪くないわ、悪いのはすべて福堕だから・・・」

"Why a GUNDAM brand series could ended such way...."
「何故だガンダムというブランドがあってこんな作品になってしまったのは・・・」

"Say Yzak, why its ended up like this..?"
「イザーク、何が原因でこんな作品になってしまったんだろうな」

"DONT ASK ME!"
「俺に聞くなー」

"I became a Lacus's puppet a lot because of Fukuda, you know...."
「福堕のせいで僕はラクスの操り人形というキャラに・・・」

"Yeah, I once was a lame character too!"
「キラの言うとおりだな、俺も何故か一時期へタレキャラになってしまったしな・・・」

"At least you guys are still better than me!
I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER....!!!
HOW COULD THEY PUT ME AS AN UNDERDOG AT THE LAST PART?!!"
「あんたらなんかまだマシだー、俺は主人公だったはずなのに・・・、最後はかませ犬だぞーー！！」

"Now, now, dont you guys are overreacting? Cant helped it, coz its just like Fukuda..."
「おいおい、みんな言いすぎでしょうが、しょうがないじゃないか福堕なんだから・・・」

Okay... thats enough already.... -.-x

They shoot enemies even their comrades are still in the shooting range... the last part sure have everything, doesnt it?

Hey, hey, it doesnt meaning its good to put such scenes... and, what was they were trying to say anyway...?

Glad Luna is still alive...

What is this? The last grand gathering ended too quick and meaningless.
Rei is the one who respect Gill so much, but he kill Gill in the end.... the character suddenly changes in just a chapter is far too weird..

WTF! is this ending?

"Thank you...", yeah right..., they should put it like this...
"Thanks for always watching this sad show"
DOH.. this is not "The Last Strength" anymore, but it should be
"The Last Show" for you, Fukuda.
I'm pretty sure theres a lot of good anime directors in Japan out there...

EXTRA:

Stuck with 56k...

2005-10-24T22:25:00.001+08:00

Doh.... it almost a month I cant use the broadband...
I thought it was because I didnt pay the bills, but it actually dont. The dsl light wont just turn on since then... and sometimes LAN led wont even blink... so I think it must be the stupid modem. (/me looking at the ISP provided cheap-looking rounded blue modem)

Still doing nothing than watching old animes... recently I gone through Midori no Hibi (Midori Days), all 13eps for about 5-6times.... (what I'm thinking?). Anyway, Midori Days is a good anime, to be exact, I was analyzing the direction and camera works, and it was very well done. The director IS good.

Isn't Midori is just annoyingly cute? :)

Still got nothing to do... now just back playing PS2 games...
After I finished GRANDIA III, I dont have any other interesting game to play... now just playing old games, mostly Macross PS2 game, GT4, Burnout Revenge.... even I still have Tales of Lagendia to play, but I'm just suck at it lol, although it DOES looks interesting.... ah, I still have SRW Alpha 3rd and GSD:Generation of CE at the middle ..etc, etc... so busy with my life :)

Now, I'm looking forward for Hari Raya (The Eid) holiday, for the whole week! BANZAI!

x64 aint useless!

2005-09-06T23:27:00.000+08:00

Okay, I got this machine recently, and installed WindowsXP Pro x64 Edition Version 2003...

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Version 2003
Actualy, this is not the final retail as I know so far, its the so-called "RTM" version. (Later I got the retail one, which has exclude the "Version 2003" OS ID naming)
I've been with the OS quite a while (as you can see on the screenshot ^^;), it has IIS6 that have http compression built in which is very nice... I'm using it for file transfer, which made it faster and I always have max bandwidth throughput with it (using crappy dsl, fyi).
x64 Edition also have 2 versions of Internet Explorer (32-bit and 64-bit.) IE 64-bit run much faster i think, but the problem is it cant show flash.. (at this point of time, no 64bit flash plug-in yet)
Other than these, there is no much differences with WinXP 32-bit.

Main Specification:
・CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Venice" core with SSE3
・M/B: MSI K8N Neo2-FX (K8/nForce3 250Gb/8ch Audio/SATA)
・VID: nVIDIA GeForce4 440MX (TV out)
・RAM: Corsair 512MB 184-pin PC3200 DDR400
・HDD: 288GB

Other interfaces:
・RATOX IEEE 1394 PCI Interface (for DV Capture)
・RICOH PCMCIA(Type II, TypeIII) Interface

Since it based on nVIDIA nForce3, I have no problem with devices so far. Of course u will need to get the 64bit drivers for it, but nVIDIA seems to have it for quite a time. FYI, the chipset covers most of the system, including graphic and sound. LUCKY ME!
The main problem you might have with 64bit PC is the drivers. Even WinXP have good Plug n Play support already, but its still less perfect. In that case you will need to search it your own... you might find most of device makers did not have 64bit drivers yet.

