Posted by CurryKitten at 23:41:56 01-09-2008
More slices of the Orange
...box. Not a bad play on words to say it's almost midnight and I'm sat here in a pool of my own sweat. Summer has finally hit the UK for a few days so I sit here dreaming of Air Con
Anyway, the other slices from the Orange box are the endings from Half Life 2, along with Halof Life2 Episodes 1 & 2. Then we threw in the ending ofrom Call of Duty 4 for good measure. Enjoy.
Posted by CurryKitten at 23:54:09 24-07-2008
Still Alive... what's 6 months between friends
Just like the lovely disembodied voice in Portal, we are still alive, just different. I'll explain, because I need to rant somewhere even if nobody chooses to read it.
Well, my desktop PC was getting noisy and annoying - obviously because it ran Windows XP it meant it tended to hang and crash, normally when 10 minutes into a 12 minutes capture of and ending. This didn't sit well with me making the effort to capture game endings.
I've had a Mac Mini since just before Xmas which I use as a media centre using the wonderful Plex (formally osxbmc) so decided to ditch the Windows desktop and replace it with a nice new shiny iMac. Wonderful as the new iMac is, it doesn't give me a video capture solution, so I turned to my old PC for this, and while trying to connect cables banged my head under my desk, got annoyed kicked the PC and managed to cause a head crash on the disk, resulting in a non-booting PC.
So then there was a slight delay whilst I organised a new capture method on the Mac (a Pinnacle Dazzle), then had to connect up via a mixer as there was no software control over the input volume, and for the last few days I've been desperately searching for the equivalent of virtualdub on OSX. I've come to the conclusion there isn't one (let me know different if there is) and have had to convert mp4 over to avi and then into a Parallels session in order to run VirtualDub to get a decent DivX file out of it.
Phew
That aside though, everyone ditch your windows boxes and go Mac, they're great.
I had a capture frenzy yesterday and got 6 endings, however you can only have two of them right now, because that's all I've got around to converting, they are the lovely Portal from The Orange Box, and Halo 3 on Legendary
Posted by CurryKitten at 00:26:55 23-07-2008
Heavenly Sword ending online... me in a mess
Well, here's the Heavenly Sword ending as vaguely promised in the last update, so go off and enjoy that.
Meantime I'm in some chaos here as my entire house is recarpeted and I have to move my games room into another room to allow carpet fittings in. Everything used to fit, but now doesn't and is all over the floor in massive piles - also where have about 6 miles of cabling dissapeared to.
Finally it's come to my attention we made a mistake. Who'd have thunk it ! So thanks to PhoenixO48 who pointed out that Gears of Wars takes place on the fictional planet of Sera, not on Earth as I wrote. I'll get around to correcting this at some point as well.
Posted by CurryKitten at 23:24:05 22-01-2008
We wish you a Merry Christmas...
...and a happy new bear. (that's what my daughter sings anyway, and I like the idea of a new bear every year)
I've noticed that the page hasn't been updated in ages, why not I hear you cry. Well I blame the silly season that is the end of the year where every publisher and developer works to get their AAA titles out before Xmas.
It's not like I haven't been going through anything lately, I've recently finished Halo 3, Mario Galaxy, Crackdown (ok that's an old one), Portal, Heavenly Sword... and I'm working through the rest of the Orange Box, Call of Duty 4 and Endless Ocean to name just a few.
For eagle-eyed readers you will notice that I have a working 360 again (I won my legal challenge and replaced my old Premium with an Elite for no extra money). I also picked up a PS3 when the price of the 60GB model fell... all I need to do now is wait for some decent games for it
So this is a bit of a nothing blog-type post, just to say we are not dead, and expect some updates soon.
Posted by CurryKitten at 00:55:20 02-01-2008
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle endings online, and our name
So, first things first, we've got all 3 endings of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle online courtesy of Omega . Actually we had them about a month ago, but for various reasons I've been a tad slow getting these up and ready.