I think its not wise to turn for 64bit now, let's just pray Windows Vista will be more perfect...

Back from the Dead

2005-07-22T07:46:00.005+08:00

Finally I'm back from the 3 years of blanks. I didn't realize my 20Gigs HDD is almost full! Last time I downloaded animes like crazy was at year 2002. It was sad to leave Japan tho... (T-T)

機動新世紀ガンダムX
Mobile Suit of New Century GUNDAM X
Old TV series...
Recently got Suteki Yume's fansub release till ep11. Its surprising that Gundam X is not licensed yet?! GundamX is my most favourite new era Gundam series of all*. Not-bad-at-all translation, but I'm a little upset they named Tifa as Tifa Adil... (Adil means "Fair" in my language...) I prefer Tifa Adiel tho... anyway, Tifa looks cute like always :) moemoe...
*New era Gundam means G Gundam, W Gundam, Gundam X and ∀(Turn A) Gundam

BROADBAND, YAY!!

2005-07-14T19:41:00.000+08:00

YAY! Finally, I got my own my own Broadband connection! (I'm subscribing 1Mbps). FYI, 1Mbps is the fastest broadband for consumers in Malaysia (till 16th July 2005). The ISP said I only have 512k atm, and it'll maxed to 1Mbps in a month later... I simply dont understand why... maybe 2 month later 2Mbps or so? lol!
Anyway, it run around 50KB/s average, got to be happy with it :)

I'll get some stuff later....

BARGAIN !! Yehaaaa!!

2005-07-10T18:25:00.001+08:00

I went back to my hometown, and guess what? I bought like 15 games... bargain time!! (^^;;
Let me list up the games I bought... mostly adventure type game, but I rather to be call these type of games as “Visual novel game” since you’ll just need to read or listen to the speech and sometimes select choices to proceed the game, and lastly completing the CG picture/movies as the goal.Well, its good source to learn (sometimes weird) japanese language, maybe. Ok, here we go…
(Translations based on my own, not official)

G E N J I
[Sony Computer Entertainment] [Action]

Drag-on Dragoon 2 (knowned as Drakengard in US ver)
[Square Enix] [Action]
I would say these 2 games are worth to buy. Genji is more like Onimusha, but without the annoying controls. Player control is more like Devil May Cry, which is very good and easy to play in my opinion, also features in-play Dolby Digital Pro Logic II in 3 modes: Player, Camera & Real settings. Graphics is very nice, or I could say same quality as Onimusha and sometimes its almost hard to tell whether its playstation 2 pre-rendered or rendered movies.
Despite of the game play, Drag-on Dragoon has great storyline. I don’t say the gameplay is teribble, but it could be boring if you’ll just repeating same action all over again, which is very straight forward play, you’ll just need to go places as directed, no realtime simulation stategy like Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series. But it cool to kill with dragon overdrive skill. DOD2 has new features like no time limit to change members, targeting systems from the air, item equip, etc… still, the DOD2 is a cool game, and need less of memory space of 48kb.

影牢II KAGERO II
[TECMO] [Action]
Probably, you won’t find any type of this game anywhere in this world. It’s a trap action game, you set and initiate traps. Everything is in realtime, so you need to grasp precise timing to initiate traps.

△ celling traps
□ wall traps
○ (setting traps)
× floor trap

Quite good sense in button setting, huh? The game itself is not that hard to understand, but you may need some practice before countering with strong enemies.

天空断罪スケルターヘブン SKELTER HEAVEN
[Idea Factory] [Adventure]

Tales of Destiny 2
[NAMCO] [RPG]
Not new… the one I had was scratches badly, so…

解決！オサバキーナ
[?][Adventure]
Simply unknowned. Why Im buying this anyway?

Anime Related
舞・HiME
[SUNRISE] [Adventure]
Nice and complex OP... I may learn something....

D.N.Angel ～紅の翼～ -Crimson Wings-
[TAKARA] [Adventure]

聖闘士星矢 SAINT SEIYA
[Dimps] [3D Fighting]

藍より青し AI YORI AOSHI
[KID] [Adventure]
I play this one through. To be exact, I skipped the whole dialogue, and finished like at 5 to 7 minutes minutes after. Its quite annoying to press circle button everytime. It should have the auto dialouge. Its good to hear Kawasumi Ayako voices again...

ちょびっツ～ちぃだけのヒト～ CHOBITS ~The only person for Chi~
[?] [Adventure]

犬夜叉－奥義乱舞－ INUYASHA -Ougiranbu-
[BANDAI] [3D Fighting]
Probably best Inuyasha fighting game so far.

GUNDAM TRUE ODYSSEY - 失われしGの伝説- (The Lost Legend of G)
[BANDAI] [RPG]
Gundam RPG... cute gundams. (SD sized)

テニスの王子様最強のチームを結成せよ！ Prince of Tennis –Make the Strongest Team!-
[KONAMI] [3D Fighting]
Doh.. I thought it’s a tennis game with some anime-like crazy skills… but it’s a crap simulation game… I dunno where is the best part of this game… :T

H-Game Related
メモリーズオフデュエット～1st & 2nd stories～ Memories Off Duet
[KID] [Adventure]
Good thing it has 2 stories for the PS2 version. Good buy?

メモオフみっくす Memories Off Mix
[KID] [Puzzle]
Memories off, but with mini games version.

CANVAS ～セピア色のモチーフ～ Canvas ~Motive color of Sephias~
[KID] [Adventure]

I'll update things later...

New speaker set... Yamaha NS-P70

2005-07-09T22:41:00.000+08:00

I went to a store to buy a set of YAMAHA home theater speakers... RM600 (almost 20,000yen) Shoot, I must plan my money usage sometimes....

I finished the setup, and after that listen to Maksim live concert DVD (in DTS-ES mode of course!) and wow! NICE~ :D
Now I need a subwoofer! lol.

My A/V set:
SONY WEGA XF21M50 21" TV
YAMAHA DSP-AX10 Home Theater Amplifier
YAMAHA NS-P70 Surround speakers
PHILIPS DVB Decoder with satelite dish.
SONY Playstation2 (DVD Player :P)
SONY D-CJ01 CD/MP3 Player

Related site:
Maksim Official http://www.maksim.co.uk/
Maksim Toshiba-EMI (JP) http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/maksim/

Sakura Wars 3 -Is Paris Burning?-

2005-07-02T23:36:00.000+08:00

Nothing, really... I cleared the game this evening. Actually, I got and played this game in Dreamcast version, which was released in 2001, but recently it got it for the PS2 version. It was released in Feb 2005, well, not recently though... It just I was carried away with another game (mostly Tales of Rebirth). This is my first Sakura Wars game, even I know the title from the famous anime....

This is Hanabi, which is the most charmed character... (it's my taste, so what? :P)
I like when she blush and say "...oh" in the end of her speeches(…ぽっ in japanese). Well, she blush quite a lot.... (^^; 萌え～
*About the title: "Is Paris Burning?" is the last mission codename.

Sakura Wars 3 world is taking part in Paris... yes, not Tokyo, but Paris! The maincast is Ogami Ichiro; as the captain of secret organisation with totally different from previous members named "Paris Attack Force/Flower team"(Paris Kageki-dan/Hana-gumi). FYI, previous Sakura Wars was "Imperial Attack Force/Flower team"(...funny when translated tho ^^;). They fight evil spirits... (well, like most anime do). The battle happening around the famous landmarks of the Paris ...which is like a virtual tour to me.

So, what's so great about SakuraWars 3, anyway? Well, the game itself like a running drama, (it actually have a preview of next story too!), it has mostly speeched scripts, simple but fun (and many) mini-games, original and nice battle system! It has a mini game called Casino Wars in it! lol! Whats cool is, I knowing poker and blackjack with betting system from the mini game!
The quality of the arts and movies are surprisingly high. I'll upload some cool in-game captures after I get my equipments back... Btw, the characters are designed by the famous Fujishima Kosuke. (Ah! My Goodess, You're Under Arrest, Tales of Phantasia... etc)
I like the world settings and mechanics involved. The thing I most excited about is the Revolver Cannon (actually its a 6-shots Kobu launcher) come out from the 'Arc de Triumph!

The game overal is pretty easy, relaxing and less-stress to play.
People who are new for this kind of game might found its quite boring, but if you're not into it, find another game! Simple as that! haha :P

The OVA of this game is released, I hope there are fansubs for the anime... well, actually I can just watch the japanese raw vid tho... maybe I could see Hanabi in action.. nah, maybe not...
Too bad the anime quality is not high as the game does. :T

My First Blog

2005-07-02T22:02:00.000+08:00

Yay! Finally I have a blog site! Maybe I'll put something here later.... or I should.... or maybe not...
This is a temporary blog site, or maybe not(hopefully). Recently I got my own telephone line in the room (finally!), expect the broadband connection by this month end. So, until then...

As I mentioned on the topic, I could help peoples, but I may get some really busy sometimes, so please understand.

I'm not a native english nor japanese speaker.... but my japanese is better than english... that's what I'm sure of.