Part of this reason, you may have noticed a few weeks ago is that we disspeared offline for a while... at least one of our domain names did. Although we're a .co.uk site, we only actually used the UK hosting for about 2 months, when we found the bandwidth wasn't going to be up for it and we moved statesite. Our hosting company in the UK (EasySpace - don't ever use them, they're crap) wanted the equivalent of 2 years hosting to transfer our domain name, so we used a .net address and cloaked it. They even cocked this up a few weeks ago effectively taking us offline, so the quick fix was to go DNS hacking and point it towards our US based domain. So if you are seeing a .net instead of .co.uk, then don't worry, it's still us and stuff and it might change back, but that perpectual laziness continues to hold us back.
Posted by CurryKitten at 23:59:13 12-08-2007
Tomb Raider: Anniversary ending online, 360 still broken
Well, Microsoft may have just announced a hady warranty extension to the Xbox 360's dreaded "ring of death" phenomenom, but that doesn't help poor old me with a failing DVD drive, so I'm still sending abusive notes to MS and my retailer, until they hopefully get fed up with me and send me a new one anyway.
In happier news, it's made me play my PS2 a bit more, and I sailed through Tomb Raider: Anniversary over the last week. Cracking game and a nice ending.
Posted by CurryKitten at 23:56:51 08-07-2007
Faith restored in YouTube, Hitman 47 ending online
Whilst we still get 20 new comments a day in the YouTube Halo 2 Legendary ending explaining what a noob I am, my faith in humanity was restored this week when Danish YouTuber BenjaminKristensen offered me some endings he'd captured. The first one of these, Hitman: Codename 47, is now online.
In the meantime, I need to learn not to tempt fate, after proclaiming how happy I was to be HD gaming on my 360 last time, the sodding thing has gone and broke... no, not the normal red ring of death, but the DVD drive. Of course, being a launch machine, it's out of warranty so I've become embroiled in sending out nasty emails to Microsoft and the retailer I bought it from trying to get it sorted for free. Wish me luck, I think I'm going to need it.
Posted by CurryKitten at 00:40:44 26-06-2007
Saints Row ending online, and the hassle with cables. Also, are *all* people on YouTube demented
I'm so whiney, I upgraded the TV in my games room, after deciding very sensible that anything above a 23" widescreen set would look big, I now sit about 18" away from a 32" LCD HD
Part of the reason I haven't posted up an ending for so long is that having played a lot of my 360 games in SD I had to go back and play them all again in HD to see what I'd been missing... this took a while - but confirmed to me that HD was a good thing (aside from the heart attacks of thinking you have a dead pixel and then the relief in discovering it's just a spec of dust)
Anyway, my big moan in all of this is that it's a right pain doing a capture now, I have to swap cables around and look at images in ultra horrid worse-than-sd images on my PC screen, but I have done it just to bring the ending of Saint Row to you people. How I suffer to bring you the goodies.
So the YouTube thing, we are causing some contraversy with our Halo 2 Legendary ending on there. Some people have kindly pointed out that it's the same ending as all the others, and therefore I am a retard. Whilst both of these things are absolutely true, it is still the ending on Legendary, so it's a completely accurate description. Weirly enough the most common complaint is that I've stolen 3 minutes of their life when they watched the clip, for example
ok WTF i want my 3:08 mins back of my life and the time i wasted on this coment u fucking fuck head fuck face cunt u are the biggest noob shit i have ever seen be raped by a coment that u are a noob
If he could promise that in the 3:08 minutes in that he wasted he could have gone off and learnt to spell, use proper capitalisation and punctuation, and speak in coherent sentances then I'll agree to take the clip down.
Posted by CurryKitten at 00:22:25 17-06-2007
Majora's Mask ending online
Blimey, Omega is a busy boy :) Another classic N64 game makes its way onto the site in the form of Majora's Mask, one of the best (debatable) Zelda games to have been released. Enjoy.
Posted by magic l0rd at 07:51:53 01-05-2